8
The Last Stand
"The Underground"
When
"The Underground" segment of the act "The Last Stand"begins, the stage
is completely dark as shown
below in Model 1 and a
mix of guitar, technicians talking
and typing on computer keyboards, and
computer sounds
is heard. Shortly thereafter, the set of "The
Lion's Den" and the supercomputer of "The Petra System" lights
up piece by piece as shown below in Models 1-8 until the set of "The
Lion's Den"
is completely visible as shown below in Model 7. There
are technicians onstage who are sitting in front of and working
with
the equipment in the control center as shown below in Model 7.
It's May 1, 2022 and it
has been about 1½ years since the night of the Rapture and
the digital clock
onstage marks that passage of time as shown below in Model 1. As the action continues,
the "Sylentlyon" artwork appears on the video
screen in "The Lion's Den" as shown below in
Model 8. Shortly thereafter, Daniel rises up from
underneath the stage on a hydraulic
lift and
appears onstage as shown below in Model 9.
At this point,
Daniel begins his presentation about the Christian underground
with the text below Model 14. As soon as Daniel begins speaking, the
mix of guitar, technicians and the sounds of computers lowers in
volume.
Refer to Models 1-33
below to follow the
action described in "The Underground." The action continues
uninterrupted with Models 10-14 and the text below Model 14. Note: the set of
"The Lion's Den" shown below in Models 1-33 is an
actual set
and
not just an image on the large video screen onstage.
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Model
1-The dark stage and set of "The Lion's Den."
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Model
2-The A gold Jewish star lights up on the railing of "The Lion's Den"
onstage #1.
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Model-Gold
Jewish stars light up on the railing of "The Lion's Den" onstage #2
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Model 4-Gold Jewish stars light up on the railing of "The
Lion's Den" onstage #3. |
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Model 5-The supercomputer of "The Petra
System" lights up onstage #1. |
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Model 6-The supercomputer of "The Petra
System" lights up onstage #2.
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Model 7-The supercomputer of "The Petra
System" lights up onstage #3.
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Model 8-The
entire set of "The Bunker" and "Petra System" onstage.
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Model
9-Daniel arrives on the set of "The Bunker" from
underneath the
stage.
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Model 10-The
U.S. map of "The Petra System" appears on the large video screen
onstage.
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Model
11-"Petra System" sites(crosses) appearing on the U.S.
map.
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Model
12-"Last Stand" shelters(Jewish stars) appearing on
the
U.S. map.
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Model
13-The digital network of "The Petra System" appears on the U.S. map.
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Model
14-The digital network of "The Petra System" no longer on
the
U.S. map .
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Daniel:
Hey Joshua.
Joshua:
(A spotlight comes on
around the musician playing Joshua who is standing towards the back of
the auditorium
playing guitar live. The video screens on each side of the live stage
show
live
video of Joshua. He's wearing a headset with a
wireless
microphone) What's up man.
Daniel:
II wanted to update you on Operation
Last Stand before we leave.
Joshua:
Go for it.
Daniel:
(1)Now that we've been
working on Operation Last Stand for the past year and a half I can give
you a more detailed look at the underground and the progress we've made. (2)Take a
look at the screen above me. (3)The
crosses
now
appearing on the
map are locations of Petra System sites throughout the U.S. with
the large gold cross identifying us here in the Sanctuary. (4)The
sites house computer and communication systems digitally linked to "The
Petra System" and are located at the shelters themselves or nearby. (5)Our satellites enable us to have Petra
System sites at the most remote locations allowing them to go online
which would be impossible to do so otherwise. (6)As
you know with
the Petra System and the heroic efforts of thousands of believers,
a network of underground shelters are being
created nationwide. (7)In
the hills, under cities
and in places like this, "Last Stand" shelters are
rising up everywhere. (8)The stars now appearing on the map
mark the locations of
shelters in the U.S.. (9)Through "The Petra System," we are
monitoring the status of these shelters
7 days a week, 24 hours a day, and based on the information received
here from Petra System sites nationwide, we can
determine the needs of each shelter and provide the necessary
resources, manpower and vital information.
(10)Go
ahead
pick
out
a city on the map.-(The
following action
accompanies the dialogue above.The red numbers in the
parentheses refer to the number of each sentence in the dialogue
above and have been put there to aid you in following the action. When
Daniel says "Take a look at the screen above me" in
sentence 2, the mix of guitar, technicians talking and
typing on computer keyboards rises in volume,
Daniel looks back at the large video screen onstage and
points at it. Immediately
thereafter, a
map of the U.S. with the heading "The Petra System" above it appears on
the large video screen replacing the "Sylentlyon" artwork as
shown above in Model 10, the
spotlight on Joshua goes off and the live video of
him fades to black, and Daniel continues
speaking from the dialogue above.
When Daniel begins sentence 3,
crosses begin to light up all over
the U.S. map and a large gold cross lights up and flashes in the L.A.
area
of the map
identifying the Sanctuary as shown above in Model 11. By the time
Daniel
begins sentence 6, the
map is covered with crosses and all the "Petra System" sites have been
identified as shown above in Model 11.
As Daniel
continues speaking from the dialogue above, he alternately looks out at
the audience and back at the
U.S. map. When Daniel begins sentence 6, Jewish stars start appearing
around the crosses on the U.S. map on the large video screen as shown
above
in Model 12. At the same time, pre-taped video of people building and working at "Last
Stand" shelters
throughout the U.S.
starts to play on the
video screens on each side of the live stage and will continue to do so
until Daniel
finishes the dialogue above. By the time Daniel finishes sentence 8, Jewish stars
cover the entire map and
all the "Last Stand" shelters located in the U.S. are
identified as shown above in Model 12. Note: there are actually more
Petra System sites and shelters than those shown on the maps above but
due to limited space we only included those shown in the models above. As soon as Daniel begins sentence 9,
lines from all the "Petra System" sites(crosses) on the U.S. map to the
large gold cross appear on the map as shown above in Model 13 showing
the nationwide digital network. When Daniel begins sentence 10,
he
looks out into the audience, the digital network on the U.S. map disappears as
shown above in Model
14 and a
spotlight comes on encircling Joshua who is still in the
audience playing guitar but at a different location in the auditorium. At
the same time, the
video of people working at "Last Stand" shelters on the screens on each
side of the live stage is replaced by live video of Joshua playing
guitar in
the auditorium.)
Joshua:
All right, how bout Sin City.-(At
this point, the spotlight encircling Joshua goes off and the live video
of him on the screens on each side of the live stage ends. The action
continues uninterrupted with
Models 15-18 and the dialogue below Model 18 as Daniel gives his
presentation on the Las Vegas shelter.)
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Model 15-The
Nevada map showing "Petra System" sites and locations of "Last Stand"
shelters.
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Model
16-Video of satellite getting ready to zoom in on the Las Vegas shelter.
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Model
17-The video tour of the Las Vegas shelter with computer menu and
data
about the shelter on screen.
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Model 18-The
U.S. map returns to the video screen following the presentation of the
Las Vegas shelter.
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Daniel:
(1)Great pick, this is one of our finest
facilities. (2)There
are actually two large shelters in Nevada one in Vegas and the other in
Reno. (3)As per your request, we'll take a look
at the facility in
Vegas. (4)This is a D.U.M.B. shelter
built and abandoned by U.S. the military. (5) We have
several abandoned facilities like this across the
country that are part of Operation Last Stand. (6)The
status of this
shelter is fully operational. (7)This
particular complex like our other D.U.M.B. shelters is huge stretching out over several
city blocks. (8)Let's
take a live
video tour of this shelter.-(When
Daniel begins sentence 2, he
turns around, points at the state of Nevada
on the U.S. map with a handheld laser and the red dot from the laser
is
seen on the state of Nevada. Immediately
thereafter, the state of Nevada lights up
brighter than any
of the other states on the map and projects outward from the U.S.
map
replacing it as shown above in Model 15. The cities of Las Vegas and
Reno
are on
the map of Nevada and the Jewish stars mark the geographical
locations of "Last Stand" shelters in these cities as shown above in
Model 15.
As Daniel says sentence 3,
he moves his handheld laser
so that the red dot is on
top
of the Jewish star that's next to the word "Las Vegas" on the map of
Nevada. Immediately thereafter, a computer sound is heard and the
following
sequence of events occurs very rapidly as Daniel continues speaking
from the dialogue above. The map of Nevada is replaced by live
video
showing an
overhead satellite
shot of Earth as shown above in Model 16 and the satellite zooms
downward from this vantage
point. As the satellite zooms in, the image on the video screen gets
tighter and we see an
overhead shot of just the Las Vegas strip. When the satellite shot
approaches
the ground, the video on the screen shows the water fountains
of the Bellagio casino and we see a flashing neon Jewish star
underneath the
water which pinpoints the exact
location of the shelter. The satellite focuses and zooms in on the
flashing star until it's the only thing on the screen and then it
appears
as
if we actually enter the Jewish star. Finally, we see video of the
shelter
itself on the large video screen as shown above in Model 17. As Daniel
completes
the dialogue above, a computer
menu listing the categories underlined in the blocks of bold
typed text below appears on the large video screen to the left of the
video of the Las Vegas shelter as shown above in Model 17. The green
data
to the right of the video of the Las Vegas shelter in Model 17 is
information about the Vegas shelter such as details about its
supplies, delivery schedules for supplies and personnel information. As
Daniel's presentation
of "The Underground" continues uninterrupted, he will say the title of
each category of the computer
menu in the sequence it's listed on the large video screen and
speaks about each particular category as he gives Joshua a live video
tour of
this
shelter in its entirety.)
Daniel: Food, Shelter and Miscellaneous
Supply Status:
Complete, we have
sleeping quarters, restroom facilities, a kitchen and dining area,
stockpiles of food and bottled water, generators, fuel, and just
about any other supplies you can think of.
Daniel: Medical
Status:
Complete, this shelter has a complete health care team, a pharmacy,
medical equipment and its own operating
room.
Daniel: Security
Status:
Complete, a fully trained security force with special
forces training is stationed here. This force provides security
for this shelter and in the future will be engaged in search
and rescue operations. These
personnel are on reconnaissance missions mapping out the entire Las
Vegas area in daylight and nightime conditions to maximize
rescue efforts in the future. All this intelligence
is relayed via "The Petra System" back here to us in the Sanctuary.
This is happening nationwide as security forces from other
shelters scout their respective areas.
Daniel: Communication
Systems Status: Complete, this site is outfitted with a vast
array of communication equipment including celluar phones, computers, shortwave radios,
"walkie talkies," and sophisticated radar and satellite
technologies.
Daniel: Personnel
Status:
Complete, this shelter is fully equipped with the personnel
needed to run and maintain it. This roster lists all
the personnel at the Vegas shelter and their areas of
expertise.-(The following action accompanies the dialogue above.
When Daniel says the
title of the first category
above, "Food, Shelter and Miscellaneous Supply Status:,"
he moves his handheld laser so that the red dot is on top of that
category on the computer menu that's on the large
video
screen. Immediately
thereafter, a computer
sound is heard and the
locations, activities
and supplies mentioned in the dialogue above that is associated with
this
category
are seen live on the large video screen as Daniel speaks from the
dialogue.
After Daniel is done speaking the dialogue above that is associated
with this category, he moves his laser
so the red dot is on top of the next category on the computer menu
that's on the large video screen
which is "Medical Status."
Immediately thereafter, a computer sound is heard and the
locations, supplies, activities
and personnel mentioned in the dialogue above that is associated with
this category
are
seen live on the video screen as Daniel speaks from the dialogue above.
The
exact
same sequence of events as above occurs for the three remaining
categories on the computer menu: "Security Status," "Communication Systems
Status," and "Personnel Status."
Daniel says the
title of each category, moves
his handheld laser so that the red dot is on top of that
category on the computer menu and speaks the
dialogue above that is associated with each of these
particular
categories. Following this, the
locations, supplies, activities and personnel mentioned in the dialogue
are seen live on the large video screen as Daniel
speaks from the dialogue above. After Daniel finishes the discussion of
the last category on the computer menu, "Personnel
Status," the video that's presently on the large
video screen switches back to the U.S. map as shown above in Model 18.
At
the same time, a
spotlight comes on encircling Joshua who is still in the
audience playing guitar but at a different location. The video on the
screens on each side of
the live stage show live video of Joshua playing guitar
in the auditorium.
At this point, Daniel
looks out at Joshua and speaks to him) So what do you think?
Joshua:
(Shaking his head in amazement) That's awesome! You can
do
that for any
place in the country?
Daniel:
Yeah, I can tell you anything you want
to know about any one of our shelters. I can tell you their
projected date of completion, the supplies needed and whether or
not they've been purchased, the date and time of
the delivery of supplies, and what personnel is needed or has been
assigned to a particular shelter. I'd like to show you one of our
newest shelters which is quite different than the one in Vegas.
Joshua:
Go ahead
bro.-(After
Joshua says this, the spotlight
encircling him goes off, Daniel turns around and looks
up at the U.S. map on the large video screen, and
begins his presentation on the Denver shelter. The action continues uninterrupted with
Models 19-33 and the dialogue below Model 33.)
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Model 19-The Colorado map showing "Petra System"
sites and locations of "Last Stand" shelters. |
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Model 20-Video of satellite getting ready to zoom
in on the Denver shelter. |
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Model 21-The video tour of the Denver shelter with
the computer menu and data
about the shelter on screen. |
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Model
22-The
U.S. map returns to the video screen following the presentation of the
Denver shelter. |
Daniel: (1)This particular shelter is located
outside of Denver in the Rocky Mountains. (2)We
conducted a geological survey of
the area and discovered a massive cave ideally suited
for our purposes. (3)But the cave was completely
enclosed so we had to create an entrance into it.
(4)We literally carved a huge door out of
the rock
that can't be seen from the outside when closed as shown here in the
video.
(5)Let's take a video tour of this
facility. (6) Most of the supplies
and personnel for this shelter are missing because it's
new and wasn't part of the original database received from Gabriel
following the Rapture. (7)The data on the screen shows the
supplies needed and their delivery schedules, and lists
the
personnel presently at this shelter and those still needed. (8)While some shelters like that in
Vegas are complete, many are
only
partially finished and others are still in their infancy. (9)Much
work remains to be done but we still have
almost two
years to complete Operation Last Stand so that we are fully operational
nationwide. (10)All the
shelters should be ready by the time the second half of the
Tribulation Period is upon us. (11)We're right in step with the
prophetic calender just as planned and right on schedule. (12)"The Council" and I will join
you on
the road for the duration of the U.S. tour in the mobile command and
control
center. (13)This will give us a great opportunity
to assess the progress of
"Operation Last Stand" and the shelters in person as the tour moves
from
city to city over the next year. (14)One more thing. (15)Remember when you shapeshifted into
me and saw my future plans for "The Petra
System."-(Joshua
nods yes) (16)
I've completed my
work on those systems and they're now
online and fully operational.-(The
following action accompanies the dialogue above. When
Daniel begins sentence 1, a
similar sequence of events that occurred when Daniel gave his
presentation on the Las Vegas shelter occurs. Daniel points at the
state
of Colorado
on the U.S. map with his handheld laser and the red dot from the laser
is
seen on the state of Colorado. Immediately
thereafter, a computer sound is heard and the state of Colorado lights
up
brighter than any
of the other states on the map and projects outward from the U.S.
map
replacing it as shown above in Model 19. The names Denver and
Colorado
Springs
are on
the map of Colorado and Jewish
stars mark the geographical
locations of "Last Stand" shelters in these cities as shown above in
Model 19. Following this, Daniel moves his
handheld laser
so that the red dot is on
top
of the Jewish star that's next to the word "Denver" on the map of
Colorado, a computer sound is heard, and the
following
sequence of events occurs very rapidly as Daniel says sentences 2 and
3. The map of
Colorado is replaced by video showing an overhead satellite
shot of Earth as shown above in Model 20 and the satellite zooms
downward from this vantage
point. As the
satellite
shot zooms in, the image on the video screen gets tighter and we see
an
overhead shot of just Denver and the Rocky Mountains. When the
satellite shot
approaches
the ground, the video on the screen shows the
tops of some trees and a rock formation, and we see a flashing Jewish
star on the ground which pinpoints the exact
location of the shelter. The flashing star is located at the entrance
of the cave. At this point, Daniel begins sentence 4 and the video
shows three men standing in front of the entrance of the cave. One of
the men types
in a numbered code on a hidden panel outside the entrance, the large
cave door opens up and
the men walk into the cave as shown above in Model 21. As Daniel says
sentences 5-7, he quickly clicks on each of the computer menu headings
on the large video screen and the video tour shows that this shelter is
almost completely empty. When Daniel completes sentence 7, the video of the Denver shelter that's
presently on the large
video screen switches back to the U.S. map as shown above in Model 22.
When Daniel says sentence 14, a spotlight comes on encircling Joshua once again who is
still in the
audience playing guitar but at a different location in the auditorium. As Daniel says the remaining dialogue above he
looks at Joshua. As soon as Daniel completes sentence16,
Joshua responds to him.)
Joshua:
Show me what ya got.
