John’s attention is directed to all those who were willing to let God help them choose to be Called and Chosen and Faithful: the bride, the wife of the Lamb. Like the Lamb of God, the children of God are called to a life that is destined for sacrifice and death – those ongoing afflictions that are experienced by His body, the true church. It is a form of deep intimate fellowship.
John is carried to Mount Zion to get a view of the bride who is imaged as the New Jerusalem, the holy city, that is now coming down out of heaven from God. Those who have been raised up with Christ, whose citizenship is now in heaven, have been sent forth in to this world as ambassadors of the Kingdom of God. They have been sent from the heavenly Jerusalem, to represent Christ’s kingdom in our physical realm.
