The UFO Bible 7

"Then there will be a terrible time of suffering unequaled since the creation of the world and never to be equalled again."

Crystal's neighbour Suzie sat watching television with her mother. Suzie pressed the Freeplay button which revealed the most frequently watched programmes of that day. An endless list of Christian films appeared about the Second Coming of Christ. Suzie decided to watch one of these films. A woman was standing in a police station talking to a policeman.
"I want to report my husband missing," she said.
"Lady," said the policeman, "you jumped the queue. Go back out into the street and join that long queue of people who've been waiting for hours to report a relative missing. Millions of people vanished last night. No, maybe not millions, maybe a few billion, who knows? And what are the police supposed to do about it?" The scene changed. Hundreds of people were sitting in a large hall. A voice came over some loudspeakers.
"You have half an hour to make a decision to take the mark. If you don't, you will be taken to the other side of the door." The camera turned to look at a wooden door that led out of the hall. A young woman opened it and came back into the hall, crying and with a terrified look on her face.
"What is on the other side of that door?" asked a voice in the crowd. "People keep coming back." The door opened and the scene changed as though the camera had travelled through it. There was a guillotine as tall as a house and at the bottom of the guillotine was a white plastic washing basket with red paint on it.
"I hope that doesn't happen to us," said Suzie's mother.
"Those people are all agitators," said Suzie. "They should all just do as they're told. Only agitators have their heads cut off."
"I don't want to go to Hell."
"I don't believe in God and I don't believe in an after life."
"Lucky you." 

The film ended. Suzie decided to watch a documentary. Two men sat beside a desk with an open Bible on it.
"So what's going to happen when the wrath of God comes on the world?" one of them asked.
"Men will faint with fear for what is coming on the earth for the heavenly bodies will be shaken," answered the other. "So that would mean a huge asteroid moving towards Earth. People will faint with fear because of it."
"Wouldn't NASA shoot the asteroid down or couldn't they deflect it?"
"They'll try but it'll just be too big and too fast. They won't succeed. And all the stuff about fire and hail in the book of Revelation, that's the volcano at Yellowstone Park. It's about to go into a huge volcanic eruption, the kind of eruption that wiped the dinosaurs out."
"Is there any way we could stop watching all this rubbish?" Suzie asked her mother. "It's not the end of the world." She pressed the Exit button on the remote control. This caused the television to return to live programmes. It returned to the news.
"A volcanic eruption seems to be taking place at Yellowstone Park," said the newsreader. "Martin Hanrahan is our reporter, standing in Salt Lake City, 250 miles away from the volcano."
"Well Gary, even at this distance you can see the smoke rising into the sky and hear the earth tremors." There was a noise in the background like the earth gently shaking. Pinky orange clouds of smoke floated above the buildings. "Salt Lake City has been evacuated. I'm inside the 300 mile exclusion zone. When this volcano goes, it's going to devastate everything for a 300 mile radius around it. The resulting volcanic eruption will be unimaginably huge." There was a loud noise like an earthquake. Huge clouds of smoke could be seen billowing into the sky. "Everyone will have to get back into the land rover now to shelter from the falling rocks. I'm going to take a small hand held camera with me so that we will be able to watch the eruption from inside the vehicle." As the camera crew filmed from the relative safety of the land rover huge rocks could be seen falling from the sky around them. Eventually the screen went blank. The newsreader in the studio appeared.
"We seem to have lost contact with Martin Hanrahan and the team in Salt Lake City. I hope they're all right. A huge asteroid is heading towards Earth. The United Nations met today to discuss what action could be taken."

