Many Christians are plagued by concern over whether justice prayers belong in communion with God.

The Christian imagination has largely been shaped such that it cannot conceive that petitions for God’s righteous judgments on the ravaging wicked could properly be called Christian.

Consequently, the painful burden of experiencing or witnessing unjust violence is compounded by guilt over the desire to see such violence brought to an end.

Revelation shows that the saints’ prayers for justice are not simply heard. They are accepted. They are not merely understandable or tolerable. They are right. John narrates the cries of the dead so that the living may follow suit.

Judgment petitions feature in heaven's liturgy. And when the prayers of all the saints rise to God, the holy & righteous Lord receives, affirms, & acts in accordance with his people’s petitions for him to mete out justice & “let the evil of the wicked come to an end” (Ps 7:9).

There is a moral claim in John’s apocalyptic vision: from the perspective of heaven, prayers for judgment on the lips of the saints are a fitting fruit of faith amid the horrors of a sinful, violent world. https://cateclesia.com/2020/06/24/the-prayers-of-the-saints-and-the-judgment-of-god/