{Testing Time}[1st December 1973]

[Redbook2:26][19731201:0130a]{Testing Time}[1^st December 1973]

Saturday 19731201.0130

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            Today I bought a book, “The Politics of God”, by Hugh J. Schonfield.  Leafing through it, in pursuit of prophecy and prediction, I came to a chapter headed ‘A Time of Testing’.  It referred to the Revelation of St. John iii 10 and the Dead Sea Scrolls (which I have not read).  The Authorised Version gives Ch3 v10 as follows:  “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep the from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth”.  The N.E.B. gives Ch3 v10 as follows: “Because you have kept my command and stood fast, I will also keep you from the ordeal that is to fall upon the whole world and test its inhabitants”.  Schonfield says: “We ourselves are now in such a time” (in the convoluted fashion of such writers).

            Between 19730501.1539 and 19730501.1953, I wrote a *poem: ‘Fusion Child’.  It includes these lines:

‘…God help me when the Endless Testing comes.’

Perhaps, is this the endless testing time?

‘God help me when the Endless Testing ends!’

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