Is There Any Scripture That Describes the Size of the City Foursquare That Comes Out of Heaven?
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.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 8:E-96
Revelation 21:1-4. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §149
John said, "I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem descending out of heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband." And where did it settle on?---Just exactly like it did on there, upon the earth. Jesus was part of that earth that the Holy Ghost descended upon (is that right?) and remained upon Him forever. It never can leave Him, it's always there. He and God are one. Always has to remain. And so John saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem descending like a comet or a dove, coming down out of heaven and settling upon...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §208
Now have you got the city? See, it's a holy mountain. "Nothing shall hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord." The city is not a cube, it is a mountain. And the width by the breadth by the heighth are equal. See? Fifteen hundred miles this way; fifteen hundred miles that way; fifteen hundred miles all the way around, and fifteen hundred miles high. So it's just a great mountain like the pyramid, and the city is on the mountain. Glory! There you are. There's the paradises of God. The light of the wor...
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §19
Now, it taken Him six thousand years to make the earth, and He's going to take two days to create the city that goes on the earth. He's... "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it was not so, I would've told you. I'll go to prepare a place for you (build a city out of transparent gold, the streets out of gold)." What a beautiful place. Where will He get it? Is there any materials on the other earths, or the moons, and stars, and things? He don't have to have it, He's a creator. He's gone to build the city. Am...
Satan's Eden
65-0829 §85
"In my Father's house are many... or in my Father's economy, in my Father's plans is many palaces. I'll go to prepare a place." Look how long it is: 1500 square miles. "Say, where's it at?" He has gone to prepare it. He is Creator. He creates all that gold. The streets are transparent. He's Creator. He is making a place. Over in Revelation 21, he said, "And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of Heaven." There was no more sea. The first Heaven and first earth was passed away. What...