Genesis 11:32: “³² Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.”

Genesis 12:4: “Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.”

Acts 7:4: “Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And ^oafter his father died, ^pGod removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.”

Since Abraham departed Haran after the death of his father at age 75, that means 205-75=130. Therefore, when Terah was 130, Abrham was born..

Just because it says in Genesis 11:26, “ After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.”, this doesn’t mean Abraham was the oldest.

For example, in Genesis 5: 32: it says”And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”  …………..Japeth was in fact the oldest of the three.

This is why Abraham was born 2008 years after the birth of Adam in 1996 B.C.E.

So Abraham departed Haran and entered the land of Canaan at age 75.

Exodus 12:40: “ The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.”

The people of Israel who descended from Abraham because Abraham is the father of the Jews, were in slavery for 430 years in Egypt.After 430 years is the Jewish Exodus.

 

1 Kings 6:1 : “In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.”

In the 480^th year or after 479 years after the Jewish Exodus, in the 4^th year of Solomon’s reign over Israel is when Solomon’s Temple is built. 1491BC -479BC = 1012BC.

Solomon reigns 40 years. The Temple Construction starts in his 4^th year.

1 Kings 11:42: “And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.”

1015 BC = 1^st year

1014 BC = 2^nd year

1013 BC = 3^rd year

1012 BC = 4^th year

That means now all we need to no is subtract the rest of the 36 years from 1012 BC.

1012-36 = 976 B.C

Ezekiel 4: “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. 5 For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment.”

 

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So no subtract 390 whole years. 976-390 = 586 B.C.E

Jerusalem gets destroyed by Babylonians led by Nebuchadnezzar around 586 BCE.

Jeremiah 52:12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the NINETEENTH year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. 14And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

The 70 years of captivity takes place between 605 B.C.E and 535BCE.

605-586=19 years....

605-535 = 70 years.....

Jeremiah 25:11: The Jews would “serve the king of Babylon seventy years”.

God would cause them to “return to this place [Jerusalem]” after 70 years completed. (Jeremiah 29:10).

 

Jews return to Jerusalem around 535 B.C. during reign of Cyrus.

List of Persian Kings after Cyrus

Cyrus the Great(559 – 530) BCE

Cambyses II (530 – 522) BCE

Bardiya(522 BCE)

Darius I(522 – 486) BCE …….During the reign of Darius, Daniel gets his vision.

Xerxes I(486 – 465) BCE

Artaxerxes I(465 – 424) BCE …Cyrus, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes make the decree for rebuilding Jerusalem. However, it was not until after Artaxerxes decree, that Jerusalem actually gets rebuilt according to the book of Ezra.

The list of Persian kings go all the way to the last Persian King, Darius III.

After Darius III, the Macedonian Greek Empire and Alexander the Great take over.

By 300 BC., after the death of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Empire is divided up between 4 generals of Alexander, notably, Antigonus I, Ptolemy I, and Seleucus I, and Cassander.

The Seleucid Empire lasted from 312 BCE to 63 BCE.

In around 64-63 BCE, Roman republic annexes selucid.

Daniel 2[edit]

In chapter 2, Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a statue made of four different materials, identified as four kingdoms:

1.     Head of gold. Explicitly identified as King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (v.37–38).

2.     Chest and arms of silver. Identified as an "inferior" kingdom to follow Nebuchadnezzar (v.39).

3.     Belly and thighs of bronze. A third kingdom which shall rule over all the earth (v.39).

4.     Legs of iron with feet of mingled iron and clay. Interpreted as a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, but the feet and toes partly of clay and partly of iron show it shall be a divided kingdom (v. 41).

