Then Come the Birds

    This week's Revelation poem came early in my study. At last, concepts I can visualize, horses, armies, scavenger birds. Something I can sink my teeth and their talons into.

Then Come the Birds 

The birds have come to feast upon

the smoldering corpse of Babylon,

while bridegroom warrior comes to fight,

leading His armies dressed in white.

 

A cavalry with heaven's power

to bring God's judgment on this hour.

For they, before the wedding feast,

must kill the kings and bind the Beast.

 

The birds swoop in on eager wings

to gorge on soldiers and their kings.

The Beast and Prophet duped the world,

but in the end they will be hurled

 

Far from the power they desired

to suffer in the lake of fire.

The earth from sin has been released,

soon will begin a time of peace.

 

Then come the birds to feast upon

the carnage left when battle's done. 

Revelation 19