“Let me tell you, good people, and hear me, hear me. Our eternity with God is going to be awesome, so awesome I can"t even describe it.” The Reverend Jedediah Holmsby is 45 minutes into his sermon, working up a sweat proselytizing on the imminent coming of Christ. “And it"s going to happen soon.”
The congregation of the Holy Converted Church of Port Avalon needs no convincing. Heads nod. Several people call out, “Amen!”
Reverend Holmsby pulls a white linen handkerchief from the pocket of his dark blue suit and dabs his forehead. He waves his Bible in the air.
“There"s no need to call the psychic hot line, or cruise the web. God has revealed it, the end of the planet Earth, and it"s all right here in the scriptures. In the Gospel According to Luke, Jesus said: There will be signs in the
