ATDTDA (12) Tremblin' Like A Penguin** [335:3-9]

[Keith]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:23 PM, David Morris wrote:

3. "[The latest voice Foley has to attend to says,] 'You suffered
through the Wilderness and at last, at Cold Harbor, lay between the
lines three days, between the worlds, and this is what you were saved
for?  This mean, nervous, scheming servitude to an enfeebled
conscience?' "

Notice the Christ in the Wilderness and in the grave overtones in this
last quote.

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This may be a broader Biblical reference to the Judeo-Christianist  
concept of 'heilsgeschicte' (Salvation History) from the Hebrews of  
the Exodus wandering in the Wilderness to pre-Ascension Christ in  
Hades for three days. Both reference are to a period of suffering and  
waiting that precede liberation or salvation. And then for what? For  
nothing more than a "mean, nervous, scheming servitude to an  
enfeebled conscience?What is said to liberate results in another,  
darker bondage.

"God is in control here below. He has written the Play of the Ages.  
History is "His story". It is not a meaningless cycle or an unending  
"balance" of ying and yang as eastern mysticism has hypnotized us to  
believe. History is linear and teleological. Our God is the Alpha and  
the Omega, the beginning (in creation), and the end, on the Day of  
the Lord. Holy history, or as our German friends call it,  
"heilsgeschicte" or "salvation history" comes to a great and glorious  
conclusion. The God of history is taking us on a road. It is a road  
with a fork, each road of which leads somewhere. History has a  
meaning. It has a purpose. Men and nations are sifted like wheat.  
They are refined in the fire. The dross is skimmed off as the gold is  
refined. Oh yes, humanistic man can play God with their programs,  
their algorithms, their thesis and an antithesis, and their beloved  
"synthesis". But all this must be judged by God Almighty in the  
crucible of holy history. The days of deals and compromise will  
eventually come to an end. Eventually there must be a climax to the  
story. Someone will be coming. And He will reconcile the accounts,  
even on a Day of Atonement. The scriptures tell us that Christ  
Himself will come again. He will return to judge the wicked and  
deliver His saints. He Himself will bring His final judgment and  
conclusion to the matter!"
   http://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans17.htm

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Excerpt from the poem
'Waiting' by Robert Penn Warren:

      You will have to wait.

      [...]

      Until
      You realize, to your surprise, that our Savior died for us all,
      And as tears gather in your eyes, you burst out laughing,
      For the joke is certainly on Him, considering
      What we are.

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