Book Title: One Thousand Years : Genesage: "Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done"

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The words were a song. They were certainly a litany. It was how began Eben Abram his lessons on living in the Kingdom of God.  Five days a week for roughly one hour a day the community of Bethtleben would hold a meeting to learn about the Kingdom.  

Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, they were often like a lecture. Many times they included a discussion. It could be amusing, it could be fun; there were occasions when it was in fact quite serious. While the meetings, community assemblies, were not mandatory, everyone participated in the small village like township.

Each day a representative from every household came to the meetings. There they would listen or participate, passing on the information to their homes.  Twelve separate households or "Houses" made up the community of Beth Eben; House of Eben (bethleben).  These houses served as homes for the refugees who lived there.

Since the Great Devastation had come upon the Earth, the only place spared was the Land of Promise, Israel. Nothing else remained. Most of humanity had been annihilated. Traces of technology were all but obliterated. Remnants of landmarks crushed. Cataclysmic events on earth scarcely left human beings alive. Had God not stopped death from occurring no flesh would have survived the onslaught.  The Apocalypse had come. For whom the bells had tolled was obvious by their absence.  It had felt like the End of the World. It was not; some had survived. Refugees of the world that was. The World they had known no longer existed.