When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Acts 2:1‭-‬4 NRSV

https://bible.com/bible/2016/act.2.1-4.NRSV

This event for me speaks of the deeper reality of creation and parallels the transfiguration narrative of Jesus: this was the revelation of the church as it is. In this narrative we see the true nature of the church revealed.

As a Christian, I see in scripture a hidden reality, a reality where Jesus walks on water, calms the storm, feeds thousands, and raises Lazarus from the dead. It is a created reality where, in the life of Jesus, time is wrapped up in the event of the cross. A reality where resurrection brings the future into the present. This reality is not only the reality of spacetime but the reality of kingdoms.

There are three kingdoms that spring to mind, in addition to the kingdom of heaven, there is the kingdom of this world, or the kingdom of me, and the kingdom of Satan.

Each kingdom bends and forms the universe, each held in God. The Kingdom of heaven brings light, Satan darkness. In the kingdom of this Earth, the kingdom of me, gravity, chance and time, prayer, and action operate.

And in Jesus, we see mystery revealed as the kingdom of heaven breaks through. At Pentecost, the kingdom is revealed and shakes the ground and breaths like a wind, appearing as tongues of flame on each follower of the risen Jesus.

What is revealed is the current reality. The church is the body of Christ, and Pentecost transfigures the little children; followers of Jesus. This inauguration, and every breakthrough of the Kingdom of God in our lives, opens our eyes to the purpose we have, to love God and one another, not to worry, to forgive and love our enemies. We are empowered to obey the words of Jesus and to love and serve the world.

Quotes from “Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard

The kingdom of God always pervades and governs the whole of the physical universe – parts of planet earth occupied by humans and other personal beings. p 26

God’s own “kingdom,” or “rule,” is the range of his effective will, where what he wants done is done. The person of God himself and the action of his will are the organizing principles of his kingdom, but everything that obeys those principles, whether by nature or by choice, is within his kingdom…. We have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse, we only hurt ourselves. p 25

Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters, by Terence E. Fretheim

That human sins, including the sins of violence, have consequences, including violence (see Gen. 6:11-13), is testimony to a functioning of the moral order, and this reality can be named the “judgment” of God.”

More than Matter, by Keith Ward

The material universe is perhaps more like an organism than like a repetitive machine. Whereas an older generation of scientists and philosophers thought the universe was like a watch, many now regard the universe as more like a large organism. It grows and develops, and its first stages can only be properly understood when its completely developed state is perceived.”
… it is a basic mistake of reductive materialism to try to explain everything in terms of its simplest elements–as though a large enough group of such simple elements just had to be mixed up at random for a long time, and would then produce brains, thoughts, and the theory or relativity.”
(Keith Ward, More than Matter, p. 83-84)