The God of the gods...

It turns out that the Greeks were not so wrong -

there ARE god's who are ruling over Earth!

And they are 'bout as fickle as they're strong,

at times you wouldn't guess: ‘divine by birth’,

for there are times they miss the mark quite well,

and don't live up to their nobility,

their rule is off’n fickle, bringing ‘hell’ -

but in that Hebrew sense, if you can see -

the sense of that 'gehenna^’ more than 'hades’.

Gehenna's like Jerus'lem's "rubbish dump",

where it could be both 40* in the shade,

and, there corruption was let ‘get the jump’

in breaking down and turning to compost,

the maggots and the centipedes, as well

as howling dogs who fought, and “won” or “lost”,

the stench of death, the breaking down, & smell...

was maybe just the picture of the sort

of life this Earth can really truly be-

come. Come what may be warnings which then caught

some folk's imaginations, yet sadly,

less often than folk move in Jesus’ way,

we make God's world a dump - that's hot, and stinks.

Our choice still stands, to follow him today,

or give that other ‘hellish life’ more wings.

But like Nathan’yel I would bow my knee,

and state that Yeshua's “my lord and god”,

my leader, who is leading me to be,

and live, and walk as he has always trod!

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^ Gehenna's start in the days of King Manasseh gave it a cursed feel in the eyes of those protecting,  culturing and looking after humanity. Then in ~1200 CE a Jewish scholar Rabbi David Kimchi (alone) suggested that it may have become the city's rubbish dump, which may account for Jesus' use of it as an analogy for the untimely end of those who will not be brought into the family/ household/ city of God. But it may simply have been it's connection to Manasseh's use of it, and some Jewish thought of it being associated with the gate or portal of an after-world with the same name “gehenna”. Jesus' use of it in his context connects it with rebellion, its consequences, and God's predictions through the prophet Isaiah, in alluding to the burning of children (which was previously linked with the valley of Hinnom, that is Gehenna), and God's burning of his enemies, in the last (verse and) chapter of Isaiah regarding the (unclean, repulsive, unburied) corpses of rebellious people, kept out of the new creation. In short it was used along with, at least the association's of a city dump: "outside the city", "unclean", "worms", " fire", "decay". Another (blog) summarises research. In short Rabbi Kimchi's suggestion fits the bill as a pretty good metaphore that fits with the feelings of repulsion, waste, and unclean-ness  engendered at the end of Isaiah. A (metaphorically speaking) dump outside the city for human refuse, in this case (I'm suggesting that metaphorically, the rebellious people might actually be seen as) the products of spontaneos abotions or miscarriages, embyos and foetus’ that would not stay connected to grow to maturity.

*  degrees Celcius/Centigrade (= 104 ° Fahrenheit) if unshaded dump in middle east?

In the Judeao/ Christian scriptures Yahweh is depicted as the God of gods (Deut 10:17; Ps 84:7; Ps 136:2), - and Lord of lords, which title he shares with Jesus (Deut 10:17; PS 136:3; Rev19:16)

The statement  “My lord & god.” (Ps 25:23; Jn 29:28) The end of a psalmist's cry for help, and an exclamation at the start of recognition of the last of the first-apostles to see the resurrected Jesus personally!