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| The Movie Poster 12 Years A Slave |
Contents
1. Preface
2. Synopsis
3. Personal Review
1. Preface
Probably, 1~2 years ago, I got to watch this movie with a suffocating inequity that prevailed during the era of slavery in America. Further, I was driven by the inhuman vocabulary, slave.
Because that time of day, I was reflected on what slaves were and who slaves were, regarding myself as a slave of God, which means that I must be victimized by Him as He only wishes only for the sake of Himself.
And there should not remonstrate about my right before Him, for this reason, I have felt severe anguish in my life... Yes, it is still going on... thus, I have been feeling the suffocating heartache deep in my heart... because I can never do what I wish in my life... Having said that, everybody will be the same as my stuck situation...
Who would want to be one's slave...? But rather, everybody will want to live as they only wish...
But "personally", I sense that God is the very Master who dominates everything in the world, whatever it happens so that everything in the world must be "surrendered" in the presence of God, although He is invisible...
For it looks that everything is only carried out what God wants, in other words, God-centeredness is never Human-centeredness(humanism)...
Oddly, such an undeniable thought is being etched in my heart more and more, far more as I get older... On this account, I might have been willingly watched this movie...
I realized that how treasurable "freedom" was, to which I don't live as a slave today, and that how thankful we people have lived with freedom unlike the rampant era of slavery, and that what heinously evil humans are, and that who will be the very Savior in this hellish world through this movie ...
2. Synopsis
This movie was screened based on "the real story" in the era of cruel slavery in America, the male protagonist was a black man named " Solomon", who lived as the high-class or middle-class people in America, perhaps. ã…¡I cannot expressly remember where he lived in the movie, now my memory is unsure...
But it looked like a certain American movie. Some top actors took part in the movie such as Brad Pitt(USA), Benedict Cumberbatch(UK), etc.
Yes... it was a very rare case that Solomon lived such a revered social standing, for he was none other than an expert "violinist", even though he was the one among black people who had to be bullied and enslaved back then...
By the way, who would want to intentionally disparage such a violinist? People would not be, but rather, would admire and envy their talents...
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| violin |
Solomon had a happy family and was also an ordinary father. Most importantly, he and his family were never slaves like other slaves. Maybe, no one would want them to enslave due to their enough social position, like below:
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| Movie Scene-1 |
By the way, one day, Solomon was accidentally entangled by the sweet decoy that some white people(Caucasians) lured him like fishermen, so to speak, such white people run a supreme and famous "circus" in America so that they offered Solomon to "make lots of money" through his outstanding violin performances on their circus stage for the flourish of the circus and the audiences of the circus in near future!
In doing so, the circus managers practically gave a "plump moneybag" to Solomon on the spot, humanly speaking, who would doubt it if someone was not a paranoid patient? And who would distrust every situation or every person every single moment?
In other words, the circus managers gave Solomon his payment "in advance", drinking a toast (celebratory drink) along with Solomon.
Solomon also looked very happy with "the rosy dream" 🌸🌸🌸... that he would be able to scoop up money for his life and his family in such a delightful and jaunty situation...
After this, they fell into a heavy slumber by drinking like so, in the meantime, the circus managers "sold" Solomon as a slave in a single night, receiving the plump money from merchants for slaves! Of course, the hefty moneybag that was given to Solomon was a fake decoy!!! 💰
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| The Chain for Slaves |
Accordingly, Solomon was no longer an ordinary freeman, but became a tied slave " in one night! " Who would be able to foresee this happening?... For a similar reason, no one knows what will happen tomorrow in our lives...
All his "human rights" were thoroughly forfeited, instead, the dreadful and inequitable tortures were merely waiting for Solomon, which will penetrate into him to the bone and to the marrow...
Yes, Solomon was no longer an expert violinist, who is admired by people... Instead, the inexorable tortures that he had to be trampled and victimized began.
The whipped back of black slaves...
Solomon's back was also scourged with the bloody scars and the ragged and jagged skin... Every time he was whipped by white owners, his back was ripped apart and its blood was dried up on the wound, as below:
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| Slave |
Slaves must submit themselves to what their masters only want, there was only an "absolute obedience", no matter what it is. If their masters kill them, they must die without any disobedience! That is a relentless slave life...
Tears, wails, desperation, resentment, even suicides... etc., all these things will be a "pointless" meaning to slaves only for the sake of their masters, not for their "escape" from the tortures...
