THEN IT HAPPENED

InSpired

THEN. IT HAPPENED......

Some few minutes to 6:00am,  the driver took off from the Sunshine Motor Park, Akure for Lagos.

  Duke had a prompting to pray and preach to the passengers in the bus. He looked around the bus and decided to continue with Facebook.

 "My son. Pray and preach to the people in this bus" Duke heard from within him.

He took a quick look again at the faces in the bus and replied inwardly,

"Preach in this bus, it's too early, most people will start sleeping  in the next ten minutes" 

He opened his phone and continued with Facebook.

 A woman' s voice started praying in the bus and eventually preached  salvation in the name of Jesus. The two young men  on the second row with Duke, surrendered their hearts to Christ.

While the woman was preaching, Duke took a careful view about his lifestyle;  he committed fornication with his fiancée two days ago and committing the same sin. over and over again.

" I will repent when l return from Lagos,"

he reasoned and slept off.   

He woke up to the frightened  sound  of "arm robbers, arm robbers" in the bus.

" See, they stopped other vehicles, the woman behind him cried out"

Duke tried to ascertain the happenings outside the bus when he heard a tempestuous voice shout

"Throw your bags and phones outside and put your hands on your heads."

Quickly, Duke  overnight bag landed outside the bus and others followed.  

" Oga, take throw outside for me"  a woman touched his shoulder from behind with  trembling hands

"Put your hands on your head and keep quiet, or you will pay a visit to your grandfather grave this morning another voice drummed from the vehicle door.

Dead silence permeated  the vehicle. Then the forbidden happened; the ringing of a phone;

 " Nigeria go survive",  ringing tune enveloped the silence in the bus and the sound was coming from the second row. 

"Wetin be that,"  one of the robbers queried?

"Goatie dey inside this motor abi,? l go show you  sey, I be alaye too"

Four shots were heard; screams and loud crying overwhelmed the sounds of the shots, heads were dunked in fear, bodies buried  between seats, sobbing gulped down by hands, nobody moved, all heads  bowed until a lone voice echoed  

'They have gone"

Passengers  scrambled  through the  open door, and in the process a body fell to the ground: Duke's body was pushed out of the bus by a passenger trying to come out through the door.

Two brave men were down on four to ascertain if the body had life in it.

  

Duke and the two young men on the second row  had been killed by the shots from the armed robber's gun.

 

The Book said it :

" the time or hour, no man knows and the prophecy was fulfilled just as predicted..

A. L. Hephzibah