It's About Time!

Worthwhile things seem to take a lot of time. But then they happen and suddenly you are shifted into a new time with new expectations. For example, my son Ben and I just published two books. One is Messiah Returns, the second in the Millennium Reimagined trilogy. (The first was Antichrist Revealed.) It covers the second half of the seven-year tribulation period, also known as the Great Tribulation. It is intense, fast-moving, and challenges many commonly held ideas about the culmination of God's judgment of evil forces in the earth. The enduring message is that God works all things together for our good as we recognize His sovereignty and trust absolutely in Him in spite of our preconceptions.

The other book is a major revision to my 2019 work, The Present and Millennial Kingdom of God. Besides improving the organization and flow of the book (with Ben's help), this second edition incorporates the mind-boggling events of the past five years that I described in a couple of my recent posts ("What in the World Is Going On?" and "Everything Changes"). It explains that we are entering a long Kingdom Age (also being called the Golden Era) that is a strong foretaste of God's final judgment of evil followed by a strong foretaste of the thousand-year Millennium. The book also helps provide a biblical worldview that informs the Millennium Reimagined trilogy.

I had a dream over ten years ago that I would write seven books, a group of four books (The Tower, The Organic Church, Preparing for End Times, and The Present and Millennial Kingdom of God), all unrelated, and then a group of three (the Millennium Reimagined trilogy). That time of writing has been an amazing experience, but it is essentially completed for me. I have given notes and a skeletal draft of pieces of the last book of the trilogy (so far untitled) to Ben to rewrite and make it come alive. We plan, God willing, to publish it in a year or so.

It is sobering to have finished this part of my life's mission. As I have been pondering what's next, I was reviewing the material I turned over to Ben. It contained a lot of research notes, part of which was a full year of going through the entire Bible to find and comment on every passage that could be remotely related to the tribulation and millennium. Another set of notes details creative ideas on how various aspects of society could work during the Millennium. A small portion of that is hinted at in the Kingdom book and will be included in the final book of the trilogy.

I suddenly realized that I already have a wealth of writings I can draw on to continue these bite-sized articles on claywatts.com. And as I continue to listen to modern prophets and experience the epic events of the next few years, I know I will have a lot to think, pray, and write about.