Chapter 1
Jeff was on his way to the student center in a daze. He hade just taken a test in his hardest subject,
math. His brain was fried and he felt like he had just been through World War III. He was looking
forward to sitting in the student center, getting something to eat, and drink. He had just headed in
the door when one of the religious fanatics that formed a club on campus came up to him preaching.
Oh great he thought, I really am not in the mood for this. Jeff was not a atheist by any means. He
did believe in a god and he did believe that Jesus was a person who lived in the area of Galilee.
What he didn't believe was that he was the son of god or that he was even divine. To him Jesus was
a man, a great man, but just a man. He was also highly intelligent, and was in tune with the spirit
world. Jeff however, did not believe that he was some kind of deity, or a extension of God. To him
God was something, or someone who existed a long time ago and then vanished. Jeff tried to avoid
a confrontation with this guy, not really feeling up to debating religious philosophy. As Jeff got
closer to the guy, he saw his opportunity. The religious fanatic was engaged in a debate with
someone else. Jeff tried to slip by him as quickly and silently as possible. It looked like he had
succeeded when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Jeff sighed and then turned around to face the
religious nut. "The rapture of Jesus' church is at hand. Will you be one of the ones who are taken,
or will you be left behind?" " I will be where I am everyday, right here at school" Jeff said a bit
sarcastically. " Come to Jesus and yee shall be saved. He wishes non shall parish. Repent and be
saved". " No thanks" Jeff replied moving away. As he got a few feet away he turned back and said,
" If I want a saving, I will go to K-Mart." " You will regret your stubbornness, come to Jesus now
and he shall take you in the rapture". As Jeff got to the table all his friends were at he sat down and
shook his head. " What's the matter Jeff, the nut over there getting to you" said Tony with mock
pity. " Very funny" Jeff said putting his backpack down. " I hate those guys. They always think
they know what is right and wrong. Who is to say they have the right religion? What if all the
followers of Christ are the ones who are wrong?" Steve said while munching on his sandwich. " I
doubt it" retorted Miriam. " Why do you say that" asked Jeff. " Well if you look at your Bible, and
most of the end of times prophecies, all of the bad stuff happens after the rapture, or the
disappearances." " Where did you read that" huffed Steve not to be outdone. " I have never read
anything like that and I have studied many historical doctrines, including, the Bible, the Torah, and
the predictions of Nostradamus. Not in any of them do they say anything about a rapture of the
church." Miriam looked a Steve like he was from another planet. " What do you mean" she
exclaimed " Look right here" She pulled her bible out of her bag and everyone at the table groaned.
" Oh my god" groaned Steve, " Don't tell me you are one of those people" " One of what people"
Miriam asked. " You know, one of those people" Steve said as he gestured to the guy who was
preaching to everyone who came in. Miriam looked at the guy and then looked at Steve, a huge
smile came across her face. " Relax big guy. I am not a religious nut. I am however a student of
end of times prophecy. I have read and studied Almost every end of times prophecy. I am writing a
paper, actually it is my dissertation for my doctrine, in Ancient History. I am trying to see with all
the similarities in the different texts, what the end of times will probably be like. I believe that there
is a common thread that will give us insight to what the end of the world will be like. I do not take
any doctrine as truth, but rather the whole of the sums." Everyone looked at her for a minute. Steve
was pretending to be asleep. Miriam hit him. " very funny you jerk" she said. " Well as long as
you are not going to start preaching, like him" Jeff said. Jeff looked over to see where that nut was
and who his next victim was, when Jeff noticed that he was gone. He looked all around, but he was
gone. He couldn't have moved that fast. He was just there. All of a sudden Jeff heard screaming
and he looked at the noise, people where screaming all around and some where crying. He ran over
to see what was going on. When he got to the closest person who was screaming, he came up to her
and she was screaming fanatically. He tried to hold her and calm her down, but she just kept
screaming. When she could finally speak she spoke very softly and through choked sobs. "
He..he..he just vanished" she whispered. Jeff looked over at where she was pointing and noticed that
sitting on a chair across from where she was, was clothing. First making sure that she was ok, he
moved to the chair to examine the clothes more closely. When he got there, he noticed that there
was a pair of pants, and a sweatshirt sitting on the chair. Under the chair was a Pair of shoes, and
socks. On top of the sweatshirt was a pair of glasses. Jeff came over to the girl and tried to comfort
her. S Jeff looked around he noticed the same thing had happened all around the center. People
everywhere were gone, their clothes were all that was left. People were still screaming in panic.
Jeff looked out the window and saw the chaos and mayhem out in the street. Cars were crashing
into other cars. Jeff didn't really understand what was going on, what or who could have done this.
Jeff looked over at his friends, and noticed that Miriam was pale white and she looked sick to her
stomach. Jeff noticed Steve ask Miriam if she knew what was going on. She shook her head, and
Jeff noticed her mouth the word, Rapture.