time now?

Is THIS ‘the time’ now? IS this THE decade?

Could this be kairos time? Maybe this year?....

Are we there yet? And what of THIS  today?

And do you think this month .. the time's appeared?

Does time "arrive", or is it "arriving"?

Or maybe growing up brings a “new day”?

Is time fulfilled only when love’s driving -

or in the driver’s seat, and all’s ok?

The prophet’s mythic words spoke of “The Day

of The Lord” when he would act to bring

sure judgement and his justice in a way..

that showed him on the side of underlings!

Some folk thought that that meant now THEY’d be boss!

The problem was they thought in terms of what

the king's of this Earth modelled, to bring loss

to enemies, and “make them” - as despots

have done all the world round, and throughout time.

We needed a new paradigm of care:

a shepherd like boy-David was, sublime,

who’d go against a lion or a bear,

not thinking of himself, to keep alive,

but trusting self to God (the “greater boss”!).

Yeshua came announcing, ‘Time’s arrived’,

not ‘Time is up!’, then he lived on a cross, ...

and called his followers to “follow suit”:

not ‘clubs or diamonds’, more like ‘hearts and spades’

we will rejoice and now be glad to boot!

This is the day The LORD, our Lord, has made.

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This is the day The Lord has made; We will rejoice and be very glad in it!! Psalm 118:24 (PM Version) [part of the  Ascension Psalms, sung before, and during the Passover celebrations in Israel, maybe even the hymn they sang on the way to the garden after their last Passover]

The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. What terror that day will bring!  Joel 1:15 GNTD

Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm on Zion, God's sacred hill. Tremble, people of Judah! The day of the Lord is coming soon.  It will be a dark and gloomy day, a black and cloudy day. The great army of locusts advances like darkness spreading over the mountains. There has never been anything like it, and there never will be again.  Joel 2:1‭-‬2 GNTD

The Lord thunders commands to his army. The troops that obey him are many and mighty. How terrible is the day of the Lord ! Who will survive it?  Joel 2:11 GNTD

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.   But all who ask the Lord for help will be saved. As the Lord has said, ‘Some in Jerusalem will escape; those whom I choose will survive.’”. Joel 2:31‭-‬32 GNTD

Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the Lord will soon come.  Joel 3:14 GNTD

Howl in pain! The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction.  Isaiah 13:6 GNTD

The day of the Lord is coming—that cruel day of his fierce anger and fury. The earth will be made a wilderness, and every sinner will be destroyed.  Isaiah 13:9 GNTD

How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the Lord ! What good will that day do you? For you it will be a day of darkness and not of light.  Amos 5:18 GNTD

The day of the Lord will bring darkness and not light; it will be a day of gloom, without any brightness.  Amos 5:20 GNTD

The great day of the Lord is near—very near and coming fast! That day will be bitter, for even the bravest soldiers will cry out in despair!  Zephaniah 1:14 GNTD

“But before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes, I will send you the prophet Elijah.  Malachi 4:5 GNTD

the sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood, before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.  Acts 2:20 GNTD

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.  1 Thessalonians 5:2 GNTD

you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.  1 Corinthians 5:5 GNTD

You also must be patient. Keep your hopes high, for the day of the Lord's coming is near.  James 5:8 GNTD

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.  2 Peter 3:10 GNTD