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Nine: one one

The Telegram

 

New York City has a wire

The message said, “You’re on fire!”

On fire with lust for more and more.

You have blest the rich and forgotten the poor

Your riches are cankered, cursed is your store.

And now an enemy from across the shore

Has entered your gates through your own back door.

The door you opened through lust and greed

Though I blest you with more than you would ever need.

The heart of your city, The Center of Trade

Now lies as a shadow of the idols you made.

It lies in the rubble of ashes and smoke,

For when you were warned, you said, “It is a joke.”

 

Nine one one at the rising of the sun

Whoever imagined that this could be done?

Now hear, Oh, my people, the words of the wise

The one I sent to open your eyes

And reflect on his words again if you dare

Yes, the prophet I raised and sent to Times Square.

He blew the trumpet loud and clear

If only you had listened, your city I would have spared.

 

From the Tower of Babel much can be learned

Heaven was the goal they thought they would earn

But that only comes as a gift from me

I paid for your entrance at Calvary.

These towers you build that reach to the sky

Where are they now, where do they lie?

And what will you do on judgment day

When all towers you build will lie in decay?

 

In days of old I raised up a King

I gave him great wisdom above everything.

Now from the rubble let us dig some out,

The words of the Bible, so clearly they shout.

But very few listen until it is too late

Yet herein lies the judgment that seals your fate.

Now turn to the preacher Ecclesiastes.

Begin reading at NINE: ONE ONE if you please

Read to the end and hear what I say.

Take heed, it will help you find the Way.

 

The swift, the strong, the wise, the rich

Men of understanding, men of skill

Knew not the time, but it fell on them still

Wisdom, I said, is better than strength.

Yet the words of the wise are much despised.

 

Since now you began reading my old fashioned book

Why not take another good look?

Look closely and see what was done

When I emptied heaven and gave my own son

My prophets have spoken again and again

Regarding your tower, your idols, your sin,

And regarding the city who had crowned my son

Crown him with a thorny crown

And mock and ridicule him like a clown

Consider Jeremiah, with heart broken, tears did run

So dial him in, Jeremiah chapter nine: verse one one.

Now let us read verses nine and ten

He promised to visit them for their sin

The mountains will week with Lamentation

For they are burned up and become a desolation

Then in chapter nine, verse eleven, he gives the final salutation

The cities are burned without habitation.

 

I am Isaiah and have something to say

About your city of bricks and of clay

Read Chapter nine, verses eight to fourteen

In nine: one one you will see what I mean.

To whom will you turn when the lights are dim?

Will you look to yourselves or look to him?

O listen, my hand is stretched out still

If only you will turn from your stubborn will

And humble yourself, again I will fill

Your land with the blessings you seek by your skill

 

The time is now.  It is time to obey

Why continue to go your own way?

When blind lead the blind they fall in the ditch

Whether bond or free, poor or rich

Bear with me again if you are not too shook

As we go to the end of this awesome book

In Revelation nine, verses one one and one two

It speaks of a king whose name in Hebrew is A Bad Don

One woe is past, hereafter there are two.

 

Nothing from outside defiles a man

What reaches the heart most certainly can

The cords of your heart are now stressed and strained

Because the great loss has caused much pain

But the end result could be great gain

If only you humbly turn back to me.

 

Henry Wiebe

September 14, 2001

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