The Discernment Of A Girl

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+------The Discernment Of A Girl; The Words Of The Servant Girl To Peter In The Chief Priest's Courtyard 

The crackling of thorns of
a courtyard’s fire…hammer of
Daedalus building, striking wood
and nail, your conscience,
the iron blade smoothing
mortar for tonight’s Labyrinth.
And your heart the Minotaur futilely,
frantically apace, tracing memory’s
cherished fingers across remorse-
brick haunted by lying. Back and forth.
I see it in your eyes, a soul
otherworldly; you’ve witnessed
things no one else has,
furrows in your brow of angst
of sorrow, attesting to it. You
twitch unconsciously, fearfully like
you know deep within…if that Man
dies in the priest’s house, you die.
Surely, you know Him.

------Luke 22:54-57
Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance. And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.”

The Rise Of John Wall, Ancient Assyria's 2018 NBA King #TonyandWall

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+------The Rise Of John Wall, Ancient Assyria's 2018 NBA King 

And Lebron, you are Pikah,
NBA’s King of Israel. On
the court your Superteams- political
effrontery like oppressive decrees
unjust, other NBA teams: the poor,
the widowed, subjects fatherless.
You bow before idols unattainable,
6 rings, Michael Jordan’s greatness
-sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
And now a savage nation rises
in DC... of teamwork, defense,
rebounding ingenious; 3 point shots
like horses that snort thick black
nostril ash, teeth of coals the opposing
cities’ playoff hopes flailing in
agony’s defeat. Their King,
John Wall, Tiglath-Pileser of
Assyria, his assists like burning
and looting. His dunks, iron
arrows, slings and daggers of a
barbarian. In 2018 marching to
slay your “big three,” to right
all your wrongs, to punish with
a Championship ring. Divine
judgement.

------Isaiah 10:1-11; 2 Kings 15:27-31
Woe to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.
What will you do on the day of reckoning,
    when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
    Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
    or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.
God’s Judgment on Assyria
“Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
I send him against a godless nation,
    I dispatch him against a people who anger me,
to seize loot and snatch plunder,
    and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
But this is not what he intends,
    this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
    to put an end to many nations.
‘Are not my commanders all kings?’ he says.
     ‘Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad,
    and Samaria like Damascus?
As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,
    kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
    as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”;
In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.
In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria. Then Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked and assassinated him, and then succeeded him as king in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah. As for the other events of Pekah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

Taylor Swift Walking On Tony Conti's Loneliness As Dry Land #TaylorDateTony

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+------Taylor Swift Walking On Tony Conti's Loneliness As Dry Land 

Taylor, my singleness is a boat
teetering, twelve men drifting, shifting,
disciples of romantic ideals
unconvinced, beneath the full dating
moon’s sorrowful shining (exploitative)
glare. The tears. And there are
no other girls supportive, soft winds,
just silence, the occasional
flutter of Leviathan beneath,
lurking in Galilee’s Sea, the prospect
of being lonely forever, bursting from
below to devour my heart alive. Oh but
babes, I imagine you glorious,
at the pinnacle of the tallest mountain
of my fantasies tracking me. Your
blue eyes diamonds lowering
from heaven, your soft lips corals
from Eden stirring angelic waves
as you descend. If we went to Starbucks,
held my hands, a cute ghost of hope.
Like you dancing on waters of
the impossible as if love was
dry land to your beautiful feet.

------Matthew 14:22-27
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

The Voice Of (My) God

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+------The Voice Of (My) God; Elijah's Thoughts At Horeb's Peak 

This is the beginning and end
of all that I am and know; The apogee
of Horeb, the highest of mountains,
the curious staring of scraggly
mountain goats, the cutting wolf-
blood-stained-fur-glares…growling
as from remorse of murdering
too many innocent souls
stranded while climbing. Me face
to face, eyes closed, with the
gales of my insecurities, tremors of
earth of past failures that haunt
my sleep. The blazing, obstinate
fire of rage at all the abuses
I’ve suffered from wicked men,
wicked hands. But then,
a gentle comforting whisper
like a cool, soft breeze: “I am
still God…don’t lose heart.”

------1 Kings 19:9b-13
And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

The Last Words Of An Eternal King

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+------ The Last Words Of An Eternal King; David's Thoughts As Solomon Rode To Gihon

In hindsight I’ve always yearned
for this…in the cave of Adullam’s
darkness in devil death whispers of
phantoms spasmodic; The recesses of
Saul’s chambers within the flash of
the second it took me to duck his spear,
hallucinate…through the saline
eulogies for Uriah, my bedsheets
the flood of Noah sweeping my
craven Old World’s heart away. And
I first felt it in Jonathan’s covenant-hug
when we met. And now this...gasping
my last breaths: the silhouette of a
mule carrying my son to Jerusalem:
his head, my Crown, the first of many to
rule my Kingdom forever. God is good,
the prophecies of Samuel all true.
I rest in peace now, my spirit eternal.

------1 Kings 1:28-40
Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him. The king then took an oath: “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble, I will surely carry out this very day what I swore to you by the Lord, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.” Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, prostrating herself before the king, and said, “May my lord King David live forever!” King David said, “Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king, he said to them: “Take your lord’s servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule and take him down to Gihon. There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ Then you are to go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.” Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the Lord, the God of my lord the king, so declare it. As the Lord was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon to make his throne even greater than the throne of my lord King David!” So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon. Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!” And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.

A Prisoner's Dream

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+------A Prisoner's Dream; Peter's Thoughts Chained In Prison Before Falling Asleep 

Ive made peace with it:
death, a stygian drift
into paradisiac lands. I
remember John’s recollection
of Jesus’ body hanging,
languid, the vacant eyes,
him wondering what to make
of it all…and now this.
I imagine myself Spartacus
I imagine myself noble,
a son of the revolution to come,
flanked by two sentries
who despise me, these shackles
about my wrists, an old way of life
that can trap the body not the soul.
I can sleep in peace- when I die I see
Jesus. This prison a castle in Heaven’s
Empire coming. Sempiternal.

-----Acts 12:1-10
t was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists. Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.

The Writing On Tom Brady's Wall; Kirk Cousins Hand In Babylon #TonyandKirk #HTTR

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+--------The Writing On Tom Brady's Wall; Kirk Cousins Hand In Babylon

Kirk, Tom Brady is
Belshazzar, ignominious
King of the Patriots, of Babylon:
at a palace feast. His teammates a
thousand barbarous lords praising
their own talent as gods of gold, silver,
brass, iron, wood, stone. Debauched
and dissolute, gluttonous- coach
Belichick and assistants, all
barbarous princes smug, inebriated
from champion’s wine of
Lombardi trophies…Superbowl
Rings: golden and silver vessels
plundered from Jerusalem’s temple,
Fed Ex Field in Landover, MD. But
your forthcoming MVP season
retributive disembodied fingers
of a man's hand. Writing suddenly
over the candlestick upon the plaister
of the wall: “Mene, Mene, Tekel,
Upharsin.”“The Redskins Will Destroy
The Patriots In 2018’s Superbowl.”

------Daniel 5
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.