the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Revelation 21:9-27
Having drawn back the veil on the eternal state (vv. 1-8), the Spirit goes back to the period of Christ’s reign. He shows us a city which is no longer Rome or Babylon but the holy Jerusalem, "the bride, the Lamb’s wife". All of this description is symbolic. Our present senses cannot perceive nor can our minds conceive what the new creation will be like (1 Corinthians 13:12). How, for example, do you explain colour to a man who has been blind from birth? God therefore takes the most beautiful and rarest things on the earth: gold and precious stones, to give us some idea of what awaits us in heaven. The light and wall like jasper (vv. 11, 18) speak to us of Christ’s glories being revealed in and through the Church (Revelation 4:3). The latter is lit by the brilliant light of the lamp: the glory of God seen in the Lamb (v. 23). The holy city, in turn, reflects that divine light for the benefit of earth during the millennium (v. 24). That is exactly what John 17:22 means: "the glory which thou gavest me I have given them . . . I in them, and thou in me . . . that the world may know . ."
How could "anything that defileth" enter the place where the Lord dwells? (v. 17; read 2 Corinthians 7:1).
