The 6th Seal, by J. M. Emanuel, is part manhunt, part biblical saga, part mystery, and part revelation of scripture’s hidden secrets that will keep you turning pages.
When Satan clones himself, laying the groundwork for his control of the Earth, a Vatican official, Angelo Sarvitorri, is given the job of protecting Satan’s secret in return for a vaunted position under Satan’s rule. But word leaks out, falling into the hands of an old priest, Father Gudino, and two of his followers. They must expose Satan’s doppelganger so that the truth of Christ’s ultimate return can be revealed. In the process, the decisive battle of good versus evil plays out with humanity caught in the middle. The 6th Seal is a terrifying tale of apocalypse, as well as a story of resurrection and faith that dares to explore an alternative perspective on Biblical apocalyptic doctrine.
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Using the Book of Revelation as a guide, Author Emanuel proposes a different timeline for Christ’s return and envisions a world two decades into the future in which Christians are present on Earth for its final days. J.M. Emanuel, Author
Genre: Fiction/Thriller
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In the midst of tribulation and in the face of the Antichrist, Father Gudino, Jason and Maggie escape from their homes in the mountains of central Arizona and travel across the desert southwest, through Imperial Valley, California and across the border into Mexicali, Baja Calidornia in hopes of finding a safe haven from which they can promote God’s message warning of a great deception and prepare mankind for the real return of Christ.
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Set two decades in the future, The 6th Seal follows three righteous rebels—Father Gudino, Maggie and
Jason—as they fight against a frightening new world order led by a charismatic anti-Christ. The book recalls another recent piece of apocalypto-fiction: Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins’s Left Behind. Both works
endeavor to depict the end of the world in modern narrative and both take as their template the biblical book of Revelation. Despite its jaw-dropping sales numbers, though, Left Behind isn’t very good—by turns
didactic and preachy, the series never transcends its poorly hidden proselytism. Not so with The 6th Seal. Emanuel’s book is similarly dogmatic—and hence probably appeals most to Christian conservatives—but he holds his religious cards closer to his chest
and lets the story unfold without unnecessary sermonizing. Further, Emanuel’s book ironically benefits from his background as a military man.
The end of the world is war, and war is hell. Thus the author—a former paratrooper—is able to infuse the military movements with a genuine
energy that ratchets up the intensity of the book’s frequent action sequences. But that’s not all. Emanuel fancies himself an amateur hermeneute,
and Seal purports to expound an “alternative perspective on the Biblical apocalyptic doctrine” which Emanuel calls “the Harvest.” In brief,
many fundamentalist Christians believe that the faithful will be whisked away before the end of days and spared the violence of the last times, in the infamous “Rapture.” Emanuel’s Harvest, by contrast, keeps the faithful on earth through the first movements of the Revelation story, forcing them to endure some of that painful progress. Both theories are extremely speculative. However, in Emanuel's story it makes great fodder for his fiction. The end of the world never read so well.
Christian News Wire
First-time author J.M. Emanuel questions the fundamentalist's view of the timing of Christ's second coming in The 6th Seal
IMPERIAL, Calif., Nov. 25 /Christian Newswire/ -- In The 6th Seal, author J.M. Emanuel suggests that the belief that faithful Christians will be whisked away before the end of days and spared its violence could be the greatest deception to ever come upon the world.
J.M. Emanuel received the Gold Award for Religious Fiction from the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards for his novel The 6th Seal that proposes a different timeline for Christ's return and envisions a world two decades into the future in which Christians are present on Earth for its final days.
In The 6th Seal, Satan has cloned himself, laying the foundation for his rule on Earth, and it is up to an old priest, Father Gudino, and his two followers, Jason and Maggie, to bring the secret identity of Satan's spawn to light and reveal the truth to the world. In the midst of tribulation and in the face of the Antichrist, Father Gudino, Jason and Maggie must promote God's message warning of a great deception and prepare mankind for the real return of Christ.
Kirkus Discoveries recognizes the book as "a Christian novelist's taut, exciting and fictional rendering of the march toward Armageddon. The end of the world never read so well." Emanuel hopes to shed light on what he believes is the grand delusion that the Bible says will happen when the world comes to an end. "I want readers to consider the possibility that Christ may not come until after the Antichrist, but my intent is to encourage people to read the Bible for themselves and draw their own conclusions."
For more information, members of the press can contact the author at jmemanuel@yahoo.com or at 760-996-1806. The 6th Seal is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Born in Long Island, N.Y., J.M. Emanuel is a former paratrooper and paramedic who completed his education with a master's degree in business administration. After working 25 years in the emergency medical services, he continued his career in healthcare and education. An ardent student of biblical prophecy and eschatology, Emanuel currently resides in California with his wife and three children.
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