God and The Lamb Are There

God And The Lamb Are There
Revelation 21:22-22:21

As we reach the end of this most remarkable of books, we realize we have only skimmed it in the interests of time and space. Yet we are aware of the depths we have glimpsed as we have sped by. The sequence of events—the letters, the seals, the trumpets and the bowls, and all that went with and around them—may have merged into one in our memory. It may seem like a glorious, wild, ancient sound, pointing us back to the very dawn of time and the most ancient of Scriptures, and yet also pointing us to things yet to come in God’s ultimate future. But, out of this rich confusion of vision and image, two or three notes now stand out, emerging variously from all that has gone before, part of the music and yet with something else to say. Pay attention. Keep these words. I am coming soon. I am coming soon...