PREFACE
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Eons ago,about 66 generations B.C, Earth was invaded. For many years, since then, humans lived with ‘ElDiablo’, the invader, without knowledge.Slowly, ‘El Diablo’twisted human knowledgeto his bidding, taking advantage of their weakness. The few he could not, those weak enough, he extinguished.Later,several millennia;Todo lo Sabe, Protector of alluniverse,was not happy; but, was withmercy. He; then,decided to save humanity.He sent a helper,One Truly-Chosen. In human-being, He,Truly-Chosen, agedamong mortality.With a message from He,Protector of all universe, to humankind.Some did heed themissive;others,the vast majority, gave deafears.About a generation or more later, they rejected Truly-Chosen.‘Malvado’;they called him, and eventually, saw he to the grave without need for cause.After, they thought to have won.Deeperand deeper, they dug themselves into perditions; misled by ignorance, imprudenceandegotism.Todo lo Sabe;He,ever since, saved those that lived for thevirtuouscause. As though, not by any other way, but, choosing severalamongst them.Once each generation, one was Chosen and gifted.Things getting worse each day, desperation struck. With an indiscerniblebelligerent,they had none toimpugn.Thirst for answers and stardom,usually, they turned for the Chosen.Every time a gifted was executed, they made merry,with murmurs of a new dawn.Time came, a time ofmurky-dawn; indeed, a dawn theypresaged.Todo lo Sabe; chose and gifted no more.Without one to stab fingers at andreproach, they turned foreach other.For generations, they lived by death; unknowingly worshipping ‘El Diablo’.Posterior, ages past, about 33 generations ago, death roamed Earth as bush fires.Todo lo Sabe, merciful He, chose and gifted another.Whatever happened ever sinceis;the mysterious story of...TheDay of Reckoning.
Author,
Mutuma J Karuntimi
- Writer
