Christian fiction; Second Advent -- Fiction; Tribulation (Christian eschatology) -- Fiction
Three times over, led by the impromptu priest-precentor, that grateful,
jubilant, delivered people sang the last sentence.
Then, as their song of praise finished, the leaders took counsel
together as to what they should do next. It was the unanimous feeling,
and expressed opinion, that Apleon would send forth other expeditions
to destroy them, if he learned that they had escaped the fate of his
aerial and land pursuit.
"I do not believe," cried Cohen, the chief spokesman among the Jews,
"that God Jehovah has permitted one of our pursuers to escape. God's
judgments, like His mercies, are full and complete. Will Apleon, the
Traitor to his covenant-word, ever know the fate of our pursuers? I
believe not, unless anyone of us here retrace his steps to Jerusalem to
tell him, and that would mean public torture and death to the
tale-bearer."
He paused, and glanced around on the throng nearest to him, as he asked:
"Does anyone present know anything in the Scriptures relating to this
present position, that will serve as a guide to our movements now?"
A tall, fine-looking man responded by lifting his right arm. He was
asked to speak. He came forward and stood upon the hillock where Cohen
stood. Holding aloft a Bible, he cried:
"Men and Brethren, of the stock of Israel, and Gentiles associated with
them. I was a Christian minister, so-called, in Australia, when the
'Rapture' took place. I was _left behind_, because, though I could
preach eloquently enough, and could keep my church filled to
over-flowing. I was not a converted man; I had been trained for the
church, as my only brother had been trained for the bar. I never
realized the need of conversion, my soul was filled with pride in my
gifts, hence I was left behind when Christ came for His own,--and,
among His own, thank God, were many 'Israelites indeed,' as well as
Gentiles.
"Since my conversion, friends, (and though too late for the Rapture,
yet still the glorious event took place within forty-eight hours of the
Rapture) I have _studied_ my Bible, to see what should happen.
Everything _has_ happened according as the New Testament has laid it
down: The 'people of God,' the Jews, have built their Temple. They
made their seven-year covenant with Apleon. The Anti-christ, the
Scripture calls him. At the end of the three and a half years (_half_
of the covenant time) he orders the Sacrifice to cease in the Temple at
Jerusalem--and everybody here knows how _literally_ all this has
happened.
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