Bill Copeland (22 May 2007)
"Chapter one of the Apostasy"


(John, Bill asked me to resend this as I have tried to clean up the messy copy. It's still not perfect, but better. I am in touch with a Christian friend who is a literary agent, so hopefully we will get this out to the general public.)

Thanks, Ellen!
John


 

Two boys born the same day, on opposite sides of the world…
 

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed, and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  Genesis 3:15

 

December 25, 1963

Early morning … a convent high in the mountain forest of northern Italy .
 

      During the night snow fell, blanketing the forest in a shroud of white. The smoke-grey sky was barely visible through thick clusters of dark, barren trees. Other than a snowflake floating downward now and then, the air in the woods was still. No bird flew, no animal moved. The black and white forest was ominously silent.

     Amid the trees, in a small clearing, stood a large three-story structure, a massive castle of grey rock. The citadel looked deserted, but it was not. Inside its 300-year-old walls lived more than fifty sequestered women — nuns and novices set off and apart from the outside world. The few inhabitants of the surrounding countryside seldom saw the occupants in the convent. The neighbors were, for the most part, shepherds, and not one of them ever ventured near the solemn-looking structure.

    The shepherds were a superstitious lot. Through the years, stories of supernatural happenings had been told about the area around the convent. Witches, demons, ghosts, and devils had been seen countless times, by folks of good stature and sound mind.

    Except for a yearly visit by a few nuns from the flatlands, no one ever came around. To the villagers, fear always seemed to hang in the heavy air of the forest that surrounded the convent.  

    Amid the dark trees, a figure of a man suddenly emerged and stared at the convent. He wore a long, dark topcoat, with his hands shoved into the side pockets. A black fedora covered most of his grey hair. His face bore many creases, like the jagged lines on a battle map. His eyes — shining, piercing, blue diamond eyes — had witnessed countless events over many thousands of years and spoke of great wisdom. Although possessing a name, he was generally known as “the Messenger.”

    An invisible — and sometimes visible — observer of life on earth, the Messenger was not of this world. His deep voice resonated when he spoke:

    

      One of the final stages of Satan’s 5,000-year-old plan for his kingdom on earth will start here. This is the first of many occurrences that will take place in this concluding time of mankind. The people will be known as the “Terminal Generation,” a generation that will lose its spiritual equilibrium with God and start to invert His values.

 

    The Messenger paused for one last look at the convent, his brilliant blue eyes searching as if they could pierce the stone walls. He then turned and walked away, disappearing into the forest.

    Morning sunlight filtered through the grey clouds and snow - covered trees and streaked the walls of the convent. The sunlight also angled across several windows of a chapel adjacent to the convent. Inside the chapel, candles flickered. The stone interior was bare except for a large wooden crucifix hanging on the chancel wall. Rays of sunlight slanted through the windows, illuminating particles of dust floating in the air. The light sent long silhouettes of the window frames across the stone floor and up the opposite wall. Two rows of rough wooden benches filled the room, with an aisle down the middle. The chapel felt gloomy and cold, like a tomb.

    At the front of the aisle, a woman knelt in prayer.

    Her black veil and habit were meticulously clean and pressed. The bulky garments hid her well-shaped body and long legs. The proportions of her face and high cheekbones showed a Roman heritage, for she had been born to an aristocratic Italian family. Her eyes, now closed as she bowed her head, were the color of the clear sky, and they usually gleamed with defiant authority. Her once-beautiful hands, folded in her lap, were beginning to look worn from a lifetime of hard work.

    Ann Stefannelli, Mother Superior of the convent, felt every year of the heavy responsibility. The subject of Ann’s prayers this morning was the same as it had been every morning for almost a year. A continuous feeling of dread had come over her, and no matter how she prayed she could not rid herself of it. She had sensed it in the other nuns, also. She suppressed these thoughts daily —continuously — trying to displace the horrible sense of fear onto something else, anything else. How could evil possibly exist here? This place was property
of the church. The work of God was performed here. Yet, no matter how she tried, an intense sense of danger filled her every thought. Everywhere she went inside the convent she felt the presence of evil.

    The calm and peace of the convent had evaporated. She wanted to escape, to flee, to run away, to feel peace again — if only for a moment. But her pounding heart reminded her she would not, could not, forsake her responsibilities.