Daniel 7[edit]

In chapter 7, Daniel has a vision of four beasts coming up out of the sea, and is told that they represent four kingdoms:

1.     A beast like a lion with eagle's wings (v. 4).

2.     A beast like a bear, raised up on one side, with three ribs between its teeth (v. 5).

3.     A beast like a leopard with four wings of fowl and four heads (v. 6).

4.     A fourth beast, with large iron teeth and ten horns (v. 7-8).

This is explained as a fourth kingdom, different from all the other kingdoms; it "will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it" (v. 23). The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom (v. 24). A further horn (the "little horn") then appears and uproots three of the previous horns: this is explained as a future king.

Daniel 8[edit]

In chapter 8 Daniel sees a ram with two horns destroyed by a he-goat with a single horn; the horn breaks and four horns appear, followed once again by the "little horn".

 

Roman Empire schema

The following interpretation represents a traditional view of Jewish and Christian Historicists, Futurists, Dispensationalists, Partial Preterists, and other futuristic Jewish and Christian hybrids, as well as certain Messianic Jews, who typically identify the kingdoms in Daniel (with variations) as:

1.     the Babylonian Empire

2.     the Medo-Persian Empire

3.     the Greek Empire

4.     the Roman Empire, with other implications to come later

St. Jerome of Striden (c. 347 – 420) described this scheme in his Commentary on Daniel.^[12] Within this framework there are numerous variations.

 

The revived Roman Empire would be as described in Revelation. It would be headed by the Antichrist(“little horn”), who will be the head of 10 kings. The ten horns of Daniel 7 are the 10 kings.

 

The lion with eagles wings represent Babylonian Empire and Nebuchadnezzar.

 

The three ribs that are devoured represent three empires conquered by Persia’s first great king, Cyrus the Great. Median Empire, then the Lydian Empire, and eventually the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

 

The Greco-Macedonian Empire is the beast like a leopard with four wings of fowl and four heads because Alexander the Great’s Empire was split among his four generals.

The fourth beast with large iron teeth and ten horns is the Roman Empire.

Daniel 2 : 40: “And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.” .

The Roman Empire crushed all three previous empires. It also has 10 horns because according to Revelation it will be revived again under the rule of the AntiChrist and 10 elite rules. At the Second Coming, this Empire will be fully destroyed.

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The most mysterious and incredible book

What is one of the world’s most distributed books of all time? That’s right! It’s the Holy Bible. According to Jennifer Poland’s article, “The 10 Most Read Books In The World[Infographic]”, Poland notes that the Bible outsold any other book in the last 50 years with nearly 3.9 billion copies sold (Poland, 2012). Considering the historical analysis of biblical chronology and the historical accounts given by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus helps us to better understand the authenticity of biblical texts, ultimately giving us a reason to believe why the Bible is worth being one of the most sold books in the world.

In the Book of Genesis, we are given that in the time of Noah, a massive world-wide flood occurs. Many Christians believe that this world-wide event had occurred for real because it was an event even referred to by Jesus and the apostles in the Gospels. Many people also believe that this event was the ultimate cause for the split of the Pangaea due to massive earthquakes of high magnitudes along with an intense amount of volcanic activity. In the account given in the Book of Genesis about this event, we are given that the flood began in “the second month, the seventeenth day of the month”, “prevailed upon the earth [for one] hundred and fifty days”, and began to recede in the “seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month” (King James Version, Genesis 7.11-8.5). 150 days divided by 30 days per month gives us 5 months. This means that we are given a logical conclusion that between the 17th day of the 2nd month and the 17th day of the 7th month, there must be exactly 5 months consisting of 30 days per month. This implies that during the time of Noah, there would have been 360 days per year with 30 days per month and 12 months per year. But when does this eventually change to 365 days per year as we do have nowadays?