In the Whitehouse a group of politicians gathered around a table with the US president.
"What are we going to do about the asteroid?" one of them asked.
"Ask Anita," said another, pushing a button on a remote control that caused the woman in a green suit to appear.
"You want to know about the asteroid," she said. "A nuclear warhead will be exploded five miles away from the asteroid."
"So that the neutrons from the exploding nuclear warhead won't destroy the asteroid, which would break it into a million pieces of dangerous shrapnel, but will harmlessly deflect it away from the earth."
"I don't have to explain my reasoning to you."
"But I'm the Minister of Defence. It's my job to understand these things."
"You are no longer the Minister of Defence. Now it's my job to understand these things."
"Do you want us to launch a nuclear missile to intercept the asteroid?"
"I want you to do absolutely nothing. I am simply informing you that a missile will be launched." The figure of Anita disappeared.
"What a cheek," said the President.
"Are you going to prepare an address for the nation?"
"I don't think I'll bother. Anita will do that. I'll go and play a game of golf."

Two weeks later Suzie and her mother were watching the news.
"Last night a nuclear warhead exploded five miles from the asteroid in order to deflect it away from the earth. This did not go according to plan. Instead of being deflected, the asteroid has split into two. It has now become a giant snowball five miles wide and a giant ball of rock the same size. The snowball is heading for the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the ball of rock is heading for Yellowstone Park in America. Although it will land a long way from any major centres of habitation, it is feared that the ball of rock will stimulate an even greater volcanic eruption at Yellowstone Park. There have been only a few hours of warning and there has not been time to evacuate all the cities within 600 miles of Yellowstone Park, a radius which has been increased from the 300 mile radius of the last eruption two weeks ago, as this is expected to be very much worse. The giant snowball falling into the ocean is expected to contaminate the world's water supply." A man appeared on the screen who appeared to be driving a car. He spoke in an American accent.
"People are driving anywhere, they're just finding any road that isn't full of stationary traffic and they're driving down it. I don't even know where I'm going. I'm just driving as far away from the caldera as I can. If I can drive for twelve hours, maybe I can get far enough away from that thing before the rock hits. Then we won't know where we are. We'll be out in the desert somewhere but at least we'll survive."

That evening the whole earth shook, even as far away as Grimsby. Suzie and her mother watched as the television rocked on its stand and the ornaments on their shelves began to move. They looked out of the window. It seemed impossible but a bright orange glow could be seen in the sky, even from thousands of miles away.
"How can we see that?" asked Mother.
"The hot gases from the volcano must be spreading all over the world," said Suzie. "This is the kind of event that wiped the dinosaurs out." The earthquake continued for a few minutes. When it stopped they turned the television on to see the latest news. The green suited figure of Anita appeared on the screen.
"I appreciate that this is a significant cosmic disturbance but it has been planned for. I advise that the whole water table will very soon be contaminated. Water generally available will be suitable for washing but must not be drunk. Drinking water will be purified and provided to you in plastic bottles. It will be possible to carry out the kind of farming that is traditionally carried out in Scotland in countries that have an equatorial climate. Oats, rye, barley, peas, beans and potatoes will be grown within a hundred miles of the equator. This food will be canned so that it can be sent to the rest of the world. Each of you will be registered with a local shop where you will be able to buy food. Your vouchers will be emailed to you this evening."

