{"id":10180,"date":"2022-06-13T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-revelation-21\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:23:23","slug":"devotional-on-revelation-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-revelation-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16421\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16421\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355-1536x865.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/100_3355.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Grand Canyon, AZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>Revelation 21: Death is gone for good \u2013 tears gone, crying gone, pain gone \u2013 all the first order of things gone.<\/p>\n<p>The final battle has been fought and the Day of Judgment has taken place. The indescribably beautiful City of God descends from heaven to a made-new earth. This City and this made-new earth is inhabited by people made new. The old ways have ended and new ways have come. Death, tears, and pain are forgotten. It\u2019s been a long time coming but now the new day has dawned\u2026a day without a sunset. John watches as the wonders of the New Jerusalem are revealed to him and as an angel measures out the magnificent city. Nothing that will spoil its perfection will enter this place. God\u2019s people, those whose names are written the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, though, will get in. In one setting, Judgment Day, the vital importance of having one\u2019s name in that all-important book is seen as the only way to survive Judgment. Now, as we watch John watch the Holy City coming down out of heaven, we find ourselves back at that same Book. Is your name in the Book of Life?<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: Ultimately, that\u2019s the only question that really matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jerusalem Revelation 21: Death is gone for good \u2013 tears gone, crying gone, pain gone \u2013 all the first order of things gone. The final battle has been fought and the Day of Judgment has taken place. The indescribably beautiful City of God descends from heaven to a made-new earth. This City and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1528,1428],"tags":[1380,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16423,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions\/16423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}