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At that time the body of followers who followed Joshua's teachings, was growing there were all of the churches that the former zealot Saul, now known as Paul had started, and dozens of others that I knew of personally, not to mention that almost every village and town from Joppa to far off Rome had people who were believing that Joshua was Messiah and that He was coming back, any day.
In those times, I always wore a hood, I let my hair grow out, and it did start to gray, not from age, but I think from the oil. I taught many the words of Joshua, I even wrote down what I could remember and sent it around to the churches.
About 60 years after the Death of Joshua, at a time when nearly all of the other disciples were already dead, I heard of the death of my good friend Peter. He had been crucified by the romans. I heard that he had asked them to hang him upside down because he couldn't bear to be killed in the same manner as Joshua. That time on the Sea of Galilee, when we had gone back to fishing and Joshua came back to us, when he had told Peter to "feed my sheep" it had made such a change in Peter. He was no longer Simon the brash and loud fisherman, he was Peter, a rock that everyone who knew him could lean on. But I digress. I t was after Peters death that I was sent to the isle of Patmas, exiled, since they could not kill me. There were many who tried, but I'm not going to linger on this part of the story.
I was on Patmas and I saw Joshua one more time, that's recorded in my book of Revelations. I asked Him then, if I could come to His side, and he told me that I had much work to do to prepare for his coming. I had no idea it would be 2000 years of preparation.
After the revelation, I made arrangements for my "nephew" John Jacobson to in herit all of my "wealth" what little there was, I had some books, a littel gold I had saved over nearly 100 years of life, and the cup. The cup that Joshua had used to serve us on that last night when we all ate together. I arranged for them to be inherited by my "nephew" and then I "died."
What? oh? how did I die? well I had read that the hemlock which grows on the isle of Patmas was a deadly herb when ingested, and causes one to go slowly into a coma and then to death. I arranged to get a healthy dose of hemlock, and then quietly lay down to go to sleep. Pardon me? oh why would I kill myself? I didn't really, or I couldn't be here telling you my story, now could I?
By this point in time I knew that I would not die from the hemlock,. but I needed everyone to think that I had died. My "nephew" was me! Those who loved me, buried me in a tomb which I had had prepared, they didn't know that there was a natural ave at the rear of the tomb which allowed access to the water and a small boat. Once I woke up from the hemlock, probably 7 or 8 days later, I cut my hair, put on the clothing I had acquired and took the boat across to the mainland. There I bought passage back to Patmas, to collect my "Uncles" belongings.
It sickened me to find what I found. My belongings were there, just fine, but the ones whom had loved me, had turned on each other. Their were groups claiming that what I had said meant this, or that. They claimed it was they who were supposed to be preeminent over the others, that I had said they were to lead... It was enough to make me weep in consternation. I introduced myself as John teh nephew of John, they were at least gracious and kind to me, but oh how they tried to win me to one side or the other.
These were the peopel whom I had loved for many years I couldn't let them destroy the teachings of Joshua. I started explaining to me the things my "Uncle" had written me over the years, how he had explained what Joshua had said and meant, and the stories he had told me.
It shames me now that I had to lie to them, but as much as the fact that they couldn't last a week without falling into old habits and seeking power over others.
I stayed with them, till they came to realize that only by truly seeking what the Father would want were they going to come anywhere, and that only by doing what the Father told them, through the Holy Comforter whom Joshua had sent to comfort each of us. Oh, you thought that the infighting of the church was a relatively recent thing? Ha ha ha, oh you make an old man cry. No, my child, that has been around since almost the beginning. But I'm not here to talk about that, at least not in full, ah yes what happened next started a two millennium long trek around the world, and through time.
6:45 AM
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