# Travel Time to the New Jerusalem
Based on the provided documents, **Ellen White does not specify a duration for the righteous to travel to the New Jerusalem after the Second Coming**. The documents describe what happens during and after the millennium, but they do not mention a specific travel time (such as 7 days) for the journey to heaven.
## What Ellen White Did Describe
The documents focus on the **sequence of events** rather than travel duration:
**The Millennium Period:**
Ellen White described that after Christ's second coming, there is a thousand-year period during which the righteous are in heaven with Christ. During this time:
> **"During the thousand years between the first and the second resurrection the judgment of the wicked takes place."** (
GC 660.4)
> **"At this time the righteous reign as kings and priests unto God. John in the Revelation says: 'I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them.' 'They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.'"** (
GC 660.4)
**The Descent of the New Jerusalem:**
At the end of the millennium, Ellen White described the New Jerusalem coming down to earth, rather than the righteous traveling to it:
> **"After the judgment of the wicked dead had been finished, at the end of the one thousand years, Jesus left the city, and the saints and a train of the angelic host followed Him. Jesus descended upon a great mountain, which as soon as His feet touched it, parted asunder and became a mighty plain. Then we looked up and saw the great and beautiful city, with twelve foundations, and twelve gates, three on each side, and an angel at each gate. We cried out, 'The city! the great city! it is coming down from God out of heaven!' And it came down in all its splendor and dazzling glory and settled in the mighty plain which Jesus had prepared for it."** (
EW 291.1)
This same description appears in multiple sources (
1SG 213.1,
SR 416.4), emphasizing that the city descends to earth rather than the saints traveling to a distant location.
## Summary
The provided documents do not contain information about a specific travel time to the New Jerusalem. Instead, they describe the righteous being with Christ during the millennium in heaven, followed by the New Jerusalem descending to the purified earth at the end of that thousand-year period.
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