Rise of the Fallen by Chuck Black

Author:Chuck Black [Black, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60142-505-8
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

22

PERSIAN PRINCE OF WAR

537 BC

“General Danick, we have protected and preserved the lineage for over two thousand years, and yet I am still unsure.” Validus had just returned from gathering reports from the primus commanders.

“Unsure? I would think that by now I might have earned your trust, Validus,” Danick replied.

Validus watched as the man beside them knelt down in prayer. He was a just man and a devout man of God. Every day he would kneel and pray at the time of sacrifice, but there was no sacrifice, for in captivity the rituals of the temple were discontinued.

Jerusalem lay in ruins—its gates broken, its walls destroyed, and the people bound in captivity. It was a dark time for the chosen people of Elohim. This land was familiar to Validus: Babylon, now under the rule of the great King Nebuchadnezzar. Those who were left in Jerusalem were repressed and existed day to day, trying to avoid the marauders who spoiled the country and its people.

Danick watched the praying man closely.

“I do trust you, sir. It’s my own lack of understanding that frustrates me. What is the Plan? How can we protect it if we don’t fully understand how God is going to restore the earth? It seems so …”

“So impossible?” Danick finished for him.

Validus hung his head, ashamed for his apparent lack of faith.

“Don’t be discouraged, Validus. It will be revealed in the Lord’s timing. Until then, be confident in this.” Danick pointed to the man. “Look. Look how Ruach Elohim flows through him.”

Validus and Danick basked in the glow of the Almighty as the man named Daniel lifted his hands to Elohim. Here was a place the Fallen hated to be, and so Validus came here often.

“So strong in His Spirit, yet not of the lineage,” Danick whispered in quiet reverence as Daniel communed with Elohim. “I’ve only seen Ruach Elohim this present in two other men, and only one of them was of the lineage.”

“Noah and Job,” Validus whispered back.

Danick nodded. As they watched Daniel, the words of his prayer filled the room.

“O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.”

Just then, in the middle of Daniel’s prayer, Persimus materialized through the ceiling and landed beside Validus. One look told Validus that something was wrong.

“General, you must come quickly!” he said and flew back up through the ceiling.

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