Lighten the Earth Book Series

After returning from six years of teaching in Taiwan, I found myself immersed in Southern California’s concrete jungles once more, but only by day. Seeking the outskirts, I lived where civilization met golden foothills. Thus it was in the bosom of nature, surrounded by the scents of dried grass and sage, that I began a journey of scriptural discovery which was to become the Lighten the Earth series. From there, my path took me through Texas and Florida in reconnecting with people and places.

But as the saying goes, not all who wander are lost, and through every bend in the road my fellowship with Christ grew deeper as I continued to study, observe, and write. After twelve years the first book is finished. Nautical Allegories of the Bible is the first of a series that follows themes of Creation week through a sweeping tour of nature, history, and culture in the context of prophecy fulfillment. 

Since I began writing, the world has reached a crisis. We are seeing the culmination of Christ’s parable of the wheat field in Matthew 13:24-30. God is preparing to “send workers out into his harvest,” Luke 10:2. It’s for our times the words were spoken, “Thrust in your sickle and reap… for the harvest of the earth is ripe,” Revelation 14:15.

As we stand on the precipice of eternity, it is for those “upon whom the ends of the ages have come” that the Bible’s most significant messages were written (1 Corinthians 10:11). The natural results of corruption will soon show their fruits in full force, as described through Revelation’s symbols. Though many of the figures repeat, this could well be their last fulfillment.

The scroll’s unsealing messages will soon echo throughout the earth as we move toward the climax of the apocalypse. With every bolt of truth, God’s voice will be heard in thunder until the mystery of God is finished (Revelation 10:1-10, Ezekiel 12:1-10, 3:1-3). Those who study the scriptures with a prayerful spirit and right principles will receive the truth for these times, like Excalibur from the stone. In their hands it will become a gleaming sword with which to fight Earth’s final battles, a sickle with which to reap the harvest.

Nautical Allegories of the Bible begins the series by covering faith basics, since the best place to start is with knowing God. I say this because I believe many who don’t yet know him may eventually be among his most indomitable warriors. Yet even in this book we’ll see how obscured mysteries are unfolding and “things hidden from the foundation of the world,” Matthew 13:35.

God isn’t calling just a privileged few, he’s calling people from all walks of life in every culture and background. Even if you thought there wasn’t a God, or that if there were, he wouldn’t choose you…

What if there is, and he would?

The author specializes in presenting biblical themes through practical, relevant, and interesting symbolisms.