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OPEN INVITATIONS 7 Poems for 7 Churches (6/7) | 10-66 | VOL 04 |The Reluctant Tinker
‘Seven Poems For Seven Church’s (6 of 7-Philadelphia)’
Come in!
Come in!
Come in right quick! For
The door is always open in
My holy bailiwick.
Come in!
Come in!
‘Cause I’m jangling all my keys!
The door is always open in King
David’s [ii]diocese.
Come in!
Come in!
Escape this time of trial!
Upon the synagogue of Satan, that’s rancid,
Rank and vile.
Come in!
Come in!
You weak made- strong-confessors! And
‘Separate yourselves from those
Sah-tan-ic professors.
Come in!
Come in!
Hold all your stuff right fast,
‘Cause all I’ve got prepared for you is frankly,
Unsurpassed.
Come in!
Come in!
Before I bolt this door!
‘And I make of you all a pillar, upon my
Crystal floor.
Come in!
Come in!
‘Cause I’m coming very soon!
A [iii]flashing piece of lightning across
A [iv]blood red moon.
I say
A flashing piece of lightning across
A blood red moon.
© 2016 Victor Robert Farrell
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PREAMBLE |
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie — indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”‘ (Revelation 3:7-13 NKJV)
EXPLANATION |
I love this letter. It is just so encouraging and dare I say…happy! I dunno, for me it’s just full of joy, and God is going to go all ‘graffiti artist’ on these good folks. Brilliant!
PERFORMANCE TIPS |
I find imagining a manic Yorkshireman on speed works best for me. Be expressive with your eyes and hands. Make your eyes bulge at each double invitation, be slightly insane, but only slightly. There are some difficult annunciations here and phrasing, so I suggest you listen online to my performance at this piece before giving a go yourself.
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Bailiwick = God’s particular sphere of operations or area of interest. His instant district or jurisdiction as a bailiff.
[ii] The district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church. In this case, the ultimate head, Christ.
[iii] “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. (Matt 24:26-28 NKJV)
[iv] Wikipedia on Blood Moon Prophecy’s says: The idea of a “blood moon” serving as an omen of the coming of the end times comes from the Book of Joel, where it is written “the sun will turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.”[4] This phrase is again mentioned by Saint Peter during Pentecost, as recorded in Acts,[5] although Peter says that the date of Pentecost, not some future date, was the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy. The blood moon also appears in the Book of Revelation chapter 6 verses 11 – 13,[6] where verse 12 says ” And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood”.
Around 2008, Biltz began predicting that the Second Coming of Jesus would occur in the fall of 2015 with the seven years of the great tribulation beginning in the fall of 2008. He said he had “discovered” an astronomical pattern that predicted the next tetrad would coincide with the end times. When the prediction failed, he pulled the article from his website, but continued to teach on the “significance” of the tetrad.
Hagee would later seize on Biltz’ prediction to write Four Blood Moons, which would become a best seller, spending more than 150 days in Amazon.com’s top 150 by April 2014.[3] For the week ending March 30, 2014, it was the ninth best selling paperback, according to Publishers Weekly.[7] By mid-April, Hagee’s book had hit No. 4 on the The New York Times best-seller list in the advice category.[3] Hagee’s book (and subsequent sermon series at his home congregation, Cornerstone Church) did not proclaim that any specific “end times” event would occur (as did Biltz in his original prophecy), but claimed that every prior tetrad of the last 500 years coincided with events in Jewish and Israeli history that were originally tragic, yet followed by triumph.