Today, we know that the Mayan and Egyptian calendars consist of 365 solar days per year. According to the Britannica encyclopedia, the Egyptians had originally employed a 360-day solar calendar, but that 5 extra days were added to the solar year at a later time. (Schmidt and Wiesenberg, 2019). Although some claim that these calendrical changes occurred thousands of years before the coming of Christ with weak evidence to support such claims, it is possible to consider that these calendars were changed after the time of the prophet Isaiah. According to biblical chronology, Isaiah lived in the 8th century BCE and is believed by many Christians to be responsible for the authorship of the Book of Isaiah (Valkanet, 2010). In the Book of Isaiah chapter 38, we are told of a supernatural event that changes time. In this chapter, the author of the book says that Yaweh tells him, “Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it [had] gone down” (King James Version, Isaiah 38.8). This passage mentions sundials, which, in ancient times were used to tell the time when there is sunlight. Ancient sundials usually consisted of 180 degrees on which 12 hours of sunlight would shine, which means that the other 180 degrees of a circle would be set aside for the 12 hours when there is no sunlight. In Cramer’s article, “360 Vs. 365”, Cramer argues that we would first have to consider a ratio of 12 hours of sunlight for a 360-degree circle just like there are 12-hour marks on a 360-degree modern clock. Therefore, by mathematical proportion, 10 degrees would amount to (⅓) hour or 20 minutes. This would mean that for a single year if there were 360 days per year in Isaiah’s time, 20 minutes multiplied by 360 twenty-four hour days would amount to 7,200 minutes, or 120 hours. Next, we would divide this by 24 hours per day to be 5 days. If we take this to consideration by picturing a whole year consisting of 360 twenty-four hour days, this means adding 5 days to the whole year would cause solar days to consist of 365 days per year. It is important to note that other Bible versions like the New International Version instead says, “I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz” (New International Version, Isaiah 38.8). This would be the same exact idea. The reason is that, as Cramer notes in his article, we would have to consider 360 steps on which 12 hours of sunlight would shine in one day. So 10 steps would also amount to (⅓) hours or 20 minutes. Certain temples in ancient times consisted of the number of steps as the exact number of days in a solar year. For example, according to the journal article, “Karst Detection Beneath the Pyramid of El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Mexico, by Non-Invasive ERT-3D Methods”, the El Castillo temple had 4 staircases consisting of 91 steps each including the platform. This would be 4 multiplied by 91 plus the platform to be 365 steps, the number of days in a solar year. (Chávez et al., 2018). Such a time change in biblical history would eventually provide a layout for the accuracy of a major messianic prophecy of the Book of Daniel, which was believed by the Christian apostles to be written by a man named Daniel who lived around the 6th century BCE (Valkanet, 2010).

In the Book of Daniel chapter 9, we are given that Daniel describes a vision that supposedly an angel named Gabriel gives to him. In this vision, he claims that the angel states, “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in [troubled] times. And after threescore(1 score = 20) and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come [and] destroy the city and the sanctuary...” (King James Version, Daniel 9.24-9.26). If we examine the biblical history of the Old Testament, we will note that this prophecy involves the day-year principle in which a day in the past would amount to a year in the future. For example, in the Book of Numbers chapter 14, we are given that Yahweh tells the Israelites that they would wander the land for 40 years for rejecting him. It says, “After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise” (King James Version, Numbers 14.34). So using this principle, we can recognize that since the Babylonians had destroyed the city of Jerusalem around the year 587 BCE, we are given that the Messiah would come and start his ministry 69 weeks multiplied by 7 days per week to be 483 days or 483 prophetic years after the decree to restore the city of Jerusalem (Valkanet, 2010). To understand when the Messiah begins his ministry, we first need to figure out when the decree to restore Jerusalem was given. In the Book of Ezra, chapter 6, we are given that the city of Jerusalem would be finished being built after the decrees of Cyrus the Great, Darius I, and Artaxerxes I (King James Version, Ezra 6.14). But, later chapters of the book reveal that the city eventually gets rebuilt after the decree of Artaxerxes I, who reigned from 465 BCE to 424 BCE according to biblical chronology. So, when was Artaxerxes I’s decree made?

