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Meet the Stars.

He was holding in his right hand seven stars, representing the seven leaders and in his left hand seven lampstands, representing the seven communities.

By Pierre-Inès C-H.Published 5 years ago 7 min read

The One who was redeemed by the blood of the Lamb stood right in front of the Great Lady. His eyes were in fire, resting upon the fullness of the river of revelation, his voice was like thunder, a thousand voices rushing like a flood, his feet were in bronze and his body clothed in glorious light, his hair was whiter than wool. His leadership—so pure and dignified as he wore his crown of gold. Upon this crown were letters of black written on a background of glory. He was holding in his right hand seven stars, representing the seven leaders and in his left hand seven lampstands, representing the seven communities.

Turning to the seven leaders, with a reassuring voice, He declared: “Don’t yield to fear, my friends. I am the Beginning and I am the End, The One. I was dead but now look—I am alive forever and ever. And, I hold the keys that unlock death and the unseen world. The time has arrived where all my people will come near me, all humans dead or alive that chose Life by following The Way.”

Turning towards the Great Lady, present between the Earth and the Heavens, He declared: “Today, is the day where you meet the Second and Final Death. I asked you to change your ways and submit to my power and my Kingdom and you refused. You could have been part of the seven stars but you chose your fate.”

After his spoken words, the dragon with three heads and seven horns open his mouth in fury. Fire as blue as pure light, and words of death destined to The One and the people of the Earth, came out of its mouth. In its desperate attempt of attacking The One and his people not knowing that his power was no longer effective, a Messenger from Above came down and open the door of the Fiery Lake.

The Fiery Lake was the lake of the Final Death, where all creatures alive and dead and all creation that didn’t choose Life would have been thrown after the Great Tribulation, which lasted one thousand two hundred and sixty days (1260) and one thousand and two hundred and sixty nights (1260) on Earth.

During this time of Tribulation, like labour pains, tsunamis and earthquakes, wars and epidemics were more frequent than ever, in its one worldwide government.

Indeed, 200 years ago, all economies of all previous countries decided to be unified, at first for economic power and then for political and military power to fight against the Great Invasion of the Prophet and his beast, the dragon. They were the ones responsible for the Great Tribulation, centuries after the Great Invasion. Influencing a maximum of people to not make the choice of Life and therefore kill and destroy everything on their way.

In a couple of months, the world like we knew with multiple countries was reunited into one and vast country, divided into seven territories. A defence strategy put in place to protect humanity, those who had chosen Life, in an attempt to survive this Great Tribulation knowing that a time will come where they will be rescued from the terror of the Prophet and his beast and the Great Lady, all three of them, famously known as The Tree.

Every territory had a leader who was in charge of the well-being of his communities. Leaders had the mission to locally protect, represent, lead and take care of their communities during the Great Tribulation. They were designated at birth despite their family background and origins. Being the only ones having the ability to see beyond human perception, they were equipped with supernatural abilities - having the power of life and death at their tongue, they were able to call to existence what does not exist and bring life where death was present. They had received those supernatural abilities by The One Himself, before the foundation of this world. He had chosen them, separated them and appointed them to be born into the world, in a time such as this, to lead and guard his people. Deep down, The One loved his people. Thus, in his luxurious and scandalous love, he prepared a plan hidden in the unseen world that will be manifested in the seen cosmos, in due time.

All Leaders were recognisable at their eyes’ colour. A specific colour that was very rare on Earth and find specifically in the gemstones present in the ruins of the ancient country of Irak. Only seven gemstones were found in those ruins, enough to be attributed to the seven leaders and to be shaped into a heart-shaped locket divided into seven pieces. Each leader having a piece of the heart-shaped locket at his or her neck. Reunited, the seven pieces represented a whole heart, which held a great power meant to transcend physical matters, transport the seven leaders in another parallel dimension of reality, the true reality, where the door of the Kingdom was to be located.

Nobody knew when this time will come, not even the seven leaders. Only The One and his Father in the Kingdom knew when this time will come. That moment was sealed in the secret of The One’s throne and meant to be unveiled in the appointed time.

According to the records of the elders, the signs and wonders that will designate the appointed time of the coming of The One were in four phases. The first phase was set off with the Great Invasion, the second phase was activated by the Great Tribulations, the third phase will be set off when the seven leaders will start to receive simultaneous dreams of directions and wisdom regarding the Great Tribulations. The fourth phase will be activated when each piece of the locket will call each other. Like a magnet, each piece of the heart-shaped locket will be drawn to itself. At this moment, the seven leaders and their communities will have to be reunited at the lowest pic of the Earth, called the Base, where the Ceremony was to be executed.

At the birth of each of the seven leaders, the whole world could see a special star in the skies be more illuminated than the others. In their cars, at home, in the street, people who had chosen the Way suddenly felt a rush of mixed feelings - joys and sorrows. They were joyful because they knew that hope was now among them. And sorrowful, because the birth of the leaders, was also revelatory of the coming of the Great Tribulation. By this, The One - the leader and chief of all seven stars - and all the people of the Earth knew that one leader was born and soon, ready to enter in his life-mission.

In the middle of the Great Tribulation, during the seventh day of the third month, the children were playing and laughing, people were eating and others celebrating behind the Invisible Wall. No signs and wonders were manifested for years. The Great Tribulation was at its pic on the northern territories. Each community by the power of their leaders manifested an invisible powerful wall of protection that made a part of the territory safe for the community to live, invisible and impossible for the terror caused by the Great Tribulation to invade.

Like the union of countries and economic, political and military power, each wall present on each territory was temporary. Soon or later, it will disappear as it was gathering too much energy from the cosmos. At this pace, the Earth and the whole creation could not stand any longer.

Faced with that immediate challenge to protect the communities, the leaders met at the Base, as it was common, to discuss and find a solution. The reunion was meant to last only a few days but after weeks, they still did not find any answers.

Tory, leader of the northern territories suggested reuniting again in a couple of months. He was wanted in the North and needed to join his community. During this day, Sophia, General of the specific guard of Tory, was walking along the river next to the Love's Tree behind the Base. Worried about the future of her people and seeing the seven leaders lacking knowledge and wisdom regarding the Great Tribulation, she started to talk out loud, believing that even if she wasn’t part of the seven leaders, The One was able to hear and listen to her heart and voice. At the end of her open heart monologue, she heard a voice talking back to her. Not paying attention, she fell asleep in tears.

“Sophia, Sophia, Sophia”, a guard called her name, out of the microphones of the Base. She was requested by her leader, Tory, for their immediate departure. Waking up suddenly, she wanted to rush to his chambers but realised that she couldn’t move. Not understanding what was happening to her, she battled this tangible force, in the attempt to move her body. Minutes afterwards, she finally managed to get up. Still troubled and confused by what just happened, and trying to fix her appearance, she smoothly passed her right hand in her hair, touched her neck and here it was: A heart-shaped locket, not a piece of heart but a whole one at her neck.

To be continued.

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Pierre-Inès C-H.

Sower of words. Beauty Lover. I like to write about introspection, humans connexion and spirituality.

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