The Dead: Of Sleep, Ashes, and the Hour No Man Knoweth
The Dead: Of Sleep, Ashes, and the Hour No Man Knoweth I originally wrote these thoughts a few months back, and maybe even last year. I tend to write ideas down, then get back to them when the Spirit stirreth me, or when the news of the day bringeth them around again. Ye shall not get through this life alive. The end is never set by man, but by God alone—not even the Son. This truth setteth forth a distinction in the Godhead: the Father alone knoweth the appointed times. As it is written in the Holy Scripture: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” — Matthew 24:36, KJV Many attribute this Scripture only to the coming of the Lord in the last days, yet I feel it speaketh also unto the hour when each of us shall die. No man knoweth the hour of his own departure. Even those in hospice know not the exact moment when the breath shall leave the body. A man may be told that his days are numbered, yet he knoweth not which breath shall ...
