Left Alone Book Two - Tribulations

Left Alone Book Two - Tribulations posted. Not sure if I'll end up cutting it to just Tribulations, or changing the title entirely.

Entire thing typed up pretty fast, because I wanted to have the first chapter posted on Nov 1st. In other news, I'm now up to 3618 words for NaNo, part of which is another full chapter I typed up.

As seen with my portrayal of the Witnesses, I have no real qualms with messing with the specific description the authors use for rapture events, as their version generally sucks. Also, I'm thinking the horsemen will be made of smoke and the mounts get wings, since they're gonna be cherubim. Actually, I'm currently hammering out a big thing with the angels. There are going to be four types, two of which fell.

My plan for Tribulations involves a timeskip and flashback. In the books, most of it is taken up with a really stupid romance subplot whose only positive side is the reassuring implication that the sort of RTC the books champion can't successfully reproduce, a bit more filler nonsense, and then suddenly a jump to eighteen months later. I plan to keep this formula as it's the best way to highlight how you'd have to be a colossally incompetent writer to jump eighteen months with nothing interesting happening, especially in a book about how the world is going to end in a couple years. As such, most of the story will be taken up by flashbacks after that, which will reveal how she got to such a point.

Joe the friendly solar panel guy is a shout-out to Joe the plumber, only he's actually a solar panel guy and also, not a total moron.

Revelation 7

3"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
5From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
6from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

So a literalist reading of the bible means
A) Only 144,000 seals will be handed out.
b) Only to Jews.

I'd been assuming most of the Rapture crazies were just interpreting things in absurd ways and calling it obvious, but if I may say, this passage really looks blindingly, staggeringly obvious. According to Revelation, millions of Christians or any Gentiles getting sealed is not happening. I can't imagine any other way to read the passage. You've got like an inch of wiggle room if you assume the numbers are symbolic for "a ton of people", but I don't think anyone could manage the contortions to make "Tribes of Israel, listed off" = "Gentile non-Jewish guys not related to any tribe"

It's like every time I double-check things, it's even more wrong than I first thought.

(When Tsion Ben-Judah, or Jewy Jew McJewson the Jew, gives his OH HAY GUYS JEBUS IS MESSIAH LOL speech, he explains that his rabbinical Jewish group trying to figure out who the Jewish messiah is by using the Jewish messianic prophesies did so by checking based on the prophesies compiled by a guy WHO WAS A CHRISTIAN WHAT THE FUCK LAHAYE? SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK? I shouldn't even be surprised that shit got past their editor, considering the guy also missed the whole "Jews recoil from the word Jesus hissing and spitting like vampires" bit.)