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1. Flight Home to the Awesome City

Flying in from earth, perhaps on angel's wings, in awe see the big picture from an airplane-like view. The emerald color circular rainbow shows the glory of God over the Throne.

It is very hard to get perspective on such a massive place as The City of God. The dimensions of this picture show it to be perhaps one-twelfth the size of the foundation, like one-twelfth of the first layer of Heaven. The biblical picture reveals that the city is a square, some 1,500 miles on each side. So the Jasper Wall is 6,000 miles long. Heaven on this level is 2,250,000 square miles. Later we will share an even more phenomenal figure on Heaven's size.

This is the best picture of the width or thickness of the walls of Heaven, which a number of Bible commentators believe is seventy-two yards. (Other commentators think this measurement refers to the height. Rita felt convinced it meant the width and published this in her book.) Seventy-two yards means the width of the wall is almost the length of a football field! When coming to this conclusion, then there is not a height of Heaven's wall mentioned. Some guess it would be the size of a two or three story building. As you go on in the tour, you'll see one of the exciting reasons why the wall is so wide.

Here we see a committee of angels gathered around the gate to welcome a weary traveler. Maybe one or more had assisted in the trip from earth to Heaven.

Some of the beautiful homes are highlighted to draw your attention to them. These are the artist's guess about some of the awesome places God, the Son, has gone to prepare for those who love Him.

When author Bennett saw in the Book of Revelation that it mentions mountains in Heaven, she was very happy ( Rev. 21: 10). Some Bible commentators think that the Throne of Heaven is built right at the top of a mountain. That would be hard to depict if it were much of a mountain. There are some details that we won't know until we are there in person.

We know that in the old City of Jerusalem, in Israel, that Mount Moriah, Mount Zion, and the Mount of Olives are three important mountains. If you've been to Israel you'll know that these mountains, Mt. Moriah (where Solomon's Temple was built and now where the Dome of the Rock stands) and Mt. Zion (where the Pentecost Upper Room has been rebuilt) are not very tall. The Mount of Olives is tallest of the three. These mountains have been eroded through time and especially through massive destruction caused by invaders taking over old Jerusalem.

So the Throne of God could be on a mountain certainly not as high as our earthly northwest Mount Rainier, for example. It is probably a smaller kind of mountain as it needs to fit in the dimensions given in Scripture. But since the earthly Temple and Jerusalem seems to be a microcosm of the heavenly, it may be on some kind of mountain.

 

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