Bible Guys Classics: Revelation - All Made New

So, Jeff, have you ever heard the term new and improved? Yes,

And it's wonderful, isn't it. It is because new and

improved means wow, it's going to be even better than

the last one. Yes, well, today we're talking about everything

being made new and improved.

That's amazing. So he's Chris and I'm Jeff, and we're

the Bible guys. It's so Chris today. It's a segment

I was waiting for. You usually introduce them. So today's

the day man, Every Friday, it's gonna be a good one.

It's either what made Chris mad this week, which is

a delight, or what made Chris happy this week. And

we just love the fact that you're passionate about well everything.

We're passionate about well everything.

Everything is. So today is what made Chris happy this week?

Yeah, which I appreciate very much, kind of like Desiree.

I think it is. I think it is. Yeah, Yeah,

she did, she did.

She's the one.

By the way.

As soon as I found out what a minute a

minute ago that this was the segment, and I immediately

said I have it because I woke up this morning

with a text for my wife. So this story is

about my wife.

I keep it clean.

So it also involves my kids. Oh so we're good.

Okay.

So she had a bad day at work. Uh, it

just it doesn't matter. She just had a bad day.

And so then she comes home and then and then

she she she apparently had to buy this cake and

she was draft traveling all around. I think they must

have went to I'm not even kidding it has It

was a specific like yellow cake, white frosting, whatever it was.

And I think she went to seven.

Or eight places.

And so she was very, very frustrated after a bad

day work. She was still in her scrubs, right, and

then she comes home and she says, I don't want

to talk about it. Don't ask about it. And she said, ann,

we now have a membership to Costco And I said

what and so And by the way, it wasn't even

at Costco.

Huh.

So it ended up being somewhere else. So anyway, the

point is is that she's overall just you know, having

a stressful time and so.

And this is what made you happy this week. So

I'm leading up to it, Okay.

So she goes up and goes to bed earlier than

the rest of us. She's got to get up early,

and so we're downstairs and my son, who's usually not

tuned in to what she's going through, says, I think

mom can use some cheering up. So Steven is the

one that instigated it, and so it ends up within

twenty minutes, all of us are not letting her sleep.

She's in the bed, the lights are out, but we're

all on the bed. And then the cats jump up,

and so it's quite literally all of us are on

the bed and we're just teasing her, laughing or tickling her.

And then I ended up rubbing her feet, and then

and then she and then and then Stephen said, let's

all say something nice about Mom. What do you appreciate it?

Because he's a mom. You had a bad day. So

we go back downstairs and will play Super Mario Brothers

and Liz texts us ten thirty five pm and this

is the text. You guys gave me so much joy

and happiness, and I'm just full of so much love.

I can hardly go to sleep. Little teary dot dot

dom but that's typical. I think I needed all that

you gave me. Thank you three hearts. Wow and so right, wow,

So it was just a really great moment.

Oh that's so nice.

Yeah, okay, and she's crying listening to this, yes, because.

She well, congratulations, Liz, you deserved it.

Yeah.

She listens to the Bible guys every morning.

Yeah, that's fantastic. Isn't that sweet? So we get to

see this saying I think I prefer that what made

Chris mads though.

They're more fun.

Yeah that was a little too sappy. Yeah, it's more

fun when you're when you're mad about something that's so funny.

Desire a take note, this isn't working for us.

Cut the segment I hate sappy.

Chris happy Chris doesn't work for me. We want to

go back to med Chris. Okay, Chris doesn't.

Work for me. That's great.

Okay, So hey, we are going to kind of we're

going to deal with what it's all about in the

end when Jesus talks about eternity. This is what we're

going to talk about today. So this kind of flips

some of our traditional beliefs about heaven upside down, right,

the naked babies bouncing from cloud to cloud, playing harps

and you know that kind of stuff. It's very, very different.

So let's just talk about it. We're going to read

a lot of verses, but it's because the Bible does

a better job explaining itself than we do sometimes. So yeah,

all the time, even though we are the Bible guys.

So here you go. In Revelation chapter twenty one, we're

going to read all of twenty one and then into

twenty two because it's all the same thing. I don't

know they put the chapter break there. Here you go.