     So, as she had for so many mornings, she bowed her head, closed her eyes, sighed, and prayed to the Lord for peace. Peace for her, peace for her convent.
     The heavy back door of the chapel creaked open, interrupting Ann’s thoughts. She heard footsteps in the aisle behind her. Someone had come in during her prayers. This was odd. No one had ever bothered her during prayer time before.

    “Mother Superior,” whispered Sister Bregga.

     Ann did not respond.  

    “Mother Superior,” the young woman urged.

    Ann slowly lifted her head, focused her brilliant blue eyes on the crucifix.

    “Yes?” Ann replied.

    “Mother Superior, Sister Volonte told me to bring you immediately!”

    Sister Sarah Volonte was the only certified nurse in the order, Ann remembered with alarm. She rose, turned, folding her arms into the sleeves of her black robe, and studied the young nun. The novice trembled under her grey clothing, her face a mask of fright.

    “What’s wrong, child?”

     “It’s … it’s … Sister Mary,” said the young nun, her eyes dropping to the floor, unable to look directly at her Superior .

    “What about her?” Ann asked.

    “She’s having a baby.”

 

     Six thousand miles away on an Indian reservation near Red Bluff, Oklahoma , at exactly the same time as Sister Mary’s delivery that Christmas night, Linda Allen was also having a baby.

    Married less than a year, Jim and Linda were very excited over the arrival of their new son. Jim was full-blooded Cherokee, with many relatives living in the area. Linda was Caucasian; her widowed mother lived in town. Linda, her mother, and all the Allen clan celebrated Christmas that night, elated over the new addition to their family.

    Grandpa Karrel Allen was especially proud of his new grandson and namesake, John Karrel Allen.
 
 

December 26, 19633:12 p.m.

Mountain forest in Italy on the road 10 miles from the convent.
 

    A black Cadillac limousine crept along the narrow mountain road. More snow had fallen during the night, and fog draped like a grey shroud over the forest.

     Two people rode in the front seat, a male driver and a woman passenger. The woman was middle aged and wore a nurse’s uniform under her winter coat. The driver, dark - complexioned and husky, was chauffeur and bodyguard to the single occupant in the rear of the limousine.

    The man in the spacious back seat made a stark contrast to the two people in front. He would have stood out in a crowd of thousands.

     The lone passenger, who looked younger than his fifty-seven years, had an air of absolute authority and radiant power about him. At 6 feet 9 inches he towered over, — and intimidated — most men. His large body, broad shoulders, and wide chest matched his height. He wore a custom-tailored suit, midnight-blue with a rich purple tint, a matching silk tie and shirt. His supple skin was light bronze. His hair, combed straight back, gleamed jet black. Sharp lines in his face were bold and accented, as if chiseled from granite. A hawk-shaped nose loomed above his cruel thin mouth.

    Some might call him brutally handsome, but what frightened men and women most were his vibrant jade-green eyes. Extraordinary submissiveness seized nearly everyone who looked into them for more than a moment.

    Frank Pettinati posed as an envoy for the Curia, the administrative arm of the Catholic Church. A strange role, for he was farthest any man could be from religious. However, he was on a personal task, one on which his destiny depended, and he would do anything, no matter what, to complete his mission.
   
Frank pressed back into the leather seat, held his head up, and looked out the window at the snow-covered forest. What he had to do today would be simple. He would play his role and take what he came for.

    If my little charade doesn’t work, he said to himself, eyebrow arching as his eyes narrowed in determination, I’ll take what I want anyway.

    Frank was a man of a thousand desires. Whether it was his sexual appetite, material things, or anything else that pleased him, he was accustomed to getting what he wanted.

    The Cadillac arrived in a small village. The only person in sight was an old man sitting in a chair, reading a book in front of one of the hamlet’s few buildings. He was dressed in a brown winter coat, a leather-and-fur hat with floppy earflaps perched on his head. The limousine’s tires crunched to a halt in the snow in front of the old man. Frank rolled down the window and leaned
his head out.

    “Bon giorno, signore,” said Frank, his words turning to vapor as they hit the outside air.

    The old man looked up from his reading and stared for a moment at Frank. “Bon giorno,” the old man said without emotion. He rolled a cud of chewing tobacco inside his mouth, adding more stain to his full white beard, as he stared at Frank.

    “Excuse me. I wonder if you could tell me how far is the convent la casa?”

