We're in the in Between, Right?

We gather to day celebrating the first advent of jesus, as we anticipate the second one to finish what he started. And we come back once again to our brother john, who was given a revelation by jesus himself about what is to come. This is the book of revelation. Then i saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there was no longer any sea. So symbolically speaking, the sea represents it chaos and old creation. But then later on, he has another piece of division, since i saw no temple in it, talking about the city. Its gates will never be closed. The nations will walk