Someone wrote that “Money Is Not Ev!l; God Himself Dwells In Heaven Where The Foundation Of The Mansion Are Of Gold And Costly Stones”
Sometimes when I read a post like this, I feel like leaving the people to continue in their deep ignorance.
The truth is many people still think the street of heaven is made of gold.
The problem with most Christians and their supposed teachers is that they really do not understand the Bible they have been reading for years.
Most of them do not even understand how to read their Bible to understand the mind of the writer at a time and this in most cases resulted in the many wrong interpretations of the Bible that we see around the world this day.
Do you know that most people don’t really know that the Book of Revelation is a book of dreams and visions that need to be interpreted for the true message of the writer to be revealed?
Just as the name of the book is called, the book of Revelation is a book of dreams, vision and fiction that are not to be taken literally.
It is a book that needed to be interpreted to get the true message John was trying to pass across to the Christians of that time.
If you really think that the street of heaven is made up of earthly materials like gold and other materials we refer to as special stones and the rest, then you must be the dullest student ever in the school of life.
The truth is the Book of Revelation is a book of dreams and visions that needed an interpretation to understand the message of the writer.
What you must understand is that most of the stuff was written to the Christians of those days and times who were passing through persecution.
John wrote the Book of Revelation to them to encourage them in faith.
So in his writing to them, he began to fantasise about the real message of the scriptures, he did this by employing the use of fiction in some of his writing to elevate the minds of the readers not to lose hope in God.
Another thing you will also see in his writing is the dream and vision that we all call revelation.
For you to have a proper understanding of his writing, you must first see the need to interpret every one of his writings to be able to get the real message in his writeup.
The fact that it is a book of dreams and visions, is the main reason we must understand that it also needs some level of interpretation for the Christians of today to understand it.
Now, In that same book of Revelation 21:21 where John was describing the city that was to come from heaven and from God, which he called the new Jerusalem he said the street of the city is made of gold and not even the street of heaven.
But if you don’t settle down to read that passage very well, you would think he was even speaking of heaven. But it wasn’t heaven that he was describing. Instead, he was describing a city he called the new Jerusalem that was to come from God and heaven. It was this city that he said it street is made of gold.
The same city Ezekiel in the books of Ezekiel 48:30-35 called; the lord is there, which in other words means that the new Jerusalem John spoke of is the place of the cross and in the book of revelation and Ezekiel’s writing, they tried to make us understand that the gate and the foundation of that city is an identity of the 12 tribes of Israel and at the same time they also tried to showed us that it is a place of the cross when they said their were three tribe to the north, to the west, to the south and the east.
This was all a symbolic translation of the cross that has the four cardinal points with 3 tribes each at each corner making it 12 which is still the identity of the 12 tribes of Israel and also of the 12 apostles which is also of the foundation of the salvation plan of God.
As such the new city John was trying to describe in that chapter was the place of the cross and it is the person of the lord Jesus christ that came down out of God from heaven.
What is it that came down from Heaven out of God?
It is Jesus the lord our Saviour.
It is why Ezekiel in that same book boldly tells us that the name of the city is, “the lord is there”. Ezekiel 48:35.
If we go by this interpretation to reason the city John and Ezekiel were trying to explain in that vision, it will be wrong for us to begin to think that the city of heaven is a place with a built-up of physical structure of this world and with possibly earthly material like gold and other precious stones that perishes.
The truth is in my opinion, I would say that heaven is not a physical place that will be built with physical earthly material like gold and other precious stones. Instead, heaven is a spiritual dwelling place of a spiritual God and his spiritual sons.
We will be looking at heaven itself in detail later on the topic of heaven.
