The Time Before Time: The Time After Time

By Kent Kunefke

The fifth and final story in The Time Before Time series, The Time After Time follows Archangel Michael in his continuing battles of Good over Evil. Several millenniums in the future, Man has begun to venture out into the solar system and is on the brink of discoveries that will enable them to travel to distant stars. Just as on Earth, God comma

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scriptor House
• Release date: May 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9798886922349

Kent Kunefke

Raised in a small southeast Texas town, Kent Kunefke grew up in a little Baptist church at a wonderful time of moon landings and dinosaur discoveries. From an early age, Kent was curious about everything and questioned just about everything but still held strong to his Christian upbringing and the belief that God created the Heavens and the Earth. He was always a free thinker and therefore struggled with his deep seeded religion and natural science most of his life. Not willing to give up either, Kent eventually found a compromise for himself between the two philosophies and wants to shared his own thoughts with the world.

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Thank you, God, for showing me so many wonderful things and allowing me the opportunity to learn and grow while writing this story. You gave me the inspiration, imagination, and determination to write it and I feel blessed and privileged to have been chosen to do so. I can only pray that those who read it will hear your message through my wild embellishments of Genesis and Revelations and that I have provided them with some measure of entertainment along the way.

Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Thank you, Lord. Amen

Table of Contents

New Worlds 1

Just Getting Started 10

Rigel Kentaurus 13

One Step Forward And

Two Steps Back 23

The Unfinished City 30

Kent And Brenda And

Another New Rocket 51

Water World 66

Mission To Mauve 74

The Mountain Cave 78

Formosa 89

Sometimes It Takes A Team 104

The Dragonsnake 113

The Forge 128

Dinner And A Show 145

Sirius And Beyond 155

Oops! 172

Time To Get Back To Work 180

Deep Space 186

Evil Everywhere 193

Faith Can Move Mountains 202

Mercury’s Trial 219

Mercury Testifies 237

Eternity 253

Glossary 269

New Worlds

In the time after time Man enjoys a Thousand Years of Peace with God after the final war on Earth. Yahweh and Shekinah expand Heaven and create many new mansions, cathedrals, and jewel adorned streets. Lucifer experiences his second death by the hand of GOD and Earth is free of all evil beings. Following all this, the solar system goes through a dramatic recreation by GOD. Sola expands into a red giant and swallows Mercury. Earth and Venus migrate away from the expanding star and Venus collides with Mars forming a new planet in outer rim of the asteroid belt. God names the new planet Mauve. Yahweh pulls the two gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn together to form a green secondary star that Shekinah names Juniper. Then pulls Luna into Earth and gently merges them with Europa and places the new planet into orbit around the new star. Shekinah names the new world Eremiel. Callisto is caught by Eremiel’s gravity and becomes its new moon. Enceladus and Io merge together and God asks Gabriel to name this new moon. Gabriel names the new moon Indo. Yahweh puts Indo and Rhea into rotational dance around each other. Then a brand-new planet forms in the Kuiper belt and GOD pulls it toward Juniper. The planet adsorbs several small moons before capturing Indo and Rhea in its gravity. All three worlds settle into orbit around Juniper outside of Eremiel. Shekinah names the planet Demeter. THIS WILL BE THE NEW EARTH. God decrees. Planet X migrates in and collides with Triton and Phoebe forming the outer most planet of Phoenix. Pluto is thrown out of the new solar system completely and Neptune and Uriel crash into each other and form a huge ice ring system around the entire star system. Now the new solar system is complete and a beautifully adorned city descends from Heaven to Demeter. The city is New Jerusalem.

God commands the angels to deliver mankind and the animals to Demeter. She puts the people into a deep-sleep in preparation for the trip to the new Earth. Just as in the days of -Noah, a representation of all the creatures of Earth assembles and lies down before the angels. After some time, the relocation is complete and the angels return to Heaven. A great celebration takes place and the angels spread out to see the new sights in Heaven. In addition to the new streets and mansions, GOD has expanded Heaven into the shape of a diamond. It has always been three dimensional as is the Great Game but now the interconnecting streets are three dimensional too. It seems that any place anyone wants to go is just down the street.

