Rise of the Collective

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Walter Schelauske commanded a German Anti-Aircraft battery during the first German offensive into Russia. He lost a lung outside Leningrad in 1943 and for the remainder of the war, commanded German Army basic training units. I met him in the 1980s in Wertheim and spent a wonderful afternoon with him during my own command of an 8 inch firing battery. We both shared great passion for teaching, leading, and mentoring young men in the profession of arms. Book 3 of the Circle of Deception takes the Texas Revolution to a tough conclusion as the story transitions to Israel. In the clash of Texas and Fed forces, I am attempting to tell the story of young men raised without fathers.

Book 2 is the story of the fall of the United States inside the classic paradigm of Isaiah Chpt 3 and 4. That is the Prophet listing a combination of leaders who act like children, economic famine, and the loss of the Judge, the Captain of a 1,000, and the wise rulers to the foolishness of childish foreign wars… All resulting from a nation that has stepped away from the creator of earth and heaven. In Book 2, I try to detail the demise of millions of American in a foolish attempt to secure Middle East and Asian Oil resources and strategic waterways. Book 3 looks to their sons. Fear rides high in their hearts, their mothers and Grandparents desperately seek to send them away from the Federal draft, and no one is validating these young men to manhood. Like Hitler’s top propagandist, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Nazi party of the 1930s, the Fed attempts to become the substitute father who grants manhood to an entire generation of Boys.

Research has brought three things to the forefront as I work to define these events in the eyes and minds of my characters. The first is Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations. This manual is superbly written with a multitude of Historical footnotes, references, and analysis. Many of the principles and applications of insurgency and counterinsurgency Operations will find their way into the thoughts and actions of my fiction characters. Yet, in applying to real life, FM 3-24 is about winning hearts and minds. For the children growing up in a Godless culture at a time when “The tyranny of the Collective” seems on the rise, I wrestle with a basic question. How does the Church rise to the tasks of winning hearts and minds in an increasingly hostile culture?

The second set of thoughts in my mind point at the local impact of the rising collective. Germany seems to be an anomaly in that for a brief season, the rise of tyranny in their socialist collective actually locked local communities tighter to the state. Communications technology, motorization, and industrialization along with a very clear external threat all kept Germans tightly linked to supporting and fighting for their collective. It is also possible that the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany before the pathological impact of socialism and lost morality straddled multiple generations. Across history, before and after Germany, the more common impact of rising tyranny and loss of morality is disintegration of the local societal fabric. As the collective increases its power, families lose their economic power through taxation, and immoral behavior is popularized, that loud sucking sound people begin to hear is the vacuum left by the collective. The reality of Genesis 9 and 10 is that God rescued the family from the tyranny of the first collective by smacking the enslaved workforce at the Tower of Babel with a serious language problem. Across history, collectives and their tyrannies sometimes die in foreign invasions but more often, they devour themselves as they consume their own wealth without protecting and creating the means of generating more wealth. This in turn destroys their ability to project power within their own borders. meanwhile, local communities away from the center increasingly fend for themselves. In other words, the tyranny at the center quickly dissipates the further you get from the center. Increased criminal behavior? Yep. Roving Gangs? Absolutely. Life cheap as dirt? You better believe it. On the other hand, think about the opportunity the Church has had in every moment like this to rise up, confront bad behavior, protect life, and regenerate the crucible of faith and hope within which families thrive. The collective has its brief moment in the sun then actually fades as it increases its power. On the other hand, opportunity gives local communities to strengthen.

This brings me to my third set of thoughts. I am working through the personal journals and diaries of people who endured the great depression. In the United States, the great Depression and rise of FDR’s socialist collective began the harsh process of local societal fragmentation. The family disintegrated as many fathers left home looking for work in the great collectivist projects of the conservation corps, Hoover dam, cities, factories, etc. World War II saved our national hides as the collective imploded in the national need to generate massive wealth to build the war machine we needed to defeat tyranny in two theaters of operations. What if World War II had been a catastrophic defeat that consumed American manpower instead of the very low casualty victory we actually experienced? The collective would have been reinforced, the depression harshly deepened, and the local fabric of society perhaps destroyed in many places as mothers, wives, and women looked forlornly at the horizon for the men who were not coming home. This will be the framework of book three as the Circle of Deception continues the story of the future Texas Revolution and rise of the Psalm 83 coalition against Israel.

Enjoying my mug of coffee and a beautiful Colorado morning as I bounce between Romans, Isaiah, and I Corinthians.

Collectivism vs. the Bible

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Speaking to a bunch of Middle School kids this morning, our Youth Pastor, Chris Fetters, pointed out that there are entire families around the world reading the Bible under a bed with a flashlight because their nations’ governments and police forces would put them in prison or even put bullets in their heads if they caught them. Based on my travels and military deployments around the world in some of these countries, that is a true statement. This destroyed the rest of my morning in worship, lunch with my family, and more as I thought hard on the reason why this is true. In main worship services, Pastor Steve spoke eloquently about the five outputs from our lives when we have Holy Spirit input. This was based on Acts chapter 3 with Peter and John going to the Temple at the hour of prayer and the reason popped into my head with amazing clarity.

