Balm of Gilead

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OPEN FLOODGATES
DAMS BURST
LEVEES OVERFLOW
WITH BIBLICAL TRUTH
IN THE MEAN AGE
WHO RESTRAINS?
OVER MAN, SINS PREY
NOBLE OR PEASANT MAY
BE BLED DRY
THOUGHT LOVELY
BUT HURTS PERSONS
SEARCHIN' TO DIE
IN SODOM, FLOWER
OF NARCOTIC
GAVE POWER
MADE A TRAP
IN THE POPPY
THAT CLOSES IN
A GRIM BATTLE
TOWN ADDLED
DARKENED YEAR
IN DOUBT
CRAVING EVIL
TORN IN HEART 
ICY LAUGH
DEMON AXES 
FLAY LOVE
UNDERSTAND
SNAKE'S VENOM HAS
JUICE OF SKELETONS
A WEAKNESS ALL KNOW
SOME SHOW
MY CALL TO HELL
A CURSE SHOUTING
IN OUR SOULS

STAY, SON OF MAN 
THEN CRY GLORY
HIS DAD'S SPOKEN WORD 
A BLESSING UNTO EARTH
STARS IN THE NIGHT
WAX OF HIS 
RADIANT GLORY
LEFT US CHAMPION
AS THE HEIR
COMES TO HEAL
STREAM OF MIDIAN
IN HIM, OUR GRACE LIVES
MAKING US OF GOD
THE HEALER OF MAN
HUNG ON A PLANK
TO RID ME OF
A WICKED DEATH
THE TYRANNY OF THE THORNS
FAILED TO KEEP US
TORN AT BIRTH
WE WEAKEN UNTIL SLEEP
THEN A BURIAL
AS MEMORY ENDS
SHED BEAMS BY HIS TRUTH
TO LIGHTEN CARE
HEALING IN MANNA
HELD IN HEAVEN
A GIFT WITH SONG
SO PRAISE WILL BE
WORSHIP OUR JESUS
DRAW SUCH JOY
TO CURE A DAY
EATEN BY SIN
FOR A LIE JAILS PEOPLE
A MASS YEARNING FOR HIM



Total Letters: 882
Put Letters Into 18x49 Matrix



Subtext 1: THE NOBLEMAN SAITH UNTO HIM, SIR, COME DOWN ERE MY CHILD DIE. JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, GO THY WAY; THY SON LIVETH. AND THE MAN BELIEVED THE WORD THAT JESUS HAD SPOKEN UNTO HIM, AND HE WENT HIS WAY. (John 4:49-50)

Subtext 2: Column 2 from Gideon's Torch Matrix



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