Many Christians view the New Jerusalem as a current reality, that the New Jerusalem is the consummation of the
Body of Christ, the Church and
that Christians already take part in membership of both the heavenly
Jerusalem and the earthly Church in a kind of dual citizenship.
The term New Jerusalem occurs twice in the New Testament,
in verses 3:12 and 21:2 of the Book of Revelation. A large portion of
the final two chapters of Revelation deals with John of Patmos’ vision
of the New Jerusalem. He describes the New Jerusalem as “‘the bride, the
wife of the Lamb’”, where the river of the Water of Life flows (22:1).
After John witnesses the new heaven and a new earth “that no longer has any sea”, an angel takes
him “in the Spirit” to a vantage point on “a great and high mountain”
to see the New Jerusalem’s descent. The enormous city comes out of
heaven down to the New Earth.
John’s elaborate description of the New Jerusalem retains many features
of the Garden of Eden and the paradise garden, such as rivers, a square
shape, a wall, and the Tree of Life.
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