The New Jerusalem

1. Prologue

   The seventeenth wonder

   The New Jerusalem, told in 5 scenes — A New Heaven, Coming Down Out of Heaven, Twelve Gates, The Lamb Is the Lamp and The River of Life.

2. Scene I

   A New Heaven

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   I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more.

3. Scene II

   Coming Down Out of Heaven

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   I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

4. Scene III

   Twelve Gates

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   And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels … And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one to each: and every several gate was of one several pearl.

5. Scene IV

   The Lamb Is the Lamp

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   The city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

6. Scene V

   The River of Life

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   And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life.

7. The verse

   Behold, I make all things new.

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