Thy Kingdom Come

The child plays
The toy boat sails across the pond
The work had just begun
Oh God
Look what you have done

Twice in my life I played chess for the life of another. I lost the game, but, won the life. One was a Mafia hitman. The rocks remind me of chess pieces.

In 1991 I returned to McClure’s beach and climbed the rock I fell on. I came upon a warning halfway up. I proceeded. I was not afraid.

In these passages we see that the priests conspired to kill Lazarus. Surely Lazarus saw the kingdom I saw, and told Jesus and his disciples what he saw. Surely the priests would want to question him.

I did a painting of the angel I saw before I died, from memory, in 1976.

Jon the Nazarite

1 Accordingly Jesus, 6 days before the passover [The last supper], arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised up from the dead.
2 Therefore they spread an evening meal for him there, and Martha was ministering, but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him (John 12).

Now there is a thing. 6 days before the last supper Lazarus is reclining with Jesus at the table at an evening meal. Imagine you were Lazarus and you had been raised from the dead by Jesus and you had eaten an evening meal with him 6 days before the passover. Would you not want to eat the passover with him too? The law said that the passover should be eated in Jerusalem. So Lazarus would have gone up to Jerusalem to a friend’s house there to eat the meal with his sisters. But why So and so? Well further on in John 12 we read…

9 Therefore a great crowd of the Jews got to know he was there, and they came, not on account of Jesus only, but also to see Lazarus, whom he raised up from the dead.
10 The chief priests now took counsel to kill Lazarus also,
11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going there and putting faith in Jesus (John 12).