The Adventures of
The Taylors
An Archaeological Family
in
Book of the Archangels
Book 1
by
L. C. Walker
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DEDICATION
To my son and daughter, the adventures we went
on, when they were growing up, are similar
to the ones in this book. The difference
is that we never left the United States.
Each year our vacation plans were
different and each trip was as
exciting as the one before.
FOREWORD
Archaeology is a fantastic and interesting career to be in. When an archaeologist makes a discovery, it not only makes him feel proud of what he has done, but it makes his team feel as if they have accomplished something that no one else has ever done or seen.
When an archaeologist has a wife who is an archaeologist and their three children are with them all of the time, the discoveries seem even more exciting. The children are as fascinated with a new discovery as the parents are and perhaps even more so. Because of all of the tales their father has told them, the children are full of anticipation.
Tales of buried treasure, gold mines, the Staff of Moses and secret entrances where things are hidden, are only a few stories their father, Dallas, has told them. Each day, the children explore and look for the things that most children would consider fairy tales. They know, sooner or later, they will discover that the tales are really true and the day of proof is coming nearer and nearer, as each day passes.
PROLOGUE
The command was given: "Kill him and his entire family. If anyone tries to help them, kill them also." When the command was given, the forces of evil started their trip to find the prophet of the Last Days and kill him. If he escapes, the demons, who were given the task to kill him, will pay with their own lives.
The demons knew that the prophet was special, because of what the Book of the Prophets and the Book of The Archangels had predicted. The books told of a prophet that would be born in the Last Days. This prophet would read the Book of the Prophets and see clues that would lead him to the Book of the Archangels. Once he found the Book of the Archangels, everything would change.
The Devil knew that Dallas Taylor was the prophet of the last days because he asked the Lord. The Lord told the Devil that Dallas Taylor was the end time prophet. The Devil had read the Book of the Prophets two thousand years before and the Book of the Archangels thirty five hundred years before and that is when he knew a prophet would appear in the Last Days. When Dallas was born, the Devil started his search for the prophet.
The search for Dallas started at the last place the Devil knew his family lived. However, I made finding Dallas and his family almost impossible for the Devil and his demons. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you who I am. My name is Stephael and I am an Archangel. I have one job and that is to protect Dallas Taylor and his family.
The first thing I did to protect Dallas and his family was to change the time that he was born. The Devil knew that the prophet would be born in the Last Days, so I was given permission from my God, Jehovah, to use whatever means I needed to change things so the Devil would chase after false trails. Chase after false trails is the exact thing that he would do. But, it is inevitable that the Devil would find Dallas and, at that time, my job would become harder than I ever thought.
The first war started the day Dallas was born and it ended when God spoke the word. The word God spoke was one that He hardly ever used. He put a protective shield around Dallas and his family. This shield is a seal that was placed on Dallas and his entire family, which prevented the Devil and his demons from killing the Taylor family. Oh, that is the reason God told the Devil that the prophet of the Last Days was Dallas. With the protective shield around Dallas and his family, the Devil could not kill any of them. Of course, God did not tell the Devil that tidbit of information.
Now, let's get back to the war. The war, like I said, started the day Dallas was born. The Devil sent a legion of his best demons to find and kill the end time prophet. If they were successful, he figured the Book of the Archangels would not be found and the things spoken of in the book would not occur.
The Book of the Prophets spoke about the prophet and the time when he would be born. The Devil knew the birth of the prophet, by the name of the "Care Taker," could occur at any time. He had his demons watching and, when the exact time for his birth was discovered, with the blowing of the trumpet in Heaven, the command from the Devil went out. Kill the prophet and anyone that will try to help save him. Dallas and all children born at that very second were in real peril. The only one that would survive would be the End Time Prophet, Dallas Taylor, better known in Heaven as the Care Taker.
With that command, the slaughter began. All children in the entire world that were born when the trumpet was sounded, up to thirty seconds after the trumpet, were killed by the legion of demons the Devil had sent to earth. The battle, if you could call it a battle, did not last very long. As a matter of fact, it only lasted for a very short time. The reason the battle did not last long is because new born babies cannot protect themselves; they are totally helpless. When the slaughter was over, the Devil sounded his own trumpet to let everyone know that he had accomplished his goal. He thought he had killed the prophet. However, because of the way I changed things, the prophet was not killed. The Devil gloated over his win and what he thought was a great victory over God. For the first time, he thought he had proven that the Word from God was not fulfilled and that made God out as being a liar. If he was able to prove that God was a liar, it would mean that God and His Word could be changed. One thing that all humans know is that God cannot lie; He is truthful.
