Already...but not yet

God is in the in-between times - the times of already, but not yet.  We spend a lot of our life in those times.   Our sermon from Sunday was based on Ezra 1:1-4; 3:1-4, 10-13, which is about Israel's in-between time: in-between empires, in-between the destruction of the first temple and the building of the second temple, in-between joy and weeping.