What is the measurement of the city?
Answer
"And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs." Verse 16.
NOTE - The measure around it, as the words length and breadth imply, and as was the early
custom of measuring cities, is 12,000 furlongs. This is equal to 1,500 miles, 375 miles on each side,
making a perfect square. The area of this city is therefore 140,625 square miles, or 90,000,000 acres, or
3,920,400,000,000 square feet. Allowing 100 square feet to each person, or a space ten feet square, the city
would hold 39,204,000,000 persons, or twenty times the present population of the globe.
How is Christ's resurrection foretold in the Psalms?
What gave special force to the oath of an angel?
Because of this, what is Christ able to do?
Where and by whom were the foundations of home laid?
How did this change in observance of days come about, suddenly or gradually?
Who witnessed the laying of the foundations of the earth?
4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, and the holy city, New Jerusalem, then he made?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle