Here’s the Poem that was posted on the back of Nelson Mandela’s Funeral Program. It was his FAVORITE poem. Information in Parenthesis are interpretations of the verses:
Out of the night that covers me, (Satan hidden in darkness)
Black as the pit from pole to pole, (the pit of hell darkness brought to Earth)
I thank whatever gods may be (notice NOT God Almighty but thanking “gods”)
For my unconquerable soul. (defiance of God’s Word refuting any punishment for sin)
In the fell clutch of circumstance (all is random, saying God is not Sovereign)
I have not winced nor cried aloud. (refuses to cry out to God)
Under the bludgeonings of chance (everything is “chance”–Atheist position)
My head is bloody, but unbowed. (refusing to repent)
Beyond this place of wrath and tears (Earth)
Looms but the horror of the shade, (HELL)
And yet the menace of the years (all his earthly life)
Finds and shall find me unafraid. (DEFIANCE–no fear of God)
It matters not how strait the gate, (doesn’t follow the straight and narrow road)
How charged with punishments the scroll, (scroll of God’s Torah)
I am the master of my fate: (God is not his master, he claims the HE is)
I am the captain of my soul. (ultimate Human Secularist/Atheist position)
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
~Matthew 7:15
~Posted with permission by Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly
