A POETIC COMMENTARY ON PSALM 29

1 Angels of the Revelation, Let us join with you to acknowledge the God of Israel. Let us join together to acknowledge Him as the God of all glory and strength!

2 With you, angels of the Revelation of the Messiah of Israel, Let us honor The Great Name. Let us join as one to ascribe to the Name of the God of Israel His due. And let us go on to attain our maturity, to acknowledge the One Holy Name by arranging ourselves according to the pattern of the beauty of holiness.

3 Go forth angel upon the white horse, ride upon the waters! Let your shofar blast and part the nations! Announce the coming of the God of the Great Shabbat, the God of Israel! Go forth, let your horse’s hooves pound upon the many waters! The chariot of the God of the Torah comes, with his glory in his voice, his voice like the waves of Heaven's thunder upon the waters.

4a The voice of Israel’s God thunders with great power, killing and making alive. Ride, you messengers! Angel upon the red horse, ride! Take away the world’s false peace as you ride! Take away false peace with the shofar blast of truth. With the truth spoken in the voice of God's love for Israel take from the nations, the children of violence, their false plan of peace.

4b Every human heart aches, every human dream breaks, as the angel on a black horse passes through all lands. Let us join with her who opened the door to death but who was made the Mother of All Living through the grace of God's Great Revelation! She passes by to measure what the limits of poverty are that the human spirit can endure. Be true, oh black horse rider, to that judgment and mercy for the atonement that composes the majesty of the God of Israel!

5 God breathes His name softly and the cedars of Lebanon break. Eber shakes, Assyria falls. God proclaims: “I am the God of Israel,” and the tall cedars break off from the root; the the nations break and fall toward hell… Death, like a vulture approaches the worlds, an angel riding on a pale horse. The head of Humanity is cut off and Israel’s king is anointed to reign over Adam, the Messiah of Israel enthroned on high! When the angel of Death approaches the Throne on an ash coloured horse, the angels themselves melt like gold and like silver, and are moulded anew. Let us all be broken and mended with Israel!

6 On the day that the ashen horse passes through the nations, all lands will shift to and fro and move from their places. Lebanon and its high mountain will skip over a chasm that is open into hell. Like young calves they will skip in pursuit of one who is a Jew, and they will say to him, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!” On the day that the ash coloured horse passes through a great mixed multitude will chase after the children of Israel.

7 The voice of the God of Israel is a chariot of amber lightening. No sight can penetrate its love or comprehend its glory. Its arms are letters, the letters of God’s Torah. In a moment the letters of God's thunderous voice shall surgically strike the earth. The arms of the chariot of the God of Israel shall strike through the sun and make it bow down at the feet of Israel. So shall God's shofar reply to the shofar prayers of Israel.

8 The thunderous voice of the God of Israel rolls across the wilderness of the nations, the lonely place of death where Israel wanders. The continents quake and tremble. The planet is shattered like glass and holds its breath in fear. All its forests begin to wilt. The earth has no pulse. Then the twelve tribes of Israel ride upon the chariot of God’s voice, amidst the falling stars, beneath the black sun and the blood moon. Israel’s final testimony to the truth of her God begins. The breath of the trees is stirred, the world's heart begins again to beat.

9 Adam named the animals, then he sinned against their Maker and his violent hand came down upon them. The doe gave birth to the dying fawn. The shofar of the God of Israel rings with the wavering echoes of His voice, the sound of judgment and of great compassion throughout all the worlds, liberating all things from the curse of the sin of Adam. It is the moment for the birthing, the birthing of new heavens and a new earth. All worlds shall be planted within the forests of God. The doe shall give birth to her eternal fawns. Jerusalem roars with the voices of joy above and below, in the praises of the God of Israel!

10 Elijah came in the Spirit to Noah. The spirit of Elijah in the ark, opening a window that we might look out and see the God of Israel sitting upon the Flood. The God of Israel sits from before the beginning of the waters to beyond the end of the waters, King forever, driving back the waves with His great shofar voice, that Israel might cross over.

11 Israel’s God will receive the testimony of his people. She shall confess that her father was Adam, but now her father is Avraham, for she died in her Messiah, and is risen in the Son of Adam, and Avraham now is her blood. For she worshipped idols and died but has been created again, yes, it is Israel who lives a second time, through the mystery of God, because God loved the seed of Avraham with a love for an only begotten son and would not let him go.

Max Carl Kirk

first posted Posted 11th November 2007

updated 10th September 2013

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Reading Revelation Chapter 10

Reading Revelation Chapter 10

I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven. He was clothed in cloud and there was a rainbow about his head. His face was bright like the sun and his feet were like pillars of fire. In his hand he held a small book that was open.

