Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe: Book The Third -Part Two

Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe:   Book The Third -Part Two

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Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe

Book the Third

Captain Y. H. V. H.; First Mate Noah

AND

The Ark Mutiny

Started final editing, here, September 25, 2013



Continued from the first part of this story; "Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe:   Book The Third -PartOne"
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"Miss Riding Wolffe! Wake up! Wake up, little friend!"

"Huh? Where? Oh! Mr. Neigh! What?"

It's time to be on our way home again! Are you ready to climb on my back? If you get on now, I can stand up and you won't need to find a rock or old stump."

"Sure! Help me up!"

"No, dear, you need to climb up!"

"Oh, OK."

"Now, how are 'you,' my dear old friend?" They were just settled into the last leg of their journey home. "I'm a bit worried. How do you 'really' feel, Mr. Neigh!" Sleepy Mr. Owls' voice broke the clip,clop - clip,clop of Mr. Neigh!'s walking gait.

"Shaw! I shouldn't have dozed off! I'm fine! But, just the same, let's ask Master for a safe trip home, tonight!"

"Miss Riding Wolffe. How about you? How do you feel, little one?"

"Oh, Mr. Neigh!, I'm fine. I'm worried about you!"

"Then, just as I asked Mr. Owl, let's ask Master to see us all home safely tonight."

"May I?," She asked.

"Of Course! Mr. Owl?"

"I was just thinking about asking her - Sure!"

"Our Master, we thank You for keeping us safe - all the way home - tonight." The little wolf spoke from her gentle little heart. "Please keep Mr. Neigh! safe, Father. We love him so much!"

"There. That's why I like you to pray for me!," Mr. Neigh! said to his little companion. "You get the job done so nice!"

"Blue Jay, how are you, our faithful friend and messenger?"

"Fine! I should have woke you up earlier, I guess. But, you were so tired and sleeping really, really deeply. I'm sorry."

"Oh, don't be. Master's perfect timing gave us the rest we needed, and we're back on the path home. Right on schedule!"

He continued; "That reminds me, Miss Riding Wolffe, about Master's twelve Disciples, and something they recorded for us about being faithful to follow Master. Just after blessing five loaves of wheat-barley cakes and two little fishes, which then were enough to fully feed and satisfy 5,000 hungry people with twelve full baskets left over, Master sent His disciples to a place across a treacherous, stormy lake, the Sea of Galilee. They were to meet Him on the other side, but a wild, stormy wind came against them."

"After several hours battling the storm winds with their desperate rowing, Master appeared, walking across the top of the water as if it were a balmy day! At first, when they saw Him on the wild waves, they He was a ghost!"

"When it looked like He would walk right past them, they all hollered loud, Master! Save us!" He turned, and said, "It's just Me. Need help?"

"Oh! I remember that!," exclaimed Miss Wolffe. "Master came walking across the wild waves as if there were no storm, right? And they did make it safe to the shore, just like He said!"

"So, it's like that for us," Mr. Jay said. "We were not expecting all the events of today, but look how Master has used each one to show us something about Him, and about the things we need to know to honor and obey Him, or, we find ourselves facing very serious consequences when we disobey!"

"Yes, He has given us a wonderful day filled with lessons! Now, I believe He is leading us safely to our destination, home!," said Mr. Neigh! "I'm trusting Him to give me strength to make it back!"

"Disciple Matthew recorded this event in chapter fourteen, starting with verse 22. Master spoke directly to the wind, and it went away immediately! And, then another miracle took them to their destination on the other side, just as quick! WOW!"

"See? When Master directs our way, and we have troubles, He always is nearby for us to ask for His help to go through even the worst storm!

"Does that mean Master will take us home that quickly," asked Miss Riding Wolffe.

"Likely not, but He will be next to us if we have any trouble," answered Mr. Neigh! Master will see us through!"

"Hrrrmph - Hhmmph." Mr. Owl pretended to clear his throat, but he was still half asleep and was trying to wake up!"

"Yes! Sure! Where . . . Ah, yes!" Anyone want to listen to the rest of grandpa's story?" If it had still been light outside, they would have seen a twinkle in his eyes.

"Remember, Master just found Ish, Ishah, and Mr. Slytalker, sometime after Ishah begged her husband, Ish, to join her in eating the forbidden fruit of Knowledge of Good, and of Evil. My grandpa, following the tradition of our family to look deeply into the things we hold dear, passed on the discussion about how and why each participant in this story thought and acted, and how those same things affect each of us."

"Each participant in this awful tragedy told one or more lies, falsely blamed another, was deceived, and was deceiving himself, to boot! As Master lovingly and carefully applied Truth to each false claim and story, and to each participant, His investigation uncovered the deadly evils of thinking, accepting, and speaking deception. He also carefully separated each participant, and the evil deeds of each one from the others, and made certain that each knew exactly what they were being charged, and what was not charged to each one."

"In my family, we strive to maintain the great gift of wisdom, and the Truth that forms wisdom. We are not a religious family, but we do see the world in light of Master's Truth, as He had it carefully recorded and preserved in Hebrew Scripture that He makes certain is always available to any who seek Him and His Truth, at any time in all history. This seems boring to those who want just a religious group to belong to, and it is boring to those who care little for Truth; they just want to get all the fun out of living that they can. We owls consider living too precious to spend on just fun, although we have some of the most fun living anyone ever has!"

Mr. Owl looked each of his listeners in the eye. Mr. Neigh!, who had tuned his head around to look at the wise old owl, gave him a wink!

"I said this earlier, but it is so crucial to understanding how severe our disobedience to Master is, I shall repeat. Following His investigation, Master did something we cannot explain. Instead of taking life away from all guilty participants for their committing the horrendous deceptions and disobedience, which each truly deserved, He took two innocent sheep lambs, killed each one, and removed their soft, warm wooly skins. He then placed each skin onto the body of both humans, bloody side out. While the skins did nothing to hide their bare skin, they did something far more noticeable; they appeared so completely out of character with all other creatures, that anywhere either Ish or Ishah went from then on, they stood out to all the world as marked failures to obey Master."

"Then, as children were born to Ish and Ishah, they passed on this sense of shame and being exposed, and wore the mark of their disobedience. This practice became so ingrained in humans that today when anyone goes out into public without this mark of shame, he, or she, is blamed for indecent exposure! Talk about reversing the order of Creator! He placed the sheep skin on the humans for a mark of shame, and now not wearing it is considered an act of shame by humans!

"Satan the Fallen Angel, through the evil spirits that invade human reasoning and spiritual leaders, appears to reverse Master's symbol of punishment to now make it a mark of personal status. The more fancy the covering is, the more social status the wearer is esteemed to have! It is why those who obey Evil deceive themselves to believe that wearing clothing is a natural thing and it makes them more righteous, and deserving of Creator's love and blessing!"

"Nothing could be further from Truth! Those who wear no clothing at all are more close to Creator, since they really feel their vulnerability and exposure before Him, and before other people, also unclothed, exposed, and vulnerable."

At this point, Mr. Owl said, "We are not far from the Wolffe's cozy cabin. There is one final thing Master had yet to do in His sentence of these guilty criminals. Let's stop our story till we are rested and comfortable in our homes. I must return to my family also, and then arrange to meet each of you at the Wolffe's, or someplace else to finish the story grandpa told us so many, many times. Is there anyone who would prefer not to hear the rest of this story?"

Almost as one, they shouted "NO!" Miss Riding Wolffe said, "Can I invite Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel?"

"Of course you may!," Mr. Owl answered, "In fact, ask them where they would like to meet with us to finish this story! They have the same welcome everyone has to listen to this story! And, if they want to bring their friends, do tell them to!"

"You're right, my dear Mr. Owl! We're just about ten minutes from our home, Miss Wolffe," Mr. Neigh! spoke, his voice still breathless sounding. Perhaps Mr. Owl will be able to come tomorrow and share the rest of his grandfather's story. So far, it's the same as my grandfather's account and hearing it from another family is refreshing to me. I was just a young colt the first time my dear grandpa told the story to me. Mother had a filly the year before, and my sister was still with her most of my first year."

"Our grandfather shared this story with us when we celebrated Master Y'suah's birthday in the Fall Season, and that is a time I shall always cherish in my fond memories." He smiled a horse smile, turning his head to look at his riders. "Watch where you're going!," Mr. Blue Jay cried out, and Mr. Neigh! turned around just in time to see, and miss, a large tree growing partly in the path!

"Miss Wolffe," Mr. Neigh! asked, "Are you enjoying the story?"

"My! Yes!," she exclaimed. "I want to remember every word of it to tell my own children! They'd love it!"

"Yes, I'm sure they would, my dear little friend. But, with the usual mom's never-ending tasks to tend to her family, I'm afraid there will be just too little time for you to tell the story. It might be a good idea to ask your father to tell it to his grandchildren!," Mr. Neigh! replied. He winked, but dared not turn his head to let his little rider see the wink!

"Well, I'm not a mom yet, so I'll just have to wait and see," she answered. "Oh! Look! There's the hedge where Jonny Rabbit and Mrs. Weasel spy on the pathway! We're almost home!"

A special day for Master and, A Story

It was Master Y'suah's Special Birth Celebration Day, that next day. The brisk early Fall weather in the Land of Sealth smelled of freshly-wetted earth from the gentle, warm rains that fall in this season. The Wolffe Family tradition was to meet together, old and young, to share family news, tell stories, and simply be 'family,' together.

Note: The following appears at the bottom of page 81 Hand Copy MSS.  

Note: The closing -"I love you," she whispered to her little human friend. "Thank you for coming!" - for this section appears just above the following on page 81 Hand Copy MSS. 

Note: This "Narrator" section is a text interlude inserted at the close of the trip back from the Sealth -Puget Sound trek to the water. The "Live" story, with Miss Riding Wolffe picks up just before they reach home till Grandpa's Story picks up again at the Wolffe's home.

Narrator:

Each creature has one of Master's personal traits, or more. Mice have His trait of much diligent work to provide food and shelter, and to create large families. Worms in the soil eat and clean the small things left on their table, the ground, by plants and animals. They also meet there, while they eat. It is the cool of the day, then. Perhaps even the Serpent shows a trait from Master - it does exactly what He said it would, crawling in the dust of Earth. Master makes certain each of His creatures has a unique place, and purpose, in His Creation.

Grandpa's story is about the deep, eternal love Master wants each of His creatures to experience during their living on Earth. Master created all His Creation just to show His Love, and when Ish and Ishah did not trust and respect Master enough to obey His command, their dishonor and misunderstanding about how much He loved them gave Master the opportunity to show His entire Creation just how great His love really is.

So, grandpa's story may be quite silly at times, but from the first chapter to the very last one, Master's awesome love for each of His creatures is the real story. And, this story of Master's love is best understood with this next section of grandpa's story, so, pay attention!

Since every creature is so special to Master, it is good to celebrate the creation of each one with a special time to honor their being, their 'person.' Usually this occasion is a yearly event, often on the day of the year each creature was born. It is a time when those who love this creature gather together and give gifts and share other signs of their love for this being. Some creatures just enjoy being by themselves, apart from others, at this special time of honor for their being.

However, most beings enjoy it most when others they love gather to celebrate this special day kept just in their honor. This event often will be held as a party, a picnic, a trip to the ocean, or a day together along a mountain stream. In all the history of Creation, there was one event that stands out, even above all else in history!

As with all Creation events, this one took place precisely as planned, and where, and all its pre-planned details were perfectly executed. This single event showed all Creation Master's deep love for Earth, and Man. This event shows Master's Love for Man more clearly than all other illustrations of His Majestic Love!

Master always is majestic. His person and character are reflected in every part of Creation; in the vast expanses of Cosmos, to the smallest sub-particles of atoms. His powers know no limit; His Love, no bottom; His intellect has no comparison, and His wisdom has no bounds. Authority, for Master, is unfathomable, and Life, in Master, has no end. In all that Master is, His love for His creature, Man, surpasses all other love.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Some humans have a day of remembrance and celebration for Master, a day that honors that day when Master, in all His power, glory, honor, life, and power, came to Earth as a man-child. Of all creatures Master could appear in the form of to illustrate His selfless Love, this one tells it best.

Human babies are helpless, more so than almost all other creatures' babies. Master came to Earth in the person of a Human baby. Human babies can be fussy and nasty-spirited. Master, as a baby, was calm and peaceful. Human babies are usually born in the safest of places. As a human baby, Master was born in the midst of mayhem, angry guards with little patience, and in a temporary shelter built every year to remember when He safely guided and guarded His family out of a very evil enemy's land. Not long after His birth, an angry, jealous king sent his police into all nearby villages to murder all babies under the age of two! Those soldiers' excuse to do this inhuman thing?

"We were just doing our job"!!!

Master, in the flesh body as a child of Man, was worshiped by peasants whose grandparents and wisdom-seers foretold his birth on that very night, in that very village. They read the very same records foretelling His birth that we have today, and can tell by them the exact hour on the exact day He was given birth by his mother, and in the exact place! Master's human birth was like no other human birth, before, or since.

Of all His Creation, Master had the right and choice to come to Earth as a Majestic King Lion, or, He may have chosen to present Himself as a stately elephant, or a beautiful parrot, a happy little puppy, or any other creature He wanted. But Master's Human creatures needed Him to come and reassure them about His love and protection during a time when it seemed all flesh was worthless. His Family members were afraid, weak, and many were being killed by soldiers who had conquered their homeland, because the people had turned away from obeying His Word, and, like Ish and Ishah, they had to pay for their disobedience. But first, they had to know what they had disobeyed, since their parents for many generations had practiced the same disregard for the Way of Life in the Records He gave His Scripture recorders to write.

But, just as with Ish and Ishah, Master was compassionate, so he did not destroy them. Their disobedience caused their living to become very hard and the oppressive invaders who now ruled over them forced them to pay heavy tributes and taxes. Living for His Family was very hard, very painful, and many were being killed.

Creator promised Ishah, and the serpent that beguiled her, that He would return as one of her blood descendants! His promise is recorded this way:

“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
¹⁵ And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall ^[d]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

Genesis 3, verses 14 and 15.

[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3&version=NASB]

The most important reason Master came as a human newborn was that He wanted to offer to any human who came with a pure heart restored relationship with Him. Remember how Master killed the innocent lambs and placed their bloody skins on Ish and Ishah to be a permanent mark to them that their disobeying Master, and lying and blame-shifting to make other creatures look guilty instead, had actually caused their lives to be lost. As the lambs lost their lives, and each lamb was innocent of any wrong-doing, their disobedience had caused innocent creatures to lose their lives.

While the two lambs were not humans, Ish and Ishah's children were, and when they were born to Ishah, each baby was innocent, but, because Ishah disobeyed Master, her children, innocent as they were born, would lose their life because of her choice. And, so would the children of her children.

This is a life and death situation, and Ish and Ishah simply had not valued life in the awesome level of respect for it that Master does, and He is the One Who gives life.

We see this same unhealthy disrespect for Human Life today, as people kill one another, kill their unborn children and allow their governments to use them and their talents to wage wars on other peoples. Master tells us He will return again and He will destroy those evil people who make such governments. For now we who love and desire to obey Master can simply refuse to follow the crowd, or the orders from evil-minded governments, and instead give honor and respect for human life.

When He was born, Master's place of birth was in the most humble of places. Much later than in grandpa's story, a humble man, Moshe' was given the thankless position of leading Master's Family safely out of a wicked, treacherous king's land. After safely leading the people out, who all the while were making great demands on Moshe' and even turning against him, Master said he, Moshe', was to make a record of this safe-escape and establish one day every year to remember the journey.

As the travelers lived in temporary shelters, tents and even huts made from sticks and stones, the remembrance was to be celebrated by every person in a tiny hut for a week. Master was birthed to His earthly mother on the first day of this very week of celebration. They arrived late. They searched for an inn or other house where she could give birth to the child, nothing other than one of these temporary shelters was to be found! His birth was in one of these tiny huts of remembrance of a safe delivery from Evil! A small table in each hut was there to remember the bread which He faithfully sent to the fleeing people so they would have food. On this tiny table of remembrance His tiny body was placed.

From the highest throne over Creation, Master chose to descend into a humble place where Man would not make his own family live, and for sure where a man would not have his child be born. Master's love for humans is revealed in His choosing this humble place for His coming to Earth in the flesh of Man.

Is it not fitting, then, for Man to honor that day when Master lowered Himself to lower than Man's own domain because He wanted to open the Way for humans to reconcile with Him?

Today we do not see or hear much that encourages us to fully appreciate how much Master loves us. This story from Mr. Owl's grandfather and his ancestors was kept and passed down to each generation of Owls, just so this species of creature would love and appreciate Master with respect. How much more should human grandparents keep and pass down this same story so their grandchildren will also love and obey Master?

Prophet Daniel longed to know the details of Master's coming to Earth in the form of a human, so he prayed and fasted 21 days for Master to see that he, Daniel, was serious about learning this wonderful story. Finally, the angel sent to Daniel with the details arrived. One might imagine a discussion between Prophet Daniel and angel Gabriel, when Gabriel was sent to speak to Daniel about Master's plan to enter Man's world in Man's flesh, over 500 years after Daniel's time.

Aged Daniel Speaks With Angel Gabriel

"Hello, Daniel! I was sent when first you petitioned for knowledge of things to come, but I was detained in a scuffle with the Evil One and those Fallen Angels warring against Master and the Kingdom of Heaven for the past three weeks. I apologize for being tardy with the answers to your queries."

"You are most certainly welcome whenever you visit, Angel Gabriel, and I am honored by your presence. Yes, Lucifer and those angels of evil miracles and deceiving wonders do present formidable acts of war, but we rest assured that Master will remain unscathed by even the worst of their attacks. Yet we do experience minor setbacks sometimes when the attacking is severe. I trust that you are well, and unharmed?"

"Why, thank you, Daniel! Yes, you may assume that. Just a bit weary from it all. I'll be so glad to see the Final End of this senseless warring against Creator and us who trust Him. I understand that you have been standing in prayer for us angels? And, having some of your own battles with Evil?"

"Indeed, it is so. However, to Master goes all praise, for His arm protects me."

"So, Daniel, how would you want me to present the message I am to deliver?"

"Well, my desire is to understand some of the scriptures I've been studying about future times and events, recorded by Prophet Yeremiah. One especially stumps my mind; that of Prophet Isaiah's record speaking of a man born of a virgin woman, who grows up to preach and teach Master's people for a time, but then he is given a terrible death, and then rises to new life on the third day from when he dies. Do tell me more!"

"Very well. However, let's start with some discourse as to why Master speaks of a Man coming, and not another of His creatures. First, let's determine why it is a man. Why was it not the Sparrow? This sweet natured little creature surely has the kind, gentle character such a savior would need?"

"I can think of no reason a Sparrow was not chosen. Tell me why not."

"The Sparrow, by it nature, does not experience the temptations man faces. Understanding what it is like to face these is vital to gaining Man's respect for this savior. No, it was not the Sparrow."

"Then, Gabriel, I would ask about Majestic King Lion? Surely his mighty roar and the fear he causes in those around him would qualify him for this task?"

"Yes, King Lion does cause fear in those near him. But, Lion has little, if any love for those who would harm him. He even cares little for his own family. No, this savior must show Man that even when Man brutally harms, even kills him, this savior still loves Man with the same unconditional love. Another try?"

"Even the Lion fears the mighty Elephant! With it trumpet trunk, the Elephant sounds the battle cry that echoes miles around. And, Elephant is a caring creature, for its own. I think, surely the Elephant has the desired qualities?"

"Elephant is a good choice, except that Elephant lives so differently from Man, and this savior needs to be so close to the natural Man that he is fully identified with the same desires and senses as Man. Besides, Elephant eats grasses, and how could he sit at a table to share a meal with any man?"

"Giraffe has good qualities. He is a family creature, and some keep close company with Man? It would seem natural that Giraffe would be a fitting form for this savior to come in!"

"Perhaps. But, Giraffe does not walk and talk on the same level as Man, and Man has a difficult time as it is, to even look Giraffe in the eye!"

"Well, Sheep was so obedient and willing, he gave Master no resistance to take his skin and use it to mark Ish and Ishah's bodies as a sign of their disobedience, in the Great Garden. In fact, Sheep's blood was a kind of sacrifice to atone for their disobedience!"

"No. Sheep is certainly innocent, but this savior must experience complete love of life, as Man does, who resists death to his dying breath, unlike Sheep, who are easily led to their slaughter. This savior must understand Man's struggle to survive, but also he must freely give his life for Man to know how much more precious is obedience of Master, than even his own life."

"Then, I suppose that no creature other than, than . . "

"Man?"

"Yes."

"What for?"

"Complete identity with Mankind."

"Why?"

"That mankind would know and trust Him, his savior."

"Born of a virgin?"

"Born from a virgin, but fathered by Master."

"Gabriel, I now see why you are right. No other creature has been given such never-ending grace by Master, for so long, but still continues to practice rebellion and disobedience, as mankind! Man has far more power to disobey than even the worst Fallen Angel, and to destroy Master's Creation! It makes sense that Creator would bar Man from the tree of life, as man could live forever, and he may even destroy the Evil kingdom of The Fallen Angels and put in its place an even more evil kingdom!"

"Not only does Man have The Fallen Angel's strong will to gain control of Master, but Man also has the capacity to create greater destruction! Not even The Fallen Angel has this capacity!"

"Wow! I am seeing why this savior must be a man!"

"Yes, even The Fallen Angels must ask master for permission to do their evil, just as Job recorded. But, not Man. He simply thinks of something, and then sets about to do it, all on his own strength."

"Man also mocks Creator more than all other creatures. Master tells us that he is willing to forgive us our disobedience right up to the moment we lose our life! Who better but a Man to show other men how to forgive?!"

"Did you read that this savior comes in the form of a baby?"

"I did. Can you tell me why?"

"Had he come as a mighty prophet, such as Isaiah, then only the inner circle of religious groups would identify with him. What other form could he come in, that would not best identify him with the most low of Mankind, and yet, the highest levels of a Man?"

"I think one form of human not suitable would be as a mighty prince. Few people seek advice from a man of renown. Nor, would He come as a warrior, for the warrior follows orders, and is subject to higher powers. This savior cannot be subject to any authority above himself."'

"Good! Tell me why he came as a newborn?"

"If he came as a student, he would appeal to few other than students. If as a physician, only the ill would seek him; and, if as a tradesman, the wealthy would turn up their collective nose and think nothing of him."

"Oh. Daniel, you're right. Have you considered why he is to be presented as a newborn human baby?"

"Not really; no."

"Family."

"That's all?!"

