Ch. 7 - Time Bomb

 

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 Wednesday - 25th Quarantine Day

At the City Hall...

— Mayor, I analyzed these papers very carefully.  I will need all of these documents to prove that these papers are fake.

— I have them.

— If that bomb goes off.  My recommendation as party president is that you resign.

— And what advice do you give to the pastor?

— A departure.  Until we prove it's a frame.

— As long as this bomb does not explode, I will do my best.

— Be careful not to get sick!

In the Square...

— I brought some food and a mask.

— Thanks. Miss Nany, can I take a shower in your back bathroom?

— Clear!  It goes at the time of the coffee of the afternoon.  After the bath, you already have an afternoon coffee with the children.

— Thanks.

At the gym...

— Teacher Judas, why can't I ride the bike?

— Why is there a person on the device next to it.

— Ah!  Teacher, how do you manage to be an atheist in this city?

— I went to church, but the people compared me to Judas Iscariot.  Then I asked myself: if Christ forgave Judas, why did the people work him out?  I stopped going.  I went to  Miss Nany  and I didn't understand anything.  I filled her with so many questions.  Do you know what she answered me?

— I do not know.

— Exactly.  I just stopped believing.

— I also have several questions.

— And did you find the answers?

— Yes. In Searcher it shows lives from every world.

— Let's try: Ok!  Searcher, who is God?

— According to Wikipedia:

"God, in monotheistic thought, is conceived of as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. God is usually conceived of as being omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (all-present) and omnibenevolent (all-good) as well as having an eternal and necessary existence."

en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › God

— Wow, there are several videos here.

— According to teacher Eliseu it is the doubt that generates knowledge.

 At Night on Pastor Elijah's Live...

— Good evening!  Moses made a new song.  Make a live to present the song to us. Miss Nadja, let's pray for your cousin.  This disease is devastating our hearts.  Yesterday 2 people died in Meridiana.  But in prayer we will win I have faith!

Please today we are going to read Elijah.  First Kings chapter 18 verses 20 through 39.* — He reads the passage. — What God are you following?  The one who invites you to see the Cave ** every day?  The one who asks you to go to the motel before the wedding?  Or the one who invites you to pray every day, to live the ten commandments, to witness the Gospel with your actions and to experience the impossible?

Elijah did not doubt God and proved that they were false prophets.  Then Elijah is condemned to death by the queen.  And we will talk about that part in a next live.  Now I'm going to clear up your doubts.

Luke, your question touches a very delicate point.  His question is: will Miss Nany go to Heaven?

Who will judge whether we will enter the Kingdom of Heaven or not is Christ Himself.  I don't know the relationship that Miss Nany or you have with Christ.  I know my relationship with him.  I sinned, I regretted, the whole city knows that I was an adulterer and from that relationship Samuel was born, but I went back to Christ, I went back to my marriage and I know that I am nobody to judge others.  If I see that one of the people entrusted to me by God is turning away from sin, it is my duty as a pastor to warn them of error.  But the person who decides for the mistake or not.

Now I ask a question.  Who is more wrong me, Pastor Elijah, who did not go to warn  Miss Nany or her?  Let's end the live.  Let's go to prayer requests... — The pastor concludes the live and receives the following notification from the bank: "A trillion sentrias have been transferred to his account."

— And now!  What do I do? — He looks ahead and has an idea.

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*1 Kings 18, 20 - 39. Excerpt from the Bible copied from: < http://thekingsbible.com/Bible/11/18 > . Acessed March 19, 2021.

"So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.  And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.  And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.  And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time. And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God."

** Cave is the most famous reality show on Sentralian television in which six people are confined in a cave located in the city of Meridiana.  Each week a person leaves the program through public votes.  The prize for the winner is one million sentrias.