Saving Faith: Beginning of The Acquisition

By Alm Hlgh

What would you do if you didn't know your past? And found yourself wandering in the present searching for a future with someone that you have only met in your dreams?

Join Rei as he searches for Imani; someone that he only knows from his dreams in Saving Faith: Beginning of the Acquisition.

This is volume 2 in a triology.

First volume: FULL BLOOM: Ante Faith

Second volume: Saving Faith: Beginning of the Acquisition

Third volume: TWELVE: Acquisition of The Chosen

• Language: English
• Publisher: Luvvenia Hawkins
• Release date: Aug 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452352565

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SAVING FAITH:

Beginning of The Acquisition

By

Alm Hlgh

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SAVING FAITH:

Beginning of The Acquisition

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CHAPTER 1

WHERE IS FAITH?

Once upon a time, in the world during the 21st century, a new spirituality began to emerge among people.  More and more people were turning to God-Jireh.  Mega churches, synagogues, mosques and temples were being built at an unprecedented high rate.  Crime had disappeared from the face of the earth; war was no more and everybody had a job and money in the bank.  The devil, Jaaku Tanner was looking upon earth and pondering what was happening.

HELL

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Pacing to and fro on his imaginary hardwood floors, Jaaku wondered out loud, How in the hell did this happen?  How did, Go… the man upstairs HIM get this one past me? I was on a roll after the major movements.  With the Civil Rights movement, I thought that would have been the end of my reign.  I thought that if that bill was passed; mankind would begin to get along, respect each other and really began to love thy brother… The Civil Rights Movement had the opposite effect, he thinks as he smirks. Common Street thugs began to organize young children into gangs; free love paved the way for erotic and lewd acts of sex, pornography, and orgies.  Music began to glorify the mystical feel and powers of the use of illicit drugs and weapons.  Respect for law and order was literally obliterated. Jaaku couldn’t stand to think about what went wrong anymore.  Six!" he barks out loud.  All but for the sound of roaring flames, Jaaku could hear nothing.

Jaaku stops momentarily to look at a portrait of himself. In the picture Jaaku is painted high, high above the stars, the sky and even Heaven.  He sits on a stately throne where masses and masses of humans are functioning as his feet, legs, arms and hands. Forming his Sergeant of Arms at his right, are his seven soldiers of deadly sin; Superbia (Pride), Avarita (Greed), Luxuria (Lust), Gula (Gluttony), Ira (Wrath) and Aceda (Sloth).  Adorning his crown of glory, are his commanders of the flesh; fornication, adultery, witchcraft, drunkenness, lascivious, uncleanness, hatred, heresies, reveling, strife, sedition, idolatry, murder, variance, and emulations. Jaaku studies the painting carefully, allowing his spirit to feel prideful of the significance of the picture.  His eyes come to rest on the ground that his stately figure rests upon.

Jaaku attempts to smile at the sight. Since there is no happiness in Hell, Jaaku can only slightly part his hardened and crusty mouth minimally, while lifting up the burdensome hardened pelts that form his eyebrows.  From what should be parted lips, but is only a small slit in a poorly developed but oversized head, a purplish-blue forked tongue slips out of that opening.  One day, he muses out loud… One day this will be reality.  Jaaku revels at the image of Jesus Christ bounded and gagged while stooped over serving as his footstool.  His heart quickens at the thought.

Jaaku is an impatient, angry, and an easily provoked soul, with a short-temper as one could imagine.  When he calls his remaining Diabolic Six, he expects them to move Heaven and earth to get to him with quickness.  GOT-DAMN-YOU… He raises his mangled hands upward in frustration.  Spears of fire shoot out of his stubby little stumps of fingertips causing massive fireballs of molten earth to fall from above. How, how did you annihilate my entire army leaving me with only these six diabolic demons?

The devil is not happy (there is no happiness, nor joy in Hell). Frantically he continues to pace the imaginary floor. Sin is down therefore membership to Hell has reached a historical low.  How in the hell did HIM get rid of Jaaku’s spawns? How is it, that only Jaaku and his remaining six demons (Wrath, Murdock (murderer), Envy, Sedition, Strife, and Idolatry) are burning in hell— alone?   Jaaku recognizes that if he doesn’t do something quickly, Hell will be no more! Worse, Hell will actually freeze over without the continuity of burning souls. The devil decides to call an emergency meeting to see how to get membership back up.  Six! He bellows once more making the imaginary walls tremble.

EARTH

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Now the Diabolic Six were out and about roaming the earth seeing what mischief they could stir up on behalf of their Lordship, Jaaku.  Wrath had divided himself in several parts of the world to create simultaneous chaos.  He was in Austin Texas invading the minds of cattlemen about the beef industry demise.  The mad-cow disease had scared the humans and they had stopped buying beef. Now the cattlemen were losing money and their emotions were stirred up.  Wrath, decided to plant a seed in their heads for a scapegoat.  I’m sure you’ve heard of the story about the big lawsuit against that famous television host woman.  Wrath smiled to himself.  That little stunt with the beef industry and Oprah got him a promotion from Jaaku.

Anyway, part of him was among the cattlemen, and a little of him was in New York, Seoul, Chicago, Tokyo and LA during rush hour.  He was inciting minor fender-benders; people were cutting each other off in traffic; your typical modern day road rages that you read about in your local paper.  Man shot while driving in rush hour traffic. He cut off the lady behind him and she became incensed.  She sped up, got side by side to him, pulled out her unregistered 9mm gun and fired.  The bullet missed his windshield, but caught the windshield of another passing motorist.  Hard working, God-serving, loving husband and father of three, on his way home from a business trip was shot.  He died at the scene.  Wrath laughed at that story.  That little ditty got him the gold award at their international conference, for bring turmoil in a Christian family’s life.

Still, Wrath being the ambitious little demon that he is, also had himself divided in parts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa.  It was in Africa that he did his best work. Every insurgency, disease, and famine that you have ever heard or read about; is the signature work of Wrath.  He takes great pride in his handy work here, because Africa is the beginning.  And to tear apart God’s first creation, was like coming full-circle.

Now Strife and Sedition are twins; fraternal (but who can discern which is which).  They are highly competitive and always are trying to out do one another.  They’re the ones that mankind struggles with on a daily basis.  Sibling rivalry and capitalism are their trademarks.  Once they got people competing brother against brother on the local level, globalism was inevitable.  People began to compete for jobs, money, houses and cars worldwide.  Remember that whole Enron story and how those people lost everything to a few greedy executives?  That was Strife and Sedition handy work.  For that stunt, Jaaku threw them a surprise party and sent them to the Gulf.  They thanked the devil when they returned. They introduced him to Hurricanes Hugo and Katrina.  Because Strife and Sedition are two, they are more capable of being in many, many more places than all of the rest of Jaaku’s team.

Strife and Sedition were behind the arms race, WWI and WWII (they each had one).  Now they compete to break the tie with WWIII. They are in North Korea getting them stirred up with having nuclear technology. But they don’t stop there.  They are sowing seeds in the hearts and spirits of many men; from Iran, to China, to US, to Japan, India and Russia.  The whole illegal alien, national healthcare, world peace and hunger, right to die; all those issues are theirs; whichever way it is decided; it is win-win for them.

Now Envy works alone most times.  There is no way in hell that she is willing to let anyone see and steal her craft.  She has always been suspicious.  Of course she has, for she knows what she is capable of doing herself. If somebody has something that she desires, she would just steal it from him or her; and if they got in her way, she just put her beau Father Hito on them.  Occasionally she works with Murdock (murderer).  Father Hito, she smiles when she thinks of him.  Did you know that he was one of her assignments?

Murdock, yes he used to be a Priest- Father Hito. He was charismatic, tall, and a good-looking man. Oh my, he was such a beautiful man.  He was one of HIS special ones; he was being fast-tracked to Pope-ship.  Jaaku was spit-mad at HIM. HE had converted one of Jaaku’s head henchmen. You may have heard of him also; one of the co-founders of the LA Street gang the Crip.  You may have heard about his lost at his recent plight. Stanley Tookie Williams. Stanley had been an Admiral in Jaaku’s Army.  He had single-handedly organized one of America’s largest, elusive and deadliest street gangs. With Tookie, LA had literally become a war zone in mainstream and Middle America.  The government was at wits end at infiltration of this gang.  Hell, even the police were scared.  Things got so bad, that other gangs were formed and that’s when life got really ugly in America for kids.

Innocent children and adults were terrorized across the US, illegal drugs and weapons spread from the poor undeveloped neighborhoods, to America’s favorites; middle-class America. And then, Jeho… HE gave that beautiful evil man Tookie Williams redemption.  Tookie began to speak and write books just for children, warning them about the dangers of street gangs.  He pleaded for them to stay in school and stay away from gangs and drugs.  Who knew the children would listen.  Jaaku was hotter than his own urine. He would not let HIM get away with it. Jaaku was determined to fight spirit with fire.

Father Hito was on his way to be Pope by the year 2020.  If Hito succeeded in becoming Pope, not only would he have been the youngest to ever be ordained Pope, but also the world would eventually come under one divine order.  One, oh that ugly number one thought Envy. There would be ONE Head and ONE body - unity. That would be the beginning of the end.

Jaaku had been reading the handwriting on the imaginary walls (for Hell has no boundaries).  He saw the evolution of religion to spirituality.  This evolution of spirituality would mark the beginning of the end for him.  And Jaaku was right. The prices of oil reached an all time low making gas prices drop to a meager 32 cents a gallon.  Inflation down, property and income taxes had been abolished.  People were living the barter system. Neighborhoods were racially and ethically diverse. Hell, now even Hell was down to the Diabolic Six. Jaaku’s other spawns (fornication, adultery, witchcraft, drunkenness, lascivious, uncleanness, hatred, heresies, reveling, variance, emulations); had been driven off of the face of the earth along with a few of the seven deadly sins.  If HE succeeded in ordaining Father Hito as Pope, the last six and Jaaku would be banished from the earth forever. Never to cause turmoil again.

