And Your Bird Can Sing

I wrote an essay about Yoram Hazony's book, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture. Check it out here.

Proverbial Children

What kind of world are we leaving for our children?

Questions from Hades bubble up from its pit

the living dead overflow with words

Patience and fortitude are not virtues

silence and stillness are

kindness would not be

when empathy could be given

being intelligent is also not

thoughtfulness is

Humility is 

not thinking less of yourself

or thinking of yourself less

Thinking rightly of yourself

humility is 

Being clever is also not

diligence is

boldness would not be

when turning the other cheek could 

erudition and cajolery are not virtues

actual, clear, and concise communication is

The resurrected soul decants works of art

querying apples of gold in necklaces of Sardian stone

What kind of children are we leaving for our world?

Because

only a few are watching

no one talks about it

we were trained to take in what was dished out

it gets ignored or whined about and denied

there's a breakdown in communication

nothing was ever read before

this notepad finally got your attention

others were willing to listen

they didn't flip out

their world didn't come to an end

their temple wasn't threatened

their priesthood didn't change

they rarely chose to punt

muteness tastes stale and boring

obsequious politeness looks runny and insipid

eternal niceties feel worse than purgatory

everyone knows it's in the room

it's gotta leave the room somehow

no one wants to do anything about it

i'm the only one suggesting it gets eaten

i'll even use the tusks for broth

Eulogy for David P. Jesse

Standing in front of his crowd

He had a voice that was strong and loud

He took a stand on every little thing

Ranting and pointing his finger
At every unteachable heart
Because he had a lot to say

And he sure could yell

We’ll miss him

He had a lot to say

about “the goal” of God’s Law

about Historicism and patriotism

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about patterns of Satan

Globalism, Islam, and the Papacy

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about debate strategies of Jesus Christ

about protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about the demonic intent of tattoos

marriage plagues, Proverbs 31 women, and sex that’s no fun 

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about Fidel Castro at weddings and Hammurabi's economics

about spontaneous human combustion and Arigo the Brazilian healer

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about the Imperial Kerux

Attacking the foundational pentateuch, the Albigensian crusade, and Athanasius

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about unidentified flying objects and Lucifer …“The Morning Star”

about astrology, seances, and contact with the dead

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about Satan’s strategic strikes

about the REAL evil of socialism, the Titanic, and Scipio Africanus

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about leaving Christian “Fortress America” undefended

Satanic counterfeits of Christ’s word, false prophesies of His return, and “Judgement”

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about it being better to be Herod’s ‘Hus’ than Herod’s ‘Huios’

about the “two or three witnesses rule” and the “God changers”

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about kings and battles and battles and kings

Isaiah’s amazing prophecy IS the Weber Thesis

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about Reformations and removing the hedge around us

about the “Culture Carriers” and the destructive generation of the 60’s

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He had a lot to say

about a thesis proving the REAL, historical existence of …SATAN

(you know the one …the REAL devil)

He had a lot to say

We'll miss him

He sure could yell

Ranting and pointing his finger

At everything but his unteachable heart
Some day we'll be in heaven together
Laughing about how wrong he was
Because he had a lot to say

He had a lot of nothing to say

We're gonna miss him

Poisoning the well

You don't even know me

You've never met me

Before you chatted live about me

we never crossed paths anywhere

Not online

Not over the phone

Not in person

Nowhere

Not once

I think that's important to realize

If you can't make your mind up

we will never get started

And I don't want to wind up

being parted, broken hearted

We have chatted a little since then

in the comments of your stream

And you didn't even realize

I was the blogger

You devoted over an hour

To demonize

To discredit

To slander

To exploit

You told me

that he denies

things you took

verbatim from his site

And perhaps I have even erased them by now

Don't fret

I haven't and I won't 

erase a single word

I can't even imagine 

why you would presume so

and say so to a complete stranger

That seemed like a tactic 

a spiteful child

or curmudgeonly old, self-aggrandizing bitch 

would use to poison the well

Perhaps I was the one with mistaken opinions

Perhaps you're a real geode

You won't admit you really love me

And so, how am I ever to know

You only tell me perhaps

I even suggested studying the book

about dating John's Apocalypse

which demonstrates convincingly

by overwhelming evidence

that it was not written in 95 a.d.

but rather most definitely before A.D. 70

You then said you were not sure

of that particular book

But you've read some in the past

Whatever that means

A million times I ask you

And then I ask you over again

You only answer perhaps

Perhaps you're just a joke with a concordance

And the spells you cast from your magic book

make people laugh and laugh and laugh

Perhaps

Perhaps

Perhaps

Catena of Dangerous Denial

I think futurists are close-minded fear-mongers.
I am the one who is not open to whatever Scripture teaches.
I do not treat fellow believers with dignity.
I am trying to sound academic or intellectual.
I am the one using word-salad.
This is all a hand-wave dismissal of valid research methods and appeal to evidence.
Daniel was written at least one thousand years before Christ.
I ignore the Bible's own precedent for prophesies prior to the time of Christ.
I think that God shouldn't have given that prophesy until the generation to whom it referred was born.
I think God only gives prophesies to people whom they apply to.
I depend upon the allegorical approach to Scripture.
I am the one using a bullying tactic.

Where did I describe futurism as a "conjured-up social paradigm"?
Can you admit that you can be wrong?
It looks like you did not actually read point number four.
What about footnote number seventy four?
You never mentioned it once, yet that was the background of point number four.
One hour, eighteen minutes, forty one seconds, press play.
The door of being convinced swings both ways, you say.

I have concluded that God only and always writes about current or imminent events.
I mock the idea that any prophesy would be given to people it doesn't apply to.
I paint us all with that brush.
I write pejoratively and abusively.
I know it was a cheap shot.
Humility and teachability are your virtues.
Self-contradiction is all over the place.
I am disingenuous.
I appeal to popularity.
I deny that "this generation" can have any other possible meaning than that of time.
I don't believe in a very real and physical kingdom.
I take away our blessed hope.

Bible Literalist?

Truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation.  

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation. 

To what shall I compare this generation?

Have you understood all these things? 

O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? 

Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.

Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.