Verses 1-8 Continued
Here then, is the manifesto published, setting forth, seven points to consider.
Point Four
Pursuant to the sentence, a terrible slaughter shall be made among them.
Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,
it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
The sword of the Lord when it comes down with commission (like that word don't ya Lucy) does vast execution, it is filled, satiated, satisfied to much, with blood, the blood of the slain, and made fat with their fatness. When the day of God’s abused mercy and patience is over? The sword of his justice gives no quarter, spares none. Men have by sin lost the honour of the human nature and made themselves like the beasts that perish. They are therefore justly denied the compassion and respect that are owing to the human nature and killed as beasts. No more is made of slaying an army of men than of butchering a flock of lambs or goats and feeding on the fat of the kidneys of rams. Ya gettin that? If you're gonna run around and act like a bunch of animals? Then he is going to slaughter you like a bunch of animals when the time comes. It's what you deserve. It's a fair and just judgment. Not only will he slay the lambs and the goats, the common if you will, the infantries of their armies, the poor common soldiers, but the rare, the unique, and the uncommon shall be made to come down with them as well. The steer and the bulls though they be ever so proud and strong and fierce? The sword of the Lord will make prey of them as he does the lamb and the goats. Rev. 6:14-16 "The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!" This is what the greed mongers don't understand, that the greatest of men are nothing before the wrath of God. The land will be made bloody as if it rained blood and plenty of it. And the dry and barren land? It shall be made fat, with the fatness of men slain in their full strength as with manure. Even the mountains, which are hard and rocky, shall be melted with blood. Isaiah 34:3 "Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood." Of course it's an overly exaggerated claim as is St. John’s vision of blood to the horse-bridles, Rev. 14:20 "They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. (Or 180 miles)." These exaggerated expressions are made use of because they sound very dreadful to sense, and it makes us shiver to think of such an abundance of human gore. Therefore, they become the proper manner in which to express the terror of God's wrath, which is dreadful beyond conception and expression. See what work sin and wrath make in this world? Think how much more terrible the wrath to come is, which will bring down the high and lofty themselves to the bars of the pit.
You think this is a good job? You think you want this? It's all cool at first and you're seeing and understanding things like others don't get to and then, WHAM! You see the utterly avoidable death and destruction, and it just makes your stomach turn. Revelation 10:10, "I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour."
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