It says, then I saw a new heaven and a

new earth for the old heaven, and the old Earth

had disappeared, and the sea was also gone. And I

saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from

God out of heaven like a bride beautifully distressed, addressed

for her husband. I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, look,

God's home is now among his people. He will live

with them, and they will be his people. God himself

will be with them, and he will wipe every tear

from their eyes, and there will be no more death

or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are

gone forever. And the one sitting on the throne said, look,

I'm making everything new. And then he said to me,

write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy

and true. And he also said it is finished. I

am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning in the end,

to all who are thirsty, I will give freely from

the springs of the water of life. All who are

victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be

their God, and they will be my children. But coward's unbelievers,

the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practiced witchcraft, idle worshippers,

and all liars. Their fate is in the fiery lake

of burning sulfur. This is the second death. Then one

of the seven angels who held the seven bowls containing

the seven last legs, came and said to me, come

with me. I'll show you the bride, the wife of

the Lamb. So he took me in the spirit to

a great high mountain, and he showed me the Holy

City Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. It shone

with the glory of God and sparkled like a precious stone,

like jasper, as clear as crystal. The city wall was

broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels,

and the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were

written on the gates. There were three gates on each side, east, north, south,

and west. The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones,

and on them were written the names of the twelve

apostles of the Lamb. The angel who talked to me

held in his hand a gold measuring stick to measure

the city, its gates, and its wall. When he measured it,

he found it was a square as wide as it

was long. In fact, its length and width and height

were each fourteen hundred miles. Then he measured the walls

and found them to be two hundred and sixteen feet thick,

according to the human standard used by the angel. The

wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure gold,

as clear as glass. The wall of the city was

built on foundation stones inlaid with twelve precious stones. The

first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the

fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth Carnelian, the seventh chrysolite,

the eighth burl, the ninth topaz, the tenth crystal praise,

the eleventh jacinth, and the twelve amethysts. The twelve gates

were made of pearls, each gate from a single pearl,

and the main street was pure gold, as clear as glass.

I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord,

God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the

city has no need of sun or moon, for the

glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is

its light. The nations will walk in its light, and

the kings of the world will enter the city and

all their glory. Its gates will never be closed at

the end of the day, because there is no night there,

and all the nations will bring their glory and honor

to the city. Nothing evil will be allowed to enter,

nor anyone who practices shameful, idolatry and dishonesty, but only

those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Then the Angel showed me a river with the water

of life, crystal, clearest crystal, flowing from the throne of

God and of the Lamb. And it flowed down the

center of the main street, and on each side of

the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops

of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves

were used for medicine to heal the nations no longer

will there be a curse upon anything, for the throne

of God and of the Lamb will be there, and

his servants will worship him, and they will see his face,

and his name will be written on their foreheads, and

there'll be no night, there no need for lamps or sun,

for the Lord God will shine on them, and they

will rain forever and ever. And then the Angel said

to me, everything you've heard and seen is trustworthy and true.

The Lord God, who inspires his prophets, has sent his

angel to tell his servants what will happen? Happen soon?

Dude.

So, out of all the things we've read these past

two weeks, either this is the most awesome thing that

we could ever read or John was high on something.

Yes, the Bostle job.

Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's just incredible.

Yeah. We because right because this was after he was

bold and old and exiled to the outers.

I'm making a joke, and he was one hundred and something.

He was old at this point.

But the things that he saw, we believe are literal. Yeah,

And we believe that this is the description for the

new Jerusalem. We believe it's the new Heaven, which which

may be a little different than when people think of Yeah. Right,

So it's a place. It's a place with trees, right,

and you know in crops gates, which means people are

collecting crops. They're not just floating around on some ethereal

cloudy place.

Right.

It'll look very much probably like the earth that we

are in now.

Yeah, it's a new heaven and a new Earth. Right,

and then so can I'll give you my theory. Let

me give you my theory on this. So the Bible

describes this city as fifteen hundred miles cubed, fourteen hundred

miles cubed wide, fourteen hundred miles long, fourteen hundred miles high.

And he says, the Angel says, let me show you

the bride. Who's the bride. The bride is the church.

The bride is all those people who are at the

marriage stop of the lamb. This is like the Limo

bringing the whole church. And they they are contained in

this fourteen hundred mile cubed city on a spiritual realm,

and God is bringing them to the new Earth, the

physical realm. And do you remember, at the very beginning

in the garden, Adam and Eve walked with God every day,

every day, every day in the cool of the evening.