Instead, the cruel and unilateral inequity will be only allowed to them, and then, it will be reiterated in their lives again... and... again... like a squirrel has to make round its wheel in the "stuck cage"...
In one sense, in fact, everybody cannot help but become an addict to do something, because life itself iterates over and over so that if we people do something for, whatever we do, it will "automatically" become an addict who has to do it, willingly or unwillingly... Positively speaking, it will be an expert(veteran) for doing something, negatively speaking, it will be an addict for...
Moreover, everybody will know this saying; "There is nothing new under the sun", despite we people might have to produce a newie in the circle of repetition to make money for a living... For no one will like the old(outdated) things...
Well, what if slaves want to kill themselves caused by their suffocating and unbearable anguishes, nonetheless, they might not be able to do it for the ultimate sake of their masters, so then what should they do for this...? Can't they even kill themselves...? How unfair it is! ...
Regardless, perhaps the only way might be this; they must be victimized by their masters... In other words, their masters must kill them in person on their behalf... Sadly, it looks there are no other ways except for it...
Similarly, God's slaves(sacrifices) might have to be victimized by God Himself... Along the way, if His slaves already killed themselves, then God would have allowed it to them that way...
But ultimately whether we people live or die, we might have to be victimized this way and that, either life or death, by God, probably our lives might have to be a sacrifice for Godã…¡not only death but also life. Living might be more painful than dying... Well, death might not even be an important matter in the eyes of God, although we people are vastly struggling to live against death...
Whenever I read news articles, death accidents news is always shown, lots of people unexpectedly die like flies, which means that a human's life looks unnoted too much...
When such flies or small ants are dead, we people are never mindful of their deaths, God might do as same as we humans do. That fly's (or ant's) death is insignificant, likewise, our(man's) deaths will be the same in God's eyes.
In addition, if everything in this world is like a phony reality by which God temporarily sets up, then even a human's death(including suicide) will become a false reality, hence a human's suicide in this world will be counterfeit too... By contrast, our lives in this world might also be all phony... If so, where will be the very real world if this current world is false?... It might be the invisible world..., contrariwise, this seen world will be all fake in the eyes of God, even if we people say that the invisible world will be very false... Either way, when we people access a cyber world(web sites), no one will say that it is a true reality, but the cyber world is not a fake reality either, for there is a really visible owner behind the curtain... Likewise, the invisible world God has built might be the same as a cyber world..., which cannot say either true or false...
Anyway, whenever Solomon could not ingratiate himself with his master, Solomon's white master threatened him with a knife or gun around his neck, clenching his teeth. It seemed likely to kill Solomon right away therewith! How fearful it is every time!...
Solomon had to do hard works along with other slaves every day, plus had to witness the deaths of other slaves were killed day by day... Even so, Solomon could not do anything as a bound slave, he was just on the same boat endlesslyã…¡back then, who would have predicted that that brutal slavery would be abolished by epic Abraham Lincoln(16th the US President), who was tragically victimized by an assassin...?
Nevertheless, black slaves always sang the peculiar hymn, black spiritual, praying for their salvation. Only Jesus [Christ] was their sole Savior amid that inhuman slavery...
Because Jesus [Christ] was also like a slave; He was sold and whipped from people... His sweat, His blood, His tears, and His death..., all these things might have been overlapped in black slaves' souls... However, God Himself might have also allowed the slavery in those days in purpose in order to stage-managed who He wasã…¡ not only as the real master of all things but also as the victimized slave(sacrifice), which might be meant as the proud white people and as the victimized slave, that is, God would have played the double role simultaneously; the paradoxical double-sidedness like a lion and lamb!
I think that the Bible itself shows the double-sidedness; cruel genocides, murders, rapes, incest, inequities, suicides, tragedies, treachery, jealousy, violence, wars, slaves, in short, all kind of sins is bloodthirsty events God, the ruthless King(tyrant), has implemented deliberately... On the other hand, the Bible represents Salvation by Jesus' sacrifice. How contradicting it is!...
Ultimately, God might have stage-managed the slavery(its all circumstances) in purpose so as to make known Himself through. So God might be the sole director and protagonist in our lives only for the sake of God Himself.
Accordingly, other characters must be surrendered whatever God stage-manages. In fact, it might be a monodrama that He must be highlighted alone on the stage. And every happening might have to be predestined to carry out only His plans. So, various cruel happenings might have to occur in this world, too... For example, the experiment on a living human body amid world war II, slavery, wars, murders, crimes, plagues, disasters...etc., all kinds of cruel happenings and sins cannot help touching off the same as the era of the Bible.