The battle was over, but the war continued on after the Devil discovered that Dallas was not dead. The Devil went on a rage. He started more wars and killed hundreds of thousands of people. His rage would not cease; it would continue until the end of the Tribulation.
Chapter 1
WATCH OUT the rock is falling, run, run!! Dallas turned and looked up and saw the huge boulder falling and it was falling straight toward him. He took five quick steps to the right so the boulder would miss him. It only missed him by only inches, but it did miss him.
Jael had saved his life, but it was not the first time he saved Dallas from certain death. Death has been looking for Dallas before he was born, but that is a story I will tell you a little later. What I want to tell you right now is the first and second time Dallas visited Israel. I will not tell you everything that happened that would spoil the story. I will only tell you one or two of the things that happen to Dallas.
Dallas Taylor is an archaeologist that loves to find things, such as dinosaur bones, hidden caves, maps, and the list goes on and on. One day he received a letter in the mail. The letter stated that he was supposed to go to Israel and meet a man named Jael. The letter stated that Jael would take him to Cairo and once they were in Cairo he and Jael would go to the Sphinx. One item they would find is a map. The map would give them directions to a cave. At that cave Dallas would find a treasure that was beyond words.
When people hear that someone has found a treasure their first thought is about gold or silver. For some people gold or silver would be a treasure, but for others a treasure could be an old book or an old stamp. One persons treasure is different for each person.
During that first visit to Israel Dallas had no idea who Jael was, but he knew he was going to find things that would boggle his mind. The one thing he did not know was that the Devil had his demons watching Dallas all of the time. At every turn the Devil would try and take the life of Dallas. However, Jael was watching and he thought he knew what the Devil would try next. What Jael was doing was anticipating each and every move of the Devil. Each time the Devil would try something new Jael was always one step ahead. One might say that Jael knew his enemy almost better than he knew himself.
Dallas also had his ace in the hole, his ace was me. Since I was given the job to protect Dallas I am watching for the things the Devil will throw at him that could kill him. The Devil knows and I know that Dallas cannot be killed, but that will not stop the Devil from trying to take the life of the prophet of the Last Days.
When Dallas arrived in Israel Jael was waiting at the airport to pick him up and off to the hotel they went. Inside the hotel room Dallas and Jael talked about going to Cairo and finding a treasure. Jael knew what some people expect when they hear the word treasure. They conjure up things like diamonds, rubies, gold, silver, maps, rings, necklaces, pictures, books, and other things people consider priceless.
Jael had no idea what they might find, the letter was not sent to him it was sent to Dallas. The person who sent the letter must have known about the treasure and about Jael. The person that sent the letter knew a lot about Dallas. They knew that Dallas would love to find a treasure beyond words, but they also knew that Dallas considered finding a whole dinosaur more exciting than finding a cave full of the things mentioned above.
When Jael and Dallas arrived in Cairo they went to the Sphinx. They looked all around the Sphinx, but they did not find a treasure or anything else. They decided to go that night and see if someone would be there that would direct them to a treasure. The person that sent the letter may show up?
No one showed up that night, but Dallas did find a map and a book. Both were very important finds. If things continue as they are now Dallas will want to move to Israel as fast as possible.
The trip home to the States was one trip that Jael decided to take to make sure Dallas arrived safe and sound. Even though he knew the Devil may try to kill Dallas he knew the trip may be uneventful. When Dallas and Jael reached Dallas's home they both could rest more peaceful.
The second trip Dallas made to Israel was a spur of the moment trip. Dallas received a call from Dr. Tolbert about a cave he was told about that may have some items in it that date back to 4 B.C. Dr. Tolbert told Dallas that he went inside the cave with a friend and he found one scroll that was at least two thousand years old. He said the cave went so far back that he did not feel comfortable in it.
Dallas informed Dr. Tolbert that he would get the first flight to Israel and they both would see what they could find? Dr. Tolbert was thrilled that Dallas would be coming back to Israel. Dallas thought about the long flight over to Israel, but because he was so tired he slept most of the way. At the airport an old friend was waiting for Dallas, it was Jael. Jael took Dallas to the hotel and the next morning they would all go to the cave.
The next morning Dallas and Jael went down to the lobby to meet Dr. Tolbert. When Dr. Tolbert arrived he had his friend with him. Dallas and Jael were both surprised to see Dr. Tolbert's friend. They all hugged each other and then they were off to the cave.
