{"id":8345,"date":"2018-06-30T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?post_type=musings&#038;p=8345"},"modified":"2020-04-24T21:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:16:27","slug":"a-big-wall-with-a-beautiful-gate","status":"publish","type":"musings","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/musings\/a-big-wall-with-a-beautiful-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Wall with a Beautiful Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>On the final day of the month.\u00a0 Reading the last chapters of Revelation.<\/em>)\u00a0 In the last two chapters of the Bible, Revelation 21 and 22, God describes the final country (or city if you will) that is to be built.\u00a0 A city &#8220;foursquare.&#8221;\u00a0 A city that would be about half the size of the continental United States where the saints of God will live throughout eternity.\u00a0 A country really.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country&#8221; (Heb. 11:14).\u00a0 This country of God&#8217;s will have a wall around it.\u00a0 &#8220;A great wall and high, and had twelve gates&#8221; (21:12).\u00a0 The city is for the saints, i.e., believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who now are alive eternally in the presence of God.\u00a0 &#8220;The nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it&#8221; (21:24).\u00a0 Interestingly, &#8220;The gates of it shall not be shut at all by day&#8221; (21:25).\u00a0 And yet, &#8220;There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they that are witten in the Lamb&#8217;s book of life&#8221; (21:27).\u00a0 His final country has a permanent wall; though it has welcoming gates, only those who have previously applied for citizenship are allowed to enter and all others are forbidden.\u00a0 We know that God is righteous and holy in all His doings.\u00a0 Therefore it is obviously a righteous thing for Him to have a city (country) that has a wall and gates, but also to have a definite requirement for becoming a citizen.\u00a0 You must come the correct way or the righteous and holy God will not allow you to enter.\u00a0 That requirement is faith in Jesus Christ as the Savior from your sins.\u00a0 Come to Him today.\u00a0 He refuses no one who comes the proper way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[233],"tags":[135,183],"quote-subject":[],"class_list":["post-8345","musings","type-musings","status-publish","hentry","category-musings","tag-culture-worldview","tag-eschatology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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