Abraham set out to find a city “whose architect and builder” was God (Hebrews 11:8-10). John saw it descending from heaven to earth. God, as architect and builder, has unlimited resources to complete it. It is the Jesus prepared city. We are even now its citizens. He will bring it down in that glorious day when heaven and earth will finally be one. We can’t even imagine our future made possible by our Lord’s triumph over death.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4 (NRSV)