At the cave Dallas thought for sure he would find treasures so vast it would be beyond words. However, when he first walked in the only thing he found was an empty hollow cave. Inside that cave a huge boulder fell and Jael hollowed out, "WATCH OUT the rock is falling, run, run!!" If Dallas had not moved five quick steps to the right he would have been killed. That was a narrow escape and now they all had to be on their toes. All four men had a flashlight and they were looking all around. To the left Dallas saw a jar that was cover by dirt. He looked inside the jar and there was a small scroll. He gave it to Dr. Tolbert.
After looking in the cave for almost an hour Dallas and Dr. Tolbert decided it was a ghost trail except for the small scroll. The small scroll was a huge find. It was about the Book of Daniel. In the scroll it told about the time period that Daniel lived and the date of his death. The reason it was a huge find was because it stated that Daniel died in March of 531 B.C. Many scholars that did not believe the Bible, believed that Daniel was written somewhere around 150 B.C. and it was written after the fact. With this scroll it proves the Bible is correct and God does know the future.
Before they all left the cave, the friend of Dr. Tolbert stated that he felt like the cave does have more in it than meets the eye. “I feel as if there is a treasure here and all we have to do is to find it. If we look hard enough, we should be able to find something such as a hidden door or a hidden compartment.”
Dallas and Dr. Tolbert decided they should take another hour or so and see what they could find. The friend of Dr. Tolbert told Dallas that he should look along one wall and Dr. Tolbert should look along the other wall. It was Dallas that found it first. Along the right side wall was a path way cut out of the solid rock. The path only went back about twelve feet, but what was at the end of the path made Dallas think of a treasure once again. At the end of the path, to the right, was a door. The door was made of solid rock which Dallas estimated weighed two thousand pounds.
Dallas pushed at the door, but the door would not move. Jael and Dr. Tolbert’s friend looked at the door and ran their hand up both sides and across the top. At the top was a rock spindle about six inches long and two inches wide. Jael lifted the spindle straight up and out of the hole. When the spindle was lifted out, the door did open. Dallas and Dr. Tolbert both shined their flashlights inside and that is when they both saw a treasure that was beyond words.
The treasure that Dallas and Dr. Tolbert found would remain a secret until they were given permission to reveal it to the world. Jael and Dr. Tolbert’s friend made it clear that if the world knew about this treasure it would off-set the power in the Middle East and it would make Israel into a cup of trembling.
Dallas did not stay in Israel very long after that find, he only stayed three days. During those three days he went to two other caves, but nothing was found. The last day he was in Israel he meet with Jael, Dr. Tolbert and Dr. Tolbert’s friend and wished them all well. His trip back went as fast as his trip over, it just flew by.
Dallas was now sure that he and his family had to move to Israel. The two trips to Israel were unbelievable and if he wanted to find one treasure after another he would have to be where history was made.
Chapter 2
AS YOU know, my name is Stephael and I am an Archangel. My job was to protect Dallas Taylor and his family. I told you I was going to tell you how I changed things so the Devil would not know the time that Dallas would be born. I was ready to tell you the story, but God told me I was supposed to tell you about the Devil and how he became the god of the earth. Since I was commanded to tell you the story of the things that happened before the earth was formed and the story of the things that will happened on earth right up to the Rapture, I believe it is best to start at the beginning.
The story begins before there was an earth. God formed all things and without God, nothing was formed. Before He, the Son, and the Holy Spirit made earth, They created a group of special beings called Angels. There are two kinds of angels. There are the regular angels and then there are the mighty Archangels. I am one of those angels, as are Lucifer, Michael, Azael, Raphael, Uriel, and Gabriel, just to name a few.
Before there was an earth, our job was to do anything God commanded us to do. As you read this, you may be wondering: What could an angel do in Heaven? One of the most important things we can do is to praise the Creator and give him all of our worship and honor. That is really where the story begins.
We angels love to praise the Lord and give Him the honor that is due Him. But there was one angel that thought all of that praising and honoring was useless and was not needed. His name was Lucifer. Even though he was an Archangel and the very first being that God ever created, he was not like the other angels. Lucifer had a lot of pride in his heart and he was not satisfied with the idea of being just an Archangel. He wanted to be more than just a servant.
Lucifer knew that he was the first angel that God ever created and he knew he was the most powerful angel that God ever created. Knowing those things is where the problem first started. Pride can affect even a being as powerful as an Archangel. Once an angel or a human gets to the point where they believe they are more than what they are, there will be a problem.
