21:1–2: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had gone away [compare 20:11: “the earth and the heaven fled away. And no place was found for them”]. And the sea doesn’t exist any more. 2 And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband [compare Isaiah 48:2; 49:18; 52:1–10; 61:10; 62:1–5; 65:17–19; 66:22; Ezekiel