Our Sacred Roots: The Priesthood of All Believers

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T he S eason from E aster to P entecost

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 22 - 28, 2022

WEEK 26

For forty days after his resurrection, Jesus revealed himself alive to his disciples. On the fortieth day, he ascended to heaven to take his place as Lord and Christ at God’s right hand. Ten days after this, on the fiftieth day after his resurrection, he would send to us the promise of the Father – the Holy Spirit, the pledge of our salvation. Here we ponder the wonder of God’s working, from Easter Sunday to the Spirit’s descent at Pentecost. One of the highlights of John’s apocalyptic vision was his vision of the holy city, New Jerusalem. John was carried away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain where he was shown the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. John observed that there was no temple in the city, “for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” Likewise, he noted that the city had no need “of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.” By the light of the city the nations will themselves walk, and the earth’s kings will bring their glory into it. The gates of the New Jerusalem will never be shut by day, and there will be no night there. The kings of the earth will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. However, John noted that “nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” The destiny of the redeemed is to partake of the water of the river of life in the midst of God’s city, where they will dwell forever in the presence of the Lord and his people. THIS WEEK’S THEME The River of Life, Revelation 21.10, 22 – 22.5