“What warning also to the wicked!  The same voice that utters the promise, pronounces also the threatening.  ’The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:  which is the second death.’  God says, ‘These words are true and faithful.’  They came from him who sat upon the throne, the Alpha and Omega.  He has put his everlasting seal to them, and pledged his veracity to their truth.”  Dear reader, will you accept the word of Him who can not lie and choose to suffer affliction with the people of God until our Lord shall come to call his ransomed home?  Or will you decide to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, only to be resurrected at the last great day to “shame and everlasting contempt”?  There is no intimation of future salvation for the transgressor.  The lake of fire still stands as the symbol of eternal destruction, and into it the fearful and unbelieving and wicked of every name are cast.

9.  And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

    10.  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
    mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
    descending out of heaven from God,

    11.  Having the glory of God:  and her light was like unto a stone
    most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

    12.  And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at
    the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are
    the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 

    13.  On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the
    south three gates; and on the west three gates.

    14.  And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them
    the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

    15.  And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the
    city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

16.  And 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.

    17.  And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and
    four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the
    angel.

    18.  And the building of the wall of it was of jasper:  and the
    city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

19.  And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.  The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

    20.  The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
    chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a
    chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.