TIME'S END
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ѫѫѫѫ 1 ѫѫѫѫ In this 21st century, it becomes increasingly puzzling to find people still going to church; and some not only go to church, but conduct Evangelistic crusades. Why? It could have been pardonable in the superstitious seventies, but why extend it to the 21st century? These days, it is perfectly possible to don your autojet and fly to practically any place you want to. It was even reported that some adventurous young man flew right round the earth with it. Now, that is some development! With your autojet you could land on a rice field and would not so much as trample on a stalk if you did not want to. Strap it across your back, press the right button and off you go. Simple. That is certainly advancement in the field of technology. After all these advancements, one could have reasoned that some people would be a bit reasonable and leave the idea of God and the church alone. Recent space explorations have given solid grounds for the belief that earth is not the only inhabited planet. As a matter of fact, the Sputargo XX, by its system of radio transmission relay, had been able to relay some unidentifiable radio transmission to earth base, and it is reasoned that, this radio waves must have been transmitted by some intelligent beings somewhere in the galaxy. Sputargo XIV, by means of its tampered radar beam camera, took a snap shot of foreign space crafts, and electro-radar photographers are trying to retouch the picture; and are rather confused whether the impression on the forehead of the pilot is really a third eye or some other organ. There is however, one thing they agreed upon; and that is the pilot is certainly humanoid.
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“Time’s End” is an apocalyptic fiction drawn with great faithfulness from the Book of Revelations and written from the perspective of someone who was narrating an eyewitness account of the events from the Beginning of Sorrows to the end of the Millennium of Peace. Phil Jordan is a non-religious journalist married to a fervently religious wife Terry, a fundamentalist Christian who was convinced that the end of the world was imminent, and that all true believers will be ‘raptured’ before the period of The Tribulation and taken up to Heaven where they would sit out the suffering and death that was going to be visited on mankind. She was distressed that her husband did not share her believe and therefore destined to live through the painful experience of the period of tribulation and most probably spend eternity in Hell. To Phil, it was just the same old meaningless fantasy he had being hearing since Sunday School. Real life was different. From his vantage point as a distinguished journalist covering world events in all the major seats of power, things looked different. Why, he knew almost all the people that mattered. It even seemed ridiculously hysterical when Terry referred to his best friend in college as the Anti-Christ. He stopped listening to her then. Time’s End is written as his eye-witness recollection of the events leading up to and after the Rapture, when it finally did come. He lived through the Tribulation, Armageddon and the second coming of Christ. He was lucky that grace was extended to him.
About the Author
Dr. Effiong Ibok has a PhD in engineering. In his professional career, he has multiple technical publications, 61 issued patents and 5 pending patent applications. However, he has been a born again Christian since 1968 when he was a teenager in high school. The author grew up in a small village in Nigeria and lived through the Civil War (1967 – 1970) as a teenager. In spite of the disruptions of the war, he managed to come to the United States on full scholarship at the age of 21 and three years later, got his first Engineering degree with honors. He proceeded to an Ivy League school for graduate studies and four years later received his PhD in Engineering. As a teenager, he was actively involved in Evangelical Crusade Ministries. During which time, he wrote two plays: “Bonfire X” and “As in the Days of Noah”. These were apocalyptic plays given to crusade teams as ministerial aids. In the summer of 1974, he wrote “Time’s End”, an apocalyptic book drawn with great faithfulness from the Book of Revelations and written from the perspective of someone who was narrating an eyewitness account of the events from the Beginning of Sorrows to the end of the Millennium of Peace. His next book, ““The Custodians”, a historical fiction based extremely loosely on the history of the United States was written in 1981. In 1983, after a message received on June 8th, 1983 during a morning devotional to translate the books of the Bible as personal narratives of the writers themselves such as ‘I Am Job’ , ‘I Am Daniel’ etc. he wrote ‘I Am Job’ in the Fall of 1983.