The Wrath of God begins with seven seals;
The first four each seek the last to eclipse;
Two through four, a sharp two-edged sword each wields,
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!
Christ's gospel is spread by the man on White;
Marxism seeks conquest on the Red steed;
The rider on Black spreads famine and blight;
Submission to Allah's the Pale one's creed!
Seal five reveals martyrs around God's throne;
The sixth brings an earthquake all earth fears;
A half-hour's silence, then fiery coals are thrown
Upon the world, and the time of Wrath nears!
Can people be spared the horror ahead?
Yes, but they won't; repent, like Jesus said!
Revelation 6:1-12 and 8:1-5 tell of angels opening seven seals which mark the beginning of the Wrath of God on the people of earth. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Apocalypse means "revealing events of the end") are released into the world one at a time (they are already released and at work) in seals 1-4 (Revelation 6:1-8). These four horsemen are symbolic of four powerful socio-economic movements---White horse for Christianity; Red horse for Communism; Black horse for Economic Depression; and Pale (Pale is likely Green, the color representing Islam) for Islam. These four movements are violently involved in the last 7 years before the return of Jesus Christ to the earth. His Second Coming, promised many times in the Bible, will mark the end of our world, at least as we know it. Communism has declined in its power, but it will be involved in the violence of the end, as Russia attempts to achieve a foothold in the Middle East to insure its supply of oil; Russia also wishes to revive its glory days with a new form of Communism. Christianity will be reduced to a few bedraggled Christians who elude martyrdom, as Islam rules the fragmented world that survived the Wrath of God and the Great Tribulation. We are already in the grip of Economic Depression.
The fifth seal opened revealed a throng of Christians' souls, said to be uncountable, that have been martyred during the Great Tribulation by the Antichrist, who demands that each Christian in the world submit to Allah rather than Jesus, or he loses his head. The sixth seal opened looses a huge earthquake on earth that is devastating, but it is just a powder puff compared to what is going to follow. There is a 30-minute period of silence in heaven before the seventh seal is opened, as all of God's hosts, angels and saints, are chastened by the destruction and killing to follow. The result of opening the seventh seal is a huge outpouring of fiery coals over the whole earth, accompanied by thunder and lightning. There are seven trumpets awaiting to be sounded and seven bowls or vials to be poured out on the earth.
You may be asking, Why? The answer is simple. God has been asking men since Adam to repent of their wicked ways and to accept Jesus Christ as Lord. They have not. Look at America. This nation was founded by men who wished it it be a Godly nation. Instead, we rejected God. We abort or murder unborn babies. We are condoning same-sex marriages. These evil and wicked practices are clearly condemned by God in the Bible, yet the Bible can no longer be read in school; prayer is outlawed. It is just a matter of how many days---not years---days we have left before God kills five-sixths of us.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
The Sealed Of God
O, to be among the fortunate few
Who are chosen to receive God's own seal!
Of those who're always in their Sunday pew,
They are spared His Wrath whose faith tests out real!
Just twelve-squared grand of six billion on earth---
What a pittance of men! Compared to those
Who rejected His grace, the gem of worth!
Yet such a joy to be numbered and chose!
Bring on His earthquakes, scorching sun, and hail,
The mark of the Beast, his beheading's threat;
My Jesus can count on me not to fail;
I'm glad to repay a part of my debt!
"After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea, 'Do not harm the land and the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.'" (Revelation 7:1-3)
In "Raptured Or Not", published 5/27/09, I introduced the Book of Revelation, a vision given by Jesus Christ to the apostle John. This apocaleptic vision relates events that will be occurring during the last 7 years on earth before the Second Coming of Jesus. The three great woes of the Wrath of God will be combined with the terrible persecution of Christians by the Antichrist and False Prophet into what is called the Great Tribulation. Though some interpret the Bible to include the Rapture, a "taking-up" of all true Christians prior to the Tribulation, thus sparing them from persecution, most theologians believe this is not true. I also believe that Christians will be required to go into the Tribulation.
The poem above describes a "seal" being placed on the foreheads of true believers, God's seal, which will protect them from harm from the natural disasters that God intends to release upon earth and its people during the Tribulation period. This seal will not protect Christians from the Beast or Antichrist who declares war on Christianity, beheading all those who do not confess submission to Allah or the devil. Many thousands of followers of Christ will be martyred during this time. A few tattered Christians will elude capture and be on earth to greet Christ at His return. At that time, He will bring with Him the souls of dead believers, to be rejoined with their resurrected bodies (See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).
