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fishbird
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You have been given a powerful set of wings by GOD, insurmountable strength, and the brilliant white shining countenance of an Angel. You have been
given the power and light to stand against any darkness and have it flee from your presence.
You have been given a mission.
To descend into the abyss of hell, to find and deliver to God, the ones who most need to be corrected.
You have someone in mind.
Now, you need to find the entrance to the abyss. First, you find a place on Earth.
As your surroundings come into focus you clearly see the hole in the ground that you know leads down into hell. You approach, seeing there is a door
just inside. Opening the door, you enter, and close it behind you.
Down you go.
You are enveloped in deep redness and darkness. A deep, dark, red void. A sickly sweet stench of old blood and sulfur stings your nostrils.
You see rocky ground far below. Descending quickly, you soon notice the forms of people in amongst the rock. Each individual is naked, separated from
their peers in their own shallow hollowed-out cell on a huge plateau of stone.
As you descend further you see and hear more clearly. Some people are laughing, some are crying. Some people are screaming and shouting madly into the
corners of their hollows, deeply immersed in visions.
You realize they're in employment.
Down here, Imagination and willpower have been honed into weapons, and as the vision is below, so it is above, playing out in the real world.
Scene-by-scene they enact the plan of the one that holds them there in bondage.
Hurting. Maiming. Killing.
Lying. Scheming. Subverting.
Willingly...
Gladly...
Even gleefully...
Out of the corner of your eye you see the person you are here to bring to the sight of God.
You remember the evil they have done.
As you approach you notice their emaciated, naked state. You see that they are bound at each wrist by a thick metal shackle, tethered by chains.
You see clearly now their face, contorted, smirking in a pathetic stupor.
You are upon them.
Your radiance illuminates their cell, your subject recoiling in your brilliant whiteness. You reach down to the cuffs they are bound by. Grasping a
metal cuff you snap it in two as if it were nothing. You free the remaining hand and take them by the underarms, to you they are not heavy.
Raising your wings, with a single beat you take off.
Upwards you fly with the force of an Angel, leaving the plateau below, far below, as you traverse the redness and darkness of the expanse of hell.
You realise you never met the devil.
It didn't dare come near.
Now, approaching the door you entered by, irresistibly you go through, shutting it firmly behind you.
Back into your own world.
Green grass and trees. Buildings.
People talking, birds singing.
Blue sky above.
Easily bearing the load of your wretched captive, your powerful wings take you upwards. Each thunderous beat takes you ever higher, your familiar
surroundings growing smaller and smaller, now far, far below.
You see the curvature of the Earth, slowly accentuating into a blue and green circle as you rise, the black expanse of space becoming clearer, studded
with stars.
Prisoner in hand, you become aware of an expanse of white cloud, and a shimmering, bright, spiritual light above you.
Your ward is no longer overcome with intoxication, their facial expression now gaunt and deathly serious. They see the situation clearly and have
fallen silent.
Now palpably shaking in fear for what they have done and where they are going, you are enveloped in the shining translucent mist of the Heavens.
The mist steadily thickens, the sound of heavenly music growing clearer, until the opaque whiteness opens up into a new firmament.
It is different here.
You've never seen or heard anything like this before.
Ornate, colossal golden gates stand a ways off before you, and you get the sense of a beautiful land, a faint green beyond, veiled for now by the
crystalline suspension in the air, glittering white and gold.
The music stops.
You stand with your captive held out in front of you. The bright light plays off your wings, your radiance intertwines and dances in electric crackles
with the shimmering air.
GOD APPROACHES
Holy beings now surround you, figures from many religions, some seething in anger, others looking troubled, still others looking on in concern, others
in pity.
You hold out your trembling quarry before you.
You close your eyes.
Your legs give way and you fall to your knees.
GOD. IS. HERE.
The brilliant white flash of THE LORD'S countenance through your eyelids causes you to avert your face and squeeze your eyes closed tight.
The doors of perception fall firmly upon your ears as you feel the echoes of the Almighty booming voice of GOD roll forth like an avalanche upon the
sinner you hold. Even with your strength you struggle to keep hold in the raging torrent of boulders THE LORD is speaking. You can't catch the words,
they're not meant for you.
The person before you is being severely reprimanded and reminded of the difference between Good and evil.
GOD HAS SPOKEN.
The earthquake stops and they fall limp in your arms. Your perception returns as GOD shifts presence and the reverberations fade. Still you kneel. The
light is no longer unbearable in intensity. As you become able to open your eyes, you see The Saviour, radiant, standing before you, face obscured in
flickering light, speaking to you as a friend...
'THANK YOU'.
High on your forehead a Blessing is traced by The Saviour, inscribed with an indescribable weight and pressure yet somehow quite painless.
You are beckoned to stand.
You stand and bow your head in humility.
The Heavenly Host watch on.
The clouds begin to part under your feet.
Held aloft by your mighty wings above the vast expanse of space, and with the Earth far below, you release your unconscious captive.
And they fall back down to the world.
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Might you decide to dive, to catch them at the last moment, to leave them with a parting look?
You choose the ending. It's up to you.
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Ephesians 6:10-13
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
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