Bottom Line up Front: Collectivist agendas destroy Liberty in order to succeed whereas the Bible is all about Liberty. Tyranny and their collectivist constructs must destroy two things. These are knowledge of the Bible and the families in which Bible study is at its best.

Looking across my home office and workshop where I am currently enjoying my Sunday afternoon fine cigar, I have stacks of book printouts for editing, research, and more, I come back to the founding fathers and histories of the Kingdoms of Sumer. Three main points leap out:

First is the tower of Bab-El. Along the axis of the Euphrates, the Kingdoms of Sumer waged total war against each other as they struggled for domination of human civilization after the flood. The family was a moot point as demigods (Nephilim in the “Circle of Deception”) seized all the women they choose. In Babylon, people became forced labor as they made bricks (Hebrew for ‘brick’ implies forcing people into the same collectivist template) and used mortar (Hebrew for ‘mortar’ implies the world system and materialism) to build the tower of Babel. If you think of slavery, hedonist practices, materialism, and destruction of the family for the purpose of building this tower, I think you have the right picture. In this mess, God introduced a serious language problem and the thing collapsed. In other words, God rescued the family from the tyranny driving the tower of Babel.

Second, the founding fathers detailed 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence against King George and his government. 13 years after the end of the Revolution, they responded to each of those grievances in the Constitution. They used Moses and the Prophets as their foundational principles in that response. In other words, the Bible was their founding document as they codified Liberty within the framework that Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness were divine gifts – not to be confused with supposed government gifts. This is a miraculous synchronization of thought, doctrine, and application across multiple decades no less miraculous than the synchronization of Old and New Testaments across 2,000 years.

Third, Jesus warned us that the end times would be like the days of Noah. People forget that Noah probably watched the Sumerian boneheads and demigods build the Tower of Babel because he lived 335 year after the flood. In other words, the term, “Days of Noah” in Mathew 24 includes the tyranny, hedonism, and destruction of the family necessary to make ‘bricks,’ ‘mortar,’ and the tower of Babel.

In the Circle of Deception, I strive to bring the Kingdoms of Sumer to life in Nephilim households within a science fiction construct of third strand DNA, UFOs, Aliens, Information Warfare, Revolution, Civil War, and more. I also portray families struggling against this tyranny. Included are the tragedies sin always brings to marriage and family and the triumph of Grace. A friend asked me this morning at Church what my purpose across this series is… Good question and my immediate response was – “To show the family at its best when things are at their worst.”

Enjoying a beautiful Colorado afternoon as the last of the snow melts and blue skies beckon me to a glorious afternoon.

Rite of Passage

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Chuck Stecker of “A Chosen Generation” pointed me at several fascinating thoughts but among them, the concept that the Great Depression of the 1930s was one of the most demonic driven events in American History. I just put book two in “Circle of Deception” to rest at the professional editors and am heavily engaged with the third book. Turning to the time travel aspect of quantum physics, one of my core characters will land in the mid 1930s when the family was under heavy attack. Across the Atlantic, fatherless families of Nazi Germany watched their sons march in the Nuremberg rallies and Hitler became the father or Führer of Germany. While researching this history, Chuck’s ministry had a huge impact on my family this summer and made me think hard on the history of fatherhood, adulthood, and more. Chuck is phenomenal in teaching people, churches, and families about parental blessings and Rites of Passage. I am using what I learned from him and a lot of analytical material from the Internet, my grandparents, Army libraries, the Library of Congress, and more. Yet, few things are impacting my thought and research more, as I write book three, than Chuck’s personal story and the diaries, journals, and personal perspectives of those who endured the Great Depression and World War II on both sides of the Atlantic.

Walter Shelauski was a German Army officer. He lost a lung when he was wounded outside Leningrad in 1941 while commanding his Air Defense artillery company during a Russian T-32 and massed infantry attack. His heavy machineguns took out the Infantry while two anti-tank guns sliced up the Russian tanks. I met him in Wertheim in the late 80s during my own command of an 8 inch firing battery and we shared some fine German Pils and great conversation. At that time, he was a retired Architect and Engineer, having designed and built many of central Germany’s high, glorious autobahn bridges. On a personal note, I thoroughly enjoyed his work at 160 KM per hour but don’t tell my wife how fast I drove. We mainly discussed training and command in war but he said three things in peripheral conversation that I have never forgotten. First, after the 1934 Nazi Nuremberg rallies documented by Leni Riefenstahl in “Triumph of the Will,” Hitler became Germany’s father. Hence the title, “Fuhrer” which has the definition of father and leader. Walter said the 1934 rally was a rite of passage to manhood for an entire generation of German boys who lost their real fathers in World War I. Within the context of Germany and the National Socialist movement, Hitler became the grantor of manhood… And the one who could take it away.

