I Am Making All New Things

What a person hopes for shapes what they live for. John's not peering into a crystal ball here. He was a witness to the risen Jesus. And where his mind goes is to say if what happened on Easter is the future of the universe and the future for Jesus' followers, how do we begin to talk about that resurrected world? The word new has different nuances of meaning in both English and Greek. If something is new it means it's completely disconnected from the old.