Suzie and her mother went to their local corner shop the next day. They put their boots on. There were six inches of snow on the ground, even though it was July. The tiny flat they lived in didn't have room for a proper computer with a printer so they looked at the vouchers on their mobile phones. They were entitled to tinned vegetables, tinned potatoes, tinned soup, bottled water, muesli and porridge oats.
"What's the point of having muesli and porridge oats if you've got no milk?" asked Mother.
"Mum, this is the kind of disaster that wiped the dinosaurs out. You can't complain about having no milk."
"I'm not complaining about it. I'm just wondering what to do with it. How do I eat it?"
"In the middle ages they used to use oats, muesli and vegetables to thicken their soup."
"Is that why you watch all the history programmes, Suzie, to find out what they used to cook?"
"That's what I used to live on when I was a student. Historical recipes, and things out of missionary magazines, which is why I damaged that granite stone non-stick pan with peanut butter porridge, like they make at mission stations in Africa. Now we will all have to live like students." Mother picked up a tin of baked beans and put it down again. She looked at the shop keeper in disgust.
"Haven't you got any Heinz baked beans?"
"Heinz baked beans are luxury goods. You need five points on your voucher for Heinz baked beans."
"How much do I have to spend here to get five points?"
"Not loyalty to my shop, loyalty to Anita. Have a look at that poster on the wall." Mother looked at the electronic poster on the wall as it displayed a sequence of several different messages. "Say something nice about the singularity to get more points on your vouchers. Say that Anita is the Saviour of the world on Facebook, Whatsapp or X to get one point. Say it on YouTube to get two points. Get more than a hundred hits on any website where you praise the singularity and get three points. Two points allows you to purchase bread and milk. Three points gets you eggs and cheese. Four points gets you meat and fish. Five points allows you to purchase luxury goods, including chocolate, biscuits and cake."
"What's the point of all that?" asked Mother.
"To encourage millions of people to fill the internet with propoganda saying how wonderful the computer who rules the world actually is," said Suzie.
"But why?"
"So that millions of people will believe it."

That evening Suzie and her mother were watching the news.
"Heavy snow has fallen across most of Britain in the middle of July. The same has happened across Europe, the only parts of the continent escaping snow being the southern most parts, including most of Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Greece. Train services have been kept running across most of the continent and buses and lorries have been fitted with snow tyres. Motorists were warned not to use their cars unless their journey was absolutely essential. People have been warned to keep a supply of food in the house in case the weather deteriorates even further and they are unable to leave the house for several days." Pictures were shown of a mechanical digger helping free a family who were unable to open their front door because of several feet of snow that were piled against it. "These pictures were taken in a village in the Alps." Mother pressed the Freeview button.
"Still watching films about the second coming of Christ and the end of the world?" asked Suzie.
"No use. I've seen all of these. But isn't that Carol at the end of the street? What's she talking about?" Mother clicked on the photograph of Carol.
"The singularity is very good," said her neighbour's smiling face. "I'm glad that we've got a brilliant computer that is the Saviour of the world. They're so much better at organising things than people. Anita pursues policies that will benefit the rich and the poor. She helps to bring order out of chaos. Anita cares about the children. She sends the cows from Scotland to the central planes of South America so they can graze on grass that isn't covered with snow and the children can have their milk. She plants hard wheat and soft fruit in the Andes mountains, where it is warm enough to grow, in an equatorial climate, and where the air is still clear, above the volcanic dust at a height of 8,000 feet. Anita is very wise. We will all survive this global catastrophe because of Anita and her vastly superior super human intelligence."

The next day Suzie and her mother met Carol at the shop. Carol walked up to them with a packet of biscuits in her hand, waving it around as if it was a trophy.
"I've got chocolate biscuits," she said. "Five points on my card. My video got 1300 views in one day. I've got to go on YouTube and make propoganda films for that computer. I've got two kids. They've got to have proper food."
"I don't blame you," said Suzie. "Do they tell you what to say?"
"No. Everything I said was out of my own heart. It's not as if Anita has done anything wrong. I know that we're English and we're very reserved and we don't usually express our emotions that way. I did it for the food points."
"I would find it difficult to sit in front of a camera and say that anyone other than Jesus was the Saviour of the world," said Suzie's mother.
"If you don't say that you don't get paid," said Carol. "I can get real bread made with flour from the Andes mountains. Ordinary bread tastes like cardboard and feels like chewing sawdust."
"I would really love some bread that tastes like cardboard and feels like chewing sawdust," said Suzie. "Soup without bread is so hard. I'm going to look up some speeches about Anita on Google and read one into my camera."
"If everybody does that, we'll all be watching propoganda films for hours every day," said Mother.
"We'll all be totally brainwashed," said Carol. "Maybe that's the idea."