In the Book of Ezra chapter 7, we are given that the decree gets made in the seventh year of Artaxerxes I, which would be the year 458 BCE according to biblical chronology (Valkanet, 2010). The year 458 BCE makes sense to be the year of the King’s decree because of the clues given by the historical record of events by Flavius Josephus and even the gospels of Luke, Mathew, and John. If we consider 483 years consisting of 365 solar days per year after the time of the year 458 BCE, this would lead us to the year 26 AD because there is no such year as 0 BCE. But how can we conclude that Jesus would start his ministry around the year 26 AD? Well, according to the Gospel of Matthew, we are given that Jesus and his family had to flee to Egypt due to the reason that Herod the Great, who reigned from 37 BCE to 4 BCE, was seeking to kill Jesus. The author of this book, believed by many to be Mathew the tax collector, states, “When he arose, [Joseph] took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: and was there until the death of Herod” (King James Version, Mathew 2.14-2.15). If we consider that Jesus was born around late 5 BCE, we can consider that the time that was taken for the visitation of the Magi and the fleeing of Jesus and his family to Egypt, waiting until Herod's death would have been long enough to last until around April of 4 BCE. This would make sense because according to Josephus’ work, Antiquities of the Jews, translated by William Whiston, book 17, chapters 6 through 9, Herod died just right before a Jewish Passover takes place, which usually occurs around April in Jewish tradition. In the Gospel of Luke chapter 3, we are given that Jesus began his ministry after his baptism at the age of about 30. So if we consider 30 years from the fall of 5 BCE, the baptism would have taken place around the fall of 26 AD. Another point of reference for this date lies within the clues given in the Gospel of John chapter 2. The events of this chapter take place around the beginning of Jesus’ ministry after he has been baptized. The author of this book, believed by many to be John the Apostle, states, “Then said the Jews, ‘forty and six years [ago] was this temple [being built], and wilt thou rear it up in three days?’ But he [spoke] of the temple of his body” (King James Version, John 2.20). According to the writer of this gospel, we are given a clue that this scene was occurring during the time of a Passover. Earlier in the same chapter, the author states, “And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem” (King James Version, John 2.13). Again, since Jewish Passovers usually occur around April, the scenes of this chapter would have occurred around April of the year 27 AD. In this scene, Jesus was referring to his body as the temple of God, but the Jews thought that Jesus was referring to Herod's temple, which was being built over 46 years from around the years of 20-19 BCE. This in itself is a historical fact as we can verify from Josephus’ work, Antiquities of the Jews book 15, chapter 11. Josephus states, “And now Herod, in the eighteenth year of his reign, and after the acts already mentioned, undertook a very great work, that is, to build of himself the temple of God, and make it larger in compass, and to raise it to a most magnificent altitude, as esteeming it to be the most glorious of all his actions, as it really was” (Josephus, book 15.11.1). After all, this temple was, in fact, a great work of Herod the Great. As noted in the journal article, “Herod the Great’s Building Program”, by Andrew Teasdale, the temple’s entrance was “ornamented with golden vines and oversized grape clusters” and had a front facade that was about 172 feet high and 172 feet wide. (Teasdale 95). The eighteenth year of Herod’s reign as noted by Josephus, when Herod led the construction of this temple, would be around 20-19 BCE, which again matches the idea that the Messiah would come at the appointed time (Perowne, 2020). This fact shows us that Biblical chronology and prophecy also coincides well with the facts given by the Jewish scholar Flavius Josephus, thus also proving to be reliable.   

