Truth Thrown Down

    This week's BSF lesson, Daniel chapters 7 and 8, was difficult. In Daniel chapter 2, the nations are symbolized in Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a statue as: head of gold (Babylon), chest and arms of silver (Medo-Persia), belly and thighs of bronze (Greece), legs of iron and feet of iron and clay (Rome). In chapter 7, Daniel's dream, the nations are symbolized by animals: winged lion (Babylon), bear (Medo-Persia), winged leopard (Greece), iron toothed beast (Rome). Then, in case we were not confused enough already, chapter 8, Daniel's vision, only has two beasts: ram (Medo-Persia) and he goat (Greece). I have heard of these empires, of course, but in my time they are ancient history. However, I found something very contemporary in chapter 8 verse 12, that is the subject of this poem. 

 

Truth Thrown Down

Babylon's throne is millennia gone

The Medes and Persian's reign is done.

The empires that were Greece and Rome

now a capital and one country's home.

Yet their legacy continues on

from Daniel's scripture handed down,

"truth is thrown down to the ground".

Truth is thrown down to the ground.