Nodabba Rises

By Susan Hauser Bramigk

Nodabba Rises has a different look at whats to come in the end times.

The story is told by a mysterious man called Nodabba. Craving power, he will stop at nothing to obtain the title of Ruler of the World. Though he appears to be likeable, on the inside his intentions arent so clear.

Containing love and intrigue, Nodabba Rises has an ending that will surprise and delight readers, as the true identity of this mysterious man is revealed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Oct 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781489704979

Susan Hauser Bramigk

Susan Hauser Bramigk has been writing poems and short stories for over fifty years. She has previously published one book, Rhythms of Life: A Poet’s Handbook for Families. Susan has written several short stories, but this is her first novel. Although not an expert in eschatology, she has studied the future events predicted by the Bible. She has always been fascinated by the Rapture and Tribulation, and that interest has resulted in this novel. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, has been married for fifty-one years and attends Bethesda Baptist Church. She has raised three children and has eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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ISBN: 978-1-4897-0498-6 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015911592

LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 10/08/2015

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

CHAPTER ONE

Even as a child I was very bright. I started talking at 16 months. At age two I could take toys apart, put them together again, and even replace the batteries. My father was rich due to the oil wells he owned, and he made sure I got the best education money could buy. I graduated from high school at the age of 14 with superior scores. What my father didn’t know was that I was able to get those grades without studying! I would just hack into the teachers’ computers to see the tests and the answers. I really didn’t need to, but I enjoyed the thrill!

My father sent me to a prestigious college where I continued to excel. I also made friends with others, who like me, were chasing after money and fame. We formed a society of brilliant minds and lofty goals. We brainstormed until midnight sometimes on how to get ahead. All of my friends were proficient in computer hacking and we had fun fooling the teachers with our perfect scores. Finally, one of the teachers noticed that there seemed to be two or three in his class who always aced his exams. He e-mailed his suspicions to other teachers, which was his mistake. We were able to get into his e-mails and we were prepared. He approached us one at a time and quizzed us orally, since he had not written down any of the questions. But because we were all more brilliant than him, we easily answered all his questions perfectly.

I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Business Law with a minor in Electronics. My father, who was considered a billionaire, decided I should go to America to complete my undergraduate degree at Harvard University. I breezed through Harvard as I expected I would, and received my Master’s degree with a minor in Computer Science and Economics graduating sum-ma com laude. I was a genius, but I had found other ways to increase my GPA. All it took was a little cheating and plagiarism. I was anxious to graduate and couldn’t be bothered to study, a waste of my talents. I wanted to get on with my career.

The idea had been that I would return home upon graduation, but I had other plans. My father (as shrewd as he was wise) was not very excited about my decision to stay in America. But I pointed out that America was still the land of the free and would be a better venue for me to rise in power. Reluctantly my father agreed. If I was to be successful, I should stay in the United States. Even he had to admit that the U.S.A. was the super power of the world and the perfect place to promote myself. In America, the land of the free, I would have much more freedom to put my own plans into action.

My father said he would invest in my future with a $1,000,000 credit line to be repaid in 10 years. I agreed since I expected to more than double that amount. I studied and received my American Citizenship status to establish my credibility. My purpose now was to promote myself as the most important and powerful man in the world. To that end I would need to have my hand in many enterprises, in government, in the business world and even in the religious world.

My plan to climb up the ladder of success contained many calculated steps. I needed to rise up politically for the predicted final days of the earth. There was so much going on in the world today, hatred even worse than in Hitler’s mass annihilation of the Jewish people. But that marked my insatiable desire to obtain absolute power. No one knew me yet, but someday everyone would know my name and I would wield my power unmercifully.

One of my many business talents was time management. I would meet with businessmen and show them where they needed to cut out waste and excessive expenses. I also showed them that they could delete some jobs to save money. I approached several corporations with my ideas and they were beginning to schedule me to speak in seminars several times a year. That led me to other businesses where I could expand and hold similar on-site seminars and even Web Seminars. Unfortunately, some of my advise resulted in these corporations firing people who were not necessary. Initially the purpose of my seminar was to help the corporations trim the fat and make more money. The companies were very happy, but of course the employees were not. Fortunately, with my time management business, I had a list of other companies that could use the fired employees’ experience. This avenue provided me with an income of close to $500,000 a year.

