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The first chapter sets out the core idea of the book. The New Jerusalem John sees descending from heaven at the end of Revelation is the Church in this age. It is visible, it is a part of the future breaking into the present through the power of resurrection, and it is on a mission to bring about that blessed future.
— Oct 13, 2025 06:14AM
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Ch 2
"Jesus founded the city of God among the cities of men to witness to and transform those cities." The word for city is "polis" which means what the church (the city of God) does in this world is inherently "poli"-tical.
— Oct 14, 2025 11:11AM
"Jesus founded the city of God among the cities of men to witness to and transform those cities." The word for city is "polis" which means what the church (the city of God) does in this world is inherently "poli"-tical.
And yet, instead of credits rolling, the Apostle John, like Moses, David, and Ezekiel before him, ascends a high mountain and receives a vision of the pattern for God's new dwelling place with man, a Garden/Tabernacle/Temple like City (New Jerusalem) coming down out of heaven to the earth. This blessed city, Leithart will spend the whole book arguing, is a vision of Christ’s Church in this present age (i.e., from "the Last Days" of the Old Covenant in AD 70 to Christ's coming bodily in glory after all His enemies are subdued under His feet, 1 Cor 15:25).