Chapter 53 - Rise up

"The splendor of our King. Clothed in Majesty, let all the earth rejoice. Let all the earth rejoice!!"

"They're here!! We should leave...now."

"I'm not going anywhere so let them come. This is my church and I won't stand to see it fall."

"He wraps Himself in Light. And darkness tries to hide and trembles at his voice.."

"Then I will stay behind with you."

"And trembles at his voice. How great...is our God. Sing with me how great is our God. And all will see how great, how great...is our God!!

"No, I was the one who helped buid this church with my own hands and as thus I will be the one to protect it. Now go!! Go warn the others with utmost haste and speed."

"Age to age He stands. And time is in His hands. Beginning and the end. Beginning and the end!

"I wish you well sister. May the God of our fathers watch over you."

"You as well young one. Leve before they spot you."

"The Godhead three in one. Father, Spirit, Son!! The Lion and the Lamb. The Lion and the Lamb."

"Where are you going, miss? The song is not over."

"Remember kid; when it rains it pours and when it pours it hails."

"Stop closing the blinds and running around like a mad woman. We need light in here. You're starting to attract attention."

" Then when it hails it storms."

"Stop it right now. You're starting to make everybody nervous."

"Then when it storms it floods."

"What are you doing now? Stop peeking out the window."

"Let's not forget, dear brothers and sisters, the last part."

"Last Part!!"

"When it floods...it consumes. Everybody get...….."

"Maam. Maam can you hear me?"

"What's happening over there?"

"Everybody get under your chairs NOW!!"

"Wait, wh….."

"They found us. AMBUSH!!!!!"

"Men, move in. Snipers stay put. We still may need you."

"People don't freak out. Get to the hidden room behind the painting in the gym. Single file now.

"Here, take this. My daughter warned me that she was coming."

"No..Nooo. Don't die on me now. I can't lose you. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!"

"Smoke them out boys!! They're just rats in a cage at this point. Get the catapults ready. Aim…...Fire!!!!"

"SHIELD OF PROTECTION!!!

Men, I can't hold this forever. Pick up your guard and fight with me please. Strength is in numbers. You cannot just run and flee whenever something troubles you."

"Ellen, we have nothing to fight with. The Bible says that the chuch is within all of us and we are the temple. No longer is it a physical structure so just save yourself. Do you not already see the bodies laying on the floor?"

"You who so boastly talk of saving for your brothers and sisters across the sea and saying you would willingly withstand any trial, temptatiion; and would be marderes for Christ!! Was that not all a lie? Should my sacrifices and protection over this church be in vain. You oh pastor who has talked weeks on end of girding yourself with the armor so that we may fight the wiles of the enemy, but then once strife actually does come; your first thought is to flee with everybody else. My strength is failing, but there is nothing stopping me from letting this shield lose and sacrificing all of you cowards and hypocrites."

"Let me in, let me in, let me in!!!"

"No! Nobody else will leave this place or so help me."

"Ellen. What is this? Are you two conspiring together to leave us here to die. If we flee; then your brother will kill us for that but if we stay and fight then we will surely die out there."

"Would it not be better to die on the battlefield knowing that you have honored God instead of locking His truths in your heart and dying a coward for fear of telling?"

" I'm with you Ellen. I may not be strong in the faith and just starting out really but I will render my services.

SHIELD OF PROTECTION!!!"

"Two of us are great but can there be but others? This man has just joined us in the faith two days ago so how can you so 'mighty' and 'full' just stand by and watch. It only takes faith as small as a mustard seed to move a mountain of impossible scale."

"Guy's she's right!! How can we stand by idly while a young man is fighting for something he himself doesn't even know the full extent of the battle.

SHIELD OF PROTECTION!!!

"Shielf of Protection!!!"

"Shield of Protection!!"

"Shield of Protection!!"

"Shield of Protection!!!!"

"Pastor, will not you help in the cause or are you here just to receive your weekly pastor paycheck and be gone?"

"I...I...I'm old. There is no possible way I could help you at my age. Look at my bones!!"

"Pastor, the body cannot function without all the parts doing their best. 1st Corinthians 12:12-31, 'Just as a body though one, has many parts; but all its many parts from one body; so it is with Christ. For we are all baptized by one spirit so as to form one body; whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free. And we were all given the one spirit to drink. Even so, the body is not made up of one part but of many.

Now if the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason stop being a part of the body. And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them; just as He wanted them to be. If they are all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I don't need you!' And the head cannot say to the feet, 'I don't need you!' On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable. And the parts we think are less honourable, we treat with special honor. The parts that are unpresentable are treated with modesty while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving honor to the parts that lacked it so that there should be no division in the body; but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers every part suffers with it. If one part is honored then every part rejoices with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second;prophets, third; teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts."

"How can I say no to that empowering speech? What do you want me to do?"

"Just do the best you can do at whatever."

"I'll try my….Watch out!!!!"

"I beseech thee fire and wind. By the power of the Holy Spirit in me I command thee to stop."

"Oh no!!!!"

"At my command turn and fire back where you came from.

Come on brothers and sisters. Whoever thinks they can turn the church against us let us crush them like we did these foes. Follow me to battle!!!!!