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We Are Not Ignorant Of Satan’s Devices Or Schemes – Part 12 - The Final One Series
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 14, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: We close this whole series with a poem that suits the subject very well. It is a poem about Satan’s evil and activity. The poem may prove difficult for some but take it as a challenge. There are footnotes to aid in the understanding of the themes. I hope you can slowly work through it.
WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF SATAN’S DEVICES OR SCHEMES – PART 12 - THE FINAL ONE
This is the closing Part of this study on not being ignorant of Satan’s devices and it is a difficult article. It might only appeal to those who like poems and like to inquire into things. The poem is fairly difficult. I hope you will take up the challenge. This poem of mine is part of a much larger poem.
I think the contents of this poem line up well in all the Parts of the schemes and devices of Satan that have been posted before this last Part.
I have had to put dividers under each stanza as the formatting does not work on SermonCentral. This poem is written in a strict form called “terza rima”, used by Dante in his poems. Each stanza is three lines and the first and third lines rhyme, and the middle line becomes the start of the next stanza. The line metre is 10 throughout.
The poem here called “PART 4 – THE NAMING” is part of a large poem of mine in 7 Parts called “THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY”.
At the end of the poem THERE ARE FOOTNOTES for the superscripts (such as the in the first line – O light-bearer, Assyrian “Ishtar”2 I hope the formatting allows the superscripts.
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“THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY” – PART 4 – THE NAMING – NAMES OF SATAN
LUCIFER1
O light-bearer, Assyrian “Ishtar”2
The radiant Lucifer, apostate,
You light-flood the world from your reservoir.
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Your appellations revert and relate
To ancient Babylon’s grey hist’ry’s dawning,3
For in that putrid, occult mix, you conflate
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Your beauty and your evil. Yawning
Dark wonders of blackened light, for Satan
Is not the true star, ev’ning or morning,
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For Christ’s that Claimant, not a charleton.
For He’s adorned in ascension’s glory,
And owns the true Light, as Custodian.
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SATAN PRINCE OF EVIL
Yes, Satan, “prince of evil”, sorcery –
That warring prince intent on dethroning
The total works of God – debauchery!
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ADVERSARY
That great adversary who’s condoning
All hatred, lying, murders and deceit;
The god of this world, who is enthroning
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Rebellion, hate, and all that might defeat
The loving God. For Satan’s wickedness
Is perversity distilled, with conceit.
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Malignant reality who’ll transgress
Until he’s cast into the lake of fire.
His usurped control, God will dispossess.
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DEVIL AND LIAR
So rightly called “the devil”, “the liar”
From ancient times hostile to God and man,
And scheming maliciously, who’ll not tire
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In efforts to frustrate God’s ev’ry plan,
As evil works insidiously well
Through every nation, language and clan.
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You wicked satyr,4 who tricks men to dwell
With unrewarded toil through years of life,
To pass unsaved, with hardened hearts, to hell.
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From ancient times “a hairy one”4 so rife
In the display of leaven’s corruption5
So skilled, perverse, progenitor of strife.
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“ha diabolos”6 – moral disruption
Of things that are right and good and honest,
We wait for your prophetic abruption.
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Yes, diabolical – name and harvest;
His legacy of harm beyond dispute:
In arrogance the prime rank egoist.
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BEELZEBOUL/BEELZEBUB
The “lord of the flies”7 in great disrepute
Baal-zebub, Ekron’s god so filthy -
In stench and pollution he’s dissolute.
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