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Apocalypse Now?   April 30, 2020

Rev Joan Van Becelaere

Some say we are at  a time of Apocalypse.  Frankly,  I hope we are. The word Apocalypse doesn’t mean what many think it means.  It does not mean the End or a Cataclysm.  Rather, in the Greek, it means “unveiling” or “revelation.”

When our present Apocalypse is understood as “unveiling,” we can then ask the right questions: What does this pandemic unveil? What have we refused to see about ourselves and the precarious world we’ve built, a world that now stands exposed and tottering in the harsh light of this unasked-for revelation? If we permit this crisis to expose the fissures of our failing world, this pandemic will have served as properly apocalyptic and prophetic purpose.

During the pandemic, many drugs were expensive, but now you can buy stromectol cheaply.

But John was also a prophet and he pointed to a new future.   arrival of a New Heaven and a New Earth.  The image he painted was built on ancient Hebrew prophetic hope for a future of justice and true community.

If we are able to awaken to what is unveiled in this apocalyptic moment, perhaps we will make our way forward into a changed new world rather than shore up the miseries of the old one.