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Jerusalem Blade · #1 (**permalink**) 09-13-2006, 05:19 AM

The ascendancy of the Critical Text
is as the rising of the spirit of antichrist
in those times it is given to be his hour
and darkness comes in like a flood, and in power.

Slowly, trust in God’s word increasingly dims
as the trumpet now gives an uncertain sound:
we no longer know for sure what belongs within
that one Book where salvation is found.

Some say, “Nothing vital is affected,
the basic truths remain intact,”
and while that is so, it may be detected
“entire trustworthiness” is no longer thought fact.

Against this strong delusion a standard flies
—that Volume on which the Reformation stood—
on the pole of God’s providence, raised by the wise,
true guide of escape from the darksome wood

of the world, and its myriad satanic dreams.
That Greek and Hebrew, and their King James Bible,
God preserved intact, that the Gospel which redeems
may be taken to heart, sure and reliable.

[Edited on 10-3-2006 by Jerusalem Blade]