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1Then I saw a new spirit-world above and a new earth below, for the first spirit-world and the first earth had gone away, and the great waters of the sea were no longer there.
2I saw a new Sacred Village of Peace (Jerusalem) , coming down from the Great Spirit in the world above and dressed in wedding regalia, like a bride made ready for her husband.
3I heard a voice coming from the seat of honor. “Behold,” the voice said, “the Great Spirit has pitched his sacred tent among human beings. They will be his people, and Creator himself will make his home among them and will be their Great Spirit.
4He will perform a wiping of tears ceremony, for death will be no more. There will be no sorrow, or weeping, or pain, because these former things have faded away.”
5Then the one on the seat of honor spoke again. “Behold,” he said, “I am making all things fresh and new.” Then he added, “Write these words down, for they are true and trustworthy.”
6“It is done!” he said to me. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give the free gift of the wellspring of life-giving water to all who are thirsty.[#21:6 Alpha and omega are the first and last letter of the Greek alphabet, the language of the New Testament.]
7All these blessings will belong to the ones who win the victory. I will be their Great Spirit, and they will be my sons and daughters .
8“But the fearful, the untrustworthy, the doers of shameful things, those who murder, the sexually impure, the bad medicine people, the ones who pray to spirit-images, and all who speak lies, their place will be in the fiery lake of burning rocks. This is the second death.”
9Then one of the seven spirit-messengers who had the seven smudge bowls that were filled with the seven last disasters came and spoke to me.
“Come,” he said, “and I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
10The spirit-messenger took me on a spiritual journey to a great and high mountain. There he showed me the Sacred Village of Peace (Jerusalem) coming down from the Great Spirit in the spirit-world above.
11It was filled with Creator’s beauty and honor. The sacred village was bright and shone like a costly stone, like a jasper stone as clear as crystal.
12The sacred village had a great and high wall with twelve gates and twelve spirit-messengers, one at each gate. Carved into the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of the families of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) .
13There were three gates on the east wall, three gates on the south, three gates on the west, and three gates on the north.
14The wall encircling the sacred village was built on twelve stones. Carved into the stones were the names of the twelve message bearers of the Lamb.
15The spirit-messenger who spoke to me had a golden measuring stick to measure the sacred village, both its gates and walls.
16The sacred village was laid out in a square. It measured twelve thousand stadia. Its width, length, and height were the same.[#21:16 A stadia is equal to about six hundred feet. Twelve thousand stadia would be about fourteen hundred miles.]
17The spirit-messenger was using human measurements. He measured the wall to be one hundred and forty-four cubits.[#21:17 A cubit is the distance from elbow to fingertip, or about eighteen inches. The wall would be about two hundred feet thick.]
18The wall was made of jasper, and the sacred village was made of pure gold, as clear as crystal.
19The stones the village wall was built on were made of all kinds of costly gemstones. The first stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.[#21:20 The identity of some of these stones is uncertain.]
21The twelve gates of the sacred village were made of pearl, and each gate was made from a single pearl. The village had a wide pathway made of gold that was crystal clear.
22I could see no sacred lodge within the village, because the all-powerful and honored Spirit Chief and the Lamb are its sacred lodge.
23In this village there is no need for the sun or the moon to shine its light, for the light comes from the beauty of the Great Spirit shining through the Lamb.
24All the nations will walk by its light, and the chiefs of the earth will bring their honor and beauty into the sacred village.
25Its gates will not be closed during the day, night will never come,
26and the beauty and honor of all nations will be brought into it.
27Nothing impure or anyone who participates in shameful ways will go through the gates. Only the ones whose names are written down in the Lamb’s book of life will be able to enter.