Man has a fresh start and has retained a lot of the knowledge from the old Earth history. Demeter is about three-quarters as large as Earth had been. Demeter and Eremiel revolve around Juniper while Juniper orbits Sola. Demeter’s orbit around Juniper takes two hundred seventy-two days. Although time is not of much concern and no longer needed, it is still a way of keeping track of its own passing. Man lives in harmony and peacefully advances at a natural pace. Never in a rush to do anything, Man worships and prays to GOD obediently as it was always intended.

Everyone contributes equally to society with whatever skill, crop, or service they can provide to advance the greater good. As each generation passes on to the spiritual world and goes to Heaven, a little less knowledge of evil remains. After a thousand years, the actual word ‘evil’ falls from their language altogether. The closest words to evil are bad and onery. Bad as in ‘tastes bad or bitter’ or something bad happens like an accident. Onery as in being mischievous or a prankster. Being onery is common among people but though they may tease and joke with each other, emotions like jealousy and hate are nonexistent.

The people of Demeter are mostly farmers but mining is necessary in order to obtain the materials to build new cities. By the end of the second millennium the population has grown to seven million. People begin to move out of the great city of New Jerusalem and spread out to set up villages all over the planet. Man starts to rebuild with the knowledge passed down from the scientists through the generations that followed the thousand years of peace. God saved just enough people with just the right skills to get things going very quickly again on Demeter. In a matter of just a couple more centuries the new Earth resembles the time before the Thousand Years Peace on Earth but with thousand times fewer people.

During the Thousand Years of Peace on Earth, many of the scientist began experimenting with godisinum salvaged from the tanks left behind after the final war. Unfortunately, not much was learned about the precious element because of its volatility. Godisinum became the most sought-after metal by scientists. But Man sets aside the study of godisinum and focuses on matters to improve the overall situation. Godisinum no longer holds a value because society no longer has a need for a currency-based system. Instead, a credit-based system is devised in which basic necessities yield the most credits. Some argue it is the same thing but there are very important differences. There are no longer huge companies that controlled everything. Now there are cooperative groups where everyone shares credits earned equally. Producers of food, shelter, and clothing are considered to be the most important for society followed by education and healthcare therefore the skills and provision of these basic necessities earn the most credits. These are considered to be last of the First-Tier resources, meaning in the top five. First Tier Co-ops provide services and supplies of all different kinds from healthcare to farming. Man is not perfect and accidents and illnesses still occur. Fire and Emergency medical co-ops are the service called when these things happen. Lots of calls are received after someone says, Watch this!

The Second Tier Co-ops provide resources that fall in the second five most important needs of Man like mining and lumberjacking, construction and maintenance, power generation and industrial, research and development, and social services and government. Research and Development are allotted funding by way of government grants. Government officials are either appointed based on their merits or by local area lotteries. If selected by lottery, all people over the age of eighteen must serve a minimum of two years on a board best suited for their talents. If appointed to a government board by merit a maximum of ten years is mandated. Few people remain on boards by way of merit more than two years unless special circumstances dictate otherwise.

There is no crime and there are no conflicts between areas or continents therefore there are no police or military forces. There are several forms of entertainment on Demeter. Some are sponsored by the government, like parks and zoos, and some are co-ops formed to produce everything from theater to music and art. People wishing to be part of one of these co-ops know they are depending on donations from patrons and very little in the way of government sponsorship. Sports have truly become home-team organizations. Also dependent on patron donations, most sports participants do it as a hobby of sorts. The government does provide the venues with the museums, concert halls, theaters, and stadiums all located in one big complex. Movies are mostly fully animated but occasionally theater actors cross over to produce live action movies. These are released directly to the IAM network and shared by the entire population. IAM does provide a daily news broadcast and a few people are given grants to bring the news and weather information to people. Sometimes there are dangerous situations that the public needs to be aware of and this is why the government sponsors it.

The reorganization of the solar system has created clean new atmospheres on all the planets and even the pollution from old Earth has been drawn down into the core of Eremiel. Man is determined not to make the same mistakes again. Smoke on the horizon better be someone’s backyard barbeque. Only the cleanest of energy sources are restarted. Fossil fuels are not allowed to be used for power generation of any sort. Wind, solar, hydro-electric and even nuclear are the accepted kinds of energy sources. Petroleum can only be used to produce completely recyclable items. Glass, metal, wood, and paper have replaced any non-recyclable plastics. The new world is a mixture of ancient and modern, old and new.

