Left Behind on Jekyll Island

By David McCune

And the believers will be caught up!
The Rapture.

Across the country and around the world people have vanished, the newscaster announces as multitudes gather to watch and listen.

Our world is in chaos. Alien abduction.
A vanishing mystery.
A plague that consumes living tissue.
All have an opinion, especially the church, which assumes no responsibility.
Economic collapse paralyzes planet Earth.
Government leaders and religious leaders combine forces to help stabilize the mass chaos.
The Antichrist rises to power!
Some follow the Antichrist; some question.
The mark of the beast is implemented to distinguish the followers of the Antichrist.
The mark is needed for buying, selling, or transporting all, anything and everything.
Rufus, my trusty red Irish terrier, and I head to the protective safety of Jekyll Island, Georgia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504918350

David McCune

David McCune is often referred to as a Renaissance Man. As a young child, David was always inventing or building some kind of new gadget. In his teenage years, he launched high altitude rockets with mice in the flight capsules. Later he built pollution control devices for the internal combustion engine. At nineteen, he started McCune Technology with an idea for a rear window louver for his Datsun 240-Z and a $35 dollar investment. Now in his fifties, he is a nationally renowned artist, entrepreneur and authority on Workforce Development. His latest endeavors are acting and modeling – David finds both jobs to be challenging and a lot of fun. He is currently finishing a book titled “Death Divorce Alzheimer’s”, an insightful true story and facts. David’s latest invention is the RUFUS - Rapid Universal Find Us System.

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Left Behind on

Jekyll Island

David McCune

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Published by AuthorHouse 6/30/2015

ISBN: 978-1-5049-1834-3 (sc)

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Chapter 78

Chapter 79

Chapter 80

Chapter 81

Chapter 82

Chapter 83

Chapter 84

Chapter 85

Chapter 86

Chapter 87

Chapter 88

Chapter 89

Chapter 90

Chapter 91

Chapter 92

Chapter 93

Chapter 94

Chapter 95

Chapter 96

Chapter 97

Chapter 98

Chapter 99

Chapter 100

Chapter 101

Chapter 102

Chapter 103

Chapter 104

Chapter 105

Chapter 106

Chapter 107

About the Author

Introduction

I’m so beautiful…even women fall in love with me, she calls out.

A few at the bar look over…most pay her no mind. Her narcissistic behavior is predictable to knowing onlookers.

Never judge a book by its cover…one will get burnt when the truth is revealed.

Looking back nothing makes sense, but don’t ruffle the feathers, or question! It only makes it worse. And, never bring up God….

I will make you a character in one of my books, I strongly let forth from my guarded mouth.

Be careful, prophesy will be fulfilled.

I will never get down on my knees and accept Jesus Christ as my Savior, a voice from the hidden future angrily screams forth. If only I would have discerned her empty soul. I would have kicked the dust off my shoes, run and never looked back!

Why was I so blind of the hidden truth?

Was I that desperate for my hopeful love?

Does the atheist see God as competition?

During the dedication ceremony of the golden image, certain officials noticed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego not bowing down to the idol. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar was immediately notified. The King was enraged and demanded that these three men come before him.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow down to the idol, an extension of King Nebuchadnezzar. Their God was competition for the king. And into the fiery furnace they went… The angel of the lord was with them in the fiery furnace and the three were unhurt. The three lived. King Nebuchadnezzar believed and the onlookers of the day made a decision as to what they saw and experienced.

Forget attempting to make me a God Squatter…you need to abandon mission, she belts out with a low snarl while clinching her fist.

When one accepts Christ as their Savior, are they gaining control or losing control?

Jim and Tammy Bakker were both believers! They had their start on Pat Robertson’s, The 700 Club. The Bakers decided to move to Fort Mill, SC and start a ministry on their own. The ministry grew. At one point, they were required to bring in a million dollars a day just to break even. Their ministry became tainted. They surrounded themselves with the wrong people, and, sadly, their heads grew larger than their hearts. The Bakkers lost control, they went down, and they embarrassed the Christian community.

The universe brought this in my life and it is what it is, she would boldly state forthright. The atheist has justification for all of her actions and all of her good occurrences are Karma, payback for all of the wonderful, glorious, choreographic executions. Funny how nothing bad happens…and if so, it was the universe that brought it forth.

It is the responsibility of the parent to introduce God to the child. In my case, I introduced Him to my parents.

Gene, David has something in his back pocket, my mother calls out staring me down.

What, Betty? Dad asks.

Drugs…David has drugs on him! she calls back.

Alright, Betty, he says then walks in the room.

I don’t have any drugs…just something they passed out at church tonight, I reply shaking my head in disbelief of my mother’s unfounded accusations.

Slowly I pull the track from my back pocket and pass it into Mom’s grasping hand.

Look at this, Gene! my mother, the granddaughter of a Methodist minister and life-long church member, calls out.

My mom and dad read about the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and His purpose.

That evening the three of us knelt and accepted Christ.

Mom and Dad were in their stable forties and I was a multidirectional, searching teenager.

So…for the past forty years, spiritually, I have been all over the walls, and on the ceiling, and the floor.

God is here. God never leaves.

I traveled down dark pathways. I entered the Twilight Zone over and over.

God never left me.

No matter how crazy, how insane, and how pointless my drama, I called on God.

