Did you know that Heaven's capital, New Jerusalem, has an area of about 1,500 square miles (Rev. 21:16)?

Answer 1

The writers of Star Trek the Next Generation were being prophetic in their visions of the Borg ship when they portrayed it as a giant cube. When we take a look at the New Jerusalem that is spoken of in the Bible we see several things. First we see that it is similar to a giant mothership and that it will descend from space (Rev. 21:2) The dimensions of this ship are 1,500 miles wide by 1,500 miles long and 1,500 miles high. It's a giant cube (Rev. 21:16).

Answer 2

The final Temple revealed in prophecy is that which will occupy the New Jerusalem throughout the eternal state (Rev. 21:2, 10). Since all of the saints are now in resurrected bodies without the possibility of sin there will be no need for a physical structure to prevent direct contact with God (Rev. 21:3; 22:4). For this reason John declares that he “saw no Temple there” (Rev. 21:22a). However, he immediately adds “for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its Temple” (Rev. 21:22b). This holy Temple comprised ofGod Himself will fulfill the divine ideal begun, but never realized, in the Garden of Eden where God and Man were to experience intimate relationship (Gen. 3:8). As a result, the saints will forever fulfill their function as priests, serving God (Rev. 7:15; 21:3) in the New Jerusalem, which itself is an infinitelymagnified Holy of Holies (Rev. 21:16; cf. 1 Kgs. 6:20).

Answer 3

Jerusalem is a small area in the Middle East. I live near Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin and I just read the the Sea of Galilee is the same size of our lake here. Not that big.

What I think is outstanding, is that the 3 main religions, Christianity, Judah and Islam, are all fighting for the holy land. We should be living in peace for that area and learning from each other about historical events that have happened in that area. All 3 of the religions are to be about love but many have died in the name of their faiths. I'd like to see where Jesus will appear first.

Answer 4

What a city this is! A perfect cube 12,000 furlongs (about 1,380 miles) in perimeter, surrounded by a wall, or 210 feet, in height. No literal city could ever have such measurements. It would cover a territory about 14 times as large as modern Israel, and it would tower almost 350 miles into outer space! Revelation was given in signs. So, what do these measurements tell us about heavenly New Jerusalem?

The 144-cubit-high walls remind us that the city is made up of 144,000 spiritually adopted sons of God. The figure 12 that appears in the 12,000-furlong measurement of the city, with the length, breadth, and height being equal, is used figuratively in organizational settings in Bible prophecy. Hence, New Jerusalem is a superbly designed organizational arrangement for accomplishing God’s eternal purpose.

New Jerusalem, together with the King Jesus Christ, is God's Kingdom organization. Then there is the shape of the city: a perfect cube. In Solomon’s temple, the Most Holy, containing a symbolic representation of Jehovah’s presence, was a perfect cube. How fitting, then, that New Jerusalem, illuminated by the glory of Jehovah himself, is seen as a perfect, large-scale cube! All its measurements are perfectly balanced. It is a city without irregularities or defects.

On its 12 gates, there are inscribed the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. Therefore, this symbolic city is made up of the 144,000, who were sealed “out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.” the foundation stones have on them the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb. New Jerusalem is not the fleshly nation of Israel founded on the 12 sons of Jacob. It is the spiritual Israel, founded on “the apostles and prophets.”

Rev. 7:4-8: “I heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel: Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.” (These cannot be the tribes of natural Israel because there never was a tribe of Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and Dan are not included in the list here, and the Levites were set aside for service in connection with the temple but were not reckoned as one of the 12 tribes. See Numbers 1:4-16.)

Answer 5

Did you know the Deva Heavens in Buddhism and Hinduism span across a universe and are multi tiered? In fact, Indra's heaven which is only the second heaven of 9 tiers has within it a fanned out 32 other heavenly realms which surround Indra's central abode.?

Answer 6

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

So, what is 12,000 "furlongs" compared to miles?

Answer 7

Sigh

Did you know that you can use the Bible to prove pretty much anything you want? I heard a guy prove conclusively once - using only Scripture - that hippopotamus had wings.

Very funny stuff.

Besides we all use kilometers these days, and hectares. No one in the Bible used miles.

Answer 8

I didn't know 12,000 stadia in length meant 1500 square miles.

Answer 9

Isn't New Jerusalem called New Jersey these days?

Answer 10

And not only that but it is a cube floating in space, like a Borg ship from Star Trek

Curses, you beat me to it Asgardian!