Across the ages and
pages of human history,
Territorial
conflicts have been a factor.
At the end, the
spoils of war go to the victor,
Who occupies the
land and controls people, forcefully.
Life under an
occupying force,
Checkpoints and
patrols, thus freedom is restricted.
Life is hell when
occupation is resisted.
Submission seems
the only recourse.
Across the age ole pages
of human history,
Status groups,
classes and castes have been factors.
Folk lusting to be ‘high status benefactors’,
Are forced to
contend with their low status misery.
Discrimination,
segregation, classification,
Racism, apartheid,
with these we’re all familiar,
There’s always a
way to make someone else …peculiar:
Social, economic,
religious elimination.
Jesus, born, raised
and ministered under occupation.
Imagine that! A clear decision of God Almighty,
His Son under Roman
occupation authority.
Every aspect of His
Son’s life was for our instruction.
In this age of
freedom, democracy, and human rights,
We think of
ourselves as enlightened and evolved,
And that from God’s
perspectives on life, we’re absolved.
Yet He still has a
stake in life, from Heaven’s heights.
Across the ages and
pages of His Bible,
Occupation of
peoples and lands has been a factor,
Those He allowed,
and many with Him as Chief
Director,
Due judgments to
people He had deemed as sin-full.
But in God’s
judgments, here’s a conundrum worth noting:
>>By sinful
people, those sin-full people are occupied!<<
It seems sins of
the occupiers He will override.
Not only worth
noting. This, my Friends, is foreboding. *
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* A warning and a blessing simultaneously.
Sinful people made righteous, appointed to occupy and rule over sinful people,
all under His iron rod authority.
