kind of hope that meets the need to have the ruins restored. But much more, we find the kind of hope that is not a wish-dream. We find hope that is in fact a reality. Biblical hope is a reality that has actually begun to occur, and it is a reality that, with the utmost of certainty, will fully occur in the age to come. No dreams deferred here. No hopes dashed. No hope-inspiring stories that turn out to be not true. No peeling back of the curtain only to find that everything we were counting on hinges