King-rise, People-fall (Poem, Part 1)

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Across history, patterns voice their echoing messages,

Showing us repeating events from which lessons should be learned,

Alerting us to look for their likely return …‘down the road’.  

But who among us comprehends their echoing alerts code?

With historical patterns, just a few of us are concerned.

Most are busily managing life’s plusses and minuses. 

 

Nevertheless, key patterns remain faithful, doing their do,

Whether perceived, lessons are learned, and are expected or not. 

Only when significant ones SHOW-UP on the world’s door step,

Do we ALL lean in, pay attention, and maybe search the web.

Though patterns may repeat with generally similar plots,

Unique differences per occurrence will come into view. 

 

When I asked The Lord, ‘When will Your Millennial Reign commence?

He answered, ‘J!, You’ll know when, because with Me, you will return.’

He said, ‘Ponder correlations between when a king rises,

After folks were forced from their lands, then regain their land prizes.’

For Gentiles and Jews alike, that’s been an echoing pattern,

But for Jews, that should be an easier pattern to condense. ¹

 

Let’s start with Noah…

The flood waters ‘forced’, Noah and his family off the land.   

After the waters receded, back on the land they returned.

Later, in the plain of Shinar, their descendants re-settled.

That’s when Nimrod, a strongman ‘king-type’ arose, per The Bible.

He was Noah’s great-grandson. With The Lord’s plan, he wasn’t concerned!

The Lord confused their language,

then scattered them from their land! ²

 

These events set a pattern for the rest of our history:

Forced evictions of people who eventually return,

To resume sinfulness that likely triggered their displacement!  

We can only perceive this pattern with long-term discernment. 

Failure to perceive it, means its lessons we might never learn! 

 

Lands ‘vomiting out people?!’ That’s part of The Lord’s strategy. ³

He foreknows His judgments won’t erase their sin proclivities.  

Allowing judged people to return to their lands?! That’s His Grace.

Ponder the times in history when this pattern can be traced.

It may be easier to trace in Jewish perversities. 

So let’s review some instances in their ancient history. 

 

Segue to ancient Israel…

Into ancient Egypt, Jacob’s sinful family was forced,

Fleeing from an awful famine spreading across Palestine.    

Hmmm. Did they know what would be written in Genesis 15?!

Four centuries on, they returned after the exodus scene. ⁴

More centuries later, ‘We want a KING’,  they began to whine!

Against His will, The Lord gave them a king

…from The Lord divorced! ⁵

 

Later, from their lands, Israel, then Judah were vomited,

The results of folks’ gross sinfulness, mostly led by their kings!

After decades in captivity, some Judaeans returned,

To rekindle Jewish life. For The Messiah some folks yearned.

As King of the Jews, He was born! Skies filled with angels singing!!

Decades later, out of Judah, Jews were …again vomited!

 

Segue to the modern era…

Since 1948, to Palestine, many Jews have fled.

Mostly secular and ungodly, their ancestors had left.

Mostly secular, these modern descendants have now returned,

Most unaware it’s to prep for The Lord’s Millennial term. 

When, as their Messiah and Global King, He won’t be bereft!

‘Evicted, return to the land, get a king’. Don’t miss that thread!

 

This time, their Messiah, the world’s King, will not lead them to sin.

Thus, some Jews and Christians think in that land they’ll be forever.

They err, ignoring The Lord’s promises of a brand new Earth!

Dead and alive, we’ll ALL experience an immortal birth, ⁶

And finally put this repetitive pattern …to an end!!!

Stay tune for Part 2

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¹ Thanks to The Bible, Jewish history is much more complete than histories of other peoples. Do you perceive why?? My reference to kings, includes any nations’ leader, no matter the titles.

² Nimrod is traditionally viewed as a key figure in the decision to construct the Tower of Babel. His ambition to build the tower is often interpreted as an act of rebellion against The Lord, possibly aiming to unite/dominate people in an easily accessible plain under his rule, and thereby establish a name for himself, and build a large, tall tower possibly as insurance against another flood. The Lord had thrice told Noah and his family to ‘multiply’, re-populate the whole Earth. 

