The Bible in Poetry: The Beginning

 

Extracted from the Bible In Poetry

From Genesis to Revelation

Introduction

Genesis to Revelation the victory that Jesus won,

Genesis to Revelation the evidence of God’s Son;

Genesis to Revelation the witness of God to man,

Genesis to Revelation: truth of redemption’s plan.

Creation versus Evolution

Some say it’s a big bang, they say it’s just a theory,

I believe creation’s account because it is His story;

I didn’t come from slime; I have no monkey parts,

God created man; I believe, sincerely from my heart.

They continue to preach about random selection,

And claim that this is true from years of observation;

I believe the Word of God how this world came to be,

No selection of the species but by God Almighty.

In the very beginning was the eternal Godhead,

The Father and the Spirit and the Word that led

In the creation of the heaven and the entire earth,

Adam and Eve, the first before a natural birth.

Sin Enters and Rages

Placed in Eden's garden and instructed to reside,

Disobeyed God's command, from Him tried to hide;

From their privileged spot they were banished,

Their trouble-free life had now simply vanished.

Into this great challenge came Cain and then Abel,

One strived to follow God the other was bent on hell;

Abel became the first victim, the first ever homicide,

When at the hands of Cain his own brother, he died.

Cain who was a farmer, who was living off the sod,

Was afterward sentenced to live in the land of Nod;

Then along came Seth, the second God-fearing man,

And from here continued the growth of the human clan.

Two multiplied to four and four multiplied to eight,

Thus growing exponentially into one great state;

Brothers married sisters and so too their offspring,

Married one another and children they also bring.

And so the population with rapidity would grow,

Back then people lived nine hundred years or more;

But along would also come every imaginable vice

As men became more evil and paid a lofty price.

But Enoch had walked with God just as God intended,

Thus he did not die but simply just ascended;

Some say he is a type of the rapture that's to come,

When God prepares the Church for His coming Son.

Enoch begat Methuselah, the word of God declares,

Who lived upon the earth nine hundred sixty-nine years;

Some would rather trust the Guinness book of records,

I choose to believe Genesis the book of God's concord.

God viewed man He created while sitting on His throne,

Weren’t He God Almighty surely He would have groaned;

Determined there and then he had had all that he could,

Guess what happened next! Then came a monstrous flood.

Noah had warned the people each and every year,

But all they ever did was to mock at him and glare;

Oh, they had their fun in their contrived play park

Right down to the moment Noah entered the ark.

Then the flood had come and washed them all away,

The waters purged the earth for many, many a day,

Next across the sky was seen a radiant glow,

Of God’s certain promise, a multi-coloured rainbow.
 

A New Beginning

Thus a new beginning had come for the human race,

A tribute to God’s mercy and His amazing grace;

Commanded to go forth and replenish the entire earth,

First created from the dust but now by natural birth.

Earth’s population grew as God had given increase,

Men began to falter and their faith in God decreased.

Feeling rather secured in their self-righteous power,

They tried to climb to heaven by building up a tower.

But their silly dream soon became a nightmare

As God would scatter them all both far and near;

The tower failed to reach anywhere near God's throne,

As God’s almighty power to man was clearly shown.

A Man of Great Patience

Then we learn of Job and of his great experience,

Satan had resolved to make him lose his patience;

Lost his sons and daughters, left with only his wife,

“Curse God and die,” she said, “end your stupid life.”

She was talking nonsense, was speaking like a fool,

She had allowed the devil to use her as his tool;

But Job, he took a stand, tenaciously held his ground,

Making up his mind, “she won’t be pulling me down.”

But God had proved the point; the devil lost the fight,

Job had won a victory, God had shown His might;

God restored to him much more than he had before,

Showing to all and sundry, God has so much in store.

Father of the Faithful

Enter father Abraham; called to leave his kin,

And journey to a land God would show to him.

He marched right on in faith with God as his Guide,

His confidence also boosted with Sarah by his side.

Diverting once to follow the counsel from his wife,

Up came a predicament, his two sons meant strife;

Ishmael was forced to go so reluctantly he went,

Isaac was the promise, the seed that God had sent.

One day out of heaven the sternest of tests came,

“Abraham, take Isaac and offer him in My Name.”

Abraham heard and knew it was God that spoke,

Without doubt he knew that this test was not a joke.

Early from home he set out and headed for the place,

Determined to be obedient but trusting God for grace;

Intent on following through on God's precise command,

Raised the knife to strike as the angel stopped his hand.

Abraham had passed the test and God gave him the nod,

“Now I know,” the angel said, “the fear you have for God.”

From this we can preview the Lamb that was to come,

The Lamb slain before the world, God’s own begotten Son.

Abraham was truly pleased that God had spared Isaac,

There in a nearby thicket a lamb was securely trapped;

Provided by God the Father and placed in open view,

A shadow of the Lamb to come provided for me and you.

Jacob followed Isaac, and Joseph his favourite son

Was the scourge of his siblings, the object of their fun;

He was sold into Egypt, rose to second in command,

Then fed all his family when a famine struck the land.

God was always with him and granted him His favour,

So to all his family he became a type of Saviour;

He repaid their evil dealings with kindness and with love,

At last they came to realize his help was from above.

But Joseph died in Egypt and there in his coffin lay,

Requesting that he be moved on an appointed day;

He told them of God’s visit and of a coming change,

They’d leave the land of Egypt just as God arranged.

Joseph’s bones would not be left in Egypt on that day,

When God delivers them and sets them on their way;

So down in the land of Egypt Joseph would remain,
Until the land of Canaan was theirs to make their claim.

                                    Stewart Russell © 2013