There was slavery under Egypt in the age of Exodus as well, I watched the animated film that was "The Prince Of Egypt " who was Moses... I was impressed by the song(OST) "Deliver US." This is the lyric:
Deliver Us(Slaves)Mud!Sand!Water!Straw!(Inspector)Faster!(Slaves)Mud and lift !!Sand and pull !!Water and raise up!!Straw!!!(Inspector)Faster!(Slaves)With the sting of the whip on my shoulderWith the salt of my sweat on my browElohim, AdonaiCan you hear your people cry?Help us nowThis dark hourDeliver usOut of bondage, andDeliver us to the Promised Land(Omitted Yocheved and Miriam's songsã…¡Moses' real mother and his sister)Hear our call, deliver usLord of all, remember usHere in this burning sandDeliver usThere's land you promised usDeliver us to the Promised LandDeliver usHear our prayerDeliver us from despairThese years of slavery grow too cruel to standDeliver usThere's a land you promised usDeliver usSend a shepherd to shepherd usAnd deliver us to the Promised LandDeliver us to the Promise Land.
After I watched it, I wrote my poem(heart) with the same title " Deliver us" in 2019. This is the poem that I recorded:
Deliver UsLord...Deliver us.The rotting lepers,The bleeding women,The paralyzeds,The lame men,The bent bodies,The weeping orphans,The unable widows,The blind and deafThe slaves...We are.We are the dead...Deliver us from this land of deathwith your powerful right hand,listening our groans...Lord,Deliver usDeliver us...Poem: ISOURBLOG.
To return, after burying other slaves' dead bodies, other slaves sang this hymn; across the River Jordan(I don't exactly remember, maybe it would be), in other words, they prayed for the dead would go into heaven across the river that might be symbolized the boundary between life and death...
Meanwhile, the white masters of such slaves were almost all rigorous and so-called devout Christians in the movie. They have never been forgotten God's word, the Bible, further, they directly taught God's word(the Bible) to slaves, whereas they enslaved black people, doing all kinds of evil doings to slaves; rapes, murders, exploitations... etc.
Because that white Christians were none other than God Himself. They themselves were God's words... They did everything as they only wished, so every authorities and supremacy were up to their own hands that were the reason they were like God Himself.
The white masters of those slaves professed like this:
" We bought slaves, paid the cost, so slaves are our own property, no matter who dies or lives, slaves must be obeyed everything what we want, it's deserved."
Their conscience must have been hardened, as a consequence, they would have been able to enslave other people, in other words, they must have been possessed by the Devil. Plus, the Bible states in Matthew 7:3~5. Jesus said:
" Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ' Let me take the speck out of your eye.' when there is the log in your own eye? You "hypocrite", first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
Christ is saying, "You hypocrite, first...", so the "keyword" will be " You hypocrite, first... "... namely, "Do it you, hypocrite, first..." That said, everybody will be a hypocrite... For we humans are all sinners... However, among them, there will be labeled as the two:
One is those who live as a real sinner, and the other is those who live as the hypocrite, saying "I'm a real sinner.", but they behave and say as if a righteous person... Especially, they may be pastors and Christians who are such pastors' followers... Such Christians might be brainwashed by pastor's words(not God's words), so that they become another pastor, mirroring the same spirit pastors have.
Anyhow, it seems that there is no righteousness in this depraved world, every laws and policy are rotten...
Because, it was produced from human sinful nature... thus, unfairness, absurdity, and evil might only have to swirl like the "slave market"...
Well, to return to our subject, there was a young and healthy black woman among slaves, she was frequently raped by the white master, in fact, every time he wanted to do it, he did it like a dog like below:
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For this reason, that the master's real wife also detested the black woman than anyone else among slaves due to her jealousy, and deliberately bullied the black woman... The black woman was victimized by double harassment; one was the white master, the other was the white master's wife...
So the black woman made a big decision to kill herself after purloining the master's wife valuable(it looked like a piece of jewelry), for she was going to give it to Solomon in return for killing her... Sadly, people have to pay for dying, namely money needs. Money!💰 If someone has no money, his dead body cannot even be conducted a funeral!, the dead body...
She desperately asked Solomon, weeping, and weeping... Her thorny tears were dropping and dropping from her big and sorrowful eyes that usually the blacks have big eyes.
One day, she said, giving the stolen valuable to Solomon:
" Solomon...Would you do me a favor? I really... really... want to die just as it is, but I'm afraid of dying, please...Solomon...please kill me, this is your reward in retrun for killing me... Our Lord is gracious, so He will understand me and forgive me, I desperatlely want to kill myself... Dying is the only way to escape from this awful suffering, resentment, and unfairness... Solomon, would you kill me?... please kill me... please kill me..." (expressed my speech, for I cannot remember all the speeches precisely..., but it is not off the point what she said)
At the very moment, I was weeping with her, feeling her thorny sentiment like I was her... Frankly, everybody will be faced with a drastic moment, craving to escape from anguishes in our lives, even once...
Still, Solomon could never accept her pitiful favor because he didn't want to be a killer... Even so, Solomon was almost insane with all the "agonies" that he had to live as a "slave" until his death... It was inevitable... The escape way is nowhere is to be seen! Nowhere... nowhere...nowhere... How hopeless it is to live as a slave under....!
He also struggled to flee from the bondage of slavery every which way, but yet all his endeavors turned out a fool's errand (vain effort). Just there was only dire desperation... It is not [Only Jesus] but is only desperation... In other words, Jesus never seemed to let Solomon be free and let other slaves be free amid the abysmal desperation.
The only resolution was this: someone had to issue " the certificate of a free man" that could attest Solomon was not a slave ab origine, but was an ordinary free man. In other words, someone had to attest to the fact that he was not an original slave birth to the white owner... But Solomon could never keep in touch with his acquaintances to ask for his help, that was an escape from the chain of slavery.
One day, Solomon asked his favor, which was to send his letter via the post office for escaping from the bondage of slavery, to a certain white inspector who was an alcohol addict and had no regular occupation.
Solomon gave all his pocket money that he was able to earn by playing the violin as a slave to the white inspector, then the inspector seemingly said, "Okey, I will surely do it for you." But he betrayed Solomon, rather reported the fact of Solomon's escape plan to Solomon's white owner, accordingly Solomon had to be afflicted by his master more than before...
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Humanly speaking, it seems that we people cannot trust other people, nor can we depend on other people... For everybody is so selfish... that is why we people cannot help but feel lonely in a sense... Everybody seems to have a "thorn" as if a hedgehog has. That invisible thorns people have pierce other people not to come up close to self, although people want to socialize with other people on the other hand... Because no one will want to suffer a loss in interpersonal relationships, so candidly everybody is thoroughly alone. In general, we people might be calling it, "the loneliness in the crowd." ...
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| Stay Away From Me! Go Away! Hedgehog |
Moreover, we people might not be able to love other people, that might be our(human's) inborn and incurable sinful nature... God might also let humans be self-seeking like this so as to reveal His sole righteousness among sinners...
Likewise, Solomon seemed likely to be dead under the irresistible oppression, whatever he did, there was only an "absolutely hopeless" so that his heart and body were utterly exhausted therewith. Only the "extreme" anguish was being reached at the peak in his life...
If I were him, what would I do?....What would you do?..What would we do?...
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Even Solomon burned his letter, which he might have been rescued with that, not to be revealed in the face of his devilish master, and also smashed and burned the violin that was given him from his ex-master.
What good is it to play the violin, and what is the use of becoming a violinist as a slave?... Yes, as a slave... He was no longer a violinist who looks like a flowery peacock on the stage...
Well, there was Niccolo Paganini (1782~1896, violinist, Italy). As far as I know, he was called "a fiendish violinist ", for he played the violin tremendously well like the one who seems to be possessed by the Devil, namely his talent seemed marvelous and transcendental as if the Devil bestowed him the supernatural and alluring power to play the violin. Thus, people would have called him like so... By the way, my tacky violin( about $30) brand is also "Paganini"... LOL 😆
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| Painting Paganini |
At one time, the violin let Solomon dream a dream, but now the violin was smashed and burned like all his dream turned out a handful of ash. I know a certain violinist who studied it in Austria and Russia, and she seemed to be proud of herself all the time, moreover, she was a concertmaster of many orchestras as an outstanding first violinist.
There are two violin positions in the orchestra; one is the first violin position that usually leads a primary melody part, the other is the second violin position that assists the abundant chords, so if someone plays the violin very well among orchestra members and has confidence or an extroverted character, then he typically plays the violin as the first violinist or the first violin position in the orchestra.
Even she was married to a competent orchestra conductor and gave birth to two sons who are all musicians; one is, now he studies the violin to be a noticeable violinist like his mother, and the other is, now he also studies the piano to be a successful pianist, the two are still in Germany or Austria... But I don't know what happened to them after coronavirus spread globally...
