This vision is a fulfillment of what is promised in the prophets. God does not start over. Rather, God makes all things new within God’s good creation. The new Jerusalem is a vision of community; God’s people will live together in peace and wholeness. This is a blessed promise. This will come to pass in God’s good time.
Today, we are living in the time between God’s promises and the ultimate fulfillment. All of humanity is in the same boat. But we are not alone; God is with us. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end,” says the One on the throne. (verse 6)
We witness God making all things new every day with each sunrise and sunset. And what are we to do each day? We are to walk humbly each day, loving God, following in Jesus’ footsteps, doing justice and loving kindness (Micah 6:8), and praising our loving God. (Psalm 148)
If we do this, we are helping the new Jerusalem come to pass.
Help us, O God, to work daily to bring into being a community where all God’s people live together in peace and wholeness. Amen. —