    The old man broke his stare after a moment, his eyes traveling down the long automobile. He leaned over to spit a stream of brown juice. “About 2 kilometers, signore,” he said, nodding up the road, resuming his study of the stranger.

    “No capiso? Why not?” Frank sensed hostility from the villager but was about to tell him thank you anyway. Then, looking around, he began to wonder. “Are there no other people here, signore?

    “They are all hiding in their houses. They are afraid.”

    “Afraid of what, signore?”

    “Banshees, ghosts and demons … evil spirits.” The old man chewed his tobacco and assessed Frank’s reaction to his words. “They made quite a ruckus last night, flying around, howling, and carrying on. Between that and the wind blowing, it has everyone scared.”

    “Evil spirits?” said Frank, lifting one eyebrow. “But you are not afraid, signore?”

    “I am not afraid of such things.”

The old man reached inside his coat and brought out a silver Christian cross that was hanging on a chain around his neck. He held it in front of himself in Frank’s direction, as if in a gesture of warding off evil. Frank glared at the cross as he leaned back from the window. “Ah, si signore, I see.” He smirked as the tinted window closed. The car pulled away. The old man went back to his Bible.

    Ann Stefannelli stood motionless at the third-story window of her office. Long shadows stretched across the snow-covered forest. The landscape looked cold and forbidding. It was not, however, as remotely chilling as the fear and uncertainty that gripped her heart.

    Yesterday had been a nightmare. She would never forget the shock, much less the confusion and unbelief, as she rushed to the room of Sister Mary Giuffre. Mary had been with the order for two years and was still in novice training. When Ann arrived at the doorway of the young sister’s room, Mary was lying on her bed with an exposed belly that most certainly contained a baby.

    Sister Sarah Volonte scurried about the room, getting ready to assist with the coming birth. She was helped by two other sisters. More nuns stood stone-faced in the hallway like spectators at an accident. Panic was palpable in the room and, if Ann guessed correctly, the baby was coming soon.

    As Ann walked in, Sarah stopped her work briefly, her eyes rising upward and locking on Ann’s. For a moment, the critical question flashed in silence between them: How could a woman, sequestered away from any outside contact with the world for more than two years, become pregnant? Neither had an answer, because there simply wasn’t one.

    The convent was in a remote area and the outside windows and doors were always locked. Could a man somehow miraculously slip in and out under such daunting circumstances? If so, how could it have happened without anyone noticing? If someone had impregnated her and she knew it, why hadn’t Sister Mary told anyone? Mary apparently kept her incredible secret hidden under
her loose clothing, but why? What was the reason for it all? Ann’s thoughts were in disarray.

    Sister Mary’s eyes were closed, and she was delirious with pain. She screamed out — cries that to Ann were more yells of terror than pain. Ann’s eyes widened with fear as the screams became more hysterical. Shrill, piercing cries echoed down the hallways, flooding the convent with ever more dread.

     At the time, Ann told herself that the answer to the frightful mystery could and would have to wait until after the baby was born.

    That was yesterday.

    Spellbound, Ann now stared at the snow glistening on the tree branches outside her window.

    Today is another day. Today is the day they will bury Mary. The baby boy had come, and Mary had died giving birth, never uttering a word. The incident was a paradox of troubling and unanswered questions. Moreover, Mary, the only source of those answers was gone forever, sealing off any reply to Ann’s questions.

    Since yesterday, no one in the convent had spoken about the birth. It was too hard to think about it and Mary’s death. Through the night, the cold air outside the convent had blown and howled relentlessly, the wind filled with the sounds of eerie screaming, as if echoing Mary’s torment. To Ann, it seemed like a taunting after the day’s events.

    Ann pressed the long fingers of one hand on the cold glass of the window. The sensation was as chilling as the reception of her telephoned report of the seemingly miraculous and literally inconceivable birth to her superior in Rome . And who could blame him? It was unbelievable that a woman, showing religious devotion and supposedly a virgin, had given birth to a son. The fact that it had happened once before in history, and by another virgin named Mary, was not lost on Ann. What had they thought of this in Rome ? To her surprise, her superior hadn’t really commented on the strange situation. He just said that he would send someone for the baby.

    Ann then remembered that Mary Giuffre had come from a Jewish family. She strained to recall from the outer edge of her mind a Biblical foretelling long buried from the education of her youth. Suddenly her concentration was broken by movement through the distant fog. It was a vehicle, a long black car, coming up the snow-covered road to the convent.

