Chapters 5 and 6
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Chapter Five introduces another character, rounding out "the gang." There is no explicit Biblical allegorical message in this chapter, although in hindsight the frogs reminds me of one of the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
Chapter 6 is our first all-italicized chapter. I use italics to tell the spiritual side of the story. Later in the book, there are no italicized chapters and I'll explain why at that point. We start the chapter showing that Lisa's new crush has an unusual home life. This life would be strange to her and her friends as it is to the angelic creatures now. I wanted to show how Jesus is both human and divine. There are some circles that say Jesus was one of the guests of Abraham on the way to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. I showed the First Person of the Trinity in the prologue and Chapter One, so consider this chapter the depiction of the Second Person of the Trinity. The character David Lechner is introduced in this chapter as well. David Lechner represents not only Saint Joseph but the Hebrew clergymen--the custodians of the Word--and Saint Simeon in the Temple.
I showed the particular duties of the five angelic creatures in order to give myself room to write one of the sequels to The Twelfth Window, but in the Bible we notice that, for example, Gabriel is the announcing angel and that Raphael is the healing angel. So I take my cues from Scripture on developing these characters for this story. What is not in Christian Scripture but written in Jewish scriptural commentary is the book character Luceus, who represents Enoch.
As the story continues, the reader will find more and more allusions to Judaism... the punchline is that I wrote these without looking anything up. Later on I did some research on Judaism and there it was... Enoch is considered to be in Heaven with God as His voice. In a sense, The Twelfth Window can be considered almost a Jewish way to tell a Christian story.
Chapter Five introduces another character, rounding out "the gang." There is no explicit Biblical allegorical message in this chapter, although in hindsight the frogs reminds me of one of the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
Chapter 6 is our first all-italicized chapter. I use italics to tell the spiritual side of the story. Later in the book, there are no italicized chapters and I'll explain why at that point. We start the chapter showing that Lisa's new crush has an unusual home life. This life would be strange to her and her friends as it is to the angelic creatures now. I wanted to show how Jesus is both human and divine. There are some circles that say Jesus was one of the guests of Abraham on the way to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. I showed the First Person of the Trinity in the prologue and Chapter One, so consider this chapter the depiction of the Second Person of the Trinity. The character David Lechner is introduced in this chapter as well. David Lechner represents not only Saint Joseph but the Hebrew clergymen--the custodians of the Word--and Saint Simeon in the Temple.
I showed the particular duties of the five angelic creatures in order to give myself room to write one of the sequels to The Twelfth Window, but in the Bible we notice that, for example, Gabriel is the announcing angel and that Raphael is the healing angel. So I take my cues from Scripture on developing these characters for this story. What is not in Christian Scripture but written in Jewish scriptural commentary is the book character Luceus, who represents Enoch.
As the story continues, the reader will find more and more allusions to Judaism... the punchline is that I wrote these without looking anything up. Later on I did some research on Judaism and there it was... Enoch is considered to be in Heaven with God as His voice. In a sense, The Twelfth Window can be considered almost a Jewish way to tell a Christian story.
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