His words fell, and the whole world was stunned.
The Lord was all-powerful. Seeing into a person's heart was nothing to Him. So this Cardinal truly had thought of killing the Son of God.
As that sank in, people looked at Florence with shock, disbelief, anger, hatred, encouragement, and admiration.
"The Cardinal actually wanted to kill the Son of God."
"Oh God, is he the Iscariot from the Last Supper, a Judas of the new age?"
"Has he gone mad? That's God, his Lord! Isn't he afraid God will cast him into the Underworld to suffer in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone forever?"
Many people on Blue Star were hostile to the Son of God, but even the most devout worshippers of other gods would not dare claim they could stand before Him and think of killing Him.
For one simple reason: fear.
God had proved through His deeds that He truly was all-powerful.
The believers present were utterly furious. They glared at Florence with such hatred that he seemed no longer the respected Cardinal he had once been, but Judas, the disciple who had betrayed the Son of God at the Last Supper.
If their Lord, the Son of God Messiah, had not been there, they would have bound Florence to a cross and burned him alive to cleanse him of his sin.
Hearing the Son of God's words and feeling those piercing stares, Florence instinctively wanted to deny it. But when he looked into Messiah's eyes, brilliant as the stars, he could not utter a single lie.
"Lord, I have sinned."
This man, who had weathered countless storms in his life, could bear no more. He clutched his head and began to tremble.
"You dared to plot against the Lord?"
"How could you? How could you even