Behold He Comes

The Lion of Judah Is Coming. One reason I like the church I attend is the music. While many "praise and worship" songs are just unsingable congregationally, it is far better than what passes for music in most of the congregations in my tradition. 

The song that inspired this, and the next few blog posts was "Days of Elijah"

Here is the chorus:

Behold he comes

Riding on the clouds

Shining like the sun

At the trumpet's call

So lift your voice

It's the year of Jubilee

For out of Zion's Hill salvation comes 

Behold He Comes, In An Unexpected Way—Bread Lines. While everyone else sang the next song, I just sat down and thought. While the song is about the return of Jesus to the Earth in his second coming, I could only think about a different kind of coming that Jesus will be doing very soon.  

While we should be just as enthusiastic about this soon coming of our Lord, we will not be. For you see he is coming in judgment for our nation. 

Over the next few days I will talk about what I feel are examples in history of judgments directed toward nations. I hope that by looking at these examples we can understand how the pattern will be repeated in our near future. 

Here are the lyrics of the song:

Days of Elijah

These are the days of Elijah

Declaring the word of the Lord

And these are the days of his servant Moses

Righteousness being restored

And though these are days of great trials

Of famine and darkness and sword

Still we are the voice in the desert

Crying, prepare ye the way of the Lord

Chorus:

Behold he comes

Riding on the clouds

Shining like the sun

At the trumpet's call

So lift your voice

It's the year of Jubilee

For out of Zion's Hill salvation comes

And these are the days of Ezekiel

The dry bones becoming as flesh

And these are the days of your servant David

Rebuilding a temple of praise

And these are the days of the harvest

The fields are as white in your world

Still we are the labourers in your vineyard

Declaring the word of the Lord

Chorus

There's no God like my Jesus

There's no God like my Jesus

There's no God like my Jesus

There's no God like my Jesus

Chorus

For out of Zion's Hill salvation comes 

For out of Zion's Hill salvation comes

 [. From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/ailua-mamea-lyrics/behold-he-comes-lyrics.html .]