Dr. Lou unrolled the paper and read: “2nd Section, Book 27, Chapter 8, Paragraphs 8-12.”
“Okay, 2nd Section - New Testament, Book 27... the Book of Revelation, Chapter 8... all right got it... Paragraphs 8-11... yeah here it is I’ll read:
8. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third of the sea became blood;
9. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11. And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
No one in the room spoke, in fact, most were not even breathing. The only sound heard was Gabby’s muffled sobbing. The first to suck in enough air to talk was Lonnie Joe. “Wormwood...Wormwood was the word on the wall in the tomb. And the fireball is what the Bible calls ‘a great mountain burning’.”
“Damn...! Lonnie Joe you read those hieroglyphics on the wall perfectly,” said Roche. “Damn!”
Turning to face Anhur, who had also remained silent during the Bible reading, Little ‘S’ said, “Anhur can you elaborate? What does this mean?”
Before Anhur had time to respond Roche hollered, “Damn all mighty... the date over the door... it was 21 December 2012...! 21 December 2012...! Damn ‘2012’ is barely two years from now!”
Anhur spoke, “He is correct... the date IS 21 December 2012. On this date the Earth and your sun will be in perfect alignment with the ‘celestial traverse’. This combination of gravitational fields will pull an asteroid from, what your scientist call, ‘the asteroid belt’ roughly between the orbits of your planet Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid will be heading on a collision path with Earth. When it hits your atmosphere it will erupt into a giant fireball.”
“Anhur... how big is this asteroid?”
“Twenty kilometers or twelve of your Earth miles in diameter.”
This time it was Little ‘S’ issuing the cuss words, “Damn...! Damn...!”
“Pa,” said Gabby wiping her eyes. “This sounds bad?”
“Bad?? Bad?? The asteroid that struck the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula during the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era about 65 million years ago... you know the one which wiped out the dinosaurs...was only six miles in diameter and slammed into the Earth at 43,000 miles per hour.
“It’s estimated it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico with the explosive power of 100 million megatons. It threw so much moisture, dirt and other debris into the upper atmosphere the next six months were enveloped in darkness. There was no daylight.
“Global winter began and, as I said, we lost the dinosaurs and hundreds of other species of birds, mammals, insects and such.”
“This monster is going to be twice as large. The Bible may be using a metaphor when estimating the death toll... this monster will kill more than a third of all living things. Where this beast strikes will be of the utmost importance too. It could strike close to New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo or any other large coastal city. The devastation will be enormous. It will create a Tsunami at least a 1000 feet high. It will wash inland for hundreds of miles devastating everything in its path including every major city located even close to the sea coast.”
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Roche spoke up, “I’ve never been a real good Bible scholar but I know my Mom always told me if it was in the Bible ‘believe it’. I think those events in these passages are going to happen, don’t you Lou? What about it Dr. Scarburg- may I call you Little ’S’ too. At a time like this Dr. Scarburg seems to formal?”
“Sure, it’s okay Roche.” To calm their nerves a little bit Little ‘S’ started telling them a story of a time long ago in Vietnam, “You know I remember another fellow, Big ‘S’, my father, being asked almost the same question ‘did he mind being called Big ‘S’ and I still remember his answer, ‘I don’t care what you call me as long as it’s not late for chow or payday.’ Everyone in the room snickered and grinned - the ‘thick as a knife’ tension was cut for the time being.
“Anhur...you have explained Mrs. Friedman’s tomb and the writing on her wall. Now I must ask...what about the skulls in the adjoining room. What’s their story?”
“Yes...the skulls.” Anhur said slowly looking down at the floor. “The skulls.” It appeared he did not wish to speak of them.
“What about the skulls Anhur?”
“They are my people...my friends...my companions.”
“Tell us Anhur what happened to them?”
“On our planet Sunev we have no...what do you call it...oh yes sugar.”
“Sugar. What in the devil does sugar have to do with anything?” Gabby asked.
Anhur continued, “In Egypt we discovered a most wonderful delectable food. It was the most pleasant tasting morsel that we had ever encountered. It was called ‘Honey’. We...what can I say, we loved its sweet taste. We do not consume your Earth food...we bring our food with us from Sunev each time we come. But we could not refuse that most heavenly food - honey. Our people ate it every chance they got. And they got a lot of chances; however, we did not realize that our bodies could not metabolize sugar. Our bodies had never been subjected to it. The sugar attacked our teeth. They began to erode and holes began appearing in our faces. Infection followed. There was no way to stop the sugar from eating our faces away. Death soon ended our miserable existence.
