Night At The Museum British Style

Wilfrid was a security guard at the British Museum.

Tonight Wilfrid was working in the Syrian Antiquities Room of the Museum.

Unfortunately the night before (during one of his rare nights off) he had made the mistake of watching with his eight-year-old nephew Richard the 2006 movie Night At The Museum that starred Ben Stiller and Carla Gugino.

Now as a result he was imagining all sorts of voices and noises and goings on here in the Syrian Antiquities Room.

As he looked at the bust of the Syrian-Greek King Antiochus Epiphanes (who ruled as King Antiochus IV of Syria from 175 BC to 164 BC), he heard a noise behind him.

He whisked around and saw a ghostly figure who looked very much like Antiochus Epiphanes had been standing behind him.

"I am the spirit of Antiochus Epiphanes," the spectre spoke, "the ruler of the Abyss has granted me permission to leave the Abyss for a while and roam the Earth."

"Antiochus Epiphanes," said the Oxford educated security guard, "your name Epiphanes meaning God manifest. Many Bible scholars consider you a prototype of the Antichrist since the Abomination of Desolation you ordered in the Temple of Jerusalem when a statue of Zeus was erected in the spot of the Holy of Holies and a pig was sacrificed to Zeus there."

"I had my moments," Antiochus laughed, "and now I'll have my moments again. Since my spirit and the fallen angel who was my demonic mentor have returned up to the Earth's surface."

"I don't know what you mean," said Wilfrid.

"Tune in to BBC News on your iPhone," Antiochus suggested.

Wilfrid did so.

Rioting in Greece.

More barbarities and atrocities going on in the Syrian civil war.

Increasing bloodshed between Israel and Palestine.

The possibility of all out war throughout the region of the Middle East.

"See," Antiochus laughed, "I told you my time has come."


To be continued.