It might make us very angry, Lord Jesus--angry enough to
throw furniture--to think you had to go to Jerusalem,
and there undergo great suffering, even be killed,
at the hands of outwardly righteous leaders.
So to imagine your angel seizing the ancient serpent
feels right, throwing him into the bottomless pit
seems proper--locking, sealing him in there,
that he may deceive the nations no more.
O God, the works of your hand are faithful and just;
but we know that our anger is not what you want;
for through your suffering we were redeemed
when you sent redemption to your people.
throw furniture--to think you had to go to Jerusalem,
and there undergo great suffering, even be killed,
at the hands of outwardly righteous leaders.
So to imagine your angel seizing the ancient serpent
feels right, throwing him into the bottomless pit
seems proper--locking, sealing him in there,
that he may deceive the nations no more.
O God, the works of your hand are faithful and just;
but we know that our anger is not what you want;
for through your suffering we were redeemed
when you sent redemption to your people.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111
Neh. 13:4-22
Rev. 20:1-6
Matt. 16:21-28
Selected Verses
Ps. 111:7, 9
The works of his hands are faithful and just;
all his precepts are trustworthy. …
He sent redemption to his people;
he has commanded his covenant forever.
Holy and awesome is his name.
Neh. 13:8
And I [Nehemiah] was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the room.
Rev. 20:2-3a
[The angel] seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were ended.
Matt. 16:21
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
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