up. A few minutes later he returns with three books in his arms.
“What are those?” Jamal asks.
“This is a Bible,” Tim replies placing the smallest of the three books on the coffee table.
“This is a dictionary, and this is a concordance.” He continues placing the next larger and then the largest book down. “To really know what the Bible says, you need these to understand it. Please take these and read the book of Matthew, using these other books as aids. Also read any verses that the reference letters by some of the words say to read.
:November 30
:5:31 p.m.
Three days pass when again the bell at Tim’s front door rings. Christa answers it and asks Jamal into the house. She takes him back to Tim’s office where he sits, working on the computer once again.
“Timothy, you have a visitor,” she says in a cheerful tone as Jamal pokes his head into the small room.
“Come in, Jamal. Sit down!” He gestures to a white wicker chair near him. So the large man sits causing the chair to crackle. In his arms are the books that were loaned to him the other day.
“I would just like to thank you, Tim. For the first time I actually understood the Bible. I also accepted Jesus as my Savior last night with the help of my Mother. I just ran out this morning and bought my own copy of this concordance.”
“Well, that’s just fantastic, Jamal! I’m real happy for you!” Christa says as she returns to the room from the kitchen.
“Yes, so am I,” Tim agrees as he taps his hand on the other man’s knee.
“I also realized that the Devil has played me for a fool. He used me to help in the destruction of the relationship between the blacks and whites, and I’m sorry for that.”
“Don’t be hard on yourself. You didn’t know,” Christa says.
“Yes, but I should have. There’s no telling what damage I may have done. Not only with my Brothers, but with whites I have wronged.”
“All you need do is ask forgiveness from God, and He will forgive you. But if you can, find these people and either ask their forgiveness or tell them what you think, and that you were wrong. Then if they don’t accept what you have to say, well, it’s on their heads then,” Timothy comments as his wife agrees.
“You’re probably right, but the strangest thing happened to me last night.”
“Oh, what was that?” Christa asks.
“Well, I had this dream. I was in this dark forest, but I saw some light ahead. So I walked toward it. When I got there, there was this building. At the door to this place was Jesus...”
“And he took you inside to a room at the end of a long hall where there was a bunch of tables with kids sitting around them all, but one. On this table were some cans, and you handed them to the kids,” Tim finishes as Jamal looks on in shock.
“Why, yes! How did you know?” he says. His eyes wide.
“That was the first dream that Tim had when he became saved,” answers Christa. “I’ll never forget it. The day he told me I asked him to marry me.” Christa laughs as Tim’s face reddens with embarrassment.
“What do you mean first dream? You mean you’ve had other dreams?”
“Yes,” Tim answers as he takes his Bible from Jamal, and reads Acts 2:17 to him.
“I and now you are what I feel are dreamers of dreams, or `Dreamers’ as Jesus put it.”
“As Jesus put it? You mean you’ve talked to Jesus personally?”
“Yes, in a dream I had a while back. I think in the last ten years I’ve had around a hundred dreams, but I’ve only seen Jesus in two of them.”
“Malcom said something about you having some kind of dream, but I didn’t realize until now what he was talking about,” Jamal says as he pauses. “And you’re saying I’m a `Dreamer’?”
“From what I can tell at this time, I would say yes.”
A Judgment
:December 30
:10:30 p.m.
It has been a month since that afternoon that Jamal Washington had talked with Christa and Timothy about his dream. Since then, the younger man has been over several times, and they are quickly becoming good friends. It is a friendship that Tim feels begins to fill the void in his life left by the passing of Gerald. Jamal has just left an hour ago, and now the couple lie in bed as Tim holds his wife. Within a few minutes they are both sound asleep.
Gray clouds fill the sky as rain falls upon a step-type pyramid standing before Timothy. He looks at the carved rock and sees that it appears to be that of a Central or South American civilization. He turns to look upon this community that few people of today know about. What he sees though is an empty city or village.
