Derek pointed skywards, ‘Look Sandra! The moon, it’s so close and in three days time it will be close enough to leap across onto the surface.’ It was a strange anomaly; the axis of the moon had torn away from its normal orbit and was changing places with the earth. The moon tides had been too strong and had pulled the moon down and professional people were waiting for the transition to be completed to start new life on this desolate planet. These people were the only ones exempt from voluntary death as the Government so named it.
The earth having served it’s purpose was beginning to crumble out of existence. The sun was to blame for some of the damage, but mainly it was man who ignored that you couldn’t cheat nature forever.
Governments ignored the danger signs. Derek and Sandra had been chosen as the new Adam and Eve. It was a crying shame because their kin had been eliminated to make this as authentic as possible.
Where were they going to get another prophet, another Jesus,
they didn’t know. As it happened they didn’t have to worry, the God that they knew came to them during the night and spoke in their dreams of how it was going to be.
The following morning, they awoke to a very bright sun. They were unable to comprehend the situation. They were naked as if they were just born and they were afloat in a floating wooden craft full of animals. They wandered about the ship and no animal attacked them. They looked across the world and it was completely covered with water. Was this the second coming that God had planned all along?
Derek held Sandra’s hand, there was no moon in sight, the sky blackened and it began to rain. There was thunder and lightning and both Derek and Sandra bathed in its fresh spray as they were both dirty from the ravages of war that had brought them to the brink of disaster for the world was beginning it’s last journey and coming to an end.
Soon the tempest ended, the clouds dispersed and the symbol of peace, a Dove flew across the bow of the wooden craft. The world was going to get a second chance to do the right thing and as if someone had pulled out a plug the seas abated and the waters receded and the land resumed its normal shape.
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Derek and Sandra stepped ashore and saw a sign that read “Welcome to Dover!” They were not naked and no-one looked their way. The animals had disappeared. They turned and looked seaward, there was no Ark, it had also disappeared. They both entered a newspaper shop after seeing a bill board outside the shop announcing sensational headlines and bought a daily newspaper, to see what they were. The headlines were:
“God spoke to the World and issued an Ultimatum!”
The year was 2020