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Left Behind THE MARK Chapters 4 through 8
Ray is about to read Chapters 4 through 6 from the 8th book of Left Behind – THE MARK – by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins.
In New Babylon, David Hassid is searching frantically for Annie, the woman he intends to marry. He has been told a lightning strike hit the area Annie was guarding. Now David, too, has been struck with lightning and fainted while at an infirmary, hitting his head hard on the concrete and has been injured, his head bandaged like a turban.
At the time Annie had gone missing, Nicolae Carpathia (the Antichrist) rose from his coffin in front of millions of people and has become the object of worship, along with the image of the beast.
Rayford Steele still doesn’t trust his copilot, Albie, but has flown with him to Pueblo, Colorado, in order to find Hattie Durham. Once there, Albie drove Rayford to a Quonset hut. Inside was the man in charge of prisoners, Stevens, who was wearing a mask and sitting in a wheelchair. The longer the three talked, the less Rayford trusted either man. Now he is following Stevens and Albie down a corridor and would love to run, but he has decided instead to play things out in order to find Hattie.
In Illinois, Buck has discovered that Zeke Jr’s dad has been arrested by the Global Police. Zeke’s dad owns the gas station where in an underground basement Zeke Jr. makes IDs and does complete makeovers for Christians who need to disguise themselves in order to avoid the Police. Buck and Chloe are coming to rescue Zeke Jr.
Ray picks the story up at this point.
David hurried to his office and phoned Annie. No answer. Then he called the motor pool. The man who had originally brought him his cart was off duty, but the one he reached told him, “No, sir, no phone. Nothing was left in there. We found the cart but not you, and my boss was pretty mad until he traced you to Medical Services. You okay?”
“Fine.”
“Need the cart?”
“No.”
“Anything I can do fo—”
But David had hung up. He flipped open his computer and saw urgent messages flashing from the code words and numbers he knew belonged to his comrades in the Tribulation Force. He would get to those when he could, but for now, before the infernal meeting, he had to get his phone back and find out where Annie was.
His watch read 2135. He searched the GC database for Personnel, Medical, Female, Under P. there it was: “Palemoon, Hannah L., room and extension 4223.” A groggy hello greeted the fifth ring.
“Nurse Palemoon?”
“Yeah, who’s this?”
“I am so sorry to be calling so late and sorry to wake you, but—”
“Hassid?”
“Yes, forgive me, but—”
“I have your phone.”
“Oh, thank G—goodness! Is it on?”
“No, sir, I turned it off. Now are you going to come get it so I can get back to sleep?”
“Could I? If you don’t mind terribly, I—”
“I gotta show you something anyway.”
What in the world? Was he being set up? Why would she be so willing to have him come and get it? And why did she take it in the first place? To be safe, he jumped back on the computer and fired up the bugging device that would record their conversation in the corridor outside her room.
Left Behind THE MARK Chapters 4 through 8
Left Behind THE MARK Chapters 4 through 8