Trinity of Man Book 2

Prologue Sometime during the history of mankind, the world fell into chaos. Israel became a Nation on May 14, 1948, and great hope sprang from that event. Word spread throughout Christendom that the world had now entered into the final days. Israel is the time clock for Biblical prophecy. Those prophecies were now coming to fulfillment. Christ would soon return to redeem the saints. A Christian must get his house in order, and become a good and faithful servant—a servant who could be found doing the Lord’s work at all times. He must be ever watchful, lest he be caught asleep and unprepared for the Lord’s return. A great air of expectancy swept around the world. But time dragged from days to months to years, and the attention of man turned to other things. The hope that rose from the new era slowly diminished. Man continued to marry and give in marriage, taken up with the daily search for wealth and pleasure. In the years following 1948 mankind experienced wars, and heard rumors of many more. Nuclear holocaust loomed just around the corner. Earthquakes devastated many cities killing thousands. Volcanoes erupted claiming the lives of thousands more. Floods and famine swept over many lands and millions more died. Toxic waste and toxic spills fouled the water, and the air. Mankind groped for answers in the wasteland of society, bewildered by the confusion. Man’s love for God waned as the faith of many dwindled into lukewarm embers. The world had fallen into a moral dilemma that left it without a conscience—or any guidelines for re-establishing one. The global economy collapsed sometime during all the commotion. The production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services throughout the world had lost its’ balance. No one noticed as little things, one upon the other, brought about the slow demise. Economists everywhere grappled with the problem, but to no avail. There were no quick and easy answers. The failure of agriculture, of banks, the steady rise of unemployment, the falling value of currency on the world money market, strikes, inflation, deflation, trade deficits—these and many more less noticeable factors brought the economy of the world to a halt. Some time into the twenty-first century the desperate situation worsened, as welfare programs designed to help failed under the strain of thirty-percent unemployment. The fabric of society unraveled and anarchy ruled the day. Despair, fear, and hatred replaced love and compassion as the world reeled under the greatest crisis it had ever known. This headline in a well-known newspaper in the United States was the headline that heralded a possible shred of hope. PROMINENT ISRAELI PROFESSOR ASKED TO SAVE THE WORLD. The content of the story read: Jerusalem—Prime Minister Ari of Israel announced today that Jehosea Cahmael, a well-known Philosopher Economist and Mathematician at the University of Tel Aviv, has been asked by the United Nations to help solve the world economic crisis. Professor Cahmael is the originator of the Trinity of Man Philosophy, and has many followers throughout the world. The Prime Minister said Cahmael had reluctantly accepted the request. No further details are known at this time, but the announcement brings a glimmer of hope to our despairing world. His reluctance turned out to be short-lived. He gathered his followers and began a massive census taking effort that they completed within a few months. Six months later the changes had started and the world retreated slowly from the precipice of total destruction. Within two years Cahmael rejuvenated the worldwide economy and redistributed goods, and food. He eradicated hunger. Life became better then it had ever been. People rejoiced. Celebrations marking the three-year anniversary were held in every country in the world. The world had something to celebrate now. Despair and hopelessness disappeared. The world owed their salvation to Jehosea Cahmael. He didn’t stop there. He made peace happen in a place where it was thought to be impossible, the Middle East. Then the world looked on him in awe. Although it may never be known publicly exactly what transpired among Cahmael, the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the other Arab countries that day, this much is known; they struck an agreement—an agreement that changed the face of the Middle East. It brought about the lasting peace so sought after by all parties. It gave the Palestinians a homeland, and allowed the Israelis to rebuild Solomon’s Temple—Jehosea Cahmael truly became the Savior of the world. Not everybody agreed. Pastor Tom Horn and Father Vince Nalone didn’t. They claimed that Cahmael was the Antichrist, doing good only to deceive the world. No one listened to the warnings that claimed Cahmael was killing anyone who spoke out against him. They were driven into hiding when Tom Horn’s church was bombed. Sheriff’s Detective Tony Arzetti helped them escape by spiriting them away to Arizona, and then had to join them himself or be arrested. Wanted for murder in the wrongful death of a Sheriff and five of his deputies in a helicopter crash, the three friends and three others were pursued to Northern California where they found protection at Camp Armageddon. The camp was run by Panguitch Hewey, a self-proclaimed prophet of God, who claimed his mission was to destroy the Antichrist. When Jehosea Cahmael came to San Francisco, Hewey claimed it was God delivering the Antichrist to him. He made plans to go there and in the midst of a bloody attack, kill Cahmael, whom he claimed is the Antichrist. The six friends got themselves included so they could go and, hopefully, warn the police. Hewey allowed them to go for reasons of his own. They were held captive by Hewey in San Francisco and thus unable to warn police of the impending disaster. Hewey then turned them in to the police as being the terrorists that were planning a bloody attack. This was a ploy to distract the police from his own attack—an attack that never happened. Tom and Vince managed to escape only to stumble into a trap set by Cahmael. In an ill-fated attempt to shoot Hewey they were tricked into shooting the Pope instead, and were arrested for his assassination. The two men were tried and executed in the first worldwide public execution in history. The End of Sorrows continues the story during the first year after the execution. CHAPTER 1 The Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco sets at the foot of Market Street, across from the Ferry building. It is Shires Lampton’s favorite place to stay in San Francisco, but never above the fifth floor. He hates high places, especially in San Francisco where an earthquake might shake a building apart—anywhere above the fifth floor is too far to fall. He sat in his suite on the fourth floor, before a window overlooking the Bay and the Ferry docks, studying his research notes when the phone rang. “Mr. Lampton, this is the front desk. A package was just delivered here for you. You may pick it up at your convenience, or I can send it up with room service.” “Send it up please,” he said. His brow wrinkled. He wasn’t expecting anything. He returned to his notes at the desk, and worked on them until room service tapped on the door. He handed the uniformed bellman five dollars and retrieved the manila envelope; the lump inside felt like a very thin book. It wasn’t. It was a DVD with a ‘stick-it’ note attached. The penmanship was almost illegible—thought you might be interested, especially the very end—it read. He inserted the disc and pushed the play button. It showed the headless bodies of Vince Nalone and Tom Horn lying on the pavement on Howard Street by Moscone Center. “Poor misguided bastards,” he thought, remembering his interview at the hideout north of Flagstaff. He watched it for a few moments before he skipped it forward. He went too far, and the street was now empty. He moved it backward to the bodies, and then ran it forward again. The bodi