"Why do you say, "That's all?" "

"Well, everyone is born . . . Oh! I see now! That's right on! "Everyone" relates to being born as a goo-gooing baby, with mom, dad, sister and brother, to be taken care by, and grow up with! Question? Will he have brothers and sisters, if he is not fathered by a man?

"Half-brothers and sisters. His mother will be a virgin when she conceives him, but she is near her wedding day, and even though she is accused at the time, later her accusers will not focus on their suspicions of her being disobedient to pre-marriage purity. Through the entire experience she has, from Master's angel relaying the message that she has been chosen for this task, and would she accept it, to birthing Master as a baby, to watching him grow into manhood, and then preaching, and then on to his terrible death, his mother remains a faithful, humble woman who trusts and believes Master above all her fears, accusers, and the natural instincts and apprehensions all women experience! She is one awesome woman!"

"But, yes, she does birth more children, but fathered by her husband, Joseph, the Carpenter."

"Wow!"

"So, tell me what you think about the Savior coming to Earth as a helpless, human newborn?"

"It's confabulousexpialidociouslyfantasimally WOW!!"

"I thought you'd say that, Daniel!"

"So, Daniel, you now have the knowledge of why and how Savior comes. But, do you know Who he is?"

"I assume that you mean "Who he is to be identified as being in the future, some 600 hundred years from now, when he comes?"

"No!, I mean, who he is right now!"

"Uhmmm, I did not read that he is alive now! I was given a dream, where Creator is sitting on His eternal throne in Heaven, then it is like the one He sends in man's flesh to be man's savior appears before His throne, as a man, with a flesh body. When I saw this, I was being carried by Creator, but it was like an invisible being actually carried me, a 'spirit' being, for lack of better words to describe how I was carried."

"Could the man standing before Creator, at the throne, have been like the one who carried me to witness this Heavenly anointing of the Savior, another form of Creator?"

"Yes, he is! In fact, He is Creator, Who takes on the form of a newborn man, and grows up among Mankind, becoming respected by both Men and the Master Whom He is in this flesh form! In other words, Daniel, this savior is Creator, and He lives just as Creator commands all men to live, thereby proving Himself worthy of Creator's honor, since He follows Creator's commands to man!!"

"Even we angels cannot understand all the details of how Creator does these things, yet we can testify that He does them."

"Gabriel, let me get this straight. Creator is the Savior standing before the throne He, Creator is sitting on at the very same time, anointing and commissioning Savior, and I am there watching this, carried there by Creator in a third form, similar to a spirit-being?"

"Welcome to being the first human to experience the Living Spirit of Creator, Who indwells those who desire the fullness of Creator to be dwelling in them! It is only with His person dwelling in you that you have eyes to see and understand what you just described! In fact, the prophet has recorded that men will no longer need to go to where a servant of Creator teaches His Living Word to gain understanding. With Creator dwelling in you, His Living Word is also in you, and to know anything about Him, all you will then need to do, is to ask Him to show you! That is a gift that Creator, as man's Savior, will leave after He closes flesh eyes to see He is walking upon His Earth just after He raises His flesh body from the grave it is placed in after He gives His flesh life on the cross. He becomes "Savior" after He rises from Death. Before, He is the greatest prophet ever sent to Man!"

"Isn't it wonderful how Master can do all this?"

"But, Not disobey His Living Word."

"Oh. True. I often wish I were unable to disobey. It would make things so much more simple!"

"You can live without disobeying."

"That's not so!. Everyone does! Scripture says so, too. You lie!"

"No, the Word Master gave says His Own do not have the will to disobey Him."

"Everybody has a will!"

"Of course! But not everybody has the same will. Who's 'will' do you have?"

"Mine. Who else' will would I have?"

"Well, not mine, of course. I can't give it away, anyway. But Master can give His will to anyone who asks."

"He can?!"

"He does."

"So, I can ask Master for His will, and he will give it to me?"

"Yes, He does that for anyone who asks, believing."

"But, I already have a will. Where did it come from?"

"Ish. That is why it is faulty, and prone to disobedience. You still have his will, if you have not replaced it with the one Master gives you."

"I want Master's will."

"It costs."

"How much?"

""All.""

"Like . . .?"

"Everything. What do you like to think?"

"Uhhmmm . . . well, I like to think . . ."

"Give it to master."

"Maybe He won't like it?"

"Good thinking! He well may hate your thoughts."

"Ouch! What about food? Friends? My children? Or, my parents?"

"Everything; everyone."

"Oh. That's not easy!"

"It's impossible."

"But, I thought you said I would . . ."

"No. I said Master's will would cost all -everything."

"I can't give Him everything"

"No."

"But, but, bu . . . er. . . How can I . . ."

"Ask Him.""

"Ask? What?"

"For His authority over Evil to enter your person in order that He may cleanse you of everything that dishonors Him - everything."

"That . . . that . . . that is like, like, I don't live anymore!"

"Right on! You're dead to self, alive to Him!"

"Dead?"

"To your self-esteem. Alive to listen, hear, and do His will. Not till you're dead to self-esteem can you be alive in His will to do His will."

"Dead? But alive? What . . . how?"

"Master's life."

"His life? How?"

"You give Him your life, and your will. By His authority and power, He then dwells inside you. He gives you His Living."

"That's complicated."

"No. That's impossible on your own! Complicated? Only in your heart, which He tells us is our worst Deceiver, far worse than The Fallen Angel's deceptions! It's really very simple - just one step!"

"One step? How?"

"Trust, by your obedience."

"Obedience?"

"Does His Living Word say to 'DO' anything to earn His reward of eternal Living?"

"Yes."

"What?"

"Obey His commandments."

"Oh."

"Do you?"

"Kinda. Well, what I mean, I try. But, I often fail."

"He doesn't accept "Kinda."

"I didn't think so. But, all my religious friends say they often fail to obey?"

"He calls such disobedience, disobedience. They are not part of His family. He says so. In the record he will have one of His 12 disciples, Matthew, He says that they who follow after Him but fail to do His Living Word are wolves in sheep's clothing and they only pretend to be His obedient "Doers." Matthew will write this in his "Gospel of Disciple Matthew, chapter 7, verses 17 to 21. Matthew  records that He states, "I don't even know these!" "

"Daniel, does He know you?"

Well, by this you tell me, no, He doesn't 'know' me."

"Want Him to?"

"Do I! YES!"

"Obey Him."

"Oh. Now?"

"It's the only "Way." He has another of His twelve disciples, John, record in his record, "The Gospel According to Y'shuah, by Disciple Yochanan (John)," in chapter fourteen, verse 6,"

"Thank you!"

"Thank Him."

"I will. Thank you!"

"NO. Thank HIM!"

"Master, I see! Thank You for opening my blinded, evil-loving eyes to really obey You! Master, 'why' didn't I know this before? Oh! Master! I hear You! What's that? "This 'is' incredible! I 'HEAR' You! Oh? Yes? Yes! That's so, too. I know, Lord. Yes. Take that; of course! 'That, too. Yes, him, too, Lord. OH! I 'feel' so, so . . . light! Oh! Here! Let's not forget them! And, here, I've got another of 'those.' Take everything! All I want is You, Master! 'MY' Master! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Oh! I Could SHOUT! I'm so - so - so - FULL OF JOY! WOW! I'm Alive! Alive!"

"Told you so. Yesterday. Day before, ten years ago."

"When? I didn't hear You?"

"I know. I was disappointed, too."

"Oh. I know. I didn't 'HEAR' You!"

"No. You didn't 'HEAR' Master. I just spoke for Him."

"Oh. Do you think people will 'HEAR Master when I tell them, now?"

"No. But, some will, when He opens their hearts."

"Oh."

"Is that all you can say; "Oh"?!"

"No."

"Get outa here! Go, tell the whole world WHO you 'KNOW'! They need to know, too!"

"I love you."

"I love you, too. Master sends His love for you in the message he sends in my heart for you. It's His."

"A baby?"

" I don't follow."

"You said, "Master is coming to Man as a helpless baby?"

"Oh. Yes? Er . . . I mean, YES!"

"That's really how we are, isn't it? We're helpless. We must be cleaned - we cannot do it by ourselves. We can't give ourselves living spiritual food. We can't even talk in Spiritual Truth! I think Master's a wonderful father! He loves me - us - so very much!"

"He does. Tell someone that. They need to be fed. And cleaned. And to talk, too. Tell them how simple it is that you were given His will. His Life. His WAY! You 'CAN' talk now! It isn't goo-goo, gaaa-gaaa, either! I love you, brother!"

"Love' Him."

"I know. I do."

"Bye now."

"Do you know Master's Baruch (Blessing) for His children?"

"Blessing? He gives so much joy inside. Isn't that enough?"

"Yes. But He gives much more."

"More?"

"Read the ancient Hebrew Scripture Baruch for Master's chosen People, Y'srael, recorded by Moshe' in Numbers 6, verses 24 through 26. Read the meaning for each Hebrew Word there."

"Wow! I see!"

"There's more than that!"

"No!"

"Sure is! Turn to Deuteronomy, chapter twenty eight, verse 2."

"Wow! WOW! Praise Master!"

"There's more."

"Incredible!"

"It's true. Read the entire chapter of Deuteronomy 28. Do you 'see' how Master pours His floods of Baruch (Blessing) on His children?"

"Obedience?"

"True. But, it starts with Trust."

"Now read Malachi chapter 3, verse 10. Is this a test Master wants you to give Him?"

"Yes! He really does!"

"Will you?"

"That is not easy! - - - whoops! It 'wasn't' easy! I can think clear! It is like the old thoughts are still there . . . but, but, I can really think new thoughts I never had before! Incredible!"

"Master's thoughts."

"Hey! That's right!"

"Keep reading His way of Life, obeying what you read right on the spot you read it, and keep listening with the ears He gave to you!"

"They're His eyes, His ears, His way. How could I 'not' hear, see, and go?"

"I don't know. But don't try to find out, EVER!"

"No Prob! I love Him! I Love Him! I Love Him!"

"Go tell the disobedience-sickened world!"

"Bye."

"Bye. Read and study Song of Solomon, chapter 7."

"I shall."

"Master be with you."

"Oh! He is!"

"I love you, my Brother."

"Me too."

"Bye."

"Master be with you."

"Every moment."

"Bye."

"Please don't forget me."

"That's not possible! Master keeps you on my heart. You're super special to us both."

Note: The above ends page 87, Hand Copy MSS

MISSING PAGES HERE!

Add pgs 88 - part of 96 - And mesh with the rest!

UGH!

Grandpa's Story Continues . . .

• Visiting Little Miss Red Riding Wolffe, in her home, nestled in a very tall, hollow tree in a little green meadow with a bubbling stream running through
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• Master finishes His unpleasant task for Ish and Ishah's disobedience, and a thousand years pass
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• The Mutiny On Noah's Ark of Safe Passage

Home In Time For Master's Special Day!

The weary, adventure-filled travelers returned to their homes, enjoyed refreshing food and lots of deep, sleepy rest, they were ready for Mr. Owl to finish his grandpa's story. That day marked Master Y'suah's Special Day of Remembrance.

Miss Riding Wolffe invited Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel. Each of her human friends was excited  to share Christmas Day with their sweet hearted little Wolf pup, her family and her friends!"

So a time was set for the little traveling party to meet at the Wolffe Home. In fact, some family members of the traveling group decided to come. Mr. Owl's grandchildren, who already had heard the story many times, came just to hear it once more. Mr. Blue Jay's whole family came, because he told them the first part, best as he could .

Jonny Rabbit and his sister came. Sly Catcher Weasel arrived with his little sister, Kitten Weasel. Of course, her real name was Angel Weasel, but her father called her "Kitten."

Mr. Wolffe ushered everyone to the main room in his tiny den. When all were comfortable, and it 'was' a sight to see - with the birds, Mr. Owl, and his grandchildren, and the Blue Jay family, all trying to find a place among the ground creatures. Riding wolffe's human friends were there too, but somehow they all fit very nice and comfortably into the tiny den! For Mr. Neigh!, there was simply just too much of him to fit at all! Well except for his head. He rested it just inside the tiny door!

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When the excitement of fitting all into his tiny house calmed down, Mr. Wolffe spoke.

"When my little daughter told me about the story Mr. Owl was telling from his own grandfather, and you dear human children all chose my humble, and too-small home to gather together to hear its finish, I was very happy! I'm just as excited as you to listen to the rest of it!"

"Now, here is Mr. Owl to finish the wonderful story!"

"Mr. Owl!"

Mr. Owl stood on a bit of the inner tree that jutted out into the tiny room. He turned to Mr. Neigh!, who was still trying to find a comfortable way to squeeze just his head into the doorway of the tiny den with the rest of his body sitting on the ground in the small yard!

"I want to thank our Mr. Neigh! for his sharing in this story. His grandfather also told it to him, and he was kind to make comments and give me encouragement as I shared the first part with him, Mr. Blue Jay and Miss Wolffe on our way home yesterday."

"This last part of the wonderful story our grandfathers handed to us from their grandfathers mainly focuses on the events and people during the time Master saved us all here from our species' complete destruction, when the evil that Ish, and Ishah's original disobedience spread to all but a very few creatures upon all Earth."

"We will start with the closing scene in the first part, for which there was too little time at the end of our long journey back to tell."

"Is everyone comfortable? Mr. Neigh!, I don't see how you do it, my big friend, but I am delighted that you can be with us!"

The last moments in the Great Garden

"We touched on the time when Master confronted His two human and one serpent creatures, who, together disobeyed His command to not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. I recited the underlying mental and spiritual deceptions that each one used to try to justify his or her disobedient act and lying words. Master then made a just price for the damage to His Creation each guilty creature caused. Each would pay his own damage cost to at least partly restore the good their acts and words had destroyed. It is in His decision here that we first see how powerful Master's Grace is!"

"Each of the three characters committed a crime, or act of disobedience deserving death on the spot! But Master is both Love and Truth, so He made a most alarming decision! Instead of killing the two humans, He took two innocent little lambs, killed each and removed their skins, with the fleece. He placed these on each human! This act saved their lives, but also showed all Creation that Master cherishes human life so much, He is willing for other life to die first!"

"This coat of the dead lambs' skins could not hide the nakedness of the humans' bodies, but it did act as a symbol that their disobedience carries the price of their death, a price too great for them to pay and still survive in their flesh life.As time and experience unfolded their disobedience as their children carried the acts of disobedience into their own lives, the sincere people who mourned over their disobedience continued this practice of killing innocent lambs as a reminder of the high price of disobeying Master's commands."

"Much later, as grandpa's story continues, Master will call these lambs and six other animal species that He gave the same status of pureness to to be saved from certain death for all Earth Flesh. But, let's wait for that part of the story."

"When Master killed the two small, innocent lambs and placed their bloody skins on Ish and Ishah, He had one more thing to do to insure that their disobedience would be limited just to Planet Earth. This final task would end eternal human existence on His Earth, making it impossible for Mankind to continue in disobedience past a limited life-span. This was one of the most sad moments Master has ever faced."

He said, "Surely Ish will also eat the fruit of Life and live forever. He can have no chance to live in an eternal state of disobedience and thereby ruin all Creation! Now, with My knowledge of how to perform both good and destruction, he must leave My Great Garden, to labor in the natural elements of Earth, where thistle and briar, disease and famine are wont to overcome his work to survive."

Master led Ish and Ishah in a sad procession to the entrance of the Great Garden in the Land of Eden. There He stopped with them, giving each instructions for their future together:

"Ishah." Master spoke. "My Lovely Ishah, because you sought after consolation and comfort from other than Ish, and you preferred the children of other creatures for your companionship, now you will have your loneliness and your child-bearing multiplied, and you shall bear your own children in great sorrow. Because you preferred other companionship, now your desire will be toward your husband, and you will be under his authority to determine your living."

Master's words burned into her already grieving soul.

To Ish, He said:

"Ish, as you preferred Ishah's word above My Own command, your act caused the ground to be cursed. In my Great Garden you were fed and nourished with the Tree of Life. But, in the natural world where you must now live, the ground shall be your source of food. Instead of abundance from it, as in My garden, the natural ground will spring up with thistle and briar  forcing you to labor against it. In sorrow and grief you shall spend the days of your life."

"From the soil your body is formed; From soil your body is sustained; to it your body shall return."

Ish took the fruit from Ishah when she offered it, but he was given much greater responsibility and had much more to pay than Ishah, for it was to him that Master made the direct command to not eat the fruit. The consequences he faced for his evil deed, and mostly for lying about it, were justly more severe.

Ish worked very diligently to create a wonderful beauty in the Great Garden from the heavy, overgrown jungle tangle. He now had the same hard work ahead in his life, but this time it would be labor he must endure every working day merely to raise enough food for his family to survive. Needless to say, he was heartbroken.

So, Master sent the dejected pair off into the natural environment of Earth. Perhaps they had no idea how difficult life just  became, but nevertheless their disobedience earned their plight. When they were gone from sight He placed two mighty angels to turn away any human that wanted to enter the Great Garden at the entrance on its Eastern side. Their polished swords gleamed in the sunlight streaming in through the metallic canopy in the sky far above.

However, in Master's design for His Creation, Ish and Ishah and their children would be cared for, and all their needs met by the abundant provision Master gives to all His creatures. However now Ish and his lovely wife faced the grueling task of producing their own shelter, sustenance and in this sorrow, their children would join them.

Master, knowing before Creation was formed that this evil and His sentence upon Man would take place, also knew that Man would soon build large, evil cities, and the animals' rebellion would spread until both human and animal evil would form a terrible destruction over all earth. He knew they would take objects of His creation and form them into shapes that then they worshiped instead of  Him. From Creator's abundant love and sustaining provision, Ish's descendants turned to the trees and stone these substitutes were made from, trusting in these lifeless objects instead of Creator!

Grave Danger Over Little Earth

As formed by Creator, original Earth protected and nurtured life so greatly that the planet was covered in deep layers of fertile soil from the dense, wild-growing jungles and the human and animal population expansion. Evil multiplied rapidly in this rich environment until only one family of humans was led by a faithful worshiper of Truth. Noach.

On a fine day, in this wild, evil world, Master spoke to Noach with deep concern in His voice.

"Noach, faithful servant, I find all flesh to be a continual evil before Me. I shall destroy every living creature upon earth."

Noach was 500 years of age before the first of his three sons arrived. Master informed him of His plan to destroy all living flesh upon Little Earth, and then commissioned Noach to construct a large vessel to carry just one pair of every flesh creature living at that time. It was at a point between his first son, Yapheth's birth and when he began to build the Ark of Safe Passing. He was 600 years old the day that Master sealed the huge ark door shut, and flood waters both rose from the earth, and fell from the skies.

"Mr. Neigh!, you told me that the old ostrich you met, Mr. Fyyne Feather, I believe his name was, spoke about whales, or something. It is interesting to know that in some deep-ocean research, a party of whale scientist discovered ocean beaches over three miles under the surface of our present day oceans! They also discovered a series of submerged hewn stones off the Eastern coast of the continent we live on, at its South-eastern tip, that extends down to several miles under the ocean surface!"

"I've also heard from some adventurers to the far Northern reaches of the land of India that they discovered two ancient cities whose remains have a high level of radiation, indicating a massive atomic explosion there in ancient days. If so, it may help to explain how the waters from above the earth, trapped by the metallic canopy, were allowed to fall upon earth in such torrents. Such a blast may have broken that canopy."

"I also heard that modern Disciples of Master are using machines to create likely models of this metallic canopy, and the results that indicate a canopy are profound."

Miss Wolffe raised one of her paws.

"Yes?"

"Are those disciples like the ones who were Master's twelve followers? Can me and my human friends be His disciples?"

"All it takes to be a disciple of Creator is to obey Him! Can you do that?"

Miss Riding Wolffe quickly replied, "Not with my nature! It's too hard to obey Master in everything!"

"Well, that's true!," Mr. Owl replied. "But, Master can change your nature! If you give Him permission to do so, you will want more than anything else to obey Him!"

"Can my friends, Cynthia, Melissa, and Eriel be Master's disciples with me? I hope they want to do that!"

 "Miss Wolffe, anyone can be Master's disciple! If you are sincere that you want to, ask Him to change your heart and overcome the evil inside you. Why would He refuse that?"

"Oh, by the way Miss Wolffe, I think your mom would agree, the proper word is "may - "May me and my friends! But, I understand, our language is confusing!" Mr Owl gave her a big grin.

"One thing you might want to remember about the way Master changes you is that He puts a hard canopy around you to protect you from evil. It's much like the clear metallic canopy He placed above earth to protect all living creatures from radiation, invading meteors, and it contained many times more nutrients in the atmosphere than we have today; You can see through  the one protecting you, but it keeps out all the floods of evil that are trying to invade your heart with a flood of too much evil to see and follow Him!"

"To be a disciple of Master is to obey His Living Word as he gave it to His faithful recorders. He keeps it perfect with His faithful scribe service, which follows the scientific, exact copy process that He gave to Moshe'! It is so exact that not a single tiny stroke has ever been missed, or added!" Mr. Owl beamed his approval of her question. "In fact, my little one, we owl have been His disciples all down through our generations, and that's how we became known for our wisdom!"

Mr. Owl continued his grandpa's story; "Master's creation of Planet Earth was so perfect that the things that bombard other planets, and now Earth were blocked by the metallic helium canopy. Whatever broke through that obdurate, tough metallic canopy was a massive force!"

"In Bereisheet(Genesis), chapter one, Moshe' recorded that the waters above the canopy were separated from the waters below it. That means, from what we now see as thee miles more depth to our oceans, there was an enormous amount of frozen water sitting on that canopy!"

"In fact, Moshe' records that it took 40 days and nights for all that water to finish falling to earth! History records some awful floods, but none anywhere near that size! Moshe' also recorded that the surface of earth was ripped open by deluges of water which poured up through the deep fissures."

"Exposed to the almost absolute zero cold of space, all this super cold ice water suddenly fell on earth's North and South pole regions then froze everything solid for thousands of feet of muck, trees, animals, and everything else!  Modern explorers drilling down over a thousand feet in the area of the far North shores of this continent discovered a frozen jungle under this jumbled mass! That's pretty sure-fired proof that the massive flood Moshe' recorded covered the entire earth!"

"Another thing people rarely think about is the enormous power this three miles-deep water that suddenly hit earth held in its mass and motion."

"Earth's surface rotates at a speed of about 1,000 miles per hour. With all that broken metallic canopy, melting ice boulders that turned to melt water as it fell through the dense atmosphere and turned to very hot steam by the friction, it struck the mountains on earth and swished through them with a grinding flood. It was so massive that entire mountains eroded away in minutes! Is it any wonder that Master gave Noach construction plans for a huge boat that was built so strong it is still preserved to this day?! Nearby this remains is what appears to be a fragment of its hull. It is so hard and dense that it rings like a bell when you strike it with a rock or hammer! It is obdurate, like the metallic canopy that crashed down in chunks upon earth, only they melted into the gas state at the temperature just above the ground."