I will say there were other problems with Lucifer other than the pride. Lucifer was also jealous of God and when God created more angels, he was jealous of them as well. The main reason he was jealous of the other angels was because he wanted to be the only angel in Heaven. Once God created the second angel, the jealousy began. Then, when God created another angel and another, the jealousy deepened and the jealousy turned to hatred.
When God created Michael, who is the second most powerful Archangel, the problems with Lucifer started to overflow. Lucifer hated Michael from the very second God created him. God placed in Michael a very strong personality that was willing to summit to God, but not to other angels. Michael would not submit to the commands of Lucifer and that made Lucifer very mad. As a matter of fact, the hatred drove Lucifer to the point of wanting to kill Michael. However, that is something that God would not allow. God can make an angel cease to exist, if that is His will. He has a place where He can put an angel that rebels; that place is called Hell. God knew before They created angels that many of them would rebel and They had to make a place where they would be for eternity. That place was made specifically for the Devil and his angels.
From the time that God created Lucifer, God knew the heart of the greatest angel He had ever created. This angel wanted to be God or he wanted to be like God. Lucifer knew in his heart he could never be God, so he wanted to be like God. If he could be like God, he could command the angels to worship him and they would do what they were commanded. Lucifer did not realize there would be a problem, because he did not know that all the angels would not follow his commands. God is the one who commands and most of us follow His commands only. Those following the commands of Lucifer were the ones that thought things should be the way that he was telling them they should be.
Lucifer tried to command all of the angels in Heaven to do the things that he thought should be done. Some of the angels followed his commands, while others would only listen to the things that God commanded. Two thirds followed the commands of God, while one third decided to listen to Lucifer. By listening to Lucifer, they were going down a road they would regret for eternity.
The battle that will take place in Heaven will not take place right away. God is longsuffering and He gives chance after chance to the angels that are not abiding with the commands that He gives. Even though the angels and their leader are not committing sins, they are on the verge of doing that very thing.
God knows everything and He knew that He was going to create a place called Earth. He also knew that He wanted there to be a Universe and in the Universe there would be billions of Galaxies and, in each Galaxy, there would be Solar Systems. Earth would be in a Solar System that would have a Sun and other planets. It would be placed exactly where God wanted it placed so it would not be too close to the Sun, where it would melt or boil the planet, and He placed it so it would not be too far from the Sun, so the planet would be too cold for life.
The reason God wanted Earth to be placed exactly where He put it was because of what He was going to do in the near future. He was going to create a human being. When He told all of Heaven what They were going to do, we angels had no idea what a human was going to look like or what function a human would have. We never tied the two together. What I mean is, we never thought that Earth was going to be the place where humans would live.
When I said we angels never thought that Earth was going to be formed for humans and we had no idea what function a human would have was not totally correct. There was one angel that started thinking about the planet and about the human. Because of the heart of Lucifer, he started to think about the human that God was going to create. This being, called a human, may have a will as strong as Michael, but he may not have. If he does not have a strong will, he will be easy to command. If he is easy to command, he could do everything that Lucifer commanded him to do. This would include worshipping the created other than the Creator.
Lucifer continued with his assault and intimidation of the other angels. More and more of the angels were giving in to the pressure from Lucifer. For some angels, the pressure was too great, and they fled to the throne of God. At the throne, they could find refuge and they knew Lucifer would not enter into that area, because of his rebellion toward God.
Like I said, God is longsuffering and he gave Lucifer every chance to change his ways and to get straight with the Lord. He did not want to seek forgiveness. As a matter of fact, Lucifer became worse than ever. God has drawn a line and, if you cross that line, there are no other chances God will give you. The same thing holds true for Lucifer. God let Lucifer get away with one thing after another until Lucifer demanded that the angels who followed him drop to their knees and worship him as God.
When Lucifer made the decision to have his followers drop to their knees and worship him, God had seen enough. Lucifer had crossed the line of no return. God proclaimed that Lucifer had committed a sin and that sin would expel him from the heavenlies. It was also the time that God changed the name of Lucifer to Satan and the Devil. All the angels that were left in Heaven knew Lucifer as Satan and, to show even more contempt for him, they called him the Devil.
Because God is Holy, He cannot look upon sin or have sin in His presence. The Devil and a third of the angels, who followed him, had to be expelled from Heaven, God's home. However, that did not mean they were expelled from the heavenly area. The Devil and his angels were still in an area of heaven until God created the universe.