Walter’s second comment involved boys called to training and Army duty as the War progressed and Germany began to lose. He did not have the physical strength to return to frontline combat so he commanded basic training companies for the remainder of the war. None of these boys had fathers at home because their dads were fighting and dying across Europe. This was the second generation in a row of German youth who grew up without fathers. In absentia, Der Führer became the grantor of manhood for these boys, as well. Walter said that when they arrived in Basic training camps, they had to teach them basic things like how to sleep at night because allied bombing destroyed their sleep cycles. He called them “die verloren Jugend” or the lost youth.

I could not resist as we wrapped up our afternoon and asked Walter where the church was in all this. He said that except for a few pastors and Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church, German Catholics and Lutherans hitched their carts to Hitler’s horse. After the war, Germans rejected the Church and the State, turning to materialist expressions of fulfillment both right and left. As a result, Germany had no spiritual life.

The story is different in the United States but we still seem to be hurtling toward a place where we have generations starved for the granting of Adulthood… of Manhood… Of Womanhood. The devastation of Fathers absent from family life because of job, work, etc. across multiple generations is no less devastating than dead fathers in Germany across World War I and World War II. Book three of the “Circle of Deception” will explore this inside the greater conflict of the end times where Jesus said the end days will be like the days of Noah. Parallels with the Kingdoms of Sumer are astonishing and frightening. As I consider Walter’s words and think on what to write, I ask a simple question – Who is the grantor of honor and virtue in progression to adulthood for the readers of this BLOG and their children? I recall Harris and Klebold at Columbine High School. The date of their shooting spree coincided with Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Is there a reason why they indirectly embraced Hitler as their spiritual father? One thing for sure that Chuck detailed clearly in his teaching and his book… Our kids will choose someone or something to grant and validate their adulthood.

 

Enjoying a glorious Colorado Saturday and heading out to watch one of my kids in a Tennis tournament.

Called from Ur to America

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Book 4 is very much in scratch template mode but I have the first chapters in place. I think. Book 2 is on its way to the Editor and Book 3 hides in hull down mode waiting for another opportunity to blow me away – as it has multiple times as I research, write, dream, and think. Book 4 begins with a young Airborne Ranger, recipient of all the soldier enhancement project could cram into his body and genetics, terribly wounded outside Samarkand, and sent home. Like Abraham, he is called out of a modern-day version of the demonic, hedonist, pathological kingdoms of Sumer.

I must admit that I really like Science Fiction. Especially the kind where the grubby, scrappy human infantryman kills aliens. I also like reading the founding fathers. In their own words. Not the revisionist history progressive pabulum that denies the impact of divine guidance and authority so they can excuse whatever pathological crap they want to on their way to liberal nirvana where taxation steals the liberty of families. I think you get the idea.

What does America look like with 25 million men deployed to Asia, consumed by vast spaces and not coming home? When you deploy a cheap man’s Army with little fire support, no air support and little mobility beyond walking everywhere, you essentially hand over 25 million targets to Sunni, Shia, Chinese, and Russian tribes, elements, terrorists and armies. Think of it like this. With a population of 130 million in World War II, we deployed 16 million to Asia and Europe. What would have happened if they did not come home? For one thing, FDR’s socialist agendas would have seized the nation.

In the opening chapters, my young Paratrooper is rediscovering a vastly different America from the one he left when he signed up to fight after the nuclear terrorist attacks. A nation that has been without men for three years… with the exception of the Moslem communities who were not invited to volunteer nor were drafted and National Security elements vastly expanded by the crises. Maybe my imagination is running wild but I like to take scenarios to their far, distant end results.

The question is – So what? That is why this BLOG essay is “Called from Ur to America.” In other words, how might a young man be called to step back into the American arena and be part of American restoration and renewal? How would the remaining citizens – old men, young boys, and women of all ages respond to being called with him from Ur to the America of our founding fathers?

At this point, I have a lot more questions than answers but in a few days, I will stop working on the beginning of Book 4 and begin framing up the end. I like to write the beginning and the end so that I know my starting point and my destination. After that is the hard work of sewing the end points together across chapters, critical points of crises, and the soaring task of taking my nation from depths to heights. For now, my Paratrooper’s journey will imitate Abraham’s epic path from obscurity in the pathological city of Ur to father of nations at the summits of Zion. Yes, along the way my Paratrooper and I will kill aliens, handle quantum weapon systems, fry Nephilim, fall in love with the wife of our youth, and step into the amazing arms of grace and salvation in Christ by faith alone.

Watching the sunset behind Pikes Peak, smoking a Rare Corojo and enjoying an adult beverage while writing.

Polygamy & Mayhem in Sumer

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O’Reilly just had a segment with a polygamous couple – one husband and two of the three wives. I want to say up front that God’s plan for the family – one husband and one wife – is the framework through which he intended adventure, romance, and that corner of heaven to occur among the people of creation. It does not always work that way but I have been blessed by a best friend and wife of nearly thirty years. She has been my partner in an amazing adventure called life and always nurtured a beautiful garden for our family wherever we lived in the world.