Daniel:
No problem, (Daniel
addresses one of the technicians
that's
working with the supercomputer live onstage) bring up the "Petra Ground Control"
system.-(The technician nods
yes, turns around and looks at his monitor, starts typing and Daniel
looks back at "The Lion's Den" video screen. Shortly
thereafter, the tracking system for the "PGC" system appears on the
video
screen as shown above in Model 23. Daniel alternately looks at the video
screen and at Joshua as he
speaks the remaining dialogue) The
icons
on the map mark the exact locations of trucks that are part of
"Operation Last Stand" and we can track their movement and whereabouts
24/7 all across
the country. This technology using GPS coordinates as a tracking system
is already used industrywide but our system is closed and impenetrable
by any person or outside organization. Our trucks can't be tracked and
none of our communications intercepted due to the security measures
provided by the "SOS" operating system.-(He pauses briefly) Now let's go to the air.-(Daniel
addresses another technician that's
working with the supercomputer live onstage)
Bring up the "Petra Air
Control" system.-(The technician nods
yes, turns around and looks at his monitor, starts typing and Daniel
looks back at "The Lion's Den" video screen. Shortly
thereafter, the tracking system for the "PAC" system appears on the
video
screen as shown above in Model 24 replacing the "PGC" system) "The
Petra System" also functions as an air traffic control system. The red
icons on the map identify planes that are part of "Operation Last
Stand" and are currently airborne. Our planes are still subject to FAA
requirements and are outfitted with transponders to track their
location and identify them to ATC facilities nationwide. However, our
planes are also equipped with our own custom transponders giving us the
same
information and allowing us to track our planes also. But there's one
big difference between the current "ATC" system and ours. In the
current
"ATC" system ground to air messages can be heard by any aircraft
euipped
with the appropriate receiver regardless of the intended recipient. In
the "PAC" system, we utilize digital data link technology giving us the
ability to
talk to our pilots one on one without anyone else hearing our
communications. Check this out.-(Daniel
looks at and addresses a
technician) Connect
me to JC777.-(Following this,
Daniel looks at "The
Lion's Den" video
screen and the small radar screen on the left side of the video screen
in Model 24 increases in size replacing the U.S. map as shown above in
Model 25. Right before Daniel speaks to the pilot, brackets appear
around the red plane on the radar as shown above in Model 25
indicating lines of communication have been established with that plane and that plane only)
JC777, this is
Sylentlyon do you copy.
JC777: Yes sir,<>
Daniel: What's your current location,
destination and payload.
JC777:
I'm currently in North Dakota en route to
St. Paul, Minnesota. My estimated time of arrival is 4:00pm and
I'm
delivering a large cache of medical supplies.
Daniel: You're right on schedule, good
work.
JC777: Thank you sir.
Daniel: Over and out.
JC777: Copy that sir.-(Following
this, the "Operation Last Stand" database re-appears on "The Lion's
Den" video screen as shown above in Model 26.)
Daniel:
(1)We can track those medical
supplies from the airport to their final
destination in St. Paul via the "PGC" system and confirm their
delivery
to the appropriate shelter by accessing the "Operation Last Stand"
database for shelters in the St. Paul area. (2)These systems are
seamlessly integrated and can track products purchased for the
underground from their point of origin to their final destinations be
it on land, in the air or both.
(3)These systems were created by adding
a few new wrinkles to already
existing technologies but here's a revolutionary
new technology developed by Dr. Shamir, Dr.
Oppeheimer and
myself
known
as the "Virtual Hologram System" or simply "VHS." (4)The
system combines and
integrates the most sophisticated
architectural software with advanced computer and
satellite
technologies for unmatched holographic imagery and functionality.
(5)Every
square inch of each shelter is painstakingly photographed and
videotaped
and detailed blueprints are drawn up. (6)This
data is in turn
uploaded into "The Petra System" and through the software we've
developed
a virtual shelter that is exactly like the actual one is created. (7)Here's how it
works. (8)We enter
the "Operation Last Stand" database and go to the "Hidden Shelters"
page of a
particular shelter. (9)The
shelters that are currently part of the
"Virtual
Hologram System" have the intials "VHS" next to them and they are a
link to the
system. (10)We click
on the letters and
the GPS coordinates of the shelter are sent to one of our satellites
triggering it to zoom in on the chosen shelter. (11)Once the
satellite quits zooming in, the virtual shelter appears in the
same exact location of the actual shelter and that's what you see
here and on the video screen. (12)All the
shelter holograms are seen on the video screen in high definition 3D. (13)The area
surrounding the
virtual shelter is live footage provided
by the
satellite. (14)Through
"VHS," we
can literally enter the virtual
shelter and visit the entire complex in real time like I'm showing you
right now. (15)All the
contents found inside a particular
shelter are also present in its virtual shelter and
any
changes that occur within the actual shelter are made instantaneously
to the virtual
shelter. (16)This
gives us a visual inventory of all the contents
in the shelters at any given moment. (17)Think of
the entire system as a smart phone that gives us
centralized
control of each shelter. (18)We can
regulate the power at shelters, put
them on complete lockdown, dump data on their computers so as not
to compomise "Operation Last Stand" and initiate weapon
systems. (19)The
leaders at each shelter also have the ability to carry out
these same functions but we have the final say and can overide
their actions if necessary. (20)The
system can also rotate
360 degrees in either direction so the shelter and its surrounding area
can be
viewed from
multiple
vantage points. (21)So whataya think?-(The
following action
accompanies the dialogue above. After Daniel
finishes sentence 2, he walks to the left
side of "The Lion's Den" as shown above in Model 27. When he says
sentence 3, the hologram system
rises upward from the floor of "The Lion's Den" as shown above in
Models 28-30 and
by the time Daniel finishes sentence 3 the entire "VHS" system is
visble onstage as shown above in Model 30. As
Daniel says sentence 7, he sits behind the controls of the "VHS" as
shown
above
in Model 31 and begins working with the
instruments of the system. When Daniel says sentences 8-11 the
following
action occurs. Daniel enters the "Operation Last Stand" database and
clicks on the state of New York. Immediately thereafter, the New York
state page appears on the video screen, Daniel clicks on the heading
"Hidden Shelters" from the computer menu and a list of shelters in New
York appears. Following this, Daniel clicks on the initials "VHS"
that are next
to the heading of a shelter in New York and a satellite zooms in on the
shelter stopping when the shelter and the surrounding area are clearly
in view atop the "VHS" system and on the
video screen. Shortly thereafter, the holographic image of the virtual
shelter replaces the actual shelter atop the "VHS" system and on the
video screen as shown above in
Model 32 as Daniel completes sentence 11. When Daniel begins sentence
14, we zoom in on the virtual shelter on the video screen and on the
"VHS" system until we're at the secret entrance of the
shelter, an icon of a man appears at the entrance and the man enters
the
virtual shelter. As Daniel says sentences15-19, the man(icon) walks to
different areas throughout the virtual shelter and this action is shown
to
the live audience in 3D on the video screen and it appears as if we
are actually walking in the shelter. When Daniel says sentence 15, the
man(icon) stops, looks into the pantry of the kitchen and a pallet of
rice appears with the other items already in the pantry
illustrating how any changes in the actual shelter are
made instantaneously
to the virtual
shelter. As Daniel says sentence 20, the holographic image of the
virtual shelter and the surrounding area atop the "VHS" system starts
to rotate as does the same image on the video screen. Shortly
thereafter, Daniel spins around in his chair so that he's facing Joshua
and his back is to the "VHS" system. As soon as Daniel stops spinning
in his chair, the
holographic image of the virtual shelter and the surrounding area atop
the "VHS" system and on the video
screen stop rotating and a new vantage point of the shelter is in view.
At this point, Daniel looks out at Joshua and says sentence 21)
Joshua: (Shaking his head in awe) You're
amazing bro?
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Daniel: (Humbly)
Thanks Josh.
Joshua:
Well, It's
true.
Daniel:
Now it's
time for the Last Stand.
Joshua: Let the
"Greatest Show on Earth" begin.-(As
soon as Joshua finishes this dialogue, he plays a power chord
on his guitar which echoes, the entire set of "The Lion's Den" goes
dark and
Joshua's superhero symbol which is also the artwork for "The Last Stand
Tour" appears on all the video screens as shown above in Model 33.
Shortly thereafter, the curtain closes at the front of the stage and
the stage is prepared for the "U.S. Tour" segment. "The Last Stand"
artwork will remain on the screens on each side of the live stage until
right before the "U.S. Tour" segment begins. Click on the play button
below to view
"The Underground" Trailer. You will need to hit the "back" button on
your browser to return to this page and continue reading the production.)
The
"Underground" Trailer.
The Last Stand
"The
U.S. Tour"
"The Tour" segment is divided
into two parts the "U.S. Tour" and "World Tour" and the tour
as a whole is entitled "The
Last Stand." There are a total of 25 models of the stage in the
"U.S. Tour" segment
and 128 models in the "World Tour"
segment to aid you in following the action. Symbols's U.S. and World
tours each last a year and this passage of time is marked by the
digital
clock
onstage. By the time the entire tour is over, almost 3½ years
have
passed by
since the Rapture took place and the midpoint of the Tribulation Period
is about three
days away. The "U.S.
Tour" segment begins with Models 1-16 and the text below Model 16 and starts on May 2,
2022 as shown below in Model 1. Although not seen in the models
below, Joshua is wearing his "Holy Soldier" outfit he received on Mt.
Zion throughout all the action in the
"U.S. and World Tour"
segments. The band member images used in the models for the "U.S. and
World
Tour"
segments don't
look
like nor are dressed like the actual band members of Symbols will
be and
are used
for reference purposes only.
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Model
1-The stage at the beginning of the "U.S. Tour" segment.
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Model
2-The storm video begins playing on the video screen onstage.
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Model
3-The Symbols's sword descending in the video on the screen.
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Model
4-The Symbols's sword and storm video on the video screen.
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Model
5- The Symbols's sword on the black backdrop on the video screen.
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Model
6-Symbols's artwork on screen and cones of light atop the amps.
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Model
7-Symbols's band members rising up from within the amplifiers #1.
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Model
8-Symbols's
band members rising up from within the amplifiers #2. |
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Model
9-Symbols's
band members rising up from within the amplifiers #3. |
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Model
10-Symbols standing atop the amps in their colored lights onstage.
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Model
11-Symbols's artwork begins to change on video screen onstage.
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Model
12-New Symbols's artwork on the screen with band atop the amps.
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Model
13-The unveiling of the U.S. map on the large video screen #1.
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Model
14-The unveiling of the U.S. map on the large video screen #2.
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Model
15-Symbols
atop amps and U.S. map on video
screen onstage.
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Model
16-Stage
goes dark, musicians
move, and catchphrase spoken.
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When
the "U.S. Tour" segment opens, the live stage is set up as shown
above in
Model 1. The
stage is dark, the drum riser(a large drum itself),
amplifiers and piano ramps are only faintly visible onstage, and the large video screen onstage is
blank. As this audio intro of Symbols's show
plays, the following
action takes place. Fog
begins to fill the stage as shown above in Model 1 and flows over
the
top of the amplifiers on both sides of
the drum
riser but this is not seen in the models above. A storm backdrop with lightning
flashing on it appears on
the large video screen onstage as shown above in Model 2. Shortly thereafter, a
large sword bearing the name "Symbols" begins to move downward from the
top of the video screen as
shown above
in Model 3. As the sword continues to move downward eventually stopping
in the position shown above in Model 4, lightning strikes the sword and
the
word "Symbols" several times. Following
this, the storm backdrop and lightning fade
out leaving the sword on the screen by itself with
a black background as shown above in Model 5. At this point, four
Christian symbols the cross, the dove, the commandments and the Ichthys
appear on the video
screen onstage underneath the sword as shown above in Model 6. Colored
lights which look as if they are coming from each
symbol form a
circular cone of light that projects downward on to the top of the
amplifiers as shown above in Model 6. As soon as
the stage looks like Model 6 above, the
Symbols's band members begin to emerge from within the amplifiers on
the left and right sides of the stage within the
circular cones of light via hydraulic lifts and are
visible to the audience as shown above in Model 7.
The musicians
will continue to move upward until they are
standing atop the amplifiers and this sequence of action is shown above
in
Models 6-9. At the same time, the fog that's on the stage and flowing
over the
amplifiers changes to the color associated with each particular symbol
as shown above in Models
6-9(ie. from gold to blue to
orange to green). In addition, each musician
is illuminated by the color associated with their specific Christian
symbol as shown above in Model 10 which is the same color as the lights
emanating from
each
symbol. Once
all the musicians are standing atop the amplifiers, the color of the
fog flowing over the amplifiers and onstage turns to white as shown
above in Model 10.
As the action continues, the image
on the video screen onstage
changes. The image of the sword and the Christian symbols on the large
video screen fades out and is replaced by artwork of each musician and
their Christian symbol as shown above in Models 11 and 12 with
the
"Holy Soldier" icon in center
of the artwork as shown above in Model 12. The
band is now standing atop the amplifiers and
their artwork and the "Holy Soldier" icon is on the large video screen
onstage as shown above in
Model 12. As the audio intro continues to play, the
cross
artwork
on the large video screen onstage begins to
move diagonally upward to the left, the Ten Commandment artwork moves
diagonally upward to the right, the dove artwork moves diagonally
downward to the left and the Ichthys artwork moves diagonally downward
to the right all at the same time as shown in Model 13. When this
occurs, we begin to see the glowing
border of an image behind the artwork as shown above in Model 13. The
"Holy Soldier" icon which is in the middle of the artwork stays in the
same
position on the large video screen and doesn't move as shown above in
Model
13. The artwork
continues to move in these directions and more and more of the image
behind the artwork is
revealed as shown above in Model 14 until ultimately the artwork is no
longer
seen on the screen as shown above in Model 15. We now see the image
that was behind the artwork is a map of the U.S. with the
"Holy Soldier" icon in the middle of it as shown above in Model 15.
Following this, the narrator
in the audio intro
begins saying 1John5:4 and the Symbols's catchphrase which are shown
below
and the stage goes completely dark except for the U.S. map
and the "Holy Soldier" icon on the
video screen onstage as shown above in Model 16. As 1John5:4 and
the Symbols's catchphrase are spoken, Joshua leaves
the top of the amplifiers and goes to the
stage below standing in the fog as shown above in Model 16, D.W. gets
behind his drums on the
drum riser, Gibson walks over to the far left area of the stage still
standing atop the amplifiers as shown above in Model 16 and Robert
walks over to the far right
area
of the stage still standing atop the amplifiers as shown above in Model
16. The stage will continue to look like Model 16 above as 1John5:4 and
the catchphrase are spoken. After they are spoken, the action
continues uninterrupted with Models
17-21 and the text below Model 21.
Narrator:
"For
everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that
overcomes the world our faith." For we are Symbols for the world to see
and when they're looking for Christ may they see Him in me."
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Model
17-Stage lights up after 1John5:4
and the catchphrase is spoken.
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Model
18-Video
of tour bus on highway within the U.S. map on the screen.
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Model
19-Video of
the
caravan of tour buses on highway with the sunset.
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Model
20-Symbols
plays "The Last Stand" with the looping caravan video.
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Model
21-U.S. map on the video screens on each side of the stage tracking
the "U.S. Tour."
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As the action continues uninterrupted following the narration of 1John5:4 and
the Symbols's catchphrase, the soundclip continues playing and the
stage lights
up as shown above in Model 17.
Shortly thereafter,
video begins to play within the U.S. map on the large video
screen onstage and it appears as if
the
"Holy Soldier" icon and
the black area within the border of the U.S. map start moving
forward. As the video continues to play, we see
the
"Holy Soldier" icon and the black area are actually artwork on the back
of a Symbols's tour bus that is traveling on a highway as shown above
in
Model 18. As the bus continues moving forward, the camera pulls
back from the back of the
bus so that we have a wide, ovehead shot of the entire area as shown
above in
Model 19. We see the
bus is part of a caravan of buses and diesels that is traveling on
a highway heading
towards a sunset as shown above in Model 19. However, we
only see the first three buses of the caravan in Models 19 and 20 but
as the beginning of the song "The Last Stand" is performed live the
remaining
vehicles of the caravan will be seen. The vehicles
are carrying the band,
tour personnel and equipment for the "Last Stand Tour." As the
soundclip
continues to play, Gibson
and Robert walk down the piano ramps until they're ultimately onstage
as shown above in Models 19 and 20 and Joshua emerges from the fog onstage as
shown
above in Models 19 and 20. At this point, the soundclip ends and
Symbols's begins playing the song "The Last Stand" live onstage. The
video of the entire caravan
traveling on the highway will loop and play within the U.S. map on the
large video
screen onstage for the duration of the song "The Last Stand"
and
video clips will play superimposed on the video
throughout the
song. At the same time, U.S. maps
that look like Model 21 above appear on the video screens on each
side of the live stage. These U.S.
maps will
track the progress of the U.S. portion of the "Last Stand Tour" and
determine the sequence video clips appear and play within the U.S. map
on the large video
screen. The
audience will join
Joshua,
Symbols, Daniel
and "The Council" on the road for the entire U.S. leg of the
"Last
Stand Tour" via video as the song "The Last Stand" is performed live. The U.S. part of the
"Last Stand Tour" lasts a
year and this
period
of time is
marked by the digital clock onstage.
From this point forward, any time we talk about video playing on the
large video screen onstage, we are refering to video playing within the
border
of
the U. S. map
on the large video screen superimposed on the looping caravan video.
The looping caravan video will be dimmed sufficiently so that the video
clips playing superimposed on it can clearly be seen.
Before continuing with the
description of
the video accompanying the song "The Last Stand," the nature of the
video clips themselves and how they
will appear on the large
video screen need to be
explained. Click on the
play button below
to see the "U.S.Tour" Trailer with the soundclip heard
previously.
After
you view the trailer,
you will need to hit the
"back" button on your browser to return to this page and continue
reading the act "The Last Stand."
The
"U.S. Tour" Trailer.
The
U.S.
maps on the video screens on each side of the live stage
track the progress of the U.S. portion of the "Last Stand Tour" and
determine the sequence video clips appear and play on the large video
screen onstage.
Each map has a small Symbols's tour bus on it in the California region
of the map and as the song "The Last Stand" is played live the bus
moves
eastward in a straight line until
it
ultimately reaches the East Coast. As the bus moves eastward, each state on the map
lights up when the front of the bus crosses over its western most
border. Because the bus is much smaller than the map, the tour bus
graphic itself
only crosses over the borders of a few states. How the remaining states
light up can be explained as follows. Visualize an imaginery straight
line that is lined up with the front of the tour bus and extends from
the northern most to the southern most border of the U.S. that moves
eastward at the exact same time the bus does. Any time the bus itself
or the imaginery line above or below the bus crosses over the western
most border of a state it lights up. When
each state lights up, the "Holy Soldier" icon
lights up in that state showing Symbols has played there as shown above
in Model 21. By the end of
the song, the bus is on the East Coast and both
maps are completely lit up with a "Holy Soldier" icon in each state.
