The New Jerusalem and the Moon

Below is an image of the full moon. It has an overlay that is scaled to the size of the New Jerusalem. I find the spiritual similitude to be fascinating.

The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles. A square with 1,500 mile sides will just fit within its orb. The angel in Revelation 21 measured the New Jerusalem at 12,000 stadia on each side.

The New American Standard Bible translates this measurement as being 1,500 miles. The city is approximately 1,500 miles long by 1,500 miles wide. This means that only one of the outer surfaces would contain two million, two hundred twenty-five thosuand square miles!

The city is so enormous that it is almost as big as the moon. To add to its useable size, it is as high as it is square, which makes it a cube—and it is hollow.

When 1,500 miles is cubed we come up with the astounding volume of three billion, three hundred seventy-five million cubic miles of space inside the New Jerusalem!

How big is the New Jerusalem in comparison to the earth?

The moon is 27% of the diameter of the earth. But three fifths of the earth is covered by water and uninhabitable. Furthermore, both of the polar regions are uninhabitable, which includes one of the seven continents. All other continents have large mountain and desert regions that are also uninhabitable.

The six outside surfaces of the New Jerusalem equal an area greater than thirteen million square miles. The actual inhabitable portion of the earth is not much different.

If the city were divided into 150 floors, and each floor contained mountains as high as Mt. Everest, there still would be an additional 20,000 feet of clearance above the mountains between each floor. This height per floor approaches the entire depth of the atmosphere on the earth for each of the 150 floors.

With such high “ceilings” the atmosphere could cause each floor to have a clear blue sky. With sufficient moisture, thunderheads could develop on any floor and go through an entire weather cycle, complete with lightening, thunder, and rain!

With this scenario, the city could easily hold twenty-five times the current population of the world and still have enormous “forests” and “parks.” Under slightly different configurations, it could conceivably support one hundred or a thousand times the population of the world. There could be huge cities within the city on each separate floor.

With 150 floors the total surface area would be over 333 million square miles. The population density of Holland is 970 people per square mile. At this density there could be more than 320 billion people in the city, which is fifty times the population of the world. Or, what if each floor was only a mile high?

And in the center of the New Jerusalem will be the throne of God before the crystal sea. The streets will also be crystal gold and the leaves of the trees will be used to heal the nations. And the River of Life will flow from the throne and the tree of life will bear its fruit to be eaten by all. Most wonderful of all, we will see Jesus.

A popular question among children is whether there will be animals in heaven? The answer is yes. The scriptures describe all of us riding our own white horses. What do you think about your horse having a golden carriage-house out back?

The city will not be configured just as described here, but this description does give you a better vision of what the city will be like.

The New Jerusalem is enormous. While no cities on earth can be seen with the eye during the day at only 120 miles up in the space shuttle, the moon looms large in the sky at a quarter of a million miles away. So will the New Jerusalem.

Psalm 19 gives testimony to the heavens proclaiming the glory of the Lord and the expanse showing His handiwork.

The next full moon is Wednesday April 16. It will rise in the east near the time that the sun sets in the west. Read Revelation 21, then go outside and take a good look at the moon’s golden surface.

Visualize the largest square you can fit into its orb. You will be viewing a similitude of the New Jerusalem. It is a prophetic testimony to the sure promises of God to your eternal future and the city of your joy.

This comparison of the size of the New Jerusalem to the moon is even more amazing when you consider that the ancient prophets could not have had any knowledge of the size of the moon. The golden moon is a testimony to the Golden City. It teaches us of the New Jerusalem.

Does the moon contain the New Jerusalem? No, the New Jerusalem is made of crystal gold, and everyone knows that the moon is made of Swiss cheese.

All of that gold would have changed the mass of the moon and our astronauts could not have made it off the surface with the small rocket engine on the lunar-lander.

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God speaks to us in parable, riddle, and similitude. These forms of teaching can only be understood by faith.

Revelation 17 contains the riddle of the seven kings. The angel that gave the riddle to John said that the beast was to be an eighth king and come from the seven.

To see the beast of the end-times you must solve the angel’s riddle.

There is information to aid in solving the riddle at my website.

Grace and Peace,

The Night Watchman