Tempest onoculus

The rise of Babylonia In it’s over two thousand year history it is cited as ranging from a small town to a flourishing metropolis at the center of an empire or, as rubble. At one point in history it is mentioned as a mere blip by being known as a quarry. Pretty much, people would go there to collect rocks from the rubble to build there own abodes only knowing its name and nothing of its former glory. Babylonia’s first rise to glory was under king Hammurabi who instituted the first set of laws historically. This first incarnation of the Babylonian empire was short lived and declined under the rule of his son. Afterward there was a seemingly endless string of conflicts for  control of the city as it was passed back and forth through the hands of different rulers and ruling tribes. some being nomadic,  some being parts of larger kingdoms till it came under rule of the Assyrian empire as a province.  In a period of decline for the Assyrian empire, around 626 BC,  Nabopol...

Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, teachers if the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices- mint, dill and cumin. But you reject the more important matters of the law- justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without rejecting the former.” Matthew 23:15 “ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much the child of hell as you are.” Acts 22: 8 “For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, not spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.” Matthew 21: 12 – 17 12 Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’;     but you are making it a den of robbers.” 14 The blind and the lame came to ...

1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”  Isaiah 44:6 “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I amthe last; and beside me there is no God.”  King James Version (KJV) Isaiah 43:11 “I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”  1 Corinthians 8:6 “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”  Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:”  James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”  Isaiah 43:10 “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.”  Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning...

• Leviticus 18:21 "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD." • Leviticus 20:2: "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones." • Leviticus 20:3: "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name." • Leviticus 20:4: "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not" • Leviticus 20:5: "Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom w...

“Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" says David in Psalms 23. I imagine David wrote this while on the run from Saul, a man who would have taken his life and a man whose life he wouldn’t take out of respect for his crown. One bent in destruction, one guided by righteousness.  I heard a preacher preach once about David and he said that when David’s mighty men were asked what David was like. They would assume he was bold, brave, charismatic. The mighty men's response would be that he cries a lot.  The bible describes Saul, however, as having an evil spirit of the lord come over him. This condition was most commonly brought on in the presence of David. I imagine Sigmund Freud would say that Saul’s Desire for life was broken giving way to a death drive that was fixed in jealousy toward David which would lead him to his death spiritually long before his life was gone. God had moved away from him in favor of David, and left there in his abandon his mind unrav...

Lo the sun, in my sight line, rising above the meridian yellow and gold, bright and warm searing.  Lo the sun, behold the light, above and below engulfing. Round and around trolling and plowing in the earth and changing.  Lo the sun, disc of fire, in wake of learing shadow, passing over and beyond, up above from below and gone.