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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 14:10:38 +0100
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@@ -260,13 +260,13 @@ Although John's vision is surely mythological, it is not merely fanciful. Given
John's case, made throughout the book, that God is sovereign but the world is
currently distorted by evil, it is natural to conclude that eventually, things
will be transformed, to remove evil and reveal God's perfect plan for his
-creation as he has promised. Crucially, this eschaton is not only a remote,
+creation. Crucially, this eschaton is not only a remote,
invisible future, but it is real and present in the Church: when the martyrs are
willing to follow the Lamb to non-violent, self-sacrificial resistance against
idolatrous, life-denying ideologies, the New Jerusalem is already visible.
John's utopian vision, then, although it may not be an accurate prediction of
the future, does function as a way of mythologically 'naming' the eschaton which
-God is visibly bringing about. Contemporary green rhetors often shy away from
+God will and visibly is bringing about. Contemporary green rhetors often shy away from
utopian visions for fear of being 'unrealistic.' While John does not have a
scientistic prejudice about what a 'realistic' vision ought to look like, he is
likewise rightly concerned that his vision be plausible: his utopia is possible,