    Well, they certainly came quickly, she thought.

    The limousine pulled up in front of the convent’s main door and stopped. Ann watched a chauffeur and a woman get out. The chauffeur opened a side door and a big, well-dressed man stepped forth. Ann closed her eyes and sighed deeply. She turned and sat down at her desk.

    Frank stood by the car and arched his back, then stretched his legs, his eyes disecting the area. It had been a long, dull journey, and he was anxious to get the next part over with.

    Looking up, he noticed hordes of black-winged demons lined up on the peaks of all the convent roofs, like rows of birds on a telephone line. The horrid creatures sat motionless, staring at Frank with piercing red eyes, knowing who he was.

    Of course, he nodded slyly, there would be “angels heralding the advent.” They were the cause of the clamor last night that the old man back in the village had mentioned.

    “Announcing … the birth … to the shepherds,” he chuckled to himself, looking to see if the nurse or the driver saw the demons. But of course, they did not. Only he could see them. Looking back up at the demons, Frank solemnly met their fiery gaze. Yes, they knew why he was here.

    Frank tightened the knot in his tie and slid his hand down his suit coat. He gave a heavy sigh. The driver and nurse stood by the car, glancing around at the
convent and woods. The driver broke out a pack of cigarettes and offered one to the nurse.

    “I’ll call you if I need you,” Frank said. As they lit up, he walked
to the front door of the convent.

    Frank stared at the ugly grey walls; he hated any religious buildings, especially churches. He sometimes fantasized on the idea of burning churches. Someday, he thought, he would fulfill that urge. As for now, he needed to bear the repugnance he felt at this place. A mental transformation came over Frank as he knocked on the convent door. He became a gentleman.

    A nervous nun ushered him into the Mother Superior’s office, a room far better appointed than the bleak foyer and halls he had just walked through. It felt cozy, with light-colored wood on the walls and a large rug covering the floor. A panoramic view from the windows showed the surrounding forest. Seated behind a large wooden desk, the Mother Superior rose in greeting. She does not look like she’s having a good day, Frank thought.

    “Signore,” said Ann with a slight bow of her head. “I am Sister Ann Stefannelli.”

    “Good afternoon, signora.”

    At first, Ann was impressed by the air and presence of this large, good-looking man. Suddenly, however, she sensed that a wild beast had just walked into the room. She looked at him with hidden trepidation, then quickly gathered her senses and came back to the situation at hand.

    “Please be seated,” she said.

    “My name is Frank Pettinati, and I am from the Curia.”

    “You have come for the child I presume?” she said, feeling uncomfortable and vulnerable from the intensity of his green eyes.

    “Yes, signora, I am charged with finding the boy a good home.”

    “You know, then, that the mother had no living relatives?”

    “Yes,” Frank replied. “Is it true the mother was a Jewess?”

    “Yes. Is that important?”

    “Well, yes, but just for the birth record.”

    “Of course,” Ann said. She bit her lip and turned her head to the window, sighing in distress.

    “I do not know how to explain this birth,” she continued. “We have many unanswered questions here. I can’t even begin to sort this out.” She rose from her chair and walked to a window, finding it hard to endure the evil she sensed radiating from Frank.

    “We are burying the mother today,” she announced as she looked out over the forest.

    Frank’s right hand tightened into a fist as he studied the woman’s back. He had expected an emotional reaction from the nuns, and he was prepared for it.

    “Signora, please let me say, first of all, that Cardinal Vincenzoni sends his deepest concern for you and your sisters here. He has instructed me to render to you any help you may require. He has also asked me to tell you he is personally recommending a commendation to your already outstanding record.”

    Ann could not believe her ears. She was speechless. Since the baby’s birth yesterday, she had been troubled by what her superiors might think. She had never heard of Cardinal Vincenzoni, but then she could hardly expect to know all of the cardinals’ names. But this, this was like they were giving her a reward, which was the last thing she cared for. What she wanted were answers. She finally found her voice as she turned to him.

    “I do not understand any of this.”  

    Frank looked her up and down, noticing her body movements under the black gown. The fiery look on Ann’s high-cheekboned face intrigued him. He wondered what it would be like to… For a few seconds he toyed with a scenario of lustful images. Suppressing his overactive desires, he returned his mind to the task at hand and turned up the charm.

