"Behold the dwelling place of God is with man.  He will dwell with them and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God" (Revelation 12:3).  I'm a city person and I'm glad that at the heart of the New Creation is the city of God, the New Jerusalem.  Heaven isn't going off into the clouds; nor is heaven going back to live in the garden - rather it's this place made new as heaven comes down on earth and God makes His home with us.  There's lots of dejavu moments when you read the descriptions of the New Jerusalem.  It's a city made of gold, whose foundations are twelve incredible precious jewels - the same jewels that adorned the OT High Priest's breastplate, representing each of the tribes of Israel before God.  It's dimensions in terms all involve multiples of number twelve, the number of God's people.  Also it has twelve gates named after the OT tribes of Israel and the twelve names of the NT apostles showing that all God's redeemed people will be there with Him.  Indeed, the whole city is a perfect cube.  There was only one cube in the Bible before this and it was the Holy of Holies in the Temple, the place where God dwelled.  In the New Creation, God won't just dwell in a room that is only accessible to one person once a year.  Rather the whole New Creation is God's Temple, wherein all God's people will have unhindered access to God and will know Him "face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12).   That is the relationship with God that we have to look forward to - when our faith becomes sight, when our hope becomes reality, and the endless love of God is there to be enjoyed forever.  Jonathan Edwards once called heaven "a world of love".  He wrote: "The apostle tells us that 'God is love'; and therefore, seeing he is an infinite being, it follows that he is an infinite fountain of love. There, even in heaven, dwells the God from whom every stream of holy love, yea, every drop that is, or ever was, proceeds. There dwells God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, united as one, in infinitely dear, and incomprehensible, and mutual and eternal love…And there this glorious fountain forever flows forth in streams, yea, in rivers of love and delight, and these rivers swell, as it were, to an ocean of love, in which the souls of the ransomed may bathe with the sweetest enjoyment, and their hearts, as it were, be deluged with love."