The states lighting up on these maps also determine the sequence video
clips appear and play on the large video screen as the song
"The Last Stand" is
performed. For example, as each bus begins moving across the maps and
the
state of Washington lights up, video of Space Needle in Seattle and
Symbols playing at a large stadium in Washington starts playing
superimposed on the looping caravan video. As each buse continues
moving east and the
state of Nevada lights up, we see video of Symbols walking on the Las
Vegas Strip witnessing to large crowds, Joshua stopping a coroner
employee
who's about to put a dead body into his van and bringing the man back
to life in front of a large crowd on the Strip, and Symbols playing at
a stadium in Las Vegas where Joshua is onstage holding a Bible up in
the air preaching to the audience. The types of video clips that will
be seen include Symbols playing in concert, large
crowds of people
accepting Christ at Symbols's concerts or at street revivals led by Joshua in U.S. cities, Joshua
healing people of
numerous maladies and raising the dead at concerts or in U.S. cities,
Joshua using his superpowers at concerts and on the road, and Joshua
preaching to
crowds at shows and on city streets. In addition to video clips related
to
Joshua and the tour, we will also see video clips of the activities of
Daniel and "The Council" as it relates to the nationwide
underground. As mentioned previously, they
accompany Symbols for the duration of the U.S.
tour. Some examples of
these video clips include clips of "Last
Stand" shelters in the cities Symbols visits on their tour, Daniel and
"The Council"
visiting and inspecting these shelters secretly, Daniel and "The
Council" working in
their areas of expertise with people at
the shelters, Daniel and "The Council" on the road with Symbols,
and Daniel and "The Council" working in
the mobile command and control center which looks like NASA's command
and control
center filled with the world's most sophisticated
computer and
communication equipment. As is the case with the video clips of Joshua
and the tour, the appearance of these clips on the large screen onstage
is
linked to the
lighting up of the states on the U.S. maps. It's important to note that
the video clips from each lit up state don't always appear in sequence
one after another but
many times appear on the large screen onstage at the same time
superimposed on
the looping caravan video. This results in an active video collage on
the
large video screen. So as the tour buses move eastward on the U.S. maps
that
are on the video screens on each side of the live stage, the different
states
light up triggering video clips from those states to begin playing
superimposed on the looping caravan video within
the U.S.
map on the large video screen onstage. In the video clips that are
shown during
the song "The Last Stand" as Symbols tours the U.S., we continue to see the devastating
effects the Rapture has
had on the country. The country is in a serious depression much worse
than that in 1929. Countless businesses and residences continue to be
abandoned and boarded up, the streets are filled with the homeless and
basic services such trash disposal and electric power are non-existant
in areas. At this
point, the description of the
video accompanying
the song "The Last Stand" begins with the text below the lyrics of the
song "The Last Stand."
The Last Stand
Verse1:
Symbols
marched across
the fruited plain
Headlong
into the
pouring rain
The
Last Stand was
underway
With
the hope and promise of
a brighter day
Verse
2:
Stadiums
packed
full of anticipation
As
legions gathered for
the celebration
The
lights went out and
the fans roared
Hysteria broke out at
the opening chord
Verse 3:
The
stage lit up blinding
the crowd
And
a series of explosions rang out loud
Holy Soldier emerged from
the smoke and haze
Filled
with the Spirit
his eyes ablaze
Chorus
1:
Holy
Soldier rose up and took command
And
an
epic revival swept over the land
Holy
Soldier rose up and took command
Millions
found victory at the Last Stand
Verse
4:
Symbols
pounded the stage
night after night
Throwing
down the gauntlet taking up the fight
Spellbound
crowds stood
agape in awe
and
couldn’t believe what they heard and saw
Verse
5:
He
lit the way with
a six string on his back
Firing a
barrage of
miracles in a righteous attack
Unleashing
all his
powers in
a blaze of glory
A
beacon of light in man's darkest story
Verse
6:
Destroying
the sickness and raising
the dead
The movement multiplied
and spread
Playing
until his body broke and
fingers bled
Holy Soldier knew greater
battles
lie ahead
Chorus
2:
Holy
Soldier rose up and took command
And an
epic revival swept over the land
Holy
Soldier rose up and took command
Millions
found victory at the Last Stand
Lead
Break:
Chorus
3:
Holy
Soldier rose up and took command
And
an
epic revival swept over the land
Holy
Soldier rose up and took command
Millions
found victory at the Last Stand
When
Symbols begins playing the song "The Last Stand" live onstage,
video starts playing on the large screen onstage superimposed on the
looping video of the caravan
of buses and
diesels traveling on
a highway
towards a sunset. The U.S. maps
on the video
screens that are tracking the progress
of the U.S. tour are completely dark and no states have lit up inside
the U.S. maps. As the song begins, the buses in
the California regions of the U.S. maps on
the screens on each side of the live stage begin to move eastward very
slowly
and the states of California, Oregon and Washington light up on the
maps. Although
video from Washington and Oregon plays superimposed on the looping
caravan
video,
the main video appearing on the large screen onstage as the song begins
to be played is video from the first show of Symbols's U.S. tour
at
Dodger
Stadium. In the video, we see a crowd of over 100,000 people at
Dodger Stadium waiting for Symbols to come onstage and start their U.S.
tour. When
the lights go off at Dodger Stadium, the crowd roars knowing the show
is
about to start and when they hear the first guitar chord they go nuts.
Immediately thereafter, the entire stage lights up brightly and a
series of explosions go off as Symbols begins playing the opening
song of their U.S. tour. As the remainder of the song "The Last Stand"
is
played
live, the buses on the U.S. maps tracking Symbols's U.S. tour continue
moving eastward across the maps, more and more states light up and
video associated with those states plays on the large video screen
onstage. The content
of this video was described earlier in the paragraph of text preceding
this one. There is
video of special note that plays as the song "The Last Stand" is
performed
live. In this video,
we see a distant,
overhead shot of a large staduim filled with people which is completely
dark except for the stage and a small source of light on the field of
the stadium. From this vantage
point, the camera zooms in on the light source on the field which is
Joshua who's
wearing his
trenchcoat and walking through the large
crowd at the stadium with his gold Les Paul lit up and slung over his
shoulder resting
on his back. The "Holy Soldier" icon, the Christian symbols on his
trenchcoat, his cross necklace and the "Final Apostle" symbol on his
belt buckle are also lit up. The light from the cross necklace and
the belt buckle illuminate the area in front of Joshua and he follows
this light source as he
walks through
the
massive crowd. In
effect, the light creates a path Joshua walks down and the crowd in
front of him moves to either side of him allowing his passage. As Joshua walks through the crowd, he
lays hands on people healing them of
various maladies such as blindness, deafness and paralyis. We also see
others in the crowd being healed by simply
reaching out and touching the lit up guitar or trenchcoat as Joshua
walks by them.
When the song "The Last Stand" ends, the action continues
uninterrupted with Models 22-25 and the text below Model 25.
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Model
22-Symbols
live onstage after the last show of their U.S. Tour in
Central
Park. |
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Model
23-Symbols live onstage after the last show of their U.S. Tour in
Central
Park.
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Model
24-Video of pillars of fire engulfing Symbols on the large video screen
onstage.
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Model
25-Symbols live onstage with video of the "Last Stand" World Tour Map
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When Symbols finishes
playing the song "The Last Stand," the U.S. leg of
the "Last Stand Tour" which began in California at Dodger Stadium has
just ended with a free
concert in Central Park and a year has passed by. The U.S.
maps on the video
screens on each side of the live stage are completely lit up and each state has the "Holy
Soldier"
icon in it indicating
Symbols has
performed in that state on the tour. The video on the
large video
screen that's within the U.S. map shows a distant, overhead shot of
Central Park. There is a
massive
crowd and Symbols is onstage.
From this vantage
point in the video on the large screen onstage, the camera zooms in on
the stage until we have a
camera shot
looking directly at Joshua and Symbols
who are at the front of the stage taking a bow and thanking the
audience in Central Park. The camera shot is tight and all we see in
the video on
the large screen
onstage is Symbols and the stage as shown above in Model 22.
Symbols is
doing exactly the same thing live
onstage at the
auditorium
"The Unveiling" is being performed at, that is,
bowing and thanking
the
audience at the front of the stage in perfect synchronization with the same action in the
pre-taped video on the large screen onstage. They are standing in the same
place live onstage as they are in the pre-taped footage of
Central
Park on the large screen,
are wearing the same clothes
and the live stage is exactly the same as the one seen in the
pre-taped footage.
The desired effect is
for the live action
to appear as if it were actually occurring in Central Park and in
effect
the audience watching "The Unveiling" live becomes the crowd in Central
Park. At this point,
the
pre-taped video footage of
Symbols standing onstage in Central Park ends and the video screen
fades to black as shown above in Model 23. The
roar of the
live crowd in the
auditorium "The Unveiling" is being performed at is defeaning as
they applaud and shout out "Symbols" over and
over again. The stage is completely lit up and Symbols throws guitar
picks, drum sticks and
C.D.s
into the audience. Shortly thereafter, Joshua motions for the
crowd to quiet down. As soon as the applause and
roar of the crowd subsides, the musician playing Joshua speaks to the
live audience in the
auditorium who have in effect become the crowd in Central Park. All
the dialogue below is spoken by the musician playing Joshua live and
any
simultaneous
action that takes place live and in pre-taped video footage
is
in perfect synchronization.
Joshua: (1)All
right New York, we've just been told this is the biggest crowd ever for
any event at
Central Park. (2)There's over a million of ya out here
tonight and I
wanna hear you!-(Joshua
holds his mic out towards the audience and the crowd lets out a
deafening roar) (3)We'd like to thank all of you
here tonight, the millions who came out to see us on tour this past
year, and those of you who are watching this live on T.V. for
supporting
and helping us spread
the Gospel across this great nation. (4)State by state, song by song, millions have
been saved on this tour and that's what it's all
about. (5)I want all of ya to hold your
cell phones and lighters in the air. (6)Come on everybody, (Nodding
his head up and down in approval) that's
right, let the light shine
bright and cut through the darkness. (7)Now I want everyone
to be quiet, (Joshua puts his
index finger to his lips) Shhhh....(Whispering into the mic) quiet, everyone quiet. (8)(Putting
his hands to his ears and
speaking softly) Can you hear it,... the still small
voice,... listen,... (shouting
out loudly) and see the glory of God! (9)Now it's time to take
the Last Stand to the rest of the world. (10)Europe, Russia, India, Asia,
Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and
Israel, pray for
us as we circle the globe and sing a song of eternal life to a
dying world. (11)Good night
everybody, we love you
and God bless the United States of America!-(The
following action accompanies the dialogue above. The red numbers in the
parentheses refer to the number of each sentence in the dialogue
above and have been put there to aid you in following the action. When
Joshua starts the dialogue above,
the video
on the screens on each side of the live stage changes and the lit up
U.S.
maps with the buses are replaced. We now alternately see pre-taped
video of the crowd
of a million people in Central Park and live video shots of the
audience watching "The Unveiling" live in the auditorium on these
screens. Once again
the desired effect is
for the live action
to appear as if it were actually occurring in Central Park and the live
audience becomes the crowd in Central
Park. When Joshua says
sentences 5 and 6, everyone in the auditorium holds up cell phones and
lighters and we
alternately see live video shots of this and pre-taped video of the
million concert-goers in Central Park holding up cell phones and
lighters on the
video screens on each side of the live stage. The
action in sentence 8 is seen both live
onstage and in new pre-taped video footage from the concert in Central Park that begins playing on the screens on
each side of the live stage and on the large video
screen onstage. When
Joshua says "Can you hear
it,..the still small voice" in
sentence 8, the sound of wind which is the Holy Spirit is heard but
it's barely audible. However, when Joshua says "listen" in the same
sentence, the wind quickly gets progressively louder until it's
deafening
sounding like a hurricane. At this point, Joshua looks and points
upward extending his arms over his head and shouts out "and see the
glory of God!"
Immediately thereafter, in the pre-taped video playing on all the
video screens, Joshua brings his hands and arms downward as if he
were pulling something down from the sky and four huge pillars of fire
shoot down from the sky engulfing each member of Symbols onstage as
shown above
in Model 24. Only the
pre-taped video footage from Central Park with the use of CGI playing
on the video screens can
adequately show this
particular action with the pillars of fire. The pre-taped video footage
of this action
seen on the screens on each side of the live stage and on the large
video screen differs. The video footage of the action on the large
screen focuses solely on the stage as the pillars of fire engulf
Symbols onstage. However, the video footage on
the screens on each side
of the live stage shows this action but also shows the crowd's reaction
to the miracle in
Central
Park. We also see
different camera shots on the video footage playing on the screens on
each side of the live stage that
aren't seen on the large screen onstage such as close-ups of the band members
within the pillars of fire. After about
10 seconds, the pillars of fire engulfing Symbols ascend
back into the sky and the band members haven't been harmed at all by
the fire. Shortly thereafter, the lit up U.S. maps
re-appear on the screens
on each side of the live stage and the pre-taped video on the large screen onstage
ends fading to
black.
As
the action continues, Joshua says sentence 9 loud and forcefully
pointing
at the large
video screen onstage. At that exact
moment, a world map
appears on the large video screen onstage as shown above in Model 25
and the U.S. maps on
the video screens on
each side of the live stage
are replaced by the same world
map. Only the U.S.
region on
the
world maps is lit up as
shown above in Model 25 signifying
that Symbols has only toured the U.S.
thus far. The new
world maps on the screens look very similar
to the U.S. map shown
above
in Model 16 in that
only the outermost borders of the world maps are lit up and not the
area inside the borders. When Joshua says the name of each region in
sentence 10
starting with Europe and ending with Israel, he points at the
large video screen onstage and the border of that region within the
world maps
lights up. By the time Joshua says the last region in
sentence 10, the borders of all the regions that Joshua called out are
lit up within the world maps but the regions themselves are not except
for the
U.S. as shown above in Model 25. These
regions will light up during the "World Tour" segment as Symbols
tours the
rest of the world.
When Joshua ends the dialogue above, the entire stage goes dark and a
computer graphic jet
airplane appears on
the New York area of the world map on the large video screen.
Immediately thereafter, the
deafening sound of an airplane's jet engines fills the auditorium
and we see the plane fly across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to
England on
the world map on the large screen. Once the plane reaches England, the
loud screeching of an airplane's tires is heard, the England region
lights up on all the world maps and the "Holy Soldier" icon appears in
that area on the maps just as it did in each state on the U.S. map.
Shortly thereafter, the world map on the large video screen fades to
black. The large screen onstage will show pre-taped video footage of
Symbols's
entire world tour. The world maps on the other screens will track the
world tour in the same manner as they did for the "U.S. Tour" segment At
this
point, the "U.S. Tour" segment comes to a close and the action
continues uninterrupted as the "World Tour" segment begins.)
The Last Stand
"The
World Tour"
The "World Tour" segment begins when
the
country of England lights up on the world maps on the video
screens on each side of the live stage. Following this, the stage
lights
back up and Symbols
is onstage live once again. Joshua says a few words to the live
audience, shouts out the title of a song and Symbols begins to play. In
the "World Tour" segment, Symbols
performs a set of 10 original songs. During the performance
of these songs, the remainder of Symbols's world tour is
simulated and Symbols performs like a typical rock band on tour. It
takes Symbols another year to
complete their world tour and this
period
of time is
marked by the digital clock onstage. The
world maps on the video screens on each side of the live
stage track the progress of the world tour and video of
Symbols touring the rest of the world plays on the large video
screen onstage. However, the video plays directly on the large video
screen and not within a map as it did previously. The same conceptual
idea used for the "U.S. Tour"
segment where
the states lighting up on the maps on the video screens determine
the sequence of the video
clips playing on the large video screen onstage is also used for the
"World
Tour" segment. The video clips for the "World Tour" segment
include footage of Symbols on the road worldwide in famous foreign
cities and around historical landmarks, Symbols in concert around the
world, large
crowds of people worldwide
accepting Christ at Symbols's concerts or at street revivals led by
Joshua in foreign cities, Joshua
using his superpowers, healing people of
numerous maladies and raising the dead worldwide at shows and in
foreign cities, and Joshua preaching to
crowds worldwide at shows and on the streets in foreign cities. In
addition, other video clips
play updating the audience on the progress of "Operation Last Stand"
and the
status of the shelters, and on the activities of
Dr. Gold and Dr. Silver. As Symbols plays each
song of the 10 song set mentioned above, more and more of the
world maps on the video screens on each side of the live stage light up
with
the "Holy Soldier" icon
appearing in the lit up areas. For example, as the first song is
played, each country in Western Europe lights up on
the world maps moving in a easternly direction from
the already lit up region of England. When each European country lights
up, the
"Holy Soldier" icon appears in it indicating Symbols has
performed there and video from each Western European
country plays on the large video screen when it lights up on the world
maps. As Symbols
plays the remaining songs of the 10 song set, the other regions on
the
maps light up country by country in the following order as we
continue to move in an easternly direction from Western Europe;
Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Asia, Australia,
New Zealand, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa and the
Middle East. During the simulation of the world tour, some of
the most innovative and advanced staging and special effects ever
seen in a live show occur as Symbols plays the 10 song set. One of the
songs in
the set
is a medley of song clips from famous rock bands chronicling the
history of rock music from the 60's to the present time. When this
medley of songs begins, a hologram of Joshua that's supposed to be the
real Joshua appears live onstage. As the band plays the
medley of songs live onstage, Joshua uses his
shapeshifting powers and seamlessly morphs into famous
vocalists who sing the songs heard in the medley. Joshua looks and
sounds exactly like all the original vocalists including wearing their
trademark clothing and emulating their unique onstage personas. This would
include vocalists such as Robert Plant, John Lennon, Roger Daltry,
Steven Tyler, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Stanley, Kurt Cobain, Axl Rose, Don
Henley,
Roger Waters,
Bono, Bon Jovi, Mick
Jagger and Prince. The use of hologram technology will allow us to
showcase Joshua's shapeshifting superpowers. When Symbols
plays the last few songs of the 10 song set in
the simulation of their world tour, Joshua repeatedly talks about a
worldwide musical festival entitled "The Last Stand"
that takes
place at the very end of Symbols's world tour. It's a three day
worldwide music festival headlined by Symbols and put together by
Joshua and Saul. It involves over 200 Christian bands and speakers
and is the
greatest revival and music
festival ever seen. Symbols will play live at numerous festival sites
worldwide during the three days taking advantage of the different time
zones and flying in their own supersonic jet which travels faster than
the speed of sound. The action of the "World Tour" segment continues
uninterrupted with Models 1-8 and the text below Model 8.