That said, I am using a number of archeological, historical, and Biblical attributes in the Circle of Deception that are built around polygamy. Not everyone would agree with me but one of the historical indicators of families in a nation under attack and perhaps not even being functional is when polygamy is a major component of the culture. I use this thought in the Nephilim households as they rise to power. Though modern with 3rd Strand DNA, flying saucers, and aliens, I actually pull the concepts and application from the kingdoms of Ancient Sumer. After Noah’s flood, the city states and kingdoms of Sumer rose along the axis of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Rulers of these city states included entities the Greeks called demigods or part man, part god descendants of gods. Combine this with Genesis 6 and we have the start of what became Greek mythology. Origen changed some of the meanings in his translations because he had a hard time linking Greek mythology with the Old Testament. Yet, the stories, archeology, hedonism, and social pathologies running rampant in the Kingdoms of Sumer are recorded and translated from Sumerian cuneiphorm in main stream libraries. Most people sort of shake their heads and move on to another research topic.

Polygamy – the practice of having multiple wives – was a very real and widely practiced institution in Sumer with fallen angels and Nephilim taking all the women they chose. Even the requirement that women – married and single – serve in the fertility temples placed families in the horrible position of questioning who the real parents were. All of this broke the family into brittle pieces, not even permitting the creation of the stable crucibles of growth children so desperately need. Wars added to the turmoil by killing entire city-state generations in an afternoon and leaving cities without a generation of fathers. In the long stretch of history, the Kingdoms of Sumer fairly rapidly imploded from the weight of their internal murderous instabilities, not even able to step west across the Arabian Desert or east into the Punjab to seize an empire. In fact, it appears that they had few, if any, real external enemies. They did it to themselves and their Nephilim demigod masters actually accelerated the process.

Lets step away from analysis and speculation to a few certainties.

In Matt 24, Jesus said the last days would be like the days of Noah. People forget that Noah lived 335 additional years after the flood and this more than adequately covers the zenith of the Kingdoms of Sumer. In fact, Abraham was born two years before Noah died and was called out of Ur, out of those social pathologies, and away from the destructive practices of that culture that destroyed so many families. In other words, the “Days of Noah” include some very well documented archeological and historical characteristics that we should find frightening in light of Jesus’ prophecy.

Another certainty is that Isaiah described three firm indicators of the collapse of a nation. Those are covered in other essays at this site but there is an interesting characteristic (among several) that leaps out of the end of Isaiah 3 and the beginning of Isaiah 4. It is the prophecy that because so many men have died in wars and foolish military adventures, 7 women approach one man and ask simply that they wear his name and he give them children. Polygamy. Without boundaries, without responsibility.

Looking around at our social pathologies, the rise of “alternate lifestyles,” and the heightening economic crises, I am almost to the point of simply wondering when we will be sucked into the conflicts and tragedies that will destroy our nation’s manhood. This social context lands solidly in the Circle of Deception as several families work through the temptations of choosing polygamy… or holding fast to the framework of the first family with one man and one woman. I also follow the rise to power of Nephilim households, their Sumerian style combination of polygamy, hedonism, Eastern style harems, and the leaders of the Deception who rise from these households. John Wolvoord often linked the coming deception to flying saucers, nearly magical technology, and their really good sounding messages of hope that soon ring hollow in the conflicts of man. You will see these through both Human and Nephilim eyes in the Circle of Deception.

Heading to my hot tub somewhere on the Eastern plains of Colorado to enjoy the night sky as stars wink between the clouds.

War and Rumor of War

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Victor Marx spoke at the Mountain Springs Church at the Dunamis conference in early September. He told multiple stories of children in prison, what they did to get there, and how our death culture is destroying youth. He has a magnificent ministry to troubled youth but while listening to him, my mind recalled Ralph Peters’ book, “Wars of Blood and Faith.” Victor’s words were personal and focused on individual people but I saw in them evidence of how wars of blood and faith now throb with gunfire and dead bodies From the Sudan to LA Hoods. Ralph Peters poignantly writes about strategic concepts and warfare from a top level, clear headed perspective. Victor speaks and serves from a ground level position that validates Ralph Peters’ concepts - neither man knowing the other or coordinating their words. Taken together, their concepts are key strategic components in our world and form key components in my series, the “Circle of Deception.” Ralph said at one point that as Christian, he is appalled, as a Historian, he is curious, and as a soldier, he is stoically resolute to respond.

Below, I want to walk Ralph Peter’s Points and Victor’s little people together in order to analyse how they come to life in the “Circle of Deception:”

Ralph Peters’ Point: Our nation is no longer led by Eagles because they have been replaced by Vultures.

Contained in Victor’s stories of people, children in prison, and his magnificent ministry to troubled youth, we see the harvest of the seeds sewn by vultures. In spite of the rhetoric, we have a death culture that is destroying the family in America. Maybe not nice, churchy home school, middle classy families – which defines my own family quite well… Until one of my nice middle class kids brought home the pathologies of the death culture… Leaving my family and me distraught, confused, and very angry. In “Circle of Deception,” I move forward five years to strategic mayhem, vultures out of control and the family under serious attack. Somebody asked me where I got my idea for the first chapter of the fourth and final book in the series… I dreamed it. I felt like I was living it and got up at 3:00 AM and had to write it down before I forgot it.

