“Watchmen, Watchmen what do you see?”
What is it you perceive in the spirit?
What is it you are straining to see?
What has you peering into the distance?
What is on the edge of your spirit that has your antenna raised?
What has your senses alert?
What is it that you sense is on the horizon?
What is a watchman?
Merriam-Webster defines a watchman as someone who keeps watch: guard.
Oxford Dictionary of English defines a watchman as someone appointed to look out for danger or trouble, typically at night.
New College Dictionary defines watch as the occupation of staying awake at night while serving as a guard, sentinel, or watchman.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English defines watchman in relation to a verb, to be vigilant, exercise protecting care over; keep eyes fixed on, keep under observation.
Watchman is synonymous with guardian, keeper, lookout, minder, sentinel, sentry, warden, and watcher.
Watch is defined historically as one of three or four parts into which night was anciently divided.
Watch is defined as a military term in regards to keeping guard during the night.
“The Master told me, "Go, post a lookout. Have him report whatever he spots. When he sees horses and wagons in battle formation, lines of donkeys and columns of camels, Tell him to keep his ear to the ground, note every whisper, every rumor." Isaiah 21:6-7 (the Message)
“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.” Ezekiel 33:6 (KJV)
Watchman, what do you see?
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