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Now as the Children of Hositma grew in number they began to fill the entire plain when Hiiamor died and to avoid the overcrowding people pondered moving to the hills and mountains of the farside. But the Children  of Hiiamor lived in the central area of the plain and said, “We will build a monolith that reaches unto Aptlief so that all the people will not feel lost; they can even see it from the Piac mountains and they all began to build from the clay and straw bricks for the monolith. They were behind their leader He is Making us Great or Himug who took change and all of the Children of Hostima came to him for everything and he became like a great king.

Jesus went down to Himug and said, “I have nothing to say to you. What you are doing is not to give me direct access to the people. Therefore I will be your King and you will be my servant. When you are about to do something new like this you are to always check with me.”

Himug was amazed for he assumed that Jesus would always want what they did. So he went ahead building the monolith they call Home is Always With Us or Hiawu and sent even to the Piac for help building the thing. But the Piac said, “It is not our home. What do we care if you get lost in the prairie?” and they would not help. But the people of the prairie brought even small cases before Himug.

Himug cried out to Jesus, “They treat me like you. What am I to do? Am I a nursemaid to so many children?”

Jesus said, “I shall appoint a priest and he will handle the civil matters and I will appoint priests under him to handle the more trivial cases and only the difficult cases will come to him and the lesser ones that will be appointed over thousands and even lesser ones over hundreds. But the building and technical stuff you can handle. You are nearly as good at that as I am. But if anything new ever happens again you must ask me.”

That is when Jesus appointed He is a Great Priest Over All or Hiagpoa as the Highest Priest and he always listened to Jesus even when he did not want to. So Jesus was with Hiagpoa and the Kingdom of the Plains  Area or Kotpa flourished with Jesus doing things a different way but as always he did everything well.

Now there were a lot of adultery cases that came before Hiagpoa and Jesus always had them run off to the foothills and the mountains and allowed the victims to remarry but he turned his face away from the adulterers and the adulteresses.

A man who earned the title among the people of A Real  Jerk of my People or Arjomp beat his wife like Hositma had Sipau. But he would not leave and go to the foothills for he said he had done nothing wrong for she was his piac and his other half of a person, being a very religious man, and that he had every right to do to his whole person anything he wanted even to kill half of it.

His wife became known as Victim in their Home or Vith for she and her five children moved back home to the holes in the ground with her parents. Her family chased him off but he was always coming back to get her and finally her parents His is Kind and She is a Good Partner at All Times or Siagpaat took the case to the priest over hundreds but he did not know what to do so he sent them to one of the priests over thousands. But technically he was right but the priest did not want to give Vith back to a man like Arjomp.

Finally the case came to Hiagpoa who like the others knew it was wrong but the law was on Arjomp’s side and he demanded Vith back and Hiagpoa prayed to Jesus for help and asked him what to do.

“Force him to go to the foothills and I will save him if he wants to live,” Jesus said.

“Force him!” Hiagpoa said; he had never heard of such a thing and only forced criminals to go to the prison for things that were not unto death before.

“Yes,” Jesus said.

“I will go to Himug,” he said, “Perhaps he will give me soldiers to send to with him to the foothill far away to insure he will stay there.”

Himug said, “You are sure Jesus wants you to do this?”

Hiagpoa said, “As sure as I can be.”

Then Himug dispatched a couple of soldiers to escort Arjomp to the mountains but he would not allow them to stay and stand guard over him.

Then they came on the day appointed for Hiagpoa’s decision and two large seasoned soldiers of Himug too and took Arjomp to the mountains though he in anger protested with the same argument.

Hiagpoa washed his hands before the large crowd that had assembled, “I wash my hands of this matter. I have gone to Jesus and he is King of kings and the highest of High priests. To exile he must go like our father Othas had done who taught Hositma to be our father and to give us pride in being who we are. May it ever be though he said nothing of the matter but that he did to Hositma.”

The crowd was divided.

Some said, “It is good that he goes into exile. He is an evil human.”

But others said, “We might as well be Piac.”

But Jesus knew the Piac probably would have taken Othas back and would have left him unmarried and in shame as happened to his wife Sipau anyway though she became a powerful leader almost a queen of the Piac in her day.

After the soldiers left Arjomp in a nice little cave Jesus appeared to him.

Arjomp said, “Jesus,” knowing who it was. “I am right.”

Jesus said nothing.

“I may not be good but I am a righteous man,” he said.

God said, “Let him be in me.”

Then Arjomp said, “You are God! Do you not care that I am not good?”

God said, “In ages nobody knows anything of, I have done worse.”

“Then I will not go to the abyss?” Arjomp said.

Jesus spoke up and said, “You will never be as God in Aptlief.

But God said, “See that you do no more evil in the name of my righteousness.”

Arjomp therefore became a hermit for he would have nothing to do with his evil adulterous neighbors until the day he died.

In another case an unmarried man began seeing a married woman but she would not mate with him and run off to the foothills with him and be his wife. So he beat her badly and then violated her and some said she had committed adultery but others said she was forced. Of course Hiagpoa found the lad to be an adulterer and sent him off to the foothills where he lost his footing on a path and fell ninety feet to a solid rock base. But the woman he was unsure of how he should handle it for her husband would have nothing to do with her and brought the case before Hiagpoa to ensure everyone knew he was free to marry again.

