Prophecy # 1
ESL - year of our Lord WGaF
- Woodhaven
-You know Abe, some of the stories your
advisors are telling everybody, will in the future be written in a big book that
will all by itself manage to cause no end of troubles. The Rabbis and Priests
and Preachers will all come up with their own individual explanations for the
meanings of the various stories, but they will all agree that this book was
divinely inspired and that what was written in there, were the words of GOD; A
couple of thousand years from now they will all also agree that there is only
one GOD even though they will not be able to agree on a general description or
on the attributes of this GOD. This book will be called the Bible and the word
itself will come to mean "the ultimate written authority" on any given subject.
For some time to come, politicians, rulers and kings of our people will change
the stories in order to justify their actions, but later on they will accept one
version as the ultimate authority just as it is written.
-Hey Zal, you're loosing me a little here; What exactly are you talking about?
-I'll give you an example:
About a thousand years from now, there will be a king in this land who will be
so successful at enlarging his real estate that the people will start to talk.
The average person will have a hard time understanding the need for more land
not to mention some of the nicer people who will just not get the facts. A lot
of them will not be able stomach all the killing necessitated by this kind of
expansionism. And so, our king will have one of his better scribes prepare a new
copy of this Bible, that will add Sidon, Hebron and a couple of other spots to
the places that we've stopped in on our way from up north. An additional detail
will change our little community to a mighty nation that controlled all of this
territory. Let me skip forward a few thousand years.
-It's incredible! My descendents will manage to stick around here for such a
long time.
-Actually, not really. For two thousand years, your descendents will have no
land of their own and and the only thing that will
keep them together will be their belief in your |