At that time, God created Earth and, a little later, God created a human being that He called Man. Man would have one job and that was to cultivate or to till a place that God called the Garden of Eden.
The garden had all kinds of plants, flowers, and trees. Two of the trees that were in the garden were the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Both of these trees were very unique. If a human were to eat of the Tree of Life, they would live forever and, if a human were to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, they would know the difference between right and wrong.
God commanded that man could eat of all the fruit in the garden with the exception of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. God stated, "For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." God then commanded the man, whom He named Adam, to name all the animals He had created. The name that Adam chose for the animals would be their names forever.
After naming all of the animals, God looked and saw that each animal had a mate with the exception of Adam. God then put Adam into a deep sleep and removed a rib and formed a help meet for him. Adam called his help meet Woman, because she was bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh. Adam now had someone to help him in the Garden of Eden.
The Devil looked upon earth and knew what God had done. He saw the man and the woman and his desire to be worshipped overwhelmed him with pride and greed. The Devil looked upon the earth and saw the most beautiful creature that God had ever created and he decided to talk with the serpent. We were never told what the Devil said to the serpent, but whatever it was, it was enough for the serpent to commit a sin.
The plan was made and the serpent knew exactly what he was going to do. One day when the Woman was walking in the garden, the serpent asked a very simple question, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Immediately the man and the woman had their eyes opened to the fact that they were naked. They found fig leaves and sewed them together so their nakedness would not be seen by God when He came into the garden. Every day, God would go to the garden and talk and walk with Adam and his wife. When God entered the garden Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
The plan the Devil had devised worked perfectly. However, the serpent failed to realize that it would cost him a lot. The serpent would be cursed and the way he would live would be changed forever. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of they life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The serpent begged and pleaded with God to change His mind, but the serpent was guilty and there is always a price to pay when one is guilty.
Adam and his wife were guilty, also, and there had to be a price they would have to pay. They would be expelled from the garden, which was a small price to pay. The real price they had to pay was their fellowship with the LORD. No longer would the LORD walk every evening with Adam and his wife in the garden. The close fellowship Adam and his wife shared with God no longer existed. Adam and his wife had a new companion walking with them and that was sin. Not only would sin be with Adam and his wife, but sin would enter the human race. Every human born on earth with the sinful blood of Adam would be cursed. The only human born without the sinful blood of Adam would be the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
When Adam and his wife were expelled from the garden, the curse that God pronounced upon them would start. Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
God knew that Adam and Eve would be able to live forever if they were to eat of the Tree of Life. In order for that not to happen, God placed a guard at the entrance of the garden to protect the Tree. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to gurad the way of the Tree of Life.
Adam and Eve knew each other and they had a child by the name of Cain. Because of the sinful blood of Adam, he passed it to his son and to every human in the world, with the exception of one human and you already know who that person was. Cain was just like the Devil, that being the pride and the arrogance of a being that believes they are more than what they really are.
With Cain came the first real victory over a human that the Devil registered in his book called the Book of Death. Every person that rejects God, or His Son Jesus Christ, will be in the Book of Death. God does not register those people in the book; it is the Devil. When the Devil believes he has won the victory and a person is walking down the path of destruction, he will place them in his book. Many times, he has to change his book because when a person is on the verge of death, a person will accept Christ. When that person accepts, the Devil must remove that person's name from the Book of Death.
The complete opposite is true for the believer. Their name is written in the Book of Life. The Book of Life is the book that God keeps on all humans. Before the Earth was ever formed, God knew who would accept and who would reject. All humans that would accept had their names written in the Book of Life. All those that reject never had their names written in the Book of Life.
Adam and Eve had a second son by the name of Abel. Abel was a true follower of God and Cain was a true hater of God. The hatred Cain had for God followed Abel into the field one day. Cain took a club and struck Abel in the head and killed his brother. When asked about his brother by God, Cain answered and stated that he was not his brother’s keeper. God knew what Cain had done and that innocent blood was shed. The battle between good and evil had started and the Devil had won the first battle.
There would be many battles to follow, but the one battle that was fought on a hill in Jerusalem was won by the Lord Jesus Christ. With that battle, Christ died for all of the sins of the world. All a human has to do is to accept Him and they will be born again. Abel had placed his faith in God and, when he was killed by his brother, he received eternal life.
When that battle was over, God informed the Devil that he would be the god of the earth and that some of the angels that fell with him would become demons. However, not all would become demons. There was a group that was so terrible that they were chained up for eternity, so they would not be able to tempt humans.
