Rev 21:1–22:5 describes in a great final vision the completion of salvation in the image of the new creation and the heavenly Jerusalem. The article undertakes an exegetical survey through the text, examines its central contents and, against the background of the numerous intertextual references, primarily explores the creation motifs given in the text. The emphasis is on the description of the heavenly Jerusalem and its multi-layered imagining. The community of salvation is presented not only as a city, temple and people of God, but also in terms of creation and paradise.
