Here at the end of John’s dream (which is really just the beginning) the God far off, who came so close to the creation in the Christ
as to die our death, moves in with mortals. In that day the city of peace, Jerusalem,
finally lives into its name as tears are wiped away by God’s own hand and death is dealt with once and for all. Those who first heard the promise of John’s
vision were able to endure all that causes mourning and crying and pain by
holding onto the hope that they would be rescued and their persecutors crushed.
The persecution of loss and pain and sorrow we experience is no less real, even
if we are not put upon for proclaiming the faith, which means their hope is our
hope and that one day God will move in to stay and death will be crushed once and for all.
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