Poems for the End of the Age

By H. Peter Zell

Poems for the End of the Age - Revised Edition is a poetry book with an apocalyptic message. A reading of the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible and also known as the Revelation to John or the Apocalypse, has led the author to an entirely new and astounding interpretation of a number of John's visions. His conclusion is that there wi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Zell
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781955531535

H. Peter Zell

Peter Zell and his family came to America from their native Germany in 1950 when he was 13 and settled in Oak Park, Illinois. After earning an engineering degree at the University of Illinois and serving with the U.S. Army Reserve on active duty for two years, the author was employed by the NASA as an engineer. In 1968, he returned to school earning an MBA degree at Columbia University in New York. There followed a career in international marketing and sales with a number of multinational companies. After retiring, Mr. Zell moved to Arizona where he has lived since 2003 enjoying reading, writing, and travel.

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Contents

Preface

The Book of Revelation

The Empire

American Myths

Dangerous Times

On the Road to Armageddon

Confessions of a Believer

Discourse on The Mosel or The Century Poem

The Imperialists

Appendix

Some of my Favorite Things

Die Maxime & Verse (The Maxims & Verses)

Notes

Preface

Poetry is well suited to the revelation of truth because poetry is truth. It is difficult if not impossible to write a poem in rhymed verse that is not basically truthful whatever that truth might be. Falsehoods and lies appear to be completely foreign to poetic thought and expression. Poetry is especially ideal for the revelation of divine truth and the interpretation of such truth.

Divine truth and Christianity are as one and the Holy Spirit has been called the Spirit of Truth. [John 14:17]. In Poems for the End of the Age – Revised Edition parts of the foremost prophesy of all time, namely, the Book of Revelation, among Christians also known as The Revelation to John, The Revelation of St. John the Divine, or simply the Apocalypse, are newly interpreted in light of historical and more recent events. The gift of prophesy is very rare and while it would be highly presumptuous of me to claim prophetic gifts, I have nevertheless been able to gain some small insight into certain passages in this book.

These new interpretations of the Apocalypse represent a radical departure from prior ones in that they are very specific and extremely shocking. They predict a devastating war between the most powerful military empire in world history, namely, the Anglo-American Empire and its major adversary, a resurgent Russia. By this most frightening and appalling scenario, both countries with their allies are destined to perish along with much of mankind by the end of this decade. Most disturbing is the prediction that this march to Armageddon is being led by none other than this empire.

The days of immense misery, as foretold in Holy Scripture, are upon us: For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short; no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. [Matthew 24:21-22]. It is undoubtedly no coincidence that the 2000th anniversary of Jesus the Christ’s death and resurrection is now less than a decade away.¹ Mankind is approaching the end of the Age of Grace.

Five years have passed since Poems for the End of the Age first appeared in print and rather than diminishing the likelihood of such a military confrontation, recent developments have led to the very opposite. Mankind is in greater peril than it has ever been. In addition to increased hostilities among the major powers, other crises have arisen in the meantime.

The Covid-19 (or coronavirus) pandemic, which first appeared in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has now led to over five million deaths worldwide with 15% occurring in the United States. Despite effective medications having become available, the crisis is far from over. The side effects of climate change have since become more pronounced with heat waves, droughts, torrential rains, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires occurring with increasing frequency and intensity in nearly every part of the globe. In another sign of our times, on January 6, 2021 disgruntled supporters of President Donald Trump claiming election fraud stormed the U.S. Capitol trashing its chambers and sending members of Congress fleeing for their lives.

Most of the poems in this small volume are not new. In fact they first appeared in a book entitled A Poetical Offering with Commentaries published in 2006 under my pen name John Peter Allemand.² I have from the beginning maintained that these verses were given to me because I have never attempted to write poetry such as a professional poet might be expected to do with varying degrees of success. Presumably these rhymed couplets and quatrains with their Christian and apocalyptic messages were bestowed on me from on high to be disseminated as a stern warning of things to come.

Why I was chosen, I do not know because I am arguably the most unlikely candidate to have received this poetic and interpretative gift. Except for a brief period in my youth, neither my education, professional career, nor interests have been in literature or the liberal arts and the language of most of my verses, English, is not my mother tongue. Most importantly, my lowly origin, having been born to an unwed mother in an ancient inn in a tiny German village, would hardly qualify me for such an important task.

This Preface is meant, in part, to assist the reader in making the three collections of poems to follow more intelligible although, admittedly, a few of these have remained obscure even to me as to their exact meaning. The collection of thirty rhymed verses entitled Confessions of a Believer are mostly of a Christian, inspirational, and personal nature and should be a welcome addition to this genre.

Discourse on the Mosel, subtitled The Century Poem for its one hundred rhymed quatrains, was written between February 15 and November 15, 2004.³ It was to protest the Iraq War which was started by President George W. Bush in March 2003 to help his election to a second term.⁴ Like millions of others around the globe, I strongly opposed that war because it seemed unjustified, illegal, and immoral. In addition to the immediate goal, I saw in it not as a war of liberation to free the Iraq people from a brutish despot, as its initiators had falsely claimed, but as another attempt by the leaders and promoters of a militant Anglo-American Empire to expand their realm in a relentless quest to achieve and maintain global hegemony and world rule.

The final set of forty rhymed quatrains, entitled The Imperialists, focus on the history of recent military empires and the death and destruction they have brought to the world. These poems with their apocalyptic message are sure to anger and even outrage the most ardent supporters, promoters, and beneficiaries of the foremost military empire of our age. Imperialists, expansionists, interventionists, militarists, warmongers, and ultranationalists (in the guise of patriots) who seek the way of empire to lead and rule over the peoples and nations of the world, usually under false pretenses, will find little comfort in these lines.

A number of these poems are more benign in nature. In one in this series I memorialize my Uncle Karl who was still in his teens when he fell near Arras, France, just prior to the end of World War I presumable in an engagement with Canadian troops. Another lambastes two high-ranking German politicians who were suspected of accepting funds from Washington paid to keep pro-American parties in power.

In the Appendix the reader will find two more sets of poems. One of forty