The ever-inquisitive nature of Man pushes them to spread out across Demeter and inhabit all the new lands. Without sin and evil on the new Earth, Man starts to live much longer again. The average lifespan is now over two hundred Demeter years long or about a hundred and seventy Earth years. Once again Man looks to the stars wondering what is out there. When asked about the secrets of the universe Shekinah had revealed many things to the scientists at the Thousand Years Peace on Earth but she did not tell them everything. Shekinah knew that for Man to grow a certain amount of curiosity and wonder had to be maintained.

Eventually, large deposits of godisinum are discovered near the polar ice caps of Demeter and the study of this wonderful element resumes. Like water, godisinum expands when frozen. It is a metal but has some very different properties compared to almost all other metals. Godisinum is a solid at temperatures below zero degrees Celsius. It is a liquid between zero and seven degrees Celsius. And at temperatures above seven it vaporizes and becomes lighter than helium or hydrogen and is mostly lost out of the atmosphere and into space. Perhaps this is why it took so long to be discovered. Experimentation is established at the poles where temperature conditions are more easily maintained for godisinum and soon it is discovered that it is the perfect clean fuel.

Godisinum or Go as it is dubbed becomes the base element for all forms of power. Because godisinum falls next to the radioactive element plutonium in the periodic table, a brilliant young oncologist named Olivia Weston is keeping a close eye on patients working around it. Some of her findings present very curious data. She is so determined to solve this puzzle that she moves to the north pole to begin studies of godisinum from a medical standpoint. She soon realizes that godisinum has exactly the opposite effect on people than she originally thought it would. She finds that almost no one working with or around godisinum has any form of cancerous tumor. In fact, some of the data that drove her to the north pole involved a patient of hers making a miraculous recovery from a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

Weston was not only an oncologist but also a cancer survivor. She still has dormant tumors throughout her body. She makes a leap of faith and injects herself with liquid Go. Within two months, she can find no signs of cancer anywhere. The shot is very painful but she believes godisinum is a cure for cancer. Weston applies for a grant to study godisinum further. It is approved after she presents her findings and her own medical history to the medical board. Soon she develops a vaccine and it is given to all Demetians. A few years later even newborn babies are given the vaccine before they ever leave the hospital. Now cancer is a thing of the past.

While doing her research at the north pole, Olivia Weston meets and marries a very bright young chemist named Logan Dawson which has been experimenting with Go in its liquid form to produce a synthetic more stable version of godisinum. Dawson introduces Go into a chilled mixture of hydrogen peroxide and a small amount of mercury which he names Hypergo. Hypergo is frozen and pressed into small pellets and packed into tubes. The tubes can be ignited to produce power generation of many different types. The frozen pellets of hypergo are much easier to transport from the polar ice caps than liquid godisinum.

Once again Man looks to the stars wondering what is out there. The people of the new Earth have been concentrating their efforts on a new propulsion system, finally realizing that nothing is impossible under God. Using Go as the basis for all forms of power has led to phenomenal advances in technologies. Go is applied to a rocket and the Demetians send out unmanned satellites to Eremiel.

Eremiel is half again larger than the size of Demeter and its orbit is nearly twice as long. Stories have been passed down from the survivors of Earth recounting how heavy they felt when Eremiel pulled together. Despite its greater gravity, Eremiel would be ideal to colonize. The plants and animals that were left behind have flourished without Man on the planet. Some have had to adapt to the greater gravity but miraculously most are unaffected.

The satellites also reveal to the Demetians that some of the original structures from old Earth cities have survived all these years on the southern continent of Eremiel. With the new technology of Go powered rockets the trip to Eremiel will take just over a year. Fortunately, it appears most of the materials needed to establish a colony on Eremiel will be easily accessible once they get there. The Demetians will need to train both physically and technologically in order to make the leap to inhabit Eremiel. The Demetians start with thirty smart and physically fit volunteers and begin the training. A splashdown site near the coast of the southern continent is selected and plans get underway.

The rockets will be very tall and extremely light-weight compared to the traditional designs. Made from a new polymer, the rockets will not have just a tiny section for the volunteers and be mostly fuel. They will consist of alternating sections of operating stations and Hypergo tanks and equipment. The entire rocket will remain intact for the entire trip and will be repurposed as temporary shelters once they splash down in the Eremiel ocean. By the time the rockets are ready, the Demetian volunteers have completed their training. The volunteers are divided into three groups of ten. The first launch is a resounding success. The second group boards the next rocket as soon as it is completed and makes the jump to Eremiel. A few weeks later the third group joins them. The trip becomes so easy that people from all walks of life are going to Eremiel.

