Submissions by joegracegrace (Joe Grace)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
A dictator will "make war on the saints [the Christian nations],gain power over every nation," (Revelation 13.7).This conquest implies world war. Yes, NUCLEAR war would explain "sudden destruction" at Rapture(1 Thessalonians 4.16-5.3)
Sister Erica
Erica,Sister Erica,
Where are you now?
In Heaven no doubt!
She was killed in a car accident
Yesterday - Good Friday.
(Like Christ and Abraham Lincoln).
At the Church she attended,
They have lunch afterward.
I remember last Sunday,
She was passing by my table,
On her way out.
"Erica, look in the mirror," I said,
As I was holding up a red flower
(That had been left there as a decoration).
"Yes, this is an invisible mirror.
You are seeing your reflection,
You are a special...
Where are you now?
In Heaven no doubt!
She was killed in a car accident
Yesterday - Good Friday.
(Like Christ and Abraham Lincoln).
At the Church she attended,
They have lunch afterward.
I remember last Sunday,
She was passing by my table,
On her way out.
"Erica, look in the mirror," I said,
As I was holding up a red flower
(That had been left there as a decoration).
"Yes, this is an invisible mirror.
You are seeing your reflection,
You are a special...
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Playing God
God doesn't share His glory with another"(Isaiah 42.8; 48.11).
Oh yes He does!
It's only with other gods,
That he doesn't share it,
False gods created by men.
He is the Creator of LIFE,
The original lifeforms.
But who is it that creates life now?
Mothers - with the help of fathers - do it,
By giving birth to babies, of course.
So GOD IS SHARING HIS GLORY
With the mothers of every species!
Cows, bitches, lionesses, eagles in the air,
Each gets to taste what it's like
To be the Creator....
Oh yes He does!
It's only with other gods,
That he doesn't share it,
False gods created by men.
He is the Creator of LIFE,
The original lifeforms.
But who is it that creates life now?
Mothers - with the help of fathers - do it,
By giving birth to babies, of course.
So GOD IS SHARING HIS GLORY
With the mothers of every species!
Cows, bitches, lionesses, eagles in the air,
Each gets to taste what it's like
To be the Creator....
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Conversation With Senora (age 9)That I Would like to Have Had
She lived next door.
But now she has moved away
To Maryland.
So near and yet so far.
Oh, the loss,
Oh, the loss,
Such a great loss.
I remember telling her
To beat Bear(the dog),
"Because you can't reason with him -
He's a dumb animal, you know."
Soon thereafter
She was beating Bear,
Hitting him harder each time.
"You stupid dog," she'd say.
"Get down, get down!"
(He always was standing up,
Putting his dirty paws on her clothes.)
"No, no, stop,stop,"
I...
But now she has moved away
To Maryland.
So near and yet so far.
Oh, the loss,
Oh, the loss,
Such a great loss.
I remember telling her
To beat Bear(the dog),
"Because you can't reason with him -
He's a dumb animal, you know."
Soon thereafter
She was beating Bear,
Hitting him harder each time.
"You stupid dog," she'd say.
"Get down, get down!"
(He always was standing up,
Putting his dirty paws on her clothes.)
"No, no, stop,stop,"
I...
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Nuclear War Accounts For the Rapture of the Church
More accurately,
Nuclear War(Russian Attack) accounts for
The massive DEPARTURE OF SOULS at the Rapture.
When do souls normally depart this world?
At the death of the body, of course.
So when we read about a great multitude of souls
departing this world together (at the Rapture),
We really should ask this question:
Is a mass death occurring that that very time?!
The answer, surprisingly, is YES! YES! YES!
There are 5 Rapture passages in which ...
Nuclear War(Russian Attack) accounts for
The massive DEPARTURE OF SOULS at the Rapture.
When do souls normally depart this world?
At the death of the body, of course.
So when we read about a great multitude of souls
departing this world together (at the Rapture),
We really should ask this question:
Is a mass death occurring that that very time?!
The answer, surprisingly, is YES! YES! YES!
