Prophecy # 1
Ernest Samuel Llime -
Woodhaven
-You know Abe, some of the stories your advisors are telling everybody will in
the future be written in a big book that will all by itself manage to cause no
end of troubles. The Rabbis and Priests and Preachers will all come up with
their own individual explanations for the meanings of the various stories, but
they will all agree that this book was divinely inspired and that what was
written in there, were the words of GOD; A couple of thousand years from now they
will all also agree that there is only one GOD even though they will not be able
to agree on a general description or on the attributes of this GOD. This book
will be called the Bible and the word itself will come to mean "the ultimate
written authority" on any given subject. For some time to come, politicians,
rulers and kings of our people will change the stories in order to justify their
actions, but later on they will accept one version as the ultimate authority
just as it is written.
-Hey Zal, you're loosing me a little here; What exactly are you talking about?
-I'll give you an example:
About a thousand years from now, there will be a king in this land who will be
so successful at enlarging his real estate that the people will start to talk.
The average person will have a hard time understanding the need for more land
not to mention some of the nicer people who will just not get the facts. A lot
of them will not be able stomach all the killing necessitated by this kind of
expansionism. And so, our king will have one of his better scribes prepare a new
copy of this Bible, that will add Sidon, Hebron and a couple of other spots to
the places that we've stopped in on our way from up north. An additional detail
will change our little community to a mighty nation that controlled all of this
territory. Let me skip forward a few thousand years.
-It's incredible! My descendents will manage to stick around here for such a
long time.
-Actually, not really. For two thousand years, your descendents will have no
land of their own and and the only thing that will keep them together will be
their belief in your unforgiving GOD and their weird customs. Very few of them
will be left around this area and they will not be welcome anywhere they
go. Many, many millions of them will be tortured and killed and made sport of in
general, because of this religion that you have picked for them. This marvelous
GOD that you have embraced will not lift a finger to help any of them because he
is very quickly offended and frankly speaking, his strongest suit is scaring
idiots like yourself into believing his bombastic promises. In any case, after
all those thousands of years, your people will come to think that they were put
on this earth to serve as an example to the rest of the nations and lead them to enlightment.
-What about this king? Will my children come back after being exiled from here?
-Your children will manage to stick around here for quite a long time to come,
fornicating with their cousins and siblings long after the custom will have
fallen by the wayside.
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