The New Jerusalem is a heavenly city that will far transcend the glory of its earthly counterpart. The citizens of the future holy Jerusalem constitute the wife of the Lamb. It is a perfect cube denoting the complete elect church. During the millennium the elect saints reign with Christ as kings and priests over the earth and over Israel and the nations. There will be the heavenly Jerusalem the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from God. The Greek for new as in New Jerusalem implies that it is new and different from and superseding the old worn out Jerusalem. The first foundation of the spiritual church was laid in the earthly Jerusalem but it was never a part of the earthly Jerusalem meaning physically. This spiritual church is the earnest of that everlasting Jerusalem which will come down from heaven to abide permanently in the new heavens and new earth. To have a part in the New Jerusalem one must have endurance live by faith and not draw back. Allegiance must be given to the heavenly Jerusalem the new city rather than the old dying city of earthly Jerusalem. As the earthly Jerusalem came to symbolize Israel's imperial destiny the New Jerusalem signifies the full realization of that Kingdom promise. In the New Jerusalem the people of God will enjoy unhindered worship and fellowship under the great Davidic King Jesus Christ. All things will be made new. There will not be any remnants of the earthly Jerusalem. The conception of a holy city is based on prophecies that predict a glorious future for Jerusalem after the judgment. It allegorically depicts the final state of the church when the new heaven and the new earth will have come into being. This picture is drawn from a twofold perspective. The New Jerusalem is a restoration of Paradise. It is also the ideal of true religion realized. The New Jerusalem is the city that descends out of heaven from God which characterizes it on the one hand as a product of God's supernatural workmanship and on the other hand as the culmination of the historic process of redemption. The New Jerusalem is the full realization of the grand destiny of the people of God. It represents the time when the reign of God will be fully actualized on earth through the vice-regency of the great Son of David Jesus Christ. The New Jerusalem is the place in which one will live and dwell in happy fellowship with God and His Son through eternity.

The new creation begins with the formation of the new man, of whom Christ is the firstfruits, and reaches its culmination in the building of a new heaven and a new earth. In this renewed order, the separations and binary pairings established in Genesis give way to unification, fellowship, and peace. The holy city, New Jerusalem, embodies this reversal. It descends out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, so that the dwelling place of God is with man. As the city comes down, the distinction between over the sun and under the sun is removed, and God establishes direct union with His people. Believers have already come to this city in the present age. They stand at Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, together with innumerable angels in festal gathering, the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, God the judge of all, the spirits of the righteous made perfect, Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. This arrival is a completed action, placing Christians spiritually in heavenly places with Christ now. The same unification that dissolves the Jew and Gentile distinction, the land and sea pairing, and the day and night pairing finds its full expression in the New Jerusalem, where all things are reconciled in one body through Christ. The old order of divisions is passing away as God continues to break down every wall of partition, building His people together into the singular place where He dwells by His Spirit.

The material presents the New Jerusalem as the ultimate fulfillment of God's purpose for a separated, sanctified people ruled directly by His law. Nehemiah's physical wall around Jerusalem, rebuilt to exclude pagan influences and enforce obedience to God's commandments on the Sabbath and in daily conduct, prefigures the great and high wall surrounding the New Jerusalem. That future wall will ensure nothing defiling, abominable, or false enters the city, admitting only those written in the Lamb's Book of Life. The gates of the New Jerusalem will never close, allowing free access to all who choose God's way, yet the wall itself will forever mark complete separation from sin and the ways of the surrounding world. This imagery connects directly to the decrees of Cyrus and Artaxerxes, which called for the construction of both a temple and a community governed by God's law. The remnant's half-hearted response, marked by intermarriage, Sabbath-breaking, and eventual embrace of pagan athletic games and cultural practices, caused them to remain spiritually in Babylon and prevented the establishment of the theocracy. In contrast, believers today have already come in spirit to Mount Zion and the heavenly Jerusalem, the same New Jerusalem described in Revelation. They sit together in heavenly places and must therefore remain within its walls by consistent obedience to God's law, refusing any compromise with the world. Only through such sustained sanctification can they succeed where the ancient remnant failed and avoid the spiritual ruin that followed physical disobedience.