He set his right foot down upon the oceans and his left foot upon the lands. Then he cried with a great roar, like the roaring of a lion, and when he

 roared seven thunders broke forth in voices.

I was about to write down what I heard the seven thunders say when I heard a voice coming out of heaven saying, Do not write down what you heard. Seal up what you heard. Then the angel standing upon the oceans and the lands raised his hand toward heaven and swore by the One who lives in eternity, who created the heavens and earth and all that is in them that time was now to come to an end. For in the days when the angel who blows the seventh trumpet begins to blow the mystery of God will be completely brought forth in the world, even the mystery of the knowledge of God which he has entrusted to his servants the prophets.

Then the voice which I heard coming out of heaven spok

e to me again and said, Go take the little book which you see open in the hand of the angel who is standing upon the oceans and the lands. I went unto the angel and said, Give me the little book. He replied, Take and eat it entirely. It will make your stomach sick but in your mouth it will taste like honey. Then I took the little book from the angel's hand and ate it entirely. It was like honey in my mouth but made my stomach sour. He then said to me, You must prophesy again to races and nations and in different languages, 

and to all the world rulers.

The Two Olive Trees and Revelation Chapter Ten

I  do not believe that the two olive trees are simply two individual prophets standing alone but rather that they are primarily the two houses of Israel united in Yehoshua HaMashiach. Yes I believe there will be those who speak representatively for each of the houses but their power as speakers will not be invested in them as individuals even as it was not in times past. For the power of every prophet is corporate Israel. Nor do I believe that at the time the testimony is given to Jerusalem that either house will have been identified openly in such a way that their representative speakers can openly claim the authority to speak for their house.

Rather, Ephraim will still be known as the Goyim and Judah, as a house, clearly will still be in denial of Yehoshua HaMashiach. Nevertheless, in Mashiach the Jew and the Gentile will be fully united, fully aware that this includes a mixed multitude of individuals whose motives are not all equal.

{Note:  The idea of Gentile and Jewish witnesses standing together in Jerusalem - and it being accepted by both that the Gentile witness stands in the office of Ephraim, even though Ephraim can not be legally restored by anyone but Mashiach Yehoshua, who will still be Above - this idea is very far away from being acceptable today (2010) but things will begin to change very rapidly when the need arises.  That is to say, Jerusalem's need.}

 Instead of the tribes being named openly in the world, (although they will be sealed with the truth of the Good News of God in a perfect collective maturity of faith), I believe that the very reason that they will give their testimony in and to and through Jerusalem is so that the hour can come when Mashiach will reveal all things pertaining to each person according to their tribe, according to the natural branches and according to the branches grafted in.  It is to this that I believe the angel made reference when speaking to John as recorded at the end of Revelation chapter 10.  Just as John the Baptist was Elijah in the spirit, so the two witnesses, the two houses, will be a manifestation of the spirit of John the apostle, as is foretold.

Update to this post November 23, 2010

What I have said above is not unrelated to what is said on sites like:  End Time Essentials*, where one can read the following:

"God has concealed key prophetic information that will be vital in the End Times. He will reveal it to the Church (Rev. 10:4). He will raise up the two witnesses (prophets) who will help God’s people with great power during the last 3½ years of the tribulation. Jesus will also raise up prophetic messengers who will carry the “seven thunders prophetic messages”. My prayer is for 10,000 forerunners to serve in the end-time drama in each local and regional part of the earth."

The ideas from that site must be understood in context of a belief system based on a rapture idea of the church.  Therefore, while it seems to me that the Spirit of God and the word of God press the writers on that site toward the thought expressed in this quotation, for example,  the dispensational replacement theology that gives context to their thought makes it very different from the understandings I am expressing here, even though there are parallels.  The question at issue for me with regard to the dispensational system is not one about the idea of a "rapture" per se, but one about the idea of a church that is defined as a body and bride that is independent of Israel and of Israel as corporately redeemed by Mashiach.

If one ceases to hold to such a definition of the church or churches and defines the assembly and assemblies of converts to the faith of Messianic Israel as aspects of Messianic Israel, then there is no notion of a "church rapture" possible.  There is, however, the possibility of seeing the dispensational rapture theory as a metaphor for the hiding away of the corporate body of Israel from the adversary, so that it is impossible for her to be destroyed.  This means that the individual children of the Bride will be the target...  But the deep vulnerability of the individual believer is due to the hole in their faith left by the failure to recognize and confess the corporate definition of Israel by Mashiach and Israel as corporately defined by Mashiach being redeemed by Mashiach.


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Note Jan. 2017:  The site referred to here has been deleted.  I think there is value in what I said in relation to what was said on that site, so I will leave it posted here.

Reading Revelation Chapter 10

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