What is the New Jerusalem?
The city of Jerusalem has a special meaning for Jews, Christians
and Muslims. This place has always been a symbol of God's presence on
earth. From the history of the Jewish people and the prophecies of the
Bible, Jerusalem has become a symbol of our inner destiny, and a state of
spiritual peace which may feel like a long-lost home. (
Isaiah 43:5-7;
Jeremiah 31)
The New Jerusalem is a symbolic image found in the Christian
Bible, in the Book of Revelation, Chapter
21. Here the city New Jerusalem is described as a place of
peace and happiness, the goal both of human history and of individual
human life.
Many people have interpreted the prophecy of the New Jerusalem as
a literal, historic event. Others have seen that this story contains a
deeper meaning, that it represents the spiritual peace and happiness that
God wants to give each of us.
Emanuel
Swedenborg
described this spiritual
meaning
of the New Jerusalem in his theological
writings.
In those writings
many
people see God's hand at work, and find in them a promise of happiness and
peace that will come, not as a literal "end of the world," but as a new
presence of God in the hearts and minds and lives of all people. This
New Jerusalem, is a new spiritual era in which God works and
re-creates the world, not through dramatic intervention, but through our
free choices and rational thinking. Some readers of Swedenborg have formed
organizations known as the Swedenborgian or New
Church.
Related readings:
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