    “Please, signora, do not trouble yourself with this mystery. I can assure you Rome will make no inquiries. It is best, I think, to put this all behind you and to simply go on with your work here. What good would any further investigation be at this time? As you have said, the mother is dead.”

    Well, that’s easy for Mr. Fancy Suit to say, thought Ann, her head turning once more to the window. He didn’t have to live with more than fifty other women who were wondering what in God’s name had happened here. Moreover, he didn’t have her nagging suspicions that something was terribly wrong about this whole affair. Something strange was happening here, she felt, something that was evil and out of her control. It was dark and powerful, and it was rushing past her like a runaway horse. However, Ann sensed her superiors had already swept the matter aside. They did not want annoying events like this one to become public. She had witnessed similar coverups before.

    “I see. I guess there is no more to be said,” she said, capitulating outwardly but not in her heart. “I will have the child brought to you in the foyer.” She gave Frank one last glance, then faced the window. She looked out at the dark trees standing in the pure snow. Things do not always appear black and white, she said to herself. Sometimes God does not give us all the answers to our
questions.

    “Good day, Mr. Pettinati,” she said finally.

    “Thank you, signora.” Frank stood to leave.

    The front door of the convent creaked open and Frank stepped out with the baby in his arms, wrapped in a blanket. The boy was asleep, but just before he handed him to the nurse, the baby stared at Frank with wide-open eyes. Yellow eyes, like twin burning suns. Yes, thought Frank, he has his father’s eyes.

    From her window, Ann watched the black limousine move down the forest road. To her amazement, she began to feel better. She sensed that the wicked presence in the convent was gone. The dread that had surrounded her and the convent for so long was dissipating like a fog. Her blue eyes trailed after the black automobile as it disappeared into the distance. Dread had left in that car.
 

    As the Cadillac moved down the road, Frank relaxed. The baby was up front with the nurse and sleeping again. After closing the private window between the front and the rear of the luxury car, Frank stuck a cigar in his mouth and savored its taste. At the end of the cigar, a small flame suddenly arose as if by magic — with a flicker out of thin air — and an ash began to grow.

    Frank Pettinati was not his real name. He had been born Sergio Morricone in 1907, the child of a farmer and his wife in a small village in southern Italy . From early childhood, Sergio had been obsessed with the pleasures of life — money, power, and all the things you could possess with them. Now, at age 56, he was one of the wealthiest men in the world.

    As a boy, he had wanted to be a chemist. In school he studied everything he could find about science. By age seventeen, he was working for one of Italy ’s largest chemical companies. During World War II, the German Army occupied Italy . A German chemist, visiting his company, noticed Sergio’s talents. He was especially interested in research Sergio was doing with a chemical compound called Zyklon B. The German, Hans Meyer, would become instrumental in Sergio’s life. He invited the young man back to Germany to work on some special research projects, and Sergio eagerly agreed.

    In Germany , Sergio lived with Hans on a large estate outside of Berlin . Meyer, it turned out, was a general in the Reichsführer der SS, Heinrich Himmler’s personal staff. In addition, Sergio learned, Hans had mystical powers, achieved by practicing in the realm of the occult. In the following months, Sergio worked with Meyer in the laboratories of the Reich’s main security building
on the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, the headquarters of the SS and the Gestapo. Working together, the two men developed a new poison gas made from Cyanide, Zyklon B, and Malathion. At the same time, Hans taught Sergio about the god of his world, Satan. Hans told his protege about the power that could come to those who worshiped and served Satan. Over time, Hans introduced Sergio to many influential and powerful men in Germany and Europe , who belonged to numerous secret societies in the occult. Before long, Sergio grew his own powers of darkness until he had surpassed even Hans.

    One night, in an occult ceremony in Germany ’s Black Forest , the lord of darkness, the devil himself, appeared to Sergio. Satan gave Sergio the power to create FIRE, and he promised him that he would live forever and never grow old. The devil also told him, that he, Sergio, would be part of a three-point power structure that would someday rule the world. Years would pass before Sergio would understand fully the implications of the promises given to
him that night.

    As a prince of evil, Sergio grew to hate God’s chosen people, the Jews. One day when he and Hans were testing the poison gas on a group of mice, Sergio asked, “What are you going to do with this stuff, Hans?”

    “Kill Jews.”

