The future present?

The texts for Sunday, December 11, 2011:  Isaiah 61:1–4, 8–11; Luke 1:46b–55; 1 Thessalonians 5:16–24; and John 1:6–8, 19–28

… But John’s authority
—his words
—his whole reason for being
is not to point to the past
is not to recreate the past
but to point to the coming of God

… the future, but in present tense.

“God is coming…. Now,” he says. …

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