A Hero in the Book of Jeraneck: Linker

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.