Etsu the god of mischief, finally got his wish – he got a patch of the great southern skies. He got his very own heaven– diametrically opposite the heaven, he once knew. Finally he had become a god with a capital ‘G’.

He led his worshippers to war and spread their empire until they were drunk with the blood of their victims. He stole from every ones book and led his prophets to compile their very own book. Being the father of lasciviousness, he allowed into the codes stolen from other nations and books, lascivious behavior.

His religion was a god-sent for those who liked a semblance of godliness – those that loved to make a great show of religiousness. Child molestation was legitimized and shhhh! You could marry any women that caught your fancy…and… do not quote me but come closer - Yes! Yes! come over here… listen carefully – there were lots of naked women in paradise swaying in unison, their exaggerated hips – whirling like dervishes!!

…And whereas the God of the heavens to the north had actually challenged his minions to:

"Come! Let us reason", Etsu would allow no light of inquiry into his affairs for he and his prophets were infallible and demanded your total submission and decreed instant death for heretics. His prophets also determined what was heresy and what was not.

Yes!

Etsu finally got his wish. He had become a God but his envy of the God Of The Heavens To The North remained the torment of his soul.

"Why" He would lament to his foul assembly of hosts " was the God Of The Heavens To The North ever so sublime? Why were his followers so sure of his love for them? Words mere words and phrases that's all he gives to them from generation to generation.

"I have" Etsu declared eyes green with pride and anger "blessed the core of my followers with wealth untold – not so for the great God Of The Heavens To The North - He has simply scattered his people upon the surface of the earth and asked them to seek his kingdom and his righteousness!!! Find me if you can he mocks them - How conceited? ...Yet they refuse to abandon HIM. Steadfastly they seek him! What could be his secret? How I wish I knew................I torment them....... I send forth disasters.....death, disease, hopelessness....I frustrate their dreams and hold the answers to their prayers.

Nay!.....I divert the answers to their prayers such that the one who asked not gets a fat lot – ruining him forever – being a fool, he squanders what he never expected. Whilst he who had asked waits in exasperation and despair and ends up getting nothing…I destroy the blessed and the unblessed…."

Yes! Etsu finally got his wish but he got no one to stand at the mountain top and declare in the face of whipping rain and rolling thunder - he got no one to dare the flashing skies and shout in defiance:

"Who or what shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness."

No one declared on his behalf:

"For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

No one affirmed in the face of tribulations that:

"… Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ."

Etsu finally got is kingdom and his worshippers and followers – blinding their hearts with searing wickedness against the Children of the great God Of The Heavens To The North and declaring a holy war against them.

Still the children of the God of the heavens to the north march on steadfastly, unperturbed by the fanatiscism of him who having lost sight of his goals, redoubles his effort at getting there¹

To the Children of the most high I say open your eyes!

Didiscottie

September 'Dark' 2001

1 RC Sproul (Pleasing God pg 29)