Poetry by Sean Morris (Elder)
"The Kingdom of God | The Book of Proverbs"
My reader, have you ever wondered why the Book of Proverbs is not proverbial for you and I in heathen societies and governments? Have you ever wondered where all the ultimatums of blessing and curse are in this our day? Can you imagine it, my reader! Actually living in a civilization where all the proverbs of the Book of Proverbs were so pervasively and unmistakably present in Israel that to them, shockingly, the Glory of God depicted in the proverbs was but common sense knowledge held in remembrance by all Israelites! The fact that God was KING in Israel through all the meticulous ways presented in the Book of Proverbs was, shockingly, common sense. Those things which are common among this uncommon people bear witness to the sheer magnitude of God’s Glory which was in operation. Solomon’s inspired oration of Divinely Empowered Civil Justice (contained in the Book of Proverbs) was written with divine genius as a testimony to all nations and peoples how that in Israel, “God is known” (Ps. 48:3)! The entirety of this uncommon people – a “Holy Nation” (Ex. 19:6, 1 Pet. 2:9) – was made to fear God because they were utterly encompassed and enveloped by the activity and actuality of GOD as KING.
The facts, in proverbs, were historically true!
The truths, in psalms, were put to Zion’s tunes!
White hair, in Israel, had a story to share!
Cause they, unlike others, did not ever dare!
To go, alongside, defiance to the KING on high!
Who lived, right then, to make all rebels die!
To help, right then, and answer the righteous cry!
To establish, yet again, justice against the lie!
So that, forever, the ultimatums of pastime,
Might bring, today, The Book of Proverbs to mind!
The proverbs that were bywords of the public were not wrong!
Nor the songs which rang Temple Courts rising from holy throng!
What the public experienced and beheld became their proverb and song,
And anyone who disagreed with the facts did not ever live long!
The people beheld, what experience did tell, what Divine Inspiration did already foretell,
Even that, right well, upon the wicked befell, thus doth every man his neighbor a proverb tell!
http://thechurchrealized.com/volume-1/chapter-7/theme-2/
My reader, have you ever wondered why the Book of Proverbs is not proverbial for you and I in heathen societies and governments? Have you ever wondered where all the ultimatums of blessing and curse are in this our day? Can you imagine it, my reader! Actually living in a civilization where all the proverbs of the Book of Proverbs were so pervasively and unmistakably present in Israel that to them, shockingly, the Glory of God depicted in the proverbs was but common sense knowledge held in remembrance by all Israelites! The fact that God was KING in Israel through all the meticulous ways presented in the Book of Proverbs was, shockingly, common sense. Those things which are common among this uncommon people bear witness to the sheer magnitude of God’s Glory which was in operation. Solomon’s inspired oration of Divinely Empowered Civil Justice (contained in the Book of Proverbs) was written with divine genius as a testimony to all nations and peoples how that in Israel, “God is known” (Ps. 48:3)! The entirety of this uncommon people – a “Holy Nation” (Ex. 19:6, 1 Pet. 2:9) – was made to fear God because they were utterly encompassed and enveloped by the activity and actuality of GOD as KING.
The facts, in proverbs, were historically true!
The truths, in psalms, were put to Zion’s tunes!
White hair, in Israel, had a story to share!
Cause they, unlike others, did not ever dare!
To go, alongside, defiance to the KING on high!
Who lived, right then, to make all rebels die!
To help, right then, and answer the righteous cry!
To establish, yet again, justice against the lie!
So that, forever, the ultimatums of pastime,
Might bring, today, The Book of Proverbs to mind!
The proverbs that were bywords of the public were not wrong!
Nor the songs which rang Temple Courts rising from holy throng!
What the public experienced and beheld became their proverb and song,
And anyone who disagreed with the facts did not ever live long!
The people beheld, what experience did tell, what Divine Inspiration did already foretell,
Even that, right well, upon the wicked befell, thus doth every man his neighbor a proverb tell!
http://thechurchrealized.com/volume-1/chapter-7/theme-2/