THE GREAT PROPHECY OF WISDOM: CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 4

¹In those days, the voice of Elior had become a thorn in the ears of the mighty, and the message of the coming Son stirred the hearts of many.
²The rulers of the cities, who feared to lose their grasp on power, gathered in secret, and said one to another, “This man turns the people’s gaze from our decrees to a greater law.”
³“He proclaims a king not of our choosing, and speaks of a Paradise beyond our courts. If we let him continue, we shall rule nothing but empty halls.”
⁴And so they sent men under cloak of darkness to seize him in the valley of Bariaus, where he preached by day and rested by night.
⁵They bound his hands with cords and led him into the city of Enmarath, where the chief magistrate ruled with an iron word.
⁶There he was brought before a tribunal of elders, scribes, and governors, who asked him, “Dost thou call thyself the voice of the Lord?”
⁷And Elior answered, “I am nothing of myself, but the Lord has spoken to me, and I obey.”
⁸“I have spoken only what I have heard. The Son of God is coming, and He shall bring with Him Paradise for the faithful, and judgment for the proud.”
⁹The judges said, “We find this man guilty of sedition, for he incites the people and speaks of kings other than those whom the kingdoms know.”
¹⁰“Let him be made an example, that no other shall lift his voice above our own.”
¹¹They cast him into a cold prison, and fed him only water and stale bread. But Elior sang psalms in the darkness, and his voice reached even the guards who watched him.
¹²One of them, a young man named Ophan, wept as he listened, and said, “What man sings in chains unless he walks with God?”
¹³On the morning of the seventh day, the magistrate declared, “By order of this court, the heretic Elior shall be hanged at the rise of the sun, that all may see the fate of blasphemers.”
¹⁴And word spread throughout the city, and many came to see, though the crowd was hushed with unease.
¹⁵As they led Elior to the gallows, he looked not down, but up, and his face was like the dawn.
¹⁶One asked him, “Hast thou no fear of death, prophet?”
¹⁷And Elior answered, “Death is but a door, and the Lord has the key.”
¹⁸Another asked, “Will thy Son come to save thee now?”
¹⁹But Elior smiled and said, “I was not sent to be saved, but to prepare. The Son shall come, not to spare one life, but to save many.”
²⁰They placed the noose around his neck, and he lifted his voice once more, saying:
²¹“O Lord, into Thy hands I commit my spirit. Let my death be as my life — a sign to the faithful.”
²²And with that, the platform dropped, Elior hanged, and he died the death.
²³Ivalice trembled slightly beneath their feet, and a wind swept through the city, though the sky was clear.
²⁴Some turned away with sorrow, and others with shame. And many who had mocked him remembered his words in silence.
²⁵In the days that followed, rumors spread across the kingdoms that the prophet had died with peace upon his lips.
²⁶The young guard Ophan disappeared from the prison and was seen later preaching in the hills, repeating the message he had heard in the dark.
²⁷And those who had heard Elior in Delmar and Avar and Kezreth remembered his voice, and in secret they told their children:
²⁸“A great one has gone before. Another greater yet shall follow. The Son of God shall walk among us, and Paradise shall not be far behind.”
²⁹Thus ended the days of the Prophet Elior, faithful servant and first martyr of the coming Kingdom.
³⁰And though his body was buried without honor, his words took root like seeds sown in secret fields.
³¹And God looked upon His servant, and was pleased.

▷THE SEVEN SCRIPTURES OF THE CHURCH OF GLABADOS
    ▷THE GREAT PROPHECIES
        ▷THE GREAT PROPHECY OF WISDOM
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