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Security to take over our broadcast center. I want the management personnel shot to death through both eyes, one administrator at a time, from the top down through the chain of command, one every sixty seconds until someone has wrested back control of the airwaves. Understood?”
    No one moved or spoke.
    “Understood?!”
    “Yes, Excellency!” Leon said, reaching for his phone.
    “I’m on it,” Viv Ivins said, phone already to her ear.
    Carpathia whirled and faced the screen. “Does no one understand?” he railed. “Does no one recognize this man? This is the one who assassinated me! And while I raised myself from the dead and reign as your living lord, he remains a thorn in my side. Well, no longer! Not after today! A third of our entire army will overrun Petra tonight, and he shall be my personal target!”
    With hydration and an IV started by Leah, Rayford at last began to feel he might make it. He still felt as if he had been run over by a tank, and there would be no walking or helping himself get off this godforsaken slope. But his mental faculties were returning, and he came to believe that Leah and Abdullah could somehow get him back to the compound.
    “Two things, Miss Rose,” Abdullah said.
    “Shoot.”
    “According to Miss Palemoon, we have a problem with the conveyance.”
    “What problem? There’s a stretcher in the Co-op. And a gurney too. ”
    “She checked with Mrs. Woo, and they both believe these will be impossible to transport to this location. ”
    Leah sat back, and Rayford saw her scan the hills above her leading to Petra. “She may have a point. What’s number two?”
    “She says Micah is on GC television and that we might want to tune it in. ”
    “Do you have a TV, Mr. Smith?”
    “Of course. ”
    “Well, the captain is as stable as I can make him, and we may be here a while. Let’s have a look. ”
    Abdullah pulled a small TV from a leather bag attached to his bike.
    “You want to see this, Captain?” Leah said.
    Chang was glued to his monitor, but he asked Naomi to gather around him the rest of the techies on duty.
    “Check this out, people, ” he said. “Look at the counter in the upper left of the screen. ”
    Whistles and back slaps and exultations followed the speeding numbers, racing upward by the tens of thousands a second but having already surged far past the largest television audience in history. Nothing Carpathia ever broadcast had come close; in fact, the previous three records had all been held by Tsion Ben-Judah.
    “Dearly beloved, ” Chaim had begun, “I speak to you tonight probably for the last time before the Glorious Appearing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ the Messiah. He could very well come during this message, and nothing would give me greater pleasure. When He comes there will be no more need for us to fight Antichrist and his False Prophet. The work will have been done for us by the King of kings.
    “But as He did not return seven years to the minute from the signing of the covenant between Antichrist and Israel, many are troubled and confused. I wish to speak
    to that here, but mostly I need to be brief, for as you know, we commandeer these airwaves against the wishes of our archenemy, and you must believe that he is doing everything in his power right this very instant to bump us.
    “More important than discussing the timing of Messiah’s return, however—which I can summarize in a sentence: I believe He will be here before midnight, Israel Time—is the spiritual state of my fellow Jews around the globe. If you have never listened before, lend me an ear this day. This is your last chance, your final warning, my ultimate plea with you to recognize and accept Jesus as the Messiah you have for so long sought.
    “You have heard many times the proclamations of my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Tsion Ben-Judah, who outlined the numerous prophecies that soon came to pass. If these never persuaded you, hear me now and know that it is likely