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The Writing on the Wall
Soon after the arrival of Boris, the Berkshire Boar, and Messiah, there had come with him certain changes to “The Fourteen Pillars of Wisdom” and were well etched for posterity by the time the American evangelicals had arrived on the scene. When they toured the Israeli farm and its buildings, the ministers saw the writing on the wall and smelled something rotten. Shaken, they ran from the barn. Although they didn’t know Chinese, they told the laborers the best they could, using hand gestures and charades that there was something rotten in there and pointed. The ministers did not wish to return to the barn because the writing on the wall with Christian scratched over man signified something sinister and evil, reminiscent of Satan’s temptation of Christ in the de
