The Apocalypse--A Revelation ... Chapter Fifteen (first draft)



The Apocalypse--A Revelation ... Chapter Fifteen (first draft)


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Each new day, as her beloved father also before her studiously displayed

Sabrina rose before daybreak

sat in her windowseat with bible on iPhone plus coffee or tea

to study, meditate, pray about previous reasons for thanksgiving, supplication, plus praise.

Grateful for an opportunity for ardent reverie.

For conditions worldwide today spiral wickedly fast without humans being able to even grab hold, grasp the significance of

let alone
to hinder or control.

How could anyone persist without strenuous preparation of their mind, body and soul

armoring up spiritually like great warriors of old?


Her read this morning geared her up for on campus to be bold when called upon to defend her beliefs

as others promote theirs
outwardly living it lustfully wholesouled.

Just like it was a dangerous time to be a Christian in Rome back in 64 C.E.
since blamed for setting fire to the city
and accused of hating mankind

Christ’s followers were objects of intense hostility.

Around the world now

heating up or hot
hatred for religion true or false
in the same stew boiled

shamed
not

since accounted
an increase in terrorism
delt

innocent bystanders
carrying on in daily affairs

then globally
the tragedies

we horribly share.

Felt:

Remove devotion to anything
except country or state

then will end violence rapidly

no more death casualties
due to hate

although,
what is war

if not righteous
by God Almighty

in the fast approaching future
justly ordered

to remove the wicked
and blantant wickedness?

Restore 'peace and security'.

A world without borders.


Especially when enacted for love of oil, other resources like diamonds, gold

for greed

while children go hungry then die,
while parents mourn and cry

while they too whither malnourished literally, as well as spiritually

lacking motive, energy or desire to even try
when heavens overhead thunder

leaving them in the open
without an obvious rock to crawl in safety
under.

Only youthful ones healthy
tend to rise up to decry travesties against weak majorities condemned to lives empty of necessities supplied.

Is this the only method on which to rely?

If you were a Christian back then in 64 C.E., 
you would daily face a sure possibility

of arrest, torture to abject misery.

Some of your spiritual brothers or sisters
torn to pieces by animals or nailed to a stake 

burned alive to serve as nighttime illumination an example to make.

Is this also to be our fate
as the U.N. regularly convenes to eliminate religious meetings, literature internationally

as freedoms are confined to only what higher authorities dictate?


Rest assure,

Jah, through the hands of Christ Jesus
will rescue his faithful sheep

after they put into the hearts of kings
to render judgement against Babylon the Great,

a false religious harlot
her due recompense 

for treacherous lies
cloaking the truth about God

proclaimed necessary to humanity
dispense:

"And the ten horns that you saw and the wild beast, these will hate the prostitute

and will make her devastated and naked,

and they will eat up her flesh
and completely burn her with fire.

For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought,

yes, to carry out their one thought

by giving their kingdom to the wild beast,

until the words of God will have been accomplished.

And the woman whom you saw means the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth.”" Revelation 27:16-18.

The 'woman' caused love of our generous Creator to become warped

bent

the spines of supposed servants to a created sun

instead of his elevated Son
ransomed

so as an obedient mankind
might be saved. A victory won

for God's Universal Sovereignty

soon to this earth renewed
come.

This thought consumed the mind of Sabrina--
A vast work to do.

Her desire

to follow the admonition long ago inspired
with an urgency pursued:

"Keep your senses, be watchful!

Your adversary, the Devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour someone.

But take your stand against him, firm in the faith,

knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced

by the entire association of your brothers in the world." 1 Pet. 5:8, 9

So her daily routine strictly performed:

"Put on the complete suit of armor from God" adorned "so that you may be able to stand firm against the crafty acts of the Devil". Eph. 6:11.

Shielded,
as an ancient knight
in metal heavy and cold

but protected
her goal

although,
to the outside audience

Sabrina dressed today with the utmost care

with pink wedge-heeled swede-fringed sharp-toed boots, a matching knee-length straight skirt, fringe-less

with a white silk poet's tunic blouse open-necked soft and loose

jewelry: earrings dangling with necklace also silver and long intertwined with turquoise leather strips

also used on her slicked-back ponytail to contain usually curly black hair

sometimes difficult to hold.

Yes,

Sabrina loved to race the sunrise
and this day was no exception

with ernest reflection
this scripture she did not despise:

"So, then, let us not sleep on as the rest do, but let us stay awake and keep our senses." 1 Thess. 5:6.

Knowing that if she strenuously this applied:

"Therefore, subject yourselves to God; but oppose the Devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7.

Also, encouraged to Jehovah do:

"Trust in him at all times, O people.

Pour out your hearts before him.
God is a refuge for us." Ps. 62:8.

She, with growing number of united racial others

would eternally
these traumatic days

Survive.

With those thoughts inside confined

Sabrina gripped her black leather backpack strap and jacket donned on her back

exited her home
edified

with a solid purpose in mind

with no limp in her stride... TO BE CONT'D

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