The End Time prophet known as the Care Taker is in the same dangerous field that Abel was in when Cain found him and killed him. Death is licking at the heels of Dallas Taylor and, if it was not for God sending me to protect Dallas, he would have ended up just like Abel. He would have been murdered.
CHAPTER 3
NOW LET me get back to the story of Dallas Taylor, the prophet of the Last Days, better known in Heaven as The Care Taker. My God Jehovah commanded me to protect this family while they are looking for a number of things. Dallas believes, if he follows a map he found, he will be able to find all of the treasures that legend and tradition have spoken about. He also believes he will find the Compartment of Paradise, if the map is authentic. If he finds the Compartment of Paradise, he hopes he will find the Ark of the Covenant, the oil, the water, and the Ashes of the Red Heifer, spoken about in Numbers 19. However, Dallas does have an enemy; that enemy is the Devil.
The Devil knows all about the Ashes of the Red Heifer and the other things that are needed to dedicate the Tribulation Temple before it is opened for worship. He does not want those elements to be found. If the elements are found and they are used in the temple, it would mean the worshipers would be worshipping Jehovah. The Devil wants to be worshipped, but he doesn't want God to be worshipped. The Devil knows for certain that the Jews will worship him, if he can prevent the elements from being found.
The Devil is going to do everything in his power to prevent Dallas from finding the Compartment of Paradise and the other places where clues are hidden. Those clues will uncover places that have been hidden for thousands of years. If the Devil gets there before Dallas, those clues will be destroyed and other means will have to be used to find the places that have been hidden.
When I first started telling about the Taylor family, I said that they were my family. I am not related to them because I am an Archangel, like I stated before. I have no earthly family. All I have is my creator, God, and the other angels in heaven. But, when we are given a task or we are commanded to protect humans on earth, they become just like a family to us.
The very first time I heard about Dallas Taylor was when I was at the Throne of God and I heard a prayer come from a preacher about his son. The preacher was Silas Bartholomew Taylor. Silas prayed that his son, Dallas, who he wanted to be a preacher, would become one of the greatest archaeologists, if not the greatest to ever live. In his prayer he said that his son did not want to be a preacher and spend all of his time indoors preparing sermon after sermon for people that were already saved. He wanted to be outdoors, breathing fresh air, and doing what he wanted to do instead of what others wanted him to do.
Silas continued and said that his son loved my God with all his heart and wanted to do something that he could look back at and see that he had accomplished with his faith. His accomplishments would be to become an archaeologist and discover things about the Bible that most people thought were fairy tales or just myths.
As Silas continued with his prayer, he asked that God would direct Dallas in things that others only dream about. He asked for a double and then a triple portion of blessings for his son and that the Holy Spirit would guide and direct Dallas in the way he should go in order to find those things that the Lord wanted him to uncover. Silas also asked that the Holy Spirit would bring a woman into his son’s life that would love archaeology as much as Dallas did. At the end of his prayer, he asked that God would direct his path into the ministry, if Dallas changed his mind about being an archaeologist. He asked that God would let him bring thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
It was at that time that I was informed of my next job. I would protect Dallas and his family until the rapture. At the rapture, Dallas and his family, along with hundreds of millions of other believers, would be taken to Heaven without ever knowing what death felt like.
Dallas Nehemiah Taylor was born in Butt, Montana on a cold and snowy day in March. The winter had been extremely harsh that year and one rancher after another lost livestock to the cold temperatures. Silas was not a rancher, but most of the people in his flock were and the loss of one cow or bull was a big loss. People were praying for warmer weather and those prayers were going to be answered.
Not far from Butt is the place where archaeologists come each summer and look for dinosaur bones. Many bones have been found there and some archaeologists have found the complete skeletal remains of dinosaurs. This is the place I believe I will start my story about Dallas. By starting here, you will be able to see why he loves the outdoors and why he became an archaeologist.
Dallas was not the oldest child born to Silas and Kim Taylor; they had three other children. Dallas had two older brothers and an older sister. Dallas was the baby in the family. Being the baby means that the other children have to watch and take care of the youngest from time to time.
Sometimes it seems as if time just flies by for humans. We angels do not have the concept of time the way humans do. One day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day to us. Each and every day, I watched over the Taylors and kept them out of grave danger. My enemy, which is also the enemy of God, was looking all over the earth for the person the Lord had chosen to find the Book of the Archangels.