A century later, the Eremielites have become much stronger due to the increased gravity of the planet. They concentrate more on building, agriculture, and exploration of the vast new seas. However, there are still many Eremielites that study space exploration and participate in the space programs. Trips back and forth between Demeter and Eremiel are so commonplace that now Man looks to colonize the moons of Callisto, Rhea, and Indo.

Just Getting Started

With Man’s colonization of Eremiel and now moving on to the moons, Shekinah begins watching Man’s development closely. Michael has convinced himself that his eyes and imagination played tricks on him when he thought he saw Mercury spitting fireballs at him ages ago. After all, the sun had turned red and his eyes deceive him in red light. Michael assumed that when the sun’s flames engulfed the planet that Mercury had met his second death but Michael was wrong. The lake of fire is far hotter than Sola. Mercury, unlike Satan, has never been brought before GOD for judgement. Therefore, even though he did suffer his first death by Breandel, he had been on the dark side of the planet named after him awaiting judgement all these eons in a deep underground cave which ironically was almost too co ld for him.

Mercury knows that Heaven is close and he needs to escape before Michael and the other archangels come for him. When a comet comes screaming past him, he jumps to it and rides it to the outer edge of the solar system where he can escape to Rigel Kentaurus.

When Mercury regains his freedom, Shekinah calls for Michael. IT’S TIME TO SWEEP THE UNIVERSE. She commands.

My Lord? Why do we need to sweep the universe? Michael asks.

MERCURY AND MILLIONS OF LUCIFER’S CREATURES AND DEMONS ARE STILL OUT THERE. Shekinah says gesturing to the cosmos.

How is that, I thought we killed them all? Michael asks.

WHEN I FIRST CAST THEM OUT OF HEAVEN, THE UNIVERSE WAS NOT YET FORMED. WHEN I CREATED IT, MANY OF LUCIFER’S ANGELS AND CREATURES LANDED ON PLANETS AND MOONS ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE. NOT JUST ON EARTH. God explains.

Michael looks out at the vastness of the galaxy and thinks to himself, "I am going to need more angels."

God giggles and says, I KNEW YOU WOULD THINK THAT.

What about my Leaders? May I take them? He prays.

YES, TAKE WHOEVER YOU NEED. IT’S NOT AS BAD AS IT LOOKS, MY SON. LUCIFER’S CREATURES ARE NOT ON PLANETS ORBITING BLACK STARS, BROWN STARS OR SMALL RED STARS. She explains to him.

"So, about half of them. Oh, That’s much better! Michael remarks a bit sarcastically. Shekinah laughs out loud. Michael has never joked with her in all of the time since his creation. She took it as a compliment that he is finally comfortable enough in her presence to do so. Where do I begin, Lord?" Michael asks.

Shekinah points to a nearby star system. "WITH THE CLOSEST ONE TO MANKIND,

RIGEL KENTAURUS. God commands.

Shekinah and Yahweh have been busy separating the good angels from the bad ever since the War on Earth. Just like Neptune, Mars, Zeus, and Thor, thousands of the angels under Lucifer’s command were not evil and never had been. By combining the beams from their staffs, Yahweh and Shekinah eliminated all life around the black, brown, and dwarf red stars. The beam worked very well on the black stars because they actually adsorbed its light. Shekinah repeats to Michael that there are no demons or spliced creatures left on planets orbiting black stars because of the immense radiation produced by them. And there are none on planets of red or brown dwarfs due to their lack of heat and light. But that still leaves all the white, green, blue, pink, yellow, orange, and purple stars. Worlds around yellow, orange, and pink stars will pose the biggest problems. These will be the hardest to clean up and Rigel Kentaurus has two of these type stars.

I’M SORRY, BUT WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED. Shekinah admits to Michael.

May I take the Centaurs? It only seems fitting since this first constellation is named after them. Michael requests.

IF THEY SO CHOOSE. God agrees.

Rigel Kentaurus

Michael approached Marion and Gallion about going on the clean-up mission while they were visiting Trotter in the Alysian fields. They both were eager to serve Michael again. Trotter overhears the conversation and stomps the ground as if he wants to go too. Michael reads Trotter’s thoughts to be sure that this is what he intended and explained to them all that it would