Tentative (bad) lyrics for A. D. 70 hymn, based on 'This is the Feast'

Some history first, a series of emails.  Then an historical precedent, some themes, and a start on lyrics.

Dear _____ and ______:

I think Pastor ___ likes this song.

Additional lyrics could be added, a la Charles Wesley, that specifically tell about A. D. 70.

Congregation singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpqlUhsuMeY

General search:  https://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+is+the+feast%22+Lutheran+hymn&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D1GGLD_enUS365US390&aq=t

Love in King Jesus,

Chuck

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_____ Found lyrics here:

http://www.lutheransonline.com/servlet/lo_ProcServ/dbpage=page&GID=00005000001043760118464856&PG=00005000001046310833817849

“This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia.
Worthy is Christ, the Lamb who was slain,
Whose blood set us free to be people of God?
Power, riches and wisdom and strength,
And honor and blessing and glory are his.
This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia.
Sing with all the people of God
And join in the hymn of all creation;
Blessing and honor and glory and might
Be to God and the Lamb forever. "Amen.
This is the feast of victory for our God,
For the Lamb who was slain has begun his reign.
Alleluia. Alleluia.”

Let’s do a Charles Wesley.  He is credited with thousands of hymns.  For many of these he supplied lyrics/words for tunes already in existence.

So, for the verses that celebrate A. D. 70’s destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, what themes do we want to hymn?  I’ll list some, and then I’ll put some poor words to computer screen, praying that others will have more themes, and better words.

The words above have some problems. 

Are they the words in the green LCMS Hymnal?

Victory House-Building Pattern:  God destroys the enemies of His People.  With the spoils, His People build Him a house.  He moves in, lights the fire, puts His feet up, and His People administer the conquest in His Name.

Thus, God destroyed Egypt and Pharaoh’s army. War materiel that washed up from the Red Sea was added to the gifts, and the skills from Egypt of Aholiab and Bezaleel helped the building.  When done, the Holy Spirit filled the Tabernacle…

Let’s start.  Words used now in the odd lines, new words to this theme in the even lines (italics).

“This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia.
(I think there are two more Alleluias)
This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Worthy is Christ, the Lamb who was slain,
Whose blood set us free to be people of God?
Worthy is Christ who destroyed the TEMple
In A. D. 70 a- a- s He said.
Power, riches and wisdom and strength,
And honor and blessing and glory are his.
He said He’d destroy it, the Temple
And Converts, and  Scripture and glory are his.

This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia.
This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Sing with all the people of God
Each week we echo this worship

And join in the hymn of all creation;
And join in the way of joyous triumph

Blessing and honor and glory and might
He inspected it for leprosy

Be to God and the Lamb forever. "Amen.
And scattered it to unclean places.
This is the feast of victory for our God,
For the Lamb who was slain has begun his reign.
Alleluia. Alleluia.”

ChuckHartmanHistoryConductor

The art form of the next era.

Engendering peace in a neo-tribal era that we enter now.

I propose that the national revolutions of the West, the scientific method, and traditional worship orders in the church (liturgy) follow the same 5-step pattern.

'Sing A New Era!' follows that pattern.

To circle back around, this pattern applied to the heavens above is worship liturgy. Applied to the waters under the earth, it's the scientific method. SANE! ('Sing A New Era!') applies it to the earth beneath, people.

Circling again, I follow Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy's Universal History 1954 challenge, that the next 1000 years, however long that it, will focus on the challenges of sociology. www.argobooks.org offers all his Dartmouth lectures on a DVD, written, for $30, and a selection of recorded ones. I recommend the DVD with Universal History 1954. Also see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rosenstock-huessy/ For the revolutions of the West as they follow ERH's speech-method, see Chapter 5 of Gardner's 'Beyond Belief'.

