Abraham talked God all the way down to just 10 righteous people in Sodom before deciding it was not worth saving. God did not find 10, but only Lot, whom Peter assures us was a righteous man.
Today, we still have 10 in America, 10 in most cities, with their righteousness coming from God Himself rather than their own virtue. But it is becoming less and less sure that the world will tolerate even 10.
The rapture may not be God taking His own out of the world, but the world sending them away. When the world finally gets its wish and there are no longer 10 who have accepted the righteousness they did not earn, it may be sorry it got its wish.
Very sorry, indeed.
Unfortunately true.
I write mainly sci-fi kerplocalypse stuff, here’s one small one typos and goofs galore:
Who would have thought that mankind would kill themselves in this fashion?
Perhaps I should back up a bit in my story. I’ll just take a small, pained sip of my drink and recall the promise of a few years time passing us by:
I remember it well. I had been at an exposium on DNA and pro-viruses in the human genome listening to a Dr. Geraud speak on what these pro-viruses do. The doctor had quoted an expert in the field on a link between a certain pro-virus and some forms of schizophrenia. The researcher had found pro-virus dna in the blood of several patients, meaning that the pro-virus was active. But he didn’t know how a small segment in the DNA could become active by itself like that, nor did he know the mechanisms behind it.
Then Dr. Geraud stunned the crowd. He stated that he had researched the human DNA and discovered what appeared to be bio-engineered sections in our own DNA. Silence followed for a few minutes as the throngs of scientists and reporters digested the implications of this. Then silence was followed by laughter and mockery.
Who would have thought it? Humans bio-engineered? Pure tripe! They all said so. But they were all so desperately wrong. I laugh now to think of it. But the doctor, the poor fool, let loose his next fusilade at the walls of intellectual superstition and let it be known that he’d identified a few of the ‘useless’ sections of our DNA as actually being useful when turned on. And he let it be known that he’d actually activated a few of those sections in some of his subjects in tests.
At first, the scientific community went insane with rage. A few dared to say that the doctor was playing God. Poor sick fools, they all denied His existence, and now they invoked Him as a King Arthur to the doctor’s Mordred. But years passed, and research went on, as it always does. And the promise of a new era in medicine came to light. They found dormant DNA sections that could be used to repair unheard of damage to the body. They found out how to make the nerves fire faster, making boxing an even more difficult sport where the combatants already had a hard time seeing the movements of the other. But then, then they found a section of DNA that was even more complex than anything they’d found so far. And just as dormant as the others. They studied it for a year, and modeled the section, and postulated it’s uses.
And then the folly of it all came to pass. They activated the section. Remember the viruses I mentioned earlier? Oh yes, yes there are worse things than ebola in the world. And mankind carried this one in his own genetic code. Schizophrenia was a warning to us. A warning not to activate the dormant sections in our DNA. Fools! All of us... And it was there all the time. And we did it to ourselves. The ones who engineered us didn’t have to put us down. They merely had to wait and we’d do it ourselves, once we got smart enough to.
And we died. All of us. By the millions we dropped. Dead as the lake in Utah. And so I sit here and wait for my own end, with my drink and my time dripping away from me. I wait for them to come and see the end of what they started all that time ago when they engineered us for our own destruction.
I wish I knew what the doctor thought of al....