The Warrior for God By: Timothy J. Higginbotham Chapter 1 I walked through the forest as I always did every morning. I loved God’s creations and I loved being with him alone. I would walk through the forest and the plains and many other places. My Mother and Father were very old and I loved bringing them to the forest. My Mother was 58 and my Father was 59. I was 24. My Mother and Father were not Christians. I was a Christian, I would talk to them about God, that’s why they usually didn’t come on walks with me, and when I came back and started talking to them Father would stay usually, but Mother would go on a walk. Father was at some points a person who believed that God did not exist, Sometimes he believed that God did exist, he was an in-between. I would often bring my Christian friends over to block the doors and windows and help me minister to Father and Mother. Yesterday I was talking to Father and Mother with all of my Christian friends over. Mother suddenly fell to the floor unconscious, I sent a messenger to bring the doctor and nurses to our house. Chapter 2 When the doctor and the nurses arrived, they immediately went over to Mother, picked her up, and got her on a horse, when the guards saw that I was ministering to Father, they grabbed me and told me to get on one of the horses, I said yes and got on. They brought me to the King’s castle where I was to be judged, this King hated Christians. I had lived under his rule for 20 years as a Christian. He had finally caught me. The guards brought me to the King’s judging room. The King asked, “Who is this man and what has he done?” “He was telling his Father about this supposed ‘Jesus’ that got nailed to a cross, and how the people who follow him get burned alive on torch poles.” “Aha! He is a Christian. I have dealt with these followers of this ‘Jesus’. Burn him on a torch pole next to my throne.” And so they put a bag over me and took me to the King’s throne room. They took the bag off of me, tied me up and put me on the torch pole next to the King’s throne. When the King arrived a few hours later the guards put oil in the torch bowl. Then they took a torch off the wall and lit the oil. I wasn’t afraid because I knew God would protect me. Chapter 3 I started singing, I said, “Praise God! He has kept me alive for 20 years! Praise God! Praise God! He has done so many good things for me! I will worship him forever! I will never turn from his wonderful face! No one can pluck me from his hands! I am his and he is mine! He died for my sins so that I could have eternal life! I will worship…” “Enough! I have had enough!” the King said. One of the guards said, “Why is he not burning yet? The flames are almost reaching the ceiling!” All of the guards looked at me and gasped, and I said, “Since I have not died yet I will tell you John 3:14-17 ‘ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’” Chapter 4 The fire kept on burning and I kept on staying alive. I told them Luke 13:24-28, I said, “ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” “Enough! No more of this ‘Jesus’! He is not God! He does not exist! Enough I say! Enough!” Said the King, so I started singing again, “Praise God! Praise God! He has brought me this far! Lord, open the eyes of the King! Alleluia! Praise God! Praise Yahweh! Praise Yahweh! Worship him and him alone! Worship Jehovah, Elohim, Adonai! Do not worship the gods of this world!” Chapter 5 “Take him to the gallows!” commanded the King. The guards stepped forward and said to the King, “O King, we cannot get him out when the torch is burning!” “Get water you fools!” answered the King. “Yes, O great King.” When they came back they put out the torch and put a bag over me. I did not struggle; I could not wait to be martyred or to stay alive! When we got there, they took the bag off of me and took me to the tower and put a rope around my neck, and then they put me over the city. As people went by they looked at me, and went on their way. After 5 hours the King went to the tower and was brought up, he sat there watching me. 5 hours later it was dusk. The King said, “I do not understand! He still has not died! Tomorrow take him to the arena! There he will die.” “Yes, O King. Should we let him hang here for this night?” “Yes. We will see if he is still alive.” As I sat there I wondered what they would do to me in the arena. In this empire they usually had hungry lions brought out to kill the people. I just wondered if God would protect me or not. About 30 minutes later I fell asleep. Chapter 6 I was still asleep when I started getting hit in the back with a thick stick. I woke up and heard the guards saying, “Get up you fool! Get up!” I turned around and looked at them, all 3 of the guards suddenly gasped and started saying things like, “He is still alive?” “This is just a dream!” “How did he stay alive?!” I said, “God, Yahweh, protected me.” “Who protected you?!” They all said at the same time. I said, “God, Yahweh did.” “You fool and liar! Yahweh does not exist!” one of the guards said. Then they bound me with ropes and brought me to the arena. I looked around and saw all the thousands of people watching and shouting. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound, it was 6 hungry lions! As they charged at me I stood my ground and then they charged at me and everything I suddenly didn’t feel anything. I was suddenly in heaven, with wings flying around with a white robe. I suddenly heard a voice, like many waterfalls and many clashes of thunder and lightning. It said, “Timothy, you died. The lions killed you; the end days are very near.” Chapter 7 I went over to where the voice came from, there stood a figure, very bright, clothed in the finest white linen! Then I realized who it was, it was God! I looked away. And behind me I saw Jesus. Jesus said, “Timothy, come, you will be in my army.” “Do you really need me, Lord?” “No, but you will be in my army, I do not need anyone, for I will destroy the nations, but you must be in my army.” “Thank you, O Lord.” And so I walked with many other men and with Jesus. A few other people and I flew up and went forward. We kept on going, we finally got to Israel, and we went to Jerusalem. We all saw an angel come down from heaven. Jesus said to me, “That is Michael, The Arch Angel. He has come to protect Jerusalem. I must go back to my Father. You stay here and fight the many demons and men of the earth. Here is your sword, it is sharper than any two edged sword.” I looked at the sword, then I looked at Jesus. And then Jesus went up to heaven, and I went out of the gate to fight the many nations that had gathered to fight against God and Jerusalem. Chapter 8 As I fought all of the demons and all of the different people, I kept thinking of Jesus. Then I looked up just in time to see Jesus riding on a white horse. I went back into Jerusalem, and God went on to fight the nations, as all of us followed him. When we finally got to the last battle, it hadn’t even been a day. We came to the valley of Armageddon. He killed them within a few hours. Then Jesus came back to me and said to me, “Go, take this chain and bind Satan, the Beast, and the False Prophet, and take these keys, and cast them into the outer darkness of The Lake of Fire.” So I went with the chain and the key, and bound Satan, and the Beast, and the False Prophet, and threw them alive into The Lake of Fire and then it was over. I went back to heaven with all of the other angels and people. And when I step foot on the ground of heaven, everything goes black. And I am whisked away back to the arena. And there stood the lions mouths shut. I hear many gasps come from the crowd of people, and I walk right out of the arena. Chapter 9 Now I hang from a rope over the city. I look down one last time and say my last words, “Forgive them Father. For they know not who you are.” And I breathe my last breath. And now I stand before Jesus while he says to me, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” And now I sit on a throne, worshiping God. And then I will live forever, never ending, because of Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross. The End