Collection 01 · Royal · Kingship & Majesty
The Holy City
The city is not built up from the ground. It comes down.
“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
Revelation 21:2 · King James Version, quoted verbatim
The Scene
John has just watched the first heaven and the first earth go, and the sea with them. Then the city arrives — and the direction matters more than the architecture. It is not raised by anyone's hands. It descends, already finished, out of heaven from God.
He does not describe it as a fortress or a capital. He describes it as a bride, dressed for her husband. After all the seals and trumpets and bowls, the last image in the book is a wedding, held in a city that came down.
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- One high-resolution portrait file, 300 DPI
- Sizing
- Clean at 8×10 and 11×14; holds at 16×20
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Source plate: Gustave Doré, Bible engravings (1866) — public domain, transformed under original creative direction. Treatment, composition, colour and typography by Watchman Forge. The display line is our own language; anything carrying a citation is quoted exactly.
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