New Jerusalem is a Golden Mountain
“The city was pure gold, like clear glass” (Rev. 21:18b).
The New Jerusalem, the holy city, is a mountain of gold (Rev. 21:18). The entire city has one street (21:21; 22:1), yet this one street reaches all twelve gates. Also, the wall is one hundred forty-four cubits high (21:17), and the city itself is twelve thousand stadia high (21:16—one stadion equals about six hundred feet). These facts indicate that the city proper must be a mountain, a mountain of gold. On top of the mountain is a throne, from which the street spirals down to the bottom to reach the twelve gates.*
New Jerusalem being a mountain matches the praise in Psalm 48:1-2, “Great is Jehovah, and much to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, the city of the great King.” Click here for a song with these two verses.
The street spirals down the mountain to reach all the gates; whoever enters through any gate has the way to the throne. Believe Revelation 21:21 and 22:1—the city has one street; don’t apply the concept from human cities that there are many streets in New Jerusalem. Jesus Christ is “the way,” our unique way, now and then.
* Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 259, p. 2708, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
Bible verses quoted in these posts are from The Holy Bible, Recovery Version, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim CA, 2003. The text of this Bible is at text.recoveryversion.bible; this too is © by LSM. A New Testament of this Bible, with 9000 footnotes, is available in multiple languages for free from Bibles for America, Bibles for Canada, Bibles for Europe.