Narrator: Two months after I moved to Pennsylvania a storm raged for six days, dumping about two feet of rain on the ground. The Susquehanna River ripped apart a small town, Johnstown, and in a section that was normally one mile wide, near Harrisburg, it widened to two miles and flooded a large section of the major steel industries located there. Houses and large steel drums, boats, and ripped-up building sections rushed by in the 60 mile-per-hour current. Compared to the Flood, that was just a tiny example!

Miss Wolffe raised a paw, quietly. "Miss Wolffe?." 

"With all that wind, water, falling pieces of the canopy, the torrents of water rushing up out of the ground and huge pools of water swirling fast enough to wash the mountains away, the ark Noach made had to be very, very strong!"

"Yes, Miss Wolffe, at this point Master gave Noach very detailed plans for how to construct each part of the ark for it to hold food for humans, feed for animals and the right places and construction for the berths each kind would need for over a year  depending on what the ark carried to live on. In fact, that's a key part of the story, as it was the way the ark was constructed that saved the lives of everyone aboard, when  . . . well, that's a surprise part coming up!"

"But, yes, Noach got the entire plan at about the time he was 500 years old, it seems from what Moshe recorded.  Another interesting thing I have to share is that a Believer in Creator was shown exactly where the remains of Noach's ark lie now!"

"Well, back to Master's plan for this ark. It was the first boat ever built on earth! The tiny sea that existed at that time could be walked around easily, if one needed to be on the opposite side. So, why have a boat? Much less, a large one? Only Master knew the enormous flood coming, so only He knew the size it needed to be, and how each part would fit together."

"Miss Wolffe, can one of your human friends tell us how long this ark was to be?"

"Cindy, you're the oldest of my human friends, can you tell us the answer?"

"Well, a very long time ago, I faintly remember my father reading this story to me. If I remember right, it was, oh, about four hundred and fifty feet long!"

"Right! Mr. Owl said. Can you tell us how many cubits that is?"

"It's 300."

"Again, you're right! Cindy!"

"Can one of your other two girls tell us how high it was?"

Eriel took this one; "It was 30 cubits! That's about 45 feet"

"One last question for you human guests!. Melissa, how wide?"

"About 75 feet! That's 50 cubits, or so."

"Well! You young ladies have indeed heard, and remembered some of this great story! Now, here's two questions for you, Miss Wolffe! Be sure to take your time answering!"

"How many feet are in one mile?"

"5280."

"Ah! Good!"

"So, how many feet in 3 miles?"

"Almost 16,000! Why?"

"Well, that's how much turbulent, writhing and roiling water was under the ark! When we truly calculate the fantastic miracle that saved that tiny boat compared to the enormous size of the flood, we can better appreciate the wonderful plan Master gave Noach for this ark!"

"And, you friends of Miss Wolffe are right with all your answers for the Ark of Safe passage! Your dimensions are those given by Moshe'. I bet your mother read to you from Master's record book, right?"

All three nodded, with big smiles!

"Yes!," Miss Riding Wolffe smiled at Mr. Owl, and her three friends. "But I like my grandma's reading it to me much better! She makes all kinds of animal noises and talks funny, like the bear, the giraffe, and even the iguana lizard! It's fun when she reads it to me!"

"Good! I'm no competition for your grandma, though!"

"Now, Master told Noach the ship's name includes the word, "Ark." Can you tell me the ship's full name? Anyone?" Everyone looked puzzled.

"Well, I'll have to tell you, then. But, you'll have to wait till it's name appears in the story, just the way my grandpa told me!"

"If Master led only two of each kind of creature to His Ark-something, what did He do with all the rest left outside?"

"He didn't drown innocent babies and creatures that were not evil, did He? How could He do that?," Miss Wolffe asked.

"My, my! You're full of questions! Of course Master 'could do that! How could He? Well, it's something we don't know everything about, but Master records why. His reason is found in Genesis, chapter six - Whoops! I mean "Book of Beginnings"!(The Hebrew Is Bereisheet) See? It says 'all' flesh living on Earth was evil. Did this include Noach's family and the animals that Master kept alive on His Ark-"something?" (That's an interesting name Miss Riding Wolffe has for Master's Ark, isn't it, Eriel!")

"Master's record leaves much detail out about the world before the Great Flood, and the experience on the Ark-something as well. But, overall, we have quite a good bit that tells us about Earthlings before, and after Master flooded Earth. Now, my young friends, let's hear the rest of the story!"

Gerandpa Owl's Ark-"something?" Story

Noah -"Nuach"

Strong's H5146 - Noach

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H5146

"Now many generations after Mr. Slytalker Serpent, with Fallen Angel Lucifer and the Warlock Serpent Enforcers tried, and failed to destroy Master's Earth, all creatures continued to do as they pleased. Some, like Ish and Ishah's sons, Abel and Enoch, pleased Master with their total love for His Way so much that He walked with them and was seen in person by them, as He was their best friend. But, for all the rest, they loved Evil more than Creator. The number of these Evil-loving people and animals grew to where they almost entirely covered the planet. Even children of parents that loved Master, wanting the fun of evil's self-esteem and self-focused life-style, turned away from Master. He was with them as small children in their parent's home And even though their parents had taught them to love and honor Master, they turned away to follow their own way."

"When Noach was 480 years, before he and his wife had three sons, Master's record given by Moshe' tells us that Master noted that it would soon be time to destroy Life upon Earth with the Great Flood, "because all flesh is evil continually," He had Moshe' write.

"So Master's Plan had one man who served and honored Master and his family of all the many billions of people then living that He would keep alive. Of course this was Noach, his wife and three sons, and the wife of each son. After surviving the Great Flood, Noach would have more sons and daughters, but for the time before it, his children were these three. Mrs. Noach would be over 500 years of age when she gave birth to the rest of their family!"

"Anyway, during one of His evening walks with Noach, Master said, "Noach, My plan for Earth calls for you to build a great ship. Think you can do this, my friend?"

"Well, Master, You know me better that I know myself. You tell me!"

"Noach! I asked you first! Please, tell Me!"

"Well, the way I see it, and you know I don't always see things Your Way, if I'm supposed to build, er, what's a "Great Ship"? I don't recall my ever seeing such a, a, ah,; oh well, whatever it is!"

"It's an Ark-"something?", Noach! In time, I will reveal its full name to you, Noach."

Noach was silent.

"Say something, Noach!"

"Something?"

"No! I didn't mean to say it 'that' way! Just listen, then. I'll describe the Plan, Noach."

"Er, I mean, doesn't it have a name? It's much easier for me to remember a name! It helps me to picture it in my mind, and see how it will be used, and even what its general appearance will be"

"Noach! I knew this would be the problem! But, it should be so simple . . . Sometimes I wonder why I ever created Ish with this weakness to know and understand My Way!"

"Now, I shall describe it to you, My friend."

"Does it hold animals?"

"Noach!"

"Ok, OK! You talk, Master!" Noach looked at his shoes. They were genuine loafers, his favorite to wear during these long walks with Master.

"Yes! Animals, Noach. " 'Every' kind of animal!"

"What?! I . . ."

"Noach!"

"Oops!"

"Animals, and each of your sons, and their wives."

"I don't have . . ."

"Noach! . . .Listen to Me!"

"OK, I'm sorry! It's just that . . ."

"Noach, 'do' you have time for this? I could alter My Plan, but there's just no one else . . ."

"Sorry! I'll listen. My lips are zipped shut, See?"

"In 20 years you'll have a son. He'll be loyal. His name . . . Oh! I need to let you to name him! Just because I already know everything and all names in My Creation is no reason to take the fun of giving names to all your children! It'll be the 'right' name!"

"But, before this Great Flood, you need to build this Great Ark. You asked Me to describe it, so I will do so."

"Noach?"

"Yes?"

"You know when you were a boy, and played on the beach, at the ocean?"

"Yes . ."

"Well, there were sticks floating in the water, right?"

"What?! Am I to float sticks in the water!?"

"Noach!"

"Sorry . . ."

"No, maybe I should just call all this off. It's pretty hard to get you Humans to think on My level of understanding, or even a little closer to it than the paltry level of your natural understanding!"

"No! No! No! I'll do it! Really!"

"Well, OK. But, please stop interrupting Noach!"

"Yes."

"It's not a "Stick-"something?"," Noach. It's a form of wood lamination-joinery that is solidified into a dense, very durable material, that will withstand the massive destruction forces that will rip and tear Earth apart. The ship is large, and it requires tools and materials you must design and manufacture yourself. I have all the plans available for you, and will guide you each step of the entire process. But, you must build the Ark yourself. That is why I am coming now, 120 years before Earth is flooded."

"120 . . ."

"Noach!!!"

"Sorry!"

"Yes. Do you know what a flood is?"

"No."

"Well, it's, its . . . hmmm. Let's just say it this way, Noach, Remember when you swam out to the middle of the ocean, and tried to sink to the bottom?"

"Why Yes! My! That was 450 years ago! I thought sure I'd drown!"

"Noach?"

"Yes?"

"Noach, that's exactly what's going to happen to all living flesh upon Planet Earth, the day you are 600 years old, which is 120 years, 2 hours, and 19 minutes and 29 seconds, exactly, from this very moment!"

"Bu, bu, but, that's going to happen to me?"

"Noach!"

"You'll be inside this Great Ship, with all animal species and your own family where I will keep you safe till I have developed dry land for you to land on. That will require one year and ten days' time!"

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Genesis Flood Chronology - Noah's Ark

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" 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noach removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noach, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee."

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"By the way, Noach . . ."

"Yes?"

"I saved you from drowning that time!"

"What? Opps! Nutten . . ."

"All flesh upon Earth is, is, well, you know, Noach, I've shared My grief over this wicked people so many times with you - you 'do' know, don't you?"

"I do."

"I'm sorry I made flesh life, Noach."

"I'm 'flesh.' "

"Oops! Yes, I know. And I love you, friend Noach. My! This is hard!"

"Does this great ship called "something"?, does it 'float'?"

"I have a name for it, but the time to reveal it to you has yet to come."

"Oh. I forgot."

"Yes, just as you discovered with that near drowning incident, it's a good thing to 'float' on top of water! Yes, this great ship does 'float,' Noach."

"Noach, I want you to be its builder. But, are you sure you can handle this task?"

"But, I thought it was to be named "Great "something?" ship"?"

"Wait! Wait! Noach, let's start this discussion all over, from the beginning!"

"Sure."

"My Creation Plan says that you are called to care for two of every kind of creature of flesh, that breathes air that I made from the dust of Earth, Noach."

"Because the "Great 'something' Ship" needed for this task is so big you must start building it this year It marks your 480th upon Earth. It is not like anything any creature on Earth has seen. It is like a stick upon the waters of the ocean, tossed about in the waves. But, unlike a stick, it is made from dense, hardened minerals and wood laminations that I have instructions for you to follow as you build it."

"I will show you what to do, but it is with skills I have given all men that you will use to construct this ship. You will combine the materials as I instruct you, and they will form a ship that will withstand the destruction that is coming. In far distant times, people will say it is a wooden boat, but they will have little interest in My Living Record, just like people now have so little regard for Me."

"To give you an idea of its size, I will compare it to the barn where you keep your Mr. Starfire Horse and his family, and shelter your other livestock. Your barn is 20 and a half cubits wide, and 25 long. It is 10 cubits high. But, you only keep a few creatures there, and you do not need to store large amounts of food and water, or keep the dirty bedding in a separate place, as you will need to do in this Great 'something' Ship."

"Could you keep two of every flesh creature upon Earth in your barn, Noach?"

"Not even!"

"This ship will shelter a pair of every species of flesh life, and your family, Noach. All will need to eat, have fresh, clean water, and have a clean, dry living area for the entire year and ten days you will be aboard. How big do you think it should be?"

"Whoa! How long? That's incredulous! Me . . .??!!"

"Yes, you."

"Wow!"

"So, Noach, how big?"

"Maybe 1000 cubits by 500? And, and, and, and 100 high?"

"Oh! not 'that' big! Try 300 cubits long!"

"OK."

"And 50 wide"

"Hmmm . . . OK. Got it."

"And 30 high."

"30 high? That's . . ."

"Noach?"

"Yes."

"30."

"Got it."

"Now, let's move on. For the entire 120 years you will be constructing this, My great "something" ship is to be in sight of "Mocking Song City." "

"Yes.. . .WHAT?!! ME? It, er, I mean, Your great "something" ship? For 'THAT' long?!!?"

"Noach?"

"Yes.'That' long."

"Master, that's a long, long time for a place where I dread to go! That entire city loves to mock me for being Your friend! I hate when they say terrible, evil things about You, Master. You know I trust You, so I will build it where you say."

"Noach?"

"Uh . . . No. I mean, uhmmm, yes?"

"Building My great 'something' ship isn't all. You're to also be preaching."

"Hey! I like that! At last, You give me something to do that I'm good at!"

"To Mocking Song City, Noach."

"Now, You just wait a minute! You may be Creator, and Master, and the 'only' hope for life possible. You may even . . . Right, master. Thanks for the heads' up!"

"Noach?"

"Yes."

"I don't envy you."

"Thank You! I don't envy either!"

""Oh.""

"Noach?"

"What, er . . . yes?"

"I thought saving you would reward you for your doing this. Was I too stingy with your compensation plan?"

"Well, I . . er, I'll manage. Thanks."

"Noach?"

"Well, Master, it all is so  . . . so . . . well, sudden. Help me?"

"Why Noach! Of course! I thought you 'knew' that!"

"That helps. Thanks. I think I can, now."

"Master?"

"Yes?"

"I love you."

"Why do you think I have chosen you, My dear friend?"

"Oh. Thank You."

"Do it?"

"Yes."

D-Day for Noach's Ark

Mr. Owl looked around, his head seeming to turn the whole way around, at his rapt listeners.

"Noach built, and then preached. The next day, he preached, then he built. One day he would apply the harder-than-stone earth-mix Master had shown him to make to the large slabs of tough lumber he and his sons had cut. This made the lumber many times stronger and it actually turned to a stone so solid that it rang like a bell when struck with a hammer!

"Then, for the next day, as the mixture set up and hardened, he would go stand at the gateway to Mocking Song City and preach the truth about how evil the people were. True to their arrogant city's name, they would taunt and mock Noach every time he told them the truth!"

"Every day, faithful Noach would do his best to gain even one person's attention, to share the better way of living in Master's Truth. But all he ever got was angry, mean words of resentment, and not many days went past that he did not have stones and rotten eggs hitting him numerous times."

"Many, many days he would call to Master, and they would share hours, sometimes, when Noach was the most drained from his hard building labor and the even harder task of preaching. He grieved in his soul for all the angry people who loved evil more than even Master."

"He even poured his grief out to his lovely wife whom he dearly loved. She loved him with all she had to give, but his grief was so deep her words did not comfort him."

"Except for resting on the Shabbat, the seventh day of each Lunar week, to honor that same day Master rested from Creating His Kingdom, Noach repeated this pattern for ten years. Not a single person listened. All Mocking Song City people did was to jeer, mock, and tell each other "Noach jokes"!!"

"You hear the latest?"

"Not that Noach guy, again?"

"Yes! Noach!"

"The latest story is that his great -something-ship is sinking! It's too heavy for the ground to hold it up!  Ha! Ha! Ha! And he thinks it will float on water! Water that doesn't exist, at that!"

"On another day . . ."Hey! You hear about Noach today?" "

"Not that guy, again?? I'm sick and tired of hearing stuff about that old tongue wiggler! "All he ever says is, "Turn from your evil!  Love Master!"  I Hate him!" "

" "Yeah. We should drag him to the sea and tie some of that gopher wood stuff around his neck and throw him in! Think he'll float?" "

" "Sure! He'll float right to the bottom! Some boat-thing he's making! We've never had something he calls 'rain,' and he also says there will be so much of it that anyone outside his silly old boat thingy will drown! How stupid can a person get?!!" "

" "Noach's gonna save us! Noach's gonna save us! Noach's gonna save us! Noach's gonna . . . " "

" "Shut up!" "

" "Well, he 'IS'! He says so!" "

" "No he's not!" "

" "Yes, he is!" "

" "Shut up!" "

Mr. Owl continued; "For the next 10 years, on one day Noach applied a new layer of the stone-like hull, and preached the next day while the new layer cured. He had hundreds of large metal plates and rivets to make that would hold each beam and rib securely in place, exactly as Master's plan called for. The discovery of the ship in its resting place on a hill side of the Ararat Mountains was confirmed by these composite iron and other metal plates, still exactly in the places Noach faithfully placed them!"

"At night, comforted by his faithful wife, he slept the deep, dreamless sleep of a weary laborer."

"But, not every night was so peaceful for Noach. In a recurring dream that came infrequently, his family; brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, were going past where he worked on the ship on their way to shopping in Mocking Song City. However, while they were still inside the high-walled city, he would hear screams and suddenly the city gates had gushing torrents of flooding water pouring out, carrying the bodies of people inside. In his dream he always watched in horror, helpless to save even one. And then, finally, all was quiet and still."

"Noach wakened from these terrifying dreams in a drenching sweat. He loved his neighbors and much more his own brothers and sisters. Many times he would be found by his dear wife weeping over their hard, arrogant attitude. She was unable to quench the hot floods of tears for people he knew would soon perish forever."

"At the end of the second ten years, Noach's wife gave birth to their first-born, Yapheth. She said, "Finally, master has shown kindness to my beloved. He has given him his first Believer!" "

"And, it was so. Years would pass before another Believer would arrive, but Master was faithful to His word."

"In Yapheth's tenth year he was considered a mature, responsible youth. It was the custom in those times that the tenth birthday of a child marked the age of responsibility and Yapheth very much loved Master and His calling his father for building the ship and preaching to the people. Noach was 510 years that year."

"That year his mother gave birth to his little brother, Shem. The two children loved one another from the moment Yapheth set his eyes on his sibling brother. Everywhere Yapheth went you would find Shem at his side!"

"When Shem joined their family that day, Mother Noach rejoiced!, "You have given my husband another Believer!"

"For his part, Shem, from the age of four, stood beside his father as the elder Noach preached the message of Salvation to the crowds of Mocking Song City passing to and fro, by the ship construction site. As Shem listened to his father's retelling the words of Master, and saw his father weeping countless times for the people, he soon understood the great weight upon the man he loved above all people, and he took his own place beside his father, and preached with his father, at times."

"Shem also loved the work on the ship. He especially liked when his father went out to collect the metal ores from nearby deposits, and his love of animals, the beautiful flowers and rushing waters of the river from the Great Garden of Eden that flowed past where the ore was located. Great trees were felled by Noach and his faithful, powerful horse team with the majestic Mr. Starfire, a giant, black stallion with a perfect white star in his forehead leading the four-horse team."

"Shem was about ten the first time he actually began helping with the work Master gave Noach. Before, he just made believe that he was making a much smaller model of the great "something" ship, in his sand box."

"In his tenth year, Shem grew to be a man. His dad, Noach, was 510 that year."

"During Shem's tenth year, Noach's wife presented her third son to Noach; Ham. If only Ham had not opened his eyes! Perhaps the events of this story, and even history itself, would have been far different! But, Ham did open his eyes when he left his mothers womb, and though his father was faithful to raise his boys in the honor and Way of Master, the people and ways of Mocking song City held an unbreakable grip on son Ham, as we shall find out."

"Noach had a full set of the ship's plans and these Shem studied so much that he had them in his memory by the time his little brother, Ham, was born. The intricate order of the ship's design, right down to the different berths each creature would have for the long journey when all would be sealed in the ship. He memorized the plans of the great storage areas that would be filled with feed and food for all, and the large water tanks to store enough to last the journey. The whole project captivated young Shem's interest. He seemed a perfect assistant for his father's calling."

"One day, like a few hundred before it, Shem went with Elder Noach to the ship site. It was preaching day. He was proud of his father, standing there with his hands out, asking people to come and turn from the forbidden worship of idols to Master and His Living Way of Life. He shared with all how one day, not far away, a great flood would take all their lives, unless they joined him and his family. He had tears running down his cheeks from his compassion for his neighbors."

"For all Elder Noach's efforts, the only response from anyone, even his own brothers and siters, was jeers and mocking, and some even threw stones and mud on him."

"You wicked, evil people!," Shem shouted this particular day. It was just too much for him to see how they treated his father, for all the love and compassion he saw his father have for them. "How terrible you treat my father! Don't you care one thing about the safety and lives of your own children, as my father does for us?!" He'd shouted at a group of mocking, especially mean-mouthed grandparents, returning with their young grandchildren, from a forbidden worship event. Both grandparents and grandchildren were shouting very, very nasty things at Elder Noach."

"The passing group shouted all the louder in response to Shem's angry outbreak. "You have no right to stand there and scare our children like you have obviously scared your own child with your phony tales of this 'flood' story! As for 'your' Master, if our safety from this silly flood story is important to Him, then He can come and tell us, Himself!" "

" "Your Master is a bigger liar than you are, Elder Noach!. We don't even believe he exists! Where is this 'Creator,' Who will destroy us with a 'rain' that has never been seen upon Earth?!! Show us!" "

"An old grandfather, who was secretly a member of the core group of the forbidden worship organization, walked up to Elder Noach, and yelled, "Now old geezer, just look at that young, gullible child standing here with you. You are ruining his future here in our society with all your lies and building that stupid, silly ship! We have a children's protection enforcement section of our police force. We should have him taken away from you and raised in freedom from your stupid religion! His life is too valuable to waste with your worship of this Creator, or Master, or whatever you call the silly deity you tell us is sending this impossible flood to destroy us!" "

"That day was the first that Shem also wept bitter tears of remorse for those who refused to turn away from their heathen idols and seek the Master of Truth, to be saved from the sure destruction Master told his father about. In his father's eyes, young Shem had become a full-grown man on that day."

"Shortly after this sad day, Shem passed his tenth birthday, and Ham joined their little family."

" "Master has given my poor husband even greater sorrow this day," Shem's mother wept, silently, knowing in her heart with a mother's intuition, her third son's future."

"When Ham opened his eyes for the first time in the world, his brother ,Yapheth, was guiding Mr. Starfire, their father's great black stallion and the team of horses he led, bringing supplies to the building site. Yapheth was aware his father was helping mother birth their third child, but he did not know his mother's sorrow with the birth. "Master, how much more sorrow will visit my poor, dear husband? How much more derision and unjust accusations must my beloved endure?" Mrs. Noach's heart was very heavy that day."

"Following Ham's birth, Yapheth, Shem and Noach the Elder faithfully labored on the ship, and Noach and Shem preached words of deliverance and warning about the impending destruction. But, to no avail."

