Greetings in Christ! My name is Marc Pemberton and I hope you are excited for what I think will be an enlightening experience of Christian entertainment and education. I would like to point out from the beginning that both the podcast and this website are for both the believer and non-believer alike. We want to reach out to everyone who knows the Lord and those who are seeking for that one thing that is missing in your life. Something that will truly set you free from the burdens of this world and hope for the future.

I’m new to the whole writing fiction thing, my background is much more focused on the study of Christian Theology, Biblical Greek, Cults masquerading as legitimate Christian Theology, and Comparative Religion. As a humble lay-person I have been teaching the Bible for over ten years.

With my theological understanding and Brady’s experience with writing fiction this has allowed for a great mash-up, as our skill-sets serve to complement one another. It’s been a good fit. This book wasn’t even the original plan. While teaching a Bible study we decided to try and create a comprehensive timeline for all of the foretold events of the End Times and it turned out to be an extensive project. It was the timeline that led us to the idea of writing a fictional account, but we wanted to approach it from a different perspective than that of the Left Behind series written by Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins.

Like Brady, I too have never attended seminary. All of my knowledge is, at a primary level forward, self-taught. By seeking out and then validating the materials I found, and spending literally thousands of hours reading and learning, I discovered a love for sharing the gospel with others. I have also come to the understanding that there is an amazing complexity to God’s Word. It became necessary to not only wrap my head around what the Lord was showing me through the Bible, but then I had to learn how to best convey His message to others.

We will be spending some time outside of the fictional world we created and present you with some educational podcasts and blogs that focus on sharing with you some truths regarding the Bible and many of the terms we have come to understand in the context of Christian theology. Additionally we will look at the End Times Prophesy, specifically those told by the apostle John in Revelation. We want to give you not only some entertainment with a biblical theme, but also provide you with what God has shown us through his Word and what the Lord has told us in the Gospels.

In this work we maintain the orthodox beliefs of Christian theology and all its major tenets: The Trinity, the Substitutional Atonement of Christ, and Salvation Through Faith in Christ Alone. We also adhere to the Pretribulational view, which is where the rapture occurs before the tribulation begins, as well as the Premillennialist position. This is best described as when Christ returns to Earth in the physical and spiritual sense He will reign for one thousand years. And then the final battle will occur where Christ and his army will defeat Satan and there will be the final judgment at the Great White Throne.

While not directly quoted, the authorities used in the interpretation of the New Testament have been from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary, the extensive thirty-three book edition, not the single-volume work, and all of Les Feldick’s extensive teaching in eighty-six volumes. We decided to use these sources because they are widely known, and we have a deep respect for their dedication to critical Biblical interpretation.

All scripture quotation used in dialogue are from the New King James Version (NKJV). It is the author’s opinion that this version is theologically preferable, as it is an inclusive text. There are two main text types that translations are based on today, The Byzantine and the Alexandrian. Many of the more current translations are based on the Alexandrian type text, which excludes many verses without always referencing what was omitted. We chose the NKJV because it doesn’t omit any verse, but always references those verses that are omitted by other text types.

In closing I would like to say that we have worked hard not to make this work “preachy” nor do we take the approach of ramming Christianity into the listener’s conscience. That is not at all what this is about. It’s a story and with that story comes another story. Ours is creative fiction while the other, the one that truly matters, contains the real story, that of God’s message for us which is found in the Bible.

May the Lord Bless and Protect You,
Marc Pemberton