The Book of Jeremy

By Anita Tosh

Jeremy Meyers is an ordinary bratty twelve-year-old when he has his first prophetic dream. He is too shy to tell anyone at first, but he can see things happening in the world around him that connect to the dreams. Clouds that are narrow strips in the sky, seem to affect trees and animals. But why is he seeing flying saucers?
Later, when Mom takes him, his brother Simeon, and sister Anna on a field trip as part of a home school project, the big picture begins to take shape. Living in Silicon Valley, they see unique companies like 'Weather Wise', and 'Action Surgical' that he can apply directly to his dreams.
Jeremy begins to share his dreams with his best friend, Thomas, then his Dad. Now he is fourteen and has just scraped together the nerve to say hi to the girl he likes when God calls him to preach. This sends him into a tailspin. A vision gives him some relief when he sees himself preaching online rather than in person.
The family finishes building their home at the lake just before WWIII turns the world upside down, and most of his family heads for the hills, and their place at the lake.
Jeremy is in for many more surprises as his family puts together a new life in a very different time and place.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098348021

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All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

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Anita Tosh • booksbyanita.com

Joel 2:28

And it shall come to pass afterward,

that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;

and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

your old men shall dream dreams,

your young men shall see visions.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary

the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about,

seeking whom he may devour.

Contents

The Dark Side: Prologue

Chapter 1: Water Balloons and the Bible

Chapter 2: Frogs, Apples, and the Hebrew Alphabet

Chapter 3: Stripes and the Aleph Beyt

The Dark Side: A Special Aerosol

Chapter 4: Something Big and Something Small

Chapter 5: Gematria

Chapter 6: Shalom

The Dark Side: The Last Generation

Chapter 7: Camping and The Wizard of Oz

Chapter 8: Time to Share

Chapter 9: Time for Love and Lists

Chapter 10: Connect the Dots…Darkness

Chapter 11: Robots and Resorts

The Dark Side: Time Off for Bad Behavior

Chapter 12: Answers

Chapter 13: Demons and Visions at the Lake

Chapter 14: Jeremiah, Videos, and Brooke

Chapter 15: No Sphere at the Fall

Chapter 16: Lies, Lies Everywhere

The Dark Side: To Steal and Take Possession

Chapter 17: Wicked vs Righteous

The Dark Side: Kick Start

Chapter 18: The Wedding

Chapter 19: Lockdown

Chapter 20: Drones

Chapter 21: Good News/Bad News

Chapter 22: Flat Earth and Fire

Chapter 23: Like the Book of Acts

Chapter 24: Exploits

Chapter 25: Good News

Chapter 26: Freely Give

The Dark Side: Technocratic Slaves

Chapter 27: Brooke

Epilogue

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The Dark Side:

Prologue

The Evil One returned from his conference with The One Above. Satan, aka The Evil One, the Dragon… slithered upon the burning coals at the ends of the Earth deep beneath the ice layer. Surrounded by his top demons, he had no need to change his appearance, so he looked like what he was—a large ugly snake. His skin color changed to match the surroundings, making him almost invisible from time to time. His subordinates who had fallen from heaven with him still looked the worse for wear, but at least they had retained their legs, giving them the appearance of Komodo dragons. The dark walls flickered with fire, casting a yellow-red light upon the group.

The demons were still upset about losing the battle in heaven. Satan hoped to pacify them with his news. I knew I could talk Him into a deal. Though we remain trapped within the dome of Earth, we can still fly through the air. Now then, when I tricked Eve and Adam into eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, that changed everything. The Evil One smiled, flicking his forked tongue about. "Now that they have disobeyed God, every soul is born in sin. That makes them my children."

The demons nodded and smiled a creepy smile, their long tongues flicking.

All we have to do is keep them that way, he said with a smack of his tail. How hard can that be? Humans are pretty stupid after all. Satan slithered across to a new spot. I have challenged The One Above to a rematch. At the end of the six thousand years, there will be another war. This time we will win! And I will be ruler of the universe!

The demons cheered and chanted, We will win! We will win!

In only a few hundred years, Satan and his demons had succeeded in goading humanity to such depths of depravity that it brought on a worldwide flood. If it weren’t for that Noah character, it would have been all over.

Instead, it was a reset.

Satan gathered his demons again. We did well in this round, my fellows. We know how to do this. Humans are easy to trick. We will work subtly and not arouse any suspicion. Our lies will be so big and far reaching that they encompass the reality of the Earth.

The Evil One slithered back and forth, and Orish, a large gray and black spotted demon, stepped forward. Master, we have enough demon spirits to delude the leaders of the Earth. Our ranks have grown since the flood, and this allows the leaders around the world to, shall we say, lead their people into a ditch.

The Evil One glared at him.

You have but to instruct us in what line of misinformation to use. The demon bowed and returned to the group.

