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What is it like to be an Eternal?
The closest thing that a normal mind can relate to is being a superhero. Not
like a minor hero with one or two powers doing the best he can while hoping to
survive. An Eternal is more like that Super Entity that even the most powerful heroes hope to get through the year without meeting. Yep, that powerful.
An Eternal is never going to get caught by the arch villain; he is
never going to have to escape at the last second by a lucky break or a
villain’s mistake. He is never going to lose and never going to die. Not
because the comic book writers need him to survive but because the Lord GOD
almighty wills it so. Consider the following scenario:
Somewhere, someday a small,
helpless young girl will be abducted and dragged off by a group of men. That
happens in the real world with tragic results in virtually all cases. There are
not enough heroes in our world.
In a comic book story, the winged
hero swoops down from the sky holding vengeance in his or her hand. Lightning
illuminates the perfect features of the face; the wind barely musses the hair.
A skin-tight colorful uniform hugs the flawless, powerful body. A few swift
blows dispatch the ne’er-do-wells, scattering their bodies hither and yon. The
hero scoops up the victim and carries her through the sky to a place of safety.
Police take the girl as she waves a tearful farewell to the flying hero vanishing
in the sky.
All in a day’s work for the forces
of justice and righteousness. It is great when it all works out. What lends
drama to fiction is mistakes and ill-timed appearances. What happens when the
hero arrives at the scene of the crime after the deed is done and the villains
have fled? What must follow as he clutches a lifeless body, tears running down
his face, silently vowing revenge?
Such scenes are far too common in
fictional stories and in real life. An Eternal is not likely to face the same
situation. He is equipped to handle things properly every single time. What does that mean?
An Eternal does not have a superpower or some superpowers; he has all
super powers.
·
Immortality – an Eternal is what his name says,
eternal. He will not die, he will not age and he will be around when Heaven and
Earth pass away.
·
Invulnerable – kind of like the Superman of old, he cannot be injured.
There is no force in the universe that can cause him harm.
·
Reality Creation – not “altering reality” and
not “bending reality”; the Eternal creates reality in a way that “it is what he
says it is.”
·
True Sight – he can perceive all there is to see
as desired.
·
Energy manipulation – fire, light, radiation of
any form is under his control.
·
Limitless speed – he can be anywhere at any time
regardless of the distance.
·
Timeless – he can move forward and backwards
through time and space at will without the need for a TARDIS™. and even stop it,
for himself and for those he chooses.
**2**
Wow, that is a lot, and it is not
even the whole list. This only gives you the beginning of the person dealt with
under the title of Eternal. Is there nothing he cannot do? Well, no. So what does he do? The
short answer is “Anything he wants.” But that tells us very little about
his existence. Let’s take a look at the above scenario with an Eternal in the
place of a superhero . . .
A frightened girl is abducted and
taken to a secluded place where a group of men are about to assault her.
Everything she can imagine is about to become a reality and worse. She doesn’t
even suspect that she is not going to live through it. One of the men means to
kill her when they are all done. The others don’t know about that since they
are all drunk and would not be here at all if they were sober.
Suddenly a light fills the room.
All is silence as everyone turns to see a mighty figure coming toward them on
wings like a rushing wind. All strength drains from the men and they are just
as swiftly sober. Any thoughts of fleeing are wasted as their bodies will not
obey. The girl is as frightened of the new arrival as any of the men
surrounding her. The winged man is armed and armored yet he makes no aggressive
moves. He walks among the men examining them with eyes that flash lightning.
The first one, closest to the door
and farthest from the girl, is young. A touch to the forehead tells the Eternal
he was not drunk, he pretended to be to fit in with his friends. He does not
want to participate in this activity. In fact, he hopes he can avoid it, that
when the rest are done they’ll pass out drunk and he can get the girl away from
them. There is hope for him. Go. Go home
and make better choices in the future. One issue solved, four more to go.
The next is bigger and not all that
bright; a simpleton who has the habit of following whomever is in charge. The
next two are merely too drunk to exercise good judgement. A minor adjustment to their brain chemistry and they will never drink again without remembering why.
The fourth is the problem. Here is
evil in a man’s heart. Here is the one who carries the foulness of hate. There
are demons residing inside of him but they are not the ones driving him. He
dwells in darkness and would be a bitter spirit on the Earth without the demons
making suggestions. He is a taker; a taker of life, a taker of souls, a taker
of innocence. He desires not only the desolation of this girl but to taint the
lives of the men he brought along. Their bitter fate only adds to his pleasure
regardless of what it brings to him. The Eternal has decided.
He puts a shofar to his lips and
blasts a note to shake the foundations of the city. He has summoned a Judge. As
an Investigator he could pass judgement on his own authority but he leaves that
task to one best suited for the task. Behind him the light and rumbling herald
the approach of a Tribune, which consists of a Judgement seat, a Judge and at
least one Enforcer.
The Eternal gathers the frightened
girl and flies away leaving the three remaining men to the righteous judgement befitting
their deeds. He informs the girl she is safe now. He delivers her to a
Comforter. This is an Eternal who prefers to ease the burdens of the suffering
mortals and heal their broken spirits. Nothing is left to be done here. There
are no broken bodies, no blood shed – yet – and no damaged buildings to be
repaired. Aside from a few flashes of
light, the city slumbers on.
**3**
Now, it could be that while this
Eternal was helping this one girl, a little old lady across town was being
robbed of her meager life savings and the few remaining days of her life. In
another part of town a young person has accidentally overdosed and might not
survive the night. There are crimes with terrible consequences every single
day. There are people doing evil to others and to themselves. There are
accidental deaths and tragic falls, fires, and crashes. What about these other
events?
In the list of powers above are two
answers to that question: limitless speed and timelessness. The same Eternal
can be in each of those places simultaneously without effort. He could be but
he won’t.
An Eternal may wield the power of
GOD but he is not GOD. People die.
People make bad choices and choices have consequences. So the one limitation on
the power of an Eternal is the authority of Almighty GOD. The Investigator in
this example was dispatched by the LORD to this place. He used the Wisdom GOD
gave him to come to a resolution of the situation. He did enough to solve the
problem without unnecessary disruption to the world.
When Thor fights the HULK in a
comic book, they shatter buildings, tear up roads, and grab random vehicles and
throw them at each other. They hit a population center with the devastating
force of Hurricane Katrina without the days of forewarning to evacuate. Imagine the cost of frequent super entity
battles on a city like Metropolis. Billions of dollars in damage, uncountable
lives lost and the “hero” flies off victorious leaving craters and rubble
behind.
An Eternal would stop the fight
before it started. He could put the HULK to sleep and ask Thor to take his
attitude somewhere else. Any broken pavement can be fixed without people even
knowing it happened. Carrying the dozing HULK under one arm he flies off to a
secluded desert spot where Banner can wake up alone and at peace.
Or he could even cure Banner of the
accursed creature. That would be something to leave up to GOD’s Will.
Life as an Eternal is never boring.
There is always so much to do and so much to investigate. So many creatures in
all creation and so many wonders to be explored that it will take Eternity to
get through half of it; and that is exactly as GOD intended.
**END**
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