All Saints' Day focus - Revelation 21:22-22:6

Saints in Heaven

It is all coming together now.  As we anticipate an All Saint’s Day celebration tomorrow, these words bring into focus everything we have heard in Scripture.  All the stories of the struggles of God’s people, the tales of the lengthy trips His people endured from bondage to freedom; have come to pass.

It will not be necessary build temples because God is the Temple and we reside with Him.  No longer will we need to turn on a light to see the path ahead of us for God gives off more light than the sun, the Lamb is the Lamp.  Yes, it is all coming together now.

Revelation 21:22-27 (NIV)
“I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.  The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.  The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.  Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.”

We talked earlier in the week about the fact our loved ones who have died and are now with Jesus would not chose to return to our side.  Why would they when they are at Jesus’ side?  All they have worked for, dreamed and prayed about is now theirs.  Their name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

We might shed a tear of sadness tomorrow as we remember, but there are no more tears for them, it has all come together. 

Read Revelation 21:22-22:6 here

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