foundations are eternal; its walls are jasper; it gates pearls; its streets paved
city, the great metropolis of the mighty universe, the mighty city of the mighty God. 2. It is a well-built city.—Its builder and maker is God. Its foundations are eternal; its walls are jasper; it gates pearls; its streets paved with gold. It is 'compactly built together,' lying four square, and perfect in all its parts, without a break or flaw, or weakness or deformity. 3. It is a well-lighted city.—Something brighter than sun and moon is given to fill its heaven. The glory of God lightens it; the Lamb is its 'light' or 'lamp,' so that it needs no candle, no sunlight. There is no night there. 4. It is a well-watered city.—A pure river of the water of life flows through its streets, proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. What must its waters be! What must be the rivers of pleasure there! Who in it can ever thirst? Its inhabitants shall thirst no more. 5. It is a well-provisioned city.—The tree of life is there, with its twelve variety of fruits and its health-giving leaves. It has more than Eden had. It is paradise restored; Paradise and Jerusalem in one; Jerusalem in Paradise, and Paradise in Jerusalem. 6. It is a well-guarded city.—Not only has it gates, and walls, and towers, which no enemy could scale or force; but at the gates are twelve angels, keeping perpetual watch. 7. It is a well-governed city.—Its king is the Son of God, the King of kings, Immanuel, the King eternal, whose scepter is righteousness who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity. No misrule is there, no disorder, no lawlessness, no rebellion. 8. It is a well-peopled city.—It has gathered within its walls all generations of the redeemed. Its population is as the sands or the stars; the multitude that no man can number; the millions of the risen and glorified.