This time we are going to explore together life in the eternal city of God. Revelation 21-22 gives us most of the information that the Bible gives us about that. It is very interesting.
We are looking at Revelation 21:22, “I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” So, this is going over a few details that we find about the city of God. The first is, there is no temple, or sanctuary, in it because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the sanctuary. We find that while the temple in the Millennial Kingdom is very prominent in the Old Testament. As a matter of fact, Ezekiel 40-48 detail the Millennial Kingdom in very close and clear detail and goes on and on about it. Here we find no temple because there is no necessity for a temple because at the center of the worship going on in eternity is the Lord God and the Lamb. We are going to look at the Lamb a little bit more tomorrow, but I want you to note that the Lord God Almighty, All Omnipotent, the Almighty God is at the center of this worship. A sanctuary as a structure, a temple, is unnecessary because the Lord Himself is there and we will be worshiping Him there. So, there is no sanctuary, but the Lord is there. The Lord God Almighty in particular.
Then it goes on to give some other interesting details in Revelation 21:23, it says, “And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.” We find kind of an interesting thing. It says there is no need for the sun or the moon because the light that will illuminate this whole city will be the glory of the Lord Himself, and the Lamb is the lamp. This does not necessarily mean there is no moon or sun. As a matter of fact, earlier in Revelation 21 it says that there is a new heaven and a new earth, and if we are talking about the atmospheric heavens then there would be stars and planets and suns and moons and so forth like we have today. So, there could be a new sun and a new moon and all of that, but it is not necessary. The light is not necessary because the glory of the Lord Himself will be so bright that this whole city is illuminated by that glory . . .
