Obediently I lay down on my side, still watching the flames flicker as they consumed the dry wood.
"I heard you singing and yet it was as if you weren't. It was like the sound was inside of me like some ancient rhythm, but not confined to me. It was beautiful. It took all my fear away."
"Go to sleep, Benaiah."
I closed my eyes and at once I heard the resonance of a melody that had the power of life behind it, which lulled me into a deep sleep almost instantly.
*****
Walking. It was all we did it would seem, but that was not true. Kuri talked. It seemed as if his words never stopped and I did not wish for them to. I was learning so much.
Never had I had so much one on one communication with another individual before. I had grown up largely alone, with little outside exposure to the world around me. It was like I'd been held in the dark for 15 years before experiencing the light of the sun.
Kuri talked of everything from ancient historical events to matters of science and the understanding of the signs of nature all around us. He talked of past battles and even of the former realm of the old kingdom and his people, the Yesathurim.
"Does it bother you Kuri, that your people have fallen on such hard times?"
"More than you can know Benaiah."
I studied on it a bit before asking, "I know I asked before, but I didn't understand so I'm asking again. Why, if the Yesathurim are the chosen people, of which you are one, are you having anything to do with me, a stranger?"
"The blessing that was imparted to my people is still one that resounds today. We have a custom that if a stranger wishes to be of our family and observes our ways then we are to adopt him."
"That's what you're doing with me, right?"
"No."
"No?" I asked puzzled.
"You have no need of adoption as you are already an heir to the promises of Shamayim, because the door was opened long ago by one man's sacrifice for all, to come and be known of El Elyon as heirs of the Kingdom of Shamayim. If you do that which has been recorded down in the Holy Scrolls and preserved to this day with a faithful heart then you too will see the Kingdom of Shamayim one day. My people, the Yesathurim, are in error, because they have rejected the belief that redemption is available for all and in turn they have rejected El Elyon; for they have rejected the message of the one He sent to sacrifice for all. They now hold to old traditions that are of no effect, as they daily turn their backs on the truth freely given and recorded down for them to read and yet I tell you that they are still El Elyon's people. The seven Kingdomer nations once bravely put themselves forth in the faith of the new covenant at their birth in the Ruach, which is the Holy Spirit of El Elyon, but now they have largely fallen away from the truths that were entrusted to them. What do you think their position is in the reality of the eternity to come, if El Elyon did not spare the Yesathurim, His chosen people, for their lack of belief, but instead cast them out from His presence?"