“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.”
Of course, none of this has happened yet . . .
These lyrics will not be true until the Lord returns to begin his millennial reign.
“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh” (Revelation 19:19-21).
I refuse to sing this anti-Christian and anti-South song that promoted a secular movement.
They did some “trampling out” in the 1861-65 era killing Christians like Pat Cleburne and States Rights Gist. But today the northeast is post-Christian but the South still has some holdouts who follow Biblical principles.