Anyway, oddly her husband who was a distinguished orchestra conductor early died due to his intrinsic sicknessã…¡ I don't know the exact name of a disease, personally, I assume the disease would be a lifestyle disease(adult disease)... For this reason, she has to make money for a living, and almost all her income must have been sent to her two sons in Germany or Austria(probably, it will be Austria, where she also studied there, so she will know about the country's information to some degrees, and will be able to guide how her two sons should live in there, minimizing the risks of their lives that is why...)
She opened a private violin class for a living in the city in which I live, and used to work as a part-time lecturer in the college or university of music, and used to play the violin in a church for Sunday worship service.
A few years ago, she organized an orchestra to perform her orchestra members' talent on the stage, but as soon as coronavirus spread, her orchestra doesn't seem to perform any longer. She even made her own orchestra homepage so that I know it a little bit... Her homepage is no longer updated on what they do... Plus as far as I know, the expense of establishing a homepage is known very expensive! I heard that it would be over $1,000! Laypeople, , like me, cannot even make any kind of homepage! I'm a blockhead of using a computer so I cannot help but make a loss thus and thus... Anyway, all her efforts for a living looked abortive...
Nowadays, students seldom apply for studying music in colleges or universities to be classical musicians. But rather, lots of colleges of music are being shut down in my country.
Lately, she suddenly moved out to another city after selling her own house, which seems to be, instead, she moved out a small multi-housing... I got to know about her new address through her church homepage. That house address indicates a small multi-housing in my country, even so, she lived in a good apartment alone.
She has invited her church pastor to listen to his sermons at her own home for nearly 20 years! Whenever the pastor visited her home, her church members have also visited her home along with the pastor. Moreover, she seemed to pay all the cost for dinner for the sake of her pastor and her church members for nearly 20 years too! What if I were her, I would not be able to do it for them at all... Similarly, she looked very lonely as a widow... and thereby her pastor would have made money... She would have paid the cost that the pastor sermonizes at her home $100 an hour at least...
But now the pastor doesn't visit her home after she moved out to another city. I don't know what happened to them... At any rate, when I saw her photo through her church homepage, where she was listening to her pastor's sermons, but oddly at the very moment, I felt something was that she seemed to have loved her pastor because the expression of her eyes was quite different from her church members on the photo... That kind of eye is shown when people fall in love... I have watched the expression of one's eyes in romance movies...
And I don't know why she had to move out to another city suddenly... probably, she might have needed a large sum of money, so might have sold her own house... Now she is in her early 60's ... Who would want to employ an old woman as a violinist?... Even her two sons seem not to marry yet, they only seem to study music endlessly in Europe... Her two sons might want to permanently live there...
To return, and then one day the miracle came to Solomon... While Solomon was working to build a house, he met a white Canadian architect who opposed the cruel slavery in America, yes the architect was not an American but was a third party. Thus, Solomon desperately asked the Canadian architect to save Solomon himself from this enslaved life...
The Canadian therefore determined to deliver Solomon, accepting his peril. Because the Canadian could be arrested so that the Canadian sent Solomon's letter to his acquaintances who knew Solomon was never a slave.
At last, one of Solomon's acquaintances visited the white owner, bring the certificate for freedom, and attested it to the fiendish white master, and then the white master unwillingly released Solomon from his ownership.
Meanwhile, the black woman who asked Solomon to kill herself was not able to be freed from the white owner, for no one could help her like Solomon's case... Unfortunately, it was her destiny..., so she only looked at Solomon who was riding in a carriage, which will run toward freedom. She was left in there with the inexorable slave life under the white owner..., which looked like a very hell...
At the exact moment, I felt the irresistible power of fate, watching her remanent tragedy... For Solomon was saved from slavery, whereas she was not, but they were the same slaves. It scared me and I felt an urgent situation, thinking over who I am..., and which one I will be subject to between the two...
At last, Solomon left from there, since then he came back to his family after 12 years... In doing so, he said to his family, hugging them with hot tears... :
" I'm very sorry for everything that I've done..."
(adjusted in a way of my speech, but it is not off the point)
3. Personal Review
We people might be the same as Solomon, who was tempted by what this world wants that is the pursuit of more money, more success, more ambition, more wealth, and more happiness, etc. ã…¡essentially, who would be possible to be happy without money?...
And we people will want to live, peacocking our achievements, talents, efforts, abilities, something like that... Who would want to be slighted by other people like Solomon was a slave...?
