Only two hours after the tribulation Tyler appeared to Annie and said, "You must go to the park right across from the World Unity Bank. There is a tree there with a rock underneath it that you will sit on to judge."

Annie didn't waste no time. She made her way to the park and sat on the rock. Before long there was a line of people. The teenager in front asked, "How do I feed and clothed my mother and my sibling in this time?"

"Do you have wax for making candles?"

"Yes."

"Melt it and pour a small amount into a container and allow it to fill until its full and barter it. Do not accept any form of currency. Not even one Nick."

Then there was a pause Then a man with his wife holding a teenager girl wrapped in a blanket approached her. "Why are you here?" Annie asked

The woman cried. "There was no way to buy the medicine she needed and now she's dead."

"No," She smiled. "Your daughter is just sleeping."

"But she has no heartbeat."

"No,Your daughter is sleeping. Now let me have her."

The women gave Annie her daughter. She cradled the young girl and prayed, Lord...I can do all things through you. The teenagers eyes fluttered opened and she mumbled, "Mama."

"Colleen." She took her daughter from Annie and hugged her

The man begged, "Take our home...my car...even our clothes."

Annie shook her head. "I cannot. For I didn't return your daughter, god did."

He was silent.

She went on. "For he who had no sin came into the world to replace sin John Copy."

He remained silent. How could anyone know my name? Unless?

"All thing hidden whether they are good or bad will be judge."

How does she know what things I've done?

"For god sent him into the world not to condemn it but to save it."

He finally spoke, "And who is him?"

"Christ. The son of the living god."

All three of them got on their knees and cried, "Forgive us. We rebelled against he who truly loves us. Forgive us. We truly want to be in heaven."

A man stormed out of the World Unity bank and started to kick the Copy's. "She isn't in charge. Carpathia is." Then he looked at Annie. " Who do you think you are?"

"God's ambassador." She replied

"Sure. My boss outranks yours any day."

"I wouldn't be so flippant in your spiritual state."

"And what are you going to do about that?"

"Oh, nothing."

"Then I'll have you kill along with all the other bible bashers." He sneered

"I said I'll do nothing, but god can do something."

"And what is that?"

"God has sentence you as well as the other employees of the World Unity bank to have leprosy."

"Right." He laughed, then his fingers started to fall off. A few employees leaped out the buildings fourth story windows. One after another ran out and jumped into oncoming traffic.

John Copy looked at Annie in fear, but she said. "At one time you were alienated from god's kingdom."

"But..." He tried to get the words out.

"But by his son you have been pardoned."

Then John said, "Listen to her. More books, more movies have been done telling that Jesus truly died for us. He was whipped for our transgressions. His beard was plucked. He was spat on. He was given a crown of thorns. What friend would do that for us?"

Colleen Copy who was standing unassisted said, "I always wanted a friend that I could talk to anytime. Even If was to busy, I knew my friend would be waiting for me to talk to them. That what kind of friend Jesus is to me."

Annie smiled at the people accepting Jesus as their savior. She immediately recognized a girl walking up to her.

"Chloe!" She said to her cousin.

Chloe didn't respond. Annie could sense there was some distress. "What's the matter? Did Buck say something bad to you?"

"Bruce Barnes is dead."

"What!"

"He was suffering from a virus and was taken to the hospital. While he was being admitted the hospital was bombed."

A police cruiser parked across the street from them and the man in back that got out asked,, "Which one of you is Annie Harcourt?"

"Me." Annie answered.

"You are under arrest for causing a riot."

"She didn't do no such thing." Chloe put herself between her cousin and him.

Annie put her hand on her shoulder. "Jesus could've called up a thousand angels to rescue himself, yet he did it all for me."

He escorted Annie to the car. When they were inside He put a ski mask on her head with the mouth and the eyes sewed shut.

"I thought I was being arrested?" She asked

"Be quiet."

After a few minutes the car stopped and Annie could feel she was being transferred to an airplane. For over an hour the plane was in the air, then landed and she in a car. The next few minutes the car ran at a high-speed before slowing down then stopping. The man took her out of the car and guided her to an elevator and afterward through a corridor to a room.

"Remove the ski mask." a familiar voice said.

The ski mask was removed and Annie could see that she was in the oval office and President Gerald Fitzhugh was standing before her.

"Leave us." He said.

The man left and President Fitzhugh sat down behind his desk.

"To be perfectly honest you brought me here for a specific reason." Annie said to him.

President Fitzhugh smiled broadly "You are a person of great compassion."

"And you have been searching for your birth family since you've learned you were adopted."

"How did you know?"

"Cause someone already told me."

Buck Williams and I will have it out."

"Buck Williams never told me though I know he's been speaking with you."

"Then how did you find out?"

"But he who is rich in mercy, but for his great love wherewith he love us. (a/k that is from Ephesian 2:4) Mr. President, god wants to adopt you."

"How do I know I want to be?"

"Mr. president, it's no secret that you sought me out. However, You don't need me. What you got to do is ask Jesus to come into your heart to forgive you."

"I don't think I can."

"Yes you can. All you have to do is say the sinners prayer."

Gerald Fitzhugh bowed his head and said, "Lord, I want to be with you for all eternity and I want you to come into my life. To change me."

"I rejoice with you for you are truly with the family of god."

"I'm worried about your safety."

"Have no fear. Put your faith in god."

Fitzhugh got up and opened the door. "There is a car waiting for you. It will take you to wherever you want to go."

Right after Annie had left Fiztzhugh sat down and punch a button on his desk. Immediately A holographic image of Nicolae appeared in the middle of the room.

"Ah Gerald. I see you haven't vacated the oval office."

"I'm here to give you a warning Nicolae. I have changed sides."

"You are going to go along with the attack on me with Great Britain and Egypt?"

"That would be very foolish to do."

"You are a very wise person to side with me."

"The side I'm taking is not yours. Its Jesus's."

"What does that mean?"

"It means you can stop your hiding behind your man of peace."

"That is a lie."

"The lie is any war can stop you."

"Where did you get your information from."

President Fitzhugh pulled open a desk drawer, removed a bible from it and read from the book of revelations: "Who is able to make war with him?

"That is nothing."

"It is the truth that you're the anti-christ."

"Who has twisted your brain?"

"Annie Harcourt. And she hasn't twisted my brain. She has open the floodgates of my heart."

"And who is this Annie Harcourt?"

"A twelve-year-old girl which has led me to the lord."

"What's her friends? Where does she live?"

Without replying he pushed the button and the image vanished. Sirens blared and buildings exploded. Washington had been obliterated.


Annie was halfway home when she saw the driver of vehicle hearing the radio slumped forward. The time jesus will return had gotten a little closer.