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TWO INTERMINGLED ADVENTURES
Young Epaphras of Colossae must leave his simple life to track a thief down the dangerous roads of the cruel Roman Empire. But the merciful Savior he encounters along the way will transform his world and his people forever. Then, as the earthly reign of Jesus Christ begins, his descendant, Thirzah, finds herself on a relentless quest across the Realm searching for the family she has never known. Will she learn to trust her almighty King when she is called to ride on heavenly wings to face mysterious new threats and forgotten enemies? |
JOHN LESLIE BATTENFIELD is a Christian, husband, father, missionary, and designer. By day, he helps Bible schools and church ministries around the world through creative media. By night, he imagines the future described in the pages of God’s Word.
John has been writing stories since high school and published his first novel in 2017, the first in a 7-book series taking place during the earthly reign of Jesus Christ, the King of kings. He is currently writing a PREQUEL called REALM RISING: The Omega Variant! |
The God King has returned and rules from the only mountain left on earth. His chosen race dwells in perfection and bliss but mortals still carry within them the evil spark the King banished in the mist-veiled Age before.
Madison, a song-sage for the King, seeks to take His scroll to the uttermost cracks and hovels of civilization in order to reconcile lost mortals to their Master. As the slow centuries pass, she leaves breadcrumb clues for Damaris, a curious archeologist, to discover. But the answers they find may lead them through a celestial portal to another world. Will they return in time to stop the Adversary's final attack on the capitol of the cosmos? |
A rugged survivor of a global war, Ezasen finds himself on a rebooted tropical world without technology where giant flora and fauna mingle with angels and a new caste of powerful, perfected humans. He learns that the God King has established His throne and rules with swift justice and a rod of iron.
From warring tribes wielding sticks, long-lived Ezasen watches a largely ignorant and stiff-necked culture advance to interplanetary terraformation and interdimensional travel. Ezasen has a thousand years to help rebuild civilization and persuade his descendants that the King is also their Judge, that a seething evil resides in each one of them, and that regardless of which age they live in, Jesus is still the answer to their every longing. |
"A meal of rich characters!
This is a remarkable achievement!"
This is a remarkable achievement!"
"Such a new perspective on the End Times."
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what readers are saying"I felt like I was watching a movie. Excellent pacing. I'm reading it to my kids." -B., CO
"It’s biblical sci-fi. Such a new perspective on the End Times. Loved it!" -L., AK
"What a great opening! I was easily able to use my imagination about this actually taking place. I am eager to see how this story unfolds." -C., CO
"Quite gripping. The story pulls you in and is hard to put down!" -J., CA
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"The world we experience while reading John Leslie Battenfield’s REALM series is a delight to visit due to his engaging writing style and seemingly boundless imagination. The Messianic Age he envisions opens the mind to fresh possibilities of what that glorious future could be like. The author’s mind takes flight in many surprising ways, but manages to remain well-grounded in a biblical foundation. I am looking forward to more in this series."
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"This is a really remarkable achievement! This book is so deep and goes in so many different directions. It motivates me to reread the scriptures with a different set of filters.
John has assembled a picture of what life and death might be like, given the bones of what scripture tells us about the rapture, the tribulation, glorified bodies, angels, a thousand-year reign, and indeed, eternity. John has put meat on those bones. He has gathered the breadcrumbs of clues throughout the Bible to create a meal; a meal of rich characters, adventurous episodes on land, sea, and journeys into space. We are introduced to a heavenly utopia, when our world is reset to zero – a Noah kind of zero. REALM is an intense adventure for those readers willing to have their world views, and their views of eternity, challenged. Thanks, John, for inviting me to this amazing project!" |
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