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"Brother Micah! We must proceed!" I searched for the source of the voice and sawplanks of wood

"I will miss this face, Delilah," Micah said quietly and pulled his and pin the around my ankles I instinctively tried to movepiece of wood

I was on a stake… I was bound to a stake!

I ile as my father piled wood atblood you shall be purified of your sin! Brother Judah’s words suddenly made sense They were to burn s, then set to helping my father

Panic at my situation hit me and I shouted out in frustration, unable to free ed

The pain from my back onizing I was thirsty,area, but there was nothing in sight, just field upon field, a vast blanket of green and a small truck parked at the bottoht us out here to this secluded spot

Taking a match from a small linen sack, my father lit the flint at the bottonite slowly, a s to lick at the wood

"No, please!" I shouted as I began to feel heat at my feet

Brother Micah and my father dropped to their knees, eyes closed, and held their hands up to the Lord

"Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels"

"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the ic arts, the idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur This is the second death"

"They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power"

Scripture slipped from their lips Matthew, Revelation, Thessalonians…

They were conversing with the Lord, too lost in the rapture of Glossolalia to hearsaved from this horrid death departed

I closed my eyes and prayed it would be quick

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