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Galatians 4:21-31 & Galatians 5:1-3 Hebrews 12:18-29 Revelation 21:1-4 <\/p>\n "This heavenly Jerusalem is the Church, that is to say the number of all believers throughout the world, having one and the same Gospel, one and the same faith in Christ, one and the same Holy Ghost, and the same sacraments."<\/em><\/strong> ~ Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (verse 4:26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n Galatians 4:21-31 & Galatians 5:1-3 Hebrews 12:18-29 Revelation 21:1-4 <\/p>\n "This heavenly Jerusalem is the Church, that is to say the number of all believers throughout the world, having one and the same Gospel, one and the same faith in Christ, one and the same Holy Ghost, and the same sacraments."<\/em><\/strong> ~ Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (verse 4:26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hj.kingdomfromheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
\n22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
\n23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
\n24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants<\/span>; the one from the mount Sinai<\/span>, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
\n25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
\n26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all<\/span>.
\n27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
\n28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise<\/span>.
\n29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
\n30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
\n31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
\n5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
\n2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
\n3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
\nKJV<\/p>\nThe Jerusalem from above = The heavenly Jerusalem<\/h3>\n
\n18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
\n19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
\n20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
\n21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
\n22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem<\/span>, and to an innumerable company of angels,
\n23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
\n24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant<\/span>, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
\n25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
\n26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
\n27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
\n28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
\n29 For our God is a consuming fire.
\nKJV<\/p>\nThe heavenly Jerusalem = The new Jerusalem = The Bride of Christ<\/h3>\n
\n1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
\n2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride <\/span>adorned for her husband.
\n3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
\n4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
\n5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
\n6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
\n7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
\n8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
\n9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
\n10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
\n11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
\n12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
\n13On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
\n14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
\n15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
\n16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
\n17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
\n18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
\n19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
\n20The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
\n21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
\n22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
\n23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
\n24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
\n25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
\n26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
\n27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
\nRevelation 22
\n1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
\n2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
\n3And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
\n4And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
\n5And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
\n6And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
\n7Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
\n8And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
\n9Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
\n10And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
\n11He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
\n12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
\n13I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
\n14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city<\/span>.
\n15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.<\/span>
\n16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
\n17And the Spirit and the bride <\/span>say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
\nKJV<\/p>\nThe New Covenant = the Jerusalem from above<\/h3>\n
\n21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
\n22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
\n23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
\n24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants<\/span>; the one from the mount Sinai<\/span>, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
\n25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
\n26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all<\/span>.
\n27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
\n28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise<\/span>.
\n29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
\n30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
\n31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
\n5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
\n2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
\n3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
\nKJV<\/p>\nThe Jerusalem from above = The heavenly Jerusalem<\/h3>\n
\n18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
\n19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
\n20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
\n21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
\n22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem<\/span>, and to an innumerable company of angels,
\n23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
\n24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant<\/span>, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
\n25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
\n26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
\n27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
\n28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
\n29 For our God is a consuming fire.
\nKJV<\/p>\nThe heavenly Jerusalem = The new Jerusalem = The Bride of Christ<\/h3>\n
\n1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
\n2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride <\/span>adorned for her husband.
\n3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
\n4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
\n5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
\n6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
\n7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
\n8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
\n9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
\n10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
\n11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
\n12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
\n13On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
\n14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
\n15And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
\n16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
\n17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
\n18And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
\n19And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
\n20The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
\n21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
\n22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
\n23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
\n24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
\n25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
\n26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
\n27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
\nRevelation 22
\n1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
\n2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
\n3And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
\n4And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
\n5And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
\n6And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
\n7Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
\n8And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
\n9Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
\n10And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
\n11He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
\n12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
\n13I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
\n14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city<\/span>.
\n15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.<\/span>
\n16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
\n17And the Spirit and the bride <\/span>say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
\nKJV<\/p>\n