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Moore looked in Christopher's eyes and what he saw there left no doubt of the source of his sudden anguish. He stumbled in his pain and caught himself on the table in front of him. Blood began to run from his mouth and down his chin as he bit through the tender flesh of his lower lip; his jaw clenched uncontrollably like a vice under the unbearable agony. Gerard Poupardin ran toward Moore as those close to him helped him to his seat.

The pain grew steadily worse. There was no way out. "Yes! Yes!" he cried suddenly in excruciating anguish, as he pulled free of the grip of those helping him. "It's all true! Everything he has

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said is true! The war; Ambassador Lee's death; the plan to kill Kruszkegin; all of it!" The eyes of everyone in the room grew wide in disbelief. No one understood how this could be happening, least of all Gerard Poupardin. But everyone heard him. Moore had clearly confessed.

Moore hoped only that his confession would bring relief from his torment, and in that he was not disappointed. No sooner had he finished his confession than he fell to the floor, dead.

Someone ran for a doctor and for about fifteen minutes the chamber was filled with confusion until finally, Moore's lifeless body was taken from the room.

"Gentlemen," came a somber voice from near the spot where Moore had fallen. It was Christopher. "A quarter of the world's population is dead or threatened by death in China, India, and the eastern portions of the Middle East. There is so much that must be done and must be done quickly. As indelicate as it may seem: with the death of Ambassador Moore, until France can send a new ambassador and the nations of Europe can elect a new Primary, as Alternate from Europe, I am now that region's acting Primary representative. Gentlemen, let us quickly get to the business at hand."

The coroner's report would find that Albert Moore had died of a massive heart attack, brought on it seemed by the tremendous burden of guilt for what he had done. For Decker, no explanation was necessary: Christopher had begun to exercise the unexplored powers within him. He could only hope and pray these powers would be equal to the challenges Robert Milner said would soon face the world as Christopher led mankind into the final stage of its evolution and into the dawn of the New Age of humankind.

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Chapter 1

Birth Pains

January 24,2021 Ч The United Nations, New York

The China-India-Pakistan War lasted only a day but the dead numbered in the hundreds of millions. Millions more would die from radiation poisoning, disease, and starvation. Nature, too, demanded her toll as wild animals, driven from their natural habitats, attacked weakened human survivors fleeing the holocaust. At the U.N. the ensuing days were filled with endless meetings of the Security Council working to provide relief to the war's survivors. Because providing food was a major priority, Christopher's experience with the Food and Agriculture Organization made him the focus of much discussion and he showed himself to possess both skill and untiring drive. There was no mourning for Albert Moore as there had been for Secretary-General Hansen and Ambassador Lee. Even if there had been time, there would be no tears for one who had caused so much misery. France quickly named a new ambassador and an election for a successor to Moore on the Security Council was scheduled for Monday, the first day of February.

The return of former Assistant Secretary-General Robert Milner was celebrated with great excitement at a reception held by

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the Lucius Trust, which was attended by several hundred members and supporters, including many U.N. delegates. Milner took advantage of the opportunity to express his sincere approval of Ms. Gaia Love as Alice Bernley's successor as director, and he encouraged the members to be diligent in advancing the work of the Trust. He concluded his address by confirming the rumor circulating among the Trust's supporters that his return from Israel was evidence that the 'time' was very near.

Decker Hawthorne spent the next three days responding to a deluge of requests for information on the war and its consequences; the meetings of the Security Council; the investigation of Albert Moore's records; and, as Decker was pleased to see, a growing number of requests for information about Christopher.

It was not until the morning of Sunday, the 24th of January, that Decker, Christopher, and Milner were once again able to meet together in Christopher's office. The three men sat in comfortable high-backed English chairs around a low table as coffee was served. "Do you have the article you told me about?" Christopher asked. Decker nodded and reached into his briefcase to retrieve a copy of The New York Times. "I think you should hear this, Mr. Secretary," Christopher told Milner.

"This is from yesterday's paper," Decker began, "page sixteen, dateline Jerusalem."

While the attention of most of the world focuses on the still unfolding tragedy in the East, two men in Israel, one claiming to be the 2,000-year-old Apostle John, the other to be 'one who comes in the spirit and power of the prophet Elijah, ' are predicting far worse tragedy to come. The men, leaders of a large and very active cult in Israel called the Koum Damah Tartare (KDT), say that the earth is about to undergo such cataclysmic events as fire falling from the sky, the collision of a large meteor or asteroid with the earth, poisoning of one-third of the earth's fresh water, and the blacking out of one-third of the sun and stars.

While most Israelis consider the two men simply an annoyance, there are some who take them very seriously and claim that they are responsible for causing the

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drought that has stricken Israel and the rest of the Middle East for the past sixteen months. Their followers believe that one of the men, whom they call Rabbi Yochanan Ч the Hebrew equivalent of John Ч is actually the Apostle John of the Christian New Testament, and that even though he appears to be in his late fifties, he is actually over 2,000 years old. The other man, who says he comes like John the Baptist before him, 'in the spirit and power of Elijah,' is a former Hasidic rabbi named Saul Cohen. Like Israel's High Priest Chaim Levin, Cohen was originally a follower of New York Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Cohen was disowned by the rest of Judaism nearly twenty years ago when he began to teach that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah.

Dressed in robes made of burlap or 'sackcloth, ' John and Cohen walk through the streets of Jewish towns and cities shouting their messages of God's wrath on the earth. Adding to the general unkempt appearance of the men, reportedly they seldom bathe and cover the tops of their heads with ashes and soot in accordance with ancient religious traditions for those in mourning. They refuse to be interviewed by members of the press, preferring to endlessly recite their warnings.