From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   A New Heaven and a New Earth   
   21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and   
   the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the   
   Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as   
   a bride beautifully    
   dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,   
   “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell   
   with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be   
   their God. 4 ‘He will    
   wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning   
   or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”   
      
   5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then   
   he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”   
      
   6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning   
   and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of   
   the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I   
   will be their God and    
   they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the   
   murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters   
   and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.   
   This is the second    
   death.”   
      
   The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb   
   9 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.” 10 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. 11 It shone with the   
   glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like   
   a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 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. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on   
   the south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve   
   foundations, and on them were    
   the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.   
      
   15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the   
   city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long   
   as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000   
   stadia[c] in length, and    
   as wide and high as it is long. 17 The angel measured the wall using human   
   measurement, and it was 144 cubits[d] thick.[e] 18 The wall was made of   
   jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the   
   city walls were decorated    
   with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second   
   sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth   
   ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth   
   turquoise, the eleventh    
   jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.[f] 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls,   
   each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as   
   pure as transparent glass.   
      
   22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the   
   Lamb are its temple. 23 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. 24 The   
   nations will walk by its    
   light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no   
   day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The   
   glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will   
   ever enter it, nor will    
   anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are   
   written in the Lamb’s book of life.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)