"At first, after he was old enough to go out and play, Ham followed after Shem, but he was never interested in their father's work or held any interest in his burden for the arrogant people of Mocking Song City. Ham was drawn by the neighbors' interest in observing feast days held by the city's leaders. These gala events centered around worship of many idols in defiance of Creator, so Noach the Elder had forbidden his sons' attendance."

"With Shem's devotion to the work and preaching of his father, and Yapheth spending his days driving the supply wagon, Ham, as a young child, was left with either Shem or his mother. Ham was just five years when Shem decided to go full time with their father. That left Ham with much more freedom and unaccountability for his association with those who defied Master, and he was drawn deeply into the occult world where its inner-circles held their most secret practices."

"As time matured Shem, his play with Ham was replaced with walks between his beloved Yapheth and the father he almost worshipped he had grown to love him so."

"Not all people were unkind toward Noach, although no one would surrender their hard, irreconcilable hearts to Master. One of these owned a lumber mill not far from the Noach residence and the sawyer and his sons milled the logs to the sizes Noach specified, exactly as Master's plan called for. At another neighbor, who smelted the ores Yapheth and the team of horses brought into the strong, resilient metal plates and rivets called for, it was Yapheth's delight to watch the process, when his father allowed him to stay and watch."

Mr. Owl," Miss Riding Wolffe asked, "What does "occult" mean? I never heard that word before."

"My child, it is a good thing you have never heard it before. In fact, it kinda slipped out before I could use word to say it. Your parents do not use it because it is about the dark secrets of those who defy Master which it refers to. Actually, the word itself simply means darkness, and to be hidden from others. Those who practice religions hold their innermost members' worship circles for Satan, the Fallen Angel in secret places gatherings. On the outside, where the large congregation meets, they pretend to worship Creator Many of these religions have Believer-appearing but idol worship places and services, too. Organized religions all have these secret, occult worship inner circles where the core members plan and control the fake worship of Creator, in great public ceremony. Many even have community organizations to help others, such as with health, assistance for poor people, and other things to make it appear they love and serve Master."

"Mr. Wolffe, I apologize for my slip," Mr. Owl, said. "Do you have any comment you want to share?"

"No, not at this time. You handled your slip well, and sooner or later my sweet child would need to learn this. Mary, for that was his little wolf pup's real name, how do you feel about what Mr. Owl said?"

"I think I understand," she said. "But, I trust Master to guide my parents to teach me about this when I'm older, so I'm happy to wait! But, how do we know what these evil groups will be like, since so little about them was recorded by Moshe'?"

"Let's read what Master Y'suah said about this very thing," Mr. Owl replied.

"In Moshe's record, in "The Book of Beginnings, or Bereisheet," chapter 6, Master's record tells us that all flesh upon Earth was evil. As for the details of what their evil was, all we can do is look at the evil around us now and realize that Master had Disciple Mattityahu (Matthew) record what He spoke about this in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24 that, "As it was in the time of Noach, so shall the days just before the Final Day of Man's rule be, and evil will dwell upon Earth then, my dear little friend"

"Do you remember Slytalker, Mr. Eiderdowne, Fallen Angel Lucifer, and the many creatures in the Great Garden who had formed secret groups in the dense, dark jungle to worship Lucifer, instead of Master?"

"Yes," replied Miss Riding Wolffe. "That part of the story gives me a creepy feeling!"

"Master allowed these creatures to continue their secret worship of The Fallen Angel and to entice every other creature upon Earth to join them, both human and animal. Only Noach was determined to love, obey, and worship Master, and even if he would lose his life for resisting these evil worshippers' demands that he turn away from Creator."

"It all sounds spooky, and I'm glad to not know much about it!," the little wolf pup replied. "May I talk with you about it later, father?"

"Of course!" Now, let's listen to Grandpa Owl's story."

"Mr. Owl just stood silently, shifting his weight to one taloned claw, then the other, his thoughts focused in the far past where the creatures in his grandfather's account passed before the window of his mind. "What a terrible waste! If only they had turned away from Deceiving Evil, all the events in this tragedy would not have taken place!" Another window of his mind opened upon a future time when the same evil would again trap nearly all Earth Life with its evil, and again both man and animal would suffer huge loss of life and health. "What a terrible shame it will be!" he thought. "And, all so unnecessary because all it takes to escape the sure destruction of Life is a simple turning to Master, to obey His gentle call." His feathers visibly rustled as these emotional pictures flew through his thoughts.

"Alrighty, then!," Mr. Owl said, in a relieved tone. "Let's move on."

"For another 90 years, Elder Noach, with sons Shem and Japheth, and when he was unable to get away to the forbidden events, Ham, labored with the building of the ship that rose upon its dry mooring beside the road to Mocking Song City."

"On days that Ham worked, the mocking was considerably less. Noach the Elder noted it with a strong pain. He knew his son's predisposition with the forbidden worship, and yet the gentle, loving father withheld his intervention, acknowledging Master's Will for Ham's life. However much it pained the human father, he understood that Master experienced so much more heartache for Ham than Noach would dare imagine. Yet, he wondered if there was something he should be doing to intervene. He never once thought to go ask Master about it, though."

"At the Last Day," interrupted Miss Riding Wolffe, in her sweet little wolf-pup voice, "I remember my Grandpa saying that Master called a pair of each kind of breathing animal to come to Noach's ship. Why didn't he save all the animals?"

"Thank you, Miss Wolffe. I really like your enthusiasm for the story! Your question comes a bit later in the story, but it is a good question. I'll share my thoughts now, but we can think about this as the story continues to that place."

"Master had Moshe' record the answer in his Bereisheet (Genesis) - "Book of Beginning." Remember? - in chapter six. "Master looked upon Earth, and all flesh, man and animal was worshiping and practicing evil, except for Noach the Elder. This means that the rest of flesh creatures were either practicing evil worship ceremonies, or they were not part of Creator's Believers. Master does not say what the sons of Noach the Elder were, either Believers or not, but Moshe' did tell us that only Ham had evil in his heart toward Creator, for his family  . . . an, well, that's getting ahead, and I don't want to spoil the story!"

"All we know for certain is that Master is fair to every living creature, and waits to the very last possible moment to do anything harmful to any in the event that some may be kept from destruction. However, all humans and animals at that time, except for Noach the Elder, were doing evil. Grandpa's story may well give some detail that Moshe' did not record, but Moshe's record is Master's Living Word, and we can always trust it, even above my grandpa's story!"

"Right on!," exclaimed Mr. Neigh!, He'd been dozing off at times as he was still very, very tired from the long trek from Grandma's. He'd heard Miss Wolffe's question, and was about to interrupt with almost the same thoughts Mr. Owl gave. "My grandfather always told us young'uns that this story was given by all grandpas in our family, right from the ship of Noach, but that it is Master's record we must trust the most. Our creature stories can become distorted from the original, but Master's Living Word is kept by His appointed scribes, and it has never had a single alteration from the record Moshe' wrote down!"

Mr. Neigh! made a small, sighing whinny, as if saying he wondered why Moshe's record was not read by more creatures.

Mr. Owl was standing in one place for all this part of the story, and was feeling drowsy. As Mr. Neigh! talked, the sleepy owl almost fell over! He caught himself in time, and shifted from one foot to the other, still in a half-sleep. His thoughts about the destruction of flesh life long ago, and coming again in the future because of the same turning away from Master's Way of Living still echoes through his mind

"You go to sleep, Owl?" Mr. Neigh!'s voice caught the elderly owl's attention.

"Yeah! He's nodding his head and his eyes are shut!," Mr. Blue Jay's screechy voice made everyone laugh. "Really though, I wonder if Mr. Owl is thinking about why Master had to end nearly all flesh life from Earth, and why he will have to it again, one day." And no one laughed.

As she watched Mr. Owl in this quiet moment, Miss Wolffe thought, "How kind and gentle Mr. Owl is!" Mr. Neigh!'s advice caught her attention as she realized how fortunate she was to have such kind and loving people for her family and friends.

"Oh! I didn't mean to startle you," Mr. Neigh! said with a grin.

"And you didn't, Mr. Neigh!. Mr. Jay, you are right, I was picturing in my mind the awful destruction that Master had to permit with the Great Flood. How it felt to have refused Noach the Elder's many years of preaching a message of salvation to those who perished, and I'm certain, wanted so very much to have yet another chance to believe in Master. How awful! Yet there is soon to come just the same turning from Master's Way by most flesh. How is it possible for us creatures to forget such a disaster, and repeat it?"

"Now, let's continue."

"As I left off  just before arriving at Miss Wolffe's, I mentioned Mr. Eiderdowne and Mr. Slytalker from the Great Garden. They and most all animal creatures forsook Master and worshiped and obeyed Fallen Angel Lucifer. Lucifer never told them the plan to overrun Master's Creation and destroy Master, so they just believed Lucifer's lie that they would become like Master, and equal to Him to be able to live without His authority over them. Had they known that evil Lucifer would eventually destroy them too, they would have had a very, very different regard for Lucifer. But, as evil is, evil deceives, and Lucifer is as evil as evil gets."

"Before the Great Flood, Master allowed all creatures to live very long, full lives in the safe protection of Earth's biosphere, under the metallic canopy that blocked huge ice asteroids from plunging into Earth. Beneath them the mantle of solid ground separated them from the enormous amount of water that was sealed deep below the surface of Earth. All creatures grew to very large sizes compared to today, and few died from any disease, as there was little, if any disease. So, flesh-life had it very, very good, and easy!"

"So," he continued, "with such wide dishonor to His loving protection, Master was left with just Noach the Elder who obeyed His Living Way. Our Owl family tradition says that Master called particular animals to Noach's Ark, but, as with Ham who betrayed Master's loving act to save him with his father, Noach, some animals Master called were captured by Ham and the rebellion, then replaced by ones loyal to Evil. But, I am getting ahead of the events in Grandpa's story."

"Also, there is one group of animals Master kept pure. These were animals he gave to Man as very important reminders of how Man had once been able to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life and have eternal life, free of disease, and mal-nutrition. Man's digestion system does not provide all vital nutrients his body requires, so the Tree of Life gave him these. But, when Man was led outside the Great Garden, his body still required these nutrients in order to survive. These animals were given to Man for part of his diet. Master called them, "Pure" animals."

"The second reminder this animal group preserves is the memory of Ish and Ishah's former pure state in the Great Garden. After their disobedience Master placed the bloody lamb skins on each human, to wear as a sign of their disobedience. This sacrifice required the life of two innocent lambs to make those remembrance signs, and Master instructed Ish to take a certain number of innocent lambs and offer them to Master in remembrance of his and Ishah's wrong choice to eat the forbidden fruit."

"For the Ark voyage Master called 7 pairs of each kind of these pure animals, and he commissioned them to be sacrifices of gratitude by the humans, to be offered after Master brought them safely through the Great Flood to dry, habitable land. These animals would also serve as man's source of vital nutrients after the flood."

"Oh! My!" exclaimed Miss Wolffe. "Are we going to be some human's supper?" She shuddered with the thought.

"No, each of us here are considered as "unpure" animals," Mr. Owl said. "That does not mean we are "dirty," creatures, but it does mean that Master has not set any of us aside as "pure" human food! You can rest, now, Miss Wolffe!"

"Well, I wouldn't want to ever eat any of you, you're my friends!." exclaimed Cynthia Joy! "How disgusting!"

"Thank you!," Mr. Owl said. "But, there is another important message Master gives us in this historical account. Those 'pure' creatures were like He, Himself would become one day, a life-blood sacrifice given by Him for His beloved Human Family. He, just as these animals, but actually of His Own will, would become a sacrifice where any and all humans would have a way to reconcile to Him. He would, just like these innocent animals, die a most horrible death and give His living, human flesh blood for payment of the debt owed by those humans who Believed in Him. Only His blood sacrifice would be truly perfect, evil-free, human blood. In the events of history His innocent human-blood would fall upon the ground from His body, just as the blood of flesh creatures does when they are killed, but His blood would not be wasted on the ground as dung."

"Hidden in a chamber underneath the Cross He gave His life on, another, greater Ark of Safety was placed by His faithful family centuries before He died on the cross placed directly above. Those who worshiped Lucifer  would demand His death and then take him to this very spot to nail His flesh body to the wood beams. On that old ark of Covenant Safety where many hundreds of pure animal's blood was placed for a thousand years, His Own pure blood would then run down through a crevasse  that He caused to open by an earthquake as He gave His life. Later, to be sure His body was dead, a soldier thrust his long spear up into Master's heart, and out poured His innocent blood into the stone hole the cross was set in, and down through the small fissure that now runs across the the cross-hole. We know this since a servant of His was led to find this ancient ark, and to examine the blood dried on the Ark and the sides of the fissure above it."

(Note: Ron Wyatt made faithful and precise excavation on this site, and tested the dried blood. This blood has only the DNA of a female, but it is the blood of a human male.)

"He knew that a day would arrive when He would give His servant, Moshe', ten Commandments of Life, and He would instruct Moshe' on building that Wonderful Ark of Reconciliation, where on its top would be a symbol of His Heavenly Throne. Each year, from when Moshe' craftsmen assembled this Wonderful Ark to the year before it was carried away from the Great Temple in Y'rushalom and hidden in the chamber beneath where He would give His Living Blood, blood from an innocent clean and specially-dedicated bull would be placed upon the throne symbol, named "Mercy Seat." That innocent blood represented cleansing from all the disobedience of His People for that year. His Own blood was the only human blood ever to touch the Mercy Seat!"

"The sacrificial blood of innocent animals used for this ceremony actually was insufficient to cleanse the people's disobedience, but it was like a placeholder, one that would hold the place of His own, truly innocent blood, blood that Death can never consume. "Living Blood."

"His Plan of Creation called for this Wonderful Ark to be placed under the spot where the cross He gave His life upon would be set in a prepared hole in the rock. As a government church-worshiping soldier thrust a long spear into His heart, His pure, sinless blood would flow down through a crack in the stone that opened at the moment His spirit left this body, and onto the Mercy Seat on the top of this ark. The Mercy Seat was the only place He ever accepted cleansing blood for His People. He gave Moshe' the instructions for its detailed, stringent use for the blood of pure animals. But blood of pure animals was in no way that sinless human blood That He required to pay for human disobedience. Animal blood on the Mercy Seat was merely a symbol of the Living Blood He requires to cleanse disobedience. His Own sinless human flesh blood would be the only pure human blood suitable for this payment."

Cynthia Joy's hand went up, just over her head. "Yes, Cynthia." Mr. Owl's eyes were soft, and sad.

"Why does Master require blood of innocent creatures to cleanse human disobedience? It seems to me that it is a terrible injustice to kill an innocent creature just so the disobedience of humans can be cleaned up!"

"My! Cynthia, you've said the one thing I believe all humans should be asking themselves every single day! "Why does an innocent creature need to be killed for all the evil things I will think, speak, and do this day!"

"Yes, Cynthia, and you other dear human friends with us, taking life away from innocent animals is very unjust. In fact, that is the whole message Master tried to tell Ish and Ishah by placing the skins taken from innocent lambs upon them. They had committed a terrible act of disobedience, and it actually was a crime that requires Death of their person. But, humans disobey Master so much, that they all would die from their acts of disobedience. then there would simply be no humans left!"

"So, Master kept humans alive by His allowing them to substitute innocent animals for their death sentence, but only til He gave His pure, sinless human flesh blood. Animal and sinful human blood are never able to pay the great price of disobedience, so His own blood had to be placed on the Mercy Seat that covered the Wonderful Ark of Covenant that Moshe' was given instructions to have built."

"Oh! How awful!," cried Miss Riding Wolffe. "Why!?? The 'clean' animals don't want to die, do they? And, Master didn't want them to die either, did He?"

"Of course not, Miss Riding Wolffe! But, Master made Creation with exact precision. Obedience and its opposite, disobedience, can be compared to two opposite kinds of mass. Let's name one of these "Good," and the opposing one, "Evil." He did not reveal the formula for how evil damages good, but let's say that the good object is air, and the evil one is water. Wherever water goes, it takes the place of air, of if one object is wood, and the evil object is fire, wherever fire touches wood, the wood is damaged."

"So, the science of repairing evil with good requires that something good of equal value be provided to replace the damaged item that evil harmed. Since humans disobey Master so much, all humanity would be dead, so Master made this  provision for animals to remind humans of His caring for them even as they disobey His order of Life."

"Because Master did not tell us exactly why evil causes death and this terrible price, we find that our only way to accept Master's caring for us while we are yet in our state of disobedience and evil is to trust in Him. Human Faith in His Living Word comes by hearing it, and then believing His Word is true. All creatures see how good it is compared to everything else as we carefully examine every detail in it that we can find. Since we can find no fault with Master's Living Word we know that we can trust Him to show us how to live and how to know what disobedience is. His Living Word is truly Living!"

"Since Ish disobeyed Master his evil thoughts and behavior is passed to his children, who watch and follow his example. Every generation of Humankind after Ish, follows his example, dear little wolf-pup."

"Another way to answer your question is;, No, neither innocent animals, nor Master, Himself, want to die simply because Man disobeys Master and acts with evil in his heart. But Master does show us that when humans disobey it costs a great price. So, to have a pure heart is better than to have an evil heart. Humans have the ability to live like Him, with a good, pure heart, which they can love more than they love life."

"There's another thing Master shows us with these 'pure' animals. It's trust. Each of His commands are for the Good of every human. Does anyone here know the story of Master sending His Disciples on a tiny fishing boat, floating on a very stormy Sea of Galilee, where He told them to meet Him on the other side?"

"Yes, Cynthia Joy?"

"Well, maybe it's not the same story, but there was once when Master sent the 12 men in a boat to the other side of that lake in Israel and a terrible storm came up and they feared they would drown. But Master came walking across the heavy waves and ordered the storm to stop."

"You got it! Cindy Joy, what did Master tell those Disciples 'before' they got into that little boat?"

"Well, I think he told them He would meet them on the other side?"

"Exactly! Did those men have any reason to fear drowning? That's the lesson we are given with the clean animals that were on the Great Ship! Master said, "These are for a sacrifice of gratitude 'when' you safely reach the dry land, 'after' the flood!"

Mr. Owl swiveled his head and looked each of his audience in the eye, except for little Eriel, who was fast asleep!

"Master did not say to Noach, "IF" you reach the dry land!"

"OK. I'll share just one more lesson from these dear animals!

"With their dying, these animals provided a sign of Master's living sacrifice for Humans to be reconciled to Him and each other. After disagreements separated them from each other and from Master, when trusting and believing, willing humans sacrificed an innocent animal they either bought or raised with their own labor and cost, their faith made it possible to be reconciled to one another, and to Master. The entire message of this innocent animal dying a horrible death is all about trust, obedience, and reconciliation."

"But nowadays we have allowed evil-minded creatures to replace this simple trust and obey faith with their false-hearted counsel. Instead of focusing on reconciliation, these false counselors advise their victims to break away from someone who they find hurtful, and permanently leave them. That is directly opposite Master's call to reconcile and forgive those who cause us harm."

"It is a great lie to believe as these false counselors tell us, that we can be free from obligation to reconcile, because it simply goes against everything that Master teaches us, shows us, and actually tells us we must do to be with Him after we leave this life! How sad that many will believe these lies of separation from loved ones only to find that Creator cannot allow them to live with Him after this life is finished!"

"Now, is this concept of reconciliation and its vital importance to our relationship with Master becoming a bit more clear?"

"Mr. Owl, if I sacrifice my life as a gift to Master, so it's like He can use me anyway He wants, do you think He will accept me as worthy of being with Him after my life here is finished?" Miss Wolffe had a quiet, peaceful look."

"Dear Miss Wolffe. Since you are of the animal kingdom, all I can tell you is that that is precisely what Master wants from all humans! If we animals, and you humans all had this selfless attitude of giving Master our entire being for all the life we are given by Him, then His message of reconciliation would have made life on this little planet like it was in the Great Garden of Eden Before Disobedience entered! Very good!, Miss Riding Wolffe!"

"For the one who gives his life to Master to control, his life becomes a living sacrifice. He is dead to his own desires, replacing them with Master's desires. He goes directly to Master instead of asking other creatures to guide him.  Master leads him in all he encounters and experiences each day. He has the best friend and counselor, and the most rewarding life possible!"

Just awake from her nap, little Eriel exclaimed: "He's a living sacrifice!".

"Perfect, Eriel. Hope you are enjoying the story?"

"When I can stay awake!" She blushed.

"Well, we hope you will hear this story many times in your life, Eriel," Mr. Owl said. "We all went to sleep, I'm sure, when we listened to it at your age!" He smiled, remembering the first time he heard it, sitting on a limb next to his grandfather.

"Mr. Owl," Cynthia asked, "are we humans created to be a living sacrifice?"

"Yes, all we creatures are. Only when we realize this and then want to be the living sacrifice for Master as He formed us to be do we see it is impossible to be a living sacrifice on our own. That shows us that it is only possible when we ask Master and trust in Him to make it possible for us to live as He planned, dear friend. It's harder to be a living sacrifice than to die as one, because each day we must open our hearts to Master.  He sends us to those who will harm and hurt us, and even kill us, because that's how He brings His honest reconciliation between us and others, and between Himself and us. Remember, everything Master does is focused on reconciliation. Not even living a holy life interests Master so long as there is anyone we refuse to seek to be reconciled with. It's 'that' important to Master."

"Shall I continue the story?"

All were silent.

"This part of Grandpa's story is difficult to understand. If Master wanted to save human and animal life on Earth, and yet those he would save were not perfectly obedient, why did He save anyone? Would not evil continue 'after' the Great Flood, if those whom He saved from the flood were not perfect? In fact, exactly this happened. But, Master knew before He made Creation these events would take place, and evil would continue after the Flood. He also knew that when His love enters the places where evil exists, His love clearly shines far brighter than the silly glitter of evil!"

"Humans, and the animals in Grandpa's story had many evils. Not only disobedience, but also self-pride, hatred, greed, envy, self-focused esteem, and many other evils that were meant lift the creature above others and to put Master below that creature," Mr. Owl continued.

"Now for the rest of Grandpa's story . . ."

Master's Plan for Life Aboard the Great Ship

"Living, breathing creatures need clean, fresh air, lots of healthy, well-kept food and feed, and tons of clear, sweet water, and, clean quarters to live in. Living aboard the Great Ship, for a year and ten days, these items of vital worth to healthy human and animal life posed engineering challenges that had never once entered Noach the Elder's mind, because they just were not needed in the perfect Earth he lived in."

"Master's ship plan included these four, vital compartments!," Mr. Owl said a bit louder, "Let's learn a little about how a ship is constructed, and names for its sections. Shall we?"

