Revelation Chapter 21 Verse 9

9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

What are we about to see? Heaven? No. The angel says that we are about to see “the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” We are about to see the victorious church!

The real question is not what we are about to see, but rather when are we seeing it? Are we about to see the church in Heaven after the final judgment of the world, or are we about to see the church back on earth safe and sound after the judgment of Rome?

We have already had a first clue that should help us answer that question. Look at verse 2. There John saw “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” We see the same clue in verse 10. Not only are we not looking at Heaven in these verses, but we are not looking at the church in Heaven in these verses. We are seeing the church “coming down out of heaven.”

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