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cables
"So can we get control back or not?" Colonel White asked, reasserting his
authority. There was a long silent pause.
"I don't think so," Scott answered finally. "I think they may have cut the
cables."
In all the confusion and disarray, no one noticed the faint sound of the radio
in the background as it monitored the continuous loop of the words of the
prophet Joel. Nor did they notice at first when the loop abruptly stopped and
was replaced by another voice. It was the low, rich, and measured voice of
Rabbi Saul Cohen. As the room fell silent for a moment, the familiar voice
registered in Joel Felsberg's ears. At
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first he ignored it, but then suddenly he recognized it. "That's my sister's
rabbi," he announced, surprising the others, who were trying to figure a way
out of the present predicament. "What's going on up there? Why have they shut
off the loop?" he asked as he turned the sound up enough to be heard clearly.
"Cohen? That son of a bitch!" Scott Rosen said, temporarily distracted from
the more pressing subject at hand by his intense hatred for the rabbi. Scott
was only too familiar with Cohen's powerful voice. Once, when he stayed
overnight at his parents' house, Scott was awakened in the morning by that
same voice as it joined with his parents and a few others in singing songs
proclaiming Yeshua (Jesus) as the Jewish Messiah. It took all the forbearance
he could muster to refrain from going into the kitchen and slugging the rabbi,
and still he would have, had it not been for his mother, liana Rosen. It was
one thing for individual citizens of Israel like his parents to believe in
Yeshua, but it was something else altogether for a rabbi, an Hasidic rabbi at
that, to believe it. More recently  before their deaths in the Disaster 
Scott's parents had
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with Cohen on some mysterious project. Several times Joshua, liana, and
Cohen had disappeared for weeks, leaving only a note to indicate their
expected date of return.
"All the earth has seen what has been done here today," Cohen said over the
radio. "But you, oh
Israel, have not glorified God. Instead you have congratulated yourselves for
destroying your enemy. You have glorified yourself and now you have falsely
used the words of the prophet Joel to suit your own needs. 'These words must
not be used as a rallying cry for my people,' says the
Lord. These are the words of the son of Satan, who will rally his evil forces
to destroy you in the day of the Lord that is coming. Nevertheless, the Lord,
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your God is a patient and merciful
God. Hear now the words of the prophet Ezekiel for the enemy of my people
Israel:
I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down
torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and his troops and on
the many nations with him. . . . On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you
and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all
kinds of carrion birds and wild animals.
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You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign
Lord. . . .and they will know that I am theLordP
"Today, oh Israel, today you shall behold the power and wrath of God! Here, oh
Israel, is your true battle cry. 'Behold the hand of God! Behold the hand of
God!'"
New York (4:55 a.m. New York, 11:55 a.m. Israel/Moscow)
Even in his sleep, Decker's mind was filled with the events of the day.
Suddenly he was awakened as a scream of pure terror erupted from Christopher's
room. Decker found the boy covered in sweat and trembling in fear. "What's
wrong?!" Decker shouted, his own heart racing to match
Christopher's.
Christopher sat up straight in bed and seemed unsure of his surroundings. As
he looked around, the disorientation was slow to leave him. Finally, Decker
saw a look of recognition in his eyes.
"I'm sorry," Christopher said. "I'm okay now. It was . . . just a dream."
Decker had been a father long enough to recognize when a child was attempting
to be brave. Christopher was visibly shaken and Decker wasn't about to just
leave him alone.
"Was it the crucifixion dream again?" Decker asked.
"No, no," Christopher answered. "Nothing like that."
"Well, why don't you tell me about it."
Christopher seemed a little reluctant but Decker insisted. "It was really just
a dumb dream,"
Christopher said, apologetically. "I've had the same dream before." Decker
didn't budge. "Okay,"
Christopher said, giving in to Decker's insistence. "The dream has a weird
feeling about it. It seems almost ancient, but at the same time it's clear and
fresh. When the dream starts, I'm in a room with huge curtains hanging all
around me. The curtains are beautiful, decorated with gold and silver threads.
The floor of the room is made of stone and in the middle of the room is an old
wooden box, like a crate, sitting on a table. I can't explain why, but in the
dream I feel like I
need to look in the box."
"What's in the box?" Decker asked.
m Ezekiel 38:22; 39:4-6.
"I don't know. In the dream it seems like there's something inside that I need
to see, but at the same time, somehow I know that whatever it is, it's
terrifying."
Decker read the terror in his eyes and was glad he had insisted that
Christopher tell him about the dream. This was not the sort of thing a
fifteen-year-old should have to face on his own.
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"In the dream, when I approach the box and I'm just a few feet away, I look
down and somehow the floor has disappeared. I start to fall, but I grab onto
the table that the box is sitting on."
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Christopher stopped.
"Go on," Decker urged.
"That's as far as the dream ever went until tonight."
"So, what happened tonight?" Decker prodded, anxious to hear the conclusion to
the strange dream.
"Well, usually I wake up at that point, but this time there was something
else: a voice. It was a very deep, rich voice and it was saying, 'Behold the
hand of God; Behold the hand of God!'"
Decker had no idea what the dream might mean but it certainly had his
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