The Dimensions of the New Jerusalem (TMF:1504)

Thursday, November 19, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Dimensions of the New Jerusalem (TMF:1504) - Daniel Litton
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       John says the city is 12,000 stadia in a perfect square—so length, width, and height are the same. Now, a stadia measures to be about 1,400 miles. Therefore, considering it’s a square, this is a pretty big city to say the least, and probably will have skyscrapers or something like that since John talks about the height of it. Regardless, this city will be much more glorious and bigger than any city that we currently have on the earth. If we do the math here, an earthly city is just measured by length and width. For easier understanding then, if we just measured the length and width of the New Jerusalem, the number comes out to be 1,960,000 square miles. For comparison, Columbus, Ohio is 223 square miles. The state of Ohio itself is 44,825 square miles. Now, the continental United States is about 3,120,000 square miles. So, the city itself then, the New Jerusalem, is about two-thirds the size of the continental United States.