"I know the name of the front!," Melissa Joy said with excitement. "It's the "Bow!"

""Yes, you do! That's a good place to start, Melissa! Thanks!"

"When a ship ties up to a dock its Left side is by the dock. Anybody, what is this side called?"

"Well," Mr. Neigh! said, " since it is also in a port, I'd say it is called the "Port" side."

"Perfect!"

"The Right side is a bit harder. It doesn't have anything that it ties up to, but it does have a better relationship with another part of it environment. Anyone, what is the Right side of a ship called?"

Several voices mingled as the little group discussed it. "Is it the 'seaside'," asked Eriel.

"No, but that's the general idea."

After a moment, Cynthia tried, "How about 'shipping side.' Because other ships go by on that side?"

"Hmm . . I'd never thought about that," Mr. Owl said. "But, no, it has another name.

""OK, I'll just say it; It's the 'Starboard," since two things happen on this side, First, it faces the open seas, or stars, and then, when another ship docks with it, it docks, or boards, on this side, and crews and cargo pass over this side, between it, and the other ship."

"Now, the back of a ship. Anyone?"

""I think it's called "After I  pass you, that's all you see of me!," Eriel smiled.

"Oh! Yes, I guess it could be called that!," Mr. Owl laughed. "It's just one word, though."

"Cynthia Joy?"

"It's the 'tiller. That's where the steering part is, a rudder, and the tiller, used to move the rudder, on the deck."

"You're all right! Actually, just to confuse everyone, it has several names; "Aft, and Back are two, and even a certain body part! Anyone care to guess that name?"

"My papa says that's my 'caboose'!," Eriel laughed.

Looking at her gentle father, Miss Wolffe said, "Mine says it's my 'Fanny'!"

"It's my hinny!," Cynthia laughed, too. "So, what is it called, that's like a body part?

"Stern!"

"What's that?"

The 'butt' end!"

"But . .?"

"No buts about it, it's the Stern!"

"What a weird name for a ship part!," Eriel exclaimed.

"Alright! Now, where do you think the Portside Stern Provision Hold is located on this ship?." Asked Mr. Owl. Eriel, your hand is raised . . ."

"On the left side, in the back," Melissa called out.

"Right!"

"And, the one in the Starboard Bow?"

"On the Right side. And, oh! toward the front!," Melissa said.

"Excellent! Now, we need some more directions so we can find our way around on this ship. Master had Noach build four decks in it."

"Four? The Book of Beginnings says three?," said Miss Riding Wolffe. "How come 'four'?"

"Let's start where Master counted from. First, the deck just above the keel, that part that runs along the very bottom of a ship, down the center; then, is the first deck, so-called since it is designed to hold cargo, and two more decks above that. Four floors in all. We shall see why the keel-level was also a kind of deck, as the story unfolds. Matter of fact, it holds the key to what happened on the long voyage."

"Above all, the roof was also a type of 'deck,' since it safely carried all the heavy rains and massive, high waves safely off of the ship. You might call it the 'Key' deck, for if it had failed, the tossing ship would have sunk in just minutes!

"The top deck had some very important functions, as well! The ship hull had to be a very solid, tough material, and Noach had no transparent material to use since the Earth was a perfect climate with no hot or cold winds, and open windows were all anyone ever had in any building, then. To have vital light down inside the very dark, cave-like interior of the ship, Noach followed Master's plan and built a light shaft that rose above the top deck high enough to have an open window, covered by a low over-hanging roof. It let both a small amount of light inside the ship, on each deck, except the keel deck, and fresh air. It also ventilated all decks, including the keel deck."

"Did it have a sail?," Eriel asked.

"No."

"Then, how did it 'go'?" Her face was one big question mark.

"By Master's wind, the wild water currents gushing over Earth, far below, and directed by His exact Plan!," Mr. Owl answered.

"How was it steered?," Miss Wolffe asked.

"We have an interesting answer for that question! Master had Noach cut great, long, anchor stones with an engineered break-away neck and eye drilled through the tip at their top, tied with a long rope to the hull. These can be seen today, lying in a straight line pointing to where the ship landed, not far up the slope it still is on, where each hit the surface of Earth. As they struck the earth the impact broke the break-away neck on most. This made a sudden, hard tug on the ship, slowing it a little. The few remaining drogues, as they were called, struck at a slow enough speed to not break away. Their dragging and slowing the ship as it approached the mountain where it stuck in the soft soil, gave it a softer landing that kept it from breaking up, as it would have at a higher impact speed. It stayed stuck in the soft soil till the water receded and dry land came down to its position. In fact, the holes at the top of these anchor stones were so well designed, that at the moment they stuck earth, the small eye of the rope hole broke away, allowing the ship to continue, and not founder too far out in deep water for it to beach on land in shallower water!"

"These anchor stones also maintained the ship's stability in the wild winds and the very fast, dangerous water currents. The winds may have reached speeds above any known storm in our time, and could have easily capsized the ship! Also, the torrential rain and gushing ground waters rising from deep with in the earth may have had speeds faster than any flooding river, or broken dam flood we've ever heard about. Earth's surface rotates at 1000 miles per hour, and the deluge pouring down from above was traveling at hundreds of miles per hour when it struck the surface. The massive metallic canopy was a shattered, sharp-edged gouging tool that tore into Earth with millions of shards, and the ship had to withstand these heavy blows."

"Metallic Helium is lighter than water, so it likely floated on the raging seas as it burst into boiling froth, melting at the far higher temperature in the seas than in its near absolute zero degree place above Earth. Watch a large chunk of dry ice boil in a deep pool of water!"

"So, these anchor stones provided a system of both steering the ship through the raging turmoil, and safely landing as it landed where Creator had planned its landing to be, on the gentle slope of the Ararat Mountains. Pretty awesome!," Mr. owl said.

"We can count on Master keeping us safe through any storm!," Cynthia said, her eyes beaming. "I know, because my family has been through some very tough ones."

"Us, too," Melissa said. "I'm happy Master keeps us safe."

"Those anchor stones are kinda like Master said about Himself," Cynthia said. "He's the corner stone that keeps the building straight!"

"Sure is!, Cynthia. Do you know what day of the year those great stones guided the ship to its safe landing?"

"No."

It was the same day Master gave His flesh life as a living sacrifice, on the cross!"

"Really?! He really is some planner!"

"The best!"

"We'll learn a little more about the stones after a bit."

"Well, OK, we understand about the four decks, the four provision holds, the front, or bow, the back, or stern, the port and starboard sides, and the tiller, or steering part, which in this case, was left for Master to control. Melissa, how do we go from one deck to another, on this ship?

"Uhmm . .  Oh! I know! a ladder! But . . . that won't work; How could a giraffe climb a ladder! I don't know."

"How about a ramp?! One that goes from top to the keel deck, but has doors at each deck to seal each off from the others?! We will see how important this feature is, later. These doors lock from the ramp-side, as well. Another important thing to note."

With these ramps, the giraffe family could easily climb to their quarters from the outside access ramp, where all creatures entered the ship. Plus, when Noach and his sons had Mr. Starr and his mate pull wagon loads of provisions aboard the ark, these ramps made their job much easier."

"Now, Cindy Joy, can you tell us what was placed into each provision hold?"

"What? Oh! Ummm. Well, some animals needed hay and grain. Some needed fruits, and others, nuts. I suppose some liked my favorite fruit, bananas! But, they wouldn't keep . . . How long did you say?"

"A year and ten days, but that was only inside the ship! After they went out, there was still no food, and they had to start a garden and wait a long time for it to grow enough to keep all creatures alive! We really don't know just how long these provisions had to last, before there was food from the new part of earth they landed on!"

"Wow! That's a long, lonnnggg time! That's a lot of food! What about clean water to drink? And, what about cleaning up after all those creatures went to the potty! Yuk! What a stinky mess!"

"Master's Ship Plan used the ramp for keeping His Great Ship clean, with plenty of fresh air, food, and everyone's' potty-do given the shooby-do-do!"

"But, you're right, Cynthia. There were all those foods, plus many more. How they were made to last the whole time, we don't know. But, remember how Master kept Jonah alive in a great fish? And, He gave His people fresh food that rotted each night if it was not gathered that day, except for His Shabbat Day of Completion and Rest, and even that rotted the night after the Shabbat!? And, for those forty years, the clothes they wore lasted the entire time, without any wear! Think Master might have kept their fruit, water and hay, and all other supplies fresh and ready to serve? Maybe even, He replenished the food supplies, like when He gave the widow lady enough oil to fill all the empty oil flasks she, and her neighbors could find, with  just a few drops left in the one she filled all them with!"

"Just think about going a whole year without a good banana, if you're a monkey, or Cindy!," Mr. Owl grinned. at Miss Wolffe's friend.

"Master loves you too much to allow that to happen!"

"Well, that takes care of food, water, and shooby-do-do. What about fresh air and light? In fact, Master's provision for how these two vital elements got into, and the foul air got out, are important parts of grandpa's story. The ending would be much sadder than it is, if air and light had not been designed to enter every level of the ship. The signals to the  . . . Oops! I'm getting ahead of where we are in Grandpa's story!"

"So, how do you think fresh air and light got all the way to the bottom deck, Eriel?"

"I don't know!"

"I do!" Melissa's voice was so much like Miss Riding Wolffe's, that Mr. Owl said, "Yes, Miss Riding Wolffe? What!? Oh! that wasn't you! Yes! Melissa!" he said, grinning.

"Air got down by the ramp. Light went down by a window in the side!"

"Well. Air went down something a little like a ramp. Remember a bit ago I mentioned a shaft for light? Light went in through something like a window,  but a window in the side would allow the raging waves to break into the ship and sink it. Closing the large gates at each deck would also block air flow traveling on the ramps. Oh! I nearly forgot to include the ramp on the other side! Having ramps on both sides will play a most crucial part of grandpa's story!"

"Where these ramps met each deck, a main corridor crossed the ship, and a center corridor ran from bow to stern, along the sides of each deck, crossing this main entrance corridor."

"Did I miss anything? Hmm . ."Yes! I didn't finish about the air and light system. it was a narrow, vertical space, descending from just under a heavy roof above the top, roof deck, where the design of the ship prevented wild waves from entering the opening, but air and a little light could enter. Also, Noach could stand on a platform here, and observe just a tiny part of the world around the ship. This tiny port to the outside will play a most-important part of the coming story."

"This narrow, slot-like vent had three sections, separated by two walls. The section in the center carried the warm, moist air from the ship's animal berths up to the low overhang vent at the top, just under the top roof. As it rose up the narrow center slot, it pulled cool, fresh air down from the vents that opened to the outside, on either side, just below it. These two vent shafts with the fresh air going down to the decks had white-painted interior surfaces, and the light reflected down it, going to the deck just above the keel deck. A dim light all over the ship was enough to see, for those who tended to the animals.

After the ferocious storm abated, there were some sunny days, and the light entering this system was quite bright in the lower decks. On the gloomy weather days, however, the dim light barely gave enough vision to tend to the passengers. On one of these dark days, the tragedy struck. But, that's a part yet to come."

"First, we've got to go meet Noach and his sons, as they prepare to load and start the perilous voyage. The first ship voyage ever upon Planet Earth!"

"My friends, did you know that Noach's Ark was found, and various parts of it examined and certified as wood and metal, along with animal dung from its decks? Large, iron-bearing plates and rivets joining heavy, laminated wooden beams and joists, ribs and the steel-like hull of this ship show the detail of Noach the Elder and his sons skilled craftsmanship. The steel-like hull they made from materials still unknown, ring like a bell when struck with a steel hammer. You could call it "Super Cement"! The ship lies much like it landed, although some mud slides have carried it down from its initial landing spot near the top of a mountain in the Ararat Mountains of Turkey. Nearby, there are ancient houses built with primitive, uncut stones, in several small, tightly-knit villages. The native peoples living near this area still call it Mesha, now called Naxuan, in Turkey.

On the Internet, as I proof this, here are the Uniform Resource Locators(URLs) for some of this information.

Noah's Ark

http://6000years.org/frame.php?page=noahs_ark

If you have Google Earth, this URL takes you to the spot . . .

http://6000years.org/earth_links/noahs_ark.kmz

"It is located at about 6000 feet up from sea level, and, it's in a farmer's field!"

"Grandpa also learned about the anchor stones, or drogues, from the descendants of the village people whose families have lived near the site of the Great Ship's landing since Noach's sons and daughters lived there! Those anchor stones are still in a row below the landing place, pointing to where the ship landed, not far from where it now rests. Each stone weighs up to 12 tons!

"What about Noach? What did he do when it was time to go into the Great Ship?," Miss Riding Wolffe asked. "Did those terrible people in Mocking Song City let him alone?"

"Not even!," exclaimed Mr. Owl. "In fact, they tried to block the animals, and the wagons bringing supplies! It was awful! They refused to stop mocking and interfering with Noach's tired family! But they also were working secretly with his son . . . Oops! I'm getting ahead of where I should be!

"You people have watched my family labor on this great ship for 120 years! Do you still not see??! How foolish and stubborn your blind hearts, and deaf brains, and soon dead lips are! Who will listen? Who will be saved from the Great Flood that is to start in a few days? Listen, won't anyone? Please!"

Shem's pleading went out on the deaf ears of those who passed to and fro from Mocking Song City. Today was the Final Day for their preaching. Like Noach, Shem's heart was heavy, but he did know, and understand, that Master said it was their family that would ultimately be on the ship, so simply he said, "Master, I know You are wanting for all to be saved, but also I understand You know there will be none besides our family. However, I grieve for my aunts, uncles, and cousins who will not see the light of day after this time of destruction. I will miss each one so much!"

Shem, himself, was now in his 88th year. His whole life had been under the intense influence of his father's huge project, and he was now of one mind with his father, both in the joy of making the enormous ship, and in the grief of seeing his extended family, and their neighbors refuse to accept the long years of offering salvation from the now-soon disaster.

It seemed to Shem, that rather than encourage the people to turn from their evil worship of Lucifer and the Serpent priests, their efforts only made the people more determined to forsake Creator and His Way of Living. On his failure to persuade even one to turn to Master, and be saved, Shem spent many nights in deep sorrowing, and his wife comforted him for long hours through nights when he simply could not sleep for the agony that weighed his heart. They were married when he was 35, so now, even though still childless, they had grown together as a single person they were so close to one another.

Ham and Japheth each had sweet wives. But something about Ham's pretty, strong-willed Sharrah caused Shem to feel strange around her. Ham was most always off with his many friends since he was just eight years. They grew up together, so Noach had not considered them a problem for his Youngest son. If only Noach had been more nosy!

[Note: The way Moshe' knew and recorded the history of Man was as it was given from memory to him from his forebears. As it was the custom to give genealogical preeminence to those who benefited their community most, Noach's son, Shem, is mentioned before his older brother, Japheth. This is clearly defined by Moshe' in his Bereishit 10:21, where it is clear Yafeth (Japheth) is elder to Shem.

For more on this . . .
http://www.headcoverings-by-devorah.com/BiblicalCharacters2.html]

Finally, when Ham was 78, Noach put him in charge of the work finishing the inside of the ship. It was clear for thirty years that Ham's friends had no interest in obeying Master, although Ham always said, when his father asked him, that Master had given him the job of saving his friends. Perhaps Noach was afraid of what he'd learn, but for whatever reason, he just trusted his son's word.

Japheth also was married. Like Shem, it just seemed Master had a special young lady who really 'heard' the message his brother and father preached so incessantly.

"They're so sincere, how could I lose if I really did what they say? Anyway, if their story is wrong, it will just end one day. Then, I can go back to the fun my family now refuses to give up! What's to lose, especially if Noach is right?"

That was Shem's wife's response to Noach and Shem's fervent preaching. She was the first to respond, but it still was after she fell in love with Shem. She loved him so much, she'd do anything to be with him!

Because of their choices to marry Shem and Japheth, the family of each woman rejected both. It was a painful sacrifice each woman made to stay true to their love for their husbands, and they each missed having their own fathers' presence in their homes.

Tamara, Shem's lovely wife, was deeply wounded with her father and mother's rejection early in her marriage. Her desires from a small girl were for her husband and children to be a close part of her mother and father's home, where she felt so secure and appreciated. But, her love for Shem was like a boulder that fell down between her parents and her, severing all her hopes and dreams for her own life.

Ishah, yes, her parents had named Japheth's wife after the first Mother, was a sweet, gracious woman. Her love for Japheth seemed to know no bounds, and the bond between them grew almost overnight! Japheth did not share in his father's preaching, but his work on the ship brought much jeering, even from Ishah's family, especially her brothers. Her father seemed interested in Japheth, and they had many long evenings together, discussing the pros and cons of the ship work, and about Master's call to turn away from the worship of Lucifer. But, to Mr. Lightfoot, it just seemed all too heavy a matter to take seriously, especially since his associations with Luciferian worshipers made his business of marketing leather goods very lucrative, and he was not about to give that up!

Ham's Sharrah was an entirely different lady. Her family, while they refused to turn away from Lucifer worship, did not seem to oppose anything Noach and Shem preached! Instead, they frequently attended some of their more formal meetings, and even praised their words as being, "Informed," "Relevant," or even, "Inspired"! They were charter members of The Order of the Illumined," one of the openly homosexual advocating Luciferian groups, and they were rather prominent leaders in the organization. They also held Holy Spirit Baptism services, where new initiates could come and be prayed over, and then oil poured over them, as an act of becoming immersed in the group as a life-member.

They even held open services, where inspired members could stand and speak in an unknown language, and several interpreters would then stand and give loud "interpretations" of the gibberish language. It was called "Word of Knowledge" gifts, and they claimed that Creator was sending these gibberish messages. But, the "interpreters" never seemed able to interpret any single gibberish message in the same words as any other "interpreter," thus proving that the gibberish was a hoax.

What the outsider was not allowed to know, all the inhuman, gibberish language messages really did was to worship and honor Lucifer, all right under the nose of Noach and his two faithful sons!

After Master came and gave His flesh person on the cross, His Apostle Paul carried on the strong teaching to stay completely away from this gibberish language, just as it had been forbidden for its even mention in the land of Israel, and those who dared speak it were to be instantly stoned to death! But, long before Israel, and up until the Great Flood, gibberish language was commonly used to worship and praise Lucifer!

Noach saw all this, and even not knowing the details, he placed Ham inside the ship to do the finish work, just to keep him separated from his wife's family. A mistake Noach would pay a great price for, later.

Master gave faithful Noach a great task and Noach knew instinctively that worrying about all the lesser things in his life would deter his attention from the assignment. As he had a specific time frame to finish the ship in, he told Master that he would simply trust Master to take care of what he felt was too much to bear, and trust that all would work out right. Being human, Noach realized he was limited, and there would be mistakes, even very severe mistakes. But, Noach knew that Master could be trusted to faithfully enable him to finish any task He assigned him, even though serious problems might happen. Noach saw a small part of Ham's nefarious associations, and suspected his son held secrets he should know about, but, with his being so tired, Noach simply prayed to Master, explaining his thoughts, then he turned his attention, and energy to preaching and building.

The tasks involved in preparing the ship to carry the thousands of creatures, each specie in its own, unique environment, with proper feed, fresh air and water, and clean, dry, warm quarters made for a very busy Noach and his sons during the final months' work. His position allowed delegating most tasks to his sons and his faithful horses, but the finishing details were entrusted to Noach and he spent long hours in those closing weeks to make certain each detail was finished properly. Life on Earth literally rested in his hands!

The final week arrived. Master called a pair of each animal specie to the ship, and they arrived in a specific order, climbing up the entry ramp to the berthing assignment at the ship's entrance on the second deck. There, Ham was in charge of sending each pair to assigned quarters, and taking care of any smaller issues of misunderstanding, or questions about where to find supplies each pair would require during the voyage.

"Yes? Cynthia?"

"I'm getting tired of you not saying the name of the ship! Didn't Miss Wolffe want to know it, too? For me, the story would be easier to follow, with the name of the ship!"

"OK, I've been holding that thought for a time, now.  But Master kept its name hidden from the people just to make sure the evil spirits would be unable to talk about it! I like to follow His method, since it gives me a sense of what Master thinks like!," Mr. Owl said. "It helps me to gain wisdom for my own life."

"Oh! I hadn't thought about it that way," She replied. "I guess I'll just wait!"

"Good! Actually, that name is much like Master's true name. If the evil spirits had it, they could call on His true name, and be saved from their destruction. He says that all who call on His name will be saved, so He limits who knows His true name, I believe. He reveals names at the time each needs to be revealed. I hope that makes sense."

In the top deck, birds and squirrels, monkeys and the many warm-blooded creatures who made their home above ground in the giant trees that grew on the verdant landscape of pre-flood Earth were shown their berths. Some, like the crows, had questions about how far from their berth they could fly. "We are so used to investigating all our neighbors, and all our wide territory, that if we have to be cooped up in a tiny space for 'that' long, we'd just die!," they told Ham. He had to tell them he would ask Noach later, how to address their problem!

Since Sharrah, his wife, was also tending to the boarding, he asked her to go to Noach with the question.

Furry and burrowing creatures were housed in assigned, specially-built quarters on the aft section of the top deck. Many, like the otter family, needed special attention to their unusual environment, and for them it required a small pool of water in their tiny berth. When the pair saw what Ham had created for them, they were delighted!

Woolly Mammoths, Tigers and Lions, Great Apes, and the Bovines were quartered on the second deck, in the bow section. The Giant Elephant pair and the Giraffe family, and the Great Bear families were quartered on the aft section of the first deck.

The aft section of the second deck was outfitted for deer, antelope, and the goat families. Each had a warm, dry berth, with clean bedding and water in the two provision holds, one on either side, near the two access doors that opened to the ramp running from top to bottom of the ship.

When he was able to break away from other tasks, Noach stood at the top of the entrance ramp, welcoming new arrivals.

On the first of these days, below him, nearly surrounding the ramp where its end rested on the ground, a taunting crowd from Mocking Song City gathered the first day Noach stopped preaching to welcome arriving creatures. In just a little over one week Master was scheduled to close the large entry ramp, and seal it secure against any attempts to break in, by human or the coming deluge.

On the ground, forming a safe approach path to the ramp, a double column of the Great Bear families stood, foreleg to foreleg, facing the gathered crowd of mocking humans. At the outermost end of one line of bears stood Mrs. King Lion. Her mate, Mr. King Lion, stood opposite her, also facing toward the crowd, but also half facing arriving animals, with words of welcome for each new arrival. Thank Creator for this arrangement, as it maintained order and safety for the arrival of those animals He was leading in to the Ship.

