Fire Wind by Guy S. Stanton III Page A

herd to sicken before moving in
for the kill. In that brief moment it was as clear to me that they
intended to do no less than what they had done before.
    As if to back up that thought I heard, “As
it is written, ‘The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which
shall be done: and there is no new thing under the
sun.’ ”
    The creatures I saw, no matter their origins,
were now morphed forever into the form of being destroyers of
worlds.
    My view expanded past the Earth and I saw the
devastation of both ages past and those quite recent almost
everywhere within the greater created cosmos. The sight of it all
sickened me. Destruction was being carried out on a daily basis
almost everywhere!
    “ There is an end, but yet for now time
remains. My Spirit is yet upon the waters and I have not withdrawn
My Divine favor from mankind, whom I created in Mine own image. My
order to My creation of man remains. Be fruitful and have
dominion.”
    I was suddenly back in the world I knew
looking out over the desert towards dark. Before my eyes the wind
blew up a maelstrom of sand into the air which then abruptly took
flame and burned as if oil caught on fire. The swirl of flame
seemed to call to me, but in hesitation against the heat of its
brilliance I drew back and suddenly I was falling.
    *****
    With a start I reared up. Gasping for air I
looked about the darkened church in fright.
    “Easy! Easy! It’s all right!”
    I looked to the Pastor kneeling beside me on
the floor to then stare about the darkened church.
    “I don’t understand! How long was I out?”
    “About eight hours. What did you see Taran?”
The Pastor asked, with keen interest.
    I clutched at my head with both hands. What
had I not seen?
    Looking to him I said, “Some of what I saw I
understood, so much of what I saw at first I have no comprehension
of.”
    “What did you see?” The Pastor asked
patiently.
    “At first a period of time that seemed
without end. The Earth and its surface was all different. Creation
as you and I know it was different. It took time, but eventually it
all became destroyed. The planet was left cold and dark. It seemed
to be covered in ice. Much how you read in Genesis I then saw the
days of creation unfold over six literal days. From there I could
comprehend what was going on, but the time before? Is such an
expanse of time even possible? I thought we were the only thing God
created.”
    The Pastor shook his head and leaned over to
snare a Bible off of a pew. Turning it he showed me the binding and
said, “The Bible wasn’t first written in English. This is but a
translation off the original scrolls written in ancient Hebrew and
there are quite a few flaws with the translation. Most notably in
the first few verses of the Bible. For years I believed that the
creation of the Earth occurred in the six days of creation, but
looking further I discovered a translation error. Here I’ll read it
to you in the English first and then I’ll read how the verses
should’ve been properly translated. “In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.   And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.”
    Pastor Lonigan looked up to me and said, “The
most notable translation issue is with the word, ‘ was ’. It
should have been translated as the word, “ became ” from the
ancient Hebrew and perhaps a better way of expressing the meaning
of the Hebrew then saying, ‘ without form and void ’ would be
to say, ‘ ruin and uninhabitable’ . Instead of “ moving ”
in verse two the correct translation from Hebrew is
‘ vibrate ’. Here’s what the first two verses should read as, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.   And the earth became a ruin , and uninhabitable ; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God vibrated upon the face of the waters.”