Tearz Ayuen: REVISE ISAIAH 18!!!
5 min readBy: Tears Ayuen
The biblical message written in the book of Prophet Isaiah that says God shall unleash His tsunami of hate, anger and bring to ashes the people of Sudan, titled “God Shall Punish Sudan” is both gruesome and traumatic. It is a threat. It could even be a religious conspiracy to eliminate the tall people. It kills me softly. It keeps me wondering; why is God to punish the strong and powerful nation, tall and smooth-skinned people living along the Nile River, feared all over the world? What sin or sins have the people of Sudan committed that they appear in the God’s list of those who will taste His wrath? And when was that? What is the magnitude of the sin committed?
All right, when will God punish Sudan? Hasn’t he punished the Sudanese yet? Isn’t the God’s law that might have been violated by the Sudanese not one of the Ten Commandments? If yes, isn’t it forgivable? Isn’t God forgiving?
It also keeps me guessing; perhaps the Sudanese of that time contributed to the enslavement of the God’s chosen people, the Israelites, when they were in the land of Egypt. Or maybe warriors from one of the Sudan’s kingdoms, let’s say, Napata, walked distances, crossed the seas and beat the cream out of Jews, destroying them to nothing, a battle which I suspect the authors of the bible maliciously omitted. What really happened? Or is there any other Sudan other than the present day Sudan whose city is Juba? I am dazed and confused.
I know you would love to know who this inquisitive person is. Yes, I am tall and smooth-skinned, born somewhere along river Nile. Thus, I am the one Isaiah 18 talks about?
Every time I open that part of the bible, I feel sick. It nauseates me. I get discouraged. I feel like a patient, with some complicated diseases of the body systems, who got informed by a doctor of the number of days or months left to die. In fact, it discourages me from reading the bible. What eats me up most is the Grammar; the title is in future form yet I feel already punished. From the time I was born to the very moment you are reading this sentence.
I was born during the war, in the jungle where neither clinic nor hospital was heard of. Nothing scientific was in the vicinity accept war tanks and war artilleries. No vaccination no immunization no nothing against any childhood diseases and ailments. No birth certificate too. I don’t know my birthday. Mama has no clear memory of where and when I was born. All she remembers is the sound of gunshots and a tall tree she bore me under.
In addition, I was raised up in the forest. Just picture a baby born and brought up in the forest, where there are no drugs and medicines, no house to shelter from rain, no coverings at least to keep the cold away…..only breast milk. And how about the mother? What does she eat in order to keep the breast milk “factory” functional? Grass or mud? Who knows? Isn’t it punishment? Yet the bible boldly insists, ‘God will punish Sudan”.
Hasn’t He punished the Sudanese yet? These tall and smooth-skinned people feared all over the world are scattered all over the world. Aren’t they facing untold sufferings? Aint they treated with contempt wherever they are. Hasn’t God punished them yet?
How about the Sudanese you know of? Most of them are maimed .many have lost limbs to the war. Some limp, some crawl. Aren’t they half-creatures now? We have been and are still suffering.
Sudan has never been peaceful since time immemorial. She is constantly at war, internal war. It is like the manufacturers of war weapons produce them having Sudan in mind as the market. Very funny! All types of weapons, from a 9mm pistol to the most dangerous atomic bomb are there. And to prove it, go to Sudan and see for yourself what it is like. The ground is covered with exhaust war metals, all over. Everything has been ruined. All is debris.
It is obvious to everyone that God has punished, has been punishing the tall and smooth-skinned people, yes? And I know I’m going to sound offbeat if I told you that the punishment is being exaggerated by Isaiah 18. Believe me; the fact that the title is in Future tense keeps the punishment fire blazing.
To get it right, let’s do something about it. What do we do?
I got an idea; that portion of the Holy Bible should be changed. I mean it! We gotta put it in past form like “God Has Punished Sudan”. I may be evil or of little or no faith to say that but I am serious. Give me a break! Only God can judge me!
The best way we can do that is by summoning the religious leaders; Buddhists, Muslims and Christians together for a prayer. The prayer should be said in unison and I suggest it goes like this: “Almighty father, you said no one must alter anything written in Your Holy Book lest he or she faces serious consequences. But Lord, we beg of you, allow us change only Isaiah 18 for it is a major threat to the Sudanese, and in your Holy name we pray, Amen.”
Thereafter, those religious heads should order publication of a new edition of the Holy Bible with everything in Isaiah 18 in “was” form. I assure you it could work. This gonna be a relief to the Sudanese. There would be no more pain and sufferings. Peace, love and harmony shall then rein forever.
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That was a great piece, from a non tall far away from the nile Sudanese person