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Jesus' prophecy that the very stars of heaven would fall in the last days as the sun is darkened and the moon is turned to blood is fulfilled when a violent meteor storm ravages Earth during the fifty four hours immediately preceding the Rapture. These events are experienced and chronicled by Cable 9 News anchor, Samantha Harper, her cameraman and soon-to-be-husband, Aaron Weisberg, veteran chopper pilot, Gabe Mackenzie, and their wealthy boss, Liam O'Connor. Also central to the story are twin brothers Joel and Ariel Fredenburg, who possess the New Testament Spirit-gifts of prophecy and the word of knowledge, respectively. The Rapture itself takes place in the final pages of the book, setting up the action-packed sequel to come.
The scope of the novel is global, and the many subplots include a nuclear Gog and Magog battle in Israel, a violent, meteor-induced tsunami encounter in the Indian Ocean by the U.S.S. Fuller, a Kessler Event-downing of virtually all communications satellites, the complete destruction of Washington D.C., San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Silicon Valley, and an edge-of-your-seat helicopter chase involving the CIA, Secret Service, and the President of the United States. Throughout the book there are scenes which include the shadowy dealings of various demonic spirits. Dirgeneese, Banturn, Werelon, Starlox, Prock, Maldon, and Celinock provide a sort of return to the glory days of Frank Peretti's, "This Present Darkness" series, but their foul dispositions are considerably nastier. One particularly grisly moment occurs when Satanist Gustav Fontane -- called upon by the CIA to help locate the Fredenburg twins -- is stricken dead during a Pentecostal prayer meeting after slandering and lying about the Holy Ghost, and is eaten by maggots before even hitting the carpet, mirroring the events of Acts chapters 5 and 12.
While fictional, all concepts presented in the text are firmly rooted in sound biblical doctrine and Bible prophecy. More importantly, this work is a call-to-arms for the reader to become completely intimate with the Lord. The fallacy of the errant doctrine of cessationism is strongly addressed, and the validity and reality of the spiritual gifts and baptism of the Holy Spirit are presented and shown to be as much for Christians today as they were for the Jesus' disciples and believers in the first century.
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