This is from the reading LSB assigns for today in the Daily Lectionary:
"Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
The Lord our God is a consuming fire. In an apocpryphal saying, our Lord announces: "He who draws near me, draws near fire."
"Your eyes will behold the King in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar."
Visions of Narnia and of the onion in reverse!
"Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken."
Thoughts from Hebrews 11 and 12 - the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
"Those who dwell there will be forgiven there iniquity."
The Church is the forgiveness place, a colony that lives from the future of God's pardon at the Last Day, living that pardon here upon the earth, simultaneously living in the future and living in the present. But living FROM the future IN the present.
Glory to You, Lord Jesus Christ!
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