A Biblical Understanding Of The New Jerusalem

Revelation 21:9-10 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." (10) And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God."

One of the first things we notice about the New Jerusalem is its immense size. For it is two thousand four hundred kilometers long and two thousand four hundred kilometers wide. Those measurements make the city about 5.7 million square kilometers in size. This is equal to about half the size of the United States of America, which for a city is enormous. So, what about its height? For the scripture teaches us that its length, breadth and height are equal. Now when some read, that the city’s height is equal to its length and breadth, they have thought that God has made the heavenly city like a giant box that is two thousand four hundred kilometers high. But that is not the case at all, for God doesn’t dwell in a box. He never has and He never will. God does dwell on Mount Zion though, and so it is the height of Mount Zion that is described by the apostle John in the above passage. This is why he says, that he was carried away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain.