Two Resurrections
There will be two resurrections
The first one is holy,
will it include you?
There will be two risings
in the valley of dry bones
Which one will you awaken to?
The first resurrection
is reserved for only the saints
They are God’s adopted children,
His elect, chosen family
Rewarded for their obedience in this life,
they served God faithfully
Born again,
possessing eternal breath
They need not fear the second death
Immortality is their true nature indeed
There will be a new heaven and new earth
Time will not exist anymore,
a thousand years will be like a day
Grace and mercy are the saints’ godly inheritance,
a double blessing that can never be taken away
Thus, they give to God always eternal praise
But woe, woe, woe ...
curse be unto those
who take part in the second resurrection
God will raise up the wicked again
to prove once and for all
this immutable, holy truth:
The wicked will always do wickedly,
they won’t ever change
Put them in the peaceful land of the righteous,
and they will lust to do evil once again
They will want to revive war, death and sin
The first resurrection is a day of celebration,
all the saints gathered around their God
After the day of the Lord comes to an end,
those thousand years of joyous festivities —
God removes the gravestones,
so the wicked can live once again
Recreate paradise ... to see if they
will listen to the Serpent in the Garden
This second resurrection, it doesn’t end well:
Satan is released from his prison cell
Then he seduces the wicked,
casting them again under his devilish spell
Mustering an evil army,
they come to the camp of the saints
They come to take a spoil,
to steal and kill like they did once before
But the wrath of God is unleashed ...
Armageddon
Raining fire and brimstone down,
forming a fiery lake
A soul devouring pit
All the wicked get tossed in ...
this is their chosen fate
God gave the wicked second breath,
but they chose to die this second death
Such is the mercy and justice of God
Two resurrections:
one above ... one below
The first are given eternal life,
the second receive the brimstone gallows
Terminating the final good versus evil battle
Two resurrections:
one above ... one below
Which one will you be in,
is something only God will know
So strive to be in the one above
The first one, a pageantry of pure love,
God showing His precious children
what was always the intended eternal way
The second one, a strange morality replay ...
the birth and death of the wicked,
beginning and ending, all on the same day
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2017
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