God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Moreover, it is the promise of the gospel that whoever believes in Christ crucified shall not perish but have eternal life. His promise, together with the command to repent and believe, ought to be announced and declared without differentiation or discrimination to all nations and people, to whom God in His good pleasure sends the gospel.
One is taken aback by the emphasis upon the Cross in Revelation. Heaven does not “get over” the cross, as if there are better things to think about, heaven is not only Christ-centered, but cross-centered, and quite blaring about it.
