Your Message Will Be Their Final Warning

Eleta stared blankly at the TV as the new BHE finalists were displayed. She felt mixed emotions flooding in her as she didn't see her name. Did she not do as well as she thought she had, Eleta pondered. She knew she had a good voice…even the director praised her and thought she had potential. Those weren't empty words she thought again, replaying Maxwell's exact words through her mind.

Walking off the stage, he was even writing her name down. Eleta sighed as she collapsed on her bed.

"I probably wasn't meant to be a singer…maybe I was never good at it from the start."

She talked to herself usually like this whenever she felt down. This was a strange habit she picked up from Katiara after her parents had passed but now it felt normal to her. Grabbing her pillow, she hugged it tightly as she felt useless, and lonely. There was no way she was about to tell her grandmother that she had just failed her auditions.

Eleta then recalled Katiara's words from this morning and pulled her Bible out. She flipped through the worn pages before stopping on Hebrews 13:5. Pressing her finger against the ending of the verse, she read it.

…For He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Eleta read the verse over and over again before tears began to fall.

"Why does it feel like you aren't here though, Lord?"

Curling up in a ball on her bed, she let the last tears flow as she fell into a deep sleep.

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A cool breeze blew against, Eleta's feet. She scrunched her toes up and let her hand roam for the bed sheets. Nothing. Fluttering her eyes open, Eleta saw everything around her was white and foggy. Was she dreaming?

Picking her head up she glazed her eyes across the vast amounts of white around her. Her eyes widened.

"Am I dead?"

She looked around frantically and couldn't see anyone. She studied the ground and noticed it was soft as if it were made of clouds. She ran her fingers and toes through them as she relaxed a little and tried to remember what she did a few moments ago.

Eleta had only gone to sleep while reading the Bible…so…she must be dreaming! She began giggling at the thought of her dreaming in such an odd place. Picking herself up, she felt light and airy as she made her first steps across this weird surface.

"Eleta"

Eleta's head shot up and turned to where the voice was coming from.

"Eleta!"

A figure appeared in the mist and was approaching Eleta. A young woman clothed in white garments had appeared from the fog and was radiating with light. Her hair was braided and a crown was placed on her head. Eleta didn't know how but for some reason she knew who this person was.

"Are you…Queen Esther?"

The woman nodded her head as she came face to face with Eleta. Eleta was confused. This was the same Esther from the Bible, but how could she possibly know that this was the same Queen? She didn't even live in the same time period as her yet she knew for sure it was the same Esther that was mentioned from those Biblical stories. Esther read her mind and smiled.

"You know me, because you're in heaven right now, Eleta. All those who have entered heaven can recognize everyone around them and can tell who they are without having to have met them physically on Earth."

Eleta gasped.

"How can I be in heaven? I was on my bed just a few moments ago sleeping. Am I really dead?"

Esther laughed.

"No, you're much alive, but your spirit is in heaven only for a few moments before the spirit has to go back to your body."

Eleta looked down at herself. She wasn't in her pajamas but in the white apparel that Esther was wearing. Touching her garments, her mouth opened but nothing came out. She was too astonished to speak. There was too much to grasp. How long can she be out of her body for? Why is she even here? Eleta wanted to ask this but couldn't as her mouth refused to let her. Esther understanding her predicament giggled and answered her questions.

"It can only be out of the body for a few minutes up here which is a few hours on Earth."

Finding her words, Eleta interrupted Esther and questioned.

"You can hear what I'm thinking?"

"Yes, I can and you're here because we have a message to give to you, Eleta Alon."

"We?"

Eleta's eyes roamed to the three shadows appearing from the fog. They all looked young, and wore the same white garments as Esther with golden crowns attached to their heads. The jewels beaded on their crowns glimmered. All of them gathered around Eleta with a holy book in their hands.

One of them was the prophet named Moses, who lead the Israelites from Egypt. He opened his book as he spoke.

"We bring you good news, Eleta. You've been elected by God to bring back the lost souls of the world."

"Lost souls?"

"The souls that have rejected God." Esther responded opening her holy book.

"Humans that have turned to the evil of this world and follow the sins that Satan has placed are set for doom very soon." Eve, the first woman of the world, said showing Eleta her book.

Eleta's eyes wandered to the crisp pages and dilated. The images in the book showed the current world at war with each other; robbers stealing from families; people being assaulted; victims killed by bombs and murderers. Tears began to form in her eyes as each image shown presented different forms of evil. Slowly her sadness became anger.

"Why don't they stop their evilness?"

The other figure, Paul the apostle who was formally known as Saul of Tarsus, spoke up.

"You are to stop them. They are those who don't realize the evil that they do and you must show them the light that Satan has hidden from them."

"Me? But…who am I to God that He would choose such a task for me to complete?"

Eleta was in bewilderment. She couldn't even save those who were closest to her from cancer or death. How can she possibly save others from their problems?

Esther placed her hand on Eleta's shoulders.

"I was used to be able to save my people from being executed. Do you think an orphan girl with no important background like me was able to save a huge nation?"

Eleta glanced up at Esther. Esther knew the pain of not having parents there to comfort her and guide her in life. She only had her uncle to support her just like how Eleta only has her grandmother.

"But what am I supposed to do? How can I know what I'm doing is what God wants me to do?"

Paul responded.

"That's where the Holy Spirit that is in you comes in. Every believer has this spirit inside of them when they have become born again. However, it's up to you to hear that voice inside or ignore it. That spirit will be the one to tell you what you need to do."

The air around them suddenly became dense as Eleta's eyes begun to blur. All she could hear were their voices unitedly echoing to her.

"You are to spread God's Word to these humans. Your message will be their final warning to turn back to God."

Eleta cried out.

"Wait, I still have more to ask!"

Her hands reached out to the remaining bits of light as everything began fading away into darkness.