Our King of Kings
“His disciples remembered that it is written:
Zeal for your house will consume me.”
–John 2:17 NIV
Amen, I do believe
that if Jesus my King
were to walk into
the White House today,
He would not be presenting
as the Peace be with you type.
No, He’d be flipping all the tables
scattering executive orders,
cracking whips on backsides
and driving out the billionaires
for the tyranny they are creating
out of this once great
and beautiful nation.
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say it!
Indeed. Well written.
Shout-out to my friend, known as Bing on this site’ whose sign for the the No Kings Protest today served as inspiration for this post.
It read:
“JESUS WOULD HAVE HATED THIS ADMINISTRATION”
I think a point is being missed here. Scripture is being twisted to justify political outrage. Jesus flipped tables in the temple, not government halls. He came to save souls, not attack capitalism. Demonizing the wealthy isn’t righteous—it’s envy dressed up as virtue.
Haha, I knew you’d look at this one a little funny, but I did put a lot of thought into this as I constructed it. To start, we both know that Jesus isn’t going to walk into the White House and do all of these things, but chances are, we aren’t either, so the physical details that make up the second half of the poem aren’t actually all that important. Rather, it’s the spirit of the Jesus clearing out the Temple that matters, His display of righteous anger, that I’m wanting to invoke. There’s a right way and a wrong way to protest, to show anger, which I won’t deny the left.
This goes for the rich as well. There is a way for us to, within reason, call out the rich, something that is done in the Bible several times (Parable of the Rich and Poor Man, “camel through the eye of a needle,” etc.). I agree that demonization may go to far, but there is room for righteous judgement.
Does the poem perfectly capture all of this? Probably not, but I’ve never claimed to write perfect poetry in one day. The biggest weakness of this one is it’s title, which I’m way too late in fixing. I’d change it to “What Would [Our King of Kings] Do?” Perhaps a couple other tweaks too could make the spiritual elements a little more prominent.
Hopefully that helps it make a little more sense why I of all people would try to write this kind of poem.
Exactly