The Bible says, so Adam and Eve, that's right. So

Adam and Eve were able to live in both the

spiritual realm and the physical realm as one realm. And

then they died. And when they died, they died spiritually

right when they sinned, and so then they lost the

spiritual realm. That didn't destroy the spirit realm. We read

about the dragon fighting against the woman and her child

and all these things, all the spirits. There was war

in heaven. All this stuff happens in the spiritual but

as humans, we only live in the physical realm right now.

But what he's doing is he's bringing the Bride, the

Church in the spiritual realm down and blending it into

this new Earth. He's bringing us back to the paradise

that he always planned. But he had to make it

new because we broke the old one. Right, he's bringing

it back together. And I think the reason why it's

called New Jerusalem is Jerusalem is where Jesus died. Just

outside of Jerusalem is where Abraham was about to sacrifice

the son when God stopped him to depict the fact

that the Father would sacrifice the son, and that God

would provide himself a lamb. I personally believe that probably

somewhere around there was where Adam and Eve originally sinned,

and then it all comes back to He fixed it there,

and then he's bringing it all back there. He's bringing

the church back to that place, and then we have

the new Heaven of the New Earth combined. Because you

can't just smash a fourteen hundred mid cubed city into

a planet. It causes problems, I heard, you know, the physics,

So that's difficult. So what he's doing is he's blending

the spiritual and the physical, and he brought us back

to what he always planned. The garden was what he

always planned, and that's what he's bringing us back to. Yeah,

well it's pretty cool. Yeah, and that's all my opinion.

But that's what I believe is happening. Yeah.

Well, I was just gonna say it fits regardless. That

does fit, regardless of the details of that, right, because

I think those details are cool to think about, but

they're sort of unimportant because well.

Thank you, sorry to waste your time.

That's nothing. I got something more important.

Waste time with my nothing story.

I know, my opinions don't matter in this class.

Too, is the thinking out that's nothing I had before.

So uh no, no, I just met in the end.

Uh it will not matter for you and for me, is.

What I mean. No, no, Right.

So in other words, the information is not what I'm

saying is unimportant because it's important information. What I'm saying

is our experience of being there, regardless of how it

plays out. I mean, how's that going to matter?

Yeah, so.

We're experiencing a new heaven, we're experiencing a new Earth.

However that plays out, it's a good day, right, that's right.

But what you have is you have this holy city

coming down from heaven and melding with this earth. And

then what we know is that there's there's commerce, there's kingdoms,

there's people coming and going, there's all of the things

of human society are represented or referenced or hinted at

in these things. He's taken what was and he's making

them all brand new. It doesn't say that it's different,

it's renewed. Right, And so when we get to heaven,

it's not just going to be a perpetual worship service,

is what I'm trying to say, no, worship is perpetually

going to be going on, but there's all of the

things necessary for human society will apparently be going It's

what the nations represent. Nations represent commerce, nations represent, collective work,

collective responsibility. God made humans to work all those things.

They're coming and going in and out of this capital city,

and so it's not going to be this boring life.

It's going to be the life you are dreaming for.

It's the utopia everybody wishes they could make on this earth.

But this earth is going to be destroyed, and he's

bringing us back to the full expression of humanity. With God,

I'll be with them and they'll be my people.

Well, just the simple fact that it says there's twelve trees,

or there's two trees bearing twelve crops of fruit once

each month, and then it says the leaves were used

for medicine to heal the nations. Yeah, right, Then he says,

of course, there's no longer be a crist upon anything.

But the fact that there's leaves being used for something

indicates that there has to be a harvest, there has

to be a gathering, then there has to be that

application for apparently something.

Yeah right, So so.

Horses there, Jesus comes back on it, which means somebody's

got to clean up after the horses.

Right right, or or hopefully that will all be eliminated.

Yeah right, No more.

Well there's leaves, so that's sure. There's eating yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that it's I genuinely believe it's not that

it's a different Uh, it's not going to be a

different experience. It's going to be a seamless experience. I

think it's going to be life. Right. It's not that

God went, oh, you know what, I screwed up making

humanity and the society that they were supposed to build.

