How broken! And Babylon reigns!
Strange beyond record of tongue or pen!
"As it was in the days of Noah,"
We are told, it shall be again.
Strife, sin, and spiritual darkness
Are to usher the Son of Man;
Disasters more fierce and appalling
Than are known since the world began.
I think of the shortening ages,
And the terrible doom foretold
For those who reject God's commandments
As given to Israel of old,
So sure, so clear, "Remember to keep,"
And never a word nor a sound,
Outside of the mandates of Rome,
To change this one edict profound.
He carved it in stone, on Sinai's mount,
As memento of Godhead and power.
How strange puny, blasphemous man
Should think, for one day or one hour,
That God would step down from creative throne,
And surrender His crown, yield His power!
Evil the heart that wars against man!
What then of those warring with God,
Forcing their creed on millions of men,
And have forced it by torture and blood?
His wrath comes in horrors and plagues
More fierce than destruction by flood.
For the door of mercy then closed,
All pleadings for entrance are spurned.
O, study God's Word, and be warned;
Heed not the oppressions concerned;
For Christ will bring the eternal reward,
And the tables of justice be turned.