Repent
Repent! For the Kingdom
is at hand,
Preached the prophet John.
Repent! For the Kingdom is near,
Taught the Lord, God' own Son.
Hark! Repent whilst you can,
For the Kingdom of Heaven is here!
MD ‘02
If you do not repent 'whilst' you can,
you were not elect in the first place.
Secondly, 'the
in the same way we humans would refer to
an invading army.
"The Americans are here" did not mean all of
The Kingdom has arrived definitively at the First Advent,
is arriving progressively as the Gospel
goes forth conquering and to conquer,
will be consummate at the Second Advent.