Chapter 27 The Last Judgment
Midnight at midnight.
The church clock rang at this moment.
At this time, Constantine stood in front of the statue of Jesus Christ and prayed.
"Although I know this question is very redundant, I still want to ask. You... should have warned them that you must not enter that room, right?"
Claire gradually walked behind Constantine.
"Yes, I've repeatedly warned them. No matter what, you can't enter that room."
"very good……"
At this time, Clase Love used a chain to tie the Revelation scroll and her belt together and hung it on her right side. Constantine was the same, but he chose to tie it to his left waist.
Clase Ail walked to Constantine.
"This book...is it heavy?"
"Yes, there are too many sins of humanity, but... what I see is not pure sin."
"Then...what did you see?"
"Is there really a boundary that is absolutely insurmountable? As a human being, am I qualified to judge them? Judgmenting them is the power that only God has."
"God gives you and me the qualification to judge them, and he will have His meaning. All you have to do is execute and be just."
"But I cannot be sure whether my decision must be fair... This is not a secular court, there is no legal provision that can be based on, and the standards of good and evil are up to me..."
"It's not just you, but... me."
When he heard the "me", Constantine's face slowly turned to Claire, and then looked at the image of Jesus Christ in front of him.
"At the age of ten, I was taken to the Catholic church by my father for the first time. At that time, I asked my father: 'Why did Jesus Christ suffer on the cross? Why did he bear their sins for mankind?' And my father replied to me that mankind is born with sin, and only by being a good man can he step into the gate of heaven."
"He said nothing wrong."
"It was not long before I was baptized and became a believer. I came into contact with the Earl of Derone Klein. A few years later, under his recommendation, I went to the Vatican to make a pilgrimage and met the Pope in person. It was also from the Pope that I knew... your existence. You are the most beautiful and trusted angel of the kingdom of heaven who wrote the Book of Revelation for God himself. At that time, I was only sixteen years old."
"Father...what do you want to say?"
"At that time, I saw with my own eyes at the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican... "The Last Judgment" painted by Michelangelo. At that time, I asked the Pope, where are you painting."
"The Last Judgment" is a huge painting painted by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, who was commissioned by Pope Paul III on the wall of the altar of the Sistine Catholic Church (the image is 1370m*1220m). There are more than 400 figures in the painting. At the top of the painting are some angels surrounding the cross, in the center is Jesus Christ, the twelve disciples and the Virgin Mary surrounded by Jesus Christ, and at the bottom of the picture... is the judgment of good and evil people. On the left is the person who ascended into the kingdom of heaven, and on the right is the person who will fall into hell. Hell... is at the bottom of the painting.
"I... am not in that painting." Claire shook his head: "What I did is just a judgment."
"The Pope also said to me. But I was still trying to find a figure close to you from every angel in the painting. At that time, I knew that the Book of Revelation you wrote on behalf of God would distinguish between good and evil. At that time, I had always longed for you. Until now... it is the same."
Speaking of this, he walked closer to Claire. At this time, the two of them were almost pressing together, and they could feel each other's breathing.
"At the age of eighteen, I was told that the mission I had obtained was to assist you... in the final judgment. At that time, I knew that one day the end of the world would come, and the key was how to judge mankind. At that time, I felt pain for this world that was about to be destroyed, but also comforted me for the redemption of sinners."
"At that time...didn't you think that judging humans was a difficult thing?"
"Yes. At that time, I, who was only eighteen years old, did not feel that distinguishing good and evil was a difficult thing. As long as I own the Book of Revelation, I could easily judge humanity. Because I was the person chosen by God. At that time, I really thought so."
"But...is it different now?"
"Yes. It's different... because I know that not everyone can have the opportunity to obtain salvation. It turns out that just like the indulgences sold by the Holy See in the Middle Ages, the opportunity to go to heaven also requires power to obtain. No one who can reach this church is an ordinary human being without power. Only those who are related to the Vatican can obtain it. In this world, Christians account for more than 30% of the global population. Even if there are only 1% of the living human beings today, these people should not be the only one who can get the opportunity to judge."
"God... naturally has its profound meaning."
"I have been to the Vatican many times. However, when I went to the Vatican for the last time, when I saw the painting "The Last Judgment" again, I felt completely different from the first time I saw it at the age of sixteen."
"Is that so? So, what's the difference?"
At this time, Constantine and Claire, who were almost veneered, could clearly see themselves in each other's pupils through the burning candlelight in the worship hall.
"When I first saw this painting, I was deeply attracted by Jesus Christ above the picture, and those who I am the flying angels in China whom I think may be there, the Virgin Mary, and... those who are about to ascend to heaven. Just as Jesus Christ was resurrected and ascended to heaven after his death, he had the power to determine the good and evil of the soul, so that good people can enter heaven and enjoy eternal happiness after death. That was a huge shock to me."
After all... For a believer, especially those like Constantine who have seen various miracles at a young age, naturally, they will not just regard heaven and hell as a kind of spiritual belief like atheists. This is real. Teenagers are passionate, full of vitality, hate evil, and are also prone to emotional impulses.
"And when I watched "The Last Judgment" for the last time, my eyes gradually moved to those who were about to fall into hell at the bottom. At the bottom of "The Last Judgment", there are the people who cross the river in hell, who sent the dead who were sentenced to hell one by one through the Agron River to the eighteen levels of hell."
Speaking of this, his hands caressed... the Hell scroll of Revelation tied around his waist.
"No...it should be said that it is the nineteenth level hell!"
"Why... your perspective has changed? Constantine?"
"I saw that in the Last Judgment, the souls of those evil people who were about to be extradited to hell by the crossing river, but some of them were gradually rising, perhaps because they had gained the opportunity to enter the kingdom of heaven through their sins, and they also saw some ghosts who turned into skeletons and began to grow flesh and blood again. Before, I had never noticed these details."
"After completing the atonement, you will naturally ascend to heaven again."
"At that time... in my eyes, the clear distinction between good and evil souls in the painting began to blur. I suddenly felt a strong fear. I... I really have a way to judge humans objectively and fairly?"
(And the demon... can't really enter the kingdom of heaven? However, a scum like Yuan Qing, who is no different from a demon, can make his name be recorded in the Kingdom of Heaven in Revelation!)
"I can't answer you." Clase Lover replied faintly: "But you must believe in our Lord, Jesus Christ. Believe that He always loves the world deeply and always...longs to let mankind be redeemed."
At this time, Constantine gradually approached Claire's love again. At this time, the two of them had a distance of only a few millimeters at most. Almost in the next second, he could kiss her.
But at this moment, the door of the worship hall was suddenly pushed open!
Constantine and Clase immediately turned around at the same time and looked towards the entrance of the worship hall.
The person standing at the door was... Delaria Helsin!
Chapter completed!