The Lost City by Carrie E. Gruhn

Author:Carrie E. Gruhn [Gruhn, Carrie E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8024-9277-7
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 1951-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

17

ON THE ROAD FROM JERUSALEM

WHAT STRANGE WORDS were these Paul uttered? When had the Messiah come? Now Paul was talking with breathless haste. Wide-eyed I listened, and Ahmed strained forward to hear above the noise of the car. Simon was still trying vainly to arouse my mother who had sunk deeper and deeper into a sort of open-eyed stupor. Paul’s voice did not carry to him above the rumble of the plunging station wagon on the rough, uneven road.

“For a long time, now, I have seen the truth but I hoped—I do not know what I hoped, unless it was that I could change the truth to my liking. No one can believe that Damon was sent of God. Today’s demands and ultimatum did not even offer the pretense of coming from God. He is the product of our own making; the product of our stiffnecked pride, our unbelief, our blindness—they gave into his hands the power to command us as he commanded, today.”

“But Paul—we could not have given him all that power—surely the Beast was dead, and if he was dead, how did the Prince give life to him again?”

“The Beast was dead. Who or what could lose even half that blood and live. Yet he lived and moved and showed hate above any previously known hate. God did not put new life into his body. The blood that is the very life stream was not replaced—yet, he is alive. The abomination of the Temple we desired to build to God will usher in greater troubles than we have yet known! Before, men’s hands were against us—now, the powers of darkness are unloosed, Jacob’s trouble is on us.”

“You speak like one who knows,” Ahmed voiced my own thoughts, Ahmed who had proven an exceptional scholar in both the regular school and in the clinic, too. We found it hard to remember sometimes that he was an Arab though he wore their clothes and possessed their irrepressible humor.

“Then I sound untrue, because I do not know, I am learning,” Paul’s answer was humble. “When Dal was here he tried to show me so much, but it went over my head. I have tried to find many things that he told me of, but there is so much in the Bible which he gave me that I get lost sometimes. It’s easy to see things as they unfold—Dal saw them before they happened. He told me that some day he might be mysteriously taken away, there would be a group of people disappear in that day. Well, it happened.

“He told me, too, that after that happened a man would arise who would bring peace to the world. Well, that happened, too! Also he warned me that it would be a false peace. It would end in the abomination of the temple—we have seen that! Surely if those things came to pass, then the other things of which he warned me will follow!”

“Why?” I asked stupidly.

Ahmed interposed thoughtfully, “You said that you had gone to Jerusalem seeking the Messiah—”

“And that He had come and gone.

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