Hiagpoa again was stumped having no leading by Jesus so he went to the altar they had built to him and asked, “Lord. What should I do? Her purity has been compromised and in a Piac purity is all that matters. But she is a victim and not truly an adulteress. What do you say?”

“What do you say , Hiagpoa?” Jesus replied.

“She is the lad’s victim,” Hiagpoa said. “She is in the right. But on the other hand she had been seeing him. So she is an adulteress in spirit if not in the flesh. But she is dead for she will not let her partner in a couple touch her and screams and is afraid of all men. How can I send a woman in her condition to the foothills? She will surely die.”

“A farmer had planted a crop,” Jesus said. “But after he had planted it an enemy sowed weeds where he had planted wheat. When the plants began to grow his servants asked him, “Didn’t you plant wheat? Why are there as many weeds as wheat in your fields?” He said, “An enemy has done this?” and they asked, “Shall we pull the weeds?” But he said, “No. For you will uproot the wheat and I will receive nothing. Let them grow together and when they have grown harvest both separating the good wheat from the weeds so that I have my full harvest.”

Hiagpoa said, “Lord, I do not understand. Do I deliver her to the wilderness now that her crop is fully grown or do I let her be? Her partner obviously doesn’t love her anymore. She is dead. Must I kill him also?”

But Jesus said, “Her crop is fully grown but she has no wheat to harvest. What good is she to the farmer. Let him go to the bankers and borrow against his next crop.”

“That is fine for him,” Hiagpoa said, “But what of her?”

“I am not the judge of the dead but the judge of the living,” Jesus said. “The dead cannot be punished after their death in a court such as this. Is she not dead here? But her body, which is nothing, is dead in the foothills. I did not stop her for was dead before he beat her and she was an adulteress before he violated her. The dead judge themselves that they are evil and send themselves to the abyss that I need not destroy life but give it. Let her go to the abyss on her own.”

Hiagpoa called for the people in his court to meet with him for his decision where he said, “Jesus says that she was an adulteress before the sexual assault  but God is merciful. I will not send her to the foothills. She may stay with the women if she and they agree to care for her until she goes to the abyss on her own. But her partner, you are alive and your wife is dead. I declare you a widower.”

Her partner married again and rebuilt a normal life as a Piac. But she was living with her mother and her remaining little sister in their household. One morning she did not come out of her room in the hole in the ground. They thought she needed more comforting but they found her stiff as if she had died early in the night which is to say she went to the abyss instead of going off to sleep that night for they recover somewhat, but very few of them. 

Jesus had taken her out before she suffered the beating and she went to Aptlief after being changed. The one in their household was a stranger to them, so different they never knew her. It made no difference if she went to the foothills or was taken home by her mother, a disgrace or not. She was not a partner of her Piac. He was right to divorce her for he did no longer know the woman. She had died before when the lad convinced her to keep company with him.

“What do you think?” I asked the Spirit of Spirits.

“I never knew her by the time of the sexual assault and I never did know him,” the Spirit of Spirits said. “That is why I do not judge. I have no dealings with the wicked.”

“How about you God?” I asked.

“Rape is a victimless crime,” he said, “They were both adulterers. Why waste your time on either of them?”

“Had she been unmarried,” I asked, “What would you say?”

“By beating her he killed her spirit,” God said. “It is a different matter for he would have been a murderer and gone to the abyss either way.”

The others agreed not to speculate.

But another couple, a man and a woman began seeing each other. But before long they fell in love. They married though she was already a partner in a Piac. So they ran off to the foothills and lived a happy moral life. But they lived with their guilt and asked Jesus to forgive them.

It is easy to forgive, but they can never be a god in Aptlief. But especially, if no one tells them, they can live a happy free life without guilt for no one knew them but the one that took their place was tainted by what they had done and gods are holy. They would go to the abyss but have good dreams forever never to awaken until the resurrection of the dead when they would be changed to the one they were before they became guilty of adultery and her maybe even to the one she was before she became a partner in a Piac.

The idea is to live free from guilt and the only way to achieve that is to be forgiven by Jesus which always turns out to be a better salvation.

Those who are evil, that is cursed by a major crime go to the abyss to live among their thoughts forever which are always evil until the resurrection of the dead when they are changed completely to life in Aptlief after everyone has forgotten what they did and said.

Those who are evil because they never go to Jesus their entire life are changed to before they were ever cursed but cannot go to Aptlief even if they are good though sometimes God will take them with those that never technically break any laws but have been only right.

If they accept Jesus as King but do not love him they go to an abyss where they keep the law but do not love Jesus.

But if the evil change their mind and love Jesus they are taken to Aptlief as the one they become after falling in love with Jesus as they change and become someone they never were before.

If those who have never called on Jesus change their mind when they learn of him and how wrong that is they go to Aptlief as who they have become as they change to someone better than they were but that is recognizable to them and others because they fell in love with Jesus.

Each step is a better resurrection that takes place either at the time of death or before they suffer in the end as a stranger that resembles them enough to save their loved ones on the planet from the grief of losing them all at once to lose them later when even they are ready and have put up with enough suffering on the part of the stranger. They are there for a reason for someone cannot deal with them being dead yet or needs to forgive them as Jesus has forgiven them themselves.

The idea is not just to love Jesus either but to again, achieve a better resurrection which can only be done by a change of mind and heart to accept Jesus as Lord and their role as a servant or a brother in love with him and any and all others.