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New Jerusalem

In the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible, New Jerusalem (יהוה שָׁמָּה‎, YHWH šāmmā,[1] YHWH [is] there") is Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centered on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.[2][3][4] The prophecy is recorded by Ezekiel as having been received on Yom Kippur of the year 3372 of the Hebrew calendar.[5]

This article is about the prophecy of the New Jerusalem. For other uses, see New Jerusalem (disambiguation).

New Jerusalem
Tabernacle of God
Holy City
City of God
Celestial City
Heavenly Jerusalem
Jerusalem above
Zion
Shining City on a Hill

4,950,625 km2 (1,911,447 sq mi)

In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, the city is also called the Heavenly Jerusalem, as well as being called Zion in other books of the Christian Bible.

Baháʼí Faith[edit]

The Baháʼí Faith views the New Jerusalem as the renewal of religion that takes place about every thousand years and which secures the prosperity of the human world.[29][30] Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, identified the New Jerusalem with his claimed revelation (the word of God), and more specifically with the Law of God.[31][32]


`Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'u'lláh's son, further explains that the New Jerusalem which descends from heaven is not an actual city which is renewed, but the law of God since it descends from heaven through a new revelation and it is renewed.[33] Shoghi Effendi, head of the religion after the death of `Abdu'l-Bahá, stated that specifically Bahá'u'lláh's book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, is the new Jerusalem.[34][35] Bahá'u'lláh, in the Tablet of Carmel, also states that the new Jerusalem had appeared upon the new Mount Zion, Mount Carmel.[31]

Music[edit]

The Lutheran hymn "Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt", with lyrics written by Johann Matthäus Meyfart in 1626, describes entering the Heavenly Jerusalem. It was set by composers such as Max Reger and Sigfrid Karg-Elert.

Bernet, Claus: "The Heavenly Jerusalem as a Central Belief in Radical Pietism in the Eighteenth Century", in: The Covenant Quarterly, 63, 4, 2005, pp. 3–19.

La Cité de Dieu, ed. by , Tübingen 2000.

Martin Hengel

La Gerusalemme celeste, ed. by Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, Milano 1983.

Kühnel, Bianca: From the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Representations of the Holy City in Christian Art of the First Millennium, Rom, 1987.

Die montanistischen Tymion und Pepouza im Lichte der neuen Tymioninschrift, in: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 8 (2004) 498–512

Peter Lampe

W. Tabbernee/, Pepouza and Tymion: The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and an Imperial Estate (deGruyter: Berlin/New York, 2008) ISBN 978-3-11-019455-5 und ISBN 978-3-11-020859-7

Peter Lampe

Daniel C. Harlow, The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (New York: E.J. Brill, 1996)

Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

David Flusser, Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1988)

Aune, Word Biblical Commentary: Revelation 17–22

Stephen Pattemore, The People of God in the Apocalypse: discourse, structure, and exegesis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

from PBS.

An article about the Puritans and the New Jerusalem

University of Heidelberg: The Discovery of Pepouza and Tymion

Size of New Jerusalem