³ See: Leviticus 18 and 20.

⁴ During the Hebrews’ post-exodus wilderness wandering, The Lord inspired Moses to write the first 5 books of The Bible. This information included a conversation The Lord had with Abraham that predicted his descendants would be away from the promised land, in a foreign country for 400 years. Moses recorded this conversation in  Genesis 15. It’s safe to presume Abraham shared this information with some of his descendants.

⁵ Saul was the first king of Israel (when the 12 tribes were still united). His reign is chronicled in 1 Samuel 8 – 2 Samuel 1, and 1 Chronicles 5 – 10.

⁶ See: Earth’s Next Versions (Series).

The Sound of Silence (Part 1)

Our world is incredibly BUSY and NOISY.

Yet it’s easy to find places and times for quiescent solitude.

When we fail to seek such places and times,

Life has ways to thrust them upon us,

Likely at the most I convenient times.

‘Stillness of the night’, and ‘calms before storms’

may be such ways.

Though we focus principally on the busyness of our physical world, too few of us tune into the busyness of our spiritual world – the unseen world that spawns (generates and brings forth), then envelops ALL things physical. That world or sphere of reality, is likely also incredibly BUSY and, perhaps a times, quite NOISY. Though imperceptible to our eyes and ears, there, angels,  holy and un-, busily execute commands of their masters, then oversee the unfolding, physical fruits of spiritual seeds they plant. But when things in that world ‘go quiet’, …..WATCH OUT! The Bible reveals, at such times, severe judgments from Heaven may well be pending. Talk about ‘calms before storms!!!’

At such times, the pertinent questions are, judgments against whom, and why?!’ The answers should be fairly easy to discern, but are likely generally missed. The Lord’s judgments (apart from chastisements of His righteous saints) are prepared: 

            (a) against us who have l-o-n-g been imperceptive to, and thus have abused His 

                 Amazing Grace; and 

            (b) in favor of His righteous (relatively attentive, obedient) servants - His saints.

Of particular note are such ‘sounds of silence’ before what I perceive may be His 6 worst ever judgments on our world. I speak of His 6, global, age-transitioning judgments, summarized in Human History Ages (Series). I elaborate on these events in the video, Historical Countdown - 7 Biblical Ages of Human History. The first 2 of these events are historical. The next 4 are iteratively predicted in The Bible.

In the Mid-ages Musings (Series), I introduced and explored a plausible, 4-point, ramping-up pattern that, hindsight, seems to have served as precursors of the first 2 global judgment events. The first 3 points in this pattern comprise rapidly evolving societal trends that are easily perceptible to/by most people. The 4th point, however, is likely only perceptible to people who are spiritually alive to God, and ergo, attentive to His guiding voice in their lives. This 4^th point is:

4. SILENCE from Heaven, whether dreaded or welcomed.

 

The Mid-ages Musings explores how the 4-point pattern might plausibly apply during the next 4, predicted age-transitions, i.e., from the 3rd-to-4th, 4th-to-5th, 5th-to-6th, and 6th-to-7th ages of history. Admittedly, it is challenging to imagine how/when silence from Heaven might apply during these transitions. Revelation 8:1 predicts silence in/from Heaven will factor in the transition from the 4-to the-5th ages, i.e., from the tribulation age, to The Millennial Reign age. It is most challenging to imagine whether/how/when silence in/from Heaven might apply in the transition from the 5th-to-6^th ages, i.e., The Millennial Reign age, to the post-Millennial Age. The Mid-ages Muses series posits 2 scenarios, which I will review and expand on in Part 2 of this present series. Meanwhile, ponder this point to see if, to you, it stands to reason:

‘We who are blind to spiritual activity,

will be deaf to spiritual silence’.

Stay tuned