               

The day to year principle can also be looked at from another angle. Christ did mention in Matthew 12, verse 40, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, sothe Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."(New International Version, Matthew 12.40). According to the Book of Jonah, after Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights, Jonah agreed topreach to the city of Nineveh.It states in the book, “Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city,proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown"(New International Version, Jonah 3.4). Because the city repented andturned towards Yaweh, the city was spared after 40 days. Just like Christhad many prophetic parallels to Old Testament prophets like say Moses for example,Christ insisted that he was a prophetic parallel and fulfillment of the prophet Jonah. Christwarned during his ministry regarding the fate of the city of Jerusalem due to the fact that most in the city were rejecting him.It says in Matthew 24, verse 2, “Do you see all these buildings?I tell you the truth, they will be completely demolished. Not one stone will be left on top of another!”According to biblical scholars, Christ’s crucifixion occurred 3.5 yearsafter his ministry began around the fall of 26 AD, which would be thebeginning of 30 AD. If we take the story of Jonah and the day toyear principle into account, around 40 years after Christ’scrucifixion and Jerusalem ultimately rejecting Christ, the cityof Jerusalem gets destroyed around 70 AD when the Jewish-Roman War began. 

So, is the Bible worth the price for the information that it offers? It's something more mysterious and incredible than we could understand at first glance. Historical analysis of biblical chronology along with the historical accounts given by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus helps us to understand the authenticity of biblical texts.

 

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My name is Ron, and I'm a detective from New York. I'm a man who wears a hat and always has a notebook in his hands. My story that I am going to tell you about is something you might have never heard.

Chapter 1:
Friday the 13th,year 1869.
I was assigned to go investigate a crime that took place here in a small town of  Pennsylvania. A woman was murdered here just a few days ago. I found out her name and was beginning to investigate. I began to examine houses nearby on this wide, rural grassland area where I took a home for rent. I found no clues after searching for weeks. Today, on Friday the 13th, since the woman's funeral was being taken place in a church nearby, I decided to go there to examine parishioners of the church and look for clues. In the church, women were veiled as usual and men were dressed in black just like me. All I could see was faces turning red, eyes filled with tears, and hearts being broken. Many were crying while others were in complete, dead silence.  The hot, humid air caused me to feel uncomfortable and my smelly sweat drenched my shirt. In front of the church was the coffin in which the murdered woman's body was.While the pastor of the church was making other preparations before the funeral was about to begin, I stared at the coffin and took notes of what I saw. The woman had a deep scar on her throat and her dead body was turning blue. On her forehead was imprinted a deep, bloody mark. It was as if a metal rod was branded onto her head. The doors were closed and the pastor began, "Let us begin our mass. In the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Lord we ask you this day to bless....". He wasn't able to finish. Loud knocks came on the door. Bam! Bam! Everyone seem to be afraid. Even I. Suddenly, a stranger blast through door and pointed a Civil War-like rifle to the pastor. The stranger seemed to be wearing a dark coat and dark hat. His hair was curly and he wore black shoes. Parishioners jumped out of their pews and took the stranger down to the ground and held him tight. "Got you! Son of a gun!" One man said after he took down the gunman.  Then,  I saw the pastor run out of the congregation to escape. I went out the door to follow him. I didn't know where he was going, but it seemed like he was heading toward a rusty, old Bell tower. I could not believe my eyes. The next thing I saw was the pastor hanging himself from the Bell tower. His feet dangled in the air and the bell was ringing. Ding Dong Ding Dong.
Chapter 2:
It is the first day of next month. I could not explain to myself what happened that day. Day after day I could only have nightmares. But this seemed to be an interesting case so I decided to investigate further. I went to the house of the mayor of the city who lived by that church. On the front door was the name of the mayor, Damien Ross. I knocked on his door and no one came. When I knocked on the door again, a gray, bearded man with an ugly sweater and black-rimmed glasses came out of the door, pulled on my collar, and screamed,"What do you want you little midget?!" I noticed that he also had a golden chain around his neck which had a dragon imprinted on it with the number 666. He was a Satanist. When I entered his home, I started observing paintings of monsters, red, strong, with canine teeth. He
also had roaches and spiders everywhere. The mayor screamed at me again, "Are we just going to waste time hear? Say what you got to say and get out!" I was shaken by his agressive tone. "Sorry sir. I am detective Ron. I just want to learn about what is going on in this city. I'm in search of a criminal who had murdered this woman. I went to her funeral last month and I could not sleep for days because of what happened at the day of her funeral. A man with a gun was about to shoot the pastor at the funeral, but the gunman was taken down by parishioners. Then the priest hung himself from the Bell tower. " The mayor thought I was insane. I took out the photograph of the dead woman , which I had found a week ago and gave it to the mayor. When he saw the picture of the woman, he said, "What the hell are you talking about?!" "What do you mean?" I said. He grabbed my arm very roughly and walked me to the church. He threw me in front of the church and pointed toward the open doorway. "Then who the freak are they?!!!!!", he screamed. When I peered through the doorway of the church, my heart started to beat terribly hard. I could not believe my eyes. I saw the same pastor who had hung himself from the Bell tower preaching and the dead woman who was in the coffin singing in the choir. Damien brought me back to his home and he said to me, "Now what? "  "I am not lying mayor Damien. I saw what had happened that day and all of a sudden..." The mayor took out black, metal rod from the back of the room and came toward me. "What do you think you are doing? " I asked. My heart pounded harder and harder. He stared at me for a minute and said,  "Taking you to the hospital". Bam! He slammed the rod onto my head and I fell unconcious.
Chapter 3:
Year 1889.
Soon after the tragedy,
my body was found being thrown into ditch nearby the mayor's house. Some old, strange coal worker found that I was still alive and had brought me to a hospital in Pennsylvania. From there, I was transferred over to a hospital back in New York by a stranger who brought me there by horse and carriage. I somehow recall that the stranger seemed to be wearing a dark coat, black hat, dark shoes, and his hair seemed to be curly, someone exactly like the gunman in that church. After coming back to New York, I was left in a coma for 20 years, still haunted by my past. What happened in those days I still cannot explain. Everyday I could only have nightmares of what happened. Was the mayor a demon? How come I saw the same pastor who had hung himself and the woman who had died alive? And who is this stranger who looked like the gunman in that church?Some mysteries in life can never be solved. And one thing that I know is that there is something demonic and unexplainable about that place in Pennsylvania.

