One Thousand Years
Genesage
"Noah"
(Chp3:9)
Five members of the community here thought of themselves as “survivors” and identified themselves as that sect.
Fiercely independent the "Survivor sect" had passed into the Kingdom of God holding onto strong opinions and ancient ways regardless of the devastation that had come upon the earth. Initially it was from shock and denial of the “World Wide Holocaust,” a form of PTTSD’s (Post Tribulation Traumatic Shock Syndrome).
It was odd to Eben though he felt compassion for them, to imagine anyone holding on to anything of the past. The Present Day was so much more than anyone yet could imagine, and everyday a new wonder was just waiting to be revealed to them.
Yet the "Survivor Party" or sect had almost since day one treated the Old World as a "better" place. Better than the "world" they now lived in.
God had almost destroyed the Earth in Judgment and allowed the near annihilation of the nations by war. Now there would be no war, none. God would not allow it. The Price of peace was an absence of violence. The Violent Man was being transformed to the “Ways of Peace.”
Shock or obstinacy Eben wasn't sure which, kept the Survivors clinging to what they assumed was a better way of life for them back then. Thinking or imagining life was better in Man’s Technology rather than the “life” they had now.
Life now with the freedom to follow their personal choices. Survivors were certainly adamant about following their own “personal” choices.
They were as diverse as they were obstinate.
Waiting for them to change Eben simply lived day to day thankful. Hopeful that one day the memories would wash away in time. As the children grew and the new world took hold he hoped the old would fade away into the new.
Noah had told him they would.
Since these days were a lot like the days of Noah after the ark doors were opened Eben imagined he was probably right. After all, Noah had been through much the same experiences.
"Father of Nations", Eben smiled when "Father" Abraham and "Father" Noah were called that after having met both of them. It was certain there was a gene pool everyone pulled from in both of them.
Neither was what one might have said as "cut from the same cloth".
Noah did in fact enjoy building and structured settlements; Abraham still liked traveling and dwelling apart. Each man had strong opinions. They both had a lot more time to think about life, God, nations, Mankind’s history.
Both enjoyed a different perspective on "humans" as they drew their own conclusions separately.
"As if we are so different now?”
considered Eben, remembering meeting Noah.
It was funny how I over reacted to that meeting,
thought Eben.
Staring and mouth wide open Eben couldn't say a word when Noah had stopped by the community to visit and encourage him.
His students would have loved that moment, for rarely was Eben caught without a word, but alone with Patriarchs, or at least those he thought of as rather famous, it tended to catch Eben speechless.
Finally after what had to have been an hour or more of total brain meltdown, and Noah standing patiently waiting with no expression on his face, he had asked,
"Am I welcome to come in or should I leave?"
Thank God he had walked in anyways and sat down and waited for me to gain composure,
Thought Eben as Noah had added,
"I see you haven't met Adam yet have you?"
Laughing now at it was easy to look back on those early days.
Meeting legendary characters was bad enough, but to have them in the Kingdom, many times, right at your own doorstep, that took some getting used to. Even then it was hard not to fall down at their feet and want to listen to the stories these men and women could tell.
Eben called this time the "adjustment" and it took the Lord Jesus himself talking to him to "get over" Hero worship and not recognize these "GodKind" as men and women of God just like himself, more or less.
They did have much more experience in some ways than he did.
But in many respects they were learning much like he was. They still had personality. Unique and distinctive traits that were recognizable in them. Each had recognized and acknowledged Messiah as Jesus the Christ.
That went without saying, but neither had any knowledge of the concepts of things like computers or technocracy. Modernization was a foreign term.
Even words like saying Christ or Christian were strange to them.
God dwelling with them was more relevant and important an issue than a person trying to be “Christ like”. They didn’t even try. They just accepted God accepted them. Sometimes they appeared wiser than the Wise Men of the late twentieth century.
A lot of the earlier "Biblical" people had more experience in spiritual knowledge and acceptance than the "savvy" industrial age people had, and that was obvious here.
Generational gaps and conceptualization gaffs made talking with the “ancients” interesting.
The initial adjustment time had been in its own way as hard on those who had been raptured or translated as those who had not.
Everyone Eben had known before the "snatched away" aka "Rapture" had always thought that when they were changed in the twinkling of an eye, they would also in that twinkling gain all knowledge. Nothing could have been farther from the truth. Thinking about it now, it only made sense.
"Why else would we study to show ourselves approved unto God if we were going to “Know it All” anyways? Why not change that to say, Study as little as possible because you will Know it anyways..,"
Eben thought about how arrogant we all were in those "last days".
Always assuming we were the Apex of Knowledge rather than the bottom of the barrel when it came to actually "living" what we assumed we knew.
Pride certainly was obvious in us all. Thank God he loved us anyways.
I have always loved you, I always will,
The gentle reminder thrilled him.
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