The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

In his first groundbreaking nonfiction book, now with updated content, New York Times best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg takes readers on an unforgettable journey through prophecy and current events into the future of Iraq after Saddam, Russia after Communism, Israel after Arafat, and Christianity after radical Islam. You won't want to miss Joel's exclusive interviews with Israeli, Palestinian, and Russian leaders, along with previously classified CIA and White House documents. New content includes the most up-to-date information since the hardcover release in 2006, a new poll about American attitudes toward the Middle East and prophecy, and transcripts of interviews conducted during the interview process for the Epicenter DVD-video.

The Gog Oracles' (Ezek 38-39) reuse of antecedent scripture is crucial to their purpose and meaning. The pattern of continuous allusion in the Gog Oracles reflects something more than a writer saturated with scriptural idiom. It is a practice of disciplined and deliberate reference to select texts on select themes. William A. Tooman shows that recognizing the volume and density of scriptural reuse within the Gog Oracles is indispensable for understanding these chapters' role within the book, its composition, and its place within Second Temple literature. A close examination of the methods, effects, and motives of scriptural reuse that are evident within the Gog oracles reveals that these chapters are a unified composition that was crafted as a supplement to a book of Ezekiel, in order to fill gaps in the book's message and to harmonize the book with other traditions of prophetic revelation.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the imaginary creatures found in legends, religions, folklore, oral history, and theologies around the world.

The characters Gog and Magog are well-known characters in all religious beliefs, albeit with different names. But the widest knowledge about them is found in the Islamic faith. In the Islamic faith, their names are Yecuc and Mecuc. Information about them is given in two suras of the last holy book, the Quran. In addition, the words of the last prophet Muhammad about them also give us information. However, both the verses in the Quran about them and what the Prophet Muhammad said do not contain clear information about who or what they are. Many books have been written to date about who they may be. However, there is no information in these books that goes beyond mythological stories. In this book, a different method was followed. The verses of Quran and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad were tried to be understood with scientific data. As you will read in the book, both what is reported in the verses and the words of the Prophet Muhammad, when examined with scientific data, it is seen that what is reported is one hundred percent the same as what happened in the past periods of the world. According to the Quran, near the Last Hour, the Gog and Magog will go down to earth again and continue to commit corruption. After this event, which is one of the signs of the apocalypse, the Last Hour process will be accelerated. This book is written with religious and scientific information in a simplicity that everyone can understand. As you will read in the book, the information given in the Quran sheds light on the future as well as the past.

"Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident, a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes--a land where old enemies are watching and waiting?"--]cProvided by publisher.