Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10093 Jerusalem is not simply another city in the biblical narrative. It is the city God chose, the city where His name dwells, and the city around which the climactic events of human history will revolve. From David’s conquest of the Jebusite stronghold to the descent of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21, this…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10132 The relationship between the Millennium and the eternal state is one of the most important structural questions in biblical eschatology. These are not the same thing, and confusing them distorts the prophetic picture Scripture paints. The Millennium is a defined period with specific characteristics and a definite end. The eternal state is what…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10125 When Revelation 21:3 announces, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God,” it declares the fulfilment of a theme that runs from the opening chapters of Genesis to the closing chapters…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10124 The absence of a temple in the New Jerusalem is one of the most striking features of the eternal city described in Revelation 21-22. Throughout the entire Old Testament, the temple was the centre of Israel’s worship, the dwelling place of God’s glory on earth, and the focal point of the entire sacrificial…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10129 In the closing chapter of Scripture, the Apostle John describes a vision of breathtaking beauty: a river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the centre of the city. The image is not decorative. It draws on a thread of imagery…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10130 The tree of life appears at the very beginning and the very end of the biblical narrative, forming a theological bracket around the entire story of Scripture. What was lost at the fall is restored in the eternal state, and its reappearance in Revelation 22 tells us something profound about what God has…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10060 The Bible’s story doesn’t end with souls floating around in heaven forever. Instead, it culminates in “a new heaven and a new earth” where God dwells with His people in physical bodies on a renewed creation. This is the biblical vision of eternity, and understanding it transforms how we think about heaven, our…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10105 The New Jerusalem is one of the most glorious images in all of Scripture—a city descending from heaven, radiant with the glory of God, where He will dwell with His people forever. But what exactly is this city? Is it literal or symbolic? And who will inhabit it? These are questions that deserve…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10169 The question of where heaven is located is asked with genuine sincerity, and the honest answer is that Scripture gives us considerably less spatial information than many assume. The Bible speaks with absolute clarity about the reality of heaven, about what it is like, and about who is there. On the question of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10109 The idea that heaven might be boring is remarkably common, and it is rooted in a picture of the afterlife that owes far more to medieval art and popular caricature than to anything Scripture actually describes. Clouds, harps, white robes, and an eternity of singing the same hymn on repeat: this is the…