“And 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.”
What this seems to be saying is that every gate of this gaudy city was made from one pearl. Well either the gates were pretty small or there were some large oysters hanging around somewhere. Also, he again spoke of transparent pure gold. Oh well, it was his hallucination. I guess he could see what he wanted to see.
I guess it’s about time to mention another of the aggravating ways in which the bible is often written. In Rev. 21:25, it says:
“And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.”
This brings up more questions than I would care to go into. But there are a couple things I would like to go into. The first being whether or not any angels can see in the dark. Because if they could, any angels that may be on guard duty during any nighttime hours wouldn’t be bothered by the dark. So there probably wouldn’t be any need to close the gates even if it were dark. Though if they had any concept of streetlights, the dark wouldn’t be any bother anyway. Another point is the angels guarding these gates. If they didn’t have different angels working in shifts, to me it would seem to be a hellish existence.
There is an aspect of this next description of the new jerusalem that I would like to talk about. In Rev. 22:2, it says:
“In 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 nations.”
The point I wanted to delve into a little here is where it said that the leaves of the tree of life was for the healing of nations. But any nations were destroyed with the old earth. So what was there left to heal. Though they could have meant nations that would eventually come to be on the new earth. Or maybe it was supposed to heal any animosity between spirits that came from different nations. It’s hard to say, or care. Also, there is an aspect of this story that I will be going into later. Which concerns some rabble that were supposed to be hanging around outside the walls of this city. Apparently those healing leaves didn’t do them much good.
The bible had recently said again in a couple of different places that the time for this prophecy was at hand. Which as with many other things in the bible, I’m not going to bother writing about. But for those of you who think that the revelation was meant for our time or a time yet to come, I will leave you with this last excerpt from the bible for this chapter. In Rev. 22:10-11, it says:
“And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
He 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.”
Believers are just going to have to face the facts. When they said that the time was at hand, they meant just that. Or when they said later that he comes quickly, as I said before, you can’t call the many centuries that have passed “quickly.” So you would have to be pretty stupid to think that the prophesy of the revelation was meant for our time or a time yet to come. Take for instance here where it said that the unjust and filthy should remain that way. Though I wouldn’t put such an evil sentiment past god, I doubt if they meant that for these many centuries the unjust and filthy should remain that way until some future fulfillment of the revelation. The last thing I would like to say here about the prophecy of the revelation. The longing some people still have for destruction because of what this garbage said is sickening and tragic.