Oxygen from Psalm 22:27-31 (This the Day Our Christ Descends)

Psalm 22 is messianic from start to finish.  Most interpreters see the crucifixion quite plainly in the first half, but don't see the prophecy of Christ's preaching to the souls in "prison" (vs.19-26, I Peter 3:19).  Psalm 22 ends with David's prophecy of  Messiah's return in glory at the end of the age.

27 All the ends of the world

   Shall remember and turn to the Lord,

   And all the families of the nations

   Shall worship before You.

28 For the kingdom is the Lord’s,

   And He rules over the nations.

29 All the prosperous of the earth

   Shall eat and worship;

   All those who go down to the dust

   Shall bow before Him,

   Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

30 A posterity shall serve Him.

   It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,

31 They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,

   That He has done this.

Heavenly Father:

This, the day our Christ descends!

He returns all wars to end!

He will split the skies, come near,

rip the earth's stratosphere.

No longer only saints in prison,

now all the world beholds Him risen,  (v.27)

all the wealthy and the poor,

all hear the Lion of Judah roar.

Hear him declare the joyous news

the last elect whom God did chose

has heard the Gospel call in Christ

and trusted in His sacrifice.

Then shall we know what it means

to be saved as human beings;

no more self help or therapy

but rescue from catastrophe.

Pulled from off a skinking ship

just before it sinking slips

beneath the waves, all civilization

struggles with anniliation.

But some survive the halocaust,

these, the saved; gone, the lost.

The end is here and all shall bow

before the only Kingdom now.

Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Seiks

mercy and forgiveness seek,

and even here among the nations

Jesus receives all his predestined.

And so shall all the world be one

in praise and worship of the Son

without rancor or debate;

all prejudice and all hate

Is gone at last from all men's hearts,

renewed, transformed, a new world starts

and those who hate Messiah's cross

vanish from sight into the dust.

Deliverance and justice be proclaimed!

Not utopian, but all in Jesus name,

the Seventh Day of Creation Rest

begins today for all the Blessed.

This the day, when history stops,

when there is no more need of clocks,

no need for churches or of priests,

as Jesus leads the great and least.

No more Bibles or printed Word,

Jesus speaks, God's word is heard

and onward march his people, singing,

Alleluia, Christ's is King.

Amen.