(9)-The Gathering.

That same night, up in the dark attic-bedroom, Tommy laid sound asleep in bed. The attic wasn't like any other attic, as it was a bedroom and was liveable and wasn't littered with spider webs. The 10-year old boy remained asleep

"TOMMY!" Came a loud voice, awaking Tommy.

Just then, the sound of a loud blast that was instantly followed by the sound of a loud trumpet came from outside, and Tommy sat up in his bed and looked out the round window that was in front of his bed.

He got out of bed and slowly walked over to the window and looked out at the night sky. He then turned back to look at the door to the bedroom, thinking of Clare, knowing that this would probably be the last time he would ever see her.

Tommy turned back to the window and his eyes began to glow gold, with gold cracks appearing around them, and he slowly began floating and flew up through the ceiling, out of his clothes, phasing through it like a ghost, with his clothes dropping from the ceiling to the floor in front of the window.

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"WHOO-HOO!" Tommy shouted as he ascended up into the night sky, with his eyes returned to normal and the cracks around them gone, not caring that he was naked. He soon noticed a number of other kids who were naked, some of them being teenagers, along with some naked adults. They too didn't seem to care that they were nude. And the weird part was the adults were all youthful. None of them were old or middle-aged. All of the grown-ups were in their 20s.

All of the people were gathered around a beautiful, bright gold-yellow-glowing figure.

Tommy and all of the other people ascended further into the air with the gold-yellow being, and before any of them knew it, they were all in outer space, where Tommy saw millions of other naked people of al nationalities. They should've been freezing to death, for they were too high up to survive without warmth or oxygen masks. But there was no sensation that it even approached freezing, nor were they struggling for breath.

All of the people were converging toward the gold-yellow being of light.

Tommy and the other people gathering around all instantly knew who it was.

It was their savior.

It was Jesus.

Tommy looked back to see the Earth getting smaller and smaller as he and all of the other people ventured further through space. They all zoomed through space with Jesus toward a portal above gold-yellow space-clouds.

Tommy and all of the other millions of people looked on at the beautiful vortex ahead of them as they flew toward it. They, along with Jesus, zoomed into it...and in a flash of gold light...they were gone.

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Tommy opened his eyes and saw that he was in a beautiful, gold valley with children of all nationalities from ages 3 to 12, wearing white, calf-length, night-like-gowns, as well as the fact that they were all barefoot. Some with long sleeves, some with short sleeves, and some with no sleeves.

Tommy looked at himself and saw that he was wearing a white, sleeveless, knee-length night-like-gown, and he was barefoot. He looked back and saw a portal in the golden cloud-covered sky that had a beautiful gold mist around it. Most likely the portal he and the millions of other people had entered this dimension through with Jesus. The portal in the sky then closed, as if it had never been there.

Someone then tapped Tommy on the shoulder and he turned to see two kids in front of him. One of them was a 10-year old girl named Charlotte West, and the other was an 11-year old boy named Kyle Bog. Both of them were from Kansas. It seemed here in this dimension, one knew everything about a person without even getting to know them first.

Charlotte had blond hair and blue eyes, with the front of it going past her shoulders and the back of it stopping at her upper-back. She wore a white, sleeveless night-like-gown that went down to her knees, and she was barefoot.

Kyle had long, wavey brown-reddish hair that stopped at his neck, brown eyes, freckles on his face, he wore a white, sleeveless night-like-gown that went down to his knees, and he was barefoot.

In gold flashes of light, Tommy, Charlotte and Kyle and all the rest of the kids zoomed up into the gold cloud-covered sky.

Once up in the clouds,Tommy, Charlotte, Kyle, and all the rest of the millions of kids flew through the gold cloud-covered sky. As they did, there came into view a big, beautiful gold-glowing, walled-in city on the clouds ahead of them, with a big round-shaped gold-glowing entrance open on it's wall, and a huge, giant, square-shapped gold building in the center of the city.

They all instantly recognized the giant, square-shaped building as the New Jerusalem.

"Heaven." Said Tommy in amazement as he and all of the other kids stared at the beautiful gold-glowing city on the clouds ahead of them. They flew into the city through the gold-glowing, round-shaped entrance and it's gold pearl door closed.

This was it.

This was the moment that all of Christian history had been waiting for.

This was the colination. The great creator's plan for his creation.

He had indeed returned...to gather his elect.

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"We just confirmed reports from millions of units around the world that millions of people, including all children from new-borns to 12-year olds, have vanished in what some people are claiming as The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ. No one knows as to what might have caused the disappearances, but the military is on full scale alert."

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"The reports keep coming in from all over the globe confirming it as true. To say that the world is in a state of shock tonight would be to understate the situation. The event seems to have taken place all over the world just about 25 minutes ago. Suddenly, and without warning, literally thousands, perhaps millions of people-including all children from new-borns to 12-year olds-just disappeared right out of their clothes. A few eye-witness accounts of these disappearances have not been clear, but one thing if certainly sure: Millions who were living here on this Earth two hours ago are not here now. Speculation is running high that some alien force from outside our system has declared war on our planet. And some feel it to be a spectaculer judgment of God. The United Nations is an especially emergency session, as other governments of most countries of the world. And reports coming in say that there are some members of nearly every government missing. Bishop Frank Solomen, the chairman of the church confederation, has proposed this might actually be the Rapture spoken of in some areas of theology. He says, and i quote "Of course even if it is something like the Rapture, we need not panic. The very fact that we are here and able to discuss it is sight enough that it is not all enthusier". End of quotation. The event spoken of in the Hewbrew Christian scriptures is discribed some-what in Saint Matthew, chapter 24-verses 36 and on. And Jesus Christ is reported to be the speaker. And he says, and i quote "But of that day and hour knoweth no man. No, not the Angels in Heaven, or the son, but my father only. But as the days of Noah were"...Uh, this is just in from Cable News Network. The UN has established a special emergency committee and will be making an un-presidented world-wide radio and tele-cast at noon tomorrow. And the purpose of this broadcast will be to assist the world-wide situation and establish methods, procedures and handling possible problems and danger facing the world as we know it now. Now, be sure to tune in either your radio or television at 12:00 noon eastern time, 11:00 centural time, on CNN: The Cable News Network."

THE END
...IS NEAR.

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1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we forever be with the Lord.

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Next Time...The Missing.