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get there faster than that.
Albie to Scuba, do you read me, over?
It finally sank in. Hold on a minute, Buck.
Rayford felt gooseflesh on his arms as he grabbed the mike. This is Scuba. Go
ahead, Albie.
Need your ten-twenty, Scuba, over.
Stand by.
Buck, I'm gonna have to call you back. Something's up with Mac.
Rayford checked his instruments. Wichita Falls, Albie, over.
Put down at Liberal. Over and out.
Albie, wait. I
Stay put and I'll find you. Albie over and out.
Why had Mac had to use code names? He set a course for Liberal, Kansas, and
radioed the tower there for landing coordinates. Surely Mac wasn't flying to
Liberal on the Condor. But the chopper would take hours.
He got back on the radio. Scuba to Albie, over.
Standing by, Scuba.
Just wondering if I could head back and meet you on your way, over.
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Negative, Scuba. Over and out.
Rayford phoned Buck and updated him.
Strange, Buck said. Keep me posted.
Roger.
Want some good news?
Gladly. '
Ken Ritz is the newest member of the Tribulation Force.
Just before noon, Mountain Time, Ritz landed the Learjet at Stapleton Airport,
Denver. Buck had still not heard from Chloe. He called her.
Nothing, Buck. Sorry. I'll keep trying. I called several reproductive centers
there,
but the ones I reached said they did only same-day surgery, no residents. I
asked if they also delivered babies. They said no. I don't know where to go
from here, Buck.
You and me both. Keep trying her number.
Rayford pacified suspicious tower personnel at the tiny Liberal airport by
topping off his fuel tank. They were surprised how little he needed.
He set his laptop near the cockpit window and sat on the tarmac surfing the
Internet.
He found Tsion's bulletin board, which had become the talk of the globe.
Hundreds of thousands of responses were added every day. Tsion continued to
direct the attention of his growing flock to God himself. He added to his
personal daily message a fairly deep Bible study aimed at the 144,000
witnesses. It warmed
Rayford's heart to read it, and he was impressed that a scholar was so
sensitive to his audience. Besides the witnesses, his readers were the
curious, the scared, the seekers, and the new believers. Tsion had something
for everyone, but most impressive was his ability, as Bruce Barnes used to
say, to put the cookies on the lower shelf.
Tsion's writing read the way he sounded to Rayford in person when the
Tribulation
Force sat with him and discussed what Tsion called the unsearchable riches of
Christ Jesus.
Tsion's ability with the Scriptures, Rayford knew, had to do with more than
just his facility with the languages Hid texts. He was anointed of God, gifted
to teach and evangelize. That morning he had put the following call-to-arms on
the Internet:
Good day to you, my dear brother or sister in the Lord. I come to you with a
heart both heavy with sorrow and yet full of joy. I sorrow personally over the
loss of my precious wife and teenagers. I mourn for so many who have died
since the coming of Christ to rapture his church. I mourn for mothers all over
the globe who lost their children. And I weep for a world that has lost an
entire generation. How strange to not see the smiling faces or hear the
laughter of children. As much as we enjoyed them, we could not have known how
much they taught us and how much they added to our lives until they were gone.
I am also melancholy this morning because of the results of the wrath of the
Lamb.
It should be clear to any thinking person, even the nonbeliever, that prophecy
was fulfilled. The great earthquake appears to have snuffed out 25 percent of
the remaining population. For generations people have called natural disasters
acts of
God. This has been a misnomer. Eons ago, God the Father conceded control of
Earth's weather to Satan himself, the prince and power of the air. God allowed
destruction and death by natural phenomena, yes, because of the fall of man.
And no doubt God at times intervened against such actions by the evil one
because of the fervent prayers of his people.
But this recent earthquake was indeed an act of God. It was sadly necessary,
and I
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choose to discuss this today because of one thing that happened where I am
hiding
in exile. A most bizarre and impressive occurrence that can be credited to the
incredible organizational, motivational, and industrial abilities of the
Global
Community. I have never hidden that I believe the very idea of a one-world
government, or currency, or especially faith (or I should say nonfaith) is
from the pit of hell. That is not to say that everything resulting from these
unholy alliances will be obviously evil.
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