SHORT STORY
The Left Side of Divine Judgement Part 3.
We get to meet the Right Side of Divine Judgement
[Opening scene — F*ck Immigrants! What next after the Judgement of the Cities of the Plain?]
God had rained ‘brimstone and fire’ towards the unwelcoming people (of the two cities located in the Jordan Valley). Fire, we can understand…but why brimstone? See, brimstone is anti-angelic; thus, God had retaliated in His own favourable way (through fire), but He also retaliated like-for-like with Sulphur. Such was the terrible judgement for the two unholy cities! For even when Lot’s wife, when she disobeyed God’s command of not looking back, her body was saltified. Legend has it, if humankind would again even say the names of the cities, even their saliva would taste saltier!
Yet, years passed, and humankind had already forgotten God one more time. At the Tower of Babel — the prayers of men rose, not in worship, but in challenge. Hammers struck stone in rhythm. Language was one. Pride… was one.
Instead of spreading outwards, as God wanted; they wanted to move upwards. O Babel, how little of you.
The EU parliament building at Strasbourg would later copy its structure. But perhaps time has passed too. Anyway, back in the day, at the throne of the Most High far above, Gabriel tells Michael, the Right Hand of God: “It’s your turn now, Golden Boy…show them ‘order’!”
[Scene 2 — Do you know?]
The warrior-prince descended like a comet, shouting. Shouting mightily in angelic tongue. What was the enforcer of Divine Will shouting? A parable: “Do you know why the god of war is called ‘War’?” He was speaking of the rider of the red horse written in the Revelation book; the book for which the people of Babel (with all their collective pride) had really no idea what it was — as it wasn’t yet written.
He stepped on the dusty ground of Babel, and closed his six golden wings. The final form at which the attack angel descended with? It was a scary majestic sight; fitting to exorcise demons by mere presence! Now, Uriel, one of the most honourable hosts of heaven, had followed him. He too closed wings…his fiery reddish wings. The people of Babel who saw them would speak, in their unified tongues, perhaps with some divination, and as if asked: “Scorpion and Sub-Zero…” Michael, being ice-based; and Uriel, being fire-based.
[Scene 3 — Shikai, from the Captain of Hosts]
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In the Bleach series, there is a character called Ichibe Hyosube. He is also known as “He Who Speaks the True Name.” One of his fighting techniques…is to delete the semantic meaning of any name. In our story, mighty Michael, used a similar technique.
Words cracked. Sentences twisted. Instructions failed. Stone fell. The masons shouted — but now in foreign tongues. French, English, Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, etc.…until the languages reached seventy.
[Scene 4 — And the Lord said unto Michael: ‘Go, bind Semjâzâ and his associates… bind them for seventy generations… until the day of their judgement and consummation.’]
According to lore, the 70 nations that emerged from Babel were each given their own language and guardian angel. The story of man continued. And man forgot once again.
The powers that be, the chief suits of the world, would be sitting in their chambers, discussing the fall of Babel.
“It wasn’t all bad, was it?” One would say.
“No, it wasn’t all bad.” The other would reply.
“They laughed a whole lot, didn’t they?”
“Yeah, they were always laughing.”
[Closing scene —When the dust settled, the wind whispered across the sands of Babel, ‘El Shaddai rules alone’]
Now, some say it was the triune God who confused the unified language, and not the angels. And thus, perhaps, that is another forgotten instance in the story of humankind. But, had Babel reached the moral depravation of the two Cities of the Plain,… Michael might have used his sword.
When you meet Gabriel, he would probably say: “Be not afraid.”
When you meet Michael? Be afraid, be very afraid. Brother.
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