Ralph Peter’s Point: The Age of Ideology is over. The Gulags, Concentration camps, and Khmer Rouge are being replaced by industrial scale targeted death across boundaries of blood and faith.

Victor spoke of Hoods, Gangs, and the fragmentation of cities into groups hammered by fatherlessness, family fragmentation, and rites of passage to adulthood that have little to do with sanctity of life or liberty. Contained in the “Circle of Deception” are families who struggle, feel, cry, lose kids, and fight to get them back from a soul less culture focused on enslaving their hearts and minds. At its root, Human beings find it easier and far more emotionally satisfying to kill their neighbors than distant enemies. In that context, few documents in the magnificent human struggle for freedom are more noble than the Declaration of Independence because it declares life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as gifts from our creator. I try to show how that document even stands the test of UFOs, quantum computing, third strand DNA and more.

Ralph Peters’ Point: Globalization actually contains contradictory components. He refers to the Internet as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Globalization. In actuality, the Internet is the number one source of the spread of hatred and coordinated attack. Looking deeper, Globalization enables the world’s rich and beautiful to play on the same beaches and playground to the delight of media pubes and buttbrains with cameras. In reality, it breaks down national boundaries – many fragile – and drives common everyday people and the poor into much more insular tribes, hoods, and religions.

At Ground level, Victor told story after story of tribal associations that landed kids in prisons, replaced missing fathers, and enabled combat across lines of blood and faith. Call it murder, call it pathological, call it whatever you want. In truth, organized violence across lines of demarcation is known in most arms rooms and headquarters elements as combat. The Circle of Deception mocks Globalization and takes the reader into combat operations between tribal and localized groups that are a result of vultures in Washington DC failing to lead.

When people read the Old Testament, many see a brutal and judgmental God who hammers the crap out of people for fun little dalliances like adultery and idol worship. People say that does not happen anymore. The truth is that the world is moving back to wars of blood and faith. One of the reasons that the age of Ideology is dead is that moral relativism is too weak to do pushups or heavy lifting in the face of human extremes and a God who really does get angry at sin. The problem is that we have an entire generation of secular trained pathological progressive vultures leading our country who do not have the strenght or will to rise above the fray like eagles in order to understand the terrain. Instead, they are focused on picking over the carcass of the United States. As fun as that was to write, I saying that our leadership is the output of secular driven, poorly executed education and fail to see even the boundaries in their own cities across which even children kill each other. What should education be? For starters, take a look at the Dallas Texas school System “Bible Study Handbook” that every student had to complete to graduate from high school… Removed in the 1970s. Put it back. That would be a start. Onward.

One of my points in the Circle of Deception is that in the context of our secular public school educations and atheistic western culture, we have fooled ourselves. (Too bad we can’t demand a refund on what our taxes paid for). The age of Ideology magnified and institutionalized three core beliefs. First is moral relativism. This is the thought that right and wrong are personal decisions. Second is humanism. This is the focus on human endeavor and thought as ultimate. Third is the insignificance of God. This dismisses God to the garbage bin of irrelevance.

Over all of this, in the time between the French Revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the family went substandard as dads went to the factory. They were soon followed by moms. On top of that, cities took the family nuclear. All of this isolated families from the intergenerational impact of parents, grandparents, grandkids, etc. living in the same community, usually within walking distance. Taken together, the family is breaking down. In the “Circle of Deception,” remember that my starting point is Matthew 24 where Jesus said the last days would be like the days of Noah. In those days and immediately after the flood, the Kingdoms of Sumer and the half man half god Heros of Old broke down families as they were designed by God. In the modern day and in keeping with Jesus’ prophecy, I have powerful elements reintroduce the immorality and hedonism of kingdoms of Sumer. In that framework, moms are unsure of the fathers of their kids. Fathers are unsure of which kids and which moms are his. Like the Old Testament chronicles of Kings, wars, and princes, the breakdown of the family feeds the breakdown of society to tribal wars of blood and faith. In our day, in spite of the blessings that came with the industrial age, the evil of this breakdown of the family perverted and destroyed the very blessings of reformation and enlightenment. Within the last two books of the Circle of Deception, evil itself will proclaim world gov’t but the different elements will consume themselves in the embezzling, destruction of life, individual agendas and attempts at self-preservation inside ethnicities and false faiths… Hense, Wars of Blood and Faith. As for what the end looks like… I am thinking through that now with my Infantryman grin and Artillery heart. Get the books because the details of victory will be in the series.

Heading to the Hot Tub with my wife and best friend of 29 years, a Rare Corojo, and a fine adult beverage.

