Finally Together!

The Inheritors. Most of us would like something for free. It is a rare thing in this life to be given something. Most of us know that stores are not really offering anything “free” when we buy another product, even when they claim they are. Only God offers something that is really valuable and free. Only God knows how to give great gifts beyond our hopes and dreams.

. . . I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (NASB) Rev. 21:6-8

What free gift do overcomers inherit? It is the water of life. It is eternal life with God. Who are these overcomers? The answer is found in 1 John 5:5.

Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (NASB) 1 John 5:5

The ones who overcome are those who believe in Jesus Christ. The new earth, heaven, and city will be only for those who have been transformed into holy ones.
     But those who have rejected Jesus will not inherit anything. They will not be with God. They will not see the new earth and heaven. They will have tears, sorrow, pain, and mourning. What great sorrow they will experience!
      The Bride. The Holy Spirit has finished the introduction about the new heaven, earth, and the holy city. Now we are going to be given some details. We will discover that we will not be sitting on clouds playing harps. There will not be any mist coming up out of the ground, and the Apostle Peter will not be standing at a heavenly gate to check for your name on an approved list of those allowed to enter heaven. When you get to heaven, you will be home!
     Next we are told that one of the seven angels who poured out one of the seven bowls of the fierce wrath of God (Rev. 16:1-21) calls the Apostle John. It is possible that the angel is the same one mentioned in Rev. 17:1.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. (NASB) Rev. 21:9-11

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