TheUsefulIdiot#3(FTDParish)

Parish sent me this via e-mail. I guess he had some trouble accessing the blog for some reason, but here's #3 in the Useful Idiot series. As an aside, he related he's been working on the As Yet Untitled series also and expects to have some postings from that a little later. So here ya go, enjoy.

Finn




Earlier, before his public sacrifice, and before the events previously reported herein, Yehoshua was led by God into the desert, to fast and meditate about his upcoming challenges......


Yehoshua sat in the sunlight. The heat already becoming an issue, the rock where he sat was becoming uncomfortably warm. He'd have to move soon, find some shade or even he'd have trouble maintaining his concentration. And he'd been trained by the foremost Buddhist monks during his travels in the East.

Some student he was. Here he was thinking about the weather......

Ssshhheeeeeewwwww, he exhaled.

But in God's wisdom, the rock retained that heat and made sleeping more comfortable......


fffwwweeeeeeewwww, he inhaled......

Yehoshua's couldn't concentrate. Something felt wrong.

Lucifer smiled, relishing the "Son of God's" struggles, even if they were a pain in his immortal ass. Yehoshua's studies in the East had been abbreviated by the need for him to be back amongst his people. The time was at hand. Lucifer had had to persuade Yehoshua to come home early. Not Lucifer himself obviously. He'd had agents with Yehoshua since he was a child.

So Yehoshua's studies were incomplete. That made Lucifer's job a bit tougher. He'd much prefer to have Yehoshua able to take care of his own business, but things were what they were. He'd do what was necessary.

But right now he had some tempting to do. Yehoshua needed to be committed in his ministry....in God's work. Huhuh. God's work. And Lucifer knew just how to harden his resolve.

Lucifer had already been "a tempting" twice in the desert so far. This was his last "attempt" huhhuh huh. For the serpent of the pit, he sure made himself laugh alot. But anyway, the previous two times Yehoshua had rebuffed him, quoting from the Jew's book. Pompous fuck. Who was he to think he could quote written words from a text book and influence The Light Bringer. God's favorite.....well, favorite before the insurrection anyway.

Before the fall. Back when God still loved him.... Back when he still loved God. Back before God needed his little pets, those little hairless monkeys. When his heavenly host was still enough for him.......... God's little "pet" project. Genetic engineering on the supernatural level. Angels laying with "women".......Fuck! What was God thinking? Why love these meat puppets more than the first in creation? Why did they get a soul?

He'd had to do it. He'd had to speak up. The others had looked to him for leadership.....he was the favorite, he had to do something.

Then the outcome was inevitable. One didn't question the Almighty. Not even his favorite. Some followed him, believing they were in the right, most ran back to God when things got hot.....

But that was then, this is now. Back to business. Lucifer approached Yehoshua as he had the prior times, as a man of the desert, herding a flock of goats . Yehoshua maintained the outword appearance of serenity even though both he and Lucifer knew that he was seething at having to deal with the serpent yet again. Lucifer smiled inwardly, knowing he had him right where he wanted him.

Lucifer waited for Yehoshua to acknowledge his presense. He had all day.

After an intermittably long time, Yehoshua could no longer take it. He slowly "came up out of his trance" even though he knew Lucifer knew it was all sham. He wasn't gonna give the fallen angel the satisfaction of seeing him upset.

Yehoshua, politely spoke to Lucifer, "Weary traveller, I have no food or water to share with you today."

"Sustenance isn't what I seek here, Son of God. I come one last time to offer you dominion. Absolute power over this world. Join me and we can shake the foundations of creation. You and I ruling eternity side by side."

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Get back Satan. I have no use for you or your promises of power. I give myself to my God, to do his will, not yours." Yehoshua declared calmly.

Lucifer pretended pain and shrank away from the young rabbi as he quoted more writings of the Jewish scholars. He shrugged out of his robes, spreading his wings, he produced himself in his full glory for Yehoshua's benefit as his "herd of goats" fell apart into their baser components, scorpions, beatles, lizards, snakes and the like, and scurried for cover, happy to get away from the maleovelant presense and out of the searing desert sun.

"This was my last offer "Messiah"", he shrieked mockingly, as he flew upward like nothing Yehoshua had seen before, disappearing into the sun.