“I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,” says John.24 Those who have seen the present Jerusalem often remark about its beauty. The stones look golden by the light of the setting or rising sun. Jerusalem of gold, people call it. So the New Jerusalem follows the pattern of the World to Come. It is not something completely new and unconnected to our experience. The New is continuous in some ways with the Old. The beauty of the World to Come is a perfection