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] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. Methodological précis This essay proceeds by treating strangeness of ocular events drawing from the Book of Ezekiel as an interruption of abstraction through which perception becomes summons. Divine glory exceeds ter...