Redemption Draweth Nigh

The writing’s on the wall

Even written across the sky,

World events seem to suggest

That redemption draweth nigh.

        

Oh, I know you’ll fuss and say

I have heard that all my life,

But I have news for you today,

Note the upward trend of strife.

Things are really heating up

As prophesied in God’s Word;

Evidenced by CNN, BBC and Fox News

Listen my friend: haven’t you heard?

There’s Ebola and the like

So puzzling to the mind,

As Chikungunya plus dengue

Cause our health service to decline.

Earthquakes in numerous places,

Famines and pestilence too,

Wars and mounting skirmishes

As countries emphasise their view.

Again I hear your response,

As you argue that’s nothing new,

But in a moment of honesty

You’d note the speed at which it grew.

For never before, as it is now

These happenings near to home;

Always occurred in far off lands

But certainly not in our zone.

In the Holy Word we read

How things will only get worse,

But cynics laugh and scoff as well

And continue to satisfy their thirsts.

At present, downturn and recession

Have the whole world in its grip,

The more upbeat the forecast

The faster we seem to slip.

International currencies struggle

To maintain their financial edge;

While stock markets teeter-totter

On an unstable economic ledge.

Global warming is on the rise,

The price of progress, perhaps;

As man seeks out new frontiers

And strives to make new contacts.

For somewhere in the universe

There’s a voice other-than-his-own,

Not God’s, he has determined

But beings from another zone.

So as his knowledge increases,

He tries to reach that voice

And one day he truly believes

That he’ll vindicate his choice.

Travel has become commonplace

Across our world and outer space;

And as our technology improves

No doubt we’ll make greater haste.

  

Meanwhile there’s moral decay

As the family takes a broadside hit;

Two daddies or two mummies

Were never meant to be a family unit.

Persons of great intelligence demand

That sexual preference be respected;

An admission of the Creator’s own design

Is the fact that they’ve rejected.

This rapid increase of knowledge,

With the prevalence of our space travel

Speaks to the coming of our Lord,

In Whose Book it’s easily unraveled.

And so, as we look all around us

And see the happenings of the times,

Don’t get flustered and become shy

For our redemption draweth nigh!

Try not to guess the day or hour

Or, like the cynics, laugh and deny,

For in a moment that you think not,

Our redemption draweth nigh!

Now as the Spirit continues to strive

Do no longer the Lord deny;

Any day now He will arrive

For our redemption draweth nigh.

Stewart Russell © 2014