“What happened?” Tim asks, knowing his angelic guide will answer him even though he has not even looked to see if his giant friend is there.
“This is the remains of a dead society.” The reply comes from behind him, and so he turns to look at the angel setting upon the large step-like structure.
“How did it die?”
“It was killed by an illness, an illness you call small pox.”
“Small Pox? Wasn’t that brought to the Americas by Columbus?”
“That is correct.”
“Then why are we here? What does this have to do with God or Jesus?”
“It has everything to do with God. You see, they are the children of Noah. They came to be here by a land bridge between what you call Siberia and Alaska, and they also came by boat. This all took place after God destroyed Babel.
“They knew God, and they knew of his wrath, as witnessed by their own memories of their past, which people of your time have discovered. Soon after they arrived here, they forgot Him. They fell into the deepest of sins. They murdered their children for their false gods and committed the most heinous of adulteries.
“God’s anger became so great that he made those who remembered Him to come to this land. When they came though, they brought the judgment of God with them a judgment that would affect both peoples.
“You see, the Lord allowed different maladies to develop in the two separate cultures. For those that remembered God, He gave them sicknesses that can be passed from one to another just by breathing; but for these people he gave a more repulsive disease, one caused by their acts of adultery. Due to the sins of both, God allowed the spread of these sicknesses to both groups, and so this is the result here.”
“What is this disease the Europeans caught?”
“You call it Syphilis, and right at the time we stand in, it is spreading like a plague across that continent all due to adultery.
“But since these people have forgotten God, illness is not their only torment they are to face. This bountiful land He has given them shall be given to those that know Him. This shall take hundreds of years as you already know. They shall become poor in this rich land as they watch their conquerors become rich.
“Only those of the people that are in the deepest of jungles or who have some remembrance of God shall survive with some memories of their past,” Gabriel finishes as Tim thinks of the native Americans in the United States.
“Mommy!” comes the sound of Joshua’s voice to his ears, and so he awakens to the crying of his youngest son as he and his wife both get up to care for him.
The World Wars
:January 20, 1991
:11:03 p.m.
It has been three weeks since Timothy’s last dream. In that time Malcom, Jamal and Alex have visited several times. The four men have discussed the dreams of the two Dreamers, along with personal items. It pleases Tim that both of the two brothers have begun seriously dating. He knows that they will marry soon, and so he is very happy for both of them.
Now though, Tim and Christa lie in their bed as they watch a movie they have rented for their VCR. Soon though, they become tired and fall asleep.
A silent explosion bursts almost directly in front of Tim, which startles him as the flash of fire thrusts a huge amount of dirt into the air.
As it settles and the smoke from the blast begins to dissipate, he sees before him a cratered landscape. In the distance he sees a Mark I British tank from World War I as it emerges from a ditch. Soon after this, it is followed by a slow moving group of crouching soldiers. Timothy looks in the direction they are moving and sees the heads of men in what appears to be turbans and helmets in a long trench.
“Before you is a battle near Jerusalem,” comments Gabriel. “These British troops are starting to make the last charge upon the Turkish lines. Before this day is through, Jerusalem will be in the hands of Christians once again.
“Due to this, many of the Israelites begin to return to their homeland. This fact does not escape the evil gaze of Satan. When he sees this, he put into action two of his many plans to defeat God. He did this because he knew that the last days were quickly approaching.
“First, he ordered two of his strongest followers to enter into the second phase of their plan. Soon after, Russia fell into his hands, and civil war erupted in China. Then he ordered three more of his supporters to go into the world and start discontentment. As a result three nations filled with discord. Of these three, the strongest was Germany, and so the Fallen One worked within this country the most.
“The objective of these creatures was to destroy all the Israelites, and so World War II came to be. The strongest of Satan’s beasts gathered others with him, and so they created the `Death Camps’ to kill the children of God, both Israelis and Christian alike.
“I will not take you there. For I know you