Thundering Hooves

The purest yet longest note ever blown by a trumpet resounded and reverberated above and all around the Planet Earth. A note so beautiful that it would send chills up and down the spine of old Satchimo himself...

Another sound was perceived faintly in the distance and as it grew nearer it rose in intensity and revealed itself to be the rythmic pounding of thundering hooves. Thousands and thousands of thundering hooves. And there were riders in the sky...

A shout was heard round the world as an army of angels spiraled downward descending amid the sounds of thundering hooves and the heralding of the trumpet and one likened to the Son of God upon a white steed so magnificent as to have been bred for that very moment...

The rider on the great white steed gracefully alighted upon the mountain called Olives. The actual Mt. of Olives overlooking the ancient city of Jerusalem. As His foot touched the ground, the mountain split into and it was if the whole world had split into...

The shock wave from the splitting into of the mountain raced around the entire globe at the speed of sound and also at the speed of light and the two-edged sword of truth wielded by the rider on the great white steed rendered all human weapons to be useless...

Instantly the entire world and all who lived there upon it were involved intimately in this event. All who resisted were consumed in the brightness that preceded the rider and the angelic host and all who were glad were bathed in the wonder of it and immersed into the eternal mercy of it
and all hatred was renounced and the art of war was learned no more as swords were beaten into plowshears and the lion did lay down with the lamb and the peace which had eluded humankind throughout the fleeting epochs of history had become an actual reality. Just imagine, "peace on earth" an actual reality...