But that wasn’t going to be enough for my future plans, so I got involved as an Investor Adviser. Along with the time management seminars I also gave these companies tips on investing their money. This was a very profitable enterprise and I was becoming quite wealthy, an important part of my future plans. At Harvard I had purposely made friends with future stock brokers whom I knew would be invaluable for investment purposes. Some of these friends gave me insider advise that I passed along. Not necessarily legal, but not a big deal as long as you didn’t get caught! Thus my portfolio was greatly increased as well.

I was ready to train others to lead the seminars, leaving more time for me to pursue my real ambition: Domination of the world! I contacted some of the employees who had been let go and found them jobs with some of the other companies where I had held seminars.

I selected the best and hired them myself to handle some of the time management seminars and paying me 30% out of their incomes. I also wanted to hire some people who would be totally devoted to my plans and willing to do anything to achieve my goals with a substantial increase in their salaries. I would pay them well, thanks to my one million dollar credit line, and in return they would serve me in the area of their talents. Yes, these people would be willing to do anything if it helped them gain more wealth and power. I had come in contact with many of these men and women who were fired from the companies that down-sized after one of my seminars. I hired the ones I deemed were desperate for a job and willing to do whatever I wanted. I enlisted several who were as cunning as I was.

CHAPTER TWO

Noddaba, sir, my young new secretary interrupted my train of thought.

What is it? I snapped, irritated that she would intrude on my private thoughts.

Sorry sir, she continued, But you have a phone call from Nogard on line three.

Nogard was one of those I had hired to work in the area of religion to ingratiate himself as my representative in the ecumenical circles. He wore a pious mask and both pastors and priests considered him a respectable man. He had a religious business which was the publication of Christian books. What the religious leaders didn’t know was that he had sole authority of what went into those books. Most of them were Health and Wealth books and others were How to Feel Good books. Nice sounding titles but devoid of any truth regarding the Gospel.

Nogard’s job was to talk to the churches about an idea to bring unity to the world by joining with other denominations for the purpose of peace in the world.

Put him through now! I demanded, anxious to see how effective he had been. Nogard what have you learned?

I met with a number of religious leaders as you requested. It took a lot of lunches and some small donations and now they are all interested in your idea of uniting all religions for the cause of peace. As you know I can be very persuasive. You yourself told me I have charisma. Eventually they all came around, reported Nogard.

"Excellent. I think we are proceeding in the right direction. Creating a one-world religion would be another feather in my cap. We need to make preparations to bring all the religious leaders of the world together and speak about peace. We will need a large venue, lots of entertainment and of course the break-out training sessions. Just give those leaders a taste of what is to come, but don’t broadcast it all right now. I will let you know when the time is right to announce our ‘Revival’(or ‘Indoctrination Plan’ as I liked to call it) for the world.

Until then just give them hints of how this will be the biggest Awakening in the world.

As you wish, sir, agreed Nogard. I’ll continue to meet with those religious folks and have them put me in touch with more willing leaders who want peace.

Things were running a little more smoothly now that I had a good man on the job. Nogard had the right kind of approach, appearing humble but yet with a subtle leadership ability that made him a perfect choice for talking with religious leaders. My plan was to incorporate as many different religious factions into a one-world church, with the supposed idea of bringing peace through unity. Of course I wanted them united so I would have a perfect platform to put myself in the limelight. People would be talking about how benevolent I was in trying to make peace all over the world.

I envisioned all kinds of projects to advance myself, plans I had been working on since graduating from Harvard. I would improve my image as a powerful force to deal with in America and indeed in all the world! I had to plan ahead and contrive each step of the way to my success. I would use my money wisely to promote myself at every opportunity. Someday everyone would acknowledge my great wisdom and insight into the world’s insatiable desire for peace and contentment, and people would praise my name! That would be real power!

I looked out my window, such a magnificent view from my spacious office. That too had been one of my plans. I had done my due diligence in acquiring several of the over 70,000 vacant and crumbling buildings that the US Government still had insurance on, wasting tax payers money along the way! I put some of my invested money into refurbishing one of the buildings, hiring all union