Quickening Dreams

“It would be

unbelievable,

if history did not

record the tragic

fact, that men

have gone to war

and cut each

other’s throats

because they

could not agree

as to what was

to become of

them after their

throats were cut.”

Quickening Dreams

Quickening Dreams

Synopsis

Description:

An intense beginning to an exciting new series, Deceiving the Elect – Book 1: Quickening Dreams sets up the ultimate battle between good and evil for the control of the entire world. A war thousands of years old on this planet, much more ancient in the vast cosmos. Guillotines in America, alien abductions and a proliferation of UFO invasions, what is happening has all been prophesied, and as love in the world grows cold, the quickening dreams may be the last bastion of reason in an increasingly insane world.

Publisher's Comments:

The story of a fellowship of world-weary people who hear the call of the still small voice, the call to a mystical quickening, their hearts and minds opening to the Ancient of Days and the whisper of Truth. It is also the tale of Jehovah’s Army (JA), a powerful new spiritual, political and mercenary juggernaut, forcefully shepherding all religions into one ecumenical force, marching under the banner of Christ. The first goal of JA: take back America for Jesus, and the next? Ultimately, the world. These men of God will usher in a new golden age of peace, under a new world order, where an anointed one will rule the world with a rod of iron. As the world sinks further into madness, a group of people brought together by the need for truth must stop religious fascism from taking control of the world in the new novel, Deceiving the Elect – Book 1: Quickening Dreams. Author Douglas Christian Larsen presents the first of a seven-part series about a new human revolution of the mind.

Set in a world that mirrors the present social climate, the first novel begins as a small group of unrelated people find themselves questioning all modernized dogma of organized religions after hearing a “still small voice” that wakens them in their dreams. World-weary ex-boxer Stacey Colton teeters on the edge of suicide until he hears the voice, which at first only seems to bring him trouble, leading him into an auto accident, which lands him in jail. On the other end of the accident, Bronte Chaplin, a music prodigy and dual victim of both a mind-control cult and an abusive ex-boyfriend, makes a prayer for the man of her dreams. Seconds later she is involved in an accident with Stacey. Instead of accepting his smiling face, she flees the scene.

Joshua Bouwer and Michael Potok are roommates and Sunday school teachers who have been searching 10 years for the “perfect church” to no avail. The two men are polar opposites. Joshua is a sloppy, seven-foot tall giant covered with a long beard and mountains of flesh. Michael is a small neat freak who has been shriveled by disease and childhood violence. Questioning whether there is a God, the two begin a Web site that investigates the teachings of false prophets and religious extremists. This work directly affects the Jehovah’s Army, a fascist group of religious extremists. Believing they were mandated by God to wage war on “the pagans,” the army is commanded by an anointed one to create a global Christian theocracy that punishes the smallest infraction with swift, Old Testament justice. Buddy Nicodemus is a fervent soldier in this army who fervently lusts to stop these heretics, but his first confrontation with Stacey proves it is not going to be an easy task for either side to win.

Author Comments:

How is it possible that intelligent, well-rounded, clear-thinking people can end up deathly silent on bunkbeds at Heaven's Gate, reduced to ashes at Waco, or a member of a New Age stadium-sized "mega church" robotically repeating whatever grade-school mantra they are commanded to chant? The "Deceiving the Elect" series explores how it is possible, that even the "elect" can be deceived, when they are willing to check in their intellect at the door, and invest their trust in a charismatic personality, and how the very best place for a cult to hide is right out in the open, bright-tailed and bushy-eyed, every Sunday morning. Conspiracy theories, whispers of illuminati and an ancient intelligence that has set in motion a 175-year deception to dazzle the entire world -- to deceive, if possible, the very elect of God. Would you utterly lose your faith in the Truth if millions of people suddenly vanished from our world? Christ warned, implicitly: "DO NOT BE DECEIVED."

Author Bio(s):

Douglas Christian Larsen resides in Colorado with his wife and their three youngest children. Deceiving the Elect – Book 1: Quickening Dreams is his debut novel. For more information, visit his Web site at:

www.deceivingtheelect.net.

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The world grows darker, children kill parents and parents kill children, extremists from all religions dream of spilling innocent blood to receive glory and honor from their deity.

