The Kingdom

"Go to the window Benaiah."

Blankly I stared at the window in front of which I already stood. Only a foot separated me from touching the glass. However, not wanting to anger the Ruach, I stepped forward.

Blinking, I realized that I was suddenly no longer in my room. I was on the street of a foreign looking city and yet I wasn't. Looking up towards the hill of the city I saw the very palace that I had been led to earlier in the day. I even thought I could see the window out of which I had been looking just moments before.

All the activities of city life were taking place around me and yet it felt as if I walked in a dream. People went about their business all around me and yet none of them seemed to be aware of me. In fact one walked right through me.

Alarmed, I dodged off to the side of another unseeing man's approach. This made no sense!

Was I dead?

Just as I had that thought came an answer, "No. Your spirit is in a realm outside of the physical. Your body remains within the palace."

The words had not come from within, and I felt very sure that I had heard them as actual spoken words. I turned about and caught sight of someone watching me.

The individual wore a cloak and had the appearance of a man, but somehow I knew he wasn't. I stood my ground as he approached, even as I had the awful feeling that I was no match for this being.

Uncertain that I even wanted to ask the question I asked, "Can you help me?"

The man smiled and nodded, "That is my purpose. I am here upon the express will of El Elyon to assist you. My name is Urtholan. I am of the Malachim."

My heart had sped up within me until I feared that it was making an audible sound. What was going on?

Urtholan reached out and touched my arm, "Peace Benaiah. I mean you no harm."

Unsteadily I asked, "You're not a fallen one are you?"

"No, I remain faithful to the Creator of my kind and yours, and indeed of all creation. I have been appointed to help you Benaiah."

"Why me? I'm just a man. Why would you be brought into the service of helping me?"

Urtholan touched his chest and said, "I serve the Father as do you, so it is to Him that all glory from any action of mine or yours goes. Your Creator loves you very much and the faithfulness of your path is not one often traveled among men. It is an honor to serve alongside of you for the furtherance of the kingdom of Shamayim."