CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE SURE REALITY 

2  WHAT IS THE SURE REALITY?

3  AND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU REALIZE WHAT IS THE SURE REALITY?

4  THE THAMUD AND THE AD PEOPLE BRANDED AS A FALSITY
THE TERRIBLE STUNNING CALAMITY

5  BUT THE THAMUD, THEY WERE DESTROYED BY 
A GRIEVOUS AWFUL CRY

6  AND THE AD, THEY WERE DESTROYED IN THE END
BY A FURIOUS VIOLENT WIND

7  GOD MADE IT FOR SEVEN NIGHTS AND EIGHT DAYS TO COME DOWN
SO THAT YOU COULD SEE THEM IN ITS PATH LYING DOWN
AS IF THEY HAD BEEN ROOTS OF PALM TREES TUMBLED DOWN

8  CAN YOU SEE ANY OF THEIR SURVIVORS STILL AROUND?

9  PHARAOH AND THOSE BEFORE HIM PREVIOUSLY
AND THE OVERTHROWN CITIES COMMITTED SIN HABITUALLY

1O  AND DISOBEYED GOD'S APOSTLE
SO HE PUNISHED THEM WITH A PENALTY THAT WAS TERRIBLE

11  WHEN THE WATER OF NOAH'S FLOOD OVERFLOWED ITS LIMITS
WE CARRIED YOU IN THE FLOATING SHIP

12  THAT WE MIGHT MAKE IT FOR YOU A REMINDER
AND THAT THE RETAINING EAR MIGHT HEAR AND REMEMBER

13  WHEN THE TRUMPET BLASTS
WITH A SINGLE BLAST

14  AND THE MOUNTAINS OF THE EARTH 
IN ONE STROKE ARE CRUSHED TO POWDER 

15  THE GREAT EVENT WILL OCCUR

16  AND THE SKY WILL BE RENT ASUNDER 
FOR IT WILL THAT DAY BE TENDER

17  THE ANGELS WILL BE ON ITS SIDES AND EIGHT WILL BEAR 
THAT DAY YOUR LORD'S THRONE OF POWER

18  THAT DAY WILL YOU BE BROUGHT TO JUDGMENT 
NOT AN ACT OF YOURS THAT YOU HIDE WILL BE HIDDEN

19  THEN HE THAT WILL BE GIVEN HIS RECORD 
IN HIS RIGHT HAND WILL SAY, HERE READ MY RECORD

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                             SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

20  I DID REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT SURELY 
MY ACCOUNT WOULD ONE DAY REACH ME

21  AND IN A GARDEN OF BLISS WILL HE BE

22  IN A GARDEN OF ETERNITY

23  THE FRUITS OF IT WILL HANG WITHIN REACH EASILY

24  EAT AND DRINK WITH EASE 
BECAUSE OF THE GOOD THAT YOU DID PREVIOUSLY

25  AND HE THAT WILL BE
GIVEN HIS RECORD IN HIS LEFT HAND WILL PLEA  
SAYING, I WISH MY RECORD HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN TO ME

26  AND THAT I HAD NEVER REALIZED HOW MY ACCOUNT WOULD BE

27  OR WOULD THAT DEATH HAD MADE AN END OF ME

28  OF NO PROFIT HAS BEEN MY WEALTH TO ME

29  AND MY POWER HAS PERISHED FROM ME

30  THE STERN COMMAND WILL SAY, SEIZE HIM AND BIND HIM

31  AND INTO THE BLAZING FIRE BURN HIM

32  FURTHER MAKE HIM MARCH IN A CHAIN, THE LENGTH OF IT 
IS THE LENGTH OF SEVENTY CUBITS

33  THIS WAS HE THAT WOULD NOT BELIEVE 
IN GOD THE ALL MIGHTY

34  AND WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE TO FEED
THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED

35  SO NO FRIEND HERE THIS DAY HAS HE 

36  NOR FOR FOOD EXCEPT REFUGE HAS HE 

37  WHICH NONE DO EAT BUT THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

38  SO I DO CALL TO WITNESS WHAT YOU SEE

39  AND WHAT YOU DO NOT SEE

40  THAT THIS IS THE WORD OF AN HONORED APOSTLE INDEED

41  IT IS NOT THE WORD OF A POET, BUT LITTLE DO YOU BELIEVE

42  NOR THE WORD OF A SOOTHSAYER, NO WARNING DO YOU HEED

43  THIS IS A MESSAGE SENT FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS SURELY 

44  IF THE APOSTLE WERE TO INVENT IN OUR NAME ANY FALSITY 

45  WE WOULD HAVE SEIZED HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND FIRMLY

46  AND WE WOULD CUT OFF HIS HEART'S ARTERY

47  NOR COULD ANY OF YOU WITHHOLD FROM HIM OUR PENALTY

48  BUT THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR THE BELIEVERS

49  AND WE KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU ARE REJECTERS 

50  BUT REVELATION IS A CAUSE OF GRIEF FOR DISBELIEVERS 

51  BUT IT IS TRUTH OF ASSURED CERTAINTY

52  SO GLORIFY THE NAME OF YOUR LORD, FULL OF MAJESTY

      

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