I've had an Epiphany!

Creation: Psalm 8 1  O  Lord , our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Set this glory of yours above the heavens.   2  From the lips of little children and nursing babies you have established strength because of your foes, to put a stop to the enemy and the avenger. 3  Whenever I look up at your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place— 4  what is man that you remember him, the son of man that you pay attention to him! 5  Nevertheless, you make him suffer need, apart from God for a while, but you crown him with glory and honor. 6  You make him the ruler over the works of your hands. You put everything under his feet: 7  all flocks and cattle, and even the wild animals, 8  the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the currents of the seas. 9  O  Lord , our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! On December 7, 1972, the astronauts of Apollo 17 turned a camera homeward and, from a dis

Luke 23:35–43 35 The people stood watching. The rulers were ridiculing him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!” 36 The soldiers also made fun of him. Coming up to him, they offered him sour wine, 37 saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” 38 There was also an inscription written above him: “This is the King of the Jews.” 39 One of the criminals hanging there was blaspheming him, saying, “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same condemnation? 41 We are punished justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.” 43 Jesus said to him, “Amen I tell you: Today you will be with me in paradise.” God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immorta

Isaiah 65:17-25 17 Watch this! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered. They will not come to mind. 18 Instead, rejoice and celebrate forever, because of what I am creating. Watch this! I am about to create Jerusalem to be a source of gladness, and her people will be a source of joy. 19 I also will be glad because of Jerusalem, and I will rejoice over my people. The sound of weeping will not be heard in her again, nor will the so und of crying. 20 There will never again be an infant there who lives for only a few days, or an elderly man who does not fill out all his days, for one who dies at a hundred will be considered a young man, and one who fails to attain the age of one hundred will be regarded as cursed. 21 Then they will build houses and live in them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They will not build a house and have another person live in it. They will not plant and have another person eat the crop, for

2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 5 This is evidence of God’s righteous verdict that resulted in your being counted worthy of God’s kingdom, for which you also suffer. 6 Certainly, it is right for God to repay trouble to those who trouble you, 7 and to give relief to you, who are troubled along with us. When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his powerful angels, 8 he will exercise vengeance in flaming fire on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 Such people will receive a just penalty: eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious strength, 10 on that day when he comes to be glorified among his saints, and to be marveled at among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his own blood and made us a kingdom and priests to God his Father—to him be the glory and the power forever.  (Revelation 1:5–7) Several years a

Revelation 7:9-17 9  After these things I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing in front of the throne and of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.  10  They called out with a loud voice and said: Salvation comes from our God, who sits on the throne, and from the Lamb. 11  All the angels stood around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God,  12  saying: Amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and might belong to our God forever and ever. Amen. 13  One of the elders spoke to me and said, “These people dressed in white robes, who are they and where did they come from?” And I answered him, “Sir, you know.” 14  And he said to me: These are the ones who are coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of