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BIBLE STUDY #228 – FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2022

TITLE: THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM AND THE EARTHLY JERUSALEM
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Thursday, September 18, 1997
Managua, Nicaragua
Scripture: Hebrews 12:18-24

 

THE THRONE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST¹
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, January 31, 1988
Bogota, Colombia

And the New Jerusalem (or city) will be the one that rises from the heart of the Earth due to the volcanoes; and all the elect will be placed upon that mountain, on that mount, to carry out the eternal Kingdom.

The elect that belong to the Age of the Throne of the Lord Jesus Christ will be on the top, the highest part of that mountain, of that mount; because on the top of that mount will be the Throne of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Throne of the Father.

The businesses of the Lord Jesus Christ will be conducted from there; and it will be in Jerusalem (the literal one) where the New Jerusalem will be; a new city: the City of God.

This planet Earth places (puts) the material part: the mountain. And Heaven —God— places the chosen ones on this mountain.

 

THE NEW JERUSALEM
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, October 30, 1994
(Second activity)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

And the Scripture says that all nations will walk in the light of that City, in the light of God and of the Lamb; because in that City there will be no electricity, it will not have the services that we currently have in the cities; because there will be no night there, because the brightness of God illuminates it.

Let’s read it here… (it says…); and there will be no temples or religious sects or anything like that either; we are going to see it in a moment. It says:

[Revelation 21:21] “The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.”

Did you see? No more religions and religious sects, and differences between the children of God and between the religions of this Earth.

“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it…”

In other words, the City; not the rest of the nations; because the sun will continue to come out and the moon will continue to come out, but that City will not depend on the light of the sun or the light of the moon.

(…) The question: “Where are they going to accommodate so many people?” Don’t worry: God will dry up the seas, and then there will be enough land.

Now, “new Earth and new Heavens.” An Earth that God will prepare. A transformation will happen to this planet Earth; just as God will bring a transformation to our bodies, and make our bodies a new body, an eternal body. He will do the same thing with this planet Earth. It is the same process, it is the same blueprint, being applied to planet Earth.

(…) We can see our place in the New Jerusalem; what all of us have always liked.

Whenever one travels and sees a hill, a mountain, and looks at the top, in his soul he says: “I would like to have a little house there! That is where I would like to have my little house.” It’s because the position that God has for us has already been ordained, been predestined, since before the foundation of the world, it is sealed in our soul, and that is why it also influences our daily life.

We can always see that from the top of a mountain you can see everything down below. That is why from the top of the mountain of the Kingdom of God, of the Mystical Body of Christ, from the Age of the Cornerstone, you can look down, and you can see and understand what the gentile Church ages were: you can see everything that happened there in the past, you can see how God worked, and how the enemy of God rose up against God and His Program in the past ages; and you can see where you are; and you can see that after there (upwards) there is nothing else.

(…) Our age is the most important age of all ages: it is the Age of the Throne of our Lord Jesus Christ in His spiritual Temple, where everything that will be in the Throne of God and of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem materializes in human flesh.

And everything will be reflected and materialized in us; just as the walls or the wall of the City materialized in the apostles of the Lord.

Now, it doesn’t mean, at any time, that what will be in that City by materializing in human beings, it doesn’t mean that it will not have those things; but the wall, because it represents the twelve apostles who will also be there, but there will be a wall with twelve foundations.

The gates represent the twelve patriarchs. It doesn’t mean that (in the wall), it doesn’t mean that there will not be twelve gates; but there will be twelve gates, and when the person sees each one of those gates, he will be seeing that each gate represents one of the patriarchs and one of the tribes of Israel.

In other words, there, in that City, everything that will be seen is representing human beings, sons and daughters of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Just as in the cities, for example: they place an image, a statue, a monument (whether in the form of a man or an animal or a bird); and that monument is representing something, it is representing someone or it is representing some event.

And everything that will be in the New Jerusalem will be representing the elect of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and everything that was lived on Earth in the different stages of the Divine Program will be represented there; everything that Christ did during the seven ages of the gentile Church and what He does in the Age of the Cornerstone will be represented there.

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