LIFE & JOURNAL - Christian Israelite Church

1819-1822
presence; and she said, whatever my lord the king desires me
that will I do, and she went unto the king, and ministered unto
him, and the king drank more wine that day than ever he had
done before, the feast was so long that the king became weary,
and went into his tent, and lay upon his bed, and the widow
woman went into her tent, and she ordered her two servants to
stand in the way, and spread cloths in the way - and the king’s
servants knowing that the king was to sleep with her that night,
retired to their tents; and the widow woman prayed to the God
of Israel to remember his former promises, and spread out her
arms, and said, “O thou God of Israel, strengthen me this night
to perform thy work.” And she went softly into the king’s tent
with the bag of meat in her hand, and she took the king by the
locks of his hair, and pulled, and she struck with violence at
him, and struck off his head, and put it into the bag of meat, and
she rolled his body from off the bed upon the floor, and she
ordered her maids to go softly with her and wash in the river,
and pray to the God of Israel; so the sentinels never detected
her. And she went to the city gates, and called out to the porters
with the bag of meat in her hand, and the porters hearing her
voice came to her, and she said, let it be known throughout this
city, that there is a God who is going to deliver it, for I have got
the king’s head in my bag of meat, and take this head and place
it upon the highest wall you have, and behold this is the fourth
day, and take your staffs in your hand, and stand upon the
highest wall, and shout, “Where is the king of the whole earth,”
and the enemy shall flee from the army of the living God; and
they did so; and behold it is the fourth day, and so endeth the
parable of the two swords.
Explanation - Now I will untold the riddle. I want, to know
who is this earthly king; I say it is the devil who deceived our
first parents, and which was promised to the woman, that her
seed should bruise his head, and cast him down to hell for one
thousand years. Who is this widow woman? I say she is the
earth. Shall the God of Israel cause the earth to bring forth, and
not bring forth his children? Has he overshadowed the earth?
And will he not cause the earth to deliver his children from the
bonds of Satan? And who is the husband of this widow