is loudly and triumphantly repeated three times for emphasis. He is our God, who keeps his promise to his covenant people. We see “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (v. 2). Timothy Keller writes, “The Bible teaches that the future is not an immaterial ‘paradise’ but a new heaven and a new earth. In Revelation 21, we do not see human beings being taken out of this world into heaven, but rather heaven coming down and cleansing,