New Jerusalem

[ayin jade]

Since it is not yet known exactly who built the Great Pyramid or why ..we cannot say for sure much about it other than what is known

It is pretty well known that it was built as a funerary monument to one pharaoh. There is a large amount of precursor pyramids that show how they gained in knowledge and skill in building them.

[goldust59]

The cornerstone of the Temple was just that, a corner. It only set in place exactly where everything else would be built around it.

Don't really know what a "capstone" is, probably not related to a hebrew original word is my guess.

I could be wrong.

It is written as two words, "corner stone" in KJV, not as one word. Strong's says 'corner' matches the Hebrew word 'pinnah'---isn't this where the word 'pinnacle' comes from? If so, then the top point/capstone of a pyramid makes more sense.

[Fez]

The cornerstone of the Temple was just that, a corner. It only set in place exactly where everything else would be built around it.

Don't really know what a "capstone" is, probably not related to a hebrew original word is my guess.

I could be wrong.

The capstone is the last stone put into an arch, the one that holds the entire arch in place and which distributes the downward forces evenly?

[Hall7]

The New Jerusalem

by Pastor F. M. Riley

QUESTION TO PASTOR (FROM UNKNOWN [TO ME] SOURCE):

I am curious if you have ever done any study of the New Jerusalem and its shape? I am

curious because I would imagine there would be billions living their the dead before us

and the living rapture( and those who die in the trib) and I would then imagine there

would be several levels to the New Jerusalem to accommodate that many.

Some say it will be a cube which given the dimensions that would be the first thought

and many point to the holy of holies being a cube. Others say a square pyramid. I have

seen a DVD the pillar(or pillars) of Enoch that seems to show that the pyramids in Giza

Egypt were not build by the pharaohs but by angels. so I am curious if the bible give

and hints as to shape as the sides of a pyramid slope thus each level going up would

have less space then the one below it where a cube all levels are the same.

I have no Idea how many will be in the NJ but I am sure we need space.

Dear Brother,

I have studied the New Jerusalem extensively in God's Word. However, I have never

written anything out about it. But I have taught and preached on it many times.

Brother, the New Jerusalem is a "pyramid." I have no idea why so many of God's

people have overlooked this truth in the Scriptures. Satan and his followers are well

aware of it, and have been counterfeiting it for centuries. Look at the one dollar bill

with the Illuminati symbol on it. Have you ever examined any of the books and

literature written by Satanists, New Agers, Wiccas (witchcraft), Masonry, Spiritualists,

etc.? Their literature is filled with references to pyramids and to "the Great Pyramid."

Their organizational structure is often set up in the order of a "pyramid." Whoever built

the "Great Pyramid" in Egypt (highly debatable) obviously built it as a minature

representation of New Jerusalem.

It is also more than coincidence that the Tower of Babel, according to many legends,

was built in the shape of a great "pyramid." Layer upon layer, one story upon the top

of another, pushing it ever higher and higher in order to exalt humanity and its

accomplishments, Genesis 11:3-4. There is no doubt in my mind that the Tower of

Babel was a counterfeit intended to resemble New Jerusalem, while standing in

opposition to Almighty God.

I want to immediately correct one common error that is taught by and among

Christians. The Most Holy Place in the tabernacle of Moses was not a "cube." Who

says so? God's Word explicitly says so, if God's people would seriously and carefully

study their Bible. In Ezekiel 41:1 we read, "Afterward he brought me to the

temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six

cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle."

Compare this with Exodus 26:22-23. Almost all of your commentators say that the

two corner boards were overlapped in order to make the Most Holy Place a "cube."

But check out the measurements of the boards. In the light of this passage in Ezekiel

41:1, the claim of overlapping just isn't so. ! ; The Most Holy Place was not a "cube,"

and neither is New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem is a magnificent "pyramid."

The Scriptures tell us eight times in God's Word that Christ was the "stone of

stumbling," and the "rock of offense," "which the builders rejected," and that He is

"the chief corner stone," and is become "the head of the corner." Look up all of these

words in your concordance or Hebrew and Greek Lexicons. A literal rendering of these

Scriptures will tell you that Christ is the "head stone" or "cap stone" "of the corner."

Now brother, you tell me, what type of architecture on this earth has a capstone on it

which also serves as a corner stone? Isn't it obvious? Reversing the statement, there

is only one type of building design on earth where the corner stone also serves as the

cap stone. A PYRAMID! See Psalm 118:21-23, Isaiah 8:13-15, 28:16, Matthew

21:42, Acts 4:10-12, Romans 9:31-33, Ephesians 2:19-22,and 1 Peter 2:4-8. ! ;

When we turn to the Scriptures that describe New Jerusalem for us, we find that

".....the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he

measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the

breadth and the height of it are equal," Revelation 21:16. Here is where many

"commentators" derive their claim that New Jerusalem is a perfect "cube." But there is

nothing in the Scriptures, Old or New Testaments, that even suggests such a thing. But

there is plenty of Scripture, as given above, that suggests that the architecture of New

Jerusalem will be a "pyramid." I will come back to the actual size of this city later.

