Abah's Tale






   
Ezra Azra






 
© Copyright 2025 by Ezra Azra

Painting by Jean-François Millet courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Painting by Jean-François Millet courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.


Now, because the virgin woman named Abah had no family, no man with a family pedigree known from ancient times, would marry her in those times when an unmarried woman was worth less than a sick pig sold at a market.” (“The Other Bible.” Library of Congress.)

This was the second time that it was recorded “there was a day when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord; and Satan came also among them.”

The first time was about two centuries earlier in the lifetime of that perfectly good man named Job of whom almighty God Jehovah Himself said,

There is none like him on the Earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”

In that first-time record the name of Satan was the only Son of God named. That was because Jehovah’s family at that time was a happy family.

However, after the time of Job a war broke out in Heaven; a war between Jehovah God and some of his fourteen Sons.

And so this second visit was bedeviled by a myriad of tensions in the Jehovah family.

The names of the Seven righteous Sons who sided with their Dad in that family war were: Gabriel, Michael, Raguel, Raphael, Remiel, Saraquel, and Uriel.

The names of Jehovah’s evil Seven Sons who made war against their Father, were: Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Belphegor, Leviathan, Lucifer, Mammon, and Satan.

Those myriads of tensions would have been considerably less had Raphael been present at that second visit. The evil Seven were determined to not show their disappointment at Raphael’s absence.

Raphael was the only one of the righteous Seven brothers who truly never stopped trying to include his evil Seven brothers in his righteous life. This is why to this day in that Land of Nod to which Jehovah God banished Cain for having murdered his brother Abel, Raphael is regarded with equal esteem with almighty God, Jehovah; and why on one Day of the year, Raphael is bowed to as being, on that Day, more important to righteous living than all the almighty Gods who were present when Jehovah God created the world and mortal things. The name of that Day is known within Nod only.

The reason for this second visit to Heaven of the evil Seven was that they were determined to torment a young woman named Abah who lived in the Mesopotamian city named Nineveh, but they did not want to risk offending their Dad, again.

The evil Seven had found out that their Dad had sent their brother Raphael on a secret mission on Earth. Before they began tormenting that Abah woman in Ninevah, they wanted to be certain they would not be interfering with Raphael’s secret mission.

Before Jehovah could ask the evil Seven for their reason for wanting to torment Abah, they eagerly told Him.

They enjoyed participating in all the countless evil ways in Nineveh, the capital City of the Assyrian Empire. An indication of just how evil Nineveh was is the fact that the Emperor of the Assyrian Empire, Sennacherib, was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer in Nineveh.

One of those evil Nineveh ways Jehovah’s Seven evil sons loved to engage in was masquerading as and taking the place of mortal newly-wed husbands for the first night-or-two of a marriage between a mortal man and a mortal woman.

And so when the woman named Abah chose to not marry, the Seven evil Sons were offended. Being evil, they took it personally; they could not help themselves since they had inherited the need for vengeance from their Dad, Jehovah, who had pridefully announced universally, more than once, “To me belongeth vengeance.”; “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Et cetera, et cetera.

The Seven evil ones were determined to devise a scheme whereby they would wreak revenge on Abah, for all eternity. And, whatever that scheme turned out to be, Asmodeus, the youngest of the evil Seven, insisted their punishment of Abah culminate with him crucifying Abah, and roasting her on a cross, and then feasting on her cooked flesh, which, of course would give off “a sweet savor” in his Divinely curly overgrown-hairy nostrils.

When the evil Seven had finished telling Jehovah their evil intentions, He did not disapprove because He knew that in a short while He would have to do something drastic about the evil in Nineveh, anyway. And, too, being evil was instinctively natural to Jehovah, the Bible recording at least thirty-nine times Jehovah willingly and deliberately allied Himself with evil:

The evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul.” “Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon thee.” “Behold, the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.” Et cetera, et cetera.

Jehovah did, however, require them to wait for the go-ahead from Him in the next few says because He was waiting for Raphael’s report. He, Jehovah, had to be certain Raphael’s secret mission did not encompass Nineveh which He, Jehovah fully intended to annihilate with his own hands.

Abah was an orphan in the City of Nineveh in the Land of Mesopotamia of the Medes and the Persians.

About two centuries earlier, almighty God Jehovah had said of Nineveh, to Jonah, son of Amittai, “That great city wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand.”

In those times almighty Jehovah sent Jonah, son of Amittai, to warn the Governor of Nineveh that if the sinful people of Nineveh continued in their wicked ways, that great city would suffer the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah which God Jehovah had utterly destroyed with brimstone and fire which He rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrah from on high through his angry mouth and nostrils.

Jonah, son of Amittai, was successful. The Governor and all the Ninevites repented. Almighty God, reluctantly, spared the city.

By the time of Abah the orphan, the city of Nineveh had regressed to its evil ways. There was more wickedness than in the times of Jonah, son of Amittai.

There was a Woman slave from Upper Egypt that had been abandoned in Nineveh. She had organized the other abandoned girls and women on the streets of Nineveh into a House of Clothing Repairs.

