Out of Egypt

Notes | 2015 | Xzins

[xzins]

Out of Egypt

The Angel spoke in Joseph's dream
Not long after Jesus’ birth,
“Take the mother and the Child
For Herod seeks the infant's life.”

In secrecy they stole away.
Nor the wise men there remained,
Herod's scheming they had sensed;
More guidance from God's unseen hand.

The children of that fateful land,
Those that lived near Bethlehem,
While their mothers’ shrieking cried,
Died at hand of royal felon

Toward the west the parents fled
out of sight of everyone;
Egypt had been long foretold
For from that land “I called My Son.”

Yet still King Herod grabs a child
that mother thought safe at home,
stabbing with the sword of sin;
eternal peril to the soul.

If only fathers still could hear
God's clear message of alarm,
that the powers of the earth
are focused on their children's harm

And would those fathers also taught,
Jesus is the hiding place;
Safe e'en when He sends them forth
To share the message of His grace

[xzins]

King Herod kills children

[Ransomed]

We’re worse in that regard, at least in the last 45+ years or so. No king orders anyone to kill kids, and if anyone doesn’t want to do it they and their families probably run the risk of getting it done to them, or at least something really bad. We do it and allow it to be done all on our own. There’s no compulsion beyond it being deemed OK to do by the current legal understanding. That seems a lot worse, at least to me.

Freegards

[Maudeen]

We have no respect for God’s marvelous creation (the human being) in this country. Parents are killing their own by the thousands each year through abortions. How much longer is God going to allow this to go on.(I know, Only the Father Knows) Our only hope is Jesus! http://thereishopeinjesus.com/