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
Cruse, 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!

Now the night of wrong is ended
Now the Grave has lost its Prize!
Now the Ris'n One breaks the back of Sin
There! Behold! See how Death dies!
Resurrection Light now scatters
Satan's armies from the field
Christ has drawn the fearful sting of Death
Sheol and Abaddon yield!

At His Glance the mighty prison
Built by Law and Sin falls down!
Countless in their thousand thousands
All His Ransomed praise His Crown!
Heav'n and Hell's astonished spirits
In their joy and rage all stare
At the Victor of the Cross who
Won His greatest Battle there