Draco (flourished 7th century bc) was an Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes in Athens with death—hence the continued use of the word draconian to describe repressive legal measures.
In moves of time and tides upon the Earth,
when leaner seasons came, tyrants ruled.
Such given power was destined at their birth,
and with their words they had the people fooled.
Food, jobs and money sometimes, often lacks,
allowing selfish souls to take the reign,
spewing draconian threats of dire attacks,
blaming scapegoat-others caused the pain.
The tyrant's plan is fed on strict control.
For a missing trust of people deeply dwells.
The hardened walls of this heart have grown cold,
as genocidal schemes of hatred swells.
We know of many a draconian face,
Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler - only a few.
History and time will bring others to replace,
and they will come with, hard hearts, all anew.
Draconian forces somehow don't last.
When things are unfair the people resist.
That is the lesson we've learned from the past.
Over potent power soon does not exist.
Moses one of the great prophets
showing Christ as an even greater prophet
both sent by God to do His will (Ex 3: 1-12/ John 6: 57)
forever we are in their debt
Both born under remarkable circumstances( Ex 2: 1-16/ John 20: 30)
as well as under threat of death at birth (Ex 1: 15-22/Luke 1: 23-38)
God's hand destined to bless them
preserving them in all the earth
Mediators were they before God and man (Ex 20: 19-22/ 1Tim 2: 5)
reconciliation was their required aim
pointing all to Calvary's cross
where the prize redemption had came
Living foodless for a required time (Ex 34: 28/Matt 4: 2)
proving God to be their real sustainer
then provide food for the people (Ex 16: 2-22/John 6: 5-13)
show their authority to be a no-brainer
Teacher, Prophet, Lawgiver and King
(Deut 4:5)(Deut 18:15-19)( Ex 31: 28)(Deut 33: 5)
(Matt 5:12)(Deut 18: 15, 18)(John 1:17)(Matt 21:5)
just a few titles that they held
Moses to be sure a Prophet supreme
pointed to Christ the greater word did bring
With thy staff and robes came a princely Jew,
a prophet, a Levite son in exile;
for out of the blood and sweat of sinew
did that journey begin on the blue Nile.
Who brought to bear God’s will this land upon
for cursed he Egypt in the desert sand,
and forty years wandered in freedom won
into the covenant land of Canaan.
Born of the Israelites that Hebrew slave
led the twelve tribes in great exodus home,
and from Horeb brought down in God’s engrave
Ten Commandments upon tablets of stone.
Out of the valleys to Pisgah he trod -
great lawgiver and judge and voice of God.
Written: March 1995
Italian octaves
Who is this Jesus? He is perfection.
He is the Key, yet He's also the Door,
ask to gain access; enter and explore.
Reflect on His names; find their connection.
How can He be both Beginning and End?
He's Lawgiver, Faithful Witness, and Judge;
also an Advocate who will not budge,
royal Sovereign, He is my loyal Friend.
He's Author of Life as well as the Word;
He's Cornerstone, Capstone and Solid Rock.
His still small Voice calmly commands His flock;
Can the Lamb of God be our Good Shepherd?
Root of David yet Seed of Abraham.
The Sacrifice who wears the High Priest's shoes,
Servant who submits; Master who subdues,
a Righteous Branch, He is the Great I Am.
He's both Gift and Giver of Salvation,
He is the Son of Man and Son of God,
divinely human without fake façade.
He is Builder, and our Firm Foundation.
Reflect on His names; find their connection.
Ask and gain access; enter to explore.
He is the Key, yet He's also the Door,
who is this Jesus? He is perfection.
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Moses the Lawgiver was the most humble of men
Abraham the Patriarch dust and ashes, and when
Other kings lolled in bed nearly half the morning
The Psalmist, King David, rose at midnight's warning
When we think of great heroes, we imagine great might
Battles, war and conquests, daring bravery in fights
The three heroes I've cited were all strong, it is true --
Their greatness cloaked in humility through and through
Review the annals of history
Murder upon murder you'll see
Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
Who murdered his brother Abel in vain
Then there's Moses, the saintly lawgiver
Who murdered an Egyptian taskmaster and shivered
The greatest of playwrights, Shakespeare, didn't hedge his bets
He wrote of murder in 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo & Juliet'
What of Abe Lincoln's assassin, Mr. John Wilkes Booth?
His name lives all these years later, verily and forsooth
There's Lee Harvey Oswald, shot JFK -- ended Camelot
Else his name wouldn't be worth a pee in a pot
Can't forget the serial killers, whose souls are damned:
Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, Son of Sam
Not to mention the 'iconic' socialists you all know:
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Idi Amin also
In this century you don't have to rack your brain
We've had Osama bin Laden, Bashar Assad, Sadam Hussein...
As for 'professionals,' Bonnie & Clyde are your bank robbers
And how about ('Scarface') Al Capone for a celebrity mobster?
So, you want your name to be ever remembered?
Just commit a few murders: Behead and dismember!
Conumdrum 1
Conscientious Objectors
Prisoner #1 says to Prisoner #2
"Let me get this straight I am here because I killed someone,
and you are here because you don't want to kill someone"?
Does that make sense?
John Derek Hamilton
January 11,2016
* Update Most conscientious objectors have been freed, and alternatives to military service have been offered to them. Thanks go to God who is the Supreme Judge and Lawgiver !!
Learning Sabbath
Learning Sabbath
Some people have much silver and they count it in the box some people have
there dollars cut in half and have too much some people have no money but
have a better half some people have a life even if its just inside them or there
wife even iff she is so far away on Sabbath Day.
Eye walked and gathered food and let the food place fallow lie on sabbath day.
Eye walked and begged no money on the sabbath day eye walked and carried
food away on almost every sabbath day but if eye want to tell the truth and never
lie then eye must say there had to be at least a sabbath day eye kept sometime
no judgement come to me as eye am not professing law to keep but lawgiver
come on sabbath day so sweet at end of life to come eye have the only one the
last one eye must keep and not be late it's Heaven found above no fable of a pie
in sky no fable but the truth no fable of a someday world but one of solid youth the
strength of elder the hope on GOD the wonder of a life changed into a life of
wonder and of old turned into young Saturday will come.