The passage referenced in Ephesians 2:19-22 suggests that the Lord's "church" is

being built into "a holy temple" in the Lord. Didn't the Lord tell His "church" in John

14:2-3 that He was going away to "prepare a place" for her? And didn't John say in

Revelation 21:2 that he saw New Jerusalem "coming down from God out of

heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband"? Obviously New Jerusalem

will be the dwelling place of the bride of Christ; His "church," even as the earthly

Jerusalem will be the dwelling place of Israel, the "wife" of God.

In view of these Scriptures, what kind of material is the Lord using to build His "church"

into "a holy temple"? Peter tells us in his epistle that the Lord is using stones. But

what kind of stones? In 2 Peter 2:4 the Apostle, writing by Divine Inspiration, says

that the Lord is

"a living stone." And in verse 5 he says that God's people ".....as

lively [living] stones, are built up a spiritual house...." Notice that we are being

"built up," layer upon layer, one story upon another story, progressing always towards

the top, just as the ancients built the pyramids.

Now look at that one dollar bill again. See the "cap stone" coming down out of heaven

to sit on the apex of the pyramid, which will bring all four corners of the pyramid

together into a perfect structure. That is the position coveted by Satan, and which the

leaders of the Illuminati directed world system have been working towards for

centuries. But they will never have it! God's Word tells us that Christ is the "head

stone of the corner," and in Revelation 21:11 we are told that New Jerusalem is

crowned with ".....the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most

precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal."

The Lord Jesus Christ

will dwell at the very top of New Jerusalem as the "Head Stone of the Corner,"

radiating out His glory to light up the entire city, Revelation 21:23; 22:5.

And what a city! Let's go back to the measurements. The 12,000 furlongs of

Revelation 21:16 calculates out to be approximately 1500 miles. In other words, the

city is approximately 1500 miles long, 1500 miles wide, and 1500 miles HIGH. Wow!

And right here is where the "commentators" start trying to explain the description of

the city away as mere "symbolism." They just know that such a city could never be

real. Oh, is that so? "Of course not! Why, such a city couldn't even sit upon this earth,

for the weight of the city would not allow the surface of the earth to hold it." Well, who

said it was going to sit upon this earth? Where is that written in the Scripture? Almost

immediately someone will turn to Revelation 21:10, and tell me that John was

taken to ".....a great and high mountain....." so that he could get a good view of the

whole city by looking down on it.

Pardon me! I can read as well as the next fellow,

and better than some. John wasn't

looking down on the city in that verse. He was looking up, watching the city coming

down. Read the verse for yourself. Why do you think astronomers today set up their

observatories on the tops of high mountains? Isn't it so the atmosphere of the earth

won't interfere with their observations into space? Then why do you think the angel

took John up into a high mountain, where he was looking up? Well...??

Folks, the New Jerusalem is the eternal "home" of all the saved who have lived

throughout human history, and who have already died. And it is to be the eternal

"home" of the Lord's bride, His "church." And it is the "Father's house," John 14:2,

and therefore the "home" of

our Heavenly Father, of our Savior, of the Holy Spirit, and of all the innumberable

angels of God. Of course it will be BIG. The most majestic city in the universe. And

rather than sitting upon the surface of the earth, it will orbit this earth, displaying the

glory of God and the Lamb to this whole earth. Doesn't Revelation 21:24 plainly

state, "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it:

Doesn't this clearly imply that as New Jerusalem orbits the earth, the

glory of this majestic city of our God will shine down upon a redeemed humanity upon

the earth as a beautiful "light" in the sky above the earth? Glory to God! Praise the

Lord! Hallelujah!

[Guest yod]

The cornerstone of the Temple was just that, a corner. It only set in place exactly where everything else would be built around it.

Don't really know what a "capstone" is, probably not related to a hebrew original word is my guess.

I could be wrong.

The capstone is the last stone put into an arch, the one that holds the entire arch in place and which distributes the downward forces evenly?

I'm in Israel today and asked a hebrew speaker if "Rosh Pinah" could be interpreted as a capstone on the top. They looked at me like I had fallen off a turnip truck.

No, it's the foundational stone that everything else is built in relation to.

[other one]

The cornerstone of the Temple was just that, a corner. It only set in place exactly where everything else would be built around it.

Don't really know what a "capstone" is, probably not related to a hebrew original word is my guess.

I could be wrong.

The capstone is the last stone put into an arch, the one that holds the entire arch in place and which distributes the downward forces evenly?

I believe that is a key stone, Fez.

[OldShep]

The cornerstone of the Temple was just that, a corner. It only set in place exactly where everything else would be built around it.

Don't really know what a "capstone" is, probably not related to a hebrew original word is my guess.

I could be wrong.

The capstone is the last stone put into an arch, the one that holds the entire arch in place and which distributes the downward forces evenly?

I'm in Israel today and asked a hebrew speaker if "Rosh Pinah" could be interpreted as a capstone on the top. They looked at me like I had fallen off a turnip truck.

No, it's the foundational stone that everything else is built in relation to. ( the winning answer )

Posting to the wind~~~There seem to be alot of people on that turnip truck....

Retired Engineer....