Who are chosen to receive God's own seal!
Of those who're always in their Sunday pew,
They are spared His Wrath whose faith tests out real!
Just twelve-squared grand of six billion on earth---
What a pittance of men! Compared to those
Who rejected His grace, the gem of worth!
Yet such a joy to be numbered and chose!
Bring on His earthquakes, scorching sun, and hail,
The mark of the Beast, his beheading's threat;
My Jesus can count on me not to fail;
I'm glad to repay a part of my debt!
"After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea, 'Do not harm the land and the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.'" (Revelation 7:1-3)
In "Raptured Or Not", published 5/27/09, I introduced the Book of Revelation, a vision given by Jesus Christ to the apostle John. This apocaleptic vision relates events that will be occurring during the last 7 years on earth before the Second Coming of Jesus. The three great woes of the Wrath of God will be combined with the terrible persecution of Christians by the Antichrist and False Prophet into what is called the Great Tribulation. Though some interpret the Bible to include the Rapture, a "taking-up" of all true Christians prior to the Tribulation, thus sparing them from persecution, most theologians believe this is not true. I also believe that Christians will be required to go into the Tribulation.
The poem above describes a "seal" being placed on the foreheads of true believers, God's seal, which will protect them from harm from the natural disasters that God intends to release upon earth and its people during the Tribulation period. This seal will not protect Christians from the Beast or Antichrist who declares war on Christianity, beheading all those who do not confess submission to Allah or the devil. Many thousands of followers of Christ will be martyred during this time. A few tattered Christians will elude capture and be on earth to greet Christ at His return. At that time, He will bring with Him the souls of dead believers, to be rejoined with their resurrected bodies (See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Raptured Or Not?
Dear children of God! Do not be misled!
By false-salve spreaders, saying, He will come
To take us from earth before times of dread;
They're wishful thinkers, hoping to win some
The easy way, by sacrificing less!
The Wrath of God, on the saved and the lost,
Must come to all, that He know which to bless,
And which must pay damnation's total cost!
The Rapture soothes, but is a fairy tale,
Spun by the builders of castles of sand!
If true, it would Christ's Return date unveil,
And whence martyrs Antichrist to demand?
The apostle John outlived his companions. He was martyred in 103 A.D. In his final years he wrote the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation in the Bible. In a dream he was carried to heaven by Jesus Christ and was revealed many things that would happen in the end-times. The Wrath of God is a series of awful catastrophes that God is going to cause to happen to earth and its people, the unsaved as well as the saved. Before it begins, He is going to place a seal or mark on a number of true believers which will protect them from being harmed in the disasters He brings. These are intended to cause unsealed lukewarm Christians to hurriedly amend their ways and be saved, or to confirm their lostness. They are also intended to cause repentance among the wicked or to punish them and guarantee their condemnations. God's Wrath, combined with the depradations originated by the Antichrist and the False Prophet who rise to rule the world and make war on Christians, is called the Great Tribulation, and is predicted to last for 7 years.
Many preachers have promoted an interpretation of the Bible that calls for Jesus Christ to make an intermediate return to earth before His official Second Coming, bringing with Him from heaven the souls of dead Christians. This will happen, they say, before the beginning of the Tribulation. Jesus will call for the resurrection of the bodies of Christians; they will come forth in new, imperishable bodies and rise to be rejoined with their original souls; while Christians who are living at that time will change in the twinkling of an eye and rise to join the happy throng for its return to heaven. Thus, no true Christian would be left on earth to go into the Tribulation. Jesus will return with the saints and angels in 7 years to defeat the Antichrist at the battle of Armageddon.
It is a beautiful fairy tale. Revelation 20:5 says that the FIRST RESURRECTION will occur when Jesus makes His Second Coming. If the Rapture did take place 7 years earlier, complete with the resurrection of all dead Christians, how could there be TWO first resurrections?
By false-salve spreaders, saying, He will come
To take us from earth before times of dread;
They're wishful thinkers, hoping to win some
The easy way, by sacrificing less!
The Wrath of God, on the saved and the lost,
Must come to all, that He know which to bless,
And which must pay damnation's total cost!
The Rapture soothes, but is a fairy tale,
Spun by the builders of castles of sand!