Deception Framework

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Writing my Master’s Thesis on U.S. Grant, I did my first chapter and my last chapter. That way, I knew my starting point and my end point. Next, I wrote my important chapters along that continuum then sewed them together. This framework sounds simple. It took me a year and multiple trips to the Library of Congress. I am writing my series, “Circle of Deception” the same way. I have a firm starting point and am aiming toward a solid target for my end point. This is the big picture framework of where this series is taking my readers…

Book 1 is “Deception Frenzy.” My framework starting point is from Matthew 24 where Jesus prophecies that the last days will be like the days of Noah. It seems to be a prophecy about hunky dory life ignoring the seasonal indicators of the last days. Once I started reading some of the translations of Sumerian texts and the book of Enoch, my brain charged down a near Science Fiction path. This book details the rise of Nephilim houses to power in North America. A sub-plot is their fictional involvement in a true America travesty – the American Highway of Human Slavery: I-70 east and west and I-25 North and South.

Book 2 is “Revolution Frenzy.” Continuing with the Matt 24 starting point, I introduce Isaiah chpt 3 to the framework of this series and that prophet’s detailed description of the fall of a nation. His audience was Judah around 700 BC but after reading Gibbons’ “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,” “For Good and Evil” by Charles Adams, and multiple excellent books by Ralph Peters on history and strategy, I realize that Isaiah’s prophecy is actually a template for national collapse. It anchors to three points – economic famine, childish leadership, and the loss of the Judge, the Warrior and the Captain in international foolish adventures. Book 2 moves rapidly into the Texas Revolution and the second American Civil War. The Nephilim households step center stage and UFOs begin appearing over cities across North America. The New Age long awaited appearance of the Annanuki finally occurs and the nations of the world begin organizing toward a world government.

Book 3 is “Future Frenzy.” Using a lot of Brian Greene’s concepts in “The Elegant Universe” and “The Hidden Reality,” I send a main character back in time to 1934. This merges both hard science and science fiction into the framework of this series. The Great Depression was one of the most demonic events in American History and through the eyes of my fiction characters, worth a little reexamination. I am particularly intrigued by the section of Isaiah chpt 3 that details the houses of the rich growing through plunder while the houses of the productive and the people decrease to nothing beyond poverty. The Nephilim are strongly engaged through various cults and political power.

Book 4 is “Battle Frenzy.” (Still working on the title). The Republic of Texas steps into active defense of Israel, one of the few nations with the courage to do so. A modern day Deborah is the Israeli Prime Minister and she directs her sons, Israeli Army, and Republic of Texas divisions in Israel’s defense. The children of Esau, Lot, Ishmael, and Katura who intermarried with the children of Ham form the modern day nations of Sunni Islam and Arabic nations. They mass inside the Sunni Caliphate to take down Israel and seize Jerusalem. Nephilim households drive world rhetoric and resources toward a crescendo of hate and as Winston Churchill noted during the Battle of Britain, “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Bottom Line – I start in Matthew 24 and end in Psalm 83. Along the way, we hit UFOs, Quantum computing, third strand DNA, and the absolute wonder, joy, and endurance in the face of evil of God’s first social institution – the family.

Synchronization of History to the Future

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Initial synchronization of the international and strategic scenarios in this series sprang out of evening discussions in 2005 in Djibouti in the Headquarters compound for the Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa. They continued with an entirely different group of people when I moved to a COB outside Balad in Central Iraq. In Africa and Southwest Asia, discussions were very political, often heated, and drove hard on defining the world situation. Yet, none of us had a definitive perspective on current affairs because that brief window of the present sprints past so fast. Even the wider window of news and media information roar by faster than a fuel truck in a convoy trying to get home before a Jehadi nut can put an RPG through his storage tank. In Iraq one morning, I was doing some personal time in God’s word, smoking a fine cigar, and watching the sun rise while sitting on a berm overlooking the Euphrates. Don’t think I got up early… We had taken mortars in the night and I could not get back to sleep.

My study took me to Matthew 24:37 – “But as the days of Noah were so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” (NKJV). This is one of those strange passages that requires a lot of study and thought. Too many blow off this passage with common, plain explanations that range between Hunky and Dorry. They might be right. On the other hand, if they are not right, then we have a wild, intense prophecy that predicts a future that is promised to be like the days of Noah. Suddenly, I had the past to which I would synchronize the future I describe in the Circle of Deception.

Understanding the days of Noah became my next problem. The book of Jude quotes a prophecy from the book of Enoch. Most of our western canons of the Bible do not include the book of Enoch. Yet, we have translations from the Ethiopic and Slavic cannons of the Bible. At the very least, it is a fascinating read about Angels, Nephilim, and the state of mankind leading up to the flood. Several themes leaped at me. The Bible passage in Genesis 6 states that the fallen Angels took women as wives… All whom they chose. Combined with Sumerian texts about women required to serve in the sex rites of temples (combination houses and worship facilities for the half man half god beings who lived there) and we have a picture of family disintegration across humanity’s first expression of civilization. This is fascinating in light of the fact that the first social institution created by God was the family. This is a major cross over where I synchronize the past to the future I describe.

