This book was written for our sakes to urge us to heed its warnings and be ready for the Lord. Jesus adds urgency with the echoes of “I am coming quickly.”
The centerpiece of heaven will be the fullness of God’s radiant glory. His purpose to dwell among His people, expressed throughout Scripture, will reach its crescendo in the New Jerusalem.
The insurrection at the end of the Millennium shows what a tremendous gift saving faith is. Moreover, the salvation God has wrought in Christ leaves us speechless as it shows us the overwhelming justice of God we have escaped through the Lamb’s substitutionary death on the cross.
The Millennium is the conclusion to the history of this age that marks the culmination of this age and the foretaste of eternity in the New Jerusalem to come.
The great crescendo of Scripture is the return of Christ. When this Groom and Judge arrives, there will be two suppers, one for a wedding and another for wrath.
We separate from the world, shun the darkness, and reject conformity to this age. Babylon will crumble, all her patrons left to mourn; but we press on, seeking the lasting city which is to come—the new Jerusalem to come.