That House was never short of business. That former slave from Upper Egypt paid Her workers, and She contracted with them that they should obey Her strict rules of righteous behavior and total living.

The money those women earned and the reputation for righteousness the House had earned, had enabled the women to attract good men to marry.

When the time came that Abah could afford to accept a husband, she requested of the Woman from Upper Egypt that she, Abah, neither marry nor bear children, as that Woman Herself lived.

The Upper Egypt Woman allowed Abah to work and live single in the House of Clothing Repairs as long as Abah wished. The Woman granted Abah the request as a wise decision in the evil city of Nineveh.

The Woman did not try to enquire of Abah her reason for her wise and most practical decision because from the first time Abah had entered the House and asked to be hired to learn to repair clothes, the Woman had sensed in Abah a unique difference from the other workers.

Closer than She had done with all Her other workers, She had monitored Abah’s daily lifestyle, diligently. In all the years Abah worked in the House of Clothing Repairs, the Woman was deeply satisfied that Her sensing at the beginning Abah’s unique difference among all the others, was accurate, ever and continuously.

When Raphael returned to Jehovah in Heaven from his assignment, and was informed of the failures with Abah of the Seven evil Sons of God, and of God’s decision to not get involved with the intention of Asmodeus to utterly ruin Abah for all eternity, he, Raphael, asked God to delay Asmodeus until he, Raphael, too, was given a turn to save Abah by seducing her to marry him, Raphael, in the form of a man.

When Asmodeus was told of Raphael’s request, he was enraged. However, he was overruled by all of his other six evil brothers who were determined to not trigger a second war against their Dad and their Seven righteous siblings.

Especially Lucifer, the eldest of the evil Seven Sons of God, spoke firmly to Asmodeus to dissuade Asmodeus because Lucifer still suffered pains and pangs from the injuries, physical and mental and spiritual, from the last failed time he had led his six evil siblings against his Dad and his Dad’s Seven righteous Sons; Lucifer’s own Seven righteous siblings.

God said to Raphael that he, Raphael, was allowed to have a turn at Abah, but only after he, Raphael, had given God his report of his findings of Raphael’s secret mission.

Jehovah had secretly sent Raphael to locate where the Witches of Endor had hidden themselves.

According to the Bible, by immutable laws of the infinite universe, Witches are as almighty as Gods like Jehovah. At the Beginning, Jehovah was offended when Witches suddenly appeared in a place named Endor on the sixth day of His six-days creation of everything on the Earth. Jehovah was most keenly knew He had not created Witches.

A significant proof that a Witch’s existence is inviolably independent of almighty God Jehovah’s existence is that King Saul, chosen by Jehovah Himself to be the first king of Jehovah’s Chosen Race of people, paid a Witch for her cauldron-prophetic services, in determined deliberate defiance of Jehovah’s explicit commandment: “Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live.”

While He knew He had no power to expel the Witches, Jehovah forbade the people He had created from accepting Witches among them:

Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live. A man or woman who hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood shall be upon themselves.”

Raphael reported that he had located where the Witches had gone after they had left Endor in Mesopotamia to go live far away enough to be inaccessible to Jehovah’s Chosen Race of people.

The Witches, although they knew they were beyond Jehovah’s powers wherever they lived and offered their cauldron-prophetic services to all people for money and other payments, always-and-ever did everything, albeit at a great distance far away removed, to live in harmony with Jehovah and all fourteen of His Sons.

The Witches had so successfully re-located from Endor and hidden their whereabouts, that Jehovah had lost all knowledge about them. And so He had sent Raphael to search the infinite Universe to find the Witches.

Raphael reported to his Father Jehovah that he, Raphael, had found the Witches living happily ever after, hidden by their spells, in the inhospitable deserts of Upper Egypt. He reported, as well, that he had been about to leave Upper Egypt without having discovered the Witches there, until they revealed themselves to him.

The Witches also, in sincere kindness, notified Raphael that he, Raphael, would be the last time they would let live anyone from Jehovah’s family who did not stay away from them. In a gesture of friendship, they had given Raphael a talisman charm to wear that would reveal to him whenever he was in danger of violating an Endor Witch’s personal space.

Jehovah listened to Raphael’s report, and knew He had no choice but to obey the Endor Witches’ warning.

While it was common wisdom that neither almighty Gods nor Endor Witches could lastingly hurt each other, neither knew if either could kill each other. Jehovah was resolved to never submit to the temptation to be the first to attempt to find out.

With Jehovah’s permission and blessing, Raphael went to the evil city of Nineveh on the mission to rescue Abah from the Biblical curse of spinsterhood.

Raphael, having been on that mission to Upper Egypt, knew instantly what had to be done when he entered the House of Clothing Repairs in Nineveh, where, unknown to both of them, he caught sight of Abah and the Upper Egypt Woman in charge, in earnest conversation about a clothing repair matter.

Raphael hastened back to report to almighty God, Jehovah, his Father, that Asmodeus was in grave danger of eternal extinction if he, Asmodeus, tried to hurt Abah, because Abah and the owner of the House of Clothing Repairs, probably unknown to themselves, were, indeed, immortal Witches!
 

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