Antichrist

Bol

ANTICHRIST: His Origin, Rise, Reign, and Fall is a gritty, sweeping end-times epic that combines the high-stakes suspense of a geopolitical thriller with the rigor of serious biblical scholarship. Crafted by an NSA and DIA intelligence analyst with more than forty years living and work at the intersection of scripture, science, and geopolitics, ANTICHRIST delivers scene-by-scene fulfillment of the Rapture, the Ezekiel 38-39 war, Revelation's seals, trumpets, and bowls-as well as scores of lesser-known Old and New Testament prophecies-all rendered in politically and scientifically plausible detail. ANTICHRIST offers prophecy-minded readers a richly imagined narrative that is both deeply faithful to Scripture and relentlessly readable.In addition to the main narrative, the author weaves in dozens of short, self-contained vignettes, dropping the reader into the lives of ordinary people, so global judgments never remain abstract. These are not sermon inserts; they're short, charged dramas in which doctrine shows up with dirt under its fingernails. The vignettes maintain the destructive magnitude of apocalyptic prophecy while continuously re-anchoring it in the ordinary, frightened, stubborn, sometimes surprisingly brave people who have to live-and die-through it. Instead of watching only the main characters in war rooms and UN council chambers, we emerge from a storm cellar with a family to find their home and city wiped from existence in the first trumpet judgment; we stand on the deck of an oil tanker as John's "huge mountain, all ablaze" is thrown into the sea, engulfing our vessel in flame before drawing us with it down into the open ocean abyss; we walk with an Argentine grandfather taking his grandson fishing for the first time, only to find the surface of the lake covered with dead fish, poisoned by the great star Wormwood. In other vignettes, we experience the Antichrist's entrancing deceit in very personal ways as he fills the whole world with wonders, causing all but the elect to eagerly follow. As a result, the story feels more like a mosaic of intersecting lives than a single plot on rails, giving readers a richer sense of the world's breadth, the stakes of every judgment, and the quiet heroism or failure of people who will never walk the halls of power.

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Pages: 944, VHS-tape, Selectivehouse Publishers, Inc