The Devil knew, once the Book of the Archangels was found, it would only be a matter of time before all of the other items would be found. Clues to finding the Staff of Moses, a Key to unlock the hiding place of the Books of Understanding, and the most important clue about where to find the Tree of Life were waiting in the Book of the Archangels.
If a person was to find the clue to where the tree was and he was to eat of the fruit, he could become immortal. Clues to the discovery of a map to King Solomon’s gold mines would be found. These are only a few of the things that the Book of The Archangels tells about.
The Devil had clues from the different books, known only to the Archangels, about a person that would become God’s chosen vessel and he would unlock the clues and find what the Devil had been looking for during almost thirty five hundred years. The Devil wanted to find the Book of the Archangels. The Devil had read, many thousands of years ago, in the Book of the Archangels, that a trumpet would sound in heaven and a special angel would be given the task of protecting the child that was just born. This child would be called the Care Taker in heaven, and he would be called Dallas Taylor on earth.
The moment Dallas was born, the Devil had his demons record the exact second the trumpet sounded. Even though the Devil is not all knowing like my God, he is very smart. He knew if he knew the exact second of the birth of the Care Taker, he could kill all the babies in the world that were born within thirty seconds of that exact time. By killing all of the babies, he would prevent the Care Taker from finding the Book of the Archangels and the other things that were needed for the true worship in the Tribulation Temple.
This time was similar to the time when Herod killed all the children from two years and younger in Bethlehem, which is recorded in Matthew 2:16. The reason, the Devil killed all the children in Bethlehem, was to prevent the Savior from coming on the world scene and saving people from their sins. The Devil failed then and he will fail this time, because the End Time Prophet must be born and he must grow up to fulfill what has been written about him and what he must do.
When Dallas was born, the Devil had his demons start killing all of the children in the world that were born within thirty seconds of the exact second the trumpet sounded in heaven. The nurse, who entered the time of Dallas' birth on the record book, had to find another black ink pen because the pen she had just ran out of ink. There was one obstacle after another that the nurse ran into while trying to find a pen. When she returned, instead of entering the exact time he was born, she entered the time when she returned. The time difference was ninety seconds. The demons missed killing Dallas by almost sixty seconds.
Two days in the hospital was all the time that Kim needed before she would leave with her new born son. At home, Silas and Kim were excited about a new arrival just like the other children were excited about a new brother. The excitement would last for about thirty days and then came the diapers and the feedings and the constant watching and caring for an infant. All of that is what a human parent will do for their children. That is the exact thing that we angels do for humans, also. Even though we don’t change diapers or feed humans, we protect them from the fiery darts of the Devil and his demons. Watching over the Taylor family would take all of my time.
As days and weeks came and went, Silas was fast at work. He had to have a new sermon ready every Sunday morning and on Sunday night, if anyone showed up, he would have a word study ready or a study on one of the great themes or doctrines of the Bible.
When the winter months were over and the warm winds out of the south started to blow, it meant one thing and that was that the diggers would show up in Montana. The archaeologists were what the local residents called diggers, who would dig all summer for dinosaur bones. At least once or twice a month, on Mondays or Tuesdays, Silas would take the kids out to the diggings and watch with excitement as the diggers uncovered ancient bones. Kim always prepared a lunch and now, with a new baby, her job was a little more difficult.
Some people enjoy taking their kids out to a park and play ball or badminton or a number of other things that humans think is fun. Silas and Kim enjoyed the ride in the country and the lunch while they watched young and old people dig for bones. The children really did like the drive and how meticulous each and every digger was when they would remove the dirt from what they thought was a bone.
I remember that first year in the life of Dallas. It did not take long for the Devil to realize that he had been fooled by God once again. He was so mad he could have killed everyone in the world if he had that kind of power. He did not have that kind of power, but he did start two more wars among smaller countries in the world, which resulted in the deaths of two hundred and thirty thousand people.
One thing that Silas wanted for his children was that they would receive Christ at a young age and that the boys would want to become preachers. He thought if he raised his boys the way they were supposed to be raised, they would love to become preachers. Silas had a good idea, but God and Dallas had other ideas and you know when God makes up His mind there is no power on earth or in heaven that can change His mind. Dallas had been chosen to be the Care Taker and that was that.
The second year in the life of Dallas was the most terrible year in all the years I protected Dallas and his family. The Devil discovered, through careful study and through the process of elimination, that Dallas was the one the trumpet was sounded for and that he was going to be the Care Taker. He also knew that an angel would be assigned to protect Dallas. With the Devil being a fallen Archangel, he knew that the angel that was assigned to protect Dallas did not possess the same kind of power that he did. He assumed that I would be easy to defeat.