But Solomon would have realized that all these things were really useless after he was enslaved... Finally, Solomon smashed and burned his violin, which might have symbolized the thing that we people deadly crave...
Most importantly, Solomon might have realized that how precious freedom was to the bone... In fact, the invisible bondage of slaves will be our(man's) greed, ambition, money, success, happiness, and fame, etc. that Solomon was tempted by the white.
In that regard, everybody might be selling their spirits to the Devil (Mephistopheles) like the fiction Faust(author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749~1832, Germany).
According to this movie, oddly it seems to me that this movie describes Christianity impliedly like this: along the way, only Jesus[Christ] will redeem His people like Solomon was only rescued amongst other slaves. The Canadian, as the third party, seems to stand for Jesus [Christ]. Because the Canadian gave proof that Solomon was not a slave, namely, Jesus' blood will be the certificate for freedom under slavery... In this respect, everybody might be the same as a slave in this world. Some might be left in this hellish world like the tragedy of a black woman who was not saved from...
In addition, we people might be tantamount to the black woman as well. Since she had to feel the impulsion to kill herself under the inexorable anguish of slavery. Practically, loads of people have been killing themselves due to manifold sufferings in their lives, which looks like the bondage of slaves the black woman underwent exhaustively... Hence the only way of escaping from the suffering of life in this world is to die as if the black woman was eager to kill herself from the dire slavery... That is why people have killed themselves again today... What is more, there is nothing is to be done as we people merely wish...whatsoever it is... Aren't we slaves?... Aren't we slaves who cannot have freedom?
When we people are victimized by oppression such as inequity, etc. in our lives, then everybody will want to kill themselves with boiling wrath, desperation, heartache, and so on... On the contrary to this, we people desperately want to survive on the other hand..., which is like the double-sidedness of the novel "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(author: Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850~1894, UK)."
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, they were the same person, but Dr. Jekyll transformed into Mr. Hyde in the midnight. Mr. Hyde was like a brutal beast, a wolf! So whenever the moon comes out, the werewolf howls, exposing the brutal nature... Such a double-sidedness is also represented in the Bible:
KJV) Roman 7:21 ...omitted... when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Well, we humans might have to be God's sacrifice like a tied lamb. The Bible states:
Romans 8:36 ESV) As it is written, "For Your(Lord's) sake we are being killed all day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. "
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| A Tied Sheep |
Perhaps, God might love that His sacrificial offering(sheep). For this reason, Romans 8:35 says:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?... Romans 8: 37 "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
That said, we people might only want to receive Jesus's love without any sacrifice, while the Bible says; His people were regarded as sheep to be slaughteredã…¡"For your(Lord's) sake we are being killed all day long."
It will be not meant that there is no tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword in those who God loves. But God's love will conquer all the things in them. Because His people are like His own sacrificial offerings to be slaughtered as if the sheep were slaughtered only for the sake of God Himself... No one will be able to slaughter God's sacrificial offerings on behalf of God Himself, that might be God's love toward His sacrificial offerings whose life must be killed by God's own hands...
On the sacrificial offerings, as if the tied sheep, the zealous God's love will never be extinguished... Because it is God's.
That said, how ironic it is that Jesus [Chirst] died on our behalf! If Jesus[Chirst] already died as a sacrifice(sheep) on our behalf, then why would God want to take other sacrificial offerings, which means humans who are incomplete and undefiled sacrificial offerings, again like the apostle Paul wrote? Of course, the expression the apostle Paul wrote would be one of the metaphors, despite it hits at the death that God's people must be killed as sacrificial offerings for the sake of God. Jesus already died for it, nevertheless, why should God's people be sacrificed for the sake of God again that way? It doesn't seem to make sense!
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Anyway,
Across the River Jordan,
Across the River Jordan,
Such a pathetic black spirit hymn,The wail of Jesus on the cross,And His people painful tears...
But, its sound might be "one melody", which will not only be the mourning but might be the song of love in them... as well... These trioã…¡alto, mezzo, sopranoã…¡ might still be echoing all together again today...
We people might have to listen to the trio, but it is one melody, which is not a cacophony... Because it might be the song of love among them...; black slaves, Jesus, and His people...
Everybody might want to happen some miracles in our lives like Solomon was saved from slavery... However, miracles might already have happened in our lives... Do you know what it is?.... Hope you think about that too...
And we people might have to confess like Solomon confessed: "I'm very sorry for everything that I've done..."
There were no resentments against his enslaved life for 12 years!, instead, Solomon only said,
" I'm very sorry for everything thatI've done."
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