If true, it would Christ's Return date unveil,
And whence martyrs Antichrist to demand?
The apostle John outlived his companions. He was martyred in 103 A.D. In his final years he wrote the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation in the Bible. In a dream he was carried to heaven by Jesus Christ and was revealed many things that would happen in the end-times. The Wrath of God is a series of awful catastrophes that God is going to cause to happen to earth and its people, the unsaved as well as the saved. Before it begins, He is going to place a seal or mark on a number of true believers which will protect them from being harmed in the disasters He brings. These are intended to cause unsealed lukewarm Christians to hurriedly amend their ways and be saved, or to confirm their lostness. They are also intended to cause repentance among the wicked or to punish them and guarantee their condemnations. God's Wrath, combined with the depradations originated by the Antichrist and the False Prophet who rise to rule the world and make war on Christians, is called the Great Tribulation, and is predicted to last for 7 years.
Many preachers have promoted an interpretation of the Bible that calls for Jesus Christ to make an intermediate return to earth before His official Second Coming, bringing with Him from heaven the souls of dead Christians. This will happen, they say, before the beginning of the Tribulation. Jesus will call for the resurrection of the bodies of Christians; they will come forth in new, imperishable bodies and rise to be rejoined with their original souls; while Christians who are living at that time will change in the twinkling of an eye and rise to join the happy throng for its return to heaven. Thus, no true Christian would be left on earth to go into the Tribulation. Jesus will return with the saints and angels in 7 years to defeat the Antichrist at the battle of Armageddon.
It is a beautiful fairy tale. Revelation 20:5 says that the FIRST RESURRECTION will occur when Jesus makes His Second Coming. If the Rapture did take place 7 years earlier, complete with the resurrection of all dead Christians, how could there be TWO first resurrections?
Monday, May 25, 2009
If There Were No God
Across the halted earth a stillness lay,
No wind to ruffle the non-existent air,
The sun fixed and blazing; no night all day;
No man-made motors pounding; none to care!
Fallen in a wink, no matter what task.
All men lay strewn in scattered mounds of dust,
Their erstwhile petty plans screened by death's mask;
No more scheming, thieving, or fleshly lust!
Gone paved roads, anthill traffic, beehive tow'r's;
Ubiquant plastics; vying neon lights;
The once-great earth charred by u-v showers,
Its ozone roof melted by dark of nights!
Man, your tale was written in fading ink;
With God went your sole eternal life's link!
Most people in this world speak and act as if God doesn't exist. They reject Him and His Commandments, and they taunt and scoff at believers. Yet, if there were no God, our solar system would grind to a halt and life could not exist on earth. The universe does not power itself indefinitely. The small zone of survival in which our planet is maintained contiuously during its cycle about the sun every year is safe for life just so long as God makes it so. If He were to grow disgusted with an overconfident mankind and abandon us, we would exist only briefly. Our sun is not our personal good luck charm; it is a star, and it is subject to all the experiences of any star. Among these are going nova and supernova. The mildest of novas can heat the earth to 7 times its average temperature. The ice caps would melt, floods would cover large swaths of the land, and people could not expose themselves to sunlight and live.
Furthermore, the universe is constantly expanding at fantastic speed. Not only stars, but planets, meteors, asteroids, comets, and debris are hurtling through space on erratic paths, subject to forces of gravity pulling them in sudden and unpredictable directions. At any moment, perhaps without warning, our small planet can be violently hit by an asteroid or comet with such force that a third or more of life can be destroyed; we can be forced out of our safe orbit into one far more toxic. In fact, that very thing is prophesied in Revelation 8:8.
"The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood."
The fact that something this catastrophic has not already happened is due solely to God's forbearance, and His desire that more men might come to accept Him. This prediction is referring to the Bible's forecast of something called the Wrath of God, which is expected to take place in the 7 years before the return of Jesus to earth. Yes, it is God who causes this "mountain" to crash into the sea, followed by many more calamities. It will be His last attempt to try to convince mankind to turn to Him before He destroys most of mankind because of their wickedness and refusal to repent.
No wind to ruffle the non-existent air,
The sun fixed and blazing; no night all day;
No man-made motors pounding; none to care!
Fallen in a wink, no matter what task.
All men lay strewn in scattered mounds of dust,
Their erstwhile petty plans screened by death's mask;
No more scheming, thieving, or fleshly lust!
