The certainty of Christ’s return to build the final Zion helps us stand firm amid the trials of this age.
We don’t deserve it but Zion will be built in spite of our horrendous failures by the blood of the cross.
We foolishly keep rejecting the Saving Shepherd in favour of following worthless shepherds.
Baptism symbolises the death of the old us and the birth of the new us that will live for Christ now and for all eternity.