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Warning:
This poem addresses babes and toddlers in the tribulation age.
See the Tribulation Age Precursors series here
The Lord, The Lord God,
merciful and gracious, longsuffering,
and abounding in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin,
by no means clearing the guilty, [previously] visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generations.
In response to Moses’ bold request, ‘Show me Your GLORY,’
With no herald to announce Him, The Lord pronounced Himself.
His first 7 pronounced traits accentuate His mercy.
In revealing mercy to us, He has never been stealth.
But in many cases, to such, we have not been attuned,
Typically taking His merciful Grace …for granted.
That is, until our sinfulness against Him has BALOONED,
And we find ourselves in His stark responses, warranted.
Such will be the case in during the close of the next age.
When it’ll seem The Lord’s mercy will have been exhausted.
In preparation for that time on history’s page,
I ask, ‘What of kids who to parents are then trusted??’ 1
Kids in the apocalypse?? What a disturbing thought,
Especially those kids who will not have learned ‘right from wrong’.
In The Lord’s judgments on sinners, why should they be caught?!
Will kids have to get the anti-Christ brand, to show he’s strong?? 2
Thinking on these points, I saw an updated report,
On global, current and projected birthrates.
We know there’s been a disquieting decline of note,
And projections are this trend …will not abate.
Pondering this report, I recalled The Lord’s GREAT mercy.
What might such stark, global, declining birthrates infer,
As we approache the close of the 3rd age of history,
Might they be un-predicted age-ending precursors? 3
Stretching your imaginations, ponder this, ‘What if?’
Could The Lord’s magnanimous Grace, help to ensure,
Greatly fewer, innocent kids in the global grip,
Of His judgments during the anti-Christ’s tenure??
That’s a pertinent point since He has changed His policy:
No longer judging children to 3rd and 4th generations,
For the unrepented sinfulness of their ancestry.
‘The soul who sins, shall die.’ That’s individualization!! 4
Kids who will yet have learn right from wrong,
Are the most to benefit from this policy shift.
Unless they’ll be in the next rapture throng,
It may be best that they’re not born, when The Lord …is miffed! 5
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1 The Bible affirms the last half of the 7-year tribulation age will be the great tribulation, otherwise called the apocalypse, when The Lord pours out His great wrath on unrepentant, sinful humans, land and sea animals, and the environment, in preparation for His long-promised Millennial Reign. See: Human History Ages (Series).
2 The Bible affirms the anti-Christ man, full of satanic, miracle-working powers, will rise to global power and influence during the tribulation age. See: anti-Christ (Series). It also affirms his rise will be after the next, global ‘first resurrection and rapture’ event. See: The Rapture (Series), Missed Insights from Matthew 27 (Series), and Ponder This… (First Resurrection, Second Death, Hell).
3 See: Birth Rate, in Wikipedia. See also: Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies, Wall Street Journal. The Bible predicts several direct/indirect, age-ending precursors of the end of this current 3rd age of human history. Most, if not all, are now evident across the world. See: Tribulation Age Precursors (Series).
4 See: Ezekiel 18: 4 & 20. Since it was made all children under The Lord’s ‘age of accountability’ have obviously benefitted the most from this policy shift. Ezekiel likely received this proclamation as a captive sometime after the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in the late 500s BC.
5 See: Children in the Rapture (Poem) and Christians in the Great Tribulation (Series).
6 See: Jeremiah 9:24 and also Missed Insights from Jeremiah 9 (Poem, Part 1).