The skulls on the shelf were my good friends and the body in the stone box was one of our leaders. Leaders always wear gold uniforms with golden medallions and we workers are resigned to silver medallions. Our Evals wear ivory medallions on silver chains. As our people began to die your wonderful and adoring Mrs. Friedman prepared a life saving antibiotic mixture.
She heated our marvelous honey, finely chopped some ginger and garlic into it. Added juice from olive leafs to the garlic and ginger mixture. Put the olive juice, ginger and garlic in a cloth and tied it into a small sachet. She would steep the ginger, garlic and olive leaf extract mixture in the honey for at least twenty minutes but usually up to an hour. The longer she steeped the mixture, the stronger and more potent the remedy became. This was crude type of antibiotic and we all drank the liquid for days and days. It worked. Our skins slowly healed and from that day forward we have eaten no more raw honey. But for some, alas, it was too late, as their skulls that you found attest.”
“Hold the fort Anhur. Eat. Eat. How in the hell can you eat you have no mouths?” Said Gabby.
“Ah, good point Ms Gabrielle. Oh, but we do have mouths and, as I said, teeth. But we have a lower lip that covers our entire mouth giving the impression that we do not have one. But indeed look.” As Anhur finished he lowered his bottom ‘lip’ and lo and behold a mouth full of white teeth appeared. “I’m sorry. I was not trying to deceive you. To us covering our mouth is as natural as you blinking your eyelids; however as you notice we do not have those things either.”
Gabby chimed in, “No Anhur you don’t need eyelids your eyes are so big you need windshield wipers.”
Everyone snickered and grinned, except Anhur.
“Little ‘S’, looking at Anhur said, “Thank you for the excellent explanation. You and your people have seen our past, lived with us in the present and witnessed our future. I want to know one thing Anhur, and please give me a straight answer.”
“Straight... what does straight answer mean?”
“It means truthful, honest without deception or collusion.”
“What is it you desire to know Dr. ‘Little ‘S’?”
“Is the future chiseled in stone, is it set in concrete? Let me re-phrase so you will understand Anhur... can we do something in the present that can change the future, even though we have r
ead in our Holy Bible that these events are going to take place - can they be changed?”
Anhur responded, “Everything our people see, smell, taste, feel or read we remember. I have read your entire Holy Bible. You must understand one important fact: The God of your Holy Bible does not belong solely to you Earthlings he is also the God of Sunev also...
“He is the God of the entire Universe.
“But can he change his mind? Yes without a doubt. Let me give you some examples from your own Holy Bible. First Little ‘S” check out Genesis 6: 5-8:
5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
“Here God did not totally destroy man - Noah and his family survived, and many of the ‘beasts’ were saved on the Ark. Fowls survived too - a dove brought the olive leaf to the Noah on the Ark. What about Exodus 32: 9-10 & 14:
9. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
10. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
“Here OUR God was going to destroy the fleeing Israelites from Egypt because they had made a golden calf. Moses pleaded to God on their behave and God changed his mind:
14. And the LORD repented of the evil, which he thought to do unto his people.
“Another example is in Exodus 33:3 Verses 5 and 17:
5. For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee
“Did our God consume them...No.!
17. And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
“Not only does God sometime change his mind, He is saddened by decisions he makes. Think our God never made a decision he regretted, well look at I Samuel 15:35:
35. And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Anhur finished with this final Bible verse from Jonah 3:10 by saying “Jonah visited the city known as Nineveh prophesying they would be destroyed in forty days if they did not change from their evil ways, see what happened:
10. And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
“Now let us return to your question Dr. Scarburg, sorry Little ‘S’, is the future set in stone, can it be changed... the answer is a definite YES... yes it can be changed.”
“Anhur.... Are you suggesting the Bible could be wrong about this asteroid?”
“No....Absolutely not...if nothing changes and things stay the same... yes God will enact the tribulations outlined. The Bible, as written, will be totally correct... but as you read in the previous Bible passages that doesn’t mean Gods plans cannot be changed based upon intervention by human attitude or a change in their behavior.”
“Anhur...please speak more plainly...what do you suggest we do?”
“Dr. Scarburg on 21 December 2012 the Earth is going to be hit by a huge asteroid bigger...no...much bigger than the one which wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Asteroid hits are exponential - one twice as big doesn’t do twice as much damage... it will do a hundred times MORE damage...mankind will be on the brink of total annihilation.
