Soon Come

Soon come in Jamaica means, dont worry, be happy, and was the title of the newsletter Beth and Mike Ohlsson sent home during a Peace Corps tour in Jamaica. It is two years since traumatic events forced Beth to leave Jamaica, the Peace Corps, and husband Mike. Now alone, she decides to come to grips with the past by retreating to her cabin at Bent Needle Lake in Northern Minnesota to write a book to exorcise her Jamaican duppies (ghosts). Actually, SOON COME is two interwoven stories: One is Beths story of two middle-aged people chucking a comfortable life to join the Peace Corps and her role in the events that have been haunting her. The other story is of her summer of writing and meeting Nick Faber, a college instructor, who rents a neighboring cabin. The stories shift between the sharply contrasted worlds of serene Bent Needle Lake and turbulent Jamaica.

Soon Come celebrates Jamaican poetry as an expression and extension of the island's rich spiritual traditions, offering fresh insights into some of the late twentieth century's most important and influential poetry. Drawing inspiration from the history of Myal, Kumina, Revivalism, and Rastafari, Hodges develops a critical language for the discussion of a wide range of Jamaican texts, both oral and written. Beginning with traditional proverbs and Anancy stories, Soon Come explores healing rituals, possession rites, and miracles in Revival hymns; the seminal poetry of Claude McKay, Una Marson, and Louise Bennett; the Rastafari-influenced reggae of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Bunny Wailer, and Ras Michael; the dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mutabaruka; and the groundbreaking work of Dennis Scott, Anthony McNeill, and Lorna Goodison. What emerges is a profoundly hopeful vision of Jamaican poetry as an ongoing ritual that engenders the future even as it reimagines the past. Written in a lively, accessible style, Soon Come will appeal as much to the general reader as to the academic, to the serious Bob Marley fan as much as to the student of New World religious traditions.

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional notions of British children's literature as mono-cultural by illuminating the contributions of colonial and postcolonial-era Black British writers. The author examines the varying depictions of West Indian islands and peoples in a wide range of picture books, novels, textbooks, and popular periodicals published over the course of more than 300 years. An excellent resource for any children's literature student or scholar, the book includes a chronological bibliography of primary source material that includes West Indian characters and twenty black-and-white illustrations that chart the changes in visual representations of West Indians over time.

This classic study of the book of Revelation is organized as follows: Foreword to Revised Edition The Title of the Book Who Is Worthy to Open the Book? Creation and Redemption The Four Horsemen The Destruction of the Jewish Nation “A Division Because of Him” What Shall the End Be? The Near-By Cataclysm “The Specific Task of Our Age” The Thousand Years Chapter I. Outlines and Major Divisions of the Book The Analogy of Scripture The “Missing Week” Of Daniel’s Vision What John Was Charged to Write The Date of the Apocalypse Chapter II. The Vision of the Son of Man Chapter III. The Letters to the Churches of Asia The Framework of the Seven Letters I. To the Church in Ephesus. Chap. 2:1-7. II. To the Church in Smyrna. Chapter 2:8-11 III. To the Church in Pergamos. Chapter 2:12-17. IV. To the Church in Thyatira. Chapter 2:18-29 V. To the Church in Sardis. Chapter 3:1-6. VI. To the Church in Philadelphia. Chapter 3:7-13. VII. To the Church of the Laodiceans. Chapter 3:14-22. The Seven Letters Viewed as One Discourse Chapter IV. The Vision of the Throne in Heaven Details of the Vision The Ark of the Covenant The Seven-Sealed Book Psalm II Chapter V. The Opening of the Seals The Four Horses and Their Riders The Significance of the Horse as a Bible Symbol The White Horse The Crown Conquering and to Conquer The Red Horse The Black Horse The Balances of Deceit The Ephah “Bread by Weight” The Oil and the Wine The Pale Horse The Fifth Seal The Sixth Seal The Company of the Redeemed The Innumerable Company The Seventh Seal Chapter VI. The Trumpet Series The Mediating Angel The Divisions of the Trumpet Series The First Trumpet The Second Trumpet The Third Trumpet The Fourth Trumpet The Three Great Adversaries of the Kingdom of God The Fifth Trumpet The Sixth Trumpet Chapter VII. The Mighty Angel With the Little Book The Measuring of the Temple The Two Witnesses Concerning the Future of the Earthly Israel The Hope of Israel The Seventh Trumpet Chapter VIII. The Two Signs in Heaven The Sun Clothed Woman The Dragon The War in Heaven The Result of the War in Heaven The Loud Voice in Heaven The Dragon Persecuting the Woman A Change of Tactics War With the Remnant of the Woman’s Seed Chapter IX. The Vision of the Two Wild Beasts The Head That Received the Deadly Wound The Second Beast Chapter X. Seven Visions of the Time of the End, Rev. 14:1-5 Chapter XI. The Seven Vials First Vial Second Vial Third Vial Fourth Vial Fifth Vial Sixth Vial Seventh Vial The Vision of Mystery Babylon Babylon Fallen Chapter XII. Rejoicings in Heaven. The Marriage of the Lamb. The Battle of Armageddon. The Marriage of the Lamb The Battle of Armageddon Chapter XIII. The New Heaven and New Earth. The Bride. The Holy Jerusalem. Chapter XIV. Conclusion—Where We Now Stand The Kingdom of God The Inevitableness of Time Predicted Outcome “The Sea and the Waves Roaring” Chapter XV. The Millennium: What? Where? When? Characteristics of Current Millennial Doctrines Topics in Revelation XX, 1-10 Satan’s Power Curtailed The End of the Thousand Years The Longsuffering of God Deceiving the Nations “They Lived and Reigned With Christ” All Judgment Committed to the Son “If I May Apprehend” “The Time of the Dead” The Prophecies of Paul Delivering the Kingdom to God the Father The Second Death Pre-, Post—And a-Millennialism Reconciled

Jamaican-born Erna Brodber, a respected sociologist and critically acclaimed novelist, fuses the literary genres of fiction and nonfiction in this nontraditional, highly imaginative coming-of-age story laced with political and cultural messages. Often referred to as a prose-poem, Jane & Louisa Will Soon Come Home reflects an internal sociological perspective. At first, readers are outsiders, but soon they are invited into the narrative that is best understood in its totality and in the context of Jamaican history. Brodber breaks up the life story of Nellie, the primary narrator, into nonchronological vignettes that explore dimensions of the difficulties of the protagonist’s childhood, sexuality, and search for identity under the circumstances of Jamaica’s tumultuous past and colonial legacy. Brodber does not dwell on race or history but mixes each into Nellie’s process of identity formation: Nellie is not merely aware of how she is seen by others but how she, herself, constructs her own identity—examining her reflection in the looking glass of others’ perceptions of her. In the end, she initiates her own recovery of her past traumas and rewrites her story.

Why is the book of Revelation so difficult to understand? It is full of symbolism, ferocious animals and horses of varying colors, humanity being destroyed, and a woman riding a beast. It's supposed to be a book of revealing. The author spent forty-three years studying the Bible and found "keys of understanding. The keys are found throughout the Bible. They unlock the book of Revelation for us today. Most prophecies are for the end time we are now approaching. We need to understand them. No one wants to read a book concerning all bad news about World War III and the great tribulation. But there is good news following the bad. Can you imagine a world at peace? All armies are disbanded, all weapons melted down into farm implements. You will read the good news about the return of the Prince Of Peace, Jesus Christ's coming as King of Kings.

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