Well now, dear ones...
I have not read
or watched or listened to the national and international news for a few
weeks...and I pretty much only know enough locally to have fair warning should
an expedition from Mars touch down...but I do get a glimpse now and then.
I am still
following baseball...after all...if we do not have baseball what do we have?
Even though it has also changed...I will pass on the All Star Game...haven't
watched it in years...like everything else it is now insane with hype,
marketing, etc.
Come on...it is
a game, a game that adults play...
"The earth
brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind..."
Genesis 1:12.
Why is it that
many of us who insist on a certain reading of Genesis, and who brand others as
outside the pale who do not agree with them, do not apply the same fervor and
meticulousness to the national creation myth of the United States? That is, why
don't they look at the facts...and if Christians, why don't they ask where
faithful preaching and pastoring was during the Revolution - where the image of
Jesus was during our First American Civil War?
As a rule,
pastors who preached peace and obedience were driven from their churches and
homes. Things haven't changed...yes?
Civil wars are
brutal - how can we gloss over this?
Just asking.
If Genesis 1:12
is true, and I believe it is...then I cannot see how a nation birthed in
violent rebellion can have a trajectory other than rebellion...and when it ends
it will certainly end in a Biblical image...that of it imploding and consuming
itself in rebellion...and the birds of the air and the beasts of the field will
have quite the feast.
Yes, our
Imperial Cult and our Nero(s) and Caligula(s) once again express the truth of
Psalm 2 and Daniel 2 and Hebrews 12:12 - 29.
Did I mention
Revelation 17 and 18? (Every generation has them I suppose).
Revelation and
Daniel give us true images of the powers of this age, shattering the facades,
shattering the national myths - the cry from the Throne is ever and always,
"Come out of her (Babylon) My People that you do not partake of her
sins!"
Genesis is not
only the book of beginnings, it is also the book of endings. Nimrod, Shinar,
Babel are all there...as are Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Joseph. We meet them in
every generation, plants yielding seed after their kind...we meet them in
Revelation, we meet them today.
Those who
partake of the Tree of Life (Christ the Vine) are called, in Him, to give life
to the world - the Grain of Wheat has fallen into the ground and died and come
forth in Newness of Life...and the leaves of the Tree are for the healing of
the peoples.
Those who
partake of Nero's table?
Two women in
Proverbs Chapter 9, two tables (1 Cor. 10:21)...two seeds...
Two women in
Revelation, the Bride and the Whore.
Two kingdoms in
Revelation, the Lamb's and that which makes the peoples drunk with the wine of
fornication.
I suppose there
aren't really words to describe all of this...but there sure are images...there
sure are images.
I was thinking
that like Samson we have had our eyes put out...but unlike Samson we don't know
it. (John 9:35 - 41).
Much love...let
us follow the Lamb wherever He goes!
Bob
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