    The limousine hit a bump, and Frank popped out of his past. He often wondered what some of the people he associated with now would think if they knew of his wartime activities. However, no one would ever know. He had worked long and hard to cover his tracks. As the war ended, Meyer and many of the industrialist friends were on the list of war criminals. Before facing trial, many of them signed over their holdings to a man named Frank Pettinati, who
was in fact Sergio. They had done so on Frank’s promise that he would return their fortunes when they desired. Instead, Frank stole it all for himself. Through systematic deceit, intimidation, and murder, he held on to all the factories, businesses, real estate, and bank accounts. In the two decades since, he parlayed those holdings into an immense worldwide financial empire. Meanwhile, Satan taught Frank the role he would play in the plan to create the devil’s kingdom on earth. Frank became so powerful, both financially and supernaturally, that he now feared no man or country.
   This baby in the front of the car represented the beginning of Satan’s kingdom on earth. Frank had been waiting for the start of these events for a long time. They would change the world forever, and as they happened, Frank would be part of it. The baby boy would be part of it. His lord Satan would be the third part of it, a trinity that would someday soon set up its kingdom over the entire earth forever.

    As the limousine traveled through the forest, the Messenger stood by the roadside and watched the car travel out of sight.

 

    There is a secret group, consisting of ten men who rule the world. They claim to be mystical guardians and divine rulers of mankind. The men call themselves the “Circle.” Their secret symbol, down through the ages, has been the All-Seeing Eye of the pyramid. Over the centuries, these men have consorted together, amassing wealth and power beyond that of most nations. Although the individual men in this group have come and gone through the years, their number and objectives have stayed the same throughout the centuries.They are not known by the public generally, nor do they appear on the list of the richest men in the world. They keep their identities secret along with their actual wealth.

    They are kings, although their kingdoms have no borders. They are internationalists. They have no loyalty to any country. Their ultimate goal is a New World Order, ruled by Satan. This plan, for the devil’s kingdom on earth, began more than 5,000 years ago on the plains of Shinar , in what is now the country of Iraq . It started with a man named Nimrod, who built a tower.
    The
tower of Babel was built to commemorate the first adulterous religion against the true God. From that beginning, through the centuries, a conspiracy of secret societies, coupled with the worship in the occult, have worked toward a common goal, to set up Satan’s kingdom on earth.

    The men of the Circle accept Satan as the one and only true god. They consent to blatant occultism and reject the absolutes of Christianity. They claim that they work to better mankind, but in reality, they view most of humanity as useless eaters. They control governments; create wars, famines, and diseases; and direct the financial rises and crashes worldwide.

    These ten men are supported by many secret societies around the world, each having his own place in the New World Order. Some of these groups are centuries old and claim to possess religious relics of great power, like the robe that Jesus wore before he was crucified, or the spear that was used to pierce his side on the cross. Others claim to have the cup that He used at the Last Supper. These items are thought to bring power to any world leader, and have caused power-hungry men like Napoleon and Hitler to seek them down through the ages.

    The Circle meets several times a year in secluded locations, usually resorts or private estates. Plots are hatched, and events are orchestrated. Masks, ruses, and treachery are their tools — used for whatever they desire accomplished worldwide. It matters not whether people believe, or disbelieve, the Circle exists.These men control the lives of everyone on earth,whether they believe or not.

    The people of the world assume they control their own destinies. They think they have the freedom to choose their own leaders. It does not matter which political party they choose; the Circle controls all sides. They pick the leaders of governments, they control economies, and soon they will cause the world to forget the living God, and worship in a single worldwide unholy religion.

    One of the ten men of the Circle is Frank Pettinati. Tomorrow Frank will announce to the Circle the birth of the future “ New World Leader” anticipated for centuries. His name will be Denzel Marduk.

    There will be rejoicing and much anticipation within the group. They will set long-laid plans into motion. Ideas will emerge and events will take place in the coming decades that, later on, people will look back and say that they marked the start of the age of lost innocence. It will be the beginning of the “Terminal Generation.”

    In November of this year, 1963, the Circle made an example out of one who refused to ally with them. They spilled his blood on the streets of Dallas , Texas , in a military-textbook three-point ambush. The blame was expertly placed on an innocent patsy. But those who know the truth understand its meaning: That those who resist the Circle are dealt with harshly.

    The Messenger turned his head slowly and gazed at the forest for a few moments. Piercing blue eyes searched the snow-covered ground and trees. He walked into the forest and faded from sight.

And the ten horns, which thou sawest, are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power
as kings one hour with the beast.
— Revelation 17:12


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