That first day drew to a safe close, so Noach asked the bears and lions to assist likewise for each following day till all were safely boarded. He and his sons had last minute loading to do, and he did not like the idea of trying to maneuver through the jeering crowd with the horses and wagons they pulled. "We would be delighted to assist you Noach!," the lions and bears said almost together. "Master sent us first, saying he wanted to have every safety precaution possible. He also sent protective angels, to be ready for anything worse than taunting. Look closely in the trees over there, there, and over there. You can barely see their outlines, but believe us, if these humans get too far out of hand, they will wish they had kept their peace!"

Noach was both relieved and encouraged. To him, having the burden all these past years of building and preaching, plus the issues with the daughter-in-laws' families, and with Ham's wife, had taken much of his strength to manage it all. He was very happy to think it would be over soon, and he could rest. Little did he know how precious the nearly one year rest would be, when a near disaster would require all he, and these faithful lion and bear defenders could stand, to hang onto the safe delivery of the entire ship!

Onto the very bottom of the ship, in the bow section, all reptiles would find their places. The near freezing temperature would help subdue their lethal potential, and keep them healthy and alive, as well. Great crocodiles, Alligators, and others, such as the boas and large lizards were provided clean, cool, dry quarters on the ships' bottom. They shared the space with large water tanks placed at this level to keep the ship's center of balance low, and the water supply cool. In the aft section of the large bottom deck was a large holding tank for the soiled bedding that was routinely cleaned from each passenger's quarters. Chutes from each deck above, with a simple weighted trap-like door at each deck to keep the stench sealed off, allowed easy daily cleaning chores for the attendant crew.

However, as Ham was given charge of the final berthing arrangements, he was free to redesign a section of the bottom deck's reptile berthing quarters, and its access. Trouble was definitely brewing on the Great Ship.

Noach was designed by Creator to be a careful, diligent human. His preaching and precise building of the ship showed this characteristic in all he did and said. But, he was not informed of all that went on by those he trusted. His trust and rather delinquent trust for Master to see that all went to plan let a sly, devising group slip through the fine screen of his careful attention to minute details. It seemed that someone was determined to ruin this plan of Master to preserve human life upon Earth, as that plan was ruined once before.

Master's plan for a pure human presence upon Earth was altered with Lucifer's disobedience, and now those who worshiped Lucifer were planning a worse disaster for humans upon Earth! If they had their way, not a single human would have landed upon dry ground!

"Please, Mr. Owl," Melissa broke into the narration, "But, didn't you tell us that they safely landed on dry land at the end of the voyage? It is starting to sound like a disaster interrupted the journey?"

"Yes! I did say that! You find it in the Book of Beginnings, chapter 7, verse 11, where Noach's age is recorded, to the very day of the safe landing! The other part of the time equation is in chapter 8, verse 14. Master is careful to have His record writers give exact details, especially for those that only His Word preserves for us. However, for details that we have little or no known evidence to support, we must trust His Living Word, since in the rest of it, all does check out true. Would He tell true things in one part, and lie in others?"

"Course not!" Cynthia exclaimed, with a small frown. "He wouldn't, but how do we know the story you're telling about these events is true? You weren't there!" She looked at old Mr. Owl, directly in his big, owly eyes. He blinked them back at her, first one yellow-tinted eye, then the other, like he was smiling.

"Well, I . . . that is," He seemed to search for the right words. "Humpff! Cynthia, I agree with you, completely! But, how do you know the story my grandpa told is not true? I wasn't there, and neither were you or anyone here. Besides, my grandpa was known for his trustworthy honesty, and he was respected as a community judge, and one everyone could go to with problems, and he nearly always had sound words that guided many out of trouble. Why would I not trust my grandpa to tell this story with all his ability to make sure it was true? For me, I simply learned to trust what my grandpas said, including this story."

"Actually, Cynthia Joy, the question you asked is the only one that matters about this story. It has details about the ship Noach built and captained that Master's Living Word does not include. But, rather than toss grandpa's story away because Moshe' did not record what it tells us about that time and events, let's look at the story in the light that Master did have Moshe' record, about how people in Noach's day, and after Ish and Ishah ate the forbidden fruit, despised Master, and His Truth. In that light, we can easily see how the things in this story reveal to us what our own time and the people around us, is and are like. We need to understand just how evil our time is, and Master even tells us this in the record He had Disciple Matthew write in Matthew, chapter 24. We all should read and study Master's record, there. it says whole books about what this very day is really like, and grandpa's story actually opens Master's Living Record about our present day of the near End Time."

Mr. Owl looked tired. His long story telling was taking a toll on his old bones. "Cynthia Joy, if you only knew what your own father wants to tell you about this story, and how he deeply loves you, and desires that you carefully follow Master's Plan for you, and your living, I believe that you would gain a whole new perspective on trusting in Master's Living Record, and in the love your father has for you. Would you promise to think and pray about this? I know that you will be truly blessed beyond anything you've ever known, if you do this.! And, I do really appreciate that you brought this question up! It is so vital to understanding my grandpa's story, and to understanding all the evil now around us. This truly is Master's Own wisdom we are blessed to share!"

Cynthia thought about her own grandpa. She loved and trusted him. "Yes!," she said. "I think I can trust your grandpa's story, now! Thank you, Mr. Owl! it's fun, anyway!"

Mr. Owl continued; "Another problem Noach faced was making plans for each creature. Master had given good plans. But, have you ever had to make someone you've never met before, and really don't know what they like and don't like, comfortable? Noach delegated all the details he could to his family, like cleaning, feeding and caring for each creature, and keeping a good log book of how all went, so they could go back and examine the records, if anything needed a change in procedure.

Noach's long life upon Earth had given him much savvy for most of the creatures in his care, but there was one that he was completely unprepared to manage, nor was his family prepared, either. Every other creature despised it, and regarded it as a traitor, and it was very large, had a nasty attitude, and most other creatures had never seen on of its kind before.

"That's not Mr. Slytalker, is it?" Eriel guessed.

"Well, one more clue," Mr. Owl winked. "Perhaps the worst thing was that this creature never bothered to care for his home - in fact, he really didn't have one - he never cleaned his messes - and he made many - and he cared little, or nothing about his family, if he ever even tried to locate them!"

"Hey! That's Mr. Eiderdowne!," Eriel exclaimed. I remember all that from the first part of your, I mean, your grandpa's story!"

"You guessed right that time!"

"Now, you can try guessing what Noach thought when, on the second day of that long, last week, Monday it was, Mr. Eiderdowne's great, great, great grandson, followed Master's orders to walk onto the ship, right up to Noach, where was welcoming arrivals. His awkward head, on a very long, curving neck, was at least a foot higher than Noach. Bending his neck so his two, weird, large eyes could blink directly in Noach's face, he stared for a long moment into Noach's bewildered eyes. Noach found he couldn't speak!"

"This, umm, er, this one's too strange, er, I . . . " Noach was thinking, trying to gather his wits enough to address this grotesque creature with at least some intelligence. "It has feathers, but fly? Naw! Impossible! Those feet! Not even his faithful Horse, Mr. Starfire, had such big, ugly things! "Did I say it has feathers?" He heard himself mutter almost audibly. It's knees bent backward, and it was so huge that it seemed ready to keel over and fall to the floor at any moment! And feathers? There was so much body that it looked as if its body had simply given up trying to cover itself with them! Moreover, its eyes seemed just too evil, and it was obvious that it held no measure of respect for Noach. "Oh no! What will I say?! No! What will I DO!," Noach thought to himself.

"Now, from the burial coffin, or ossuary, that ancient tradition of the local inhabitants where the Great Ship landed and its remains still remain, we can easily witness that Noach was a man of eight feet in stature, his wife the same height. It is common, in our time, for ostriches' heads to be 6, 7, or even more feet above their feet. So we can reasonably deduce that this descendant of Mr. Eiderdowne was taller that Noach by a foot, or so. Watching how ostriches behave, we can easily imagine that that has been a trait for all their members, right from Creation. In this ostrich's case, his fiery gaze into Noach's eyes was like a scorching blast from an over-heated oven! Noach felt burned crispy!"

"Due to Mr. Eiderdowne's part in seducing Ishah, Master placed the ungainly beast on the far side of Earth, far away from Humankind. He wanted no chance for a second seduction! This bird was obviously well fed, and filled with scorn, as well. At well over 1000 pounds, it presented a formidable presence over all who stood close to it, and it knew and used this to its advantage."

"You, um, I mean," Noach attempted to speak. "Are you one whom Master sent to board this ship? I don't recall plans for you, er, I mean, well, let me check. Uhh, I, what are you called?"

"Well! Why don't 'YOU' just let me introduce myself, instead of sputtering and stammering! Aren't 'YOU' the one they call "Noach"?"

"Ah, why, yes, I am!"

"And, 'YOU' don't know who I am? What sorta human runs this ship, anyway?"

"Who are you?"

"Oh, 'that'! Well, I guess 'You' might be one of 'those' humans who never bothered to come visit the land of my ancestors, where all us ostriches have lived these hundreds of years since 'you' humans got yourselves kicked outa the Great Garden! I can't believe you fell for that Serpent and his lies! What wimps 'you' humans have tuned out to be!"

"Well, er, we try - er, I mean, we have our problems! No! What I'm trying to say is we humans have made many mistakes. Just like 'all' creatures. We find that if we follow what we believe is the right way, and do not first listen to and obey Master, Who is the True Way of Living, we fail, and we disobey Him! Don't you also find this to be true, with your kind of creature? - did you say, "Ostrich?"

"Well I am sure I don't know that! I make it a point to never waste my time thinking about 'what' might happen if I do this, or don't do that! Who cares?"

"Master cares. And other creatures. We don't live on this small planet alone, you know!"

"Well, maybe 'YOU' don't live by yourself! As for us Ostriches, 'we' live so far from you humans, and all other silly creatures like you, we just don't need, or care to even live together! If we don't care, then why should 'you,' or anyone else care?"

"Why?! Now, 'you're' kidding! What are 'you' doing here?, Mr. ah, Mr.?"

"I'm just "Mr. Ostrich," to you, human! And, 'what' I'm doing here is wasting my time with a silly-faced, weak-hearted 'human,' who's supposed to have a place ready on his ship waiting for me!"

"Yes, I suppose you're right. No one has come except those Master sent. But, Mr. Ostrich, where's your mate? Certainly you must care about her?"

"Hah! Mr. Noach, you're the one kidding now! What that ostrich does with herself, what she does with me, and what she does with our kids . . . who cares?! I DON'T!"

"Now! Mr. Noach! WHERE'S MY Place you've got for me, on this dingy old wreck?! YOU DO HAVE ONE FOR ME, RIGHT?!!"

"Sure! I mean, Mr. Ostrich, I think I, er, I mean 'we' have a berth for you. Please come with me. I'll ask Ham, my son, to get you situated."

"I'd prefer speaking with his wife," the deceiving ostrich sneered. "I trust human females more than males."

"You do? I thought you said . . . oh, never mind. Perhaps you do, Ostrich, and that's fine with me. However, for now, you will need to talk with my son, Ham. He is the one who knows where everyone is berthed on this ship. Our number of passengers is well over 100,000 creatures! Some are very big, and some, as you, are somewhat smaller."

"Now! Come with me."

"Ostrich"? Look, father, It's all on this chart on the wall. But, here, with the feather creatures, there's no single creature anything like the one over there, except for this creature that looks just like that one, but, it plainly shows a pair of them! See? Where did you say it, er, he, comes from?"

"I didn't, Ham."

"Mr. Ostrich? I need to ask where you are from? We're having a bit of a problem finding your quarters. Knowing where you came from will help."

"First, 'you' can't figure out who I am! Now, you don't know where I'm from! What does where I'm from have anything to do with where I am to stay on this leaky old tub?"

"Mr. Ostrich. We are committed to your comfort aboard Master's Great Ship! If you'd not mind helping, we could serve you much better!"

"Now! 'You' listen to me! Master told me to come from where I live on the opposite side of Earth with my fellow ostriches since long ago! It has taken me years to get here! Now, Mr. Noach, and 'you,' Mr. Ham Noach, why are you playing games with me?! My grandpa told his grandchildren how we can never trust human males! Not since your first ancestor, Ish! And, we have an enemy even worse than 'you' humans' too!"

"I bet you do!," Noach thought to himself. "It's yourselves!"

"Please now, Mr. Ostrich," he spoke to the conniving old, huge bird, "Perhaps if you'd only give us the place where you come from? I'm sure we'll have you situated comfortably very soon!"

"That's right! My father's very good at getting everyone taken care of, Mr. Ostrich. Don't you have any worry about that!"

"My father's very good at getting blah, blah, blah!! Well, just show me, and stop flapping your gums, humans!"

"Very well, Mr. Ostrich. We'll have you taken care of. Since you seem to not know where you're from, we don't have an idea what other creatures you're comfortable with. I hope our choice will please you."

"You dirt-brained people!" Mr. Fyrewytch almost screamed. "Didn't I tell you? We Ostrich DO NOT associate with ANYONE! Don't you GET IT? "No-one! I want to be, ALONE!"

"Now! Just take me to a place on this Great Ship, er, why can't you give this old bark a real name? "Great Ship" My sass! What a foolish thing to call it! Someplace I can be ALONE!"

Noach and Ham started down the ramp to the first deck, just below the main entrance. Japheth met them at the first deck gateway.

"Oh! Japheth! I'm glad you're here! We've got a small problem with Mr. Ostrich, here," Noach said, pointing back to the great bird following a ways behind them, just coming around the corner at the deck landing. "Where's his berth?"

"What, er, I mean, "Who's 'that'?! We never made plans for any single creature that looks like that!, Japheth exclaimed, quietly. "Where are you going to put him?"

"I thought you could help with that," His father said. "You know where the larger feathered creatures' quarters are better than the rest of us. Can I leave it up to you to get him settled?"

"Sure! There's a great spot near the feed and provision rooms toward the bow, on portside. I'll make a very nice berth for them! You 'are' here with your mate, Mr. Ostrich?"

"Mate! Me? You humans! If not for this coming flood, I'd have nothing to do with a one of you! Mate! Indeed!"

"No! We ostrich males have a most undesirable duty to make our females eggs fertile. But, that's all! Let the females and the chicks fend for themselves! Perhaps Master sent a female, how would I know! I don't care!" the old bird lied.

"Well, just in case. Master is not sending one mate of a species, and not the other mate. This ship's duty is to save species, not individuals. We'll have a berth ready for you, and for the female of your species ready shortly, Mr. Ostrich. Until it is ready, you are welcome to take a tour of the deck."

"Well, you won't put her, if she does show up, on another floor, or whatever you call these levels?"

"No. Master plans for a pair of each species. I'm afraid that includes 'Ostrich,' too."

"Well, there'd better be no problems!" The huge bird stared angrily directly into Noach's eyes.

"I'm sure we can handle anything that occurs, Mr. Ostrich. Now, if you'd like to tour this deck, or perhaps take a short walk outside to form some last memories of Earth as it is before the destruction? We'll have yours and Mrs. Ostrich's berth ready shortly."

"Hey! I didn't bring any extra feed, and I have nothing to buy entertainment with! And, I don't like being where humans are! Don't you have something I like for my entertainment? Master said you are the 'host.' Right, Mr. Noach?"

"Very well then, Mr. Ostrich. I heard the elephants, crocodiles, and Gila monsters are having a gala party, and amateur dance and talent show, today. Something to try to liven the doom and gloom around here. It starts in an hour. On the next deck up, if you'd like to go?"

"Sure! Just what I spent years of travel to see! Oh, OK, Guess not much else is goin' down 'round here. I'll expect my berth to be completed in time for suppertime when I return."

"OK, son. Try to get his quarters done. Looks as if we have an interesting time ahead with Mr. Ostrich aboard!"

While Noach hurried back to the main door to greet new arrivals, Ham and Japheth held a short conference."

"Remember grandpa Lamech's story about what happened in the Great Garden with the ostrich and horse that Ish and Ishah each rode, but usually separately? Remember, it was the ostrich that helped to trick Ishah into eating the forbidden fruit, and disobey Master's command? Follow me, my brother. I've got an idea!," Japheth said.

FLOOD!

Things were going smoothly on the Great Ship. Much as Master outlined to Noach that they would 120 years before. Noach's encounter with the feisty old ostrich was a notable exception, for sure, but hardly a major problem. In a couple days' time, all final work would be finished. The huge quantities of foods and feeds, clean water, bedding, and the caring for new arrivals would be done. "Then," Noach thought to himself, "My sweetheart, Khadashah and I, and our hard-working sons and daughters-in-law can sit down!"

"So, why is it that when humans, all of them, start thinking like Noach is now doing in the story, that that's when they should be most alert for disaster? Well, for humans it's great fun to dream, and Noach enjoyed his dreams!"

Exactly at suppertime the ostrich barged his way back onto the deck for larger animals. "Where's my berth?," he yelled. Ham  and Japheth had only about 20 minutes' work left to finish the angry bird's berth, but his angry interruption made the job last a full hour by the time they had him calmed.

Perhaps if Mr. Fyrewytch  had tried to contain his anger just a wee bit, he would have noticed  a small change in his berth's location! But his anger-blinded eyes kept him from understanding a very important fact, much as it had blinded many of his ancestors. And besides, he was very afraid that his true identity would be uncovered. Now his large tummy was satisfied all he wanted was solitude. "Tomorrow, I take care of the problems of today!," he told himself. "For now, my greatest need is to conceal who I really am! If the Mrs. tells on me, it's curtains!"

When morning broke, a bright, warm day as all days before the Deluge were, he forgot his plan to check his new surroundings. When Ham came to check him early, he just said, "Yes - I'm fine! Now see to it that all my provisions reach me on time for the first two days while I get situated!" He failed to notice how easily his demands were acknowledged by Ham, and how eager Ham was to accommodate his least demand.

Noach's 120 year struggles to preach the truth about the coming flood and to build the ship for completion on time, were finished. The final day of arrivals was nearly over. It was almost the last minute when a bedraggled, disheveled Mrs. Ostrich, yes, the missing Mrs. Ostrich, assumed mate of Mr. Fyrewytch Ostrich struggled to get herself up the long entry ramp. When Noach saw her, she was about halfway to the top of the ramp, and breathing with great gasps.

"My!" Noach exclaimed. "You barely made it in time! Why are you alone? Your mate arrived yesterday, and he was rather, well, shall I say, disquieted that you would be accompanying him. May I ask, are you alright?"

"Huff, huff, huff. Oh! Please! May I sit down!"

"Oh! Certainly! Here. Here's a bench by the door. Catch your breath, Mrs. Ostrich!"

It was just minutes from the moment Master was scheduled to close and seal the ramp from the outside. Noach had several last minute things to check with his sons, so he told her to expect him back in a few minutes.

"Oh! Ham! Mr. Ostrich's mate just arrived! She was too tired to talk with me, but she is waiting at the entry. Would you have time to get her berthed with Mr.Ostrich?"

"Sure Dad! I'm on it!" Little did Noach the Senior know about his youngest son's prior arrangements with Mr. Fyrewytch ostrich.

On the way back to the entry, Noach checked with Japheth and Shem. As he expected, each told him all was "Go" for Master to close the entry ramp.

"OK, Mrs. Ostrich. I'm back now. Are you better?"

"Oh, yes! My mate was unhappy with me and left me about half way, to go on faster by himself. But he's always been pretty strong-headed so I did not object. I did not want to hear him confront you, like he said he was going to, anyway. It is so hard to see my mate with this attitude all his life. His grandpa told him a story about how humans and Creator betrayed the first Mr. Ostrich, a Mr. Eiderdowne, and ever since we ostriches must live far away from humans."

"Is that so? I am very sorry for you, Mrs. Fyrewytch. I can assure you that if I had the opportunity I would be very happy to show your mate that at least one human will not betray him, or you!"

"Yes. I have always questioned Mr. Fyrewytch's reasons. It seems he merely takes others accusations for fact and then he gets himself into a worry and frenzy over things that really are either not true at all, like I suspect his grandpa's story is, or he later discovers that the facts were twisted into terrible things that led him to believe bad things about others that just are not so!"

"Perhaps on this voyage, Creator will find a way to change my mate's attitude and he will begin thinking for himself and look into what others tell him about how he should think about things and situations?"

"Well, Mrs. Fyrewytch, I will join you in hoping and praying that your desire becomes true, and that your mate has a change of heart.," Noach said gently. "Now, are you strong enough for Ham to show you to your berth?"

"At last, Master closed the long entry ramp with a solid "Bang!" Then, He sealed it with a substance that would keep out even the worst of the terrible deluge He was about to destroy all living flesh upon Earth with.

That last boarding day the final creature was safely ushered aboard by the Lion and Bear team, the Mocking Song City committee that named itself "The Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale," was out in force, seeming to sense a change in the air as the last few creatures crawled, lept, waddled, jumped and walked up the entry ramp. As the day closed and Noach and the welcoming team entered the ship for the night, their profound hatred for Master and His faithful servant, Noach, seemed subdued. Instead of booing and jeering, as they had every night for the past week, they fell into an almost silent column as they returned to Mocking Song City.

That day, Japheth and Shem and their wives went out to the family of each wife and gave a last welcome for them to join them. Both fathers said, "Well, it's all well and good that you assume this will happen. But, for 120 years it has not, and for all time since Creation, it never once did anything like what you and Noach claim. We'll just take our chances. If this is the last goodbye, then sobeit."

Each daughter wept and begged, to no avail. To her dearly-loved old father, Japheth's lovely Tamara said, "My precious father. How I long for you to change your mind. But you must follow your own heart, and though I do not expect to see you again, I will always love you. You are so wonderful a father to me."

Her father sat silently, almost like he might be rethinking his refusal. "Daughter, I have nothing but love and respect for you. You have done well by marrying Japheth, but I cannot agree with his father's strict worship of Creator. Too many enlightened leaders in our society have studied Noach's proposed "Flood," and the best simulation that their scientific research shows is that there could only be a long-shot chance of a very heavy dew that made our crops turn rotten. Another theory is that a break in the earth's surface plate may cause a local water level rise, but they have even prepared us for that very distant possibility. I just cannot see my way to join your wild plan for escaping the "Flood," as Noach has preached these many years. It just cannot happen, my Tamara!""

They parted, with Tamara's many tears. Japheth shook his father-in-law's hand, and gave him a warm, last hug. He had grown to love and respect his pretty wife's father, and could barely keep the tears back.

That night, Master shut and sealed the entry ramp. The passengers could hear Him at work. It took just a few minutes, but they knew He made certain all of them would at least be safe from outside destruction. Few realized the planned inside destruction, though. And, no one knew how utter the creature that planned the destruction was determined for it to take place!

"Mr. Fyrewytch, just as he demanded, stayed in his berth for the final day and did not venture out. Had he tried, he would have had a nasty surprise! His berth was tightly locked from the outside! Only a service door to allow his water, food, and necessary personal needs that was much too small for his body to fit through, was open!"

