It is a hot day, we are busy doing the work that
has been commissioned to us by our Creator,
Jehovah God. We are standing inside the
walls of Jehovah's protection.
For those who were born in here this
is all thay have ever known, but for me and many others
we were invited in. You get used to these walls, in fact,
you forget what it is like without them.
It's common knowledge that you don't go
outside of the walls of Jehovah's protection,
but yet there are some who do. Some make it back
and some are still out there. Then there are those
who stand on the top edge of his great walls,
waiting to jump in at the last minute.
Every day has been a little worse than the last,
but today was an unusally calm day,
when CRASH!!!
The gates to the walls of Jehovah's protection closed.
The gates shook the ground and the walls,
and this made all those standing on them fall off
...to the other side.
You can hear the crying and weeping outside,
cries from those who left and those
who fell off the wall, saying 'That they have a place
reserved inside.' But their place is gone.
the other cries were from those who know
of thier impending destruction.
It has been hours, no, I think days
since it began, but the moaning has ceased.
The clouds that has darkened the sky
are breaking up now, and it looks like mid-day.
There is this feeling among the congregaton
that the war has stopped. Many mourn over those
we knew didn't make it.
But at the same time, there is a
euphoric nervousness. The feeling that
we stood strong and made it through.
At once, we fell upon our faces and sang praises
to our God Jehovah. It was at this time
the great gates opened. We were almost
afraid to go outside to see the destruction,
although we knew Satan was safely locked
away for a thousand years. As we made our way through
the dead bodies and fallen buildings,
the brothers immediately began cleaning up.
It seemed to come naturally to us
as if we had done it all along.
We worked that first day until after dark
without even feeling tired.
It was as if a great weight
had been taken off of us.
I remember this one day as I walked
out my door to greet the beautiful day
and give thanks to Jehovah, my eyes
filled with tears of joy to see my dear friend
Marty walking over to greet me,
without the aid of a crutch or even a cane.
I am not sure how long it has been since the start
of this Paradise. It didn't really matter.
We were sitting on the grass, under a tree,
listening to one of the Princes' talk to us about Jehovah's
glory, when our attention was drawn
to a gentleman walking up to the crowd.
"He's a new face around here,"
"Is he from a different part of the land?"
He couldn't be! But something about him was familiar.
Suddenly a brother rush over to greet him
with a warm embrace.
"They look like brothers." Someone said.
The brother spoke and said through his tears,
"This is my father."
The resurrection had begun!!!
It was so wonderful to welcome back these people
and explain all that had happened.
And what a thrill it was when Abraham
, Isaac, Moses and even Abel
were brought back.
Oh what we learned from them!
But yet, as I lay here in my bed and think of all
that has happened, I have this strange
feeling that has not come over me in all the
years since the millennial reign began.
I looked at Sandy, my wife,
and she can't sleep either.
At once I grabbed her and ran as fast
as we could. As we were running we see others running too,
if we all knew...Satan was loosed!!!
As we ran through the night there, just ahead,
was a familiar sight, from a thousand years ago.
The great wall of Jehovah's protection.
Once inside we stood closely united with many
other brothers and sisters, we all praised
Jehovah's name aloud, and then
CRASH!!!
The great walls of Jehovah's protection closed again.
Sandy looked over the crowd, desperately
looking for someone, and at once gave
way to tears, over in the center
of the courtyard was our son Ryan and his wife.
We felt so proud and happy to
have instilled this love in them.
But our joy was drowned out by yelling
and screaming. This time they
were yelling blasphemous things,
telling us to give up our God.
But nothing would change our minds,
we would stay faithful to Jehovah.
We saw all of Satan's army.
It was just as Revelation had put it,
they were as far as the eye could see.
Yet as we were looking, pillars of fire
came out of the midnight sky and engulfed
the army within a blink of an eye.
There was at once a great cry
of exultation from the crowd,
then we all sang songs of praise and slept
in his courtyard. In the morning,
the gates were opened.
We looked out and saw the Paradise
we had restored was left untouched,
only a smell of cinder remained.
A grand feeling came over us, knowing that the great
taunter of Jehovah God,
Satan the Devil, had been destroyed forever.
At the breezy part of the day
out of the blue sky came a bolt
of lightning and a loud clap of thunder.
And then for the first time ever, from
the heavens, Jehovah, our Creator spoke and said,