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it may continue four more months, until the three-and-a-half-year anniversary of the treaty between Nicolae and Israel.”
    â€œWhich will also be the end of our friends Eli and Moishe,” Vicki said.
    â€œThey’re going away?” Charlie said.
    â€œIn the due time, the Antichrist will execute them,” Vicki said. “But they won’t stay dead.”
    â€œHere’s the bad news for us,” Mark said, finding his place in the letter.
    â€œThis will usher in a period when many more believers will be martyred.”
    â€œWhat’s that mean?” Charlie said.
    â€œKilled because you believe in Jesus,” Conrad said.
    The room fell silent. Vicki thought of the adult Tribulation Force and those believers who even worked inside the Global Community. Could they survive for long when they were employed by the enemy of God? What about Buck Williams and Rayford Steele? Vicki closed her eyes and wondered how many in this room would make it to the Glorious Appearing of Christ.
    â€œLet me finish the rest of this, and we’ll get some sleep,” Mark said.
    â€œMany of you have written and asked how a God of love and mercy could pour out such awful judgments upon the earth. God is more than a God of love and mercy. The Scriptures say God is love, yes. But they also say he is holy, holy, holy. He is just, as in justice. His love was expressed in the gift of his Son as the means of salvation. But if we reject this love gift, we fall under God’s judgment .
    â€œI know that many hundreds of thousands of readers of my daily messages must visit this site not as believers but as searchers for truth. So permit me to write directly to you if you do not call yourself my brother or sister in Christ. I plead with you as never before to receive Jesus Christ as God’s gift of salvation. The sins that the stubborn unbelievers will not give up will run out of control during the last half of the Tribulation, referred to in the Bible as the Great Tribulation .
    â€œImagine this world with half its population gone. If you think it is bad now with millions having disappeared in the Rapture, children gone, services and conveniences affected, try to fathom life with half of all civil servants gone. Firemen, policemen, laborers, executives, teachers, doctors, nurses, scientists … the list goes on. We are coming to a period where survival will be a full-time occupation.”
    Vicki glanced at Melinda. She was hanging on every word of Tsion’s letter.
    â€œI would not want to be here without knowing God was with me, that I was on the side of good rather than evil, and that in the end, we win. Pray right now. Tell God you recognize your sin and need forgiveness and a Savior. Receive Christ today, and join the great family of God. Sincerely, Tsion Ben-Judah.”
    Mark folded the pages and put them in his pocket.
    Lenore said, “You did a great job making that understandable.” All the kids agreed, then, one by one, stood and headed off to bed.
    Shelly hugged Conrad. “Thanks for all the driving you did.”
    â€œMy pleasure, little lady,” Conrad said in a mock cowboy voice. He laughed, and Shelly winked at Vicki.
    â€œWait a minute,” Vicki whispered. “Are you interested in Conrad?”
    Shelly yawned. “I’d love to stay up and talk, but I’m pretty tired.”
    â€œNot fair!” Vicki said, but Shelly was already out of the room.
    Melinda sat alone at the table. Vicki put an arm around her. “You want to talk?”
    â€œI don’t trust the others like I do you.”
    â€œI’m glad you trust me.”
    â€œWhen they told me about those horses and riders, I freaked. Getting stung by the locust was bad enough, but this next thing sounds awful.”
    â€œIt will be. It is. But you don’t have to be afraid. If you’ll just—”
    â€œI know. All I have to do is believe like you guys.” Melinda