Happy New Year 2009! I hope that you had a great holiday break as I did. It’s been nearly three weeks since I went on vacation, the days are running into each other and I believe I’ve slept away the bags from under my eyes.
That being said, let’s delve into the next chapter. Chapter 44 is another of the many chapters dealing with the heavenly point-of-view, reminding myself that angels have longed to understand the sacrifice of Jesus for mankind (it’s in the New Testament, just not sure which book). Wisdon 15: 1,2, Exodus 34:6-7a are referred to in this two-paged chapter. The five seraphim are given a command but only one of them (Luceus) had once been human and would be the best suited to carry out the command. I’m reminded once again that I wrote and did the research later; Luceus looks like a Biblical ringer for Enoch. Commentary in the Torah says that Enoch is now the Metatron, one of the highest angelic beings who serves God directly. Funny how that worked out! Luceus is a carry-over into The Twelfth Window from an earlier story that I wrote.
Chapter 46 is my way of retelling the story of the Feeding of the Multitudes. Cited in this chapter are: Matthew 16:17, John 6:14 (I think; I can’t decipher my own notes!), Matthew 14:32, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, and Isaiah 30:20.
The warmth and anticipation of the future give color to the chapter 46; in a parallel to Chapter 45, I delineate what the gang are up to individually in the way that I did about the five seraphim. As usual, Kim is the one that I used to show forth the miraculous first because I know she would be the last to acknowledge the miracle for what it really is (like many atheists that I’ve observed). Kim points out this miracle to the gang and they push Michael’s best friend, Dormey, to ask him what’s going on. That meant to unapologetically show the primacy of Peter amongst the Apostles. Amanda, the closest to the miraculous (even more so than Lisa) realizes the implications of Kim’s observations first. Kind of like the Apostle John.
Chapter 47 gives the story a duller tone. Lisa is once again haunted by the nightmares she’s had since she was a child; David Lechner is haunted by his failing health; and the seraphim are troubled by those and the weight of the command they were given. Michael alone serves as the root of the problem and the only solution for these issues. I affirm this when Michael says that he is “going to confront Uriusa myself.” I bring Chapter 47 to a lighter close with the seraphim envisioning their glorious return Home and Lisa packing for a long weekend at the beach (by now you should have figured out that beach scenes are meant to connect the earthy with the heavenly). And in the last line, I affirm that things are going to turn out all right. Scripture verses making an appearance in Chapter 47 are: Hebrews 1:6, Deuteronomy 32:43, Ephesians 6:12.
The Twelfth Window continues to sell, all praise and honor to the LORD the God of Israel! Even if it never becomes a best-seller while I am alive, if this book brings just one new soul to Christ, then it’s been worth every bit of ink.
The Twelfth Window can be found for sale on www.12thwindow.com, www.authorhouse.com (the publisher’s site), www.amazon.com and a few others. Happy reading!
–J.M. Norwood
The Twelfth Window 
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