"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep....I know My sheep and My sheep know Me - just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father - and I lay down My life for the sheep" (John 10:11-15NIV)
 
"Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepair a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know where I am going and how to get there. Thomas said: "...how can we know the way?"

....I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is." 
                                                - Jesus Christ  (John 14:1-7)

John says, And I saw heaven opened. This is the second time an opening appears in heaven (see Revelation 19:11) to provide an exit for Christ and His bride as they return to earth. As heaven is opened, John beholds a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared.  And the sea was also gone. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a beautiful bride prepared for her husband.

I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, "Look, the home of God is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. He will remove all of their sorrows, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and its evils are gone forever."

And the one sitting on the throne said, "Look, I am making all things new!" And then he said to me, "Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true." And he also said, "It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega - the Beginning and the End.  To all who are thirsty I will give the springs of water of life without charge!  All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings..."

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