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“  Rachel’s Journey  “

A Word from the Author

            After the fashion of the “Dear Reader” remarks from Authors who knew they

had a small but intimate circle of educated and elite readers, I feel compelled to speak

to you before you begin—or continue your interrupted journey if you are back at this page of this book. 

            I’ve been saying this over and over in my head as I try to sleep since I started Page one of this little book! The enemy has been battling me for the year that led up to this climatic solution, and no more so than yesterday or today, but I would like to have

my final farewell before I send this precious volume on its way. It’s way, as I continue

on in mine.

            The evil in this book, especially as opens in the first chapter is unvarnished, as

it continues, evil seems to be unpunished, even encouraged. Well, look around you,

Dear Reader, that is the way of the world we live in and it will only be worse as the

times in which these fictionalized events occur are in “the real world”.  If you are a Christian already, you may wonder why you should read this book? Well, it wasn’t written with you in mind, although your opinion matters to me every bit as much!

            This book was written to answer the questions of people who likewise have a sickening awareness of how rampant evil is becoming, but they don’t see clearly that a just and loving GOD would tolerate it, if He really existed and if He really existed if

He really cared!  Those are legitimate questions and they deserve answers that aren’t wrapped in Biblical enigmas.

            This book has my name because it’s my own journey. I compressed the events

of the last year, including September 11^th, I took my inner turmoil, my rage, my doubts…

the times I wondered if Heaven was empty and I wrote a book unlike anything I will

ever write again and I did it in a non-stop ten-day marathon!  Cleansed, with my own

shortcomings identified and placed before the Throne in joy and gratitude, I submit

that everything happens with God’s permissive will that in the end it will show His

glory. The kind of buzz words I avoided in this little book on the brink of Armageddon.

But the kind of answers we can find for ourselves in an honest search.

            That’s all that I ask. I don’t pretend I have all the events in the right order, we

will all know that soon enough. The time for decision is here and if this little book is here and

when I’m gone, this is how I viewed it: You make up your mind. But please, soon!

Asia Rachael Cohen

Messianic Jewish Believer