Before Michael Rules.htm

Before Michael Rules
With An "Iron Rod".
(Revelation 19:15,16 NEB).

According to Ezra:
"The lost outnumber the saved
       as a wave exceeds a drop of water", (1)And though the world is for the sake of the just, (2)       Before the new, there must be a great slaughter.
Scriptures like these apostate men choose to omit,
       The whole of the Apocrypha refused as Bible canon, (3)Although its scribal errors could have been corrected,
      Its Divinely inspired words they choose to abandon.

The Lord has measured those of His spiritual House, (4)
      By their self-sacrificing righteous words and deeds,
In this new world Christ will rule out disobedience,
      With discipline likened to iron, not with reeds.

In a world where whomever there falls short
       Of a hundred years shall be despised, (5)
"They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain," (6)
       For His guiding "rod" shall soon be realized.

                                                                11/7/01.

SOURCES.

(1) 2 Esdras 9:14,15 NEB. (2) 2 Esdras 9:13 NEB.

(3) Canon: [Heb., qa.neh', "reed"; Gr., ka.non', "reed, measuring rod, straightedge"].
Originally the reed served as a rule or measuring device. (Ezek 40:3 8. Rev 11:1,2).

(4) Revelation 11:1-3.

(5) Isaiah 65:20 NEB.

(6) Isaiah 65:25 NEB.