Gone paved roads, anthill traffic, beehive tow'r's;
Ubiquant plastics; vying neon lights;
The once-great earth charred by u-v showers,
Its ozone roof melted by dark of nights!
Man, your tale was written in fading ink;
With God went your sole eternal life's link!
Most people in this world speak and act as if God doesn't exist. They reject Him and His Commandments, and they taunt and scoff at believers. Yet, if there were no God, our solar system would grind to a halt and life could not exist on earth. The universe does not power itself indefinitely. The small zone of survival in which our planet is maintained contiuously during its cycle about the sun every year is safe for life just so long as God makes it so. If He were to grow disgusted with an overconfident mankind and abandon us, we would exist only briefly. Our sun is not our personal good luck charm; it is a star, and it is subject to all the experiences of any star. Among these are going nova and supernova. The mildest of novas can heat the earth to 7 times its average temperature. The ice caps would melt, floods would cover large swaths of the land, and people could not expose themselves to sunlight and live.
Furthermore, the universe is constantly expanding at fantastic speed. Not only stars, but planets, meteors, asteroids, comets, and debris are hurtling through space on erratic paths, subject to forces of gravity pulling them in sudden and unpredictable directions. At any moment, perhaps without warning, our small planet can be violently hit by an asteroid or comet with such force that a third or more of life can be destroyed; we can be forced out of our safe orbit into one far more toxic. In fact, that very thing is prophesied in Revelation 8:8.
"The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood."
The fact that something this catastrophic has not already happened is due solely to God's forbearance, and His desire that more men might come to accept Him. This prediction is referring to the Bible's forecast of something called the Wrath of God, which is expected to take place in the 7 years before the return of Jesus to earth. Yes, it is God who causes this "mountain" to crash into the sea, followed by many more calamities. It will be His last attempt to try to convince mankind to turn to Him before He destroys most of mankind because of their wickedness and refusal to repent.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
By Its Maker Unmade
O! You 'ologists! Who search e'er in vain
For the Garden where the Pair were planted,
Think you that He who flung the starry train
Would o'erlook the Tree of Life enchanted,
For tourists to taste and live forever?
Why else rush them out Eden's gate apace;
Set angels to guard; if not to sever
The race from a cheap circumvent to grace?
The perfect dell which housed the fated Pair
In blissful peace and joy, before their guilt,
Is gone; removed by God; no longer there;
By its Maker unmade, as if ne'er built!
"Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east of Eden, and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground---trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ... And the Lord God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it, you will surely die.'" (Genesis 2:8-9, 16-17)
God's plan was so simple, yet so magnificent. Adam and Eve, the first man and the first woman created, were placed in a beautiful, sustaining garden, where they could have lived forever at ease, yet God placed one prohibition on them---they were not to eat the fruit of only one of the many trees. Notice they were permitted to eat of all the trees; but one tree was forbidden; it carried a penalty of death. They didn't understand what death was; God had in mind two kinds of death---physical and spiritual. As all men since, they had a free will; they could choose to eat, or not to eat. God gave all men a choice, and, like Adam, choosing to disobey brings death---spiritual death.
Of course, you know the story. They chose to disobey. Notice Satan was already there, on earth. In the form of the serpent, who walked uprightly and was the most beautiful creature in the garden then, he convinced Eve to eat, in the presence of Adam, and he did, too. This brought physical death to them and to all men; it also brought them and all men spiritual death, which means becoming a part of Satan's fallen angels destined to spend eternity in hell. All men are going to die spiritually, but all men are to be resurrected with new bodies---only those who choose to accept the gift of salvation by accepting Jesus as Lord and living for Him will go to heaven, which is to be a new Garden like Eden, and live there forever. Those who do not accept Jesus will live with Satan in a place called hell, which is a burning lake of fire that never ends.
What a magnificent plan! Only God could have conceived it. How could it be an invention of man? The Bible, containing 66 books, written by more than 40 authors over a 1500-year stretch of time, reveals the whole plan of God, with no inconsistency or conflicting statements. The poem above points out that, even though archeologists have discovered most of the places mentioned in the Bible; evidencies of its truth and no evidence of its falsity; no one has ever found a trace of the Garden of Eden. They never will. Believe it or not, the Bible tells almost precisely where it was located: Not far from the present city of Baghdad, Iraq!
For the Garden where the Pair were planted,
Think you that He who flung the starry train
Would o'erlook the Tree of Life enchanted,
For tourists to taste and live forever?