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2- The live stage with the "Wailing Wall" prop behind it.
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3a-Video of Joshua looking upward at the Wailing Wall.
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3b-Joshua
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5-Video of the pillar of fire landing atop the Wailing Wall.
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6-Video of the pillar of fire and burning cross atop the Wailing Wall.
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7-Video of the burning cross atop the Wailing Wall.
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8-Video of Joshua leaving the stage at the Wailing Wall.
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By the
time Symbols is
ready to play the last song of the 10 song set in the
simulation of their world tour, the world maps on the video screens on
each side of the live stage are completely
lit up except for the
country of Israel, covered with "Holy Soldier"
icons and
a
year
has passed by since the end of the U.S. tour in New York.
The digital clock live onstage marks this passage of time as shown
above in Model 2 and it's 11:00 P.M. on May 2, 2024. At
this
point, the country of Israel with only its border lit up projects
outward from the world maps on the screens on each side of the live
stage,
increases in size replacing the world
maps, and the country of Israel lights
up with the entire
Symbols's logo appearing in it rather than just the "Holy Soldier"
icon.
Shortly
thereafter, the maps of
Israel on the screens on each side of the live stage are
replaced by
pre-taped video footage of Symbols in
Jerusalem
about to play the
final song of their two year world tour. They are
playing in front of
the Wailing(Western) Wall in Western Wall Plaza which is jam-packed
with
people as shown above in Model 1. At the same
time, a large prop of the
Wailing Wall lights up behind the
live
stage extending beyond the width of the live
stage as shown above in
Model 2. The prop will be lit up for the remainder of the action in the
act
"The Last Stand" even though it's not seen in the remaining models of
the live stage. The live stage looks
exactly like the stage in the pre-taped video footage from the "Wailing
Wall." The desired effect is for
the
live action in the
auditorium to
appear as if it were actually occuring in Western Wall Plaza and in
effect the
audience
watching "The Unveiling" live becomes the crowd in Western Wall Plaza.
As was the case in the
"U.S. Tour"
segment at Central Park, Joshua and Symbols are standing in the same
exact
location live onstage as in the pre-taped video, are wearing the same
clothes and
the live stage itself is exactly the same stage seen in the pre-taped
video at the Wailing Wall. Look at the stage in the pre-taped video
footage in Model 1 and
the live stage in Model 2 to see an example of this. Any
simultaneous
action that takes place live and in pre-taped video footage
from the Wailing Wall is
in perfect synchronization. Although not pictured in
the models
below, Joshua continues to wear his
"Holy Soldier" trenchcoat from Mt. Zion throughout all the action in
the "World Tour"
segment. At
this point, the action continues uninterrupted as the musician
playing Joshua live onstage steps
up to the microphone and speaks to the live audience in the auditorium
which is in effect the crowd at the Wailing Wall in Western Wall Plaza.
As in the "U.S. Tour"
segment, the band member images used in the
models
for the "World Tour" segment don't look
like nor are they dressed like the actual band members of Symbols will
be and
are used
for reference purposes only.
Joshua:
(1)Well, we've come to the
end and what an awesome place to finish the tour. (2)(Looking
out at the crowd in Western Wall Plaza) Are
there any Holy Soldiers out there tonight!-(The crowd roars.) (3)We've been broadcasting this
show and the music festival
live worldwide
and we've just been told that over four
billion people are tuned in right now making this the most watched
event in
television history. (4)What
do ya think of that people!-(Joshua
holds a mic out towards the audience, they cheer in response and Joshua nods his head in approval) (5)And this is the most successful
tour
ever, that's right
bigger
than the Beatles, Led
Zeppelin, the Stones,
U2, Metallica, Kiss, Guns n Roses.....bigger than all of them because
He's greater than all of us!
(6)We've
circled the globe
and played in every country in the world to well over 50 million people
and we thank all of you for making
our dreams come true. (7)We'd
also like to thank all the musicians, speakers, volunteers, sponsors, and of
course the 25 million of you who filled stadiums around the world this
weekend for making "The Last Stand
Festival" a monumental success. (8)(Putting his hand in
the air giving the thumbs up sign) You guys rock, you're incredible! (9)Ya know what, I wanna
see and hear from all of ya one last
time. (10)How ya doing Europe, Russia, India, China, Korea,
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Africa,
my people in the United States of America and everyone here in
the Promised Land! (11)(Nodding his head up and down and smiling) That's
right, we've got ourselves a rockin revival
tonight. (12)Now we
have some special guests we'd like to bring
onstage. (13)Welcome the Two Witnesses, my good
friends Moses and
Elijah to the
Eternal City! (14)Let the world witness and behold the
power
of God!-(The
following action accomapnies the dialogue. The
dialogue above is spoken live onstage by the musician playing
Joshua
in
the auditorium "The Unveiling" is being performed at. After
Joshua says sentence 9 live onstage, he turns around and faces the
large video
screen on the live stage. As the live Joshua names
each
country in sentence 10, he
holds a microphone on a mic stand out towards the large video screen
and
pre-taped video footage of jam-packed crowds in large stadiums who are
attending "The Last Stand Festival" in that country
appears
on the large screen onstage. We
see banners and video at the stadiums
identifying them as being part of the worldwide festival. All the
crowds are watching Symbols's final show in Jerusalem on large video screens in
stadiums at the music festival sites. The crowds cheer in
response to Joshua holding out the
microphone on the
mic stand and calling out their country's name. Right before the live
Joshua says
"everyone here
in the Promised Land" in sentence 10, he turns back around facing the
live audience once again and the pre-taped video footage on the large
video
screen fades out. At
this point, Joshua says "and everyone here
in the Promised Land," holds the mic and mic stand out towards
the live
audience and they let out a defeaning roar. As
soon as the live Joshua onstage finishes saying
sentence 12, he turns his back to the
audience, swings his guitar around so that it's resting on his back,
and
looks upward both in the pre- taped video of Western Wall Plaza on the
screens on
each side of
the stage and on the live stage as shown above in Models 3a and 3b.
Following
this, Joshua
says
sentences 13 and 14 and points upward towards the top of the stage.
Immediately thereafter, the live stage and the one in the video go
completely dark
as shown above in Models 4a and 4b and the sound of a deafening wind is
heard. Following this, a large pillar of fire shoots
down from the sky on to the top of the Wailing Wall in the video on the
screens on each side of the live stage as
shown above in Model 5. Shortly thereafter, the pillar of fire begins
to
dissipate as shown above in Model 6 and ultimately vanishes leaving a
large burning cross atop the Wailing Wall in the pre-taped video on the
screens on each side of the live stage as shown above in Model 7. At the same time, a prop of a large
burning cross
lights up atop
the live stage. At this point, Joshua leaves the stage
both live and in the video as shown above in Model 8 and the band begins playing live music
which
will
in effect be the soundtrack for the action about to take place in the
video from Western Wall Plaza on the screens on each side of the live
stage. The action
continues
uninterrupted with Models 9-18 and the text below Model 18 as the Lord
and Moses
address the crowd in Western Wall Plaza and the worldwide television
audience. Models 9-18 show the action
talking place in the video from Western Wall Plaza that's playing on
the screens on each side of the live stage.)
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9-Video after Joshua leaves the stage at the Wailing Wall.
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10-Video of Moses walking out of the burning cross atop the stage.
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11-God's finger of fire engraving commandment on the Wailing Wall.
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14-Video of the second commandment engraved on the Wailing Wall.
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17-Video of the Ten Commandments engraved on the Wailing Wall.
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Shortly after Joshua leaves
the
stage, Moses walks
out of the burning cross
that's atop the Wailing Wall and up to the front edge of the top of the
stage in the video on the screens on each side of the live stage as
shown above in Model 10. A close-up shot is used momentarily
so
we can clearly see that Moses walks out of the burning cross.
Following this, Moses spreads his arms
apart as shown above in Model 10 and points his staff into the sky
looking upward. Immediately thereafter, dark clouds
instantaneously gather above Jerusalem and Western Wall
Plaza with
lightning flashing and the sound of thunder booming. In fact, pitch black clouds
appear in the skies worldwide bringing
virtually nighttime conditions
to the entire planet. New pre-taped video footage
begins playing on the
large screen onstage showing dark clouds appearing throughout the world
bringing about nighttime conditions. At this point, the loud and thundering
voice of God says the following dialogue. Note: Moses is only seen in
the
video of Western Wall Plaza that's playing on the screens on each side
of the live stage and not atop the live stage.
God: I am the Lord thy God, who brought
you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me. Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember
the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honour thy mother and thy father. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not
committ adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour, and thou shall not covet.-(The following action accompanies the
dialogue above. When God says "Thou shalt have no other
gods before me," a
lightning bolt strikes Moses's staff, thunder is heard, God's finger
of fire shoots out of the sky hitting the Wailing Wall, and this
commandment is inscribed on the Wailing Wall in Hebrew in the video
from
Western Wall Plaza as
shown above in Models 11 and 12. At the same time, this commandment
lights up in Hebrew on the prop of the Wailing Wall live onstage in the
same
location it was inscribed in the video. Following this, God says the
next
commandment and the same sequence of events described for the first
commandment takes place as shown above in Models 13 and 14. At the same
time, this commandment also lights up in Hebrew on the prop of the Wailing Wall
live
onstage in the same location it was inscribed in the video.The same
sequence of events occurs for each of the remaining eight commandments.
Model 15 above shows the Wailing Wall with nine commandments engraved
on it and Model 16 shows God's finger of fire engraving the tenth
and final commandment on the Wailing Wall. By the
time the Lord has said all ten commandments, they have been inscribed
on the Wailing Wall in Hebrew with five commandments on the left side
of the Wailing Wall and five on the right in the video as shown above
in Model 17.
In addtion, all ten commandments are also lit up on the prop of the
Wailing Wall live onstage in the same location they are inscribed on
the Wailing
Wall in the video. The commandments on the Wailing Wall have an orange
tint as the flames
from God's finger of fire are still smouldering in the newly inscribed
commandments. The symbols for both the Old Covenant(The
Ten Commandments) and the New Covenant(The Cross) are now part of the
Wailing Wall. At
this point, Moses addresses the people in Western Wall Plaza. )
Moses: Oh children of Israel, let
him who hath ears, let him hear. What more must you see to believe! Why do you continue to wander in
the wilderness
denying Christ is the Son of
God like
your forefathers did when He walked amongst them. He is the Messiah the
prophets of old spoke about so rise up,
surrender your lives to Him and claim your birthright as
God's chosen people! He will return here in 3½ years and set up His earthly kingdom
reigning for 1000 years. Will you
join the King of Kings in the promised land or once again make for
yourselves gods
of silver and gods of gold. Your eternal destiny hangs in the
balance and the time for action is now
for great
peril lies ahead. Your
blessed
Messiah awaits your decision. What will it be!-(As soon as Moses finishes the dialogue
above, he turns around and walks towards the burning cross ultimately
entering the cross itself and disappearing from sight as shown above in
Model 18. At this point, the action continues
uninterrupted with Models 19-24 and the text below Model 24 as Elijah
addresses the crowd in Western Wall Plaza and the worldwide T.V.
audience. The band
continues to play live music
which is the soundtrack for the action about to take place involving
Elijah
in the
video from Western Wall Plaza on the screens on each side of the live
stage.)
Elijah: (1)For 3½ years
we've traveled the world prophesying and spreading the word of
God, shutting up the skies,
turning waters into blood, and striking the earth with various plagues.
(2)But you
are a wicked and perverse generation for we give you signs yet
you
still don't believe, but try to kill us claiming we
are but false prophets. (3)(Looking
upward) O Lord let it be known
that you
are God and that we are your servants and have done all these things at
Your word.
(4)Answer
me O Lord as You did when I stood on Mt. Carmel thousands
of years ago and battled the
Baal priests in Your name. (5)Peoples
of all
nations take notice and pay heed. (6)Man's final days are
upon us and earth will
be set ablaze and destroyed as the Lord pours out his judgement and
wrath upon an evil and corrupt world. (7)Billions
will perish and
the fires
of hell will burn bright in celebration. (8)Your
only hope
lies in Jesus Christ so repent
and accept Him as your Lord and Savior for there is salvation in no one
else. (9)To those
who believe,
your names
will be written in the Book of Life and you will live in glory
eternally. (10)(The volume and intensity of Elijah's voice
markedly increases) But
if you reject Him and choose instead to put your faith in
worthless idols of silver and gold, you will share in their ultimate
fate and be cast
into the lake of fire and tormented day and night forever and ever! (11)(Pointing at Dr. Gold and Silver and
nodding his head no) Don't fear those who
kill the body
but are unable to kill the soul; (Pointing and looking upward) but rather fear Him who is able to
destroy
both soul and body in hell. (12)And so it will be in the end of the
age;
the
angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the
righteous, and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (13)(Loudest and most intense) Heaven and earth will pass away
but the word of God stands forever!-(When Elijah finishes sentence 4, he is
looking upward into the sky, stops speaking, the
deafening sound of a rushing wind is heard, a pillar
of fire from heaven shoots downward completely engulfing Elijah
who's unaffected by the flames and he is seen within the pillar of fire
as
shown
above in Model 20.
Immediately thereafter, a deafening wind is heard once again, two
more pillars
of fire shoot downward from heaven on to the upper part of the stage
landing on each side of Elijah. Each pillar has an image of
Elijah
in it that looks exactly like the real Elijah as shown above in
Model 21. At the same exact time these two pillars of fire shoot
downward from
heaven, the pre-taped video footage already playing on the large video
screen onstage shows countless pillars of fire shooting downward from
heaven across
the entire world as the planet continues to be shrouded in darkness.
The pillars of fire land around heavily populated
areas such as major cities, sporting events at large stadiums and
at historic landmarks as shown above in Model 22. All
these pillars of fire also have an image of Elijah in them that looks
exactly like
the
real Elijah who's standing in front of the burning cross. One of the
pillars of fire shown in the video on the large
screen lands right in front of Dr. Gold and Dr. Silver who are in
Western
Wall Plaza watching Symbols's final show and they are blown back by the
force of
the pillar. When the real Elijah resumes speaking
with sentence 5, all the other
Elijahs in the pillars of fire around the world come to life and in
perfect unison with the real Elijah say the same exact dialogue above.
The other Elijahs also mimic in perfect unison the body language and
physical movements of the real Elijah as he speaks. The
video footage on the large screen onstage continues to play as Elijah
says the
remaining dialogue above and it shows crowds of people around the world
watching and listening to the other Elijahs saying the dialogue above
from within the pillars of fire. The video footage playing on the
screens on each side of the live stage continues to show pre-taped
video of Elijah speaking at the Wailing Wall with one Elijah to his
left and one to his right. All the Elijah's speak at a great
volume sounding as if
there voices are amplified and can be heard a long distance away from
where they are standing within the pillars of fires. A video clip of special note that plays
on the large screen
onstage shows a breathtaking view of the Earth in space with all the
pillars of fire
descending from heaven to earth.
When Elijah says sentence 10 from the dialogue above, the three
Elijahs atop the
stage point at Dr. Gold and
Dr. Silver in the video that's
playing on
the
screens on each side of
the live stage. At the same exact
time in video on the large screen onstage,
the Elijah that's in the pillar of fire directly in front of Dr. Gold
and
Dr. Silver in Western Wall Plaza points at them also and says the same
dialogue in unison with the Elijahs atop the stage. In response, Dr. Gold
half-heartedly
smiles but looks very angry and he has an evil glare in his
eyes. When all the Elijahs start saying the dialogue in sentence 12, legions
of angels who look as if
they're full of
rage and fury begin appearing in the skies at
the locations of the pillars of fires worldwide in the video playing on
the large screen onstage. As the Elijahs continue
saying
this
same
sentence, we see a series of video clips on the large screen showing
the angels swooping downwards very aggressively
at the people
gathered around the pillars of fire worldwide. It looks as if the
angels are going to
pick up the people and carry them away but they
fly
back upward at the last
second. The different crowds of people worldwide look extremely fearful
as
this
occurs. As soon as the real Elijah finishes the
dialogue above, he
looks upward
and holds his hands up in the air in praise. Immediately thereafter,
all the
pillars of fire worldwide with the Elijahs in them shoot upward
disappearing into the sky including the two pillars of fire atop the
stage on each side of the real Elijah as shown above in Model 23. The
pillar of fire that the real Elijah
stood within atop the stage also shoots up into the sky and disappears
but he remains
atop the stage as shown above in Model 23. At
the same time, the angels seen worldwide fly upward and disappear into
the
pitch black sky. A series of video clips on the large screen shows this
action occuring worldwide. Following this, Elijah turns around and walks towards
the burning cross ultimately
entering the cross itself and disappearing from sight as shown above in
Model 24. At this point, the action continues
uninterrupted with Models 25-33a and the text below Model 33a as "Holy
Soldier"
addresses the crowd in Western Wall Plaza and the worldwide T.V.
audience. The band continues to play live music
which is the soundtrack for the action about to take place involving
"Holy
Soldier" in the
video from Western Wall Plaza on the screens on each side of the live
stage.
