Isaiah’s vision of the procession of nations to Jerusalem includes this beautiful image: “Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like the doves to their windows” (Isaiah 60:8).
A cloud – Yahweh’s glory, which is the nations.
A cloud coming to a house, consecrating it.
A cloud of doves, like a bird-cloud from a film by Malick or Richard Attenborough, doves forming a cloud like cherubim.
Doves heading toward a window, like Noah’s dove to the window of the ark, a sign of the end of the tempest, a sign of the restoration of calm and the redemption of the nations.
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