Radam

By Marilyn Jones

The doctor said that Maya suffered from sleep paralysis (a state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep accompanied by an inability to move). Many people experience the appearance of night hags, alien creatures, and hideous visions of the supernatural during episodes of sleep paralysis.

Maya experienced Radam.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664142183

Marilyn Jones

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Copyright © 2020 by Marilyn Jones.

ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-6641-4217-6

               eBook              978-1-6641-4218-3

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Rev. date: 11/18/2020

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 :(2003)

Chapter 2 :(1811)

Chapter 3 :(2004)

Chapter 4 :(1815)

Chapter 5 :(2004)

Chapter 6 :(1817)

Chapter 7 :(2004)

Chapter 8 :(1821)

Chapter 9 :(2004)

Chapter 10 :(1834)

Chapter 11 :(2004)

Chapter 12 :(1834)

Chapter 13 :(2004)

Chapter 14 :(1834)

Chapter 15 :(2004)

Chapter 16 :(1834)

Chapter 17 :(2004)

Chapter 18 :(2019)

I praise and

thank YAH for all He has done for me.

*****

This book is dedicated to my granddaughter, Mykiiya Johnson.

"Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not

all sleep, but we shall all be changed."

I Cor. 15:51

CHAPTER 1

(2003)

It’s like this, Grandma Betty said. She rubbed her chin and rubbed the mole protruding from it. I mean, I recall some of the elders said some of this awhile back. I don’t recall whether it was that old minister at the Wexter Homes or from Agnes’ church or where I also heard some of it too, but I heard different takes on this a lot. It makes sense when a person really reads and studies the Bible and some ancient books and thinks about it.

Maya was sitting on the floor on a pillow close to Betty’s favorite lounge chair where Betty was seated. Grandma Betty took a deep breath and went on.

You see, she said as she leaned forward. When God made Adam, He pulled a handful of dirt from the ground and made him. God has huge hands! And when God blew spiritual breath into Adam, Adam became a living soul. A soul has to do with your personality, your talents, your likes, your dislikes; and your spirit is the energy that makes it all work. God made Adam perfect, better than us. Adam couldn’t die! All he had to do was act right in the garden of Eden. Then God made Eve from Adam’s rib. And Adam was perfect until he and Eve sinned. When they sinned, they cursed themselves and had to die and decay and go rot away and go back to being soil like the ground they first came from! That’s why we die and go ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Dust is another name for dirt! And at the end of the world, after the devil finishes with us and then our spirits are judged, if we have done good, there will be another chance at being perfect, being made all over again perfect, and get bodies that won’t die, and live in a renewed Earth; and this time we won’t mess up and will never sin, and we’ll live forever, perfect. All the evil things and truly wicked people that are and once were and will be will be swallowed up and gone forever! Grandma Betty waved her hand in the air and smiled and looked at Maya.

Maya was quiet at first as she thought for a moment.

So, Grandma. You really, really do believe in God, Maya said. I wish I knew God the way you do.

Betty smiled a little. I sure do believe in Him, she said. I know there’s a God and I know how to pray and I know there’s a devil. God is Almighty and righteous and good! The devil and demons are wicked spirits!

Then Grandma Betty paused for a moment before saying, Let me go back to Adam. The name Adam comes from the Hebrew language and means red or ruddy. That was the first man’s name because he was made from the red soil of Africa! Adam was African! In the Bible in the book of Genesis 2, there is a description of where the garden of Eden was located. It was in Africa, near Ethiopia! Grandma Betty thought for a moment as she patted her silver-gray bush. And guess what? The Ethiopian Bible is one of the oldest Bibles in the world! It has more books in it than the European Bibles.

Grandma Betty paused before her voice grew soft. Have you ever thought about how wonderful every part of you is? And we can see that God planned and had a plan for every part of us. Betty paused again for a moment. Then she said, Think about your eyes. They are each made up of a lot of little things. Yet the design of the eye is a planned project of God. Eyes are small; but we can see the moon that is hundreds of thousands of miles away. We have the ears. We can hear things coming and going. But did you ever wonder just why we have ears and what great Mind thought that we would need to hear? With your mouth, you can taste something; but you can’t taste something until it touches your tongue. However, Someone thought that we would need to communicate; so the mouth was planned and made to eat and to talk. Your nose can smell things within a certain distance. And you need your nose to breathe. Who thought about that and designed the nose to smell and breathe air? Our God is a Master Designer and Planner, putting everything in place. Even most times, when a part of the body doesn’t work, another part of the body seems twice as strong and able to function. Have you ever heard of Helen Keller? She couldn’t see or hear. But she was a remarkable woman whom God loved and blessed. She went to school, college, and she became a very famous woman. God has plans for all of us and every part of us.

Maya thought for another long moment.

Grandma. I’m confused about what exactly a spirit is. I heard that spirits are like ghosts! What’s the difference between a spirit and a ghost? Are ghosts bad and spirits good? Scary movies have ghosts and spirits, Maya frowned and asked.

We all are souls who have spirits, Grandma Betty answered as she shook her head. Our spirits are like intelligent electricity, perfect electricity that gives us power from God, that comes from God, sort of like pure electricity that can think. God is the Almighty Spirit and he breathed spirit into Adam. See, the body has a spirit and is a living soul. Ghost is just another name for spirit. Ghosts are spirits without bodies that refuse to cross over into the next dimension because they feel like they aren’t finished their business in this dimension. Ghosts have no understanding of time. To them, this day is the same day that it was when they were in human flesh. And, guess what! Those ghostly spirits are right because there is no such thing as time! How can we measure eternity? That idea called ‘time’ is just a human illusion!

Grandma Betty rolled her eyes and smiled a little. Then she said, When we die, our spirits are supposed to go to another dimension or place until we are judged. Some cultures believe in transmigration of our spirits, that our spirits travel from body to body when each of our bodies die up until the final judgment; but that’s another complicated subject I will explain to you at another time. But the spirit is always in charge of our thoughts. It tells us right from wrong. When we die, that’s really our spirits leaving us, leaving our bodies through the crowns of our heads. That’s what death is. Like if you unplug your radio or television from the wall socket, it just won’t work. Just sits dead. The Bible tells us about a silver cord that attaches our spirits to our bodies. See, like a home, our bodies are the house. The furnishings inside the house and the decor make the house the type of home we want, like each individual has his own talents and likes and dislikes and soul. The person who lives in the furnished house is the life of the house, like the spirit in us. Our souls only give each person his or her own talents, own personal likes and dislikes, own habits, own personalities and abilities. Like a television is fashioned for one thing, a radio fashioned for another. Both are machines but with different qualities and functions. But both need forms of energy like electricity or batteries or charges. See, when you describe the things that a person possesses that are unique abilities and talents and actions, you’re talking about the soul. When you describe actions that can only be classified as good or evil, you are describing the person’s spirit. The spirit is a high form of intelligent energy that chooses good from bad, right from wrong. The soul is formed in us before we are born. It is like this. You can have two different people who are excellent preachers. Both with the same talent and gift of preaching of their souls. But one can preach truth that is good, and the other can preach lies and deceptions. Two souls with the identical gift of preaching but with different spirits, one good and one evil. I hope you understand. That’s the best way I can put it! I hope I didn’t confuse you.