The rapture!

Have you heard the news on the ground?

 

How all of these people will be taken like a cloud.

 

Search the scriptures, make a claim..

 

Rest easy, in his name. 

 

Is anyone sceptical?

 

What are the facts?

 

There's always a contradiction...

 

Fancy that!

 

He tells a tale about Noah and the flood and those who prevail...

 

 

Then goes on with another story about the kingdom of God and who receives his glory...

 

Now

 

We may know the scriptures are a living thing...

 

 

To some: just foolishness;

To others: a wellspring. 

 

 

others condemnation which is a clever thing 

 

Those with ears have no doubt:

 

Illusion/delusion: the beast is out.

 

 

Woe to the world because of offences! For offences must come, but woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

 

 

The scriptures are plain, just turn it around: imagine Hebrew  upside down!

 

 

I don't know, how could I know. 

 

Your glory, your honour 

 

It's no where on show..

 

 

'Seek and deliver: my sheep hear my voice. 

There is no understanding: they are my choice.'

 

 

How do they prosper?

 

Remove their sin.

 

Their depth will be paid, with forgiveness within.

 

 

Talk about marriage, how the two become one...

 

Look at the stolen, and what it has become. 

 

Can I get a little cocky?

 

Have a little fun?

 

 

 

"Suffer the little children to come unto me."

 

 

Satan: number one.

 

We can follow all the commandments and still fall in a trap..

 

He can thread a camel through the eye of a needle!

 

 

Fancy that!

 

 

Now: He tells us the first will be last!

 

And this age is ending and soon will be passed.

 

A new age is dawning, of permanent light;

 

Were servants are rewarded one hundred fold 

 

Were goodness dwells with mercy 

 

Where death is swallowed up.

 

His promises are many, but with him we must sup.

 

 

Now: in the west we have Labor laws protecting our rights! Fighting for more!

(Little for the poor.)

God's kingdom is not so lame, everyone gets paid the same!

 

Come in last, go out first!

 

And if they don't bless you..

 

They get cursed!

 

It's a win-win! And winners are grinners!

(The gremlins are trying, we'll eat them for dinner.)

 

Come on in: the dinner bells ringing; come to the light our eyes are dim in..

 

I know there's a baptism they sprinkle some water but listen to what he said to the grandfathers daughter...

 

What is this baptism sent from above?

 

"Purges the heart and fills it with love."

 

Now: in this upside-down story that sounds like a chore, his baptism makes you servant of all...

 

All is His glory: that is that.

 

None of this story will leave you flat

 

His yoke is easy, His burden is light.

 

He has the victory. 

 

There's nothing to fight.

 

You see the enemy has no where to stay  except in the prideful; king for a day.

 

Now:a tree can grow tall, spread its branches wide, a magnificent canopy covering the sky, spreading its roots..

 

 

But it withers and dies if it doesn't bear fruit. 

 

 

Cast out of the vineyard 

 

What a strange array?

 

"Smells a little fishy"

 

 

Lets get on our way...

 

 

Invited to the wedding: didn't want to come. 

 

Go out to the highways!

 

Your sure to find some. 

 

bring them in both bad and good make sure they have a wedding gown...

 

The ròm will be inspected: no fools, no clowns-

 

 

That broaden their phylacteries, chase money like a whore 

To be called Rabbi 

Do you see that anymore?

 

 

Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites: shutting up the kingdom of heaven.  

(Could be that communion bread, the one with all the leaven.)

 

 

Blind guides: who cares?

For fucks sake!

Don't swear. 

 

 

Strain the gnat,swallow the camel. 

 

Blind guides: leading the peril!

 

 

Hypocrites; He sees the unseen;

Beautiful outward /inside-unclean. 

 

 

Full of dead men's bones. 

(He knows how to set a seen!)

 

Serpents, brood of vipers-

 

"Come to the nursery, bring your diapers."

 

 

"Do you not see these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone will be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

 

 

So, if you're still with me??? What can I say:

 

Do you think they'll be taken away?

 

Why should they be taken at all?

 

Was earth the garden that suffered the fall?

 

What was that kingdom he came to restore?

 

I don't know. That's for sure.

 

 

In a world tattered and tore, wars, and wars, and rumours of wars.

Don't be troubled I hear him say just be prepared: no one knows the day. 

 

 

For he comes like a thief in the night 

To rapture them up

 

Clean out of site!

 

 

Now: full circle; back to the start; who is so cunning? Who deals in black art?

 

 

Of that hour no one knows but listen to the story this is how it goes-

 

 

(But as in the days of Noah were, also will be the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking,marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. 

And did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also shall be the coming of the Son of Man. 

 

Two  men will be in the field one taken the other one left 

 

Two will be grinding  one taken the other one left

 

We are called to be faithful to give food in its season...

 

All of creation groans: we are here for a reason.

 

The ramblings of a mad man?

That may be true.

 

But a man's got to do, what the man tells him to. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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