THE BATTLE OF CALVARY Lyrics

Great Apollyon, grim and awful

Steeped in gore and stained in blood

Death, with all his fearsome forces

Has besieged the Son of God

Satan, clothed with evil armor

Darkly gleaming, proud and cold

Merciless, he joins the battle

Armed and clad with pow'r untold

Bowed beneath demonic onslaughts

Jesus fights His awesome duel

Pain devours its Holy Victim

Searing, savage, raging, cruel

Eager waits the Mouth of Sheol

Huge, insatiable, and strong

Maw agape, the Grave yearns after

Holy Flesh—but not for long

Writhing under Law's most fearsome

Curse, ruined, lost, polluted, wrecked

Languishing in Satan's prison

Lie the souls of God's elect

At the Cross—desire of Hell!

Christ gives up that final Breath

Now, at last, the choicest Captive

Tastes the mortal sting of Death

Darkness falls; the seething smoke of Hell

Cloaks the battlefield from view

Down the head of God has fallen

Law and Wrath receive their due

Satan smiles in seeming triumph

Reaching out, his Prize to take

Three brief days all Hell rejoices

Then the stone begins to shake