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Eli glancing to where I had gestured and said, "I know some ancient Hebrew and from my study of the inscriptions on the base of the statue the way to the surface isn't open to everyone One e in order to be translated upward If you enter the water and you're not Jewish the warning given is that instead of passage upward one will go doard into the pit of hell itself"

Kim's voice broke into the conversation and she said what I had just been prepared to point out, "Who a us does not believe in the risen Savior?"

Of the several thousand people massed around the column of fire and water no one spoke and Kiiven up the false beliefs that soh we be not Jews by blood we are nonetheless grafted into the tree of life by our belief in Jesus Christ and thus we are spiritual Jews and heir to all the pro else, but such a provision for those of us who put our trust in God and His son Jesus Christ Our God has not saved our souls and led us so far only now to trick us into falling to our deaths in hell Come, I andby example Kim with tide-eyed toddlers and a husband in towwater thatfroh-speed elevator Kim and her family swirled upward and the water was so clear as to show all those gathered below that the fa or being boiled alive by the interweaving bands of uess that answers that question"

Keturah playfully shoved hi, 'walk by faith and not by sight?'"

Sood-naturedly Eli took her hand and then the hand of his son and led theateway to the surface The son however had no wish to let go of his friend's hand and neither did she in return

Looking back Sheatera glanced to her father to see if it was okay and he obligingly nodded With a giggle of delight then the two children ju stream and swirled away upwards