Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 14

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Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 14 Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 14

Buck, thrilled but also grieving and exhausted, caught another cab to within two blocks of Chaim Rosenzweig’s. Still wearing his headgear, he walked close enough to see that the GC’s were long gone. The gateman, Jonas, dozed at his post.

Knowing neither Jonas nor Chaim professed faith yet, Buck hesitated. He knew Chaim was at least learning the truth about Carpathia and would not turn Buck in. Jonas was a gamble. Buck didn’t know if the man spoke or understood English, having heard him speak only Hebrew. The man had to know some English,as the first contact with visitors?

Emboldened by the exhilarating challenges of Eli and Moishe, Buck took a deep breath, gently touched an itching stitched wound below his eye, and walked directly to the gatehouse.

He didn’t want to startle the man, but he had to wake him. He tossed a pebble at the window. Jonas did not stir. Buck knocked lightly, then more loudly. Still he did not rouse.Finally Buck opened the door and gently touched Jonas’s arm. A burly man in his late fifties, Jonas leaped to his feet, eyes wild. Buck whipped off his disguise, then realized his face had to look horrible. Red, blotched, swollen, stitched, he looked like a monster.

Jonas must have taken the removal of the headdress as a challenge. Unarmed, he grabbed a huge flashlight from his belt and reared back with it. Buck spun away, wincing at the very thought of a blow to his tender face. “It’s me, Jonas! Cameron Williams!”

Jonas put his free hand to his heart, forgetting to lower the flashlight. “Oh, Mr. Williams!” he said, his English so broken and labored that Buck hardly recognized his own name.

Finally Jonas put the light away and used both hands to help communicate, gesturing with every phrase. “They,” he said ominously, pointing outside and waving as if to indicate a sea of people, “been looked for you.” He pointed to his own eyes.

Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 14

Left Behind: Apollyon Chapter 14

Death Strike Chs. 7&8 The Speech, The Militia – Left Behind–The Kids

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Death Strike Chs. 7&8 The Speech, The Militia – Left Behind – The Kids


John and Mark had studied the sound system in the auditorium. If Judd deviated from his script, Mrs. Jennes would intervene. They had to have an alternate plan.

Mark and John had rigged an auxiliary microphone, hidden under Judd’s graduation gown. If his podium microphone was turned off, the auxiliary bypass the mixing board and went straight to the huge overhead monitors. Then, the only way to keep Judd from being heard would be to cut the speaker cable.

A thousand images flashed through Judd’s mind as he stepped to the lectern. Empty seats on the plane. Losing his parents. Bruce. Pastor Billing’s tape. Vicki and Lionel and Ryan.

The crowd stared, and the red light on the television camera beckoned. Whatever the cost, whatever the outcome, he felt God had called him to this moment.

Judd remembered a few techniques from speech class. He let the audience settle, then paused another second. The auditorium stilled as he folded his notes and placed them inside the lectern. He would speak from memory and from his heart.

“I made a promise to myself in this room one year ago. I vowed to deliver a message tonight. And I think G– I’m thankful I’m able to do that.”

No looking down. Jed looked at their faces.

“When we graduates started our junior year, we had no idea that many of our friends would not join us tonight. Kids we played T-ball with. We felt as close to some of them as to our own families. But now they’re gone.

“I would like to remember them now with a moment of silence.”

Judd stepped back and bowed his head. He turned slightly to see Mrs. Jennes and Leon Fortunato looking at the floor. So far, so good.

Death Strike Chs. 7&8 The Speech, The Militia – Left Behind – The Kids

Death Strike Chs. 7&8 The Speech, The Militia – Left Behind–The Kids

Chapter 2 The Truth Twisters by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

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I remember my confusion in high school when I’d start going with a girl and finding out about two weeks to a month later that I felt empty in the relationship. That’s how Jessica feels right now in The Truth Twisters. She’d like to break things off with Shawn, but he wants to buy her a ring and for both of them to commit themselves to each other. Like an old song, “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.” And now Shawn suddenly wants to go on the church’s teen mission trip to Africa, just so he can stay near Jessica. All the while the demon, Ratsbane, is licking his ugly lips and planning to do so many things to ruin their lives.

Chapter 2 The Truth Twisters by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler