The Story Behind The Adversary Chronicles
I must get a little geeky to explain how this series came together. I was preparing a lesson for our church to show how science and the Bible can go together and the topic I focused on was M-theory, or the theory of everything, which purports that there are eleven dimensions, where each higher dimension contains all the elements of the lower dimension plus an addition element: first (length), second (breadth), third (height), fourth (time), fifth (time travel), sixth (multiverse or multiple worlds), seventh (multiple words with each on a different timeline), eighth (multiple worlds in different parallel universes), ninth (multiple infinities; able to jump from timeline of one world in one universe to another world on another timeline in another universe), tenth (all possible infinities of all possible universes), and eleventh (all subatomic particles of all dimensions). It is expected that 10 to the 500th power of universes can exist. From the eleventh dimension, if the positive energy can balance the negative, then a universe can spontaneously appear.
So how does that relate to the Bible you may ask? It’s a good question, and one my lesson was going to attempt to address. Here is how I saw it. Others may see it differently, but in my mind, it shows consistency between science and the Bible. Here goes. I think we can all agree we live in the first three dimensions. After all, everything around us is presented to us in 3-D. And I guess we could say we live in the fourth dimension as we definitely experience time, but in a linear fashion. When Satan and the angels who followed him were kicked out of heaven, they were placed in the fourth dimension. Because they came from a higher dimension, we cannot experience them the way we experience each other. There are limited instances of God allowing some to experience the fifth dimension, or time travel, but it was done by him and not by the human involved (e.g., Philip as presented in Acts chapter 8). Sheol is the sixth dimension, outside our dimension, and is connected only to the eleventh dimension as God is in control of it. Yet, there are a few instances of it being connected to our dimension (e.g., Lazarus coming back from Sheol, John chapter 11). The seventh dimension is Tartarus and is also only connected to the eleventh dimension as only God has access to it. This is where God placed selected angels because of their disobedience (mentioned in Second Peter chapter 2). The eighth dimension is Paradise, or Eden. This may be where Adam and Eve were in the beginning but were put into the fourth dimension after their rebellion when Satan deceived them. This is also the place the righteous who were in Sheol were taken, and the place where the righteous today go when they die. The ninth dimension is the angelic realm. As God’s messengers, they can travel to our dimension and would be the reason we would not visibly see them because they would not naturally be corporeal in a lower dimension from theirs. The tenth dimension would then be higher angels who attend to God’s throne like the cherubim and seraphim. Then the eleventh dimension would be where God himself dwells and who has access to all dimensions below his. Perhaps he exists as unity in his dimension but manifests as triune in dimensions below his as that is the only way lower dimensions can reveal him. Just a thought. The number of universes may actually be the number of decisions people make and yet God knows which one will be picked so the timeline progression is in one direction even though there are seemingly endless possibilities.
All of that to say that I believe science reveals facts and points to truth, but it is the Bible that reveals truth and thereby reveals science. At any rate, this was the genesis of the first book of this series and is entitled Rebellion in the Stone of Fire. It describes some of these different dimensions, but in a nonscientific way, how they have interacted with each other, and why certain things happened the way the Bible describes them.
That first book then led to the development of the other three books. The first book was the rebellion of Lucifer who became Satan, the Adversary. The next three books present the consequences of that rebellion and what that means for the human population. Lucifer’s rebellion started because of his pride and that led to him trying to take over the world God created and make it into his image rather than it remaining in God’s image. The second book, The Holy Grail of Babylon, is about the Tower of Babel and how Lucifer used Gilgamesh to try and create a superhuman to deceive the world. But this is presented in a very science fiction fashion with time travel and a lot of creative license. When his attempt failed, he moved on to try and destroy Israel, the nation through whom God was to provide his Messiah to the world. We find this in the third book, The Defining Curse. That plot ultimately failed as well.
I then wanted to let people see that the Adversary is alive and well even today. Lucifer is still scheming and trying to take control. This is revealed in a dramatic way in The Luciferian Plague where today’s technology is used against us for his ultimate control. This too failed—at least in my book he failed. Yet, we have to see what real life will reveal to us.
My goal with this series was to take somewhat familiar Bible stories and make them unique in how they are told, dramatic in how they are presented, and different from how they are normally read in hopes such a presentation will help readers see these stories in a new and fresh way. By being presented from an angelic point of view, hopefully readers will learn something they perhaps didn’t already know. These stories definitely put a new twist to age-old stories that are just as relevant to us today as they were to generations past.
Title: The Adversary Chronicles
Author: Randy C. Dockens
Publisher: Carpenter’s Son Publishing
Genre: Christian / Scifi
He has many names: Lucifer, Satan, Devil, Adversary. Through the eyes of Mikael, the Captain of the Lord’s hosts, understand the conflict that starts in Heaven and how it extends to Earth. Get a different perspective on earthly events that will help you rediscover the awe of age-old Bible stories and give you a new perspective for you to ponder.
Read how Lucifer prepares for his rise to power on Earth through his deceit causing the fall of Adam and Eve, his engineering the Nephilim which God ended with the worldwide flood, how he attempted to use the Tower of Babel to prepare a superhuman off world using a time dilation field to speed up his work for world dominance, how he utilizes a curse the prophet Jeremiah gives to king Jehoiachin to try and change mankind’s history by preventing the prophecy of the coming Messiah, to how he attempts to hijack new technology today to create a plague that will target those of Jewish descent and thereby change biblical prophecy and attempt to turn it into a mere fairytale.
Title of Series: The Adversary Chronicles
Book 1: Rebellion in the Stones of Fire
Book 2: The Holy Grail of Babylon
Book 3: The Defining Curse
Book 4: The Luciferian Plague
Publication Date:
Rebellion in the Stones of Fire: 01-Feb-2022
The Holy Grail of Babylon: 06-Jul-2022
The Defining Curse: 04-Oct-2022
The Luciferian Plague: 01-Feb-2003
# of Pages:
Rebellion in the Stones of Fire: 320
The Holy Grail of Babylon: 300
The Defining Curse: 300
The Luciferian Plague: 368
Amazon:
Rebellion in the Stones of Fire: Rebellion in the Stones of Fire (The Adversary Chronicles, 1): Dockens, Randy C: 9781952025662: Amazon.com: Books
The Holy Grail of Babylon: The Holy Grail of Babylon (The Adversary Chronicles, 2): Dockens, Randy C: 9781952025679: Amazon.com: Books
The Defining Curse: The Defining Curse (The Adversary Chronicles, 3): Dockens, Randy C: 9781952025686: Amazon.com: Books
The Luciferian Plague: The Luciferian Plague (The Adversary Chronicles, 4): Dockens, Randy C: 9781954437739: Amazon.com: Books
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Dr. Randy C. Dockens has a fascination with science and with the Bible, holds Ph.D. degrees in both areas, and is a man not only of faith and science, but also of creativity. He believes that faith and science go hand in hand without being enemies of each other.
After completing his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Auburn University he went on to graduate school at Auburn and completed his first doctorate degree in Pharmaceutics. He began his scientific career as a pharmacokinetic reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration and later joined a leading pharmaceutical company as a pharmacokineticist, which is a scientist who analyzes how the human body affects drugs after they have been administered (i.e., absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted).
Through the years, he has worked on potential medicines within several disease areas, including cardiovascular, fibrosis, and immunoscience to see and develop new and novel medicines in these therapy areas.
He has also had his attention on the academic study of the Bible. He earned a second doctorate in Biblical Prophecy from Louisiana Baptist University after receiving a master’s degree in Jewish Studies from the Internet Bible Institute under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Congdon.
Randy has recently retired from his pharmaceutical career and is spending even more time on his writing efforts. He has written several books that span dystopian, end-time prophecy, science fiction, and uniquely told Bible stories. All his books, while fun to read, are futuristic, filled with science to give them an authentic feel, have a science fiction feel to them, and allows one to learn some aspect of Biblical truth one may not have thought about before. This is all done in a fast-paced action format that is both entertaining and provides a fun read for his readers.
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