She picks from the folklore tale of the "Wandering Jew" but takes it a step further and instead of it being a Jew it's a Roman. He and his wife worked for Pontias Pilate and his wife and he wanted the Roman Centurions to like him so after they beat Jesus he waited along the route Jesus took to the cross. He punched Jesus in the face hoping to knock him down and get the approval of the Centurions. Jesus didn't fall. He stumbled and the crown of thorns fell off and then He said to the Roman, "You see me now, but you will live until the day you see me clearly."
So the Roman has been alive for 2,000 years. He had become a Christian and believes his purpose is to witness to the anti-christ to give the earth more time to repent and accept Christ. He knows that satan does not know the date and time of the Raptures and that only God the Father does. So he believes that every generation satan prepares an anti-christ. Over the past 2,000 years he's gotten close to the ones who he believes are the ones satan has picked and witnesses to them. He often got killed and tortured etc.
Modern day...........a jury consultant gets a job offer she can't refuse to go work for a global peace organization in Rome. The Roman who's been wandering the world for 2,000 years believes the head of this organization is the anti-christ and all the prophecies have been fulfilled and he's sure the time is right. He has to get past the jury consultant who is good at reading people in order to get a job in that organization.
They become friends. She is not a Christian. He is but does not really understand what Jesus told him. He helps her with her faith and in turn she points out the misconception he's been living under for the last 2,000 years.
It's a great story. Intriguing considering the many legends of the Wandering Jew there are floating around out there.
In the beginning of her book she writes:
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" The apostle John wrote in his Gospel, 'And I supposed that if all the other things Jesus did were written down, the whole world could not contain the books.' (21:25). Did Jesus speak to a man while carrying his cross to Calvary? I don't know. Many legends suggest that he did.
This book is not inspired by Scripture. Though it contains a great deal of truth, I'd like you to see it as a parable, a fictional tale with an outer layer of story and layers of deeper meaning underneath. All fiction rests upon an implicit conspiracy between writer and reader -the writer tells the story, and the reader, for a few hours at least, pretends it really happened.
I'm not seriously suggesting that God might allow a man to live for two thousand years, but, like Vittorio Pace, I learned a long time ago that it's never wise to tell God what he can an cannot do."
This book is not inspired by Scripture. Though it contains a great deal of truth, I'd like you to see it as a parable, a fictional tale with an outer layer of story and layers of deeper meaning underneath. All fiction rests upon an implicit conspiracy between writer and reader -the writer tells the story, and the reader, for a few hours at least, pretends it really happened.
I'm not seriously suggesting that God might allow a man to live for two thousand years, but, like Vittorio Pace, I learned a long time ago that it's never wise to tell God what he can an cannot do."
I love the second and third paragraph she wrote. I very well could've written it for the book I'm working on. The last part about it not being wise to tell God what He can and cannot do is exactly my point and the reason I'm writing the book I am.
