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b'This passage is beautiful and challenging and complicated and harsh and comforting and all of that is kinda like what it is to be queer and trans and read scripture. We explore the importance of those that have come before us and in what ways they live on (or don\\u2019t), offer up a helpful exercise on spiritual lineage, and discuss how Revelation is a wild book with intense imagery \\u2014 no reading literally possible. So what does it all mean?\\nTranscript coming soon\\nMentioned in this episode\\n\\nPleasure Activism\\n Reading Queerly\\n Sanctuary Collective\\n\\nRevelation 7:9-17\\nAfter this I looked, and there was a great crowd that no one could number. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands. They cried out with a loud voice:\\n\\u201cVictory belongs to our God\\nwho sits on the throne,\\nand to the Lamb.\\u201d\\nAll the angels stood in a circle around the throne, and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell facedown before the throne and worshipped God, saying,\\n\\u201cAmen! Blessing and glory\\nand wisdom and thanksgiving\\nand honor and power and might\\nbe to our God forever and always. Amen.\\u201d\\nThen one of the elders said to me, \\u201cWho are these people wearing white robes, and where did they come from?\\u201d\\nI said to him, \\u201cSir, you know.\\u201d\\nThen he said to me, \\u201cThese people have come out of great hardship. They have washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb\\u2019s blood. This is the reason they are before God\\u2019s throne. They worship him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them. They won\\u2019t hunger or thirst anymore. No sun or scorching heat will beat down on them, because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them. He will lead them to the springs of life-giving water,[a] and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.\\u201d\\nPhoto by Ravi Roshan\\nThe post Those who came before us \\u2013 Revelation 7:9-17 appeared first on Queer Theology.'