Plenty of Room in Heaven

Revelation 21:16 "The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width; and he measured the city with his rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal."

So assuming that these measurements, and their translation into English, are anything like accurate, the New Jerusalem is a cube, 1500 miles on a side. If we divide this cube into smaller cubes, one half mile on a side, then we could have 3000 floors, each floor containing nine million quarter sections (i.e. one quarter of a square mile, 160 acres each with the ceiling a half mile overhead. Since there's no marriage, we'll each get to homestead our own quarter section, living a half mile from our nearest neighbour in any direction. That's twenty-seven billion residents!

Once that's filled up we start building the subdivisions.

If you figure each of the 3000 floors is "reserved" for one generation of people. And that a generation is 20 years (give or take).

Then the world will end precisely 60,020 years after the creation of Adam and Eve.

Let's see, some folks figure it was 4000 years from Adam to Abraham; and another 4000 from Abraham to Christ.

It’s been roughly 2000 since Christ.

That's 10,000 years.

Which means we have another 50,020 years to go.