The Kingdom

I sat on my horse in dejection as I stared at the three tribal leaders who yet refused to go with me.

Looking to the wall that now shook and was visibly crumbling the one leader said, "Of a truth we do not doubt what you say in that this wall will fall on the morrow, but what you ask us to believe is too much. We cannot go with you as we do not believe as you do that the old prophecies have already been fulfilled and that a Savior has already come from long ago and whose spirit is even at work in the world today. We cannot accept this and thus we cannot embrace the future that you seem so positive is to be found waiting for us in the Wastelands."

I leaned forward toward the speaker and said, "The day will come when you shall have no choice but to believe, but I wish for your sakes that you did not have to go through the trials that your unbelief is going to take you."

The three remained silent as well as the people behind them. There was no changing their minds.

Looking off into the valley beyond the newly constructed city I said, "Since you will not come with us and if you stay here before your wall you will die, I suggest you flee further into the valley. There are caves all throughout these mountains where many of the high order animals survived while the fallen order kinds dominated the valley below. Perhaps you will be able to hide from and survive the onslaught that is beyond that wall, eager to be unleashed upon you. Either way it at least gives some of you the best chance of survival."

"We'll take that under advisement, but we have not yet given up hope that our Savior will come for us and yet win this battle."

In disgust I wheeled Phalon away from them, but I heard what Ayaya said. "He has already come and when he did we rejected his kingship. I should know for I was to be his bride, instead I wounded him and was party to his death, but now he is alive again! The truth of my witness is before you and yet you are deaf to it! I am one that lived in and saw those days and since then my years have been expanded so that I might see this day of reconciliation take place, only to behold that those first invited to my wedding are few in number and that the guest roles have been likewise filled by those deemed as foreigners to the truth first given to us! You choose death when life is but a step away! May El Elyon have mercy on you for the world will have none!"