The Twelve Gates Of The Holy City

Introduction

When I was a teenager I remember being brought up in the Church of Christ and would be asked to sing at funerals. We would sing songs like, 'I've got a mansion just over the hill top in that bright land where we'll never grow old and someday yonder I will nevermore wonder, but walk the streets that are paved with gold.' We would sing, 'Looking For a City', 'When the Roll is Called up Yonder" and others.

It wasn't until I was around forty five years old that I bothered to study the book of Revelation, Chapter 21 and 22 and the Lord begin to open my eyes to the facts of those two chapters. Oh, I had read them many times and had talk about the streets of Gold that are in the Holy City of God. I had envisioned along with the rest of the body of Christ that marvelous City that was prepared for the saints of God.

That was until, sometime around 1985, that one of my Christians friends came to me and said, "David, you have got to listen to these tapes by Kelley Varner, (http://www.templebuilders.com/), concerning the Twelve Gates of The Holy City!"

I finally sit down one evening and begin a journey that would absolutely change my whole concept of the Word of God and especially the Old Testament. I had been taught that the Old Testament had passed away and wasn't much use to us except as a history book of the beginning of things.

This unavailing of the true meaning of Revelation 21 &22 has changed my life. As a result, I have endeavored to set down my understanding of this passage in the hopes that as you read and meditate on the truths contain herein, you, also, will be changed. My prayer is that as you read this you will do so with an open mind and when you do see that the scripture plainly disputes what man has told you, that you will accept the scriptures.

David Johnson

	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter One
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Two
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Three
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Four
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Five
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Six
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Seven
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Eight
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Nine	>
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Ten
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Eleven
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Twelve
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Thirteen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Fourteen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Fifteen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Sixteen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Seventeen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Eighteen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Nineteen
	The Twelve Gates of The Holy City, Chapter Twenty