"I wish those nasty neighbors would shut up!," he'd grumbled. "I can't sleep with that racket!" But, he rolled over, and dozed off.

Noach assigned Shem to manage the provisions, and he and the faithful Mr. Starfire and his mate, Atlanta, worked long hours gathering and bringing supplies that last couple of months.

"Mr. Starfire," as Noach had named him, was a great, well-muscled Equus specimen and his majestic black mane, long, shiny-haired tail, strong, arching neck, and beautiful, pure white star on his forehead set him off like a prince among all the horses. Starfire was very proud of his lovely mate, a quiet, but willing, equally-strong black mare. She caught Starfire's attention when they both were quite young.

Now, as she pulled the wagons with her handsome stallion that Shem drove, they were a most beautiful sight for Noach, who had taken to both horses when he spied them at a local cattle and horse sale. He paid top price but never felt it was a single shekel wasted. Starfire's attention to his lovely Atlanta saw him taking up any slack as they pulled together. In turn, she was always ready to strain as hard as he. Driving the wagons, Shem was as one with the pair.

No one was disappointed with Master's selection of the pair to be the Equus Family aboard the Great Ark. It would have broken Noach's heart to have another pair chosen.

That final week, the laughing, mocking, jeering "Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale" brought other Mocking Song City citizens to join the melee. They formed a semi-circle at the entry ramp, and only the presence of the Massive Bears and Lions guarding the ramp held them at bay. To increase their wild party atmosphere, plenty of spirits flowed and made the otherwise raucous rally a drunken brawl for those final moments. Working the new arrivals and the wagon-loads of supplies past them was not only difficult, at times it was downright hazardous. Some of the extended family members of Ham's Leahnah Sharrah even attempted to "rescue" her, and nearly abducted her when she had stepped off the entry ramp to talk to her parents.

These relatives, like most of the rest of Mocking Song City, held that after Noach and those he tricked into believing his wild tales had stayed on the ship for several weeks, would eventually give up. But why wait for that? So, these family cousins tried to abduct Sharrah.

Unknown to these cousins, Leahnah Sharrah was a devout believer in her parents' religion. Her parents and she had discussed the things Noach was preaching about after she and Ham married. Her devotion to their religion, an occult, dark worship of Lucifer and a few spirits of the same evil nature, held numerous secret meetings to discuss plans to carry their evil practice on  just in case Noach's message was true. Fallen Angel Lucifer, which they called "The Illumined Master," was very careful to hide this fact from the humans who worshiped evil spirits. "Noach tells a great lie just to fool people into turning away from me," the wily angel would say.

Ham was influenced by Lucifer almost from his birth. His mother sensed this, so she prayed that Master would show her son the true Light and for Ham to turn away from the intrigue that he had for Lucifer's worshipers. Khadashah prayed many years, "Master, keep my precious Ham in Your Will. But, may my desire for my son also be for Your will to be done with my son."

Watching Ham's interest in Sharrah and then his spending every spare moment to run away with her, often with misleading excuses his mother saw through, to her family and their occult worship made for many teary nights for Khadashah. Sad as she was at their wedding, she still trusted Master for her son.

For her part, Sharrah Lhucie was a full priestess in the occult. Her immoral ceremonial acts always excited Ham, and he could never find a way to overcome his male senses of excitement for her as she performed in the Lucifer worship sessions. So, as she approached him with plans to infiltrate the Great Ship with an occult plan to carry the forbidden worship on board, and beyond the Flood, he did not find strength to resist. Even as he listened, though, there was a discernible voice in his inner-being, saying, "HAM! HAM! What is this! No! No!" But, Ham ignored it.

In the course of their marriage, Ham took full part in the occult worship. Fallen Angel, Lucifer saw to it that Ham received favorable treatment. Ham was promoted to a high rank in "The Order of Illumination," and in his  position was entrusted with inner circle secrets. It was all a ruse, on Lucifer's part, as it was merely a plot to promote the sure destruction of the entire Ark, and finish the Fallen Angel's plot to destroy Humanity first set in motion in the Great Garden. That plan  backfired when Master did not instantly kill Ish and Ishah as the Fallen Angel mistakenly assumed the words, "Surely you shall die!" meant. Instead, with Man freely roaming over all Earth, Lucifer had to come up with another scheme to trick Man into turning from Creator to disobey and detest Creator and His Living Word. The Once trusted angel knew that if Man obeyed Creator, Man would live. He could not deal with this, since Creator made it clear that His Mankind would one day judge angels.

"In a while," Mr. Owl said, "we'll hear more of the plan Lucifer was using Ham for." He continued . . .

"As they joined their parents traveling into Mocking Song City for the occasional trip for supplies for their country farms, Ishah and Tamara heard Noach's message many times. As they matured into womanhood, each was attracted by Noach's two older sons, who now were their husbands. In fact, Ishah was led to open her mind to embrace Creator by Shem's preaching! Some eight years before her, listening to Japheth's preaching beside his father, Tamara also found her love for Japheth was growing. As she joined him to listen to what Shem was saying one day, Japheth asked, Ishah, I've never asked this; I was afraid of what you might say, but, what do you think about what Shem is saying?"

"Japheth, I've been wanting to talk to you about this. But, I needed to be sure, and today, I am sure!," she said.

"I want to ask Shem, or your father, or maybe you? - what do I do to make my choice clear to join your family? This makes perfect sense to me, and, anyway, I love you, my Japheth!" She was smiling so sweetly, Japheth kissed her on the spot!

That last night, when Master sealed the entry ramp, hot tears poured down the cheeks of Noach's family, except for Ham and Sharrah. They had begged to be excused to go to their quarters in the top deck, to rest, as the reason. The real reason would be discovered later, the following week. However, that night they held a séance for Lucifer, and were deep in worship of the enemy of Life.

Just minutes to go, Shem and the horses pulled onto the entry ramp with the final load of provisions. The drunken, raucous crowd had grudgingly made way for them to pass, and then closed in behind, trying to grab things off the wagon. But Mr. Starfire sensed their move, and he neighed to Atlantic, "Now! Run!." The pair sprinted up the ramp ahead of the mob, much to the drunken chagrin of the party-goers.

Empty-handed, they mocked louder; "Say! I hears Noach's Master has a roast planned tonight! He's going to close all these creatures in Noach's Great Hoax Ship, and burn it!" They repeated the phrase over and over.

"Some sacrifice!"" others yelled back.

"Maybe it's us, your Master is going to roast!," some began shouting. "Tell us, which is it?!"

"Tell us, Shem! Which is it?! Cat got your tongue?!!"

At the entrance, Noach stood and guarded it from intruders. As some partiers attempted to board the Great Bears came out of the shadows and the drunken people quickly dispersed. Just moments after the wagon made its last run and disappeared into the darkness of the ship's hold, Master closed the heavy ramp with a loud, solid "BANG!" It was at that exact moment that those evil-minded citizens of Mocking Song City had a clear sense of their impending doom.

In abject terror the small group of partiers watched a hand covering the long ramp with the same cementing material Noach used to make the stone-like hull of the ship. Some, overcome by the enormity of their fateful choices, fell on the ground. Others, with sincere anguish, began beating on the sealed ship. weeping, "Please! Please! PLEASE! Let us in!"

That night, most members of "The Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale" association returned to their houses in the city with silent, fearful looks and few words. The next morning, they woke, and expected to see that the flood had started, just as Noach had said. But, Nothing.

In the ark, Noach and his family rested. All life aboard rested from their arduous journeys to the ark, from the heavy labors to build it, from the labors to harvest and store the huge stocks of water and provisions, and from the sheer emotional stress involved in both human and animal passengers.

The next day, no rain. Nor the next. Not the next day. And, not the fifth day either! Murmurs began. "I hear that Master is merely keeping those creatures in there to take the ship off the Earth! Glad I'm NOT in it!"  Another rumor was, "Well, maybe we're right after all! Noach and his Master really wanted to just fool us!" And," Well, how long will they keep up their silly ruse! They 'have' to come out before they starve!"

The next day was a Shabbat. Master's Celebration of Completion and Rest Day. Those aboard the ship, now under Noach's leadership, kept the day in a restful state honoring Master as Master had indicated for all His Earth Creation to do. No one was exempt.

That evening marked the beginning of Day Seven, in accordance with Master's Time Accounting Methods.

How It Was

Earth's mountains were much lower before the Deluge. The facts speak for themselves for those Earth Geologists who care to discern them. From the multitudinous false, mock-scientists of today, determined to destroy any and all reference to Creator and His direct intervention in the history of Earth and its creatures, come the fables about how the Flood could not have taken place, and anyway, "The mountains are far higher than any "Flood" could cover!"

 But these modern day mockers cannot refute the facts. Facts such as Earth's broken surface plate is but a few thousand years' existence in its shattered state, and that the high mountains formed with volcanic eruptions and massive upheavals to the mantle covering Earth's core, destroying its uniform, stratified structure, have all been formed with fairly recent occurrence in geological time.

Instead of accepting Master's chronology of Creation upon Earth, and elsewhere, Man determined to replace the truth with many concocted tales about billions of Earth years' worth of time to gradually change both the surface of Earth and its inhabitants form and specie. This foolish tirade has caved in on itself with multitudes of counter-opposing ideas and speculations, and yet it still remains, simply a Human, silly act to despise Master and replace Him with the finite mind of both Man and his desired deity, Fallen Angel Lucifer.

For instance, if the silly theory of Earth-and Life "evolution" and their taking place over billions of Earth-years were fact, then, instead of a mere few billion human population upon present day Earth, many trillions now roam over the tiny planet Earth, demanding utterly too much of Earth's finite resources to sustain even itself.! For man alone, according to this fools' desire theory, the present population would number in the high trillions, which is an entirely impossible feat, as there isn't enough space on Earth's surface for even one trillion!

Another fallacy to this blind-man's attempt to replace Master with Lucifer is that with the presumed steady-rate erosion of earth by rain water over that time would have long ago eliminated all mountains!"

Grandpa's story, retold carefully by each generation of grandfathers from the dawn of both Man and Earth endures through the Time of Man. It also records the changes Creator performs and events cause to little planet Earth, and it records some of the foolish ideas Man concocts to replace Creator! What a story!

Even better, Creator had His Record and Man's attempts to destroy His Creation faithfully retold by early generations, and then Moshe' inscribed it in stone tablets! Grandpa's story may have some parts that are not true to the events in history, but the record given by Creator is perfect, and perfectly kept by the science of recording it scribes use to maintain its precision.

This is how we now can be certain that no high mountains nor volcanoes existed before the events that are about to unfold happened. No rain fell before the Flood, and after it the entire Earth was mishappened, broken, and three miles' depth of ocean waters added to its surface. The weather before the Flood was the same over every part of Earth, but after the polar regions were bitter cold, the Equator very warm, and deserts formed over vast areas that were heavy jungles before. "Evolution" guesses at what happened; Creator records what happned!

DELUGE!

With night-fall, the end of this day of commemoration for Master's Marvelous Earth Creation, and for all the cosmos, was like no other, either before or since. Safely returned to their homes in Mocking Song City or quietly sleeping in their farm-homes, all the hard-hearted inhabitants who refused Noach and Shem's many years of enduring efforts to open their blind hearts to the truth were puzzled with the past full week of calm after Master sealed the entry ramp. Perhaps some remembered Noach and Shem's long years of preaching about Flood to come. Perhaps some even recalled their grandparents careful keeping of this very day of the seven days of the Lunar Week, and maybe even a few shared these thoughts with family and neighbors. Maybe . . .

But, Master wept. He knew the History of Man from before He even spoke His Creation into existence, but still He wept bitterly for His Beloved Mankind.

Before anyone could fully waken a thundering explosion shook the entire planet! Gushing up through 40 miles of the rock mantle which Creator wrapped His little Earth with, sealing it underneath this massive, heavy blanket, the super-heated water spouted many miles above the surface in enormous walls of super hot steam! Like we see when a volcano explodes from super-heated water in its depths, these walls of steam carried huge chunks of rock, dirt, vegetation, and people far up into the skies. At the very same instant of the mantle breaking, the obdurate, crystalline canopy sealing interstellar space away from the surface shattered into millions of shards that plunged toward the surface.

This intensely cold - near absolute zero temperature - super-cooled gas met the steam spouts and quickly chilled the steam to an enormous downpour of rain! On the surface, little Earth reeled and shuddered under enormous impacts as this heavy inundation of water fell everywhere. The Solar space contains vast numbers of ice asteroids. Many are caught by Earth's gravity and accelerate toward the planet until they are burned by the friction as they enter the atmosphere, or, for a few, they become so hot near the surface of Earth they have an atomic reaction, causing massive damage to the region nearby.

These ice asteroids may explain the three mile rise of the ocean surface after the Flood, along with the release of water below the mantle. But the source of the waters mattered nothing to those whom it drowned.

It is not likely that any creature lived long enough outside the tiny Ark to see what happened next. As the thick deluge of water fell to the surface, along with it came the coldth of stellar space. At near absolute zero temperature, the falling deluge was quick-frozen into masses of roiling soil, carcases, water, and vegetation. Today we still see sections of Earth surface where this frozen "soup" still exists. In some places there are even creatures frozen so fast they are standing with their mouths full of the grass they were eating!

Knowing the destructive forces of this deluge, Master's design for the Ark of Safe Passage for that name was its true name and meaning, spared the passengers from viewing the massive destruction and the multitude of floating human and animal remains. The cold winds, rushing waters and quick-freezing coldth flushed the stench of decay away and, as time and upheaval of Earth's surface followed the initial deluge, the entire world of pre-flood Earth simply disappeared under the surface of the torn planet. Massive volcanoes began erupting and the former stable mantle over the deep waters shattered. Huge areas quickly sank into an abyss of water.

For a full 40 days and nights this deluge persisted, never again to repeat on Earth. The ice asteroids and the metallic canopy shards descended through a hundred miles of earth's warm, dense atmosphere. It is estimated that 8 or more times the pressure of the present atmosphere existed with the canopy that it supported floating on it. The release of this great pressure and the great volume of warm, moist air caused more massive turbulence high above the surface. As this met the super cold with the rising super-hot steam from below the rains that this formed came down after the rains formed by the steam walls condensing as they met falling, super-cold metallic canopy shards.

As all this tangled morass fell, its rotational inertia, traveling faster than the surface rotation speed, carried it partly horizontal to the surface, where it smashed into everything it struck with great force, turning Earth into a frothing mass of watery mud. In this destruction, Mocking Song City almost instantly disappeared into a frothing mass of writhing, tangling, boiling buildings, stone fragments, bodies, and huge trees, all forced into a sea of the same boiling mass that covered the entire planet.

Little Riding Wolffe shuddered as Mr. Owl recited this part of his grandfather's story. She snuggled closer to her human friends, and Cynthia placed her arm around the little wolf pup, holding her to reassure the pretty wolf that she was safe.

Miss Riding Wolffe thought of their watching in horror not long before, as the Earth opened and swallowed Mr. Phyne Pheetha, the old ostrich who refused to tell the truth about his stolen merchandise trades with Grandpa Otter. "No," she thought to herself, "it is always best to speak truth, and when someone tells you anything, to check out if they are speaking truth or a deception. But," she thought, "it is always best to do so with love and a mind for reconciliation, just as Master always commands us to do, for He is our guide for living in harmony together." She snuggled close to her human friends.

Mr. Owls voice caught her attention. "From the shattering mass and speed of the falling deluge, entire mountains ripped apart, instantly pulverized into a soupy, roiling mass. From where they once stood firm and secure, many deep chasms in Earth's surface formed. As the former solid crust plate broke apart, miles-deep rifts opened, allowing gushing flows of Earth's inner molten lava. By the time these events happened, though, the tough, resilient Ark of Safe Passage was riding the wild seas far above. In fact, today's deep seas exploration has revealed ancient ocean beaches that are three miles beneath present ocean surface levels. Indeed, Master did mean that all Earth would be destroyed!"

Mr. Owl paused a long moment.

"In the Ark of Safe Passage, Noach and all passengers rested after the storm abated, and the ship ceased its heavy rolling and endless spinning about. Anchor stones hanging from long, heavy beams extending behind the hull, attached to its underside, slowed the rolling and turning. These "drogue stones" remained firmly attached by their heavy ropes. They would be vital to the ships' safe landing, whenever that should occur. For now, Noach and all were thankful for Master's Ship Plan, and the passengers, for Noach's faithful building according to that plan!"

"Mr. Fyrewytch also rested, as he demanded that he be allowed to do - but, much longer than he had intended!"

For the first two days, he ate, slept, and grumbled, as his neighbors' coming and goings interrupted his self-centered rest. Much to Ham's delight he continued to ask to be served in his berth. One rather unexpected fact about ostriches and sea-going vessels kept his there! His long legs, awkward, long neck and head, where one's balance is sensed, and the very heavy bulk of his body midway between head and feet made walking about the rolling, shuddering vessel quite impossible.

"Just how would 'you' like to try to walk around a ship tossing about on a rough sea?," Mr. Owl asked, looking directly at Eriel. She giggled.

Outside, howling winds seemed about to tear the sturdy ark to pieces. During the initial deluge, its supper-strong roof and top deck were under constant bombardment from chunks of falling ice and canopy. The super-chilled metallic shards were boiling as they hit the deck. The cold torrents of rain washed their foaming remains quickly off the boat. As the first days' calamity stretched into weeks, the torrential hammering softened to a gentle sound of rain falling onto a hard roof, providing a soothing atmosphere.

The crashing seas held the tossing ship in a grip which felt like a giant hand determined to shake it apart. As the downpour slowed and the boiling tumult from the depths of earth subsided to gently swirling waters, the ship began a soothing rocking to and fro.

Just 11 days before the rains stopped, day twenty nine of the forty days' deluge, Mr. Fyrewytch sleepily wakened to the calmer, but still clashing and thundering deluge and the tossing and turning ship, and said to himself, "My! I'm certainly glad that yappy mate of mine isn't here!" His self-centric, self-esteeming mindset held him in such a terrible grip that he felt no pain or remorse for anyone else! Had he only known the events of the following days, he'd have had a warm welcome for his mate on his mind, and, she would have been at his side when he arrived at the entry ramp!

No mate! Not even an egg! Wow!

On day 31, Ham and Japheth delivered the ostrich's breakfast, and cleaned his berth. "I can hardly believe this!," He said to himself. "There's just no other ostrich but me on board! And, my neighbors have calmed down too!"

Then, he wondered, "What's wrong with this picture? I think I'd better investigate this, right now!"

"Before we follow Mr. Fyrewytch outside his suite, we must finish grandpa's story record of the last visit Master made to the Great Garden, before it was completely left to the fast-growing jungle to overrun it. Mr. Neigh!, did your grandpa's story tell what happened to Mr. Eiderdowne, after Ishah and Ish ate the purple fruit of knowledge of Good and Evil?"

"Sure did! He went up to Master after "

"Oh! Hold on, Mr. Neigh!! I'd like to make sure the surprise part fits with the rest of my grandfather's story. I'm sure the two accounts are very close, and I do want to hear your grandpa's story from start to finish, soon! Is that OK with you?"

"Oh! Of course it is! I'm kinda lost in my memories of the story, and those of my dear grandpa as I listen to you tell it, Mr. Owl. I miss my dear grandfather, and all the wonderful things he told me, and did with me. I think all grandpa's should be like he was," Mr. Neigh! said with a soft whinny.

"You and I share very precious memories of our dear grandpas, Mr. Neigh! It's so good that Master has given us all these years to be friends together!"

"But," Mr. Neigh! quickly spoke, I'd like to mention one thing I'm quite sure your grandpa did not include in his story record. It was the very last part of the last day, and as Mr. Starfire and Atlantic approached the entry ramp. the mob led by "The Citizens Against Noach's Flood Faery Tale" were especially raucous, The Lions had their paws full keeping the approach to the boarding ramp clear for the team to pull the wagon onto the boat. Starfire bit one of the people on the backside real hard! 'Course, Noach apologized, but, I always thought that that was one of the best parts!"

"When Noach apologized to the young man, the boy realized that the preaching was all about saving people and animals from certain death. He begged Noach for a place on the ark for his family. Noach told him to go bring his family and there would be room. But the boy did not return before Master sealed the Ark Ramp Door tightly shut. All the rest of Noach's life he remembered that boy, and grieved for him."

"Wow! Well, you're right! That's a part only a grandpa horse would know!" Mr. Owl chuckled softly.  Thank you, Mr. Neigh!"

"My! That's a lesson for us all! If we truly love others even when they mock and scorn us to our face we must still welcome them back because Master always welcomes us back, even when we are too late to save our own life. When we spurn anyone and refuse to welcome him back if he changes his heart, then we simply prove that we have no love or respect for our Creator, and certainly not as our Master of Living and Purpose. How sad it is for families who refuse to welcome home one member to return with a changed, respectful heart." Mr. Owl's eyes looked even more sad than his normally sad, round owly eyes looked. "It is no wonder Master tells us He hates Divorce."

He paused a moment, staring straight in front of him as if looking far into the future. "My grandfather always paused and then said, "Here is where my grandpa got teary-eyed. When we asked him to explain, all he would say was, "Master tells us that just before He returns to His Earth people will have the very same arrogance as they had in the last days before the Flood. That time in the world seems far away, but I see it like it is here now, with people mocking Master and those who love Him. I see many families torn to bits by Divorce and unforgiving hate. I am unable to speak at these moments."

Mr. Owl continued; "As I grow older I find myself seeing the time my grandpa saw, and I grieve for the world as I do. However, we are now in the middle of my grandfathers' ancient story, so let's continue. We last heard about Mr. Eiderdowne in the Great Garden, just before Ish reached the little grass-covered knoll in the lush meadow covered in wild flowers, where fig trees, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Great Tree of Life stood a little ways apart from the other trees there, near the babbling, singing fountain springing up from the deep earth below."

Troubled Hearts In the Great Garden

"As Ish made his way to the place where the uncle of Ishah's little house maid serpent was taking him to meet Ishah, his heart sang with the hopes of spending a wonderful day with his lovely sweetheart. Preoccupied this way he missed seeing the signal from his guide serpent that alerted Mr. Slytalker of his approach."

"Slytalker turned to Ishah, glaring at her with a knowing eye; "Now! we must leave you alone to welcome your husband, Ishah. You know the plan we helped you with to regain your husband's attentions. Make certain you follow the steps, and words you are to speak. He will listen."

"You must not speak one word about me to Ish, Ishah! It will spoil all we've worked hard to accomplish. You wouldn't want that, now, would you? Just get him to eat the fruit, same as you have! I'll handle the rest."