Why else rush them out Eden's gate apace;
Set angels to guard; if not to sever
The race from a cheap circumvent to grace?
The perfect dell which housed the fated Pair
In blissful peace and joy, before their guilt,
Is gone; removed by God; no longer there;
By its Maker unmade, as if ne'er built!
"Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east of Eden, and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground---trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ... And the Lord God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it, you will surely die.'" (Genesis 2:8-9, 16-17)
God's plan was so simple, yet so magnificent. Adam and Eve, the first man and the first woman created, were placed in a beautiful, sustaining garden, where they could have lived forever at ease, yet God placed one prohibition on them---they were not to eat the fruit of only one of the many trees. Notice they were permitted to eat of all the trees; but one tree was forbidden; it carried a penalty of death. They didn't understand what death was; God had in mind two kinds of death---physical and spiritual. As all men since, they had a free will; they could choose to eat, or not to eat. God gave all men a choice, and, like Adam, choosing to disobey brings death---spiritual death.
Of course, you know the story. They chose to disobey. Notice Satan was already there, on earth. In the form of the serpent, who walked uprightly and was the most beautiful creature in the garden then, he convinced Eve to eat, in the presence of Adam, and he did, too. This brought physical death to them and to all men; it also brought them and all men spiritual death, which means becoming a part of Satan's fallen angels destined to spend eternity in hell. All men are going to die spiritually, but all men are to be resurrected with new bodies---only those who choose to accept the gift of salvation by accepting Jesus as Lord and living for Him will go to heaven, which is to be a new Garden like Eden, and live there forever. Those who do not accept Jesus will live with Satan in a place called hell, which is a burning lake of fire that never ends.
What a magnificent plan! Only God could have conceived it. How could it be an invention of man? The Bible, containing 66 books, written by more than 40 authors over a 1500-year stretch of time, reveals the whole plan of God, with no inconsistency or conflicting statements. The poem above points out that, even though archeologists have discovered most of the places mentioned in the Bible; evidencies of its truth and no evidence of its falsity; no one has ever found a trace of the Garden of Eden. They never will. Believe it or not, the Bible tells almost precisely where it was located: Not far from the present city of Baghdad, Iraq!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The Urge To Slay
Why did Christians kill Jews in the Crusades,
When Christ clearly prescribes brotherly love,
Not instilling faith as torture persuades?
Killing the lost won't admit you above!
He sent us to convert all the nations,
By word of mouth, using tongues of preachers;
Why carry swords and wreak degradation?
O! How far we've strayed from scripture's teachers!
Saved slay saved, and do the same for heathens!
More blood has been spilled in God's name than hell's;
As if Satan, not Christ, in man's heart dwells!
The urge to slay cancels the rule of love
Established by Jesus who rules above!
The most difficult task for a new Christian is to uproot his inherent urges of how to act and react to others in this world. His natural reaction to any offense, slight or major, is revenge---"an eye for an eye". That is exactly opposite to the response Jesus wants His followers to give. "Turn the other cheek" when someone strikes you---that is His way. It will take you a long time to learn to do that, but you must, in order to love as He loved.
Translated into the way organizations are to behave toward other organizations, and nations are to behave with other nations, it becomes a responsibility to react in ways antithetical to the "bottom-line" mentality of business, and "sovereign" respect between nations. The history of man's nations is one of war after war; and that of business shows corporations becoming greedier and greedier, with less and less moral conscience to its employees, investors, and consumers.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ... If I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:1,3)
To get a taste of just how difficult it is for us to grasp the meaning of "love" in the way Jesus means for it to be, read and meditate on Chapter 13 of the Book of 1 Corinthians, not just once, but several times. Start your personality revision with "baby steps"; try it with your closest loved one, like your wife, or husband, then move to those outside your inner circle. This is not the "love" of television opera; nor is it the "brotherly love" of Philadelphia; it is the "agape" love that seeks nothing in return.
When Christ clearly prescribes brotherly love,
Not instilling faith as torture persuades?
Killing the lost won't admit you above!
He sent us to convert all the nations,
By word of mouth, using tongues of preachers;
Why carry swords and wreak degradation?
O! How far we've strayed from scripture's teachers!
Saved slay saved, and do the same for heathens!
More blood has been spilled in God's name than hell's;
As if Satan, not Christ, in man's heart dwells!
