Dark Eden

Did you know there is a place called Blood Falls in Antarctica?

In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a remarkably blood-like flow oozes out of the ice and down the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the frozen surface of West Lake Bonney. 

Below its strange geography lies a biological mystery scientists call "Dark Eden," the perfect place to begin the story of a world that has lost its soul as it rages on a collision course with justice. The novel Blood Falls pulls back the veil on a fascinating and fresh portrayal of the end of an age. CMADDICT.com has done an amazing job of producing the audio of the Preface and 1st chapter of the book. 

Why post a book about the Apocalypse on a website devoted to the celebration of Life?

Because I'm the author of the book, and I'm an ardent supporter of the pro-life movement...from the moment of conception to the natural end of the physical body. The novel Blood Falls reflects that in both concept and mission. Though it deals with hard issues in the fictional depiction of God's judgment upon an apostate world, God is always in the business of bringing life out of death. Even as He pours out His indignation upon the evil in the land, He is always working to bring humanity to Him. 

When I wrote this book, I wept as I penned the words to Chapter 35: Rachel's Gift. I still weep every time I read it. 

This chapter stirs my soul because it declares that God is Life. He's the King of the living. He rejoices in bringing life out of death. 

We honor Him when we get the message.

The coming Tribulation will not include alien zombies and purple skies.

 

The events portrayed in the prophetic portions of Scripture have been tortured until they hardly resemble anything modern folks can appreciate or take seriously. The day is fast approaching, however, when they will come upon the earth, exactly as predicted by the Bible. 

In real time. In this age. 

Those who have already accepted the gift of life offered in the sacrifice and resurrection of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, will escape the tribulation of the Apocalypse before it begins. Those who waited, however, will still have the opportunity to choose life, though at great cost.

If it was ever the time to investigate what the Bible has to say about the future of Earth, the time is now.

Listen here: Blood Falls Chapter One with audio 

Learn more: Bloodfalls.net

Many thanks to Kevin Thorson, founder and senior editor of CMADDICT.com for his vision and work on the project. Be sure to check out the entire site. It's filled with quality content, awesome music, and inspiring stories. Need a lift for your spirit today? Check out the devotionals, too!

Embrace the Pain

 

       

The Witch of Buchenwald

In much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.

-Ecclesiastes 1:18 NASB

Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the notorious Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Not content to be a quiet military wife, Ilse immersed herself in a decadent lifestyle at the camp. The Kochs lived lavishly at Buchenwald, eating and drinking and partying as prisoners around them starved. It was reported that she and her husband even hosted orgies for the SS guards.

Ilse soon became an SS Aufseherin, or overseer. She was a reputed sadist who was so cruel that she was dubbed the "Bitch of Buchenwald," a corruption of the German Die Hexe van Buchenwald, "Witch of Buchenwald." She enjoyed tormenting prisoners as she rode around the camp on her horse.

She had a special fascination with tattoos. She singled out prisoners whose tattoos caught her eye and ordered them killed by the SS guards. Their skins were tanned, from which she had custom lampshades, book covers, and gloves made for her. She was reportedly especially fond of a purse made of human skin. Another of her hobbies was collecting shrunken human heads.

Waste not, want not. 

It took a world war to rip the façade from a regime so brutal that it still shocks the conscience of civilized nations. When the nearby town of Weimar, Germany, was liberated by Allied forces, General Patton forced its citizens to march past the piles of corpses, the crematoria, and the grisly body organ samples from Buchenwald to behold the holocaust that happened in their land as they looked the other way.

See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.

For years I wondered how the world could not know what was happening in Nazi Germany. Now I understand. They chose not to see.

Knowledge is painful.

It tears at our hearts, our souls, and our conscience. It brings us to our knees and confers upon us the responsibility to act. And it makes us vulnerable to loss, to retribution, to the criticism of others.

It's so much easier to live in ignorance.

The recent videos exposing the thriving business behind the abortion industry have ripped off the mask of what is happening behind the mask of "women's health." It revealed what we guessed at but didn't want to acknowledge:

Once a person is declared non-viable, nothing is sacred.

Today, people are being harvested for their organs and tissue. It's big business, it's the next logical step, and it's been done before.

Waste not, want not. 

Will we stand with the citizens of Weimar one day and be forced to look upon the injustice that swirled around us as we busied ourselves with distractions conveniently hiding the truth? Will we weep then for the lives we could have saved if only we had spoken up?

Or will we open our eyes now to seek out the wisdom of God?

Are we willing to discover what breaks His heart? Do we have the courage to embrace the pain?

If we can do this, we can become His hands and His feet and His voice on behalf of a new generation who is perishing.