God Found in History

Thirteen o Two, the Pope declared:

“Peace! Peace! Bring all ecclesiastical authority

“The authority of Christendom

“Over to me! So the troops do nare

“Fight, and wars spread!

“So the great plagues do not sweep

“Through your nations!

“So great suffering does not endure for a century!

“So famines do not wreak havoc on your lands!”

This Martyr was captured and tortured.

Thus, my friends, why there was the black death.

Thus, my friends, was the Hundreds Year War.

Thus, my friends, was the Schism.

Do not put to death your holy men

For they speak peace.

After they die,

The nations do suffer

From Asia even over yon to Europe.

Fifteen Eighteen, yonder the wars

The Pope indulged peoples to sins.

Thus, righteous Israel separated

From Unrighteous Rehoboam;

Thus, great martyrs were made.

Thus, great wars were to be had.

Thus great pogroms spurned the nations.

Do not indulge in sins

Otherwise great harm is done

And many peoples die.

1518 Cortez set sail to find new lands

For the Spanish lords.

Find he did, men who practiced rape

Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice;

Murder was legal,

Food was your very kin;

Wars were games

Where the captors were then to be supped

On at table.

Cortez found them,

And conquered them

With miracles of battle.

Plagues swept through,

Destroying cities

Destroying camps

Yet righteous natives it did not harm.

500 men fought of 100,000

And won.

Galleons were carried over mountains

To war.

And when there was sin in the ranks

The enemies did prosper.

1920s men turned away from God.

Men reveled in their sciences.

Men called men animals;

Men turned and called their fellow man inferior.

Men abandoned their God.

So came the great Dust Bowl.

So came the great famine.

So came a war so notorious

It killed millions of innocents.

So came pogrom after pogrom.

All for abandoning God…

What will happen today?

Atheism spreads like cancer.

Men walk with gleeful pride

Of their sinful acts

Boasting in their sin

Boldfaced like a harlot

Who just got paid to whore.

Consider wisely.

Take With You Words o Israel

Long, hard, I spent a lifetime working.

I compiled many stories.

I wrote many odes.

I created many civilizations.

Like Leonardo Da Vinci I sketched the future.

These are my stories.

I need to eat from them.

Hosea 14 comes to mind.

“Take with you words, o Israel.”

I fell by my iniquity…

Backing into the basement

I tripped and fell

In my idleness.

I said to the LORD:

“Take away all iniquity,

“And receive me graciously

“That I may offer the calves of my lips.”

The calf is my stories

And I would hope the LORD

Would pluck my sin from me

And cast it into the sea.

Then I shall say this:

“Asshur Shall not save me,”

For though the prophet sing me a song

He cannot.

“I will not ride on horses.”

Though I feel the enemy closing in around me

I shall not flee upon them.

“I will not call the works of my hands

“My Gods…”

I know, without a doubt,

That these words, these writings,

They will not prosper me.

Only God can in the time that is appointed to me.

And I know that the fatherless find mercy in the LORD.

I will not fear my dad’s cancer

Because the LORD will keep me safe.

Jesus Christ is Come in the Flesh

There are three proofs for God

Christians, which you will use in the world

To prove your God.

No more science or worldly explanations

Lest you destroy yourselves.

This is a prophecy

One of very few I have written:

The first is Miracles.

Christians, they exist.

A car flips, five people ride it

And all survive.

With my very arm

I move the car,

And it falls.

Healing exists in a spiritual prayer.

So does blessing encourage,

And encouragement brings people to do what is right.

So does a curse alight to turn a man away from sin.

The second proof is that people can communicate.

It is undeniable.

People understand one another

If they are listening to one another.

With an ear, they can understand

One another to the most minutia.

They can precisely coordinate

They can build precision

They can communicate ideas.

If this were not so,

Then we could never prove truth.

But, we can prove truth

Because we can reason with one another.

The third proof of God is that there is good and evil.

There is a behavior you would prefer

All people treat you.

There is a behavior you should have

Toward all others.

You should not kill

You should not steal

You should not have sex before marriage.

It is known to every child that this is the case

And each one groans when they see any diversion from these truths.

For, they understand what is right

Until their hearts are intent on evil.

And evil drives them to insanity

It drives them to destructive habits

It drives them to isolation and regret

And shame and constant heartache.

This is observable.

So with goodness, does it clear the conscience.

And the fact that we have a conscience

And it needs cleared,

And only one God offers to clear it;

All others say to pay the full penalty of sin;

That is the ultimate proof of Christ.

That there is good.

That there is evil.

The contrary is easily mooted

Because we observe both.

Save Your Servant Israel

LORD, to where do I turn?

Do I turn to the north?

Will my help come from there?

Do I turn to the south?

Do I turn to the king?

Do I turn to the earth?

What is underneath the earth?

From where does my help come?

Idols do not set before my eyes

I have heard your voice

Idols do not set before my eyes

And I, LORD, I am a listener ready to listen

I am a sheep ready to be set down

In the pasture.

Where does my help come?

Surely all other gods are wolves

Ready to steal

And destroy.

Surely all other gods deceive

And surely they say, “Do some little bit of evil

“So that your will comes to pass.

“Love your life so much

“That you will do this little evil

“And your desire shall surely shine forth like the morning star.”

Yet, LORD, if there is error in my heart

If in my way are stumbling-blocks

Surely You shall remove them.

Why do I, LORD, why do I excel above other men?

Am I something which men look to and say

“This man is my example.”

Surely not, LORD, for You are the example

You are the path set before our feet.

If all else follow after vain idols

I shall surely stay steadfast in Your love.

For where does my heart lean?

If there is a company against me

I shall call upon you early

I shall, before the war

Constantly speak into your ear.

Who are the men who trouble the meek?

Who are those who cause trouble for your servant Israel?

Surely they shall be set forth ablaze

And shall burn for eternity in hell.

Yet, I, I shall listen and wait upon You.

For my salvation is like a wellspring

And my heart a steadfast servant.

Though the company does not believe my words

Though they say, “He lies, there is nothing good in him,”

Though they wait for my feet to stumble

And though they make a diligent watch for sin

LORD return upon their own heads their mischief.

For dreams they accuse Your servant

While they walk forth in slander and murder all the day long.

How long shall the wicked prosper?

Surely you shall not let your servant see decay.