The video of pitch black
clouds blanketing the skies worldwide continues to play on
the large video
screen onstage.
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25-The burning cross at the Wailing Wall with the commandments.
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26-Video of "Holy Soldier" emerging from within the burning cross.
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27-Video of a large "Holy Soldier" in front of the burning cross.
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28-Smoke pours out from "Holy Soldier" and covers top of stage.
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29-Joshua appears atop the stage walking out of the burning cross.
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Model
30a-Holy
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30b-"Holy Soldier" looks to the left side of the crowd speaking.
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30c-"Holy Soldier" looking to the middle of the crowd speaking.
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30d-"Holy Soldier" looking to the right side of the crowd speaking.
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30e-"Holy Soldier" looks forward and commandments not ablaze.
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31-Sword appears, Soldier bows head and sword moves down.
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32-The entire "Holy Soldier" icon is in front of the burning cross.
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33a-Video of smoke not pouring out from the large "Holy Soldier."
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33b-Joshua atop the live stage with the animatronic Soldier.
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As
soon as Elijah walks back into the burning cross disappearing from
sight as shown above in Model 25, an image begins to emerge from within
the center of the burning cross as shown above in Model 26 and
sounds of warfare begin to be heard as the live music continues to
play. As the object continues to emerge, the sounds of warfare get
progressively louder and we see
that the object in the center of the burning cross is a large "Holy
Soldier" with its head bowed down as shown above in Model 27. Smoke begins pouring out from the
Holy Soldier and spreads over the top of the stage as shown above in
Model 28. Following this, a second guitar is heard, Joshua appears atop
the stage and walks to the front edge of the stage as
shown above in Model 29. A close-up shot is used momentarily
so we can clearly see that Joshua walks out of the burning cross. Shortly
thereafter, the large "Holy Soldier"
supernaturally comes to life lifting up its bowed head and looks out
at the audience in Western Wall Plaza. Immediately thereafter, orange
lasers
shoot out of the Holy Soldier's fiery orange eyes over the crowd in
Western Wall
Plaza as shown above in Model 30a. At this point, as the live music
and sounds of
warfare continue to be heard, the large "Holy Soldier" begins to speak
the dialogue
below.
Holy Soldier: Be
strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might so
that you will be able to stand firm
against the
schemes of the devil. Therefore, take up
the full
armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and
having
done everything, to stand firm. Stand
firm
therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the
breastplate of righteousness, and
having shod
your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in
addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be
able to
extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And
take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the
word of
God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers
and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying
for all the Lord's people.-(As soon as the large "Holy Soldier" begins
speaking the dialogue above, his laser
eyes scan the entire crowd from right to left and left to right as
shown above in Models 30a-30e and Joshua continues playing
guitar atop the stage. As the action in Models 30a-30e takes place, the orange tint
of the newly engraved Ten Commandments on the Waililing Wall fades away
and ultimately only the Commandments are
seen on the Wailing Wall as shown above in Model 30e. When the Holy Soldier says
"and the Sword of the Spirit"
from the dialogue above, the sword of "Holy
Soldier" icon supernaturally appears above the burning cross as shown
above
in Model 31. Shortly after the large "Holy Soldier" finishes the
dialogue
above,
the lasers from his eyes shut off, he bows
his head, the sword moves
downward and stops when it's positioned over the Holy Soldier as shown
above in Model 32. The entire "Holy Soldier" icon is now in
front of
the burning cross at the Wailing Wall as shown above in Model 32.
Finally, smoke stops pouring out
from the large "Holy Soldier" as shown above in Model 33a. The same
exact
action
just
described and shown for the large "Holy Soldier" in the video on the
screens on
each side
of the live stage also occurs live onstage in perfect synchronization
with the action in the video. A
large animatronic "Holy Soldier" rises up from
the
top of the stage until it's positioned in front
of the burning cross prop atop the live stage in the same location as
the
large "Holy Soldier" is in the video and then it stops moving.
Immediately
thereafter, smoke pours out from the animatronic head covering the top of the live stage
as
shown above in Model 33b. The musician playing Joshua live appears atop
the live stage as shown above in Model 33b and walks to the front edge
of the stage playing guitar. Following this, the
animatronic Holy Soldier lifts
up its bowed head, looks at the live audience and orange lasers shoot
out over the live audience from its flaming eyes. As in the video from
the Wailing Wall, the animatronic Holy Soldier's laser eyes scan the entire live audience from right to left and left to right as he says the dialogue above and does so
in
perfect synchronization with the large "Holy Soldier" in the video. The
animatronic Holy Soldier's mouth
actually moves pronouncing the words as he speaks. When the animatronic Holy Soldier says
"and the Sword of the Spirit,"
from
the dialogue above, the sword of the "Holy
Soldier" icon appears above the burning cross prop atop the live
stage. As soon as the animatronic "Holy Soldier" finishes the dialogue
above, its lasers eyes shut off, he bows
his head, the sword moves
downward and stops when it's positioned over the animatronic "Holy
Soldier." The
entire "Holy Soldier" icon is now in
front of
the burning cross prop atop the live stage. Finally, smoke stops
pouring out
from the animatronic "Holy Soldier" as shown above in Model 33b. At this
point, the video image on the screens on both sides of the live stage
and the live action onstage are the same as shown above in Models 33a
and 33b. Keep in mind,
the Wailing Wall prop is also lit up behind the live stage extending
beyond the width of the live stage. As
the action just described for "Holy Soldier" takes place, the
pre-taped video footage
on the large video screen shows people worldwide watching this action
live as pitch black clouds continue to
blanket the
skies worldwide. We see video of crowds at "Last Stand Festival"
sites, families at home, crowds on city streets throughout the world
such as in Times Square and a massive crowd at St. Peter's Square
watching the action involving "Holy Soldier." As Joshua stated
earlier, four billion people worldwide are watching this action take place so just
about everyone is viewing this somewhere on some type of media. As the live music and
sounds of warfare continue to play, the action
continues
uninterrupted with Models 34-40 and the text below Model 40. As mentioned
previously, Joshua is wearing his "Holy Soldier" trenchcoat from Mt.
Zion even though
it's not
seen in the models.)
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Model
34-Video of Joshua atop stage in Western Wall Plaza on large screen.
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35-Joshua suspended in the air above the crowd playing guitar.
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37-Video of beam from Joshua's guitar lighting up the world.
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38-Video of Western Wall Plaza and the live stage lighting up.
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Model
39-Video of manna and red(wine) raindrops falling from the sky.
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Model
40-Joshua suspended in the air above the crowd pointing upward.
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As the
action continues
uninterrupted with the following text and Models 34-40 above, the
intensity and volume of the live
music
and sounds of warfare increase. The live Joshua who's standing in
front of the burning cross prop and animatronic Holy Soldier atop the
live stage begins to lower into the lighting rig until he can't be seen
atop the live stage any longer. As soon as the live Joshua disappears
from sight, new pre-taped video footage
begins to play on the large video screen onstage as shown
above in Model 34. The new video
shows a wide angle
view
of the entire Western Wall Plaza as shown above in Model 34 rather than
just a close-up of the Wailing Wall and stage which is currently
playing on the
screens on each side of the live stage as shown above in Model 33a.
When the new video starts
playing, Joshua is standing atop the stage in front
of the burning cross and large "Holy Soldier" icon In Western Wall
Plaza as
shown above in Model 34. He begins
moving
forward off the stage suspended in the air and is playing guitar.
Joshua
continues moving forward in the air until he is
suspended in the air
above
the crowd in the location shown above in Model 35 and then he stops
moving. Shortly thereafter, Joshua quits playing
guitar, extends his arms out from his body
parallel to the ground with his palms facing upward, looks upward and
begins to spin around in circles in the air above the crowd. At this
point,
countless demonic angels in Western Wall Plaza that the entire world
can see encircle
Joshua
and move in for the
kill. As the demonic angels approach him, the "Holy
Soldier"
icon and Christian symbols on his trenchcoat light up. The
Christian symbols light up in orange looking
like they're
actually burning on the trenchcoat and orange
rays of
light shoot outward from the symbols in all directions projecting
images of the symbols throughout Western Wall Plaza. In effect, Joshua
has become a human kaleidoscope projecting images of the Christian
symbols
throughout Western Wall Plaza as he spins around. When
the rays of light initially shoot out from the symbols on the
trenchcoat, they cut through all the demonic angels closing in on
Joshua blowing them backwards away from him and out of sight not to be
seen again in Western Wall Plaza. The pre-taped
video
playing on the screens on each side of the live stage show the same
action just
described for the new video on the large video screen. However, the
camera shot for the video on the screens on each side of the live stage
is much tighter effectively showing a close-up of Joshua and the
immediate area around him.
As Joshua spins around, the live music being
played by the band and the sounds of warfare build to a crescendo and a
deafening explosion rocks Western Wall Plaza. Immediately thereafter,
Joshua
stops spinning around and is facing forward as shown above in Model 35,
he
plays a chord on his guitar sustaining it so it continues to be heard,
lifts the guitar up in the air over his head as shown above in
Model 36 and looks upward. Following this, the outside of Joshua's
guitar lights up in sequence quickly beginning at the bottom of the
body of the guitar and moving up
both sides of the body in unison. After the entire outside of
the body of the guitar is lit up, the entire body itself lights up and
then the light continues traveling upward
moving on both sides of the guitar neck in unison. Each time the
light moving upward on both sides of the neck is at the same level as
one of the precious stone inlays on the neck of the guitar, the inlay
lights up until ultimately all the inlays are lit up when the outside
of the neck is completely lit up. Finally, the light continues
traveling upward in unison on both sides of the headstock of the guitar
and the light
from each side comes together at the top and middle of the headstock.
At that
exact moment, a beam of light from the top of Joshua's guitar shoots
upward into the sky as shown above in Model 36 and the video on the
screens on each side of the live stage changes. We now see pre-taped
video
footage of the earth in
space as shown above in Model 37 and the beam of light
from Joshua's guitar shoots into the sky from the region of Israel.
Immediately thereafter, the
beam of light
instantaneously expands and lights up in blinding
fashion encircling
the entire planet as shown above in Model 37. The ring of light
around the earth is much brighter than the most intense sunlight and
the pitch black clouds covering the skies worldwide instantaneously
disappear leaving the skies completely clear worldwide. After this,
Western Wall Plaza and the surrounding area in
the pre-taped video on the large screen onstage lights up as if it was
daytime
as shown above in Model 38
and the live stage and auditorium also light up brightly. In addition,
the video on the screens on each side of the
live
stage changes once again and we now see pre-taped
video footage from around the world showing this miracle taking place.
The video shows countries
where it's
nightime lighting up as if it were daytime, countries where it's
daytime lighting up significantly more than it would under normal
circumstances, and people's reaction to this
global
phenomena
including those in the stadiums attending "The Last Stand Festival."
The light is so
bright that people can't
look into the sky for more than a few seconds at a time. At this point,
the thunderous and powerful voice of Christ is heard worldwide
as the video showing the global phenomena of the bright light continues
to play on the video screens on each side of the live
stage.
Christ: I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will
never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. The
light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome
it. Let your light
shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father who is in heaven. (He pauses momentarily) I
am the living bread that came
down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live
forever; and the bread also which I shall give for the life of the
world is My flesh. Truly, truly, I say to you unless you eat the flesh
of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise
him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true
drink.-(The
following action
accompanies the dialogue above. As Christ begins speaking, a bright
ring of light has encircled the earth, video
footage from around the world is showing this global
phenomena on the screens on each side of the live stage, and the video
on
the
large screen onstage shows Western Wall Plaza and the surrounding area
lit up
as shown above in Model 38. Christ
speaks so loudly and with so
much power and
force that it causes seismic activity worldwide. This is seen
in the video on the large screen as the entire Western Wall Plaza area
moves and on the other screens as buildings around the world shake
and people sway. However, the seismic activity causes only minor
injuries and no
significant property
damage.
When
Christ says "I am the living bread" from the dialogue above, manna begins
to
fall from the sky worldwide including over Western Wall Plaza as earth
continues to be supernaturally lit up. At this point, the
screens on each side of the stage show pre-taped video footage of this
phenomena occurring worldwide and the video on the large screen
shows manna falling over Western Wall Plaza as shown above in Model 39.
The manna
symbolizes the body of Christ. When Christ says "Truly, truly" from the
dialogue above, red raindrops begin to fall from the sky worldwide as
the manna continues to fall and earth remains supernaturally lit up.
The red raindrops are
actually red wine and symbolize the blood of Christ. The screens on each
side of the live stage show pre-taped video footage of the raindrops
falling worldwide and the video on the large screen shows red raindrops
falling over Western Wall Plaza as shown above in Model 39. In
particular, we
see video footage of the crowds around the world attending "The Last
Stand Festival." The crowds are looking upward with their hands
raised in praise catching and eating manna and catching red raindrops
in
their open mouths. Joshua
continues to hold his
guitar over his head as shown above in Model 39 for about 30 seconds
after
Christ finishes the dialogue above. During this
time, the beam from Joshua's guitar continues to
shoot up into the air, the entire world is lit up,
manna and red raindrops continue to fall from the sky and the video
screens show footage of this occurring worldwide. After the 30
seconds is over, the
beam from
Joshua's guitar stops shooting into the air. At that exact moment,
Joshua brings his guitar
down from over his head, the entire
world is no longer lit up, and the manna and raindrops stop falling
from the sky. The
pre-taped video on the large screen returns to nightime conditions as
shown above
in Model 40 and we see the manna and raindrops stop falling in Western
Wall Plaza.
At the same time, we see pre-taped video from around the world on the
screens on each side of the live stage showing the world returning to
normal
conditions and
manna and red raindrops are no longer falling from heaven. The skies
remain clear worldwide in the video on all the screens and the pitch
black clouds don't return. At
this point in the video on the large screen, Joshua who is
still
suspended in the air above the crowd swings his guitar
around so it's
resting on his back and begins speaking
to the crowd in Western Wall Plaza with the dialogue below.
The
video on the screens on each side of the stage changes and is now
showing the same video playing on the large screen as Joshua begins
speaking the dialogue below.)
Joshua:
(1)My friends, the days grow short and
the end is
near. (2)We stand on the brink
of World War 3 and the forces of good and
evil are mobilizing for the
final conflict. (3)Gold and Silver
will show their true colors
and
unleash
hell's fury upon the world. (4)The question is will you be a Holy Soldier or a
prisoner of war? (5)The Second Coming is at hand
and it won't be long, no not long at all before Christ walks down these
very streets
again and throws the biggest party this world's ever seen. (6)Everyone's invited, but the
choice is yours, and yours, and yours, and yours out
there. (7)2000 years ago a stones throw
away from here at Calvary, a man died on the cross for your sins
and rose
from the dead three days later. (8)Don't leave here tonight without
sharing in His
victory and being a winner at the Last Stand! (9)To my
fellow
brothers and sisters, we
all know what lies ahead and many
of us
won't
make it through these final years but our work here isn't
finished.
(10)Be bold and share the Gospel with the
unsaved and
help anyone in need.
(11)There's no doubt great trials and
tribulations await us and our faith
will be tested
more than ever but this is our moment to shine, to show the world that
even when the forces of evil are at their greatest the light overcomes
the darkness. (12)Don't fear evil even if it costs you
your
life knowing that those who came before us paid the ultimate price. (13)The race
is almost over
and the prize is within reach. (14)We will return here in 3½
years and our
hope will be
realized and our faith rewarded when He returns. (15)We got one more
song for ya tonight. (16)We've never released this song or
played it live and have saved it for this very moment along with our
final video. (17)The song and video tell the story of
every believer as we go from death row to streets of gold. (18)(Speaking loudly and pointing upward) He's calling out to
you, "Set
Me Free!"-(The
following action
accompanies the dialogue above which is spoken by
the video image of Joshua
playing in the pre-taped video on all the video screens as shown above
in Model 40. As soon as Joshua
completes
sentence 2, the video on the screens on each side of the live stage
changes
and shows pre-taped video footage of Dr.
Gold and Dr. Silver. They are in a VIP box in Western Wall Plaza
with
their security detail watching Symbols's final performance. Dr. Gold
has the front page of the Jerusalem Times in front of him which has a
picture of Joshua on it with the caption "Holy Soldier or
False Prophet?" When Joshua says "Gold and Silver"
in sentence 3,
he looks to his right, points
directly
at Dr.
Gold and Dr. Silver in the VIP box and a spotlight lights them up. Dr. Gold
half-heartedly
smiles in response to Joshua's comment but you can see the
anger he's
trying to mask as he bites down and his facial muscles contract.
Following this, Dr. Gold crosses out the picture of Joshua in the
newspaper with a pen and violently crumples the front page of the
newspaper in his hand, says a few words to Dr. Silver and they
stand up and leave the VIP box with their security
detail. As Joshua continues speaking from the dialogue above, Dr.
Gold and Dr. Silver walk out of view in
the video on the screens on each side of the live stage and the video
on
these screens changes back to the video playing on the large
screen which is Joshua speaking to the crowd in Western Wall Plaza.
Each time Joshua says
"yours" in sentence 6, he points to an area of the crowd in Western
Wall Plaza and a beam of light from above illuminates that
area. When he finishes sentence 6 saying "and yours out there," he
points at the audience watching "The Unveiling" live and the entire
auditorium lights up. As Joshua ends
the dialogue
above saying
"Set Me Free," he looks and points upward as shown above in Model 40,
the song "Set Me Free" begins to be played live, and the action
continues uninterrupted with Models 41-52 and
the text below Model 52. Click on the play button below
to see
the "Holy Soldier" Trailer. After
you view the trailer,
you will need to hit the
"back" button on your browser to return to this page and continue
reading the production.)
