There is a girl sitting at a table. 

She looks human enough; her hair isn't long enough yet to tie back properly but she has it in clips away from her face while she embroiders the beginnings of a word onto the back of a jacket. She is not obviously an alien, or obviously a miracle, except for how she's sitting in a bar with supernovae out the window. 

She looks very much like Sasha. 

This is an annoyingly humanlike alien, he thinks, before he processes who exactly she looks like and feels a sense of warmth go through his entire body. 

Good job, Jesus. 

"Hi," he says. "I'm Lev. --Where are we?"

She looks up. 

...okay, so, not her Lev, because he introduced himself, therefore either a time traveling Lev or a completely different Lev, she can't decide which she thinks is more likely. 

"We're in a bar. I think time is stopped outside whenever the door is closed, I did some experimenting with my phone when I first found it. — my name's Raine." 

"...this is a really weird miracle. I guess I'm glad He made sure time was stopped but it really seems like overkill. I'd say 'it's like an email forward' but I feel like most email forward miracles are less... overengineered."

...a Lev who isn't an atheist. That didn't sound particularly Jewish either to the extent that Raine knows things about Judaism which isn't much, so probably not a time traveler. Also he's older than her Lev. 

"See, my first thought was Doctor Who style sci fi." 

"...I'm not a physicist but I'm pretty sure that a door to a space bar opening spontaneously in my office is impossible. Especially if the other person there is a female version of a guy from my church. --You really do look like the sister of this guy from my church, it's really striking."

Oh no poor other her. 

"Doctor Who has a lot of physically impossible things, there's a reason I didn't say Asimov and it's not just that I've only read half of one of his books. Want to sit down?" 

"Yeah, I can do that."

He's very conspicuously averting his eyes from her. 

(Oh gosh, Raine is really pretty. Jesus really could have sent him someone who was less pretty.)

That's.... really worrying. She doesn't know enough about Christians to be able to tell exactly how worrying that is but she's worried. She's also worried about other her, who is apparently living as a guy and going to church, but other her isn't right in front of her, so. 

"I'm kind of curious about the person from church I look like," she says as neutrally as she can. 

"I don't talk to him much," Lev says in a soft tone of voice Sasha might recognize. "But he's a freelance translator. Works from home. He likes poetry and he sketches and he leaves before the coffee and cookies the same way I do."

So she's probably not eating. Great. Every single thing Raine hears is just more and more concerning. 

"....he sounds nice," she says, instead of that. 

"He's really nice," Lev says softly, staring at the floor near Raine's feet. "It's really weird that you look like him. --I guess we should check that we're from the same universe? Maybe you're an alternate universe version of him. Uh, it's 2045, I live in Gilead--"

"I'm pretty sure we're not from the same universe, I know another Lev. It's 2019 and I'm from the United States and I have never heard of Gilead. — I think. The name sounds kind of familiar? But it's definitely not a country." 

"--oh my god I'm so sorry. Stay out of the Pacific Northwest."

"...I was planning on that anyway but what happens." 

"Gilead used to be the United States. There's a coup in 2020, the Gileadites take over the government, the Pacific Northwest decides to secede, some genius Commander decides that the best way to get them to stop is by nuking Portland and Seattle and San Francisco, millions of people die and there's a horrible refugee crisis--" He adds as a second thought, "And you probably want to stay in the country where they don't murder babies or old people or sick people and don't force women to be sex slaves and don't let three men pretend to get married."

"....what is a Gileadite."

(She's pretty sure everything he just said about the Pacific Northwest is evangelical homophobic nonsense but she'll deal with that later.) 

"Uh, the largest denomination of Christians in the United States? --I guess you're not from the past."

"Probably not. The biggest denomination of Christians in the United States is, uh, I'm bad at keeping track of what kinds of Christian there are but I have never heard of a Gileadite so I'm guessing it's not them." 

"Where do you go to church then?"

Ugh.

"I don't and never have. I used to go to synagogue for the high holy days and classmates' bar and bat mitzvahs but I don't really do that anymore either." 

"...okay I'm really confused."

"I was raised pretty much secular with a thin layer of Judaism spread reluctantly on top, and now I am an atheist and also possibly a pagan depending on where you draw the boundary of paganism. I am not and have never been and will never be a Christian. I don't know if that helps or not." 

"Okay, so, this is a weird miracle thing, so it is probably arranged by God? And it's intended to get someone to accept Jesus into their heart? This really seems like heavy-duty stuff to use for, like, me, He could have just given me a really faithful wife probably, but the Lord works in mysterious ways. But you are not the sort of person who would convince anyone to accept Jesus into their heart, no offense, and you'd be only slightly better at convincing me I'm supposed to be Jewish-- which isn't an impossible thing for God to want, my parents converted from Judaism, but again it seems like it could be arranged more simply somehow-- and this implies that I'm supposed to be evangelizing you. Except God is omniscient so He definitely knows I'm not much of one for ethics or, uh, faith. So He couldn't possibly have chosen me for evangelism, like it's not some weird Moses 'I'm not worthy' thing, it's-- I'm not saved? I'm definitely going to go to Hell unless God has some sort of provision for things because He is omnibenevolent and made me the sort of person I am and presumably would not make me unable to have faith and then get tortured? Unless the Calvinists are right, I guess. Anyway, this was kind of a ramble but I have no idea what God's plan is here at all or how this is supposed to work towards His greater glory at all and I realize this is the way everyone is most of the time about, like, car accidents and things but I feel like it is a significantly weirder situation to have about interdimensional bars!"

This entire monologue is delivered to the floor.

.....wow okay that's a lot. 

"I... honestly think that 'not the kind of person who would convince anyone to accept Jesus into their heart' might be the best compliment I've gotten this month, so, thank you. And I still think this is a weird sci fi thing that has nothing to do with any gods Christian or otherwise, but I'm an atheist pagan so that is unlikely to convince you of anything."

Also you're not going to go to Hell because Hell is fake and they made it up to make everyone too scared to step out of the rules they set, but guess what Lev is not going to believe.