There are 5 Rapture passages in which ...
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Yom Kippur Ritual = Intercourse Between God and Israel
The Church is described as a woman,
The Bride of Christ(Ephesians 5.21-33;Revelation 21.9;22.17).
By extension, the church building is too.
Before the Church, there was the Jewish Temple.
The latter derives from the former.
Because of the connection between the two,
The Temple, too, can be thought of as the female body.
On that basis the Temple's innermost room,
"the Holy of Holies,"
Corresponds to the innermost organ
Of a woman's body, the uterus.
But the "Ark of...
The Bride of Christ(Ephesians 5.21-33;Revelation 21.9;22.17).
By extension, the church building is too.
Before the Church, there was the Jewish Temple.
The latter derives from the former.
Because of the connection between the two,
The Temple, too, can be thought of as the female body.
On that basis the Temple's innermost room,
"the Holy of Holies,"
Corresponds to the innermost organ
Of a woman's body, the uterus.
But the "Ark of...
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Sacred Sex
Starting around 4,000 years ago(?)
And continuing up til about 2,000 years ago,
There was "Temple Prostitution."
At the temple of the Goddess Diana,
(And at the temples of other Gods, Goddesses),
You could have "sacred sex" with the Goddess -
In the form of her surrogate, the priestess.
In Christianity we unite as "the body of Christ",
Meaning the union of Christ and the Church,
Two bodies becoming "one flesh"(Matthew 19.5).
Together they make up
the compound "Body of Christ"(Ephesians 1.22-23) -
Two bodies becoming "one...
And continuing up til about 2,000 years ago,
There was "Temple Prostitution."
At the temple of the Goddess Diana,
(And at the temples of other Gods, Goddesses),
You could have "sacred sex" with the Goddess -
In the form of her surrogate, the priestess.
In Christianity we unite as "the body of Christ",
Meaning the union of Christ and the Church,
Two bodies becoming "one flesh"(Matthew 19.5).
Together they make up
the compound "Body of Christ"(Ephesians 1.22-23) -
Two bodies becoming "one...
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Gorbachev turns 84 This month, March 2015
In George Orwell's book, "1984"
The whole world is under Communism,
That is, totalitarian tyranny.
So the number 84 is somewhat synonymous
With that infamous theme:
The conquest of the world by Russia.
(It's a lie that the Kremlin crazies
Have given up on world conquest.)
Now that Gorbachev has now turned 84,
It may well be that this is the year
Of the Russian Attack on America,
(And the conquest of Western Europe
That is described in Daniel 7.8),
Which sort of fulfills...
The whole world is under Communism,
That is, totalitarian tyranny.
So the number 84 is somewhat synonymous
With that infamous theme:
The conquest of the world by Russia.
(It's a lie that the Kremlin crazies
Have given up on world conquest.)
Now that Gorbachev has now turned 84,
It may well be that this is the year
Of the Russian Attack on America,
(And the conquest of Western Europe
That is described in Daniel 7.8),
Which sort of fulfills...
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Lincoln and Darwin Were Born on the Same Day: Feb 12, 1809
Tomorrow is February 12.
So let's compare Lincoln and Darwin.
Lincoln was "the Great Emancipator,"
THE liberator of the slaves.
But Darwin also liberated mankind.
He freed Christians from Biblical bondage,
Enslavement to Adam and Eve,
Supposedly, our first parents,
According to the Creation story in Genesis(chap. 2),
The first of the 5 books called "the Law of Moses."
Preachers tell us,
"There were no carnivores, originally.
But then Sin came into the world due to Adam and Eve. ...
So let's compare Lincoln and Darwin.
Lincoln was "the Great Emancipator,"
THE liberator of the slaves.
But Darwin also liberated mankind.
He freed Christians from Biblical bondage,
Enslavement to Adam and Eve,
Supposedly, our first parents,
According to the Creation story in Genesis(chap. 2),
The first of the 5 books called "the Law of Moses."
