an interesting puzzle

bkimbrel@ARINC.COM (bkimbrel@ARINC.COM)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:26:51 -0400


Umm,  I think the listproc has spit up again.  I posted this a
lonnnnng time ago.  Don't know what happened!

Ben Kimbrell
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I think the answer is the leviathan.  The leviathan is a great water
animal.  The soul that was put in the leviathan was Jonah.  Most
people think the leviathan is a whale.  The leviathan gives great
light to people through its oil.  Whale oil.

                                         Ben Kimbrell
>The answer is one word and appears four times in the Bible.  It is
>very mysterious not knowing the answer, but it is simple once the
>answer is known.
>
>Adam, God made out of dust, but thought it best to make me first.  So
>I was made before man to answer God's most holy plan.  A living being
>I became, and Adam gave me my name.  I from his presence then
>withdrew, and more of Adam never knew.  I did my Maker's law obey, nor
>ever went from it astray.  Thousands of miles I go in fear, but seldom
>on the earth appear.  For purpose wise which God did see, be put a
>living soul in me.  A soul from me God did claim, and took from me the
>soul again.  So when from me the soul had fled, I was the same as when
>first made.  I am without hands or feet or soul.  I travel from pole
>to pole.  I labor hard by day, by night, to fallen man give great
>light.  Thousands of people, young and old, will by my death light
>behold.  No right or wrong can I perceive.  The scriptures I cannot
>believe.  Although my name is therein found, they are to me an empty
>sound.  No fear of death doth trouble me, real happiness I'll never
>see.  To heaven I shall never go, or to hell below.

* >Now when these lines you do read, go search your Bible with great
* >speed for that my name is written there, I do honestly declare.
* >
* >>Hope this was fun for everyone!