However Envy never failed, she always got her man (and woman too). She would get this man and have a little something extra for herself.  Her sister Eve had taught her well.  Envy smirked, poor Adam, never stood a chance.  Father Hito lost his battle of the flesh. One look at Envy, and he knew he had to have her. But the call on his life was strong.  He had a mighty spiritual and fleshly war. The spirit fought the flesh something fierce; but one touch, one taste and he was lost; it was the forbidden fruit all over again.

Father Hito got to Hell, not because he had part-took of the forbidden fruit (God is a forgiving God), but rather because he acted out the modern day Cain and Abel story.  Yes he murdered his spiritual brother for HIS favors. In the end, envy and jealousy had won out.  How did he not know that to betray his brother he would be convicted by his own conscious?  Didn’t he read what had happened to Judas Iscariot for betraying HIS son?  Hito hung himself, thus making him the root of murder (that’s how he got his name).  No matter, thought Envy, she still got her man.

To some degree Father Hito is still her beau. She smiles when she thinks about the good times they have shared together. They were a good team. They had increased illegal drug production and sales by over 300%.  With the manufacture and sale of drugs; illegal weapons importation, homicide, suicide, armed robbery, prostitution, car jacking was up over 1,500%!

Because Envy is the best at what she does, people began signing up for credit cards and second mortgages so fast, that payday loan centers sprung up overnight. People were filing bankruptcy at such a great rate, that congress had to pass a law to slow down the process for filing for bankruptcy.  It was just a matter of time, before people began to sell their souls to the devil just to ride in a new car.  Jaaku had repossessed so many houses and cars, that he had to create special auctioning just to get rid of the foreclosed houses and repossessed cars (even Jaaku can’t take it with him).  He had a waiting list for hell three miles long (Three Mile Island).  But that wasn’t enough.  Envy had done her job so well, that Jaaku couldn’t keep track of who was on his waiting list, that he had to create a mark.  In 1982 they called that mark of Jaaku, AIDS.

Jaaku’s mark AIDS bordered genius. The mark was so potent, that it not only took the ones it should have, but also by default, it took some of the innocent ones too.  Innocent people who needed blood transfusions for blood disorders and/or surgery got mistakenly taken.  Envy smiled at one of her shining moments; Ryan White; that poor little boy from Indiana.  Then she smiled even more so; Michael Jackson thought he would come in and rescue that little boy. Ha, she thought, I showed him.  The next time he’ll be at the top of the pop charts, his great-great grandchildren will be black again.  Yes that was Envy; that whole Michael Jackson molestation stuff.  He reached out to help an innocent child; and that was the curse that Envy put on him.  That’ll teach him.

Now Idolatry is a special case.  He doesn’t get much credit, because his work is so elusive.  He is the one true demon who can be everywhere and nowhere at the same time.  He’s the one that plants seeds in men’s hearts and minds of what to value.  He by far has the highest success record out of all of Jaaku’s six diabolic.  From the least of us, to the most of us; each and every one of us have something embedded within us that when left unchecked, will make us value some thing over other human beings and especially over HIM.  People have killed, stolen and started wars for material possessions such as; pictures, paintings, houses, coins, rare rocks, gold, silver, oil, money, houses, cars, food, land; the list goes on and on and on. I’m sure you get the picture. Idolatry is the premise of the world’s modern day ideology.

Idolatry doesn’t get the credit he deserves, because he’s not a showboat.  People envy for what other people have.  People murder for what they feel they lack. People make strife and sedition for what they think they stand to lose and or gain.  People have wrath when they feel like something has been taken from them or they have been slighted or offended.  But no one ever calls it by it’s true name; Idolatry.  If people didn’t value (worship) material objects, or weren’t prideful of self (worship), envy, strife, sedition, murder, and wrath could never get in.  Idolatry is the key that unlocks the door for the others to enter.

Jaaku recognized Idolatry specialty.  He recognized and understood the works of men’s hearts and minds. Because Idolatry embedded his mark within the soul of mankind, man is already born with this character flaw.  It is not easily recognized or discernible because it is a parasite attached to the host.  Therefore, Idolatry works the least of all the six, but it is he that has built the foundation of Jaaku’s Plantation.

S—i—x … The devil is heard bellowing throughout the interiors of the earth.  People feel the rumble of the earth.  They stop and look wondering if an earthquake is brewing.  The diabolic six hears it also. They know it is their master calling them home. They collect their scattered pieces from among men, and head down, down, down towards eternal damnation, home.

HELL

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The remaining six; Wrath, Envy, Strife, Sedition, Father Hito and Idolatry sit at an imaginary mahogany conference table.  The table is filled with imaginary goods.  The horn of plenty occupies a space on the table. It is filled with fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, and desserts.  The other end of the table is filled with imaginary riches of the world. From gadgets such as cell phones, laptops, gold, diamond rings, money, fur coats, etc.  All that the mind can imagine to have is there in the imagination; but they do not exist.  For those are physical things that can only exist within a physical realm.   Hell is really empty, barren and void of any life. Therefore if there are to be any comforts and riches in Hell, it can only be what one can imagine.

Jaaku being the father of fear has crafted the imagination into an art form.  Now imagine a void and