Enoch wrote in several places that the fallen Angels were condemned to watch their children kill each other in wars, murders, and destruction of each others’ city states. We then see hints in the Bible and in Sumerian texts of the astoundingly foolish pride and childishness that took mankind into “wars, rumors of war” and conflagrations. Finally, “Heroes of Old” rose up with seemingly amazing attributes to lead mankind but they only brought organized death and destruction on even more horrendous scales. In other words, similar events in our own day are as old as Noah’s Flood. This is another set of synchronization points from the past to the future in my fiction series.

By itself, this is just a good story that springs from fun research and analysis. Therefore, let me take this into the realm of technology, aliens, and more. My parents were very exasperated with me in the 7th grade when I brought home Van Daneken’s book, “Chariots of the Gods.” His theory was that ancient “gods” used genetics to create mankind and lead humanity in its first few eons of existence. He subsequently was embraced by the New Age and UFO communities as were several archeology types proclaiming stories about Annanuki, Elohim, and other names they redefined from original Biblical or Cuneiform sources. Swirled together, they present an “alternate” view of creation. Combined with the book of Enoch and several Bible passages, we have a tale where I synchronize history to science fiction.

The final piece in the international scenario arrived with my second or third Ralph Peters book. I have no clue what he thinks about UFOs, Nephilim and all the rest but he very practically analyzes modern conflict. Taken from a big picture view, Ralph opened my eyes to our modern day swerving away from the age of Ideology and back to Old Testament style “Wars of Blood and Faith.” Add technology and death on an industrial scale and we have things most of humanity finds very frightening. Pushing all this together, I would not call the “Circle of Deception” an Alien invasion series but I am pressing hard on the concept of Alien domination within the context of what the Bible calls, “The Deception that is to come.” This is where I synchronize what we know of the past to what the Bible tells us about the future… In a high paced story that includes Nephilim, UFOs, Civil War and more.

Watching the Sun rise in the Rocky Mountains and drinking excellent coffee.

Family in Future Think

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Sitting in a very classified conference on Information Warfare in 1994, a Special Forces buddy tossed me a book on one of the breaks. It was “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson. I enjoyed the Techno Geek aspects of the book and the hard charging plot, especially the information systems warfare components. On the other hand, Stephenson’s picture of the family and the people relationship side of his book presented a very stark vision of the family in a world surging through out-of-control technology and careening through societal fragmentation. From a writing perspective, that book and several others really pressed me backwards. I simply could not resolve the technology and hard charging plots of future think with its pessimism and stark view of one of the most enjoyable parts of my personal existence – my family. On the other side of the bookstore aisle are nice, tame, and gentle books in the Christian bookstores that make me intellectually gag when my wife tries to get me to read them. Overall, Stephenson achieved one of his goals by forcing his readers to think. I disagree with his vision but he did not swerve away from the problem. In my opinion, a lot of authors who write Science Fiction and various future think books swerve toward the heavy technology as if it is a main character in order to stay away from the future of relationships, family, and even the impact of societal fragmentation. On the other hand, many writers who dive deep into those things, like Neal Stephenson, make the mistake of tossing the traditional “Family” on the wood pile of failed ideas.

Scroll forward to a few days ago in 2011 where it is the first day of School. I dropped off our fourth kid at school. The other three are off into the world, two graduated from college, and one hounding off into the rebellious unknown. Number four just started 8th grade. Watching him walk to the school door, I am struck by what an amazing young man he is and by what he must handle in the years to come. Quite simply, the velocity of life and societal fragmentation will introduce change even more rapidly than what Baby Boomers are experiencing.

That family context is in my mind as I write the “Circle of Deception.” My series has a lot of technology and I also admit to using the fiction to take a number of ongoing national issues to their extremes if they continue. Yet, it is not the technology or lethality that are the stars. It is the people. The families, hearts, and minds behind the fingers that pull the triggers, fly the planes, and watch their loved ones die in combat. For a long time, I could not resolve the stark vision of the family in Science Fiction and most future think works until I stepped into the Old Testament. Not all is wonderful and hunky dory for the family in that place, either. I discovered several contexts I use to shape my characters in the rough and tumble turmoil of life. Yet, it was not until I read “Wars of Blood and Faith,” by Ralph Peters that I put our present day, the Old Testament, and more into a future think perspective. His point is that the age of ideology is over and wars that straddle racial, religious, and even community boundaries will be the norm. Except for the 200 or so years of the Age of Ideology from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, the other 5800 years of human history have been about Wars of Blood and Faith. In other words, the future is moving back to national conflict and combat operations that resemble the Old Testament. I would laugh my butt off watching the secular trained and ideological Apparatchiks and Perfumed Princes in Washington DC try to make sense of this if not for the national heart break they are hurtling us toward. Even so, that did not answer my questions about the most important place in my heart and my fiction – the family.

