It’s fascinating to notice that the dreams of the prophets and the nightmares of kings are often one and the same. For example, Isaiah sees a day when “the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains”[14] and we call it a dream; when Nebuchadnezzar sees the same thing, he calls it a nightmare. Whether you interpret the kingdom of heaven as an optimistic dream or a haunting nightmare depends on what you’re hoping for. Those looking for a heaven-sent revolution that rearranges the social order for human flourishing see it as a hopeful dream, but those deeply
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