One thing all angels in heaven know is that, if you need help, all you have to do is to ask and a legion of Archangels will come to your aid immediately. When the Devil came at me, I called, and to my surprise, the greatest Archangels in heaven appeared and were ready for battle, if the Devil wanted it that way. The Archangels that appeared on the scene were Azael, Raphael, Uriel, Gabriel, and the great protector of Israel, the Archangel Michael.
The battle that took place lasted off and on for a year and at the end of that year, God informed the Devil He was going to place his protective seal on Dallas and his immediate family. God also informed the Devil that when Dallas started his own family when he got older, that family will have the seal of protection on them, also. By having the protective seal, it meant that the Devil could not kill Dallas or anyone in his family. The Devil did not care if he lost this battle, because he had lost many battles before. He was more interested in winning the war; the war between good and evil.
Since the Devil could not prevent the Care Taker from finding the Book of the Archangels and the other things the Care Taker had to find, he decided to have his demons follow the Care Taker and destroy any and all of the things the Care Taker would find in caves or in locked chambers. He thought: God may be able to protect people with the seal, but He cannot protect the material things. The material things that Dallas would find would have to be protected by Dallas and his family. The material things were the things that would be needed for the End Times as the Devil saw it. So, those things were the essentials.
It was during Dallas’s tenth year of life that things made a complete turnaround. The summer was very hot that year. Silas took the children out to the diggings and, to the surprise of everyone, the professor in charge asked Dallas if he would like to help with a dig. Dallas jumped at the chance to help dig up bones. When the day was over, Dallas knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life. He wanted to be an archaeologist. At night, he would dream of digging up bones and he would dream about the adventures and the excitement he would have at finding things people have wondered about for thousands of years. By the way, all of those realities came true when Dallas graduated from college.
Being ten years old and having the time of your life is exciting to any kid, but to Dallas it was more than exciting, it was as if he was on a ship that was sailing around the world. Each port the ship would stop at would be full of things to do and places to see. There would also be the unknown. What would it be like to find a whole dinosaur? What was happening at the time of the death of the dinosaur? How long had it been dead? Question after question was asked by Dallas. Each question became an adventure and a mystery.
The first year that Dallas helped with the digs was not what most people would call real work. When Dallas and his family would take a picnic lunch out to the digs, the Professor would allow Dallas to help one of the diggers. Dallas never really found anything of importance; it was just the way the Professor did things. The Professor knew that most people fall in love with archaeology at a young age. He always said the younger the better.
The Professor had no way of knowing that Dallas would love archaeology and become one of the world’s greatest Paleontologists. Not only would the world know about Dallas, but his family never thought for a minute that he would become the man that he became.
If Dallas’s family and the world would have known that he was the prophet of the End Times, they would have known the end was very close. Most people, when you say the end is very close, they believe you are speaking about the end of the world. The end is speaking about the end of this age or era. This age or era is the time which is called the Age of Grace by preachers. That age will be over when the rapture occurs.
Before the rapture occurs, the Care Taker has so many things he must do and so many things he must find that it would boggle most minds. He also has to figure out what the clues mean. He will find, when he grows up into a man, not only will he discover clues, but his entire family, his wife and three children, will be involved in archaeology, also. His family will be with him when he makes some of the most exciting discoveries mankind has ever seen.
However, you know there will be difficult times ahead for Dallas and his family. The Devil will have his demons watching every move Dallas and his family make. He knows Dallas will make a mistake and when that time comes, he will make his move. The way the Devil has everything planned out, things must go exactly right. If they do go exactly the way he planned, he will be in total control of the world, once the next trumpet is sounded.
The Devil is also preparing the other two thirds of his unholy trinity for the time called the Tribulation. They both are in the wings and they are waiting for the trumpet to blast that will call all the Christians home to Heaven. Once the trumpet is sounded, that will be the call for the Antichrist and the False Prophet to make their appearance on planet Earth. When they appear, people all over the world will be amazed at their intelligence and their brilliance. The Antichrist will be more of a superman type of person, while the False Prophet will be more of a super J. Vernon McGee.
The world will want answers about the people who have disappeared and the only person that can answer all of those questions will be the Antichrist. But, I must stop right there, because Dallas and his family are not on earth during the Tribulation; they have been raptured. I get so excited about the things I am supposed to tell you that I forgot I cannot tell you about the Tribulation.
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