It’s Called The “Mukaab” and It’s a Huge Biblical Counterfeit!

I have to admit, it looks wonderful, like a place I’d actually love to visit (if it wasn’t in the Middle East).

The thing is a near perfect counterfeit of the “New Jerusalem” described in Revelation.

Counterfeit Of The Biblical “New Jerusalem” Already Planned? Has a counterfeit to the Biblical “New Jerusalem” already been planned?

In the book of Revelation, the New Jerusalem is described as a city that will come down from heaven after the second coming of Jesus Christ. The dimensions and descriptions of the New Jerusalem are given in Revelation 21:10-27.

1. Dimensions: The city is said to be a perfect cube, with each side measuring 12,000 stadia (approximately 1,400 miles or 2,200 kilometers).

2. Walls: The city is surrounded by high walls, with 12 gates, each made of a single pearl, and guarded by an angel. The gates are named after the 12 tribes of Israel.

3. Foundation: The city is built on 12 foundation stones, each of which is named after one of the 12 apostles.

5. Temple: There is no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

6. Light: The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

7. River of life: A river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flows from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city.

8. Tree of life: On either side of the river stands the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Overall, the New Jerusalem is described as a city of immense size and beauty, with walls, gates, foundation stones, and streets made of precious materials. It is a place of perfect peace and unity, where God and the Lamb reign supreme and where the people of God will dwell forever.

Some have even suggested Star Trek borrowed the concept of it’s Borg ship from the measurements of New Jerusalem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaab

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mukaab المكعّب

A conceptual render of the proposed Mukaab

Map

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Interactive map of Mukaab

General information

Status Under construction

Architectural style Modern Najdi

Location Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Coordinates 24.808118°N 46.569226°E

Construction started 2024

Estimated completion 2030

Owner New Murabba Development Company

Height 400 m (1,300 ft)

Website

www.newmurabba.com Edit this at Wikidata

The Mukaab (Arabic: المكعّب, romanized: mukaʻʻab, lit. 'cube', [mukaʕʕab]) is a 400-meter (1,300 ft) tall cube- shaped skyscraper in the al-Qirawan district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, one of the five neighborhoods of the planned real estate development of New Murabba. Launched in February 2023, its cuboidal layout and design are inspired by the Murabba Palace.[1][2][3] Upon completion, the Mukaab will become the world’s largest building by volume.[4]

In ancient literature, the city was often used to represent an entire social order. The most obvious example is Augustine’s masterpiece “The City of God,” with its vision of two cities locked in Mortal Kombat. Go back even further, to the first epic poem we know of, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Here, history began “when kingship was let down from heaven.”

NT references that com to mind include:

Gal 4:26 ἡ δὲ ἄνω ᾿Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστίν, ἥτις ἐστὶ μήτηρ πάντων ἡμῶν.

Rev 21:10 καὶ ἀπήνεγκέ με ἐν πνεύματι ἐπ᾿ ὄρος μέγα καὶ ὑψηλόν, καὶ ἔδειξέ μοι τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἁγίαν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καταβαίνουσαν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ,

Heb 12:22 ἀλλὰ προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν ὄρει καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος, ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ, καὶ μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων, πανηγύρει

The Jerusalem “from above” (ἡ δὲ ἄνω ᾿Ιερουσαλὴμ). The holy city, the Jerusalem coming down from God’s heaven (τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἁγίαν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καταβαίνουσαν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ).

The heavenly Jerusalem (Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ)

And finally, for the icing on the cake, who are the citizens of this city? As Jesus said, ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἄνωθεν, οὐ δύναται ἰδεῖν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ. (John 3:3 — you’ve usually seen the adjective ἄνωθεν — from above — translated as “again.”)

We, God’s called-forth assembly, are literally and Biblically an entire new SOCIAL ORDER. A new Kingdom. A new City. Born in heaven, but made manifest on earth.

Memorize the Sermon on the Mount 2.5 times, and it finally sinks in — the ethics Jesus requires derive from the access we have in His name to the infinite resources of Heaven. We are not rats in a Skinner Box, not imprisoned in a closed system who can only shuffle limited energies around. Rather, we can call upon God’s infinite wisdom, grace, and power to achieve His goals in our lives, and in our days, and in our minutes.

And I think that’s kinda grand. Much more motivating than speculations about a massive space station casting shade upon the globe.

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