People don”t read the book of Revelation, any more. Weird novels like The Da Vinci Code and strange prophecies of Nostradamus are popular. Some even read malarkey like the Gospel of Judas (reported recently in the Record-Bee). They run and hide, however, from that old apocalyptic book of Revelation.
Revelation is too violent, they say. Sun scorches planet earth. Everyone drinks blood because there”s no water. Four horsemen of the Apocalypse gallop the globe spreading false religion, disease, starvation and war. Human blood runs like a river at the battle of Armageddon.
It”s true, Revelation is violent but that”s not why people don”t read it. It”s punishment in the book they don”t like. Punishment is not a “politically correct” idea, any more. When militant Arabs sucker-punched the U.S.A., President Bush rained “Revelation” down on the heads of Afghanistan and Iraq. Governments were changed. Men, women and children were killed. People don”t like punishment so they hate Bush.
Some people don”t like singer Toby Keith because he sings about punishment, ” … grand pappy told my pappy back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked that he done. Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree, round up all the bad boys, hang ?em high in the street, for all the people to see.”
There”s a lot more rope in Revelation than in Texas. Enough rope for every bad boy in the world.
Perhaps, some people don”t like punishment for good reason. They know the world has a terrible record of separating the guilty from the innocent. Good guys often find themselves hanging from tall oak trees and bad boys get away. Revelation changes all that. The long arm of the law reaches every bad boy in the world. Crime doesn”t pay in the book of reckoning.
Darrell Watkins
Kelseyville
