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the report switched to a reporter in San Diego who stood by the man who was said to be interrogating Chloe.
    Colonel Jonathan “Jock” Ashmore said the arrest was very important. He nervously tugged at his uniform jacket. “Mrs. Williams has proved to be the typical terrorist who knows when it’s time to bargain. When the reality hit her that she had been positively identified and we informed her of the overwhelming charges against her, it was only a matter of minutes before she began offering various deals to save her skin.”
    â€œAre you at liberty to say what some of those might be?”
    â€œNot entirely, though she has already pledged to enroll her son in Junior GC as soon as possible.”
    â€œI’ve seen enough,” Vicki said. “There’s no way Chloe would have talked, and there’s certainly no way she would have agreed to enroll Kenny in a Junior GC program.”
    Vicki walked away from the video feed, shaken and confused. She pictured Chloe being tortured and questioned by her GC captors.
    In a response written to Dr. Ben-Judah’s Web site, Mark received the answers the people in Petra were sending out to counteract the lies of the GC.
    The only thing the news seemed to get right was Chloe’s name and age and the fact that she is the daughter of Rayford and the wife of Cameron “Buck” Williams. While it’s true she attended Stanford University, neither was she a campus radical nor was she expelled. She dropped out after the Rapture but had a grade point average of 3.4 and had been active in student affairs .
    Rayford Steele did serve, while already a believer, as pilot on the staff of Nicolae Carpathia, providing invaluable information to the cause of Christ’s followers everywhere. He was never fired and never charged with insubordination or drinking while on duty. He left after his second wife was killed in a plane crash .
    The Judah-ites are anything but “the last holdouts in opposition to the New World Order.” Many Jewish and Muslim factions, as well as former militia groups primarily in the United North American States, still have refused to accept the mark of loyalty to the Supreme Potentate and must hide in fear for their lives .
    Cameron Williams was indeed formerly a celebrated American journalist who also worked directly for the potentate, but he also quit, rather than “losing his job due to differences in management style.” As for his subversive cyber and printed magazine’s “limited circulation,” that, of course, is a matter of opinion. The Truth is circulated to the same audience that is ministered to daily by Dr. Tsion Ben-Judah, at last count still more than a billion .
    The rest of the document corrected errors from the GC about murders, the Co-op, and Chloe’s personal life.
    â€œThat clears up her past,” Vicki said, “but what are they going to do with her?”
    Mark pursed his lips. “If she could stay alive for another year, she’d be around for the Glorious Appearing. But I honestly don’t think that’ll happen.”

    Judd reeled from the news reports about Chloe and put a call in to Chang in Petra. He was surprised to hear excitement in Chang’s voice when he got the return call.
    â€œI know it’s a very depressing day for the Tribulation Force around the world,” Chang said, “but I have good news. I’m free.”
    â€œRight, you made it to Petra. I’m happy for you.”
    â€œNo, you don’t understand. The mark on my forehead. It is gone!”

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    JUDD fought feelings of jealousy, wishing he were in Petra with Chang, but the news that his mark was gone was incredible. Judd knew how much Carpathia’s mark bothered Chang, and he couldn’t imagine the embarrassment of walking into that camp of a million people with the emblem of the enemy on his forehead.
    â€œI thought Nicolae’s tattoo was