A new heaven and a new earth (cf. Is 65:17; 66:2) are presented as the luminous space to welcome the arrival of the new Jerusalem. The new Jerusalem symbolizes the culmination of the book of Revelation and the entire biblical revelation. Readers of Revelation may be surprised by the bold originality of what they are reading. All particularism has now ended. God no longer focuses on a single people, ethnicity, or restricted religion but establishes a covenant with ‘the peoples,’ offering a covenant of universal salvation. All hardships are now behind us. To the faithful Christian or “overcomer,” He grants the highest grace: becoming a child of God. The Apocalypse does not aim to scare anyone with threats of greater punishments, but instead, with a didactic purpose, encourages all Christians to leave behind the burden of sin —the “works of the flesh”—whose well-known list it presents—so they can freely enter the city of the new Jerusalem.