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Holy is the City of God and bright shining is its light.
Rev 21:
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.

Its light has shined like a bright beacon of hope through all the generations of time causing God's holy children to labor against all odds.
Eph 1:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Hbr 11:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.

It is this hope that endows the saints with the patience to remain steadfast in the faith and enables them to live holy and pure lives.
1Jo 3:
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Seeking no earthly crown they cannot become discouraged by earthly setbacks and defeats; for they seek for a heavenly crown which no man can take away.
2Ti 4:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

They walk through their lives with a bright vision of the City of God's pearly gates, rejoicing through all suffering and persecutions, knowing that from this earth's dark prison they will soon be released.
1Cr 15:
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

A Heavenly pardon from earth's suffering is soon to be granted.
Luk 4:
18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Hallelujah!
Rev 19:
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: