The Stand part 3

So far only two main groups have joined together but the others are starting to pick up stragglers. Nick, a deaf-mute, started out alone but now is with eight other people. Larry started out with Rita but then she overdosed. Larry thinks it was 70% accident and 30% suicide. Larry later came across a women named Nadine who was with a boy she calls Joe.

So far three characters have been having dreams about a woman called Mother Abigail and Mother Abigail has been having dreams of them too. Nick and seven people he picked up now found Abigail making them a group of nine, the biggest group yet.

So far my theory has held up. All the surviving characters seem to be fit, healthy people. Even Mother Abigail, who is 108, is in extremely good condition for her age.

I wonder why only some of them are having dreams? And why are they are dreaming at all? Abigail thinks it’s a gift from God to help them fight off the evil that’s coming. But then she also thinks God is the one who sent the plague on them in the first place as a judgment.

There’s one paragraph that really made me think:
"The Bible, it don't say what happened to Noah and his family after the flood went down. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was some awful tussle for the souls of those few people- for their souls, their bodies, their way of thinking. And I wouldn't be surprised if that was what was on for us." -Mother Abigail; Chapter 36; page 338

It basically says that God showed Noah how to build an arc and Moses how to part the Red Sea. But we never find out what happened after the flood. Or after Moses got the Jews out of Egypt. God gave them the way but did it work? Did it save their souls? I’m a Christian myself and I never even thought twice about that kind of stuff. The fact that Stephen King did shows how invested in his books he gets and how much research he does just to make one paragraph appealing.