I have a plan, Satan replied.

The demons leaned in, listening.

We will introduce a ball Earth and replace God with science. Remember, baby steps must be used to introduce each falsehood bit by bit, feeding them into society so slowly that they will not notice.

A ball Earth? Tipshi, a small lemon-colored demon giggled. Won’t the people on the bottom fall off?

Smoke came out of Satan’s nose holes. Don’t be stupid!

Right, interrupted Hamas, a coal black demon. That’s the job of humans! They are so stupid they will believe it! All we have to do is invent something to magically keep them on the ground. Let’s call it…um…gravity.

Satan nodded. That will do. Gravity it is.

The Evil One continued, "With this we will begin to counter everything The One Above has told them: creation, the universe, and even the godhead."

Satan looked around at the group. Our mission is twofold. Last time we only destroyed humans. This time we will also focus upon the destruction of the Earth. Not only will we use jealousy and pride to incite kingdoms to war, but these wars will be toxic to the Earth. His voice became a whisper. We shall ‘enlighten’ them. Ha ha, yes, they will feel so enlightened when we feed them our lies mixed with forbidden knowledge. They will think they are so smart! Ha! We will win!

The surrounding yes demons clapped in agreement.

We will win! chanted the lizards.

DIVIDE AND CONQUER! shouted The Evil One. He then assigned each demon an area of Earth to work in.

In phase one some evil spirits showed themselves as demigods, giants, or kings. Others chose to possess the human ruler of the land. They ruled much of the Earth, so they sent armies to war against one another, killing as many humans as they could.

The Fallen Ones were also builders of incredible structures and tunnels. This impressed the humans, and they wanted to know how to do these things. The Fallen shared bits of knowledge skewed with lies.

Then came the big surprise: God Himself walking among men. This couldn’t be! It wasn’t time for Him to come! He ministered for only a short three and a half years, then this Son of man was nailed to a cross. Satan’s celebration was short-lived. The echo of the steps of the Master rang through the corridors of hell when He came to claim the keys of death, hell, and the grave. People were let out of their graves! Satan was miserable. Not only that, but now people began to fall to the Savior by the droves. There was nothing that worked against the blood of Jesus. So, Satan had to work against the belief people had in it.

People must not believe in the Bible, Satan spat. "We must come against it. In all movies and advertising we will laugh at all who believe. Anything holy will be shown as old-fashioned and stupid. Intimidation crumbles many strong men."

The evil spirits introduced the big bang and evolution to do away with creationism and a Creator. In place of a solid non-moving Earth, people now believed in a spinning ball in a solar system. The Earth was no longer seen as God’s focal point. It was relegated to being just an insignificant speck in a massive universe. Nothing special. Probably many more like it.

Time seemed to speed up. We must do more! commanded Satan. The wars must poison the Earth and kill more people!

The demons worked hard to bring war to most of the world a second time, resulting in 85 million people dead in WWII with radioactive fallout from atomic bombs to poison the Earth.

Still Satan was not satisfied. We must kill humans before they are born! he shouted. If they are born, they have a chance to be saved.

Abortions became accepted worldwide, killing 40 to 50 million human babies each year.

Orish came with an idea to kill more humans. "We can trick the humans into thinking that sick people are useless so that killing them will be accepted. They will be doing that person a favor, after all, by putting them out of misery."

Satan nodded as his forked tongue flicked.

The idea began to take hold. A state here, a country there until thousands upon thousands died every year from assisted suicides.

Our time is short! yelled the Evil One. We must eliminate ninety percent of the Earth’s population! Poison the water and the air!

Here is where our story begins.

Chapter 1:

Water Balloons

and the Bible

I held the tall glass of sparkling water before me and watched as it turned cloudy, then dirty. I moved it away from me, holding it at arm’s length. Yuck! It continued to get worse. Moss grew on the top and down the outside. A putrid vapor rose from the glass. I looked beyond the glass and saw people with rotted teeth and dopey expressions.

I woke up confused and grossed out. The dream had been so vivid. I decided to note this in my journal. Later I was glad I did.

Jeremy Lynden! Mom yelled. She had great lungs. This shout could have been heard in the next county. I froze in mid-step. Mom was in the other room. How could she know? I soundlessly completed my step.

Jeremy!

I exhaled. How did she do that? I looked at the wall that separated the kitchen and my parent’s bedroom where Mom was. She can’t see me. I looked again at my little sister, Anna, then at the small water balloon I held in my hand. Quickly I threw the balloon at Anna and ran out the back door. Anna was after me like a shot, screaming to wake the dead.

Before you could yell, Boo! Mom applied the rule of law to the seat of knowledge as she likes to say, and I did not want to sit down for the rest of the day.

Lounging on my bed later that day, I absentmindedly looked around my room as I turned the pages of my Bible. I noticed a spiderweb in the far corner of the ceiling.