The urge to slay cancels the rule of love
Established by Jesus who rules above!
The most difficult task for a new Christian is to uproot his inherent urges of how to act and react to others in this world. His natural reaction to any offense, slight or major, is revenge---"an eye for an eye". That is exactly opposite to the response Jesus wants His followers to give. "Turn the other cheek" when someone strikes you---that is His way. It will take you a long time to learn to do that, but you must, in order to love as He loved.
Translated into the way organizations are to behave toward other organizations, and nations are to behave with other nations, it becomes a responsibility to react in ways antithetical to the "bottom-line" mentality of business, and "sovereign" respect between nations. The history of man's nations is one of war after war; and that of business shows corporations becoming greedier and greedier, with less and less moral conscience to its employees, investors, and consumers.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ... If I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." (1 Corinthians 13:1,3)
To get a taste of just how difficult it is for us to grasp the meaning of "love" in the way Jesus means for it to be, read and meditate on Chapter 13 of the Book of 1 Corinthians, not just once, but several times. Start your personality revision with "baby steps"; try it with your closest loved one, like your wife, or husband, then move to those outside your inner circle. This is not the "love" of television opera; nor is it the "brotherly love" of Philadelphia; it is the "agape" love that seeks nothing in return.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Satan Breeds War
Where Satan encamps is where wars e'er rage;
He foments greed in men to covet rank;
No one is safe from Mars' bloodthirsty wage---
Young men dying to redeem old men's frank*!
What! You doubt that wars are contrived for greed?
Why else does slaughter ravage man's frail race?
Power's in the grasp of those in the lead
Who slaver** profit, the common embrace!
Then Satan has his way; sin calls the tune;
Men march to war, freedom's anthems singing,
Harnessed unseen by their own venal crown,
Their bones but manure for greed's sway bringing!
Look in vain for wars to end in this world,
Where Satan is loosed, his banner unfurled!
*frank = money order; **slaver = drooling
"Law will go out from Zion; the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many people. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war any more." (Isaiah 2:3-4)
The world, that seems to us so large and substantial, is only a vapor in the annals of eternity. It is only a temporary blip in the plan of God; its only purpose is to provide a brief testing-place whereby He can select those few good men who will fit into the world that follows. Revelation Chapter 20 in the Bible tells of a 1000-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth in a world, whether real or symbolic, like the one that men were supposed to manage in the first place, had Satan not poisoned their minds. Isaiah's passage quoted above gives a sample of what that following world will be like: No wars.
Imagine living in a world with no war for a thousand years! Imagine a world in which there are no nuclear bombs or nations with them and nations without. There will be no crime, policemen, or jails. This present world has never been without war or imminent threat of war, and it always will be a dangerous place to live. There will be no fight over which religion---only Christianity will exist. And what is bad about that? Christianity is a faith that is based on love between men and peace between nations.
He foments greed in men to covet rank;
No one is safe from Mars' bloodthirsty wage---
Young men dying to redeem old men's frank*!
What! You doubt that wars are contrived for greed?
Why else does slaughter ravage man's frail race?
Power's in the grasp of those in the lead
Who slaver** profit, the common embrace!
Then Satan has his way; sin calls the tune;
Men march to war, freedom's anthems singing,
Harnessed unseen by their own venal crown,
Their bones but manure for greed's sway bringing!
Look in vain for wars to end in this world,
Where Satan is loosed, his banner unfurled!
*frank = money order; **slaver = drooling
"Law will go out from Zion; the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many people. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war any more." (Isaiah 2:3-4)
The world, that seems to us so large and substantial, is only a vapor in the annals of eternity. It is only a temporary blip in the plan of God; its only purpose is to provide a brief testing-place whereby He can select those few good men who will fit into the world that follows. Revelation Chapter 20 in the Bible tells of a 1000-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth in a world, whether real or symbolic, like the one that men were supposed to manage in the first place, had Satan not poisoned their minds. Isaiah's passage quoted above gives a sample of what that following world will be like: No wars.
Imagine living in a world with no war for a thousand years! Imagine a world in which there are no nuclear bombs or nations with them and nations without. There will be no crime, policemen, or jails. This present world has never been without war or imminent threat of war, and it always will be a dangerous place to live. There will be no fight over which religion---only Christianity will exist. And what is bad about that? Christianity is a faith that is based on love between men and peace between nations.
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