Preachers tell us,
"There were no carnivores, originally.
But then Sin came into the world due to Adam and Eve. ...
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Salvaging(Saving) the Story of Adam and Eve(Genesis chapters 2-3)
Fundies think the story has to be true
Because it's in the Bible,
The Word of God.
"Your Word is truth,"
Jesus said(John 17.17).
But Christ was referring to the word
He was bringing, not the Law of Moses.
There is a distinction between
the Law and the Gospel.
For we read that, "The Law was given by Moses
But TRUTH..came by Jesus Christ"(John 1.17).
If the 5 books written by Moses,
Called "the Law of Moses,"
Were, all of it, the truth, ...
Because it's in the Bible,
The Word of God.
"Your Word is truth,"
Jesus said(John 17.17).
But Christ was referring to the word
He was bringing, not the Law of Moses.
There is a distinction between
the Law and the Gospel.
For we read that, "The Law was given by Moses
But TRUTH..came by Jesus Christ"(John 1.17).
If the 5 books written by Moses,
Called "the Law of Moses,"
Were, all of it, the truth, ...
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What is the Purpose of the Cross?
ONE,Christ deliberately got the Jews to crucify Him,
So that the Curses of Deuteronomy 28.15-67)
Would come down upon them.
For He was "the Prophet like me"
That Moses predicted would come(Deut.18.15-19),
Warning that God would personally punish
Those that rejected him.
Those "curses" included defeat in war,
And going into exile far from Israel(Deut.28.25,64).
When you consider the enormity
of the offense of rejecting the Messiah,
The resulting exile...
So that the Curses of Deuteronomy 28.15-67)
Would come down upon them.
For He was "the Prophet like me"
That Moses predicted would come(Deut.18.15-19),
Warning that God would personally punish
Those that rejected him.
Those "curses" included defeat in war,
And going into exile far from Israel(Deut.28.25,64).
When you consider the enormity
of the offense of rejecting the Messiah,
The resulting exile...
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How Does the Bible Indicate That Woman is Superior to Man?
Man is the glory of God and
Woman is the glory of man"(1st Corinthians 11.7).
So woman is "the glory of [the glory]".
In Hebrew the way you state the superlative
Is by saying "X of X."
"King of Kings" means the greatest king.
"Lord of Lords" means the greatest Lord.
"Age of Ages" means the longest eon,
Translated as "Eternity."
The room called "The Holy of Holies"
Is the most holy room(of the temple).
LSS: Glory of Glories would mean
The supreme or greatest or highest glory!
So, if "woman is the glory...
Woman is the glory of man"(1st Corinthians 11.7).
So woman is "the glory of [the glory]".
In Hebrew the way you state the superlative
Is by saying "X of X."
"King of Kings" means the greatest king.
"Lord of Lords" means the greatest Lord.
"Age of Ages" means the longest eon,
Translated as "Eternity."
The room called "The Holy of Holies"
Is the most holy room(of the temple).
LSS: Glory of Glories would mean
The supreme or greatest or highest glory!
So, if "woman is the glory...
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The University is Meant to be a Microcosm of Heaven
Heaven is where you stay young forever.
Visit a university.What do you see?
(Almost) all Young people.
Visit again 30 years later,
A hundred years later.
The faces of the students are still young,
As young as they were on your first visit.
So college exudes the theme of eternal youth.
In Heaven people are continuously learning
(Or knowing without having to learn?)
What do kids at the university major in?
Learning,discovering, reasoning things out.
Heaven is a citadel of knowledge,
A storehouse of facts,figures,data.
Likewise,...
Visit a university.What do you see?
(Almost) all Young people.
Visit again 30 years later,
A hundred years later.
The faces of the students are still young,
As young as they were on your first visit.
So college exudes the theme of eternal youth.
In Heaven people are continuously learning
(Or knowing without having to learn?)
What do kids at the university major in?
Learning,discovering, reasoning things out.
Heaven is a citadel of knowledge,
A storehouse of facts,figures,data.
Likewise,...
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