Sitting at my computer in Iraq in early 2006, the sirens went off and the familiar crump of incoming mortars rattled the metal walls of my building. Fifty feet away was safety inside the massive Technical Control facility my people were building. I was so dang tired, it was night, I could not sleep, and the mortars had pounded me awake nearly every night. I did not move because I decided that if I ran to the bunker and got hit by a mortar, all I would accomplish is that I would die tired.

Work was out of the question and I was seriously missing my family. My second daughter was in her senior year of High School and as a result of being deployed to central Iraq, I missed that entire year. I opened up my Bible, not really feeling any sort of enlightenment or desire for God’s word in the middle of my own little pool of misery. For some reason, I found myself in Isaiah chapter three. The tax profile required to accumulate wealth in the houses of the powerful and make the rest destitute was familiar ground. Losing the Judge the warrior, the captain of a thousand and the captain of a hundred was also very familiar ground. Toward the end of Isaiah chapter three, seven childless women approach one man to ask for his name and to give them children. I am not any sort of fan of polygamy but the fragmentation of the family into lifestyles like that are an indicator of national demise and societal fragmentation. I get that, too. The epiphany moment came at the beginning of chapter four where Isaiah quotes God saying he will make them into a beautiful branch. In that moment, several families were born in the contexts of this series and I suddenly could not stop writing. I discovered Hannah and Conal in a tumultuous relationship that spilled across our kitchen floor when I got back home and my wife and I began counseling couples in troubled marriages. Das and his wives come from the impact of polygamy in the lives of families dealing with the national loss of the Warrior, the Judge, and the captions of 1000 and 100. My work is future think but different from most others working on future fiction. I point toward the demise of the family in a national context but show from individual contexts that the family is one of God’s best ideas.

So… I was talking with my Pastor and he asked me what the maturity rating is for my series. I told him it is no more violent and high velocity than David removing 1000 Philistine foreskins for a bride price and no more passionate than the Song of Solomon. We shared very manly grins then discussed when to get together to smoke cigars. We love the Lord and serve him in a very unusual and excellent worship family. History is such a fascinating place – the templates for national demise repeat themselves across time and empires with great consistency. They are literally as old as the Prophet Isaiah. On the other hand, family is a great idea that is even older.

Sitting on my deck enjoying a Rare Corojo and counting clouds running across the Rocky Mountains as they form the afternoon thunderstorm.

Death and Taxes

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Most people universally despise taxes and tax policy – especially small business owners. Yet, in my discussions with fellow business owners, we pay our taxes because that is the law. Perhaps grudgingly and sometimes with more than a little anger, but most people are motivated to be law abiding citizens.

On the other hand, History tells a very different story about taxation. As civilization swerves back to “Wars of Blood and Faith,” I believe we will see methods of taxation, tax tyranny, and more reappear from the pages of history. In book two, most of the male small business owners and employees were drafted and deployed to Asia. Like Isaiah chapter 3, those who build businesses and would resist taxation are gone. Remaining as average citizens are the very young, the old, and single, widowed, and hopeless ladies, moms, wives, and girlfriends. They are disenchanted by the combination of high taxes, poor leadership, and rising social pathologies. Few, if any, are willing to pay the price demanded to defend the increasingly despised regimes that pass through Washington DC. This is not a new idea. I found the concept in Gibbons’ wonderful tome, “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,” and several other books. Yet, the foundational source document was the book of Isaiah in the Old Testament.

Too many will wonder how I can swack the Old Testament into a fiction series about the future that contains third strand DNA, Quantum computing, Aleins, Nephilim, and take a deep dive into the future of killing and warfare. It is simple, really. Israel is perhaps one of the greatest nations of tax rebels in History. Anyone who knows the book of Deuteronomy understands that the founding fathers pulled concepts of life, liberty, jurisprudence, and national leadership from Moses. Those who read Isaiah can see the fundamental nature of tyranny and the high costs of bitter taxation to pay for social pathologies.

Death and taxes are certainties in life but most of us in the west have little or no personal experience with Death caused by Taxes. It runs the range from tax revolt to citizens who refuse to fight for their own nation when it is led by tyranny that embraces social pathologies. Most of our educations spring from increasingly stale secular based idealism. In reality, the age of Ideology perished with the demise of the Soviet Union. Interestingly, the Israelis, Russians, Chinese, and Muslem nations understand that. Meanwhile, Washington DC is full of Potymkin village idiots who are more like the Roman governments of the 3rd and 4th centuries who suddenly discovered that they could not raise the taxes and armies it needed to defend its interests or itself.

My wife just asked why I have such a mischievous look on my face. It is there for several very good reasons. First, I am writing the speech delivered by the Governor of Texas declaring independence from the United States. Another thought is that this is a plot that will not be exhausted for a long time. Finally, Solomon said the famous words that too many people forget and must relearn – giving History guys like me a lot to keep writing about. At the end of the day, when I mash Death and Taxes, Wars of Blood and Faith, Rebellion, Civil War, Quantum Computing, Aliens, and more into this series, I return to Solomon’s words in Ecclesiastes 1: 9, “There is nothing new under the sun.”

Watching the sun gloriously depart behind Pike’s Peak.