Allegory Of Earth's Harvest II

From Titus to Hitler, the Jews have paid
God's price for Jesus' death on the cross;
The turn of those who Christian martyrs made
Has come, earth's harvest making blood-sauce!
It flowed like water two hundred miles,
Spilled fighting each other, caused by the Christ;
Bodies covered the plain, heaped in huge piles;
The slaughter was done in just a short tryst!
God had said to His people, "Vengeance is Mine!"
On Megiddo Plain, He showed it was true;
His children don't resist, avenge, malign;
God repays the carnage that others do!
The blood of the wicked flowed instead of wine,
And vultures feasted, on Muslims to dine!

This poem is a continuation for the previous one on The Harvest of Earth found in Rev. 14:14-20. It is an allegory, making the well-known (of that day) process of grape harvesting and wine-making an analogy to the huge slaughter by the followers of Satan that had killed so many Christians during the Tribulation. All Bible scholars are cognizant of Jewish writers' pediliction for using hyperbole (or exaggeration) for emphasis in significant situations. John's intention was to make the slaughter at Armageddon as extensive as possible; I am of the opinion that hyperbole in describing the horrible effect of God's retribution could never mount to its real extent.

"The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. They [that is, the dead bodies] were trampled in the winepress outside the city [note the symbolism; Jesus was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem; so were these enemies] and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1600 stadia." (Revelation 14;19-20) [Brackets added]

"Stadia" means furlongs, each one-eighth of a miles in length. The Jordan River borders the Plain of Megiddo; it flows into the Dead Sea. That distance is approximately 200 miles. God's children, Jews and Christians, have been taught to "turn the other cheek"; we are supposed to be gentle, and not to fight back or to avenge offenses.

"Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand ..." (Deuteronomy 32:35, NKJV)

From the time of Moses, when God said this, until Armageddon is more than 3500 years; 'due time' to us means something different than it means to God. We must remenber that "a thousand years is as one day to the Lord", 2 Peter 3:8. The admonition to leave vengeance to God and 'turn the other cheek' is difficult for us; we want to get even. To be a Christiab, though, we need to teach this to ourselves.