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REVELATIONS Terry James (and Tyce Greyson)
Prologue
Part I
“You’ve chosen the bottom-of-the-barrel profession in the eyes of those who will read your stuff.”
His journalism professor’s words echoed in his thoughts while Tyce Greyson checked his camera.
“News media types rate below politicians,” the remembered words continued.
Melodious, Middle Eastern chants in the late afternoon brought an eerie sense of not belonging. Greyson felt far out of his element, even though he had, during the last three of his twenty-seven years on the planet, occasionally covered stories in Jerusalem as an independent journalist.
His next job was already a done deal. He would work as a staff reporter for a Little Rock, Arkansas, television station.
This would be the last such assignment as an independent writer he would undertake for the foreseeable future. He approached the Western Wall—the so-called Wailing Wall. He wanted to get as many shots as possible while the sunlight remained. The piece would be written for a Jewish magazine based in Washington, D.C. He was anxious to get the job done and eventually fly back to New York, then into HillBilly Airport, as those of his circle called the Little Rock airport named after Hillary and Bill Clinton.
“Maybe we are out of touch with our audiences like they say. Maybe that’s why the low rating,” he considered.
He took several quick shots of people in Mid-Eastern garb and let the thought drop.
Greyson entered a crowded area of worshippers. He angled for the one spot he saw that afforded the least-restricted camera view of the holiest worship site in Judaism.
When the worshippers began crowding around him, the view of the wall became blocked. He cursed beneath his breath and held the camera above his head to keep it from being bumped. The worshippers advanced, and he turned sideways to escape the milling swarm. Finally, he found himself free and was pleased to have a better view of the wall than before.
Greyson took a number of shots while moving around the newly found open area. He checked each photo before taking another series of shots.
He began studying the last of the photographs, his attention disrupted when he was touched by a hand on his left arm. He looked at the shorter man, whose eyes were wide and glistening in the late afternoon sunlight that slanted from the horizon.
The man lifted himself on tiptoes to get to a point nearer the taller younger man’s face. His aged, bearded face beneath the kippah he wore projected extreme urgency. He spoke in heavily accented English.
“Israel is the sign,” he said in a near whisper.
The eyes seemed to thrust the words into Greyson’s brain with laser-like intensity. “Israel is the sign,” the man repeated in a whisper, but with more passion.
After a moment of glaring, the religiously robed man shuffled to a few feet away. He turned to again look into Greyson’s puzzled expression. This time, his words thundered into the journalist’s thoughts.
“Israel is the sign of the end.
Prologue
Part II
I’ve been blind for decades due to a hereditary retinal disease called retinitis pigmentosa. My occupation is that of a writer. Public relations in corporate settings was my work until the blindness became total. Books dealing with dark, mysterious themes became my passion once the disease took my eyesight completely.
Foretelling of things to come has dominated my writing life, tugging my creative juices in directions I neither can nor want to control. That is all held in the hands of a higher power. There’s nothing that can change the truth of that reality, and I wouldn’t want it changed if there was a way.
Proof of the control of this higher power—to me at least—came on a Good Friday. My heart stopped and I was suddenly confronted by an otherworldly gallery of young, jubilant beings.
They were human in appearance but exuded unearthly, I guess you would say “ethereal,” even “heavenly,” radiance.
They were beckoning. They wanted me be to become a part of them—to tell me their astonishing, secret things. Their allurement was mesmerizing. But, everything faded to black and I was again under the human hands of the physicians. They frantically worked to keep me among the living.
The doctors said it had been the “widow maker.” They were amazed that I lived, since my heart had stopped three times to be restarted each time by defibrillation paddles.
Thoughts of that dynamic throng of young, glowing beings and what it all meant kept me up into the early morning hours for months. Answers began to trickle into my understanding one Friday morning nearly a year later.
The interview for my latest book had been hastily arranged by the publicist for my publisher. I stuck my hand out to shake the reporter’s hand when he was ushered into my study.
“It’s great to meet you, sir,” he said, then introduced me to the camera operator who had come with him.
Our interview was wrapped up in less than twenty minutes, and the reporter, after thanking me for my time, said, “I’ve read not only this book…”
Being unable to see his action, I presumed he held up the copy of the book about which we had just interviewed.
“…but I’ve read a number of others.”
“I’m honored,” I said.
“I’ve read yours and they inspired me to pick up some other books on prophecy.”
“Oh? So you’ve become interested?” I probed.
“More like obsessed,” he said. “I’ve been reading the Book of Revelations—”
“—Revelation,” I interrupted.
“Sir?”
“It’s Revelation…singular, not plural,” I instructed.
One of my pet peeves.
“Oh, yes. Revelation.”
“Lots make the mistake,” I comforted.
“Revelation, not Revelations. I’ll have to remember that,” he said, chuckling.
“I’m reading the Bible in conjunction with your books and others on Bible prophecy…also, other books by authors writing from perspectives not particularly biblical.”
“What do you plan to do with this…research? Any particular project you have in mind?”
My question unleashed thoughts that obviously he had kept bottled within.
“I was in Israel less than a year and a half ago,” he said. “Do you have a few minutes ?”
“Sure.”
“Let me send my camera guy back to the station.”
He did so, then turned his thoughts back to where he left off.
“I was taking some shots of the Temple Mount area in Jerusalem. This strange, Jewish guy—I guess he was a Jew, based on the get-up he wore—he, just out of nowhere, came up to me and said, ‘Israel is a sign of the end.’”
A moment of silence caused us both to reflect upon the words.
“Did he seem like a kook, do you think?”
“Could’ve been. His eyes were wild-looking. But, I’ve been kind of haunted, I guess you could say, since he said it. ‘Israel is the sign of the end.’”
“So, that’s what set you on this course of research?”
“Yeah. I guess that what has poked at my curiosity about all this prophecy business,” he said after a moment of considering my question.
“Where do you think your…curiosity…is taking you?” I asked.
He laughed. “I came to interview you, and you’re interviewing me.”
“Sorry,” I said, “A writer’s curiosity. You know what that’s like.”
“Yes, sir. I’m glad you’re curious. Maybe I can get some direction.”
We each awaited the other’s next words. He spoke finally.
“I’ve been with the Little Rock station since the encounter at the Temple Mount. CBS wanted me to get that experience before going to network.”
“That’s quite an opportunity…”
“Yeah. It’s kind of intimidating, though.”
“Oh? Sounds like you’ve made it.”
“Well, not if you look at it from my vantage,” he said. “You’re always under the microscope. Or that’s how I feel, anyway.”
“You’ll do fine,” I said, not really knowing anything much about his business except that I viewed all mainstream media with a high degree of skepticism.
“Wish I shared your confidence,” he said.
I started to give my opinion on mainstream news media, but held my tongue.
Again there was a pause before he spoke.
“I’ll begin working at network in about two weeks. But, first I’m going to pursue this…this prophecy itch I have.”
“How so?”
“I’m going to Patmos. I’m booked on a flight there next Thursday.”
“Patmos, huh? Well, that’s a heck of a good place to begin thinking on things prophetic,” I said. “Ol‘ John did pretty well considering things to come from that island.”
When the young reporter left my study with a handshake and my well wishes, I sensed in my core being something profoundly spiritual pass between us. I envied the future toward which he was moving.
It was like the torch being passed. There was no way of knowing that torch would be coming back my way.
REVELATIONS
By Terry James
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