Imagine not having this foundational assurance?

Every problem ends. And a new story begins.

Chapter 1

The cold, wet, wind slithers through the small gaps in the window frame. Her warm hand feels the knife like a slice of the cold air. The glass is frigid, she thinks tapping her finger in rhythm.

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

She runs to the door.

Burn, Baby, Burn

She feels the heat from the fire.

Not everybody makes it.

She makes it out!

She lives.

A new parent and a new last name.

And, a new home.

Yes, a better, bigger home.

Not so cold….

Darkness…

As she tells her story and the end is the beginning…

Chapter 2

Come on, David Michael, you are going with me, my mother tells me as she buttons my coat.

Where are we going, Mommy? I ask with a smile on my face.

We are going to visit a friend and she has a daughter who is your age, she tells me.

A daughter, I have never played with a girl. My brother is older than me and he has friends that are always at the house. The brothers across the street are David and Michael. I heard talk that my brother named me after them. Oh, well…

We drive for, maybe, fifteen minutes, and pull up to a really big old house. My mother helps me out of the car and I walk with her up to the large black door.

My mother rings the doorbell. I look around.

Hi, Betty, a woman says greeting my mother.

This is our son, David Michael, my mother proudly says.

And this is Michelle, the lady introduces her daughter.

A glowing little girl awakes my eyes and emotions.

Amazing!

We enter the home and go up to Michelle’s room to play.

I have found a playmate!

I am happy!

Michelle is fun!

I remember our visits.

I will never forget Michelle Freeze!

Happy with Michelle, at the age of three.

We never returned to the large old white house with the inviting black door.

Now the search is on to find a companion.

I need to fill the void.

Chapter 3

At three, I feel something is missing.

At sixty, I feel something is missing.

As stated before, I thought I had found my mate numerous times.

In the end, the same story is repeated.

Same story, different characters.

Perhaps it is me.

I know what I desire in a female companion.

Pretty, witty and cute.

OR…

House, job and car.

The best is all six attributes.

I left out the God component. Equally yoked, the Bible expresses in detail.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth….

This is the key number one reciprocating expression that sets the foundation. And, this needs to be a pathway the significant other has already grasped.

Leading a mate to the truth…and letting them into the reality that they are number two is a dark pathway. Without prior teaching and discipline they may see themselves as number one and have no desire to relinquish their dominance to God!

Chapter 4

The waking, last, absent thought of the day was all about her. She never became above God, but a parallel idol.

I created a lifelike sculpture of her and displayed it for all to see. Her spread wide, open inviting arms drawing in onlookers.

Is she my personification of the Messiah?

How can man put another above God?

Adolph Hitler was an extension of Satan, or a conduit of God, depending on one’s viewpoint. Some believed Hitler was the way, truth and light and he, alone, was to lead the German people out of financial woes and into prosperity.

Reject Jesus Christ or lose it! The large man with the blood stained meat cleaver calls out to the shuffling line.

Two men grip. One man grabs the hand in a firm handshake the other man holds firm the shoulder, placing the wrist on a cutting board.

With a quick slice the hand is dismembered.

The flopping wrist is seared on a red hot plate of steel.

Next, he calls out lifting the meat cleaver above his head.

The love of one’s hand or the love of one’s God….

A forthright, public decision for all to witness.

Chapter 5

And the believers will be caught up!

The Rapture….

Across the country and around the world people have vanished, the newscaster announces as multitudes gather to watch and listen.

Our world is in chaos.

Alien abduction…

A vanishing mystery…

A plague that consumes living tissue…

All have an opinion, especially the church…which assumes no responsibility.

Economic collapse paralyzes planet Earth.

Government leaders and religious leaders combine forces to help stabilize the mass chaos.

The Antichrist rises to power!

Some follow the Antichrist, some question.

The mark of the beast is implemented to distinguish the followers of the Antichrist.

The mark is needed for buying, selling, or transporting all, anything and everything.

Followers ban together and scrounge for food and a simple place to briefly rest.

Armageddon nears.

Chapter 6

It was the rapture I tell you, I state nodding my head.

If you are so sure, then how come you were left, she snaps back with her sarcastic charm.

I know all of this is wrong. I know she is lost…why did I decide to check on her after everyone vanished? I knew she would not be taken. I knew this for a fact! Again, I feel sorry for the damsel in distress and I get sucked into madness and insanity. The world is lost, and I am, too.

I have again taken up with a nonbeliever.

What kind of hypocrite am I?

Remember, I was left, too!

This is my punishment.

Eternal Damnation.

Check the door locks, the wanderers are out, she says reminding me of what I know and another reason I am here.

After the rapture, looting became the national pastime. Living in the downtown, the street people seized my townhouse the third day. Those with guns lasted at the most five days.

My bow and eight arrows did come in handy, and, maybe, gave me six more hours. I hit four and missed four. The hits just got them really pissed off and I am lucky I escaped. I am sure whoever is there now is enjoying the remnants of what was left.

The city has gone to Hell!

The county has gone to Hell!

The state has gone to Hell!

The United States has gone to Hell!

Our Earth is Hell!

Chapter 7

We must join together for the betterment of mankind.

United we are one.

"I am the chosen one…I am the one God spoke of…I am the anointed one…I will deliver you from