The Pioneers

Imagine you could live 1000 years in utopian world. Not in a desolate

world depicted in apocalyptic novels, but in a renewed world ruled

by a benevolent King, the Lord Jesus Christ, from the restored nation

of Israel. There would be long life, abundance, health and safety from

accidents and nature, world peace and social justice.

Who will live in such a world? The Old Testament prophets and

New Testament apostles describe an imminent 7-year period of

total world chaos in which God concludes this current age with a

prolonged series of physical trials for all mankind. It is alternately

called the Time of Jacob’s Trouble or the Great Tribulation, and

depicts a test of allegiance to a malevolent, demonically empowered

individual named the Beast or Antichrist, or to God. You can read

the details in St. John’s description in Revelation 4-20.

Christian believers will have disappeared prior to these events in

what is commonly called the Rapture. Those left behind must

endure this Tribulation period with two possible outcomes. If they

call upon God for salvation and are martyred, they return with

immortal bodies to help the King rule and reign His Kingdom. If

they survive, they must travel to Israel to be judged by the King. If

found worthy, they will enter the Millennial Kingdom as pioneers

to recreate a new world as depicted in the first novel of this series:

Commencement.

In this Kingdom, Satan and his demonic entities will be bound to not

foment chaos, but human nature will be unchanged. It will manifest

the three primal sins of greed, lust and pride. This story examines

how greed might infect a society in the new nation of Cascadia.

You might be there! The events are hypothetical, but how would

you react?