The
"Holy Soldier" Trailer.
Set Me Free
•Verse
1:
•You’ve got my cross
around your neck,
Instead of carried on your back
•You put My Father in a
box, and you never let Him out
•You say My Spirit’s
just a myth, and not for today
•Your pre-conceived
ideas of how I should be
Verse
2:
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•My how the mighty have
fallen,
You’ve fell from the place you once stood
•I’ve come to take and
replace you,
To the place that I want you to be
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•
Chorus #1:
•Let Me out, Set Me Free,
•Let Me move and you’ll
see there is more to Me
•If you…open up your
heart, open up the box, Set Me Free
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•Verse 3:
•There’s a line drawn in
the sand, and it’s time to choose a side
•Keep living the way you
are, you’ll be left behind
•This life is like a
storm, the water’s rough and deep
•I’ll never let you sink just keep your eyes on Me
Verse
4:
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•Why do you still doubt
My power?
•I can’t move when you
put up these walls
• There’s so much that
I want to give you,
Release the chains, release it all!
Chorus #2:
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•Let Me out, Set Me Free,
•Let Me move and you’ll
see there is more to Me
•If you…open up your
heart, open up the box, Set Me Free
Free Me!!!
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•
Verse 5:
•Take your sword, take
your shield,
Take your armor it’s time to rise
•Walk with Me, fight for
Me,
Live for Me, you’ll never die
Verse 6:
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•Now rise up, you’ve
been set free,
It's time to move, now you’ll see
•There is more to Me(3x)
•If you open up your
heart, open up the box, Set Me Free!
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41-Video of Joshua suspended above the crowd in Western Wall Plaza.
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42-Video of Symbols's stage going dark and filling with fog at the
Wailing Wall.
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43-Video of rays of light shining down on Joshua in Western Wall Plaza.
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44-Video of angels carrying piano
downward to Joshua in Western Wall Plaza.
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45-Piano suspended above the crowd next to Joshua in Western Wall Plaza.
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Model
46-Joshua sits down on the piano and rays of light quit shining
upon him.
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Model
47-The dark live stage with Gibson, Robert and D.W. onstage.
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48-Rays of light and fog appear on the live stage.
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Model
49-Piano appears high atop the stage and moves downward.
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Model
50-Piano continues moving downward and stops over drum riser.
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Model
51-Piano and Joshua move across the stage and out over the live
audience and then
stop.
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Model
52-Overhead lights are turned off during live
performance of "Set Me Free."
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Set Me Free
Verse
1:
•You’ve got my cross
around your neck,
Instead of carried on your back
•You put My Father in a
box, and you never let Him out
•You say My Spirit’s
just a myth, and not for today
•Your pre-conceived
ideas of how I should be
Verse
2:
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•My how the mighty have
fallen,
You’ve fell from the place you once stood
•I’ve come to take and
replace you,
To the place that I want you to be
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As the intro and Verses 1 and 2 of the song
"Set Me Free" are performed live, the action continues uninterrupted.
The video footage playing on all the video screens is the same. Joshua
is looking and pointing upward as shown above in Model 41 having
just told the audience in Western Wall Plaza that Symbols is going to
play their last song "Set Me Free." As
soon as Symbols begins to play the song live, the video on
the large screen onstage quits playing. However, video of the action in Western
Wall Plaza continues to play on the screens on each side of the live
stage and the following action occurs in the video as the intro of "Set Me Free"
plays. Fog
starts to fill the stage and the stage goes dark as shown above in
Model 42. Following this, rays of light supernaturally shine down from
above
and encircle Joshua who continues to look and point upward as shown
above in Model 43. Shortly thereafter, angels appear
from above carrying a piano as shown above in
Model 44. One angel is holding the
piano by its seat and the other is at the opposite end of the piano
holding it by its body as shown above in Model 44. As the angels
descend toward Joshua carrying the piano, they spin
around in a circular motion above the crowd as does the piano. By the
time the 29 sec mark of the song is reached, the angels
have left the piano next to Joshua suspended in the air as shown
above
in Model 45 and they begin flying upward towards the sky. Joshua sits
down at the piano with
his guitar
slung over his shoulder resting on his back as both he and the piano
are suspended in the air
above the crowd. As the song continues playing, Joshua
looks upward and
watches the angels fly upward within the rays of light. By the time the drums and
piano start to be played in the song at the 41 sec mark, the angels
have disappeared into the sky and
are no longer seen in the video, the rays of light from above quit
shining down as shown above in Model 46, and Joshua and the piano start
to spin
around in circles above the crowd as he begins playing the piano in the
video.
As Verses 1 and 2 of "Set Me Free" are performed live, the pre-taped
video shows Joshua singing and playing piano suspended above the crowd at Western Wall
Plaza as the piano spins around. The pre-taped video
of Symbols performing "Set Me Free" in Western Wall Plaza will
continue to play on the screens on each side of the live stage until
the beginning of Chorus #1 in the song. Any time pre-taped video footage of Symbols
performing the song "Set Me
Free" in Western Wall Plaza plays on the screens on each side of the
stage during the live
performance of
the song, the action in the video is in synch with the live performance
of the song.
The following action occurs live
onstage during the intro of the song
"Set Me Free" in sync and at the same time the action just described
for the pre-taped video takes place. As soon as the song begins, the video on
the large screen onstage quits playing, the live stage goes dark and Gibson, Robert and DW are onstage playing the song "Set Me Free" live as shown above in Model 47. Following this, fog fills the stage and
rays of light
shine
down from above the live stage as shown above
in
Model 48. At the exact moment the angels are first seen carrying the
piano downward in the video on the screens on each side of the live
stage, a
piano just like the one in the video appears at the top of the live
stage as
shown above in Model 49. The musician playing Joshua live is sitting
behind the piano and it
descends
from high atop the stage as shown above in Models 49 and 50 in synch
with the piano that's being carried downward by the angels in the
pre-taped video from Western
Wall Plaza.
By the time the angels quit moving downward and leave the piano
suspended in the air next to Joshua, the piano onstage is positioned
above the drum riser as
shown above in
Model 50. Immediately thereafter, the piano which is attached to a
large
overhead
track that extends out over the live audience begins moving forward
across the stage and over the audience as shown above in Model 51. Once
the piano stops moving forward over the live audience, the
lights above it are shut off as shown above in Model 52, and Joshua and the piano start
to spin
around in circles above the live audience as Joshua begins playing the
piano
live.
At this point, the first 41 seconds of the
song "Set Me Free" have been played live and the action seen in the
pre-taped video footage
has been re-created live with a few variations in perfect
synchronization with the action in the pre-taped video footage.
As Verses 1 and 2 of "Set Me Free" are
performed live, the musician playing Joshua sings and plays piano live suspended above the live audience as
the piano spins around. The live performance of "Set Me Free" and
that in the pre-taped video are
in perfect synchronization with one another. The action continues
uninterrupted with Models 53-55 and the text below Model 55 as Symbols
plays the song "Set Me Free" live.
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Model
53-Two large video screens appear from the stage at the Wailing Wall.
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Model
54a-The "Set Me Free" video begins playing on the large screen onstage.
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Model
54b-The "Set
Me Free" video begins in the pre-taped video on the other screens. |
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55-Video of
Joshua
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Chorus #1:
•Let Me out, Set Me Free,
•Let Me move and you’ll
see there is more to Me
•If you…open up your
heart, open up the box, Set Me Free
•
•Verse 3:
•There’s a line drawn in
the sand, and it’s time to choose a side
•Keep living the way you
are, you’ll be left behind
•This life is like a
storm, the water’s rough and deep
•I’ll never let you sink just keep your eyes on Me
Verse
4:
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•Why do you still doubt
My power?
•I can’t move when you
put up these walls
• There’s so much that
I want to give you,
Release the chains, release it all!
Chorus #2:
•
•
•Let Me out, Set Me Free,
•Let Me move and you’ll
see there is more to Me
•If you…open up your
heart, open up the box, Set Me Free
Free Me!!!
As Chorus #1, Verses 3 and 4 and Chorus #2
of the song "Set Me Free" are performed live, the action continues
uninterrupted.
Symbols is playing the song "Set Me Free" live and in the pre-taped
video
footage from Western Wall Plaza on the screens on each side of
the live stage. Right before Chorus #1 is played, two large video
screens emerge from the stage in the pre-taped video with one to the
left and one to the right of the stage as shown above in Model 53. These additional screens are required for
the crowd in Western Wall Plaza to view the "Set Me Free" video in its
entirety. Of
course, the extra video screens needed for the live audience to view
the
video in its entirety are already in place with the screens on each
side of the live stage. As soon as Chorus #1 begins,
the world premiere of the video for the song "Set Me Free" starts to
play on the large video screen onstage as shown above in Model 54a. At
the same exact time, the "Set Me Free" video starts playing in the
pre-taped video on the screens on each
side of the live stage as shown
above in Model 54b. As
the video for "Set Me Free" begins on the large screen onstage and in
the pre-taped video, we see
Joshua walking down the corridor
of a multi-level prison facility that is pitch black and only a light
at the end of the corridor can be seen as shown above in Model 54a. There are several stories of jail cells on
each side of Joshua and he's carrying a large metal ring in his left
hand as shown above in Model
54a. The ring has a single large gold key on it
and the word "Life" is engraved on the key. The prison
Joshua is walking in is actually hell. At this point, the pre-taped
video playing on the screens on each side of the stage changes from
showing Symbols performing "Set Me Free" in Western Wall Plaza to
pre-taped footage of the prison. The
video on these screens
shows close-ups of the jail cells and we can see faint
images of prisoners in the cells in the darkness. As
Joshua walks down the corridor on the large screen, the overhead lights
flicker and come on
momentarily as shown above in Model 55 and the prison can be seen in
more detail. It's in a state of disrepair, all the bars of the cells
are
rusted and the cement structure is old,
cracked and falling apart.
The floors of the corridor and prison cells are covered in a mixture
of human waste, blood, polluted water and vomit. Snakes slither through
the mixture and cockroaches and other insects are on the
walls and bars of the prison. As Joshua walks down the corridor in the
video on the large screen onstage and
looks at the jail cells when the overhead lights come on, he can
see there's a single person in each cell. At the same time, more detail
can also be seen in the close-up images of the jail cells playing on
the screens on each side of the live stage when the overhead lights
come on.
The faces of the people in the cells look
the same as they did when they were alive
however they're not flesh but rather spiritual beings. In addition to
anonymous people in the cells, we see historical figures such as
Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Linden, Mohamed Atta and Yassir Arafat, They look
consumed by fear, completely lost and in deep despair, are covered in
sores and visibly in pain, are screaming and weeping uncontrollably,
and
look as if they're going crazy. Some of the prisoners are
gripping the bars of the cells so tightly blood is
dripping from their fingers running down the bars and others are
sticking their arms out of the cells reaching out to Joshua saying
"help me" as he walks by. The prisoners can also be seen in the video
on the large screen just not in as much detail. A variety of different
camera shots are used
in the video on the large screen including close-ups of Joshua and his
reaction to what he's seeing, wide angle shots looking
down the corridor from behind Joshua as shown above in Models 54a and
55,
and wide angle shots looking at the front of Joshua and the area behind
him. In particular, we see a wide angle shot looking at Joshua and the
area behind him when the overhead lights come on and the corridor and
prison structure behind him looks like it goes on forever. The action continues
uniterrupted with the next paragraph of text as new video begins
playing on the screens on each side of the live stage.
When Verse 3 begins to be sung at
about
the 2:45 minute mark of the song "Set
Me Free," the video on the screens on each side of the live stage which
is
currently showing close-ups of prisoners in jail cells(hell) changes.
From about the 2:45-4:45 minute mark of the song, video of Christ's
miracles and critical events of the final week of his life play on
these screens. Joshua is seen throughout this video walking
behind and with Christ witnessing each event and miracle that takes
place in the video. In
effect, the video playing on these screens
is a
vision Joshua has as he walks down the prison corridor in the
video on the large video screen. To illustrate this, there are close-ups
of Joshua's face on the
large video screen as he walks down the prison corridor and the
same exact
video
playing on the screens on each side of the live stage is seen in his
eyes
in the close-ups. As Joshua's vision plays on these screens,
the video of him walking in the prison
continues to play on the large screen onstage, he gets closer and
closer to the light at the end of the corridor and ultimately reaches
the
light at about the 4:39 minute mark of the song. The overhead
lights of the prison corridor on the large video screen continue to
flicker and
alternately go on and off from the 2:45-4:45 minute mark of the song.
However, the light at the end of the prison corridor never goes out. Joshua also periodically looks at the
prisoners in the cells on the large video screen during this time. The first
video segment involving Christ begins playing on the screens on each
side of the
live
stage at about the 2:45 minute mark of the song "Set Me Free" and
occurs as the
first two
lines of Verse 3
are sung. This segment shows Joshua standing on the shore of the Sea of
Galilee in Biblical times with another man who is dressed in a white
cloak and
crouched down. The man draws one half of
the Christian fish symbol in the sand and Joshua responds by drawing
the other half. We don't see the other man's face but we do see a scar
on the palm of his hand as he draws half of the fish identifying him as
Christ. Following this, Christ begins walking away from the
camera and shore and Joshua follows him. We see their backsides as they
both
walk on water in
the Sea of Galilee. Next,
the
camera momentarily focuses back on the Christian fish on the shore,
water
moves over it and recedes, and the fish is no longer seen in the sand.
Immediately thereafter, the camera re-focuses on Christ and Joshua who
are now a good distance away from the shore walking on water and the
sea is becoming extremely
rough and choppy. At this point, the final two lines of Verse 3 begin
to be sung
and the camera zooms in on Joshua who's walking on the water of a
stormy Sea of
Galilee. As soon as the camera zooms in on Joshua and we are seeing the
events taking place from his vantage point, we see Christ who's still
walking in front of Joshua approach a boat carrying the disciples
that's being
tossed about by the rough sea. When the disciples see Christ
walking on the water towards their boat, they're terrified thinking he
is a ghost. Christ smiles, shakes his
head and speaks to them. Following this, Peter gets out of the boat and
begins walking on water moving towards Christ but he begins to
sink.
Christ stretches out his hand, pulls Peter up, the two of them get into
the boat, the wind stops immediately and the Sea of Galilee is calm. At
this point, we move on to the next video segment that will play on the
screens on each side of the live stage as Joshua continues to
walk towards the light at the end of the prison corridor on the large
video
screen onstage.
The action continues uninterrupted in the video on the screens
on each side of the live stage with the next video segment as we
transition
from Verse 3 to Verse 4 of the song "Set Me Free." After Verse 3 is
completed, the camera zooms in for a tight shot of Joshua walking on
water so that he is the only image on the video screens. Following
this, the camera shows Joshua step
from water to dry land. Immediately thereafter, the camera shot
pulls back so we have a wide angle shot of the entire scene and we see
the backside of Joshua who is walking on a dirt road in Israel in
Biblical times. Christ is also walking on the road a short distance in
front of Joshua. In this new video segment, Joshua follows Christ as
He walks down the road and watches Him heal several people. First, a
paralytic man on the side of the road extends his hand out to Christ
asking to be healed. Christ acknowledges the man, grabs his hand, lifts
him up, the man is miraculously healed and begins walking following
Christ. Next, a blind man on the road simply touches Christ's cloak,
his sight is restored and he also follows Christ walking on the
road. Following this, a man with leprosy falls to his knees in front of
Christ. In response, Christ lays hands on the leper, he is completely
healed and begins walking with Christ also. Finally, Christ
approaches a
cave which is the burial site of Lazarus and we see Christ say
"Lazarus come forth!" Immediately thereafter, Lazarus emerges from the
cave still wrapped in his burial wrappings and he has been raised from
the
dead. The crowd of people in the area that witnessed this can't believe
what they just saw. Christ stops walking but Joshua continues and
enters the
cave Lazarus came forth from as the camera follows him shooting his
backside. Once Joshua is
fully within the cave and disappears into darkness, the image on the
video screens is just a black screen. Shortly thereafter, with the
camera still focused on his backside, we see Joshua emerge from the
darkness as if the cave were continuous and opened up on the other
side. As Joshua exits the other side of the cave, Chorus #2 begins
as does a new video segment that will play for the duration of Chorus
#2. When
Joshua
exits the cave at the start of Chorus #2 on the screens on each side of
the live stage, he is walking on a road and
Christ is in front of him riding on a colt. People line both sides of
the road and
are putting their coats and branches from palm trees on the road in
front of
the colt carrying Christ as it walks down the road. The people are
singing and dancing in the street as they celebrate the arrival of
Christ in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Christ is smiling as he rides atop
the colt and so is Joshua as he walks behind Christ. As
this
video segment and Chorus #2 come to a close, the camera zooms in for a
close-up of Christ's face so that it's the only image on the screens.
He is smiling and has tears of joy running down his face as he enters
Jerusalem on the colt. At this point, this video segment and Chorus #2
end and the video on the screens on each side of the live stage
continues
uninterrupted with a new video segment as the instrumental part of the
song "Set Me Free" plays from about the 4:16-4:44 minute mark of the
song.
As the video on the screens on each side of the live stage
continues
playing
uninterrupted, the image on the video screens is the close-up of
Christ's face and He's smiling and has tears of joy running down His
face. As
the instrumental part of "Set Me Free" begins at about the 4:16 minute
mark
of the song, Christ's face starts to change. The tears running down his
face turn red and the smile on his face is replaced by a look of
pain and agony. At this point, the camera pulls back so we have a wide angle shot of the entire
scene and we see that people still line both sides of the road.
However,
rather than celebrating Christ's arrival in Jerusalem, they're now
mocking and ridiculing Him, and some are lamenting and mourning Him as
He carries
His cross on the way to His
crucifixion. Christ is wearing a crown of thornes and His body is
bloody and scarred from the beating He received following His arrest.
