Making All Things New
God's Dream for Global Justice
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Often this world seems like a nightmare. Human trafficking, young girls trapped in brothels, child soldiers forced to become killers, unchecked plagues and diseases, economic injustice and the oppression of the poor. Millions around the world are trapped in this nightmare, and we may feel helpless to do anything about it.
But God has a dream. York Moore paints a vivid picture of how the dream of God is breaking into history to make all things new. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, God is bringing an end to the world's nightmare of sin and death. Scripture's vision of Jesus' end-time work shows how the wrongs will be made right, and God's just judgment is good news for the world.
Unpacking how the Bible describes the last things, Moore shows how we can partner with God as he brings his dream to reality. Every time a well is dug for a community, food is provided for the hungry or sex traffickers are brought to justice, the dream begins to take hold.
This is no mere wishful thinking. The dream of God is more real than your dreams could ever imagine. It is what we were created for. So wake up from the nightmare and join in what God is doing in the world. And flourish as your own dreams are transformed by God's dream for all creation.
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Moore, an evangelist and justice activist, takes as his text the Book of Revelation, linking its hallucinatory end-times imagery with the coming of a new world in which justice reigns the kingdom of God. He opens the book's chapters with vignettes from his personal life, then moves on to biblical exegesis, mostly of Revelation and its vivid, mysterious scenarios. Revelation is an unsettling book, and Moore looks at the end times with some anticipatory relish for the punishment of those who exploit children, mentioning the wrath of God ("the full and unrestrained fury of God's anger at sin") 28 times in a single chapter on "war-waging Jesus." Readers who have no bent for eschatology should go elsewhere; the author's logic will puzzle them. Those who are more comfortable with the Christian perspective that finds "power in the blood" will appreciate a strong, new voice powered by scripture calling insistently for systemic change that will bring justice to the exploited.
