The Quest for Paradise

Staring into the face of the blinding light I somehow came to the conclusion that it wasn't Jesus before me and as such I was wary of doing anything that had been asked of me.

"Wise you are to question of what spirit I am. I am not fallen as these, but I've been sent to intercede for you by the Father and His Son Yeshua through who all of mankind are blessed with the hope of redemption."

At peace as to whose side the angel before me was on I stepped forward and let the light of his countenance seem to form a wall at my back. That was what I felt for I dared not look back even as I felt praises to God roll off my lips.

The light spectrums of physical reality whirled into place with ever quickening motion and with a deep breath I was back from wherever I had been taken to outside the parameters of what seemed like time itself. My skin felt flushed as if it had narrowly avoided the heat of flames even as my spirit pulsed with an awareness that I had never felt to such a degree before.

The group before me was entering through the doors of what appeared to be an ultrahigh speed train of some sort and I quickly followed suit. As people stepped aboard they were directed to private alcoves the length of the train where their physical baggage had been stored.

Still not sure of what was up or down I blindly followed the directions given to me as best as my foggy brain could comprehend them. Even then I felt to myself as one lost.

I saw my backpack up ahead then and I hurried to it and sat down in the seat beside it unmindful of anything else. My hands shaking I unzipped a side pocket and pulled a Bible in a Ziploc bag free from it.

I didn't take the Bible out of the bag. There was no need. All I simply wanted was the comfort of the words of God in my hand.

"His Spirit even now breathes from within you and the words you hold are they not already inscribed across the plains of your heart?"

I opened my eyes to view the man sitting across from me. He was the one who I had stepped through and yet now instead of being clothed with light he appeared as an ordinary man.

Smiling warmly he said in continuation of his words, "Your body is a holy temple unto the Lord. You have great authority for He who is inside you is greater than any within the world."