I have gone so far as to perform some edits in the already-published combined edition of A Dragon Comes As Well: a memoir. As pertaining to the section about the so-called "book of destiny" (and in regards to the problems I've already written about in my blog here, pertaining to that), I will present the edited version of that section in the book right here:
Another problem that has been bothering me, concerning which I had to perform edits, was the problem of real live people possibly being the symbolic personal-level fulfillment of Isaiah 34:14 ("Ziim and Iim"of the 1599 Geneva Bible translation). In the edited version I have accounted for the fact that the scene and people in question could simply have been thus spoken of in advance in "Black Sheep Rise," the song which I have posited as the personal prophetic buffer which takes the Biblical weight off of everything.
The new edits will be present in the copies for sale within about two days' time from now.
In the books of scholarly commentary on the
book of Isaiah, as pertaining to chapter 34 to be exact, there is an opinion
among some that a so-called “Book of Destiny” from Hebrew literature and
beliefs ( a belief with its basis in the Scriptures as found in Psalm 40:8;
139:16, Malachi 3:16, Daniel 7:10, and Revelation 20:12), is the Scroll or Book
of the Lord referred to in Isaiah 34:16. In the commentary by John N. Oswalt,[1]
the writer posits the “Book of Destiny” as one of four possibilities as to what
the book of the Lord in Isaiah 34:16 is. I am not so ostentatious as to claim
that the Semantolkino’hara book is
the literal Book of Destiny copied from the one in heaven, for that book is
supposed to have the names of those granted eternal life, as per Revelation
20:12. I can go so far, though, as to
say that it was in God’s direct will that I write it, and that it is a
“Destiny’s Child,”- a book whose very materials for synthesis were birthed by
the flow of destiny, or the hand of God on the events which came to pass (and a
study thereof). I cannot go as far as Muhammad of Islam did when he claimed
that his Qur’an was copied from a heavenly tablet, the Umm Al-kitab, (transmitted from the tablet itself to Allah to the
angel Gabriel to Muhammad himself to his followers). I do not claim my book was
copied that way, but I know that the book has much to say about God’s power,
sovereignty, and providence. If there is a duplicate of something in heaven,
even one little thing, that remains to be seen or known about in the afterlife.
I don’t make any claim as to canonicity, and the fact that I don’t make any
such claim was made abundantly clear in the book itself.
[1]
Oswalt,
John N., The Book of Isaiah Chapters 1-39,
(Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 1986), 617-18
Another problem that has been bothering me, concerning which I had to perform edits, was the problem of real live people possibly being the symbolic personal-level fulfillment of Isaiah 34:14 ("Ziim and Iim"of the 1599 Geneva Bible translation). In the edited version I have accounted for the fact that the scene and people in question could simply have been thus spoken of in advance in "Black Sheep Rise," the song which I have posited as the personal prophetic buffer which takes the Biblical weight off of everything.
The new edits will be present in the copies for sale within about two days' time from now.
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