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CHAPTER
THREE: RESCUE
It was midnight and the prisoners were asleep. Billy
woke up to find a pretty girl with blue eyes and straight blonde hair
in his cell, patting him to wake him up. “What in the world?” he
gasped. She took him by the arm and lifted him out of bed. “Woah.”
“I’m here to get you out, Billy. Get dressed. We
must hurry.” she explained.
“Oh. You must be a lawyer.” he guessed. “They let
you in, and then locked the cell door?” he puzzled. “You look kind of
young to be a lawyer. Are you a lawyer?”
“Not exactly. Follow me.” She pulled on the door and
it slid open. “Come on.” She led him out.
“I guess I have nothing to lose.” He followed her
out of the jail and through the police station. Doors opened in front
of them. Billy’s jaw dropped in total astonishment.
“Quick, let us go!” she said. She led him outside to
a parked car, and opened the door for him. “Hop in.”
As he got in, and closed the door, she got in on the
driver’s side.
“My name is Gabriela. I was sent here to get you out
of jail.” the girl said. As she drove away, he could hear an alarm in
the background. By the end of the block, he could see the reflections
of flashing blue police lights. Gabriela drove faster and faster until
she ran a red light, narrowly missing a tractor trailer.
“Woah, that was close.” Billy noted.
“Don’t worry, we’re protected.” The car proceeded
into a patch of dense fog. When it cleared, Billy looked down.
“Excuse me, but, like, I see the ground getting
lower and lower. We’re like, um, flying.” Billy observed.
“Not to worry, we’ll be there soon enough.” she
assured him.
“Um. I’m lost. At first, I thought you were a
lawyer.” Billy asked.
“I am not a lawyer. I am an angel.”
“Woah. Like, this gets better. But like, um, since
when do angels come and spring prisoners out of jail?” he asked.
“Well, were you not visited by a servant, who
presented to you the holy scriptures?” she asked.
“Oh, you mean, like, that dude that was handing out
the Bibles?” he realized. “You know him?”
“I have met his guardian angel. But you marvel, so I
call upon you to read, in the Acts of the Apostles, in the twelfth
chapter, start at the sixth verse.”
Billy opened the Bible and consulted the verse,
reading to her:
“And when Herod would have brought him forth, the
same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two
chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold,
the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison:
and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up
quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said
unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he
saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. And he went
out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by
the angel; but thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first
and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the
city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and
passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from
him. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a
surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of
the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the
Jews.”
“So your question is answered, is it not?” she asked.
“Well, yeah. It’s not like I have to take your word
for it. I’m reading it right here. Just what happened to me, except for
the part where the angel ditches the guy.” he noted.
Gabriela said, “That is important to check. You are
doing the right thing to verify it, as it is also written in the Acts
of the Apostles, in the seventeenth chapter, and the eleventh verse,
where the Bereans are described.”
“Um, wait a second. Let me read that with you. Verse
eleven? Got it.”
Billy read silently as Gabriela recited from memory,
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
