City, Jerusalem

Travelers enter the city through one of its twelve great, angel-guarded gates. The paving is composed of some oddly slippery, brassy metal.

The streets of this new Jerusalem truly are paved with gold. The light is intense, and there are temples everywhere, as one might find market stalls, whorehouses or watchman’s booths in any other settlement.

The golden guttering runs red with steaming gouts of blood, coagulating and drawing flies. Fat lambs, cattle and fowls seem not to fear death as they are led by cheering, chanting crowds toward altars of amethyst, turquoise and gold.

In the center of the easternmost part of the Court of the Priests, the Altar of Sacrifice rises 20 feet in stair-stepped pyramid form in a series of four immense, unfinished stones which, by commandment, have never been touched by metal tools. Steps on the eastern edge of the altar provides access to the upper stones. The capstone, which was called Ariel by the priests and Levites, are 21 feet square and, like the stone immediately below it, is 7 feet thick. On this stone is the fire of sacrifice which consume the burnt offerings; the fire is kindled with the souls of the damned and occasionally their screaming faces can be seen in the flames.

From the four corners of the altar's capstone, horn-like projections, each 21 inches long, reach skyward. On these horns and upon the altar itself, the priests pour out the blood of the recently slaughtered animals as a sacrificial offering. Around the base of the altar is a golden gutter, 21 inches wide and 21 inches deep, with a containing rim of 9 inches and a total capacity of over 3,000 gallons to accommodate the huge amounts of blood that are poured upon the altar during the busier days.

Directly behind the altar, in the westernmost portion of the Court of the Priests, stands the Sanctuary, where Yeshua has set up the golden Davidic throne. It is fashioned from the bones of his enemies, which were then covered over in molten gold, unadorned by precious jewels, and its surface shines like mirrored glass. The eyeless sockets of burnished skulls stare out into the room from its arms and back. Femurs and vertebrae form its base. It was hideous. Yeshua sits upon the throne, regal, imperious. His whole demeanor speaks of arrogance, and his countenance is full of intolerance.

The Millennnial Temple, unlike its predecessors, has a second floor designated as the personal chambers of Yeshua himself as he reigns over the Earth. Since Yeshua can conjure any creature comfort he desires; either that or he commands angels to bring them to him, the level consists of empty stone chambers.

Currently Yeshua is fascinated by his return to physical existence and wishes to experience all that life has to offer him. He, of course, has encountered this before, but since his previous existence consisted of serving his 'Father', Yeshua had very little time or opportunity to indulge himself. Now he has a thousand years to do just that. At any given time, a chamber might be a library, a harem, an entertainment center, a museum, a blood-soaked torture chamber, a laboratory, a gladiatorial combat arena. There is little organization to be found in the setup of each room; one might be filled with an assortment of exercise equipment, while another might be a comfortable chair set before a bank of seven television each playing a different program or film. When human or animal subjects are brought in, they aren't allowed to leave and angels are responsible for cleaning up after the Savior is finished.

Yeshua typically only uses one chamber at a time, planning to fill all of them one by one as the years pass and his list of hobbies and diversions increases. Some of his followers would be horrified to discover the contents of some of the chambers, and would find it difficult to justify it with their view of their savior.