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
