Epilogue

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all here to the funeral of Mr. Nathan Curtis Silverman whose funeral we are all here to attend.’’ The hired priest said to the crowd.

Three days had passed ever since the news of Nathan Curtis Silverman the billionaire’s death by a plane crash and his body being discovered there.

The media was also all over the funeral trying to get pictures and that’s why the funeral attendees ranged from celebrities to businessmen, even the president had also attended. It was after all a famous event. But no family or relatives of Nathan were present not after the way he treated them.

Ricky, as Nathan’s friend, had planned the funeral and here it was now happening in this luxurious large hall. Ricky was just happy inside thinking about all of Nathan`s money he was soon going to inherit after signing the papers tomorrow. But on the outside plastered a sad, grieving face to people coming to offer their fake condolences.

“Would anyone like to come here and say some words about the deceased?’’ The priest then continued.

Ricky stood up and went to the front to say something just for appearances.

“Nathan was like a brother to me and I am truly sadly grieved by his death. To think we still had so much to do together. He shall surely be missed by me.’’ Ricky then said at the front looking convincingly grieved.

Ricky then walked to the open coffin showing a lifeless Nathan pretending to go say his final goodbye with the cameras and everyone’s eyes on him.

But then a surprising shocking thing happened which had everyone looking in shock.

Nathan’s eyes were the first to open and as soon as he sat up, he took a huge breath inhaling more air with color returning to his skin.

Ricky froze where he was as he saw a dead Nathan rising back to life and he could not believe his eyes.

Nathan easily got out of his coffin and stood in front of a shocked Ricky.

Nathan was surprised to fill no pain, nothing. He felt perfectly healthy. Like he had just been given a new body.

He was just happy to be back in a body.

It was then he heard some women screaming, people running out of the hall and finally looked realizing where he was.

As Nathan realized what was happening, that he had risen from the dead during his funeral, he was just amazed at what Jesus had done.

“But how...’’ Nathan then heard Ricky`s shocked question.

“Nathan looked at his former business partner and friend, the one who had betrayed him and also tried to kill him.

Instead of looking at him in anger and wanting revenge, Nathan instead looked at him with forgiveness.

“Ricky, I forgive you,’’ Nathan said to him and went to the pulpit to look at everyone who was looking at him in shock.

He stood in front of them.

“I have a message that I want to deliver. I want to tell you all that God does truly exists. If you don’t believe this, just take a look at me. As you have seen with your own eyes, I died and was about to be buried but am now alive and in perfect health. It's all because of him.’’ Nathan said happily to all of them. The media people already had their cameras pointed at him wanting to get every minute of it, soaking it all up.

“Before I tell you all what happened after I died, I would first like to give out this message warning to everyone. The devil and hell do truly exist. Stop letting the devil lead you in the wrong direction with things like greed and love of money. For just as you came into this world naked with nothing so shall you be when you die.

From personal experience as a billionaire, I was arrogant, always boasting of how I have made myself rich, was my own god, and thought I did not need Jesus as after all in a world like this money is power. I did whatever I wanted and did not care how many lives I ruined in getting rich. But when I died, in the afterlife my blind eyes were opened making me realize the ugly truth.

I learned that while I lived as Nathan Curtis Silverman, the Billionaire who was admired, rich and powerful I was instead the one blind, poor, pitiable, and naked. All that money that had made me feel like a god now felt useless, left behind with the living as I went to face my judgment in hell with the dead.

I had after all wasted my life choosing the wrong thing when I should have chosen the real thing that truly mattered. In my blindness, I thought money was what I needed to chase after when truthfully the one I truly should have gone after was Jesus. I should have sought him first and all things like money would have followed along with his peace, joy, and love. I would not have felt so empty while being rich.’’

After saying that, Nathan then told them all what happened after he died.

Some people while hearing him, started believing that God did truly exists since they had just witnessed Nathan rising from the dead with their own two eyes. But others the ones with hardened hearts, scoffed at him in unbelief saying that this was just a stunt he was playing on them. That he must have faked his death, those people included Ricky who was now angry that Nathan was still alive.

Ricky quickly sneaked out while Nathan was still talking and left to go into hiding and plan what to do because He did not believe all this nonsense that Nathan was spouting about some God raising him to life and forgiveness. The Nathan he knew did not forgive just like that and Ricky was going to go after Nathan before he decided to come after him wanting revenge.

“So to all you, my fellow people, Jesus does exist and is calling to every one of you to come to him and he will ease your burdens, and give you his joy love and peace for he loves every one of you dearly and wants none to perish from the devil’s clutches,’’ Nathan said to them as he finished his story.

“As for me, Nathan Curtis Silverman I have been redeemed from the clutches of hell and given a chance to restart a new life again. So, I shall love others, give, bless others, and be the man Jesus wants me to be. And to all of you who are like the Nathan I was before, I hope that from hearing my words you will decide to do the same. To choose life, not death. To not wait for death to change you but to restart right now and change your ways.’’ After saying that Nathan walked out of the hall with people parting the way for him.

The camera people, his manager, etc. all tried following him, wanting to ask more questions like if his death was all fake, etc. but Nathan remained silent as he had said all he needed to say for now.

As he reached outside, he looked up to the sky with a large smile on his face while feeling as if he was looking at God.

“Thank you.’’ He whispered in gratitude for this second chance to restart.

“Billionaire Restart!’’ a thunderous powerful voice was then heard by everyone even the ones still in the hall, coming out of nowhere and with a bigger smile, of knowing whose voice it was, Nathan took off to go and restart in his new life. His first mission is to go find Doctor Jasmine Zachary, do some begging, and make her his wife. Then he was going to right all his wrongs and become the kind of man Jesus wanted him to be.

THE END