Something is waking, can't you feel it? A universal waking, circling the globe, as people from all traditions, all creeds, all colors, all classes, all religions, suddenly begin to look up, to ask questions, to wonder, to yearn for something more than what this world has to offer. The wolves in sheep's clothing, leering from the television, demand "send in your seeds," so you can be rich, wealthy beyond your wildest fantasies, that you can have everything your carnal heart has lusted and craved for, anything it has ever desired, all in the Name of Christ.

But you sense there is something deeper, don't you? That there is a thing available to you - there must be - that is far more valuable than money, than gold or plastic credit cards; something more permanent and more worthy. People are waking with a desire in their soul, for more than the shallow, more than the shadow, so much more than the carnal "spirituality" pushed like drugs on the psuedo-religious channels. People are waking to the call of Reality. It is all around you, even now, surrounding you every moment of the day, even now.

Stacey Colton, ground-down ex-boxer and struggling artist, on the point of suicide, hears this call, and as a last whim answers this Quickening, accepts a future. And Stacey is brought to life! Others are answering this call, the gentle giant Joshua; musical prodigy Bronte; and beautiful of face and yet twisted of body Michael. Propelled into the mysterious ways of God, they at once become the stumbling block to the new movement of Christianity, a sect purchasing political power, bearing the banner Jehovah's Army. And although these four desperate people are in more danger than they could have ever imagined, they are filled with quickening life, unlike anything they have ever tasted!

Sheep or goats, people respond to the Quickening Dreams in one of two ways, either into a quietly transforming stream of power, or into a loud and flashy materialism. Does peace grow within you, hope and love? Or does a consuming blaze build in your breast, with a lust for fire, and screams, and terror in the night?

Book One of Seven

Quickening Dreams

is just the beginning of

Deceiving the Elect.

Is it even possible?

To deceive the elect of God?

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“It would be

unbelievable,

if history did not

record the tragic

fact, that men

have gone to war

and cut each

other’s throats

because they

could not agree

as to what was

to become of

them after their

throats were cut.”

- Walter P. Stacy

Deceiving

the Elect

BOOK 1:

Quickening

Dreams

"Man is not an arithmetical expression; he is a mysterious and puzzling being, and his nature is extreme and contradictory all through."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!"

- Corrie ten Boom

"It it weren't

for Christians,

I'd be a Christian."

- Mahatma Ghandi

“Aim at heaven

and you get

earth thrown in.

Aim at earth and

you get neither.”

- C.S. Lewis

"The clergy

converted the

simple teachings

of Jesus into an

engine for

enslaving

mankind and

adulterated

by artificial

constructions

into a contrivance

to filch wealth

and power to

themselves...

these clergy,

in fact, constitute

the real

Anti-Christ."

- Thomas Jefferson

"How much more forcefully

can I say it? The time has

come, and it is long

overdue, when Christians

and conservatives and

all men and women who

believe in the birthright of

freedom must rise up

and reclaim America

for Jesus Christ."

- D. James Kennedy

"If all mankind had been

righteous and only

one man a sinner,

Christ would have come

to endure the same cross

for this one man.

He so loves

every individual."

- St. Augustine

"These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans. Its outline is rather simple, if bizarre: Once Israel has occupied the rest of its 'biblical lands,' legions of the Antichrist will attack it, triggering a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. As the Jews who have not been converted are burned, the messiah will return for the rapture. True believers will be lifted out of their clothes and transported to heaven, where, seated next to the right hand of God, they will watch their political and religious opponents suffer plagues of boils, sores, locusts and frogs during the several years of tribulation that follow."

- Bill Moyers

“Fascism should

more appropriately

be called

Corporatism

because it is a

merger of

state and

corporate power”

- Benito Mussolini

“The more there

are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"All things

truly wicked

start from an

innocence."

- Ernest Hemingway

The spirit that I have seen

may be a devil, and the

devil hath power t'assume

a pleasing shape, yea,

and perhaps,

Out of my weakness and

my melancholy, As he

is very potent with

such spirits, abuses me

to damn me.

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."

- Albert Einstein

"It is infinite, unique;

there are no words,

there are no comparisons. Can one scoop up the sea

in a teacup? Those who

have known God will

understand me; the others,

I find, can neither listen nor

understand. There was a

Person with me in that

room, directly present to

my consciousness --