Agent finds a Warrior (19 page)

I laughed, but sobered up quickly because
she actually looked serious.

“I was born in the Kingdom of Salem.”

Her eyebrows rose slightly, “The name Salem
sounds familiar, but I can’t place it.”

“You know it today as Jerusalem.”

“You’re Jewish?” Zora asked curiously.

“No, I come before the time that there was
even a Hebrew nation.”

“What did you do in the Kingdom of
Salem?”

“I was a warrior and I served the King of
Righteousness. I have continued to serve God through the years ever
since.”

“King of Righteousness? That’s Melchizedek
isn’t it?” Zora exclaimed.

“Yes.”

“It says in the Book of Hebrews that he was
without father or mother or genealogy. Is it really true that he
was a manifestation of Jesus?”

“It is a mystery even yet to me, but that is
what I believe yes. Now does that answer all your questions as to
my origins?”

She laughed out loud, “Oh you’re a funny man
Elon!”

She linked her arm with mine and we started
out walking as she asked, “Now let’s see. What were you doing when
the Romans were…….”

And so it began her endless game of twenty
questions. I really didn’t mind. It was just so nice having someone
to talk to about stuff and who was really interested in me and my
life.

I ate my food in the small roadside diner as
Zora already done with hers stared at me as if I was an endless
occurrence of fascination for her. I saw her eyes light up as
another question to pepper me with occurred to her.

She leaned forward and keeping her voice low
so as not to be heard by others in the diner she asked, “Did you
ever see dinosaurs?”

“Sure lots of them. Even rode a few of
them.” I said nonchalantly as I continued to eat.

“Really?” She asked in a hoarse whisper, as
if she couldn’t believe what I’d just said.

I glanced up and reiterated, “Really.”

Shocked she sat back in her seat, “So I
guess all the claims about them being extinct for millions of years
is a bunch of rot?”

“The concept of millions of years in general
is a bunch of rot. Since creation was started by God you have only
about six thousand years to play around with give or take a
few.”

I let her digest that for a moment before
saying, “Besides who said they were all extinct.”

Her eyes got really big, but I pretended to
not notice and kept on eating. Her hand touched mine and I glanced
up grinning, “You want to see one don’t you?”

She nodded her head vigorously and I
chuckled.

“Well let’s see what happens after lunch
shall we.”

She looked disappointed, but nodded
obediently.

I made a very special request then to God,
but I heard no answer in return.

I finished my meal and we got up to go after
I had paid.

I stepped outside followed along by a silent
Zora. Endless cornfields beckoned, but I felt the answer to my
request.

Smiling I turned to Zora and offered my hand
out to her. She stared at my hand in a nervous daze.

“Really?” She breathed out.

“Yes Mrs. Gideon.”

She brushed a strand of her hair behind her
ear nervously, “We’re not going to be eaten are we?”

“Highly doubtful, but being squashed flat is
a possibility.”

She looked hesitant and so I wiggled my
fingers beckoningly, “Oh come on where’s your spirit of adventure
my love?”

She put her hand in mine.

Gasping Zora stepped closer to me as she
stared all around at the dark cast jungle foliage of the Congo at
twilight.

“Welcome to the Congo.” I said pulling her
along through the noisy jungle all around us.

I wondered if she’d ever get over the shock
of this experience. I brushed past a few more leafy fronds to stand
on the edge of an unexpected clearing. I pulled Zora around in
front of me delighting in her look of perplexed awe.

“It’s grass! Why would there be grass in the
middle of a jungle?”

“In the deepest parts of the Congo there are
many such swampy islands of grass. It is a mystery.” I said
breathing in the smell of her hair not overly concerned with what
was about to happen as I was with the feel of her against me.

The sun was down, but the twilight glow in
the clearing made everything visible.

“Wait for it.” I said into Zora’s ear in a
thematically tensed tone of voice.

The usual sounds of the jungle were
interrupted by the loud stentorian cry of a beast like no other.
The cry was echoed by others all along the far edge of the jungle
that bordered the clearing. One loud cry echoed out very near to
us.

Trees began to crack and strain loudly as
they gave way to something that shook the ground beneath our feet.
Zora’s jaw had long since dropped open in astonishment by the time
the great lumbering behemoths pushed clear of the surrounding
jungle and out into the swampy marsh.