Joshua is still walking on the road following Christ but he is no
longer smiling and looks upset. At about the
4:24
minute mark of the song, Christ collapses under the weight of the cross
and Joshua is pressed into service by Roman soldiers to carry the cross
in the video on
the screens on each side of the live stage. By the 4:29
minute mark of the song, Joshua is walking on the road behind Christ
carrying the cross. At about the 4:36 minute mark of the song, the
video
shows Christ walking up the steep incline of a hill with Joshua still
behind Him carrying the cross as they approach the crucifixion
site at Calvary. By the 4:39 minute mark of the song, the video shows
the entire crucifixion scene at Calvary. Joshua is standing at the foot
of the cross looking upward at Christ
on the
cross with tears running
down his face. By this time in the song "Set Me Free," Joshua has reached the end of the
prison corridor in the video on the large screen onstage. He is no
longer
walking
and there's a single
jail cell in front of him underneath the light at the end of the
corridor. There is a sign right below the light that reads "Death Row."
Joshua
is looking into the cell and someone is in it but the
lighting is poor and no
features of the person can be seen. At this point, the person in the jail cell steps up to
the front of the cell, is illuminated by the light
above the cell and we see the person in the jail cell is Christ. Christ
grabs the bars of the cell with both hands, Joshua sees the
scars on His palms which
are visible and
fresh, and blood runs down the bars. Christ looks at Joshua, His eyes
light up as if on fire and He yells out "Free Me" at the same exact
time the vocalist does at the 4:42 minute mark of "Set Me Free." At the
same exact time in the video on the screens on each side of the live
stage,
Christ
yells out "Free Me" from the cross looking upward into the sky. Immediately
thereafter, Christ's head slumps down to the side as He dies and a bolt
of lightning strikes the top of the cross. The video on both the large screen onstage
and on the screens on each side of the live stage continues
uninterrupted as the
guitar solo from the song "Set Me Free" starts to play. Right
before Joshua quits walking down the prison corridor and is standing in
front of the cell at the end of the corridor in the video on the large
screen, he looks at the final jail cell to his left and then at the
final cell on the right. Dr. Silver is in the cell to his left
and Dr. Gold in the cell to his right. They are both
gripping the bars of the cells so tightly blood is
dripping from their fingers running down the bars, look consumed by fear and are weeping
uncontrollably.
As the guitar solo begins to play, Joshua is looking at Christ in the
jail
cell
in the video on the large screen onstage, he lifts up the ring he's
been
carrying and
puts the gold key that says "Life" into the lock of the prison cell. As
Joshua does this, the video of the
crucifixion scene on the other screens is replaced by video of
Joshua standing in front of Christ's tomb looking up at an angel who's
about to roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb. When Joshua turns the key, the prison door
slides open in the video on the large screen onstage and Christ is
transformed
from the
flesh into the spirit. At the same exact time the prison door
slides open on the large video screen, the angel rolls the stone away
from
the entrance of
Christ's tomb in the video on the screens on each side of the live
stage.
Following this, Joshua watches the
resurrected Christ exit through the entrance of the tomb and rise up
into the sky. In response, Joshua smiles and has tears of joy running
down his face. At the same exact time Christ exits the tomb on the
screens on each side of the live stage, Christ now in spirit form
exits the opened jail cell and enters Joshua's body in the video on the
large
screen onstage. At this point, the video of Joshua at Christ's
tomb on the screens on each side of the live stage is replaced by
pre-taped
video footage of Symbols
performing "Set Me Free" in Western Wall
Plaza once again that's in sync with the live performance of the song. This marks the end of the "Set Me Free"
video presentation seen on the screens on each side of the live stage.
However,
the video for the song "Set Me Free" continues to play
uninterrupted on the large video
screen onstage. When Christ enters Joshua's body from
the jail cell, his entire body convulses as if shocked by electricity.
Immediately thereafter, Joshua turns around so that he facing the
prison corridor he just walked down and undergoes a major
transfomation morphing into Christ. Joshua is standing like he's being
crucified with his arms
extended away from his body with his palms
facing forward. As Joshua's
transformation into Christ begins, there is only a faint glow
underneath Joshua's trenchcoat. Following this, the faint glow of light
increases
in intensity and bursts out of the trenchcoat through the Christian
symbols on it sending out rays of bright white light in all directions.
We
also see the scar on Christ's side that He received on the cross from
the soldier's spear as the light underneath that area of trenchcoat is
exposed. The bright white light is Christ who entered Joshua's body
from the jail cell. By the end of the guitar solo, the light will have
burst through almost all of Joshua's trenchcoat and other clothes, and
in its place is the translucent body of Christ wearing a white cloak as
shown in the models below. The light emanating from Christ and the
cloak
is blinding and we see Dr. Gold and Silver in their cells turning away
and cowering from Christ and the light. As the sequence of events with
the trenchcoat and light
takes place, Joshua's physical features are also transformed. First,
his blue eyes change into Christ's orange eyes of fire and then
Christ's
scarred palms emerge from Joshua's unblemished ones. Following this,
Joshua's face changes, hair grows from his shaved head and a full
beard and moustache appear on his face. By the end of the guitar solo,
Joshua's transfomation into Christ is complete and the only part of
Joshua that remains is the "Holy Soldier" icon that was on the back of
his
trenchcoat. The icon is now on the back of Christ's cloak and is
shining brightly particularly the sword. The
transformation of Joshua into
Christ is a conceptual idea based on Galatians 2:20.
The screens on each side of the live stage
continue to show
video footage of Symbols performing the song "Set Me Free" in Western
Wall
Plaza in sync with the live performance of the song. The action continues uninterrupted with Models 56-74 and the text below Model
74 as the vocalist playing Joshua live begins
singing once again following the
guitar solo.
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Model
56-The live Joshua standing atop the piano singing Verse 5 above
the live
audience.
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Model
57-Video of Joshua standing atop the piano singing Verse 5 in Western
Plaza. |
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Model
58-Christ lights up the prison and the prison floor turns to gold.
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Model
59-Video of radiant Christ and His light replaces the prison.
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Model
60-Background behind Christ transitions from the light to clouds.
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Model
61-Video of Joshua and piano rising higher above crowd at Western Plaza.
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Model
62-Video of New Jerusalem emerging from clouds #1.
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Model
63-Video of
New Jerusalem emerging from clouds #2. |
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Model
64-Video of
Christ with New Jerusalem behind him. |
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Model
65-Christ greets Joshua at the entrance to New Jerusalem.
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Model
66-Joshua
walking towards the entrance of New Jerusalem. |
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Model
67-Joshua walking on street of gold inside New Jerusalem.
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Model
68-Video of Joshua and the piano lowering to original height above
crowd.
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Model
69-Video of angels removing the piano from Western Wall Plaza.
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Model
70-Video of Joshua back onstage and lights onstage replace last video
image.
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Model
71-The live Joshua and the piano suspended over the live
audience.
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Model
72-The live Joshua moving over the live audience en route to
the live stage.
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Model
73-The live stage and last image from the "Set Me Free" video.
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Model
74-Joshua back on live stage and lights replace last video image.
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Verse 5:
•Take your sword, take
your shield,
Take your armor it’s time to rise
•Walk with Me, fight for
Me,
Live for Me, you’ll never die
Verse 6:
•
•Now rise up, you’ve
been set free,
It's time to move, now you’ll see
•There is more to Me(3x)
•If you open up your
heart, open up the box, Set Me Free!
As
Verses 5 and 6 and the conclusion of the song "Set Me Free" are
performed live, the action continues uninterrupted. When the live
Joshua begins singing
Verse 5
of
"Set Me Free" following the guitar solo, he is standing atop the piano
which is suspended above the live the audience as shown above in Model
56. At the same time and in sync with the live action, the video on the
screens on
each side of the live stage also shows Joshua singing while standing
atop
the piano as shown above in Model 57. As
the "Set Me Free" video
on the large screen onstage continues to play uninterrupted, the
transformation
of
Joshua into Christ has taken place. The
light emanating from Christ
becomes so bright that it lights up the entire prison
corridor as shown above in Model 58.
As the vocalist sings the lyrics "Take your sword, take
your shield"
at about the 5:09
minute
mark of the song, Christ reaches over his shoulder and acts as if He's
going to
pull the sword from the "Holy Soldier" icon off the back of His cloak.
As
soon
as He
touches the handle of the sword on the cloak, it turns into a
real sword that is
much larger
than the one on the icon. At this point, Christ lifts the sword off his
back, puts his other hand on the handle gripping the sword
with
both hands, the blade bursts out in flames, He swings the sword
downward with great fury and drives
the tip of the sword into the prison floor which is
transformed into a street of gold as shown above in Model 58. Following
this, Christ walks down the prison corridor on the street of gold with
sword in
hand and
lip syncs the three remaining lines of Verse 5. In fact, the video
image of
Christ on the large video screen lip syncs the remainder of the song
"Set Me Free" so it appears as if He's actually singing the song. As
Christ walks down the prison corridor singing, the light coming forth
from
Him gets
brighter and brighter. By the time Verse 5 is completed, Christ has
reached the
end of the street of gold and only Christ and the light are visible on
the
large screen onstage as shown above in Model 59. The light from Christ
has
completely
drowned out the prison corridor and in essence the light has overcome
the
darkness. Note: Models 57 and 58, Models 60 and 61,
and Models 67 and 68 are prime examples of how the live and
pre-taped action are in sync with one another.
As
the video for the song "Set Me Free" continues playing on the large
screen onstage and the beginning lyrics of Verse 6 "Now rise up" are
sung by the Joshua(and Christ), Christs lifts up
His arms and the
sword upward motioning
for the people to rise. Immediately thereafter, the
background behind Christ changes from the bright light
to clouds as shown above in Model 60. As Christ raises his arms and the
sword upward
on the
large
screen, Christians in the crowd in Western Wall
Plaza
that are watching Symbols perform "Set Me Free" supernaturally rise up
off the ground in the video on the screens on each side of the live
stage. At
the same time, Christians
worldwide rise up into the air, and Joshua and
the piano which are already suspended in the
air
above the crowd in Western Wall Plaza rise up even
higher as shown above in Model 61. The Christians in Western
Wall Plaza rise to the same height as Joshua does in Model 61. As the
song continues to play, the video on the screens on
each
side of the live stage changes and now shows pre-taped video footage of
Christians
worldwide including those at
"The Last Stand Festival" sites rising
up into the air. We see
those that don't rise up looking dumbfounded and confused as to why
they're not rising. When
Joshua
begins singing the lyrics "There is more to me" for the first time at
the 6:02
minute mark of "Set Me Free," an image behind Christ begins to emerge from
within the clouds as shown above in Model 62.
By the time "There is
more to me" is sung for the last time, the image within the clouds is
clearly visible and it's New Jerusalem as shown above in Model 64. This
entire
sequence
of action is shown above in Models 62-64. Keep in mind, New Jerusalem
will look much more spectacular in the actual production than it
does in the model used above. In the
recorded version of
"Set Me Free," the music following
the
end of the vocals fades out and the song ends. However, when the song
is performed live, Symbols
will continue playing instrumental music after the vocals end. As the
music plays on after
Verse 6
is sung, Christ greets Joshua at the entrance to New Jerusalem as shown
above
in Model 65 and he continues
walking on the street
of gold
ultimately entering New Jerusalem as shown above in Models 66 and 67.
At this point, the video for the song "Set Me Free" ends and
the image remaining on the large video screen is Joshua walking inside
New
Jerusalem as shown above in Model 67. By the time
the "Set Me Free" video ends, all the
people worldwide including
those in Western
Wall Plaza
return
to the ground and the video on the screens on each side of the live
stage changes showing Joshua and Symbols playing in Western Wall Plaza
once again. After
this, Joshua
and the piano lower back to their original
position above the crowd as shown above in Model 68.
As the action continues in the video on the screens on each side
of the live stage,
rays of
light from above shine down on Joshua and he gets off the piano and
moves away from it. Following this,
the same angels that brought the piano to Joshua in Western Wall Plaza
earlier appear in the sky once again.They move downward, pick up the
piano and fly
upward with the piano as shown above in Model 69 ultimately
disappearing from sight. After this, Joshua starts
moving towards the stage in the air above the crowd in Western Wall
Plaza until he is back onstage again as shown above in Model 70. By
this time, the stage is lit back up, the last
image from the "Set Me Free" video that's on the video screen fades
away and is replaced by lights and
lighting trussels as shown above in Model 70. Shortly thereafter, the
pre-taped video footage playing on the screens on each side of the live
stage ends and the screens fade to black. This same
sequence of events just described for the action in the pre-taped video
also
occurs live in the auditorium "The Unveiling" is being performed at in
sync with
the action in the video as shown above in Models 71-74. The musician
playing Joshua is standing atop the piano which is suspended above the
live audience as shown above in Model 71. Cables lift Joshua off the
piano and move him over the live audience towards the live stage as
shown above in Model 72. As Joshua
flies over the live audience, the live stage lights back up and the
video screen onstage is showing the last image of the "Set Me Free"
video which is Joshua walking inside New Jerusalem as shown above in
Model 73. By the
time Joshua reaches the live stage, the final image from the "Set Me
Free" is no longer on the large video screen and is replaced by lights
and
lighting trussels as shown above in Model 74. Finally,
Joshua arrives on the live stage with the rest of the band as shown
above in
Model 74. Note how
the live stage as shown above in Model 74 and the stage in the
pre-taped video as shown in Model 70 are the same when this sequence of
events is completed. The action
continues
uninterrupted with Models 75-84 and the text below Model 84 as Symbols
continues to play instrumental music following the end of the song "Set
Me Free."
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Model
75-Symbols playing their final song with lights replacing the video.
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Model
76-Symbols's prop begins to move downward from atop live stage.
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As
the action continues
uninterrupted with the following text and Models 75-84, the
pre-taped video playing on the screens on
each side of the stage has just ended and Symbols is playing the very
end of the song "Set Me Free"(instrumental music) live onstage as shown
above in Model
75.
All the action accompanying Models 75-84 occurs live onstage and no
video plays on the screens on each side of the live stage. As
Symbols
continues playing live, a large prop
of the
"Symbols" logo
begins to move downward from high above the
stage being lowered by Christ's pierced hand as shown above in Model 76. The
cymbal of the prop is shining brightly and rays of light from above
reflect off its
surface,
lasers
are shooting out from its perimeter in all directions out over the
crowd and there is
smoke pouring out from underneath it but none of this is shown in the
models above. As the Symbols's prop
moves downward, Gibson and Robert walk up the piano ramps
and stand atop the amplfiers as
shown above in Models 77 and 78. At the same time, the drum riser moves
downward decreasing in size until it's level with the amplifiers, and D.W. and his
drumset lower
into the drum riser itself as
shown above in Model 77 until they are no
longer visible as shown above in Model 78. Shortly thereafter, the
bottom part of
the "Symbols" prop lowers
into the drum riser, the prop stops moving downward and its large
cymbal
sits atop the drum riser as shown above in Model 78. At this point,
Joshua backs up towards the drum riser, and Gibson and Robert walk
across the amplifiers and stand on top of the
cymbal
as shown above in Model 79. Immediately thereafter, Joshua levitates
upward on to the front of the cymbal of the Symbols's prop
as shown above in Model 80. Once the
band is on the cymbal as shown above in Model 80, the prop begins
to move
upward being lifted by Christ's pierced hand as shown above in Model
81.
As
this occurs, D.W. and his
drumset rise up from within the drum riser and are visible
once again as shown above in Model 81, and
the drum riser returns to its original size as shown above
in
Model 82. As the Symbols's
prop continues moving upward so do D.W. and his drumset. The drumset is
actually on top of a smaller drum riser that's within the original
riser
that
allows the drumset to extend beyond the height of the original drum
riser as
shown above
in Model 83. As the Symbols's prop, drumset and musicians continue to
move
upward, the music builds in intensity and volume. By the time the
Symbols's prop and the musicians on it have risen so high they are no
longer visible to the audience, the music reaches its crescendo.
At that exact moment, a defeaning
explosion is heard, the
music stops abruptly and the song "Set Me Free" is over, the entire
stage goes dark and the drum riser
returns to its original size as shown above in
Model 84. However, the drumset is no longer on the drum riser as shown
above in Model 84. D.W.
and
his drumset have actually lifted off the smaller drum
riser and
continue to move upward being pulled up by cables that are attached to
both a
platform underneath the drumset and the lighting rig above. However,
this
happens when the stage is dark so the audience doesn't see this occur.
Although
not visible in Models
75-84, the Wailing Wall prop is lit up behind the live stage as the
simulation of Symbols's final show in Western Wall Plaza continues.The action
continues uninterrupted with Models 85-102 and the text below Model
102.
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Model
94-Piano ramps light up onstage.
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Model
95-The amplifiers and all the remaining lights light up onstage.
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Model
96-Fire appears onstage.
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Model
97-Fireworks
go off onstage.
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Model
98-Drum
riser moves to the front of the stage with Joshua on it. |
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Model
99-Confetti
falls onstage.
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Model
100-The
stage following the final explosion.
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Model
101-Drum
riser back to its original position and the cross onstage.
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Model
102-Joshua
turns around and looks upward on the live stage.
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As the action continues
uninterrupted with the following text and Models 85-102, the entire
stage will light up sequentially until it's completely lit up
once again. All the action accompanying Models 85-102
occurs live onstage and there is no video playing on the screens on
each side of the live stage. When this sequence of action begins, the
entire stage is dark, fog begins filling
the
stage as shown above in Model 85 and there is silence. Shortly
thereafter, pre-recorded soundtrack music starts playing as fog
continues filling the stage. Following this, colored
lights on the left and right
sides of
the stage light up in sequence at the same time moving from the
outermost
lights inward until they are completely lit up as shown
above in Model 86. Immediately thereafter, video
of the "Last Stand" artwork("Holy Soldier" superhero symbol)
begins to appear on the large video screen piece by piece until it's
completed as shown above in Model 87. Click on the
play button below
to see a video clip of how the "Last Stand" artwork comes together
piece by piece. After
you view the clip,
you will need to hit the
"back" button on your browser to return to this page and continue
reading the act "The Last Stand."