“This information MUST be relayed to your leaders...you have two years. Nuclear armed rockets can be readied and sent to intercept the ‘mountain’ falling from the sky... this should be a joint effort by your United States, China and the country you call Russia. But, to God more importantly, in addition to these efforts the human race must ‘turn from their evil ways.’ Without a change in the human heart calamity is your worlds fate, the rockets will do no absolutely no good.”
“Anhur, is this possible? Can humanity be change and be saved?”
“Yes, Dr. Scarburg, not only is it possible...look to the Bible and the prophet Jonah. God sent him to warn Nineveh to repent from their sins or perish and look what happened:
5. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
“If the God of both our worlds could spare Nineveh, only one city, you do not think he would spare a whole planet if enough faith were shown. I have faith your species can accomplish this tremendous feat; however, it is imperative these governments and all your religious sects understand the dire consequences if they do not turn from their evil ways. I believe they will do the right thing. It is up to you Dr. Scarburg and your SCAR group to convince them.
“Do nothing and the planet Earth DIEs take positive action and it LIVEs.”
“This is very disturbing Anhur. I am returning to Washington immediately to get the ball rolling with our elected officials.
“But this asteroid stuff and the end of the world is tomorrow - today I have two grandsons and a granddaughter, Forrest, Bud and Olive Maria who are in trouble. They were on an airplane that’s gone missing on their expedition to Mexico. Forrest and Bud are Lou and Gabby’s brothers. Olive is their older sister. I have to get back and do what I can to help find them or the site of the plane crash. And mount a rescue attempt, if necessary, but Anhur I have one final question?”
“Of course, my friend, what is your question?”
“At Pac Toul in Cambodia your people kept two people hostage - a man and Mrs. Helga Friedman. We know what happened to Mrs. Friedman, what became of the man?”
“Ah yes the man! You see when our Sunev leaders decided to keep the two ‘workers’ or captives as you prefer, they had intended to do great things with them to help shape your planets destiny, for the better. Mrs. Friedman, as a chemist, could do wonders in an ancient world where her knowledge would be invaluable, and it was. Her relocation was a total success. But back to the man...he was a physicist...the leaders thought he could perfect solutions to scientific matters that would make the Earth a more beneficial and safer place to live for all humanity. Our leaders has now learned that we should not and cannot invoke our own expectations on your world...they now realize that your destiny is in your hands and your hands only. We are not to interfere anymore.”
“Who was this man?”
“The leaders ‘transported’ him back to the beginning of your 20th century as the son of Ella and Julius...”
“Ella and Julius’ son who? What was their name?” Someone asked.
“Oppenheimer...their name was Oppenheimer.”
“Ah yes,
” said Captain Scarburg, “Oppenheimer...Robert Oppenheimer - ‘the father of the atomic bomb.”
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“I am sorry Dr. Scarburg - oh, Little ‘S’, Dr. Lou, Ms Gabby, Mr. Lonnie Joe and Mr. Roche. I realize Mr. Bud, Mr. Forrest and Ms Olive were your family and your friends. I know their mission was to examine the Mayan obelisk with the stone calendar. This stone also referenced the catastrophic disaster date of 21 December 2012. My people left that stone for your generation to find over a thousand years ago.
“There is more bad news. Our leaders, the ones who wear the golden medallions, are against your race finding out about the 21 December 2012 disaster, they planted two Evals on Forrest, Bud and Olive’s flight, one man and one woman. They were to obtain the information on the location of the Mayan calendar stone. This stone is similar to the writings over the tomb door, it is a warning also.
The two were to steal the information, if possible, preventing your people from discovering the 21 December 2012 date. The Evals woman was, what your race would call, sexy and beautiful. If the Evals man failed to get the documents the woman was to, as you say, ‘ply her womanly wiles’ on them and get the information. Little ‘S’ our leaders had made the decision that your SCAR team was not to discover the message written on the Mayan calendar.”
“Damn your people...Anhur. They didn’t have to kill a whole ‘plane full of innocent people. I had the impression your race of ‘people’ were ‘humane’. You could have made yourself known earlier, I’m sure an arrangement could have been worked out. Now I have lost two grandsons and a granddaughter - Lou and Gabby have lost two brothers and a sister - Lonnie Joe and Roche have lost good friends. This does not even consider the misery caused to the hundreds and hundreds of relatives and friends affected by the other passenger deaths.”
“Yes Little ‘S’, I am truly sorry but there is another person on that flight that you know. It is not Bud, Forrest, Olive or any of the SCAR team.”
“I’m sorry Anhur you must be mistaken. My SCAR team is the only ones I’m aware of on the flight to Mexico City.”
“A man, actually a young boy, you met indirectly during your escape from Cambodia into Thailand in 1967.”