Is There Any Scripture That Describes the Size of the City Foursquare That Comes Out of Heaven?

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Answered by True Bible Teachings AI on 8/3/2026

1) Direct Answer
Yes. The Bible gives the size in Revelation 21:15–17.

2) Scriptural Explanation
The Bible says the angel “measured the city… The city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth… twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal… And he measured the wall… an hundred and forty and four cubits” (Revelation 21:15–17).

3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- “Foursquare” means its length, width, and height are the same.
- Twelve thousand furlongs equals about 1,500 miles, so the city is about 1,500 miles long, 1,500 miles wide, and 1,500 miles high.
- The wall measures 144 cubits (about 216 feet if using an 18-inch cubit).

4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the Scripture itself sets the dimensions. The city that comes down from God out of heaven is measured by God’s own standard—foursquare, twelve thousand furlongs each way.

What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?

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SermonRelevance 54Broader match

Revelation, Chapter 4c Throne of mercy and judgement

Sunday, the 8th of January 1961

61-0108 §64

During the time of the flood here, in 1937, this little ol' church, when the mud floors and so forth that was in it... We could ride over the top of it here in a rowboat. The floods went up. And that night when I preached the gospel... and had left my Bible laying open on the pulpit when I went home. Predicting that flood would come, I said, "I seen them measure twenty-two feet over Spring Street down here." Old Brother Jim Wisehart and them laughed at me. You remember that, Brother George? He said, "Oh, Billy, in...

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SermonRelevance 53

Expectations

Thursday, the 7th of May 1953

53-0507 §21

I can see Caiaphas say, I can see Abraham and Sarah, as young people walking down the streets, looking the old city over, and the priest say, "I seen them people somewhere." And they disappeared just like Jesus coming through that wall. The same kind of a glorified body. Yes. But, brother, on that last day, after Pentecost ... before Pentecost, when He ascended up on High, as He went up, the Bible said, He went with them. He went up and they went with Him. I can see Him going on above the moon, the stars; Him and t...

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SermonRelevance 53

Daniel 9: The sixfold purpose of Gabriel's visitation

Sunday evening, the 30th of July 1961 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.

61-0730E §76

Jeremiah 3:12 18 inclusive, let's read it---over in Jeremiah, the eighteenth chapter, I believe. No, the twelfth chapter. Pardon me, the twelfth chapter of Jeremiah, and let's begin with the... Jeremiah 3, pardon me. Jeremiah 3, I have written down here where... While studying, the Holy Spirit moving me just from place to place, I just jotted these down the best I could. Jeremiah 3 and then 12 to 18 inclusive. Let's read it. Go and proclaim these words towards the north, and say, Return, thou backslidden Israel, sa...

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SermonRelevance 53Broader match

Revelation, Chapter 4b Twenty-Four Elders

Sunday, the 1st of January 1961

61-0101 §97

There you are! Your daily walk, your daily talk, your daily behavior, your heart, your soul, and all, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." No roots of bitterness, no nothing else, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord. Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord," as we begin to approach in behalf of our brother. Whosoever will may come, anointed, blood in front of him, the blood going before him, playing "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." Now, that was the outer courts, the holy place, and the holiest of holies. That was God's sanct...

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SermonRelevance 52

Handwriting on the wall

Wednesday, the 18th of June 1958

58-0618 §19

And in this great city there were great walls and great gates that were made of solid brass, some hundred feet high. And I want you to notice, swinging gardens all along those walls, and the city in the center of it had the palace and the River Euphrates running by it: just the pattern of heaven! What was it? It's a perverted heaven that was designed by the devil! And was called first the Gates of Paradise, and later was called Confusion, which means "backslidden." See, it's the devil that's trying to unite all of...

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