A Spiritual Nation #IamJoel

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+-------A Spiritual Nation: Joel's Words To Judah Before Announcing The Prophecy of The LORD

And what shall we make of our crud,
and crust
drying from scabs on skin (blood capped
with dirt), scars inflicted by
scurrilous captors inaugurating/
ingratiating their new slaves to
macabre pagan renderings
of savagery, excessive in
their displays of force, burst pustules
from our lingering diseases
untreated and subsequently reopened
by biting locusts who otherwise
prefer devouring whatever
remnant is left of the
scant supply of crops allotted to us
that we had intended to ration?
What of the hysterics of our
mothers uncomforted,
our sons sold for harlots,
cherished daughters for new wine
to satisfy hedonisms of gluttons?
Shall not a Spirit of vengeance
envelop us
arise within us all and demand
slaughter of the wicked,
salvation for the oppressed,
milk and honey jerked from the
mangled and massacred
laps of our enemies
for the weary and longsuffering
languished, apocalypse of
affluent slobs?
Eventually our righteous anger will
ferment loudly and demand God’s
defense - while plowing fields, skin
scorched by the searing sun,
our sons and daughters
will see visions of themselves
in wedded bliss (singing and dancing),
older men will have ecstasy in sleep,
reimagining Noah in his ark,
the harmonious purring of
sheep, dogs, doves, and the staff
of Moses’ hands held
up by Aaron and Hur whilst
debasing the Amalekites.
While shrouded in darkness
our hearts’ inner yearnings will surely
evoke the lighting of universal justice.
Lacerations and bruises will be
made whole again, fetters and
shackles loosed and melted in
pots on ovens of our spacious homes
resettled. No matter how dubious it
may seem, at night keep your eyes
closed and ears opened wide,
ever hopeful
for the sudden shrills
of our tyrants finally felled- even
falling asleep, like the prophets do,
keep whispering to yourselves:
“freedom.”

(For the Day of the Lord is Coming)


----Joel 2:28-32
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.