Lent Thirty Nine "Good Friday"

Final Judgement- Vank Cathedral- Isfahan

The hour that gives us life begins to take it away. 

Seneca, Hercules Furens, 1^st Century

My conundrum is that we are born in the world and discover that we are in an out of control car heading towards a brick wall.  How do you expect us to 'pull that one off'.  Impossible.  And it's agreed.  Yes, and so a way has been made to enable us to walk from death to life.

 Isaiah Chapter two and Three

As the life of the world comes to an end, people from all nations will come to their creator.

The creator will be on the highest mountain, all people will acknowledge the creator and bring perfect praise and honour.  The mountain is called Zion.

The creator will mediate between the nations and help them to settle differences. 

Peace, unknown before, will be declared. 

Weapons of destruction will be converted to useful means.

The decedents of Judah will walk in the light of their creator.

All meaningless wealth, powerful weapons, scheming alliances,

All this will be brought low - nothing will stand.

Don’t put your confidence in human power; ultimately it’s as frail as breath.

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How the mighty will fall.

Their sophisticated society will collapse into ruins.

Young children will take power, foolishness will reign.

And the creator will step forward and demand justice.

“How dare you allow my people to have their faces ground in the mud?”

Such beautiful people, now scabbed and wretched, barely alive.

But as the outward trapping are stripped away they find they are left with nothing,

Low and degraded.

PRAYER:  I embrace the life that you give me, and the death you give me also.