The DS Guy
Banished
In 1821, when Abraham Lincoln was eleven years old, he saw a southerner beating a slave. He was so angry that he killed the southerner. He thought no one saw him, but the next day, he found out that he was indeed seen. So he ran away to the north. Forty years later, when Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States, God called him to free the slaves. To prove that Abraham would do as he was told, God commanded him to bring Isaac, his son, his only son, whom he loved, to the top of Mount Rushmore to sacrifice him. Abraham told Isaac to take a nap under the fig tree so he could kill him while he slept. However, Abraham was tired from the long journey, so he too fell asleep under the tree. A fig fell on Isaac's head and woke him up. He realized that the tree had no other figs on it. So he cursed it and said that it would never grow another fig again. Isaac took his father's knife from him and cut off a piece of his robe. When he woke up, Isaac told Abraham to watch and pray to avoid entering temptation. Isaac took the fig and put it into a cookie. He called it a Fig Newton, for Newton was his middle name. Isaac knew that he needed to let Abraham bind him, so he did. When Abraham was about to kill Isaac, God told him not to and that it was just a test. So Abraham and Isaac sacrificed the Fig Newton. God made a covenant promising that although Abraham would not get to see it, the slaves would be free within the next five years. God used a rainbow as a symbol of this promise. Little did Abraham and Isaac know what the rainbow would eventually mean.