Sixth Sunday of Easter: Epistle, Revelation 21:9-14, 21-27              

Revelation 21:9-14, 21-27

This is a magnificent text. It highlights for us the place where God’s Christians will spend eternity with their God in their midst. In the text underlying the King James and New King James bibles there are variants that describe in even more detail than the newer translations. “And he (the seventh messenger) carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God” (Revelation 21:10-11a, NKJV). Please read the entire text in whatever version you have handy. Because it is the four English words following the descriptive ones that I want you to focus on.

Descending out of heaven. There is an important principle in view here and it is a principle that sets the Christian faith apart from every other religion on the planet. The “motion” of God and the blessings He gives in Christ always “descend out of heaven.” Always. We are not to climb, build or work our way up. We only get to behold. Jesus made that clear. He came down. He descended. And the home He has been working on for us since His ascension He will bring with Him at His soon return.

The blessings keep coming down.