Video of "The Last
Stand"
artwork.
As soon as the "Last Stand" artwork is on
the video screen onstage in its entirety, we hear
live guitar
start playing along with the soundtrack music. At that
exact moment,
blue lights illuminate Gibson
who
is now standing high above the stage on the left
side of
the lighting rig playing guitar with his head bowed, a dove lights up
below
him and
blue lights
radiate from the dove as shown above in Model 88.
Following this, we hear live bass start playing with the soundtrack
music. At that exact moment, green lights illuminate Robert who is now
standing high above the stage
on the right side of
the lighting rig playing bass with his head bowed, an Ichthys(fish)
symbol
lights
up below him and green lights
radiate from the Ichthys as shown above in Model 89.
Next, live drums are heard playing with the soundtrack music. At that
exact moment, orange lights illuminate D.W. and his drum set which are now
suspended in the air right above the "Last Stand" artwork as shown
above in Model 90. At the same time, two large transparent
Ten Commandment
tablets located in front of the D.W.'s
drumset light up and the drum riser itself lights back up as shown
above in Model 90. As the action
continues, a second live guitar is heard playing with the soundtrack
music, a cross lights up in the
middle of the lighting rig and
gold lights
radiate from the cross as shown above in Model 91. At the same time,
Joshua begins to emerge from within the drum riser illuminated by gold
lights with his head bowed as shown above in Model 92 until ultimately
he is completely visible as shown above in Model 93. Shortly
thereafter, live piano begins to be heard and both piano ramps light up
in sequence at the same time as shown above in Model 94. The piano
ramps don't light up all at once but rather key by key starting with
the keys touching the stage up to the keys touching the amplifiers. The
individual keys light up quickly in sequence as if someone were
actually playing a real piano and running their fingers along the
entire length of the keyboard. As soon as the final key on each ramp
lights up which are the keys touching the top of the amplifiers, the
amplifiers and the remaining lights onstage light up as shown above in
Model 95. At this point, the entire band is now playing instrumental
music and the soundtrack music fades out. The instrumental
music will build in
intensity and ferocity as the action continues. Although not visible in
Models above, the Wailing Wall prop is lit up behind the live stage as
the
simulation of Symbols's final show in Western Wall Plaza continues.
As the action
continues uninterrupted live onstage, the entire stage is lit up once
again as shown above in
Model 95, the band is playing instrumental music building in intensity,
their heads are bowed and there is no
video playing on the screens on each side of the live stage. At this point, Joshua lift
his head up looking out at the audience and
brings
his guitar up and back as shown above in Model 96. Immediately
thereafter,
Joshua plays a chord and thrusts his guitar down and forward pointing
it at the
audience all in one motion. At that exact moment, a huge explosion is
heard and
fire shoots up on both sides of Joshua and onstage as shown above in
Model 96.
Gibson and Robert who are still high above the stage on the lighting
rig also lift their heads up and do the same exact motion in perfect
unison with Joshua and
will do so
whenever he does. Shortly thereafter, Joshua lifts his guitar up
and back
again, plays a chord and thrusts his guitar down and forward once
again. At
that exact moment, another huge explosion is heard, fire shoots up on
both
sides of Joshua and onstage, and fireworks start going off onstage as
shown
above in Model 97. As the music increases in intensity and volume
building to
a crescendo, the drum riser starts moving forward with Joshua on top of
it
stopping at the front edge of the live stage as shown above in Model
98. Shortly
thereafter, fireworks all over
the stage go off, flames shoot up into
the
air, lasers(not seen in models above) from the stage shoot out across
the crowd and confetti falls all over the stage as shown above in Model
99.
In addition, the keys of the piano
ramps
light up in sequence key by key moving from the top of the amps down to
the stage
and from the stage back up to the amps repeatedly. In synch with
each
piano key that lights up the
corresponding live
piano note is heard as if someone were actually playing piano on the
ramps
themselves.
Finally,
a series of explosions is
heard as
Joshua repeatedly lifts his guitar back and up, and plays a chord
swinging his
guitar down and forward all in one motion as described above. On the
final and loudest explosion, the band
quits
playing music and the stage looks like Model 100 above leaving Joshua
alone onstage. The remaining lit up objects onstage which includes the
drum riser, the "Last Stand" artwork, two
panels of colored lights, the drum set and tablets, and the cross form
a
large cross and arrow onstage when lit up as shown above in Models
100-102.
At this
point, the drum riser moves back to its original
position as shown above in Model 101. Shortly thereafter, Joshua turns around, slings
his guitar around so its resting on his back and looks upward on the
live stage as shown
above in Model 102. In addtion, the Christian
symbols and "Holy
Soldier" icon on Joshua's trenchcoat are lit up. The
action continues
uninterrupted with
Models 103-113 and the text below Model 113.
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Model
103-Video of
Joshua
looking upward at the Wailing Wall.
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Model
104-Video of the drum riser lighting up in sequence.
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Model
105-Video of the "Last Stand" artwork lighting up in sequence.
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Model
106-Video of two panels of colored lights lighting up in sequence.
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Model
107-Video of the drum set and tablets lighting up in sequence.
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Model
108-Video of the cross lighting up in sequence.
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Model
109-Video of drum riser lighting up in sequence once again.
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Model
110-Joshua levitates as objects continue to light up in sequence #1.
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Model
111-Joshua
levitates as objects continue to light up in sequence #2.
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Model
112-Joshua
levitates as objects continue to light up in sequence #3. |
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Model
113-Joshua above the burning cross with cross and arrow onstage.
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As the action
continues uninterrupted with the following text and
Models 103-113, Joshua is alone onstage and
the remaining lit up objects onstage form a large cross as shown above
in Model 102. The
sound of a rocket or ballistic missile preparing to take off starts to
be heard but is very faint and will get progressively louder as the
action
proceeds. At this point, video begins to play on the screens on each
side of the live stage once again and shows the same
action that's currently taking place live onstage as shown above
in Model 103. The live and
videotaped action are in sync with one another as shown above in Models
102 and 103. As the action continues, the lit up objects that
form the cross onstage in both the videotaped and live action begin to
light up in sequence
starting with the drum riser and moving upward as shown above in Models
104-108. Shortly after the cross lights up as shown above in Model 108,
the sequence starts over
as the drum riser lights up again as shown above in Model 109. This
occurs both live onstage and in the videotaped footage at the Wailing
Wall. When
lighting up in sequence, the objects also form a large arrow that
points
upward or heaven bound. After a few cycles of the remaining objects
lighting up
in sequence, Joshua
begins to levitate upwards in both the video as shown above in Model
110 and live onstage being pulled up by cables as the objects continue
to light up in sequence. At the same time, the sound of the rocket or
missile gets significantly louder and the amount of fog onstage
increases as shown above in Models 110-113 looking just like it does
when a rocket or missile starts to take off. In essence, the drum
riser is the bottom part of the rocket or missile where the smoke comes
out from when taking off. This entire sequence
of
action fits nicely into the military theme of the "Holy Soldier." As
the
remaining
objects onstage
light up in sequence in the video, Joshua
levitates to
the top of the burning cross as shown in Models 110-113 and the roar of
the rocket or missile becomes deafening in the auditorium. The
remaining objects
on the live stage also continue to light up in sequence as the musician
playing Joshua is pulled upward by cables. However, the live Joshua
disappears into the lighting rig and doesn't appear at the top the live
stage where there is a prop of the burning cross with the animatronic "Holy Soldier"
in front of it. Once
Joshua stops moving
upward in the video, all the objects are lit up forming the cross and
arrow as
shown above in Model 113, all the objects on the live stage are also
lit up forming the cross and arrow and the deafening roar of the
missile or
rocket fades out. Most of the remaining action in the act "The Last
Stand" is video footage from the Wailing Wall that's shown on the video
screens on each side of the
live stage. The
live stage will continue to show the lit up cross onstage, and the prop
of the large burning cross and
animatronic "Holy Soldier" at the very top of the stage. The
action continues
uninterrupted with
Models 114-118 and the text below Model 118.
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Model
114-Video of Joshua above cross watching fireworks at the Wailing Wall.
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Model
115-Video of military jet flying through fireworks at the Wailing Wall.
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Model
116-Video of Joshua facing crowd and pointing at the jets.
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Model
117-Jets fly in cross formation above Western Wall Plaza.
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Model
118-Jets form two crosses above Western Wall Plaza.
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As the action
continues uninterrupted with the following text and Models 114-118, Joshua
is suspended in the air at the top of the burning cross looking upward
into the sky as shown above in Model 113, the objects lit up onstage
form a cross and arrow as shown above in
Model 113, and the deafening sound of a rocket engine or missile is
fading out.
Immediately thereafter, a series of loud
explosions like
those associated with firework shows are heard and fireworks start to
appear in the sky above the Wailing Wall as Joshua watches from atop
the cross as shown above in Model
114. At the same time, a series of explosions is heard live and
fireworks go off above the prop of the burning cross
and the animatronic "Holy Soldier" at the top of the live
stage. Shortly
thereafter, in the video on the screens on each side of the live stage,
the
deafening roar of a jet engine is heard and
a military jet traveling east to west flies through the
fireworks as
shown above in Model 115. The jet is releasing white smoke from
its wings
as shown above in Model 115, flies over Joshua and
he turns around and points at it as shown above in Model 116. At the same time, another
military jet releasing white smoke from its wings traveling
west to east is seen flying in the sky perfectly lined up with the
other jet at the same altitude and they're heading straight at one
another. As the jets
approach one another in the sky above Western Wall Plaza, they pull up at the last
second, go completely vertical heading
straight up into the sky and are perfectly lined up mirror images of
one another as shown above in Model 117. The smoke these planes release
creates
the vertical parts of two large crosses in the sky above
Western
Wall Plaza that are mirror images of one another as shown above in
Model 117. After these jets travel a
good distance vertically, two other military jets flying completely
sideways with their wings perpendicular to the ground with one
traveling
north to south and the other south to north are seen flying in the sky.
They are both flying at the same altitude which is at the height where
the horizontal parts of the crosses would be located in relation to the
vertical
lines the other two jets have already created. As these two jets fly
towards
one another, they release horizontal trails of white smoke and pass one
another in the center of the crosses where the vertical and horizontal
parts of the crosses intersect as shown above in Model 117. The jets
continue to release smoke as
they pass one another until they have completed the horizontal part of
their respective crosses as shown above in Model 118. Following this,
all the jets quit releasing
smoke and break formation at the exact same time.
When the jets
are completely
done
with their manuevers, there are two large crosses in the air high above
Western Wall Plaza created by the white smoke released from the planes
as shown above in Model 118,
the crosses are mirror images of one another
with one facing east and the other west and they are back to back to
one another with space in between them. There are two crosses
because the two sets of planes involved in the manuevers each created
their own cross. This entire sequence of
action
involving the jets is choreographed with a great deal of precision
like you would see
at an air show. As soon as the jets that
created the crosses break formation, they increase their air speed
flying greater than
the speed of sound and a series of four
deafening sonic booms are heard. Immediatrly
thereafter, the white trails of smoke
that form both crosses
begin changing to fire sequentially at the same time. The trails of
smoke that form the vertical part of each cross turn to fire moving
from the bottom
upward and from the top downward at the same time meeting at the center
of each cross. At the same time, the trails of smoke that form the
horizontal parts of each cross turn to fire moving from the outermost
parts of
the horizontal portion of each cross inward meeting at the center of
the cross. As this occurs, the space in between the trails of smoke
fills in with fire until ultimately there are two large crosses of fire
in the sky when all the smoke has changed to fire. Finally, the space
in between the two mirror image crosses fills with fire and in effect
are fused together forming one massive three dimensional burning cross
that
looks like the cross atop the Wailing Wall. However, there is
no "Holy Soldier" icon in front of this cross and it's much, much
larger than the
burning cross atop the Wailing Wall. Note: the large burning
cross
above Western Wall Plaza is much higher in the sky that would be
indicated by the altitude of the jet plane shown in Model 115. I had to
put the jet in Model 115 lower than it would have been in the sky to
fit it into the model. The
action continues
uninterrupted with
Models 119-130 and the text below Model 130.
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Model
119-Joshua points and looks at the large burning cross in the sky.
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Model
120-Symbols begins playing music once again at the Wailing Wall.
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Model
121-Chariot of fire pulled by horses of fire approach Joshua.
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Model
122-Joshua gets into the chariot of fire at the burning cross.
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Model
123-Horses of fire fly upward with Joshua in chariot to cross in
sky.
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Model
124-Band continues to play as Joshua flies towards cross in the sky.
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Model
125-The stage goes dark and Symbols's stops playing.
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Model
126-Lights come on in sequence from outermost to innermost.
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Model
127-"Holy Soldier" superhero symbol lights up and comes alive.
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Model
128-Symbols's
final show has ended and icon not in front of cross.
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As the action continues
uninterrupted, Joshua looks upward and points at the large burning
cross in the sky above Western Wall Plaza as shown above in
Model 119. Immediately thereafter, angels fly out both sides
of the cross holding large gold
trumpets and form a circle around the cross. The angels blow their
trumpets in unison at a defeaning volume that can be heard throughout
Israel. Following this, Symbols and their symbols light up
onstage and they begin playing music once again which will ultimately
transition
into a hard rock version of the song "The Battle Belongs to the Lord."
At the same time, thousands of angels fly out of the burning cross all
of
which are carrying swords and hundreds of other angels leave the
burning
cross in chariots of
fire being pulled by
horses of fire. The angels fly above Western Wall Plaza and the
surrounding area including Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in what is a
visual spectacle. At this point, Symbols begin playing the song
"The Battle Belongs to the Lord." and the
angels that exited
from the large burning cross sing the harmonies and background vocals
with Symbols.
The Battle Belongs to
the Lord
When Symbols finishes playing the song "The Battle Belongs to the
Lord," the band continues to play instrumental music and the following
action occurs. All the angels start flying towards the large cross in
the sky and will ultimately enter the cross disappering from sight. As
this occurs, a chariot of fire being pulled by horses of fire appears
above the Wailing Wall en route to pick up Joshua as shown above in
Model 121. Once the chariot pulls up next to Joshua, he gets into it as
shown above in Model 122 and addresses the audience one last
time.
Joshua:
We
are
Symbols. God Bless all of you and never forget the battle always
belongs to the Lord!-(As soon as Joshua finishes this dialogue,
he points at the large burning cross in the sky and the chariot begins
moving upward en route to the cross and Symbols continues playing music
as shown above in Model 123 and 124. The crowd
starts chanting "Symbols, Symbols" repeatedly at a
deafening volume as the chariot carrying Joshua heads towards the
burning cross in the sky. Joshua joins the angels and chariots
of fire carrying angels in the sky that are also flying towards the
large cross. By the time Joshua arrives at the entrance to the large
burning cross, all the other chariots and angels have entered the cross
and he is the last one to enter. As soon as he enters the cross and can
no longer be seen, the large burning cross instantaneously
disappears and a booming explosion is heard that causes seismic
activity and blows out windows all across Jerusalem. Immediately
thereafter, Symbols quits playing and the stage goes dark as shown
above in Model 125. As the
crowd continues to shout "Symbols, Symbols" at a
deafening volume, colored lights on the left and right
sides of the stage light up in sequence moving from the outermost
lights inward. Once the lights are completely lit up as shown above in
126, "Holy Soldier's" superhero symbol("Last Stand" artwork) lights up
as shown above in Model 127 and comes to life. We see the same
superheroes that
were on the posters in Joshua's bedroom within the artwork and they say
the
following Bible verses.)
"The Superheroes"
Trailer
Superheroes:
(John 3:3) "Truly, truly, I
say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God,"
(Matthew 18:3) "Truly,
I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will
never enter the kingdom of heaven," (Romans 6:23)
"If
your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to
enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into
the unquenchable fire, for the wages of sin are death," (Revelation 3:20) "Here
I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens
the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me." (Push
the
play
button above the Bible verses entitled "The Superheroes" to see an
example
of what this video
sequence would look and sound like. After you
view the
video,
you will need to hit the
"back" button on your browser to return to this page and continue
reading the production. Keep in mind, this is
just an example and in
the actual video the superheroes themselves will speak in their own
voices. As each superhero
says the words of the Bible verses and morphs into
the next superhero, the new superhero picks up where the prior one left
off so the verses are spoken in a continuous manner. At
the same time each superhero morphs into the next, his/her iconic
superhero symbol also morphs into the iconic symbol of the next
superhero who
speaks. "Holy Soldier" doesn't start saying the first Bible verses
until the "Symbols" sword rises upward and he unbows his head looking
forward. Christ says the entire verse of Revelation 3:20 Himself. As
soon as He finishes this verse, Christ morphs
into Holy Soldier and bows his head, the"Symbols"
sword re-appears moving downward and covers the face of Holy
Soldier. This marks the end of Symbols's final show and the colored
lights and "Last Stand" artwork go off, and the "Holy
Soldier" icon in front of the burning cross on top of the Wailing Wall
vanishes as shown above in
Model 128. The act "The Last Stand" is now over. Click on the
play button below to view
the "The Last Stand Finale" Trailer. Some last minutes changes
were made to the end of the "World Tour" segment so you won't see
the action of Symbols playing "The Battle Belongs to the Lord" or the
chariot of fire picking up Joshua and flying up to the large burning
cross in "The Last Stand Finale" Trailer. After
you view the trailer,
you will need to hit the
"back" button on your browser to return to this page and continue
reading the production. To move to the next act of this
musical which is
"The Temple of Gold" click on
the "next" button at the bottom of the page.)
"The Last Stand
Finale" Trailer