Revelation 22:17

"And the Wind and the bride say, Be coming.  And the one who heareth, let the same say, Be coming.  And the one who is athirst, be coming.  The one who is willing: be taking the water of life freely."  We hear the invitation from two sources: the Wind and the Bride.  The Spirit beckons as do the people of God.  Inward and outward calls to "be coming".  This English form is used several times in this passage in the Etymological New Testament to make emphatic the continuing, ongoing nature of the call.  If we are continually willing, we may be continually coming to the water of life.  The present tense helps us to grasp the realized eschatology of much of the Revelation. And as we shall see in the next post, Jesus is also said, to be continually coming.