Saturday, July 9, 2016

James and John

James and John

The Holy Apostles James and John,
Ambassadors of the Most Holy One,
Jesus’ message they carried on
For souls to be won.

James to believers, he saith
“No partiality should you show
To sisters and brothers in the faith,”
God’s law in love you should already know.

But if you show partiality,
A sin is what you commit in disgust
At your poorer brother’s reality.
So saith James the Just.

“The beloved” was how John was known
By his Savior and his Lord.
In long life John had grown
To understand Caesar’s sword.

In John’s apocalypse
He exposed the harlot and beast.
Oppression and exploitation were Rome’s scripts,
From her own people it stole and fleeced.

John clearly saw the future
And warned of Rome’s heavy hand.
Government’s grip on mankind would soon suture
That oppressive attachment through God’s command.

John has opened our eyes
To existential civil threats from within,
Exposing the beast’s promises in guise
So that we avoid the harlot’s din.

Now we see in our own day,
Secular Apostles James and John,
Each in their own personal way
Consider the people a pawn.

James the Director overstepped his charge
Rendering a final decision.
He missed the mark by and large,
With the people he had a collision.

John the Justice was placed in a position
Of being the judicial tipping point
For or against a leader with a mission.
An emperor did the Chief anoint.

The author of Revelation
Through God’s angel did receive
A full understanding of any nation
Whose government when corrupt deceives.

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