THE GOD MAN by Bruce Biller

THE GOD MAN, SEED OF SATAN

THE GOD MAN, RAPTURE, WRATH AND REIGN

By Bruce Biller

These two volumes form one novel. I read it to gain a perspective on possible scenarios for the time of the end. These are told from a Prewrath point of view, and being a Prewrather, I appreciate that. Bruce Biller does well to incorporate a great deal of direct scripture references into the story. The approach to the conversion of the Jews is quite good. They remain blinded to the truth until the very end, until they say “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” It was enjoyable on the level of a fleshed out scenario for the end-times, but did not work well as a novel.

CONS (All notes from book 2)

Bruce Biller demonstrates his lack of understanding on the method of salvation when he depicts all the children under the “age of accountability” being taken in the rapture, including those with unbelieving parents. He clearly does not understand the concept of Original Sin whereby all are deserving of condemnation unless achieving saving knowledge. He must believe that all “innocent” children are saved until they get older.

(Location 2941) “Young children, that is, anyone unable to understand right from wrong, were also gathered to Jesus in the rapture and will forever enjoy God’s  presence.”

(Location 3589) “Children had vanished)

Some of the people receive the mark of the beast on their LEFT hand, when the scripture indicates the forehead or the RIGHT hand.

The cast of characters is quite large and scant time is devoted to making any of them seem to be real people. Very little of the action is presented using dialog. Most of the novel is explanatory, delivered by a third person narrator. This distances the reader from the characters. The people do not seem real.

The Jews are converted through dreams and visions.

A Calvinist understanding would not require such mystical means but would allow for God to remove the blinders from their eyes.

(Location 367)

The 144,000 are characterized as being Jewsih evangelists. This is one of the errors made by Pretribulationists who must have them be evangelists to account for the “Great Multitude” of martyrs supposedly saved after the rapture. Prewrathers do not need to have such a force of Jewish Evangelists because this “Great Multitude” represents the Church.

He uses Arminian terminology throughout.

(Location 360) “Christ’s death and resurrection made possible our salvation.”

Some of the people who take the mark of the beast feel remorse at doing so. As if it will be possible to accidentally align yourself with the Antichrist and be damned to Hell.

(Location 1134) “Some sympathetic business owners, at great risk to themselves and their families, compensated the unmarked  by providing food and  commodities in exchange for their labor.” (See also location 2195)

 Many of the Fifth Seal martyrs are shot by firing squad when Revelation only states that they will be beheaded. (Location 1487, 1986)

Universal Atonement is espoused (Location 1788) “Atonement had been made for the sins of the human race.”

After the end of Daniel’s 70^th Week Biller still has the Jews waiting to Make an Atonement for iniquity. Surely this must happen within the framework of Daniel’s 70 Weeks.

(Location 5073) “It had been a little more than seven years since the Antichrist had signed the Treaty of Babylon.”