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There was nothing left of Gnort, the largest city in the western nation.

An old man, the Wisest One in the Ages or Woita said to the people, children, a few men and women but mostly elders, “We cannot stay here. Our food is gone and we will starve. We must make our way to the soldiers of the capitol where Hitla can feed us.”

“But that is forty miles or more,” they said, “How can we make it?”

“Trust in God,” Woita said, “He will not leave us to starve.”

“He may,” an old woman Iaap or I am a Pain said, “Our land is in ruins and Thotkot will come and kill us anyway as has happened throughout the world. This John is an evil God.” Then she raised her fist in the air and shouted, “I will kill you, John!” But she turned away and began to make her way to a large block where there was shade for the sun was already hot when she stumbled and broke her neck.

They ran to her but finding she was dead they left her lying there as Woita said, “Keep yourselves from evil, now more than ever,” and they sat there the rest of the day but along towards evening Woita said, “Tomorrow we shall have food from God! Just wait and see. There is no more food in the capitol than there is here,” and they all bedded down waiting for tomorrow.

But it rained during the night and in the morning the ground was white though most of them had given up in their sleep and went to the New Earth and only Woita, a small boy and four others were left.

“Woita! Woita!” the boy yelled. “It snowed last night!”

The old man opened his eyes and seeing the ground was all white he said, “This is not snow as you think! It is bread ready to eat from the Gods.” Then he bent down and picked some of the white stuff and found it to be bleached flour made into a light film of bread over everything. They scooped it off the smooth rocks and rolled it into balls and ate it saying, “John has saved us. He has given us bread!”

After he had eaten he asked the boy what his name was and he said, “I am, When he Eats he Eats with Kings.”

“Well, Whehewky, I am not a king but you may eat bread with me anytime you want to. How did you do it?”

“I closed my eyes and thought, ‘There will be more bread on the ground than an army could eat in a week!’ and there it is. See my magic, Woita? I have answered your prophecy. Am I not a great one?”

“You are that Whehewky! That you are!” Woita said and hugged him.

Then Whehewk cried into the sun, “My magic is so great even Thotkot cannot stand before me!”

“Be careful what you prophesy, Whehewky,” the old man Woita said, “You may be called upon to prove your own prophecy. Then what will you do?”

Whehewk shrugged.

“You had best amend your prophecy to be something you can do, don’t you think?” Woika said.

Whehewk said, “For he will fight Hitla and win, but be in a pit with no way out for he will fall down when he sees me.”

“That is better,” Woika said, “But how are you going to make that happen? You do not have magic like that. If you do it John will have to do it for you. He has that magic and he has already saved our lives with this magic you claim as your own not his.”

Whehewk looked at his feet as he kicked sand over some of the bread and said ashamedly, “It was John all along. I was just pretending I was a great magician. Who forgives me?”

“I do Whehewky,” Woika said. “But you can’t just make things up and expect them to happen,” when Jesus said to the boy, “Yes you can if you really believe. I can make it happen. Your prophecy will come true. It is only magic.”

Whehewk listened to both Woika and Jesus and then said, “Who am I to believe, you Woika or Jesus?”

They all laughed.

“Go to the capitol, Tsasoe, or This Shall Always Stand on Earth,” to Whehewk.

“Jesus says,” Whehewk said, “Go to the capitol and I will show thee,” for Jesus loved the boy and saw his magic that had outdone even God’s miracle of giving the Children of Israel the manna in the desert.

So Whehewk began walking to the capitol unbeknownst to him, walking in the wrong direction.

“Where are you going?” they asked Whehewk.

“To the Tsasoe,” Whehewk said.

“Then I will go with you!” Woika said, “But hadn’t you better head the other way? Tsasoe is this way, Whehewky!” and he rose and began to walk that way.

“You go your way,” Whehewk said, “I follow Jesus!”

Jesus said, “He is right.”

Then and only then did Whehewk follow the old man, Woika. But the others stayed behind seeing no reason to walk all that way to Tsasoe.

Meanwhile the war went badly for Hitla and Thotkot both the same as the last of their armies had fought until all were dead or mortally injured and only the emperor and the king were left and they were locked in battle near the pit that had been the dungeon Hitla threw the prisoners of war the Oojiog had captured and there in the dark they dreamed they were awake and they dreamed they were asleep both as had they been in the abyss when the dungeon collapsed on them leaving nothing but a pit with much rubble. The sides were too steep for a man to climb out of and indeed they had been intended to be just that.

Before Whehewk and Woika reached Tsasoe Woika had fallen and punctured a lung and sent the boy on ahead promising he would join him when his injury healed so the boy would not see him die. Every day there was enough bread to feed them but none for the ones they left behind who all gave up their spirits and were taken to the New Earth.

Jesus told Whehewk, “The Yeus will all go up today to Yogcoa to be with John. This is the end of Earth.”

Then there was music and singing as the Yeus rose as balls of light before Whehewk’s eyes. He was amazed by what he saw and even Thotkot and Hitla saw the spectacle but were still engaged in their battle to the last one on Earth. Thotkot used the distraction to catch Hitla off his guard and he pushed him into the pit and Whehewk saw it happen.

He stood behind Thotkot and yelled, “Now you will die! I prophesy-” but Jesus took the rest of the words of his prophecy away from him. But it was enough to startle Thotkot and he lost his footing and fell into the pit in like manner. But Whehewk did not see it for he was taken up to the New Earth where even Hitla greeted him with honor.

Thotkot stood at the bottom of the pit and cried out, “I have killed all in the world and I am the only one left! I have conquered the world!!!”

Then John took him and cast him in the abyss and everyone ever born on the Earth was changed and brought to the New Earth with the men of the old earth and those who had been in the New Jerusalem or were just changed Hsu included rose and they lived and delighted the old ones above as the prophecies of John resumed. 

They went on until there was nothing to do or say or think left and God let them end and started over with one more creation, the Four; God, the Spirit of Spirits also known as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of God, Jesus and John even though many of John’s prophecies were shrouded with sin because he was John Carver an old man on earth without the experience of many prophets when he prophesied them all but he did not leave off with his propesying.