John describes this incredible city in Revelation 21:9-27.
Rev 21:10 tells us that St. John was taken to “the top of a huge and enormous mountain . . .”. From that high point of creation (Mt. Everest?) St. John saw “The New Jerusalem”! It is a perfect cube, 1,500 miles on a side! “It glittered like some precious jewel of clear-cut diamond.”
“It had all the radiant glory of God . . .”!
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Catholics go back 700 years before St. John! Isaiah 65:17-21: “Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people.”. . . . “No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days . . .”
What may Catholics conclude as we connect The Old Testament Jerusalem with The New?
1. God is Pro-Life!
2. Catholics think of the billions of unborn babies, “who live” only a short time after their life began at conception.
3. The souls of all the lost babies, some killed by chemicals when they were no bigger than a grain of salt, will live forever in The New Jerusalem.
4. Those who desperately seek forgiveness for what we have done and failed to do may be there with them.
Is this Catholic conclusion correct?
