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Create an image of the New Jerusalem as described in the Book of Revelation. The city should have a dazzling brilliance and shine like a precious stone, resembling jasper, clear as crystal. The city is square, measuring 12,000 stadia (approximately 2,220 km) in length, width, and height, surrounded by a great and high wall made of jasper. The wall has twelve gates, each made of a single pearl, with three gates on each side of the city. The names of the twelve tribes of Israel are inscribed on the gates.The wall has twelve foundations, each adorned with precious stones like jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth, and amethyst, and the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are on them. The city is made of pure gold, like clear glass, and its streets are of pure gold, transparent as glass.The city is illuminated by the glory of God, with no need for the sun or the moon, as the Lamb is its lamp. The city's gates will never be shut during the day, and there is no night there. In the center of the city, a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb, running down the middle of the main street. On each side of the river stands the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.The city should convey a sense of purity, glory, and divine presence, with symmetrical and monumental architecture, radiating celestial light and filled with divine peace and beauty