If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. This is the gate of the Lord ; the righteous shall enter through it.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed.
Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.
This is the first resurrection. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—. He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.
Let the one who is able to receive this receive it. Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
Only believers who have turned their backs on the sins of the past and devoted their lives to Jesus will be permitted to enter heaven, according to the Bible. Evil is refused the right to pass through the heavenly gates. The Bible condemns the following to a second death of eternal burning in a lake of sulfur: cowards, people who engage in corruption, murderers, those who engage in immoral activities, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshippers and liars.
Anyone who has sinned must confess their sins and start living for God to have his name written in the Book of Life that permits entrance into heaven. The Bible states the heavenly gates are guarded to prevent evil from entering the city of heaven. Each of the 12 gates is protected by an angel. The Bible does not specify which angels guards the gates. According to the book of Luke in the Bible, angels carry an individual to Heaven at the moment of death.
The gates of Heaven through which an individual may gain entrance into Heaven never close because night no longer exists in this blessed place. Sun is not needed in Heaven because God and Jesus constantly radiate a brilliant holy light. Individuals who gain admittance into Heaven spend eternity in paradise, while Christians believe those denied entry spend eternity in Hell.
Julie Ackendorf has been a writer since She has contributed health, legal and parenting articles for various online publications.
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