Have you read that chapter yet, Jeremy?

Was that Mom’s voice?

Why did Mom always pick on me? Anna was such a brat, but she never got in trouble.

Jeremy!

There was that sound again. Like a gnat flying by. Now what was I supposed to be doing? Oh yeah, read something out of the Bible. What was it?

JEREMY LYNDEN! There was Mom in the doorway.

Yeah, Mom?

Her face was red and her left eye twitched. Her lips didn’t move as she spoke. I have been calling you. Didn’t you hear me?

My mind went as blank as an empty chalkboard. What should I say? If she was as mad as she looked, anything could make her explode.

A strand of wavy brown hair fell in her face. She brushed it back with a sigh and rubbed her temples. What chapter are you reading?

Chapter?

Her body trembled now, and her voice escalated. If you can’t choose a chapter in the Bible, I’ll choose one for you. Psalm one hundred nineteen! She left the doorway.

I coolly turned the pages to find Psalm 119. It was 176 verses long! Quickly scanning the pages, I found chapter 117 was only two verses. MOM!

A smile played about her mouth when she appeared again in the doorway. This annoyed me. She sweetly said, Yes, dear?

How about Psalm one hundred seventeen?

You could have done that a half hour ago, but now it’s my choice. One hundred nineteen. She almost skipped away from my room.

MOM!

Shall we make it two chapters?

I groaned and returned to the Bible but soon went looking for my mom. I found her in the kitchen drying dishes. Mom, what’s this aleph and gimel stuff?

What? She placed a dish in the cupboard and turned to me.

This chapter is all cut up in parts with weird names on them.

She smiled. Oh, that’s the Hebrew alphabet.

I walked into the small charter school the next day, examining the scuffs on the toes of my sneakers. It felt like everyone was against me. Mom and Dad always took the side of anyone else. My older brother, Simeon, could get away with anything. My sisters could do no wrong.

I was so absorbed in misery I almost bumped into Andy, the new boy with Down Syndrome at school. There were three in my class now. Why were there so many?

Then I saw Thomas, who was looking the other way. I quietly came up behind him and yelled, Boo! in his ear.

Thomas jumped and turned to look at who had scared him. The girls nearby giggled. I whooped with laughter. In the small junior high, everyone would soon know about the moment. Thomas reddened, glared at me, then hurried into class.

Finally, the bell rang for break time. All right! It had been stuffy and boring in history class. I almost fell asleep. Who cared what those Egyptians did?

I’m good at basketball, and now is my time to shine. But things did not go as I expected. I just wasn’t in the flow. Some days you can just feel it, like you could turn around backward, throw the ball, and make a basket. But not today.

When it was my turn, I strutted up to the line and yelled, I could do this with his eyes closed! The other kids responded, daring me to do it. I closed my eyes for a moment, pretending I would, then I laughed. Just kidding!

As I began to throw the ball, Thomas yelled, Boo! right in my ear, making me fumble the ball. Everyone laughed. That no-good Thomas had snuck up on me when my eyes were closed. I took off after him. You’re ruining my life! I screamed as the laughter burned my pride.

That night I was telling Simeon about the terrible thing Thomas had done to me. He’s ruining my life!

Simeon chuckled. You mean it could get worse?

Dad’s tall figure filled the doorway. Who has that much power over you?

What?

You said someone was ruining your life. I want to know who you are giving that much power to. No one can ruin your life unless you let them. I began to protest, but Dad squelched it. Listen to me, Jeremy. God is in control, right?

What does that have to do with anything?

That has to do with everything. Answer me. Is God in control or not?

I guess. Why?

Dad sighed. OK, so, God is in control of everything all the time. Now answer me. Does God love you?

I squinted at him. Where was he going with this? I was talking about how a guy dissed me at school.

Answer my question. Does God love you?

I wagged my head and sang, For the Bible tells me so.

Dad raised his eyebrows.

I sighed deeply and nodded. Yes, Jesus loves me.

I want you to think about this: God has all power, and He loves you, so how can anyone at your school have the power to ruin your life?

I jumped right back into my story. This stupid Thomas yells in my ear right when I am going to make a basket. What do you call that?

Well, I don’t know, what did you do to him?

I chased after him, but the teacher stopped me before I caught him.

Now tell me what you did before all of this.

What?

Had you done anything to him earlier that might have upset him?

You always turn things around and make it look like it’s my fault!

Think about it, Jeremy, and think about this: God is in control of this world, and everything He allows into your life is for your good because He loves you. God never punishes us, but He does allow things into our lives to try to wake us up. Remember that. God trumps everyone. No one has the power to ruin your life. He paused. Now, get some sleep. Good night, Jeremy. I love you.

Chapter 2:

Frogs, Apples, and

the Hebrew Alphabet

Ribbit, ribbit. The sound was right in my ear. Frogs hopped