"The Throne Of GOD And Of The LAMB Will be In The City."

In the last consummate city!
(Alexander Smellie, "The Secret Place" 1907)

"I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, 
coming down out of heaven from GOD, 
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for 
her husband! No longer will there be any curse. 
The throne of GOD and of the LAMB will be in 
the city, and HIS servants will serve HIM!" 
Revelation 21:2-3

In the last consummate city, all will be worshipers. 
Its inhabitants will have the godward look. They 
will recognize . . .
  GOD'S existence,
  HIS government,
  HIS watchfulness,
  HIS faithfulness,
  HIS grace. 

To them, HE will be the Reality of realities. 
They will breathe through all the happy year 
the atmosphere of the spiritual, the supernatural, 
the divine, the infinite, the eternal. Atheism, 
and unbelief, and forgetfulness of GOD 
will have spread their black wings and 
flown forever away. 

In the last supreme city, all will be brothers. 
Uniting in adoration around the throne 
of GOD and of the LAMB, they will gaze 
with kindly eyes into each other's faces 
and will clasp each other's hands 
in love and affection. 

It will be a society in which a new 
spirit and a new law rule--
the law and the spirit of love. 
Antagonisms, burdens, fears, 
will have vanished; selfishness and 
greed, will be unthinkable; the sorrow 
which man causes, man will never be felt. 

In the last crystalline city, all will be saints. 
Its foundations are precious stones: 
  the sapphire of hope, 
  the emerald of humility, 
  the chrysolite of truth, 
  the amethyst of trust. 

Its twelve gates are the twelve pearls 
of whitest and tenderest purity. No life 
flourishes in its ethereal air, but the life 
that is redeemed from all iniquity, and 
that bears the image of JESUS CHRIST. 

There is . . . 
  no dust in the highways, 
  no smoke in the skies, 
  no harsh and discordant noise, 
  no chilling or arid weather, 
  no workhouse, nor tavern, nor prison. 

"The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate 
made of a single pearl. The great street of the city 
was of pure gold, like transparent glass. I did not 
see a temple in the city, because the LORD GOD 
ALMIGHTY and the LAMB are its temple. The city 
does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, 
for the glory of GOD gives it light, and the LAMB 
is its lamp!" Revelation 21:21-23 

"Blessed are those who wash their robes, 
that they may have the right to the tree of life 
and may go through the gates into the city!" 
Revelation 22:14 

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