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Inclined to bury his eyes in his cot and weep for Harry, himself and his fellow inmates who had or will have a date with the executioner, he instead rebuked his nausea repeating over and again one of the few scripture verses he knew, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Smiling within he reviewed his past. Two wonderful children, a gorgeous wife, honored and happy within a stable career “I was so darn lucky, ahem, I mean blessed. Tears welled up again. He wiped them on a greasy sleeve. “Boy Susan really turned it around. Talk about quick! How I razzed her about her born again nonsense. What did she need it for? All that church stuff I hated. Then the kids started in on me.”
Then In one day, all hell broke loose, literally! No one will ever forget “THE DAY,” as it was labeled, equivalent to days such as “911” “D-Day and “Pearl Harbor.” Millions missing, vanished, the world in a chaotic stupor! The government grasping for answers, fabricated a unified response and broadcast its content over every media outlet. “God himself summoned alien space crafts to remove individuals who resisted the new world order to come. Rest assured, rejoice! At last evil is gone, and the new world order is about to be established…”
Joshua Donnelly respectable citizen, family man, professional, 3-handicapper and top notch bartender was alone. Susan and the children as well as most of those that he figured were Christians were gone.
“I missed it, I realize I was not saved...” quoted Mike Gerard a member of the church Sue and the kids attended in an interview on network television. “Aliens and their phony God didn’t take anyone away. Jesus did. “THE DAY” was the rapture!” Poor Mike was promptly arrested and hurried off the interview platform not to be heard from again.
Mike was right. It was the rapture for sure. It was clear to those who knew something of Christ and others who quickly repented after the fact like me that saved souls went up to meet Jesus in the air, just as the Bible described. There were scores of eyewitness reports about the remains of corpses flying upwards, appearing as mini alien space crafts. “That’s why the government explained it as they did. The dead in Christ appeared to be UFO’s!”
Biblically scripted, promoted and accepted by most as the unified world ruler and savior, the antichrist took control within a week of the vanishings. Life went about normally for a few months. Soon world order edicts were instituted: war was abolished, life-sustaining goods became cheap and abundant, world peace, economic stability and poverty eliminated.
The damned were thrilled even though a restriction was imposed on personal freedom as well as a ban on public worship and religion. It was criminal to publically or privately mention Jesus or any God other than the antichrist. In order to buy and sell it was mandatory for citizens to have implanted in their palm or forehead “the mark,” a miniscule radio frequency devise. The penalty for ignoring the edicts was arrest and internment in the camps that more often than not led to the guillotine.
For the crime of witnessing Christ to my friend and next door neighbor, I was turned over to the world order police landing in solitary cellblock #552; a filthy ten by twelve foot concrete and steel cesspool complete with a menagerie of vermin; their pattering only muffled by the screams of fellow inmates suffering the daily beatings administered by the prison guards. “Why suffer, you may go free anytime, just renounce Jesus.”
“But, the scriptures say, he who would deny me before men and he who endures to the end…,” God’s sustaining presence kept my spirit strong and comforted. I pray likewise for my suffering comrades.
The buzz of the electronic cell door opening awakens me from a heavenly dream. My chaperoned pathway to the enforcer is illuminated with fresh son light. “Yeah though I walk through the valley of the shadow…” Across the great river, I hear Susan calling…
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