Eden Quest: Before the Beginning (SongStone Series Book 1)

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Lucifer’s rebellion has cast the entire universe into chaos.

Millions of innocent lives have been subjected to futility, corruption, and slavery.

Lucifer’s failed attempt to overthrow Elohim, the Creator, has left him bitter enraged and vengeful.

So, surrounded by his defeated and exiled angelic cohorts, he devises a new plan. “If we cannot rule the Creation, we will do everything within our power to destroy it. Let us see how God likes it when His ‘perfect creatures’ are reduced to a jealous, lustful, greedy mob. We will take to the whole Creation what it has never known before . . . Evil.”

In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul paints a picture of the universe (the whole Creation) as subjected to futility, slavery, and corruption. Yet, in their suffering, there is hope. As in the pains of childbirth, they long for the arrival of the Redeemer. Not the one who visited Earth, for His work “is finished,” but for His disciples. “For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God” (Rom 8: 19-22).

Eden Quest, Before the Beginning, returns us to a time before Lucifer’s rebellion, where you will meet Rapheldrn and Milderett. This humble wine and olive oil maker and his wife live in a time before lust, greed, and hatred turned the hearts of the people away from their Creator. Their home planet of Tyros has been targeted by Lucifer and his fallen angelic host to suffer the first attempts at introducing evil into a culture. The success of their wicked plan is beyond anything they could have hoped for. But no matter how great the darkness, there will always be the few whose light can never be extinguished.

You will also meet Bobby (Reed) Westerly. Born in a sleazy motel in Augusta, Georgia, in 1948, Bobby grows up hating God but loving books. An angelic visitation and the “great lion Aslan” eventually lead him to a life of discipleship and study. His knowledge of forbidden texts and his willingness to view the Bible in new and unorthodox ways may give him the tools he needs to save both his world and God’s as well.

Bobby is convinced that the 20th-century descendants of the Watchers, the fallen angels of Noah’s day, are still trying to fulfill their ultimate goal, which is to access a portal to the Garden of Eden and partake of the Tree of Life gaining immortality. The same goal their ancestor Nimrod failed to accomplish. “Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach into Heaven” (Gen 11:4).

Now, in possession of an ancient and divine instrument capable of opening portals, and the technology of the twentieth century at their disposal, they may yet succeed where Nimrod failed. But before he can stop them, Bobby must answer one inescapable question. How did the Nephilim, the offspring of the Watchers, survive a flood that the New Testament writer, Peter, claims only eight people survived? To answer that question, Bobby must introduce us to one more character in the saga: Nataya, daughter of Turel, the fallen angel.