Friends, I am honored to share a poem by the esteemed bard of Louisiana, Walt Garlington. Many, many thanks to Walt for sharing this very timely and comely message. Please pay careful attention, and enjoy! 

‘Southern Katehon’

By Walt Garlington

[Poet’s] Note: ‘Katehon’ is the Greek term used in St Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 2, verses 6 and 7, to denote the one who withholds the Antichrist from rising to power in the world.

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When the Southern States
Peacefully left their union
With the revolution-minded
States of North and West,
Then did the name and strength
Of katehon descend upon them.

When Gen’ral Lee stood upon
The green Virginia hill,
O’erlooking his lines of men,
Barefoot and meanly clad,
He held within his graceful hand
The sword of katehon.

When the Southrons marched and fired,
And loosed their Rebel Yell
To thunder through the air,
Forcing the mechanics and mercenaries
Of the Yankee force to flee,
Land and air reverberated with its might.

When the boys aboard the Hunley
Launched their underwater missile,
Striking smug, unsuspecting
Northern navy ship,
Sending it quickly beneath the waves,
The waters round them rippled with it for a time.

When the tragedy
Of Appomattox befell the South,
The mysterious power
Of katehon was taken from her,
And the Yankee American antichrist
Began its slow, serpentine ascent to global power.

Now, fixed fast upon its infernal throne,
Built upon the blood and bone
Of nations near and far,

Few oppose it anymore for fear.
But perhaps the Lord, in His mercy,
Will grant Dixie, like Samson,
For one more moment brief –
To redeem her complacency
And cooperation with the devil’s pet –
The role and power of katehon
To bring it crashing down
Forever to its grave.