Poverty Packs a Bullet

Prompt485/1

Poverty Packs a Bullet

By Dumisani khumalo

" Find other men ," Droned at the battle field .Makeshift Congolese huts -with a man ease to die at the front lines, were bizarrely sobering.The African Union ,was sleeping on its laurels under its dirty golden pillow for decades ,and civilisation was up ,playing loud rhumba music.It worked for the house of comforts,and they had survived many years at the battle front.Battle hardy and never giving up.

" Which other men do you mean ?"

" The ones in denial .Spiritual denial I mean to say.The very ones that can be beaten black and blue."He was being ghosted by his friend.Many terrible things happened in the wars of attrition .

"Get out of my dreams .Get out of my mind.

" The identity crisis we have is the kind to take us out of God's way-say path.Neither rich nor poor.No space to invent something ,that's what we are.No clues,No value .But canon fodder and to the wily ways or whims that slither and slide,if not collide with uneven surfaces,we are no better than junkies.If Patrice Lumumba was alive today ,even Nelson Mandela would have been a shadow of resistance ,come what may.A true preacher must bear injuries.If not .Following a Shepard is never with a consensus.The sheep might want to know where are they being taken.Why are they going to new pastures ,or why are they not being taken to the mountain."

Mark pondering and wondering if the handle of time would be drawn back and history remade.Thought his friend was missing the point.

" We must be mad then -?"?He meant fighting endlessly. Gerald coughed and his hand plunged in to scratch his itch in the crotum and groin .He groaned at the task.Lice were on to him.

" The itch of a ram can kill you .Danger! " He remonstrated , nigh.He poured break fluid onto them .

They had been on the lookout of the M23 ,and Kigali was busy making a pact,if it could last .

The issue was like the salvation of the Gentiles."Imagine going to heaven ,and finding your pastor getting the rewards of the injuries you caused?

" When he touches me, I melt like butter.He is true in his word ,and real in his dealings .He is my lord and savior,Jesus Christ. Ibrahim Traore meeting him in his dreams ,that moved me.Certainly ,Jesus is God.Now am certain of it."

Geralds metallic seat squeaked as he shifted by the window against the sun.Conceptual complexities opened out as he read the Bible.A read reminiscent of resolutions pounding in those lean years when you realise the journey is getting short and denial has no options out of the troubles,and the old mischiefs to be repented .They came back vivid with perspectives ,like a blogging to the mindset .

" The raging ones ,and the beasts ,and the subtle ones as snakes .That is the kind of people you find .There is no disappointment in heaven ,after his kind.

" What was missing in the Garden was a kingdom.Without a kingdom ,there would be death." Mark who was listening ,jerked his head ,to show him he was actually listening.

He did it always when he wanted a good interpretation of the facts on the Bible ,and all he had to do was make his friend master of all.He knew that his friend needed him as much as he did, if the promise to get to heaven was by counting on his new converts .It was anything to go by ,and the thought was not bad at least.Gerald was counting on it ,and it was mad."Mad in London ",he would say ,billegerently in his mind and to put it into operation and play ,he was counting .

He was like Maduro ,captured by Mark in the silence of it all ,as what they did to Gadafi, a sacrifice in the streets,the young fighters were looking on at a distance.The were always wary of the two survivors ,though afraid of them.

"With Thomas Sankara ,they have launched Ibrahim Traore.

" In the absence of a kingdom ,Abel will die.

At the conceptual stage of creation ,our God was all knowing in bringing wild animals and domestic animals together?I think that is why civilisation is great."

Then questions arose between the two.

"How old is the Isaiah concept?Is it historical ,or is it contemporal.Was it from creation made?".Mark asked for the first time ,making Gerald shift ,since he was the one who took him in to the loud broadcasts with Joel Austin's loud sermons on Sundays.The hall bringing him live in the dirty bushes of kinshasa via satellite.

"What brought about domestic animals .Or it is the design of creation?"Gerald the zeal continued.

" Of species like buffaloes ,and cattle the calm ,the sheep ,goats ,and those - the wild ones ,in the wilderness,are all created by him.

"Man saw that other animals are softer than others .Evolution started as they lived with other animals and some animals became weaker and weaker ,and became a standard .Like the Jews are to all of us.

"At what point did God want to domesticate the lion ?In the beginning we can pick up the conceptual complication ?

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth .

"The Earth was void , empty ,it was dark and covered by water.On day three, God separated the water and the land .

"Read the Bible and Honor the vessel that feeds your soul.

"Sun, stars and the moon were made ,and later in verse twenty four, creatures were made .

"Beast ,wild ,and calm animals like cattle followed.

"Why are we trying to tame the beast ,if they are made after his kind..In the likeness of God made he him.

"Back to Genesis chapter five.

John chapter eight verse forty six says ,' if I say the truth ,why don't you believe me ?

"Calm up yourself as you read Genesis five .The book of the generation of Adam .

"The cattle after his kind ,and the beasts after his kind .

"There was need to make the wild animals domestic ,or the domestic animals wild.

"They lived ,some to be culled and some to be saved.Beast or domestic as they were..He made them after his kind.

"Adam begat a son in his own image and lived 130 years ,his son Seth got a 800 years .

"Seth looks like Adam,and Adam looks like God.So Seth is God too.

"Juxtaposed scriptures - "He coughed at it. "God made man in our likeness,say image .Creation continued in another form.This is called procreation .

"Seth had God's image and likeness,making Seth a son of God.

"Cain is a man,tiller of the soil ,as Abel a herder of cattle.

Publication of Genesis .

"Seth is a type of Christ .

"What is missing in Genesis five three.

"She is the one who says she has gotten a man from God.In chapter three Eve is not mentioned at all.

"In Genesis chapter four it was all about Eve,in chapter five all about God.

Chapter four is like chapter one,and in chapter five, God is concerned about the progenitor.

"Chapter four represents creation .Chapter five verse three represents salvation.

When you are going to be saved ,it's going to be a God alone process.Creation is a natural process.

"Chapter five is about faith .Salvation .

"Seth is a begotten son unlike Cain and Abel.

"Hebrews four and five ,says this ' I have begotten you

"Who saw Seth saw Adam.

So why do we need domestication ?

"The process. ,a kingdom is a political process..It is to defeat the devil ; the Goliath,established through victory.

"In Genesis chapter one, there was no victory ,in chapter three there was defeat .

"It's not only the wild animals that needed to be tamed.Even the sheep needed to be tamed as well.

"Paul was beaten by both the Jews and Gentiles.So will the lion devour the wilderbeast in the Masai Mara in Kenya.

"Gentiles and Jews making one man,in one body having slain the enemity thereby.

"They the Jews said they did not want the uncircumcised.They were the sheep,and they were a harm to the Gentiles.They did not want to worship with the Gentiles.

" As Ananias of Paul saw a violent ,harmful person .A Jew.Meaning even sheep were doing evil.

"Jesus used the harmfulness of the sheep .On the cross is the evidence.They harmed the shepherd.

"Jesus was condemned by the Jews and killed by the Romans.

"Filling the cup of their unrighteousness by killing the goat- sacrifices,like Jesus on the altar of Calvary.

"If you are an injury free shepherd,you are a fake shepherd."

In the meanwhile ,the ground for a new round of fire power resonated.Both wondered why they had lived so long on the battle field .The war was endless.