EPISODE 1

History has it that over 142 generations ago, a certain male child was conceived under the most unusual circumstance and given birth to in a land whose king was somewhat displeased by news of the newborn child since the king supposed that his birth posed some sort of threat to his throne and kingdom. And as such, commenced devising means to destroy the child before he became a man. Oracles had predicted that at such time, a certain child will be mysteriously conceived and birthed to salvage the world and rule over it for a period of time that knew no end. That fact troubled the mortal king who had grown to consider himself immortal and wasn’t interested in being challenged by anyone, let alone a child. It seemed to him like his plot to kill the child was made easy when he encountered wise men who were summoned by a star to go in search of the child and pay him homage; for indeed, the oracles were right about the child.

The wise men trailed the star to the king and tabled their course before him, and the king tried to manipulate them into bringing him to the child’s reach so he could end the boy’s life and claim to have averted prophesy. Indeed, the trick would have worked if not for a paranormal interference which prevented the wise men from returning to the king with news of the child’s whereabouts as agreed. Having tarried long enough, the king suspected to have been deluded by the wise men. So he ordered for the annihilation of a certain age range of offspring, as the targeted child was predicted by astrologers to fall within that age range. His attempt to destroy the child proved futile, for the child’s father, having been hinted in a vision about the king’s plan, fled with the child and his mother to the capital and dwelt there until the passing away of the evil king.

The child then returned with his parents to the land of his birth, and there he grew with much wisdom, such as was uncommon among children his age. At age 30, he became a man, and choose a path no living thing had ever traded since the beginning of time. He recruited twelve grownups and handed them a philosophy meant for the world. Three years later he returned to his acclaimed estate which location is believed to be in the third heaven. And the twelve, who drew much confidence from his presence, were left to themselves with an instruction to pass the said philosophy onto the rest of the rest of the world before his next visit to planet earth. This philosophy was referred to as his “TEACHINGS.” While he, the child, had grown to be known as “THE TEACHER”

The twelve, who were later named “the disciples” went about carrying out the teacher’s instruction to pass his teachings to everyone, persuading them to receive it, as a terrible fate awaited those who didn’t. Many received, while many others despised it greatly. Those who received the teaching became followers of the teacher, led by any of the twelve disciples who introduced these teachings to them. In that same manner, one very gentleman also received the teaching and became a follower of the teacher, led by one of the twelve who was considered the teacher’s “BELOVED DISCIPLE”

The said gentleman became an ardent follower of the beloved disciple, but from a distance. He wasn’t too forward but was focused. He did according to all the beloved disciple commanded but was never known by the beloved to be one of those who got to know the teacher through him. The gentleman had been a spy all his life; so much that even after forsaking his old ways and embracing the lifestyle suggested by the teacher’s teachings, he couldn’t break free from spying. Not that he made an attempt anyway. He loved spying and was not considering quitting anytime soon. So he remained the spy who became a disciple, and so was known as the “SPY DISCIPLE”

The spy disciple trailed the beloved disciple every step of the way without the beloved disciple’s knowledge. Even when the teacher’s teachings commenced attracting torture to those who taught and learned it, especially the twelve disciples, the spy kept following the beloved as far as to a desert where those who hated these teachings had banished the beloved disciple to. After much effort to destroy him proved futile, they resolved to starve and thirst him to death in the wilderness. The beloved, having been manhandled by mean pagans, was left with little or no strength to endure such vile environment. When the last of his strength vanished, he fell to the floor like a tree cut down from its roots. From a distance, the spy observed the beloved’s predicament but made no move to save the situation. Not until the beloved fell in a faint did the spy go out of his hiding to examine the beloved. Then he saw that the beloved had initiated the journey of no return. And for the first time, the spy wished he had gotten to know the beloved when life was still in him. But it was too late for that. So the spy could do nothing more than shed tears with a bitterness of heart.

The beloved was not completely lifeless per se, and was likely to regain consciousness, but definitely not in that desert. That got the spy contemplating on bringing him back to the human territory. But again he thought, “Would he still be alive then?” Downhearted, the spy continued bleeding many tears, so much that the clay which was robbed on the beloved’s face when he fell to the ground got washed off the beloved’s face by the spy’s tears. The spy was not leaving the beloved in that desert all alone. He resorted to dying there with him. As he continued weeping profusely because of the fate that had befallen the beloved, something really uncanny occurred.

The clouds suddenly gathered as though in preparation to release the much water contained in it, and the area grew dark as though the night was approaching in a hurry. A strong wind broke forth from the skies and disturbed the peace of the desert. Provoked by the wind, the dust from the desert rendered the spy’s sight limited, as even the sky was masked by it. But somehow, the spy’s eyes managed to catch manlike images approaching him from a distance. In the attempt to investigate further and discover what figures were approaching him, he found that in addition to their resemblance to a man, they had extra features, such that was not synonymous with a man. His effort to determine the look on their faces was thwarted by the dust of the desert which was tossed endlessly by the wild wind.

The manlike figures continued pacing slowly but constantly towards him until they were just some feet away from the spy. At that point, the spy was struck with a kind of fear he had not experienced before in his entire life. So he clung to the still body of the beloved disciple and anticipated the worst horror ever. His eyelids clung to each other, as his heartbeat pounded like that of a man who was about to be shot to death by firing squad. Then suddenly he heard a voice from nowhere like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of loud thunder saying; “IT IS TIME”, but do not harm the earth, the sea, nor the trees until we seal the receivers of the teacher’s teachings on their foreheads.

Some moments later, a multitude of people from every nation and tribe disappeared from the earth into the clouds, leaving behind a multitude of other people from every nation and tribe as well. Chaos broke forth among the remainders when a comprehensible explanation could not be ascribed to the just occurred incident. People began running helter-skelter to nowhere, searching for someone who could draw reasonable connotation from the incidence of the disappearance. Some intelligent speakers rose to fame at that point, satisfying everyone’s curiosity with intelligent words which found their way to the vulnerable hearts of the remainders, making them believe that the occurrence was not a cause for worry. Some others who had partially learned the teacher’s teachings rose to explain to the rest of the remainders that the occurrence served as a blessing to those who disappeared but spelled doom to the remainders. No one was interested in opening up to an idea that suggested doom for him or her. So a majority of the remainders went with the philosophies of those who explained the incident to be only but a mere scientific revolution. Their doubts were soon going be cleared, as the first batch of doom was set to be released upon the earth by the teacher in no distant time. EARTH IS IN TROUBLE!

To be continued.

Dear readers, this story is an absolute fictional work of art, inspired by the Apostle John's revelation as recorded in the HOLY BIBLE. The documentations in the original source of this story has been mixed with fantasies to make this tale an enticing and interesting one. However, the scenarios documented in this story are realities to come. To get the full and undiluted version of this story, grab a HOLY BIBLE and open to the book of REVELATION.

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