11/06/03 18:36:15.19
The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb
One of the seven angels [ who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues ] came and said to me,
“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high,
and showed me [ the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God ].
It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear [ as crystal (is) ].
It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates.
On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.