the iconoclast's descending

  The Piebald Advent Dissolved by a Rainbow Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds (Ret.), December 26, 2025    [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] The Piebald Advent is finished. Christ has been returning on the clouds (Rev. 1:7-9) that few have either been allowed by algorithm to read, or could be bothered to do so. Satan has been eclipsed, the Antichrist identified and misadventured by a seasonal overlap. I am commanded to announce the eclipsing Day of the Lord: comes the flood of judgments of Noanic proportion (Amos 5:24). An “everflowing stream” of righteousness that leads to life. Those who...

  Strange Star Comes Night Visiting Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds (Ret.) December 14-19, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Strangeness is what you can’t deductively prove but nonetheless inductively or intuitively know to be true: the eschaton that ‘seeps through the cracks’ of the present darkness. Strangeness is neither novelty nor anomaly, but an eschatological resonance—Ezekiel’s wheel in the deep sky [1] --that defies current evidentiary frameworks of static course yet remains inwardly affirmed by direction (unanticipatedly solar taxis by illumination not by calculated golden...