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[227]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - AUSTRALIA ON THE PRECIPICE

Before we begin! Australia is in the focus of this poem, BUT you can easily insert other nations, and if I can be so bold, then put in Britain, France, Sweden, and many others would qualify. I refrained from saying the United States, not because it is not bad, but that the Administration just for now has a restraining work on the decline into wickedness, but if Trump was not there, it would almost be the world leader in wickedness as we saw under Biden. This poem can be universal according to the governance of modern man.

I am very distressed the way a once great nation has slipped into so much evil, even in the past 30 years, and most alarmingly, in just the last 10 years under a Government that hates Jews, Israel, Donald Trump and Christians. We are now knocking at the door of Marxism.

STANZA 1

The mention of “soldiers’ acclaim” means what the soldiers fought for to keep us from the enemy, is now crumbling as the enemy is imported into our nation.

STANZA 2

This is concerned with the electors’ choice. People voted selfishly and did not bother to understand any of the issues. That is what happens when the education system has dumbed people down. “just following your heart” means the natural man votes for wickedness because that is the camp he/she is in.

STANZA 3

This is a list of a few of the glaring atrocities and they are all true. For example, homosexuality can disparage Christians and abuse them, such as happens in that satanic Sydney Mardi gras, but Christians are forbidden to expose homosexuality under laws of “hate speech”.

STANZA 4

This is recent in the past 6 years. The Government that hates Israel is flooding the nation with Palestinians who take to the streets calling for Jews to be killed, with the apparent approval of police because they do nothing about it. Can you imagine what would happen to me if I took to the streets chanting “death to the aborigines”!!!!!

STANZA 5

This stanza is serious for all those who voted against Israel and cursed Israel, and I am chiefly referring to the politicians. The promise of God 4000 years ago to Abraham and his offspring still stands. {{Genesis 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you and THE ONE WHO CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE. In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,”}}

And this truth as well will apply for all those who walk the path of evil and bring in evil policies and live in wickedness, who refuse to repent – {{Hebrews 10:31 “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”}}. It most certainly will happen.

STANZA 6

Yes, the Rapture will remove God’s righteous ones to leave behind a dreadful world of wicked men. God is not mocked, for what a nations sows, it must surely reap.

For those who are interested in current events and like to study how evil progresses, I hope you like this poem. It was not easy to write, firstly because I hate a wicked decline, and secondly, the concepts are not easy to write about. We need to understand the signs of our times – {{Matthew 16:3 “and in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky BUT CANNOT DISCERN THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES?”}}

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AUSTRALIA ON THE PRECIPICE

O nation of Australia, into the depths you plunge.

Towards a godless hell, with all arrogance you lunge.

Your elected choice can be no other way for you,

For you have rejected all that is decent and true.

How greatly you have fallen from the soldiers’ acclaim,

To non-identity, where you have tarnished your name.

Australia, you stand upon the precipice of doom,

As your people enter increasing darkness of gloom.

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The decision was yours, made consciously through your choice.

In morality’s fading light, you stand and rejoice.

You have done what’s natural, just following your heart,

But further from the truth, you continue to depart.

Idealism and greed compelled you to vote one way,

And mindless robotic actions lead into decay.

Your apathy and selfishness refused to assess

The greater good, and national health, so now the mess.

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Wake up, O nation, for your sins will soon find you out.

You have adopted WOKEism and more wickedness.

Have you learned nothing from world’s history’s awful lessons?

Those who depart from God will adopt foul decadence.

You don’t stop there, but you legislate against Christians.

Your elected Government is anti-Semitic.

Immorality is rolled out – sinful distortion!

Homosexuals have more rights. It is pathetic.

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The bible has been downgraded and abolished now,

Banned from schools; declared by some to be a book of hate.

Once your foot touches the slippery surface of sin,

Your whole being is corrupted. You have sealed your fate.

While Islam marches the streets unhindered and untouched,

Christians are being arrested for silent protest.

Our nation has been flooded by Moslems from Gaza,

But Christians, and Israel, and our lifestyle, they detest.

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O weep for your nation, but hold no hope for its ills.

Its strong venom of wickedness, even now distils.

From bad to worse is the progress that is manifest.

What is reprobate, has enforced itself in its quest.

God is still on His throne, but man’s way is resolute.

He dismisses God’s rule but God’s truth is absolute.

Australia’s Government curses Israel; its web’s spun!

Those who despise God’s people will be undone.

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God sits on His glorious throne and will not be mocked.

All men in defiance to godliness have flocked.

Divine wrath is hovering over Australia’s land;

The flames of righteous justice will very soon be fanned.

Wicked men and women who reside under God’s curse,

Because they hate Israel, for themselves, have made it worse.

The Rapture will remove God’s believers from this scene,

And will leave behind all that is corrupt and obscene.

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3 May 2025 Ron Ferguson Metre = 13 throughout

Rhyme scheme is AABB etc. for 4 stanzas but stanza 4 is ABCB etc. and stanza 3 is Irregular.

“Found in the presence of the Lord with nothing between.” (alternate last line)

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