"TO THE PEOPLE: The sign has been sent you. You must now believe.
The traitor is among you, and you must hunt him down. This is your
sacred duty, for I, your master, have laid it upon you."
That was one of the first. After a round dozen of similar import, there
came this:
"TO THE PEOPLE: I, your master, am displeased with you. The
visitations of darkness and of silence have been sent, but you have
heeded little. I doubt not that ye search, as I have commanded, but
you do not realize to the full your sacred obligation. You go about
your business and you carry on your affairs. Your business and your
affairs are not so important as these, my commands. Beware lest you
draw down the wrath of the Lord's Anointed. I am patient with your
ignorance; but give heed."
The last at present to which your attention is called came just before the
events to be detailed:
"TO THE PEOPLE: Your time is drawing short. You are a stubborn and a
stiff-necked generation. My patience is ebbing away. You have been
shown the power of my right hand, and you have gone your accustomed
ways. You have defied the might of the Right Hand of God. Now I will
lay on you my commands.
"You must seek out Apollyon and deliver him even into my hands, and
that shortly. I shall be patient yet a little while longer, for I
know that you grope in darkness and have not the light that shines
upon me.
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