Chronophobia

Chronophobia Poem by Rejith Regi

Tick! Tock!
Tick! Tock!

My face becomes red
and I can't tell what my mind has said.
Because the clock is ticking fast.
I feel like I've lost my past.
Wait! What did my mind just say?
I think I've lost my way.

I am starting to sweat.
My palms are becoming wet.
My shirt starting to soak.
I think I'm going to choke.

Ahh! This is insane!
I think I've melted my own brain!
Oh Time! Why are you torturing me?!!
Slow down! I beg of thee.

The balloon

The balloon Poem by Rejith Regi

I ran and ran
Through a forest of black trees.
I ran in the dark after the dead man
who held the balloon of mysteries.

I know nothing as I go
through the shadows of night,
but only of the balloon's glow
that was so bright.

I know not of the seven
stars that shine in the sky,
nor anyone of heaven
that loved me as days passed by.

But I forget them because of this dead man
who held this mysterious balloon.
And oh how my lust for this balloon grew more as I ran,
not knowing I would face death very soon.

I've abused the seven days 
that God has given me,
So shall I die in darkness where I should be.



*The seven stars are the seven archangels.

A WW2 Dogfight

A WW2 Dogfight Poem by Rejith Regi


Me: "Mayday Mayday this soldier
Reporting for duty."
General: " Roger that. Be strong and confident in a morning full of beauty."

Me: "Yes Sir.
Off I go!"
General: " Remember!
Don't be too slow!"

As I take off on my airplane,
My heart beats very fast.
I think of my wife, children,
and of our past.

Then suddenly,
a Nazi plane just shoots my plane.
Oh no!
My aircraft now has a big stain!

Oh how people like me are sent to die.
The promise of a reward is only a lie.