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SO YOU’RE SAYING THAT EMPEROR NERO WAS THE BEAST AND THE ANTI-CHRIST ALL ROLLED INTO ONE?

Yes.

THAT’S INCREDULOUS.

Not to the folks who had to put up with him.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD?  YOUR SON WAS RATHER EXPLICIT ABOUT THAT.  WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN?

What a question – two questions actually.  Let me put it this way.  The end that you’re talking about?  Never.  I have seen to that.  My play runs forever – keeps reinventing itself in perpetuity.⁷¹  The end that my son talked about?  That happened back in Act II, Scene 5 – the very juncture we have been discussing.  With the fall of Jerusalem, we put an end to that world, allowing the new one that we had created to fully kick-in.  That covenant with Abraham and his progeny that I mentioned earlier?  We replaced it – I should say, absorbed it into the one that I made with my son and his future siblings.⁷²  That was the plan all along.  Just a tad difficult to explain, but when I made that earlier agreement, I had the future one in mind.  They were one in the same, actually – sort of like the beast and the anti-Christ.

HAVEN’T SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED THAT THE EARTH IS SLOWING DOWN?  DOESN’T THAT MEAN THE END IS INEVITABLE?

Be careful not to forget who controls it all, who invented science for his own purposes.  That’s me.  Earth winding down – just one result of the usurper’s rebellion and the judgment which followed.  Tilting the Earth is another.⁷³  No need to fret about those things.  We can fix it all when the time is right.  The best is yet to come.  It is helpful to be actively engaged in possibility thinking.⁷⁴  You recall that I mentioned audience participation.  We called our servant Gabriel from the audience to inform the mother we had picked for my son of her impending miracle.  Do not forget he conveyed to her that with me nothing will be impossible.⁷⁵

71 “Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end, Amen” (Ephesians 3:21, King James Version).  “One generation passes away, and another generation comes; but the earth abides forever” (Ecclesiastes 1:4).  “And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He has established forever” (Psalm 78:69).

72 “For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us” (2 Corinthians 1:20).

73 “He shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars (axis) tremble” (Job 9:6).

74 “Now faith is the substance (seed) of things hoped for, the evidence (seed) of things not seen. . . . by faith the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” (Hebrews 11:1, 3).

75 “. . . the angel Gabriel was sent by God to . . . a virgin . . . (whose) name was Mary.  And . . . the angel said to her, ‘. . . with God nothing will be impossible’” (Luke 1:26-28a, 37).  “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, ‘With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’” (Matthew 19:26).  “Ah, Lord God!  Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and the outstretched arm.  There is nothing too hard for You” (Jeremiah 32:17).