Now, to sum up, what I do is that I show this method by example. 1--I call 10 people in, via their talent or trauma. As Mr. Monk modified would say, a talent is a blessing--and a cross. 2--These folks are encouraged that they are able to turn this being called in, the talent/trauma, into something great by going through the method that was used, this 5-step method used in the scientific method and order of worship. 3--We interact. Comprehensive History Interactive. One anothering one another. This is not a top-down process, but a conducted one: train conductor, electricity conductor, orchestra conductor. 4--After each one and the group have been transformed, each one sings a solo, summarizing--and the conductor summarizes all, by a symphony, I call it. 5--This is then taken out for what ERH calls planetary service.

Circling again. I 'rhyme' several of these 5-step processes. Sayers' cuddle-story-parrot-pert-poet. Jordan's law-lyric-evaluation-fact-new torah/instruction. Jordan's liturgy: call, Cleanse, Consecrate, Commune, Commission. ERH's Imperative-Subjective-Narrative-Objective unto Planetary Service. North's Transcendence-Hierarchy-Ethics-Oaths and Sanctions-Succession, and his Who's in charge? To whom do I report? What are the rules? What happens if I follow the rules, if I don't? Does this outfit have a future?

And more.

The process is fun and transforming, face to face. To 'play' (do, be, compose...) all 12 parts is cruciating. Cruciating because one is torn in many ways. One must do an initiatory move toward all parts of the universe of this house of conversation each week, and then respond to these respective universes of initiation...all while being pulled from the end (the solos), and pushed from the beginning (the talent/trauma).

I do The Symphony of History, Opus 47: From Creation Speech to New Song, Singing as well as a 'fill-in-the-blanks' version.

Love in King Jesus,

Chuck
PS: For many, their 'resurrection' will not at this time be religious, but some new way of thinking, some major change. As ERH spoke in one of his lectures: If you
ever in your life had a bright idea, or a new instinct, or a
new change of heart,
Sir, make this the cornerstone of your understanding
of the universe and you
will understand that the universe begins with creation. And
it ends in incarnation, because that's the experience of every potent and creative
man in the world.
But you look outside and try to deduce by your little brain,
not by your experience of your heart how the world begins, and how it should be
run. You'll never
solve it, gentlemen. You'll remain a selfish, inarticulate
animal. If the spirit moves
you, you will see how simple
things are, gentlemen. Love begins, and hope
keeps you going, and faith. And in the end, your grandchildren
will bless you.
ERH
PPS: Much more.

Honor 'father and mother' with lectionary historical--Get out your Ussher and...

Gentles:

It's a new year, or rather Celebration Of Resurrection Anno Mundi! (CORAM--word play intended).

This is an outline of a way to learn history.

When we take Ussher's Annals of the World (free online at Preterist Archive), and divide it by 49 (books in JBJ's 'Rethinking the Order of the Old Testament,' we get @ 81 years per week.

We don't do it for holiday weeks, such as Public Vindication--only ordinary weeks.

[There are 31 extra years in Week 25, for Father Abraham, and JBJ has indicated a delay of 80 years might be near the end].

GO FORWARD AND BACKWARD. In other words, this week we do both the first 81 years, and the last 81 + 80 years.

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Second part is the use of something such as 'The 100 Most Important Events in Church History'. http://www.amazon.com/Most-Important-Events-Christian-History/dp/0800756444

One could do @ 40 years per week. 2013 minus 70 is 1943 years, divided by 49.  Put the extras in with Week 25, as was done above?

Do a couple a week, forwards and backwards, for each of the 49 weeks.  That's 98.  Give Father Abraham 2 more, making 100.

This week, then, it's The Fire in Rome, A. D. 64 and Titus Destroys Jerusalem, A. D. 70 going forward. Going backward in's '1966-1976 Chinese Church Grows Despite Cultural Revolution, and 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads March on Washington.

You see that this book needs updating.  Wat are imortan events since 1976, one could ask?

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This Lectionary Historical is in obedience to the Fifth Word.  It's a way of honoring 'father and mother,' in this case 'history'.  There are many outshining of father and mother.

Love in King Jesus,

Chuck