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Category:
Spirituality
Publisher: Prof. Media Services Publishing
ISBN-10: 1594083991
Type: Fiction
Pages: 266
Copyright: March 8th, 2000
ISBN-13: 978920007
Price: $14.95 (eBook)
BOOK SUMMARY: Second Coming
“A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
In the catacombs beneath the Vatican, secret writings from Tibet are discovered by a dedicated papal priest, Father Jose Garcia. Garcia discovers Yeshua’s own hand foretelling of Jesus return in exactly 2000 years to reveal a truth long forgotten. The church decides to hide the message from its followers.
Meanwhile, in a lab near Notre Dame, in Paris, a lone scientist, Du Franklin, is carbon dating the Crown of Thorns. Few Christian’s realize that it still exist today and is shown to the public once a year, on Easter Sunday at Notre Dame.
Franklin is secretly participating in a project attempting to clone our Holy Savior. He smuggles the sacred DNA to his friends, cloning expert Jerry Watson and DNA specialist, Paul McGuire. They discover two sets of DNA on the sample. One set is used to clone Jerry Watson’s only child. The other DNA is given to an unsuspecting woman, Mary Hansen.
The possibility of “J2K” is discovered by the Vatican, and the following day, Du Franklin dies in a car accident and Jerry Watson’s office is ransacked, and he is killed. Jerry’s friend and colleague, Paul McGuire, disappears.
Mary Hanson’s only son, Joshua, grows up spiritually aware, and after high school, he goes on a quest through Europe. Josh falls in love in Paris, and quickly learns that young love can be fleeting. Returning home, he meets a beautiful yoga teacher to whom he is strangely attracted. Her name is Madeline Watson, daughter of Dr. Jerry Watson, who had cloned his daughter from the second set of DNA.
The rest of the book follows their discovery from whence they came and how they are going to use it to right the wrongs and change the world as we know it.
Joshua writes a book, Resurrection, If Christ Were Alive Today. In his book, however, he comes across as if he is the reincarnation of Jesus. This does not set well in the organized religious right.
Father Garcia, now heading a non-denominational church in Costa Rica, hears of Joshua’s claim, and is certain that he is the fulfillment of the prophecy for Yeshua’s return.
Summoned to the Vatican, Josh is required to explain his claim and is warned not to continue his blasphemous teachings. Instead, Joshua decides to go to Jerusalem to attempt to arbitrate their disputes. Things do not go as planned.
Deep below the sacred walls of the Vatican in a highly guarded section of the Holy City called the catacombs, a dedicated priest, Father Jose´ Garcia, stared at an ancient paper scroll in disbelief. The translation of the early Aramaic language into modern day English was slowly beginning to take shape, but now Garcia’s fingers began to shake with each new stroke of his pen.
Discovered by a man named Kando in Qumran, in 1947, this particular document had been acquired covertly by a representative of the Holy Church. Only those working in the catacombs knew the story of its acquisition. Kando had delivered four of the scrolls to the Syrian Monastery in Jerusalem and attempted to sell them to the Archimandrite of Saint Marle. When Kando showed up for the meeting, no one seemed to know anything about the appointment, and he was turned away at the gate. Returning to his shop with the scrolls, Kando met with a representative of the Holy Church in secrecy.
As far as the outside world knew, this particular scroll did not even exist. When this group of scrolls became the Pope’s pet project, the Catholic scholars of the Holy City had personally selected Garcia to handle the surreptitious discovery.
As with similar recordings, the parchment was brown with age, the markings in ancient Aramaic, and nothing distinguished its appearance from others that Garcia had encountered during his many years of making sense of such texts.
Proceeding purposely as he had what seemed like thousands of times before, Garcia sensed that this particular translation would shape up to be much different from all the others. At first, he was disappointed. The narrative contained basic stories about a small community of monks and their life in the monastery, but the most recent of them told of a new high priest amongst them, giving meticulous description of this “leader of men.” It told what it was like to hear him speak. Yet, nothing stood out as new or remarkable to Father Garcia.
He had begun the day expecting more of the same, but when he un-rolled a new section, his bushy eyebrows dipped low over dark brown eyes that narrowed in a moment of pure concentration. Obviously, this was in a different hand than the previous passage. This writing appeared more childlike. It was very odd for a non scholar to have been allowed to put such scribbling onto a master’s scroll.
As Garcia continued to stare at the scroll, a certain word caught his breath. There it was, in what seemed like a child’s handwriting, Yeshua, the name reported by so many scholars to be the true name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Repeatedly following the markings with his stubby fingers, while struggling to steady his pen hand, Garcia silently questioned the authenticity of what he was reading.
I, Yeshua of Nazareth...it read.
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