Sonnets for Messiah

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'>Throughout the centuries writers have penned volumes in prose on the subject of Messianic prophecy but only a handful have written books on this fascinating subject entirely in poetry.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Since most of the prophets and scribes of Israel wrote their divine revelation concerning Messianic prophecy in Hebrew poetry a modern-day collection of poems that concentrate on how Jesus fulfilled some of these prophecies would be a valuable resource for any twenty-first-century school church or bookstore.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Charles Spurgeon the famous nineteenth-century British preacher once asserted that The Bible is like a lion it needs no defense; let it out of its cage and it will defend itself.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>The cage door is now ajar!<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN><I style=mso-bidi-font-style: normal>Sonnets for Messiah</I> consists of one hundred sonnets that show how God's Son Jesus Christ fulfilled one hundred Messianic prophecies from Old-Testament Scripture.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem that means little song.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN><I style=mso-bidi-font-style: normal>Sonnets for Messiah</I> uses three distinct sonnet forms to mold its themes: the Shakespearean Spenserian and Petrarchan.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Each style displays its own unique rhyming pattern and they are structured in such a way as to express ideas concisely.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>It is exactly this conciseness that many readers find most appealing about the sonnet.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>A well-crafted sonnet can say as much on a subject in fourteen lines as a book of prose can say in fourteen pages!<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>