Let me invent something else. He's not inventing something else.

He's making it new, he's renewing it. And I think

that he's bringing us back to this so all the

things that are necessary for human society. And so what

I'm trying to say is Heaven's not gonna be boring.

It's not going to be just a big long church service.

It's gonna you will fulfill your eternal purpose doing and

being who you were always supposed to be and do. Right,

That's great, Yeah, I love it. And then the description

is phenomenal. Yeah so then and walking on gold.

Right, as clear as glass, which is scared pure gold.

Yeah, what's underneath? Yeah sou so.

Then Revelation twenty two seven through twenty one. I want

to read this. These are sort of the final words,

and it reminds us that Jesus is coming soon. Yeah, right,

So this is of course John's still writing, and he's

not high.

By the way, we.

Believe that he's John the Revelator. That's right, right, He's

getting revelations, that's what that's right.

That's why.

That's why it's called revelation, by the way, because there's

revealing information, right, and so it's a revelation. So here's

how it reads. It says, look, I am coming soon.

Blessed are those who obey the words of the prophecy

written in this book. I John am the one who

heard and saw all these things. And when I heard

and saw them, I fell down to worship at the

feet of the Angel who showed them to me. But

he said, no, don't worship me. I am a servant

of God, just like you and your brothers and the prophets,

as well as all of them who obey. What is

written in the book Worship only God. Then he instructed me,

do not seal up the prophetic words in this book,

for the time is near. Let the one who is

doing harm continue to do harm. And let the one

who is viole continue to be vile. And let the

one who is righteous continue to live righteously. And let

the one who is holy continue to live holy.

Look.

I'm coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay

all the people according to their deeds. I am the

Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the

beginning and the end. Blessed are those who wash their robes.

They'll be permitted to enter through the gates of the

city and eat from the fruit of the tree of life.

Outside the city are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral,

the murderers, the idle worshipers, to all who live a

life of a lie. I Jesus have sent my angel

to give you this message for the churches. I am

both the source of David and the heir to his throne.

I am the bright morning Star, the Spirit and the Bride.

Say come. Let anyone who hears this, say come, Let

anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who drinks freely

from the water of life. And I solemnly declare to

everyone who hears the words of prophecy written in this book,

if anyone adds anything to what is written here, God

will add that person the plagues described.

In this book.

And if anyone removes the words from this book of

the Prophecy, God will remove that person's share in the

Tree of life and in the holy city that has

described in this book. He was faithful witnesses to all

these things. Yes, I am coming soon. Amen, Come, Lord Jesus.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's

holy people.

Yeah, you know the King James end that says, even

so come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Right, what a great it's a it's a great ending,

and it's a reminder to us, you know, And I

think that it's just an exclamation point be reminded. Revelation

there's a lot of details, there's a lot of discussion.

There's a lot of things that are you know, physical, literal, metaphorical. Right,

there's all these different things that are mixed in with

the Book of Revelation, and it never gives any indication

when it's talking about you know, literal or metaphorical or symbolic.

It doesn't give any indication.

So we're left to discuss all these things that are

all important.

But keep in.

Mind that it really comes down to just a few things, right,

It points to a few things. Number one, Jesus is

in charge of history. God's God's in control. Right, It's

who God is. It's who God is. He's in control

of all things in history. Number Two, he wins, Yes,

he wins. That is it like, there's no question, there's victory, victory, victory.

And then number three, we.

Live like Jesus is coming. He's coming again. So he's

coming soon, and so you know, regardless of when that

happens on the timeline, you know, Jesus tells us, you know,

just he's coming soon, and live like it. Today. We're

on mission. We're telling people, we're living it out, we're

living by example, and we look forward to the day

of the new Heaven and the new Earth.

We started this series saying Jesus doesn't tell us these

things that scare us. He's telling us these things because

he's coming to save us. That's right, right, it's gonna

be amazing. I'm looking forward to the day. I really

am for sure, So you know, I don't like the

negative sides of these things, but He's given us a

mission between here and there to prevent it for as

many people as possible by going and telling everybody we

know about Jesus. So that's it. We're on mission between

here and there and he'll come back on his good time.

Well that about wraps it up and hopefully we'll see

you on Monday on the Bible Gush