Chapter 17
1. Even as He held the book towards me, I could smell the stench of the death it contained. I�d smelt human blood in three wars, and you never forget how each body has it�s own particular scent.

2. This time it was the from the corpse of people from every nation on earth. The number of bodies must have been as thick as a heavy fog of an ocean. The smell was rank of sin and rebellion, of gloom and despair.

3. I saw the copper colored blood of the sinners, the stink was the most vile of all smells, and it was reaching out for the very last time.

4. Justice demanded its honor. The time for forgiveness was past. It would be no more. Each individual man, woman, and child that ever lived, was about to give an account of what he or she had done in the short span of its life.

5. Proof? Every word, thought, and deed was written and shown, there were no excuses. None could be given.

6. I asked myself, �How had man achieved this pitiful state?� I was about to find out.

7. The fourth �angelic being� held out a flask and asked if I wanted a drink. I quickly grabbed it and drank.

8. At first my stomach was warm at the liquor transfusion, then it began to throb with every beat of my heart. My mind reeled, suffering in the pain. My body ached at the burning. It was like a gut shot, only worse.

9. I vomited so violently I thought everything I had ever drank or ate, or ever considered consuming my entire life up to this moment, came out.

10. As my stomach emptied, the heavenly being said, �See now and understand, this is how the Lord God thinks about the state of the seven churches. Their tolerance of sin, uncaring of the poor, and love of money and its greed makes HIM feel as you are now!�

11. Another glowing 'being' appeared. As the others, he too held a flask containing a bacteriological, radiation, and/or chemical weapon to be used for the world�s mass destruction. I begged him, in the name of the most high God, who is, was, and ever shall be, not to give me another drink!

12. He only pointed and said, �Look!� And I did.

13. I saw a creature not like anything I�d ever seen on any safari. I did a quick scan of my surroundings trying to find Nehi, my gunbearer with the three-O-three, but movement caught my attention and I was drawn back to the beast.

14. It was purple, the lines on its skin were as a zebras except for the graffiti of blasphemies against God. Its four feet were as a leopard.

15. I looked closer and saw it had seven heads and ten horns.

16. Again, I quickly looked around for my three-0-three, but noticed the beast wasn�t moving. It was already dead.

17. I walked closer, my heart pounded in my ears, my legs ready to retreat.

18. Closer. I could clearly see a head wound on one of the seven. It�s brains and blood freshly oozed from the cavity. I could smell it. It�s stink told me it was a male. Or had been.

19. Then I noticed the woman on top, sitting like she�d ridden it sidesaddle. The slurred words coming from her ruby colored lips would make a sailor blush.

20. I walked closer. I noticed the gaudy jewelry of brightly colored gems, pearls, and gold that adorned her.

21. Closer now, I looked at her face. To say she was hideous would be too kind. She was as all the ugliness of every whore of Matamoras, Tijuana, and Havana poured into one. I looked around for my three-0-three to put one us out of our misery. My money was on her.

22. As she cursed, I noticed she was drunk, and I wondered what she was drinking. As she tipped the golden goblet to her mouth, some of its crimson contents spilt and ran down her mouth.

23. The angel behind me cried, �The blood of the saints that held firm to the truth of the Lord God almighty, and died as martyrs.�

24. Still closer, I could see written on the forehead of the whore, �Babylon the Great, Mother of Prostitutes and Idol Worship everywhere around the world.� Just by her looks, I thought she should have quit the trade twenty years ago.