I heard an old old preacher describe heaven and it blessed me. I always thought the book of revelation was kind of unreal especially when it describes a city in heaven. I always think of the original superman and the city where he goes as a young man to learn how to be super-man and use his powers. (the crystal city) I have known the excitement of moving to the city. When i was 18 i moved to 48th steet in Manhatten. I can’t descirbe what it felt like to experience the energy and heartbeat of that metropolis. But in the last book of the Bible God tells us to be this excited about the city in heaven. I thought OK a city and like i said above, I always thought this was kind of comical. They say words like “stadia” and “Jasper” to describe this city. Neither of these words make any sense. But here is how the old preacher described it and, if this is true, we are in for a pumping energy, high intense, alive experience when we get to heaven. Just think of this..
I quote from the old preacher speaking of the seer in Revelation…
“Then he sees the angel measure the length and height and depth of the city. And the city measured twelve thousand furlongs. The Greek is stadia. When you turn the stadia, the “furlongs” in English, it is one thousand five hundred miles. The city is one thousand five hundred miles this way, and one thousand five hundred that way, and one thousand five hundred that way…
“It is an enormous city. It would cover England and Scotland and Ireland and France and Germany and Austria and Italy and Spain and European Turkey and one-half of all Russia. And when you think of a city in stories, even if the stories were one mile apart, and even if the streets were one mile apart, there are eight million miles of streets in that city. If you took all of the souls that were born from Adam to this present moment, we would occupy one corner of that vast metropolis. It is a tremendous city, this heavenly city of God, our eternal home. ”