"Ishah only nodded a teary, quiet acknowledgement, her eyes gazing sadly at the ground she stood upon. Inside, she felt betrayed, lost. Emotions she had never before experienced."

"But, but, bu . . .I want to share the good news she tells Ish! Maybe he will decide it's just too late to keep her. Then she'll need my soothing words!," Mr. Eiderdowne exclaimed.

"Shhhh!"

"Eiderdowne! Shut up! Ish will hear you!"

"Without time to spare, for Ish was approaching the clearing by then, Mr. Slytalker grabbed Mr. Eiderdowne by his long, awkward neck, and quickly jerked the very surprised Struthio camelus into the nearby dark and dense jungle, almost breaking his neck!"

"When Ish came to the clearing his lovely wife sat there alone, a lost look on her pretty face. Her eyes looked very sad; lonely. Off to one side and just inside the heavy jungle growth at the edge of the meadow her charmer, Mr. Eiderdowne, stood and watched with Mr. Slytalker, the too-smooth-tongued, deceiving serpent. The Serpent stood at half-again the same height as Mr. Eiderdowne's height, its scaly, slithery skin covering large, tough muscles."

As Ish crossed the babbling spring brook, Mr. Slytalker restrained the lust-stricken Mr. Eiderdowne; "We must leave Ish and Ishah alone! Come! We have to go!"

In the Great Garden there were many creatures who lived in peace and harmony with one another, with Ish and his Ishah, and all the garden was a delight to them. Mr. Starfire, and his beautiful mate were part of this loving group. When Master would come to walk and commune with Ish and Ishah in the cool of the day, the Equus pair often would accompany the little party with Him. Ishah loved Mr. Starfire, but she was torn inside by his long days' work with her Ish, when she felt so much need to have her Ish by her side, giving her the attention he was giving Mr. Starfire and the work Master assigned to her capable husband.

Often accompanying Master on these visits, the Deer Family, The Beavers, and Mr. and Mrs. King Lion, who immensely enjoyed Master and His company, walked together in a tight group. In fact, Both Mr. King Lion and Mr. Starfire would carry the smaller animals on their backs! It was a sight to witness!

In the Antediluvian time, and especially in the Great Garden, the air was sweetly scented with the tantalizing perfumes of a thousand kinds of flowers. Along the way Master walked, playful otters, prankster raccoons, bright parrots, and many specie of His creatures would happily join the procession, singing, chattering, and dancing along the grassy, lovely paths. All rejoiced with Master's Presence, and His love for each knew no bounds.

But Master's heart was heavy on many of these wonderful occasions. He knew the events," Mr. owl said, sighing. "What my grandpa used to say here I must also say. Master, being outside of time and also above His creation, knew all events of His Creation even before He spoke it all into existence. He did not design any rebellion and acts of disobedience for His His creatures, but all the rebellion any would ever do He knew. So we understand from His Living Word recorded by Moshe', that Master's Design included what we might think of as a back up plan should any rebellious creatures desire to return to a living relationship with Him.

It is vital that we understand that Master does not Design Evil to happen, but He does have a reconciliation Plan if it does happen.

His awareness of the impending destruction gave Him all the more reason to enjoy the moments He had with these creatures He so loved. He loved those who were even then plotting to destroy His entire Creation, under command of Fallen Angle Lucifer's dark, occult meetings. He knew that one day, all too soon, His creatures would turn to evil, and He knew Lucifer's design was to ruin and destroy all Creation by using flesh creatures as unwary pawns in the diabolical hatred for Creator. Master made just the right back up plan for such a rebellion, where He would allow Lucifer and the generations of Ish to war against one another and cause the utter destruction of Earth's biosphere, save for a very select few whom Master would save in Noach's Ark of Safe Passage.

As He confronted Ish, Ishah, and Mr. Slytalker, after both humans disobeyed His command, Master's Plan called for a just, kind sentence for each guilty creature. Earlier, the story tells what Master spoke to each guilty party. Now, banned from the Great Garden, word of Ish and Ishah's sad plight spread quickly throughout the garden. For many garden dwellers, this brought their first awareness that all was not the peaceful living they experienced and assumed all others also lived in. Wherever it went, this news caused great sadness.

More than all His creature's sense of grief, Master's grief caused Him to weep with the deep groans of one suffering the loss of a child," Mr. Owl said softly. "Even the loss of one's mate does not create that heaviness which loss of one's child brings. And Master? He just lost His entire lovely Human Family; His precious friends; His children.

Those who desired to follow Lucifer's shameful deception and replace worship for Master with following spirits of evil which Lucifer used to deceive them with by many supernatural signs and wonders, they met in occult, secret groups in the darkest of the tangled jungle. They were always fearful and watchful for any sign of Master, or those who might tell Him of their meetings.

However they were not the only group of garden residents to worship and honor a spiritual leader. Many creatures formed small groups, usually members of one specie, to openly honor and praise Creator. They loved His goodness and truth, and His living way. These faithful creatures lived in the truth of Master and rejoiced that he was their Creator rather than follow ugly deceptions from evil-minded, destruction-planning, Fallen Angel Lucifer. To these groups Master gave His Presence and they knew no fear of the darkness like those who followed the Deceiving One.

In time, these faithful groups began to assemble together in the center of the last large, newly-completed meadow Ish worked on. Birds especially loved its many fruiting trees dotting its wide expanse. Thinking he would finally have a place for his Ishah and him to share time together, Ish designed it with the special trees, her favorite bird habitats, and even a babbling brook across its lush flowery meadow. Now, except for Mr. Eiderdowne,  the birds there were all loyal to Master and they invited all other garden creatures to assemble with Master, on the day following His ordeal with Ish and Ishah's disobedience.

This day was a beautiful setting but their hearts were heavy. Master looked into the heart of each one gathered there, His Own heart ready to burst. "My dear creatures, this day marks the beginning of great sorrow within all My Creation. No longer will you know freedom of spirit. Heaviness and much pain will be yours all the days of your living upon My Earth. Already I caused some of your innocent to give back to Me their life, to be a token of the Death caused by Ish and Ishah's disobedience.

"No longer are humans your master. Instead, in their disobedience they will be your owners, to use and misuse you as innocent victims of your worst fears. They no longer know what it is to be pure, innocent, and alive. Lest they eat of the Tree of Eternal Life and thereby gain eternal life for their state of evilness, and you suffer eternally from their self-esteem, I have cast them out of My Great Garden. They must now toil with great labor to induce the soil of Earth to provide their food. They will find that eating you will be far easier. Their life span is reduced from permanent to mere years."

"A time will come when both they and you animals will all turn from My Living Way to follow after evil, My dear, sweet creatures, Then your descendants must be purged from Earth, that it may survive. My Truth will remain, but sure destruction will prevail over evil."

"In that day, My Ark of Safe passage will safely deliver each of your specie to the dry land of a vastly-altered version of this Earth." He said this with an immensely sad tone, but with great authority to His words.

"My creatures," and His eyes filled with hot, pouring tears, "last evening I came to my Ish and Ishah, where they hid themselves from Me in the shame of their disobedience. As I made My humans with My Own sense of honesty, when they disobey the Order of Life it will always make them feel naked and exposed. In truth, it is their loss of innocence which causes them to feel naked. Ish and Ishah were hiding from Me near the tree of Knowledge of Good and of Evil the day after they disobeyed Me. They were terrified of Me and tried to use tree leaves to blend with the woods they hid in.

"Fallen Angel Lucifer beguiled Mr. Slytalker Serpent into turning from My Law of Life, and used Slytalker to beguile Ishah into eating the fruit I forbade her Ish to eat. Then she tricked her husband to take it also. By my provision for Ish as head of his own family, he had opportunity to refuse her offer and thus cover Ishah's misdeed, but he followed her in the disobedience of My direct command to him. The most sad part is that Ish left Ishah alone when she needed his comfort and guidance the most, so it was easy to beguile her to eat the fruit with the promise that doing so would make Ish see how much she needed his attention."

"Thinking I could not see him, Mr. Slytalker was hiding in the the nearby jungle where he forced Mr. Eiderdowne to accompany him when they abandoned Ishah after tricking her into eating the forbidden fruit. Mr. Ostrich, "Eiderdowne," as Ishah called him for the soft plumage I gave him, colluded with Mr. Serpent, "Slytalker," in order to devise a plot to deceive Ishah, and cause her to eat the forbidden fruit, then trick Ish into eating it. When Mr. Ostrich saw how evil Slytalker was in  tricking Ishah to eat the fruit he understood that he was just being used to get Ishah to eat the fruit. Mr. Ostrich finally came to see his own evil thoughts and acts were doing the same thing in his effort to impress Ishah."

"To Me he made amends. At least he repented and asked My forgiveness, and he asked forgiveness from Ishah and Ish also, which they each gave him. But, to detain him from ever beguiling another human, I have banned Mr. Ostrich from Human presence to a far land."

"In his tricking Mr. Ostrich, Slytalker Serpent broke the necks of three little hatchling ostriches, then ripped out their tiny hearts and forced Mr. Ostrich, on pain of death from a Warrior Serpent, to eat them, one by one. Then he told Mr. Ostrich that if he ever tried to expose any of this to Me, or what any member of Fallen Angel Lucifer's occult worship order said or did, his act of eating the hearts would be reported to Me. Actually that would never, ever happen, for if I ever have one of Lucifer's worshipers approach me, that one's evil will not survive My Truth, and it will surely die immediately from the shock!"

"My dearly beloved, I tell you these horrible details that you will mark them permanently in your memories. You fathers tell them to your descendants, as you become grandfathers!"

"I now relate the last words Mr. Serpent, Mr. Ostrich, and Ishah had, so you understand how the deceptive words work to lead one into disobedience. These three met for the final time, under the forbidden tree.

Deviant Hearts Cause Deviant Speech and Behavior
 

"Ostrich! I hear from my accomplice that Ish is about to arrive any minute! We must let Ish find his Ishah here alone. Come! We have to go!"

"Don't!, Ishah begged. "I need both of you here when my . . . my . . . I mean when Ish arrives! Please! Don't leave me!"

Knowing the the evil plot was about to snare its intended prey now, the serpent hissed in her face, "You are not to tell Ish about me! Just tell him that you will not be able to face another day without him, and that you need his eating the fruit so you can believe he is serious about his promises to give you more of his time. I'll handle the rest! Right, Ishah?" Serpent's face was pushed right up into hers.

"Now Mr. Slytalker!," Mr. Ostrich spoke, "you just listen! I'm the one who loves Ishah the most. I'm going to defend her against that male human if he dares be angry with her for defying 'his' stupid ideas about Creator's, silly commands! NO! I will NOT leave Ishah!"

"Oh? Then what do you think I'll tell Ish and Creator about what I, and the Warrior Serpents witnessed 'yo' do to the Ostrich children, Mr. Ostrich? You know Lucifer reports such things to Creator, when it suits 'our' interests? I'm sure Creator wants to hear of your loyalty to Lucifer, my friend. Now! GO!" Serpent yanked Mr. Ostrich's neck so hard it nearly snapped, dragging him into the dense, dark jungle.

"Now, My dear creatures, you know I love you, but do not think that I don't also guard over you jealously and know every moment of your lives, and whom you associate with, and what you even think!"

"Before, when Serpent tricked Mr. Ostrich into eating the baby ostrich hearts, he made a serious mistake. He assumed that I would not see and hear each detail of his evil act! For you, My hearers, remember this!"

"When Mr. Slytalker Serpent told Ishah the fruit was something that I intended for her to eat he added the word meaning that she would 'not' die from disobeying My command to her husband. To Ish I clearly commanded, "In the day you eat this fruit, you surely will die!"

"Hiding behind Serpent, Fallen Angel Lucifer and the other fallen angels that devise deceptions to mislead My creatures away from Me and destroy My Creation, uses the same convoluted, twisted and warped, illogical assumption. They make truth sound very complicated so then they can add their complicated deception to the truth. To always recognize their twisted deceptions, carefully study My Living Word, and ask Me directly to show you exactly what I gave each of My writers to record in it! Be not fooled by devious wording, nor by claims to decipher My words with clearer statements. If what they say is not exactly the same as recorded in My Living Word, and kept by My scribes, they speak lies.!"

"For his just sentence to compensate for the proud, arrogant attitude he displayed, Serpent is now the lowest of beasts. His belly is his foot, and to protect him from sure extinction by those who would destroy him and his kind in retribution for his deceiving Ishah, I have given his bite a venom that is deadly enough to kill the attacker."

"To Lucifer I assigned the same lowness of stature. From now on Lucifer will be known as "Hissing Liar," an attacker of womankind and her descendents. But to Lucifer, as to a lowly serpent, there is One descendent from Ishah Whom I shall cause to utterly crush that Great Serpent's head, and the entire kingdom that worships the Fallen Angel will suffer complete defeat by this descendent."

"This descendent will be called "Y'suah,"(Savior) and He shall lead those captives of Lucifer to triumph over Lucifer! By His power, in Whom all My power will rest, humans will have available My power to overcome all evil! In a still further-off time, there will be three young daughters of Ishah, Cynthia Joy, Melissa Joy, and Eriel, who will hear this record, and will know My love for them is real! Each will know that their step-grandpa, and Cynthia's father, wants for each one to give Me their whole being, that living for each precious daughter will be just as I have planned for their best!"

"Dear creatures, I will never leave nor forsake you, though My Presence with you in this manner, here in the Great Garden will end with this time together. To humankind your voices will become as dumb utterances, at a future time. To you they will speak as mumbling."

"While Ish is no longer here to set My Great Garden in order, and it will return to a vast tangle, you are free to stay. Or to leave."

"Master?" The shaky, frightened voice belonged to Sparrow, shaking from the shocking news on a nearby tree limb. It's pure little heart shattered by the message Master spoke. He loved Ishah very much and would spend days by her window, singing his merry heart out to her. It broke Master's heart to see his distress.

"Yes, My Sparrow?"

"Master, my mate and our children love this garden so much. Will it never be like this again? Will we never sing for our human companions again?"

"Oh! My sweet and beloved little Sparrow! I'll let you in on the plan I'm keeping a secret from humans for now. After many, many years, long after I give Myself to be their Savior, when the time is come about, it will be My joy to cause Earth to be even better than what you see now! Do not worry, My most joyous of all creatures, never will anything keep Me from caring for you. Not one of you will ever fall but that I shall know and give you My peace. Now go, forget what Happened here. Find Ishah, and sing your heart out for her delight! May your sweet, joyful song bring to Ishah My love and comfort, little friend! Tell both of My love every morning!"

"This command is for each one of you. You are My creatures, and I did not make any mistake about a single one of you!"

"Nothing and no one is able to separate you from me, even if you should choose to disobey My commands! Remember this and be sure to teach it carefully to your descendents because much suffering will come to the world from Ish's choice to dishonor Me. That same choice will be made by many, many other creatures. Following My Law of Life increases joy and living. Following the Way of Disobedience causes destruction of joy and living and that causes great suffering  for all Creation."

"Until My kingdom is here upon Earth and I walk upon Earth among you again, I will allow much destruction and evil. However I shall provide sustenance for all and strength to endure, even to live with great rejoicing, for in Me Life is abundant! Nothing shall harm you that I will not first equip you to triumph over. I AM is your eternal Keeper!"

"Master? What about my uncle, Mr. Ostrich? Is he coming home? He's my favorite uncle, but he never had time for us. I really miss him!" The little, fluffy ostrich chick spoke in its tiny, almost squeaky voice.

"My little friend, this breaks My heart." Master gazed down at the baby ostrich chick, looking even sadder. "But, your uncle has brought much shame and grief into My Garden, even into your life, though you are innocent. My dear, small friend, never forget what I am about to tell you. Just as I am Sparrows abiding friend, so I will always abide with you as your own faithful friend."

"When I created the ostrich, little one, I thought long and much how I would make some creature besides a human who could also spurn My love, or choose to love Me, with all its heart."

"I considered the Sheep, but the nature of sheep is to be steady and sure, only without reasoning power. Turkey cares much for his family, by his nature. Tiger loves to rule over all too much, and Elephant? Well, he's just too big!"

"But, My little friend, My Ostrich, the family you are from, its nature is well-suited! You have a heart of your own, to love either self, or Me and others. The will I gave you is very strong and proud, to serve well. Either me, and others, or yourself."

"When Mr. Ostrich wants to, he is a most-dedicated caretaker; but when not wishing to love others, he is ruthless in his pursuit of pleasing himself. He's much like My human!"

"So I said, "I'll give Ostrich the situations in life to show clearly how to obey Me, or to disobey Me, so all non-human creatures can see the difference. When Mr. Ostrich is disobedient, his life is a mess! When he obeys, his life is full of My joy! Your uncle, little one, is the first proof of disobeying My Way of Life."

"Your Uncle Ostrich followed after his nature, to increase his self esteem. To get what his nature desired, he made many evil choices which nearly took his life, and did take the lives of three of his own children. To give him a new start, I have sent your uncle to a land very, very far from here. He will have a chance for making right choices, but still his many descendants may also choose to disobey Me, and destroy not only themselves, but others their evil acts."

"I wish I could make your living easier, little friend."

"I'm so sorry for my Uncle Ostrich," sobbed the little chick. I would go to live with him, if I could. May I keep him company? May I?"

"My! What a beautiful love for your uncle, my child!," Exclaimed Master. "But, if you went all by yourself, who would care for you?"

"You said You would, Master Won't You?"

"Now, see? What did I say? Did EVERYONE hear Little Ostrich? He's a perfect proof that My ostrich will illustrate what loving Me will do for all My creatures! Yes, I SHALL take very, very good care of you, 'My' Little Ostrich!"

"Do you have any other Ostrich children who wish to live with your uncle,?" Master asked. "I would be very delighted to take care of all who wish to go!"

"I want to!"

"Me too!"

"Me! I want to go!"

"Can I, master"

A chorus of ostrich chick voices from the group around Master affirmed their love for Uncle Ostrich.

Suddenly, a great cheer went booming out of the large assembly of faithful creatures! In a thousand small echoes it returned; "Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! for our Beloved Master! He will save us! He is our gentle, kind Friend!"

Master's arms rose, stretched out above them in a blessing that each could sense as a pouring out of His Love for all. The brilliant light from His face caused the sun's light to appear as a shadow in His glow. "My beloved creatures, I AM is your Great Shepherd. Follow Me into the mountains of high praise! Walk by My side where no evil can be. How shall I be ashamed of you who exalt Me above yourselves!"

"My Peace, I give you!"

"Well, well! This is really giving Me a warm fuzzy!" Master's face was shining brighter. I was holding back a bit on another bit of news about your Ostrich Family, but I see it is now a welcome news! You see, the mother of those little chicks running unattended was also a grave concern for Me, so I have sent her along with Mr. Ostrich, to have a chance to start her living over. She is grieving over her choices to abandon her little ones. I told her she must never expect to have baby chicks again, as Mr. Ostrich is still unable to love lady Ostriches."

"Now, since you all want to go, Lady Ostrich will have a family to care for! She so wanted another chance. Perhaps Mr. Ostrich will see and understand how good it is to follow the natural order I made for each creature to be with its own kind, with all of you there!"

"Even should any of you here, or your descendants choose to disobey Me, My creatures, I'll not forsake you. But, I will cause things that teach you to return to Me - I AM is a Jealous I AM!"

"Master?" The first little ostrich looked directly into Master's eyes, the former frown now an ostrich smile. Thank you! I will do my best to be loyal to You always!" His little voice was stronger. "I love You, Master!" Sitting beside him was a baby hippo. It gave a little, happy wag of its stumpy tail, and gave a big hippopotamus smile to the young Ostrich. "I like you," He said. "I love Master, too!"

After quiet returned and the assembled animals, birds, reptiles, and even a few chirping crickets went their ways, Master led His little charge of small ostriches to their new home with the two banished adults. "Let Me share a little bit of My Plan for the future with you little ostriches," He said. "Let's sit here in this small meadow. We are near the edge of the Great Garden now, and soon we will be leaving it for good. There is much I wish to share with you, My sweet little friends, but all of it would be too much for your young minds."

"But here is something I am sure you will remember." They were gathered 'round Him, sitting on the meadow grass. He gently picked up and cuddled the smallest one on His lap.

"Quite some time after I cleanse Earth from the evil now practiced by a growing number of My creatures, there will be a faithful, obedient servant of Mine. His name will be "Job." After he has proved himself as My faithful servant, he will test Me, and I, him. He will never fail to trust Me, though I will give Fallen Angel Lucifer limited authority to take the lives of Job's beloved sons and daughters, just as I gave Lucifer limited authority to take the lives of your cousins, and to beguile My beloved Ish and Ishah."

"I will even allow Lucifer to take dear Job's health and peace, and his wife will implore him to curse Me and just give up and die! But My servant Job will remain true to Me, and then I will restore to him more sons and daughters than before, and health that will make him strong and resilient all his days!"

"This will cause Job to dig very deep into a search for My majesty and authority, far deeper than nearly all other humans! Because of his trust and faithfulness, I will reveal to Job great and marvelous things, My Law and My Way of Living."

"Now for you ostriches, I will reveal to him that I created you with no natural desire to care for your young! No, not even for your own un-hatched eggs! But, I will show Job that you, though not having any desire to care for your un-hatched, you do trust Me to care for this vital part of your existence!, and I will faithfully care for and multiply My Ostrich family!"

"Indeed! Here is a short English translation of the record My Job will write about The Ostrich!  . . . "The Ostrich' wings flap joyously with the pinion and plumage of the lovely stork, for she abandons her egg to the care of the ground, warming them by its soil; she forgets that a foot may crush it, or a wild beast may trample or tear it. Her young she treats without care, as though not her own; since I made her forget wisdom, and her labor be in vain, she is unconcerned; I have not given her a measure of understanding. When she lifts her body to run, she laughs at the horse, and his rider."

Job 39, Verses 13 - 18

"Master patted the small, gangly-legged baby Ostrich, which had folded into a little, fluffy ball, and almost gone to sleep in Master's lap. "Here. You take good care of your little sister," He said to the larger ostrich child, with its head resting on His shoulder. "Remember, I AM is watching over you. If you should want My help, just call My name!"

The old Mr. Neigh! and those listening to Mr. Owl as he shared his grandpa's story, were silent, each in deep thought of their own experiences similar to those of each character in the story. Miss Riding Wolffe's lips moved silently, her mind and heart speaking quietly with Master. A tear trickled down one cheek; soon, another followed.

"Master! Please! I must tell everyone I meet about Your love for them, so no one, I hope, has to feel so forgotten as those little ostriches." She opened one teary eye. Then, looking up at Eriel, she put one soft, furry paw on Eriel's lap.

"I love you," she whispered to her little human friend. "Thank you for coming!"

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