Today, I want to blog about a hero in the Book of Jeraneck
named Linker, who had been captured during the Second Great War among the
ancient Britons, who were all descendants of the People of Light who came to
that Isle under the guidance of Almighty God. Bear with me, because this is a
long-ish selection, from the fourteenth chapter:
“Now the people of Christ who had
stayed behind made themselves known unto the forces of Odinon. And they gave
them battle, and their number was two hundred and they fought well and they
gave the forces of Odinon a sore battle and the fight was bloody and fierce,
and upon the defeat of the people of Christ, a soldier of the forces of Odinon
brought forth a prisoner whose name was Linker. Now he brought him unto the
captain of their forces.
Now the captain of the forces was
Aktar and he commanded to know where the people had gone. And he commanded to know where the forces
commanded by Zinon had fled. And the prisoner Linker, who the records say was a
priest among the people, would not tell Aktar. And with this, Aktar brought
before Linker the women of the people of Christ and he commanded that his men
defile the women.
With this, Aktar forced Linker to
watch and with this, Linker called upon the Lord of Heaven to deliver him from
his enemy and the Lord did indeed listen to him and he gave unto Linker great
strength so that he could overpower his captors, and with this, the Lord did
indeed deliver him from his enemies.
And Linker fled before Aktar and he
fled into the wilderness around about the city of Ridnon and he did make his
way unto the forces of Christ and he did
tell them of the death and the destruction and he did tell them of the murder
of the children and the defiling of
their women.” BOJ, 13:119-125
First of all, have no fear. This extremely evil Aktar, in
the following chapter, drowns in a river, still calling out (in vain, it turns
out) to his false god, Odinon.
Secondly, the escape of Linker, after enduring the torture
of witnessing the rape and murder of his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,
was a God-ordained event, which allowed him to get word to the People of the
Light exactly where and how many were the enemy. In this case, escaping to live
another day was indeed the better part of valor, just as those who may have
escaped from prison camps in recent decades would have surely gotten word back
to their troops that aided them in their battles.
The final battles of the Second Great War in the Book of
Jeraneck are incredibly inspiring also, and they show every man, woman and
child who could hold a sword and fight doing so to preserve their way of life.
Heroism is so rare today, and it’s rarer still that a nation
takes up arms so courageously to fight off invaders. But just two generations
ago, the nation of Great Britain did once again stand up to invaders who sought
their eradication.