“That’s a……”

“Dinosaur.” I said filling in for her.

“Yes!” She exclaimed all eyes on a creature
that the world had thought long since dead.

“The word dinosaur is a modern word. In the
Bible this beast has a different name. It’s name is behemoth.”

Distracted sounding Zora asked, “Dinosaurs
are talked about in the Bible?”

I quoted directly from the Book of Job to
her,

“
Look now at the Behemoth, which I made
along with you; he eats grass like an ox. See now, his strength is
in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his
tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. His
bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron. He is
the first of the ways of God; only He who made him can bring near
His sword. Surely the mountains yield food for him, and all the
beasts of the field play there. He lies under the lotus trees, in a
covert of reeds and marsh. The lotus trees cover him with their
shade; the willows by the brook surround him. Indeed the river may
rage, yet he is not disturbed; he is confidant, though the Jordan
gushes into his mouth, though he takes it in his eyes, or one
pierces his nose with a snare.”

After a long moment of reflection she nodded
her head and said, “The pretty well captures the picture I’d
say.”

Together we watched the greatest of God’s
creation browse in the meadow beyond as the evening shadows
thickened. After a while Zora turned around to me and said, “Thank
you Elon.”

Then she said, “Never a dull moment with you
Elon is there?”

She leaned up and started kissing me and I
returned the kiss, but I was surprised when she shoved me back
against a tree and ripped the front of my shirt open.

I broke the kiss and grabbed her hands,
“Whoa! Time out here! Zora are you seriously trying to convey to me
that you want to make out in this bug infested, snake ridden
environment in the midst of nature in all of its decaying
rottenness as opposed to a nice clean Iowa wheat field?”

Her tone was exasperated, “Elon you really
know how to kill the mood sometimes!”

I grinned as I grasped her hands, “How about
we go about…….”

Our surroundings abruptly changed and Zora
looked around in surprise at finding herself in front of the
mansion on the Greek island that we had celebrated our first time
together intimately just several weeks past.

Her eyes swung to mine and I finished my
statement, “……making a baby somewhere more comfortable?”

She giggled and grabbed a hold of my torn
shirt front to lean up and kiss me passionately before breaking off
and backing away with a wild look in her eyes, “You have to catch
me first!”

She tore off then shrieking playfully
without a concern or care in the world and I followed along after
her in the same spirit. I’d catch her eventually, as it was an
island with no boats. I was due to enjoy a very long vacation.

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The sun was setting over the horizon casting
and orangey glow across the pillar at my back as I held Zora in my
arms before me as we both watched the sunset unfold before us.
Zora’s hands lay over top of mine that were splayed wide on her
pregnant belly.

In a reflective tone Zora asked as she
leaned back against me, “How do you think it will all end?”

I didn’t really have to think about the
question much. “Scripture will be fulfilled and the end will be as
it is written in the Word of God. Whether I will live to see that
day and see my Master return for me I cannot say. I have begun to
age physically again as the way of all creation since the curse was
begun in the Garden of Eden.

“So have I.” Zora commented softly.

She glanced up at me and smiled, “So what
are your plans for your now diminishing life?”

“To lovingly care for you and the family
we’ll raise together, even as I continue to be an agent for good
and do whatever the Lord would have me to do.”

Zora continued to smile, “That’s a good
answer, but what are your immediate plans oh diminishing one?” She
asked tartly.

I gave her a stern look even though I knew
she was just jesting, “I think you will find that I haven’t
diminished any my love across all important parameters.”

“Prove it!” She said her face seductively
challenging in her invitation to me.

We both missed the sun set below the edge of
the horizon, as we were consumed with the passion risen in each of
us for each other, which burned more intensely than the heat of the
sun.

A few things about me

I live in the country. It’s the best place
to be I’m

thinking. I share my life with my beautiful
wife, Beth,

my three children and one cat named
Herman.

When I’m not lost in a daydream the most
likely

place you’ll find me at is flower
gardening

or at the movie theatre. I use to think I
was strong, but

now I freely admit that I’m weak. My new
reality is

okay because Jesus Christ has me
covered.

It’s better that way trust me!