- They came out of great
tribulation
- (Rev 7, 13-14)
Humans have always wondered in what kind of world they
are living.
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Having to deal endlessly with the worst atrocities as well
as the most generous and giving actions, how is it possible to
understand who we are and to give a meaning to our personal life
and to the human history? |
These fundamental interrogations are enforced by the modern
means of communication like the Internet that allows us to be
almost instantly and efficiently in contact with the whole world.
The Book of Revelation describes the vision that John,
the servant of God, had about the end of time. "What are
these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they?
They
came out of great tribulation" (Rev 7, 13-14).
Does John the Apostle mean only that the bad or hard times
we experience in our lives, these hazards are unavoidable in
order that we can become more mature? Through the effort of each
generation fighting for more justice and solidarity, is there
not a great purpose that animates and orients human history?
From an incomplete universe would the purpose be to build
a world at the measure of God? |
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A world in which the divine ways of doing would be reigning:
the beatitudes of which Jesus lived and came to teach when he
was among us. Would the progressive installation of the Kingdom
of God be the goal and the meaning of the great tribulation in
which we are engaged?
What an extraordinary vision that gives a true dimension to
our daily hazards and engagements!The Book of Revelation suggests
and proposes this vision. We are a people of nomads on our way
to the Promise Land under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. |
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In reality this great goal that is given to the responsibility
of human beings is at the same time linked to a constant and
enlivening presence of God. Is there a complete contradiction
or a full harmony between the constant presence of God and the
total and full human liberty?
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It is the mystery of love that brings the persons close together
but allows them to develop in each one a sense of engaged autonomy
and of being responsible. |
Beyond the person of Jesus of Nazareth that the Christian
tradition has progressively understood as being entirely from
God and fully human, is not the condition of all of us that is
strangely becoming enlightened?
Could it be that what we are searching for and what is
happening in our personal lives would be included in this immense
plan that John the Apostle is describing in the Book of Revelation?
That is the great adventure in which we would be involved and
that would explain our thirst for the infinite that is emerging
in the small details of our daily lives. |