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Get Your Glimpse of the Future – Advent 14

Get Your Glimpse of the Future – Advent 14 Part of your 25 Gifts to Christmas. Dig into your free excerpt of The Revelation Devotional. My book goes on sale from December 15th to 22nd, 2024.

Check out my past Advent gifts listed below, next to the back cover of The Revelation Devotional.

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  1. Advent Day 1 – Get Your Free Copy of Secret Supers on Advent Day 1

2. Advent Day 2 – Grab Villain’s Vacation for 67% Off, For Advent Day 2

4. Advent Day 4 –Three Free Excerpts from Three Secret Supers Books – Advent 4

5. Advent Day 5 – Get Your Free Copy of My Most Popular Book–Advent Day 5

6. Advent Day 6 – Three Free Zombie Detective Excerpts – Advent 6

7. Advent Day 7 –Meet My Undead Mother-in-law My Gift for Advent 7

8. Advent Day 8 – Paranormal Privateers Is Your Wildest Ride — Get Your Excerpt

9. Advent Day 9 – Oops! You Get Double Gifts for Advent Days 9 and 10 – My Mistake

10. Advent Day 10 – Double Posts Double Your Gifts – Advent 10

11. Advent Day 11 – Laugh At Four Free Audiobook Excerpts – Advent 11

12. Advent Day 12 – Four More Free Audiobook Excerpts for Advent 12

13. Advent Day 13 – Your Thirteenth Gift of 25 Gifts – For Advent Day 13

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Get Your Glimpse of the Future – What Did John See in Heaven?

Enjoy your first excerpt, from The Revelation Devotional.

March 1 – Revelation 4:7


The four seraphim before God’s throne

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

Have you ever heard of creatures that looked like these in the Bible or outside?

Are any of these creatures pictured in the Temple or the Tabernacle?

Are any of these creatures shown in Eden? (Genesis 2-3)

Prayer: Father, thank You for giving us mysteries in the book of Revelation, in the Bible, and in the world. Through these puzzles, our minds will work and grow as we search out the why and how and what and when of Your creation. Amen.

The first creature was like a lion. A flying lion occurs in Daniel’s prophecy in Daniel 7. Another occurs in Ezekiel’s visions in Ezekiel 1:4-11. Ezekiel in 10:1 identifies these creatures as cherubim. This means they were in Eden in Genesis 3:24 and in the tabernacle and temple over the mercy seat above the Ark of God. Note these cherubim have four wings. That information will be important to remember with tomorrow’s verse.

Get Your Glimpse of the Future – A Prophecy

What prophecy is this? The first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! Check it out.

March 20 – Revelation 6:2

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The Four Horsemen

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

What did John see?

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What did the horseman do?

Prayer: All praise to You, Holy Father, and to Jesus our Revelator! You tell us what will happen before it happens. Thank You, Jesus, for not only revealing the future to us in Revelation but also in the gospels. Thank You for staying with Your church to the very end of the age and sustaining us through all persecution. Glory to You forever for Your triumph in the church! Amen.

A white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown. Some have thought this was a picture of Jesus.

Yet in Revelation 19:11-12 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns.

Jesus is portrayed on a white horse with many crowns. Revelation 19 takes place after His second coming. His second coming has not yet been mentioned in Revelation 6. Who can solve this mystery? Jesus Himself gives the future to the disciples.

Matthew 24:3-5 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?” 4 Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray”.

The first thing Jesus mentions are false messiahs, and the first seal is someone who looks like Jesus but is not.

Get Your Glimpse of the Future – Your Fourteenth Gift Concludes

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Your Thirteenth Gift of 25 Gifts – For Advent Day 13

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Your Thirteenth Gift of 25 Gifts – For Advent Day 13 of 25 Gifts to Christmas. Merry Christmas, you’ll enjoy this Christmasy excerpt from my non-fiction book, The Gospel Medley. My book goes on sale from December 15th to 22nd, 2024.

Check out my past Advent gifts listed below, next to the back cover of The Gospel Medley.

Your Twenty-Fourth Literary Gift
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  1. Advent Day 1 – Get Your Free Copy of Secret Supers on Advent Day 1

2. Advent Day 2 – Grab Villain’s Vacation for 67% Off, For Advent Day 2

4. Advent Day 4 –Three Free Excerpts from Three Secret Supers Books – Advent 4

5. Advent Day 5 – Get Your Free Copy of My Most Popular Book–Advent Day 5

6. Advent Day 6 – Three Free Zombie Detective Excerpts – Advent 6

7. Advent Day 7 –Meet My Undead Mother-in-law My Gift for Advent 7

8. Advent Day 8 – Paranormal Privateers Is Your Wildest Ride — Get Your Excerpt

9. Advent Day 9 – Oops! You Get Double Gifts for Advent Days 9 and 10 – My Mistake

10. Advent Day 10 – Double Posts Double Your Gifts – Advent 10

11. Advent Day 11 – Laugh At Four Free Audiobook Excerpts – Advent 11

12. Advent Day 12 – Four More Free Audiobook Excerpts for Advent 12

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For Advent Day 13 – What Happened Before Jesus Was Born?

Your Twenty-Fourth Literary Gift
The four icons of the four gospels

The Conception of Jesus

Luke 1:26–56; John 1:14

26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be. 30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’ 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father, David, 33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to His Kingdom[1].”

34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. 36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37 For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.”

14 The Word became flesh . . .

38 The angel departed from her. 39 Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, 40 and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

Your Thirteenth Gift: From The Gospel Medley, Mary and Elizabeth

41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 She called out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy! 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

46 And Mary said, “My soul doth magnify the Lord, 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. 48 For He hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. 49 For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His name. 50 And His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation. 51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. 53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich He hath sent empty away. 54 He hath helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy; 55 As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.”

56 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

[1] 2 Samuel 7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son.

Your Twenty-Fourth Literary Gift
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Your Thirteenth Gift Concludes

Gospel Medley cover spread

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Oops! You Get Double Gifts for Advent Days 9 and 10 – My Mistake

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Oops! You Get Double Gifts for Advent Days 9 and 10 – My Mistake. I meant to publish a post every day of Advent and give you something–but I missed yesterday. So, I’ll give you twice as much today!

My theme is Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse! which you can get by clicking here. It’ll be on sale for .99 from 12/15 to 12/22. But you want free stuff. Let’s first describe what you’re going to get:

Accidents happen. Especially around zombie turkeys. Then you add zombie humans, and problems proliferate. Mix in some ill-planned genetic engineering, and things get crazy.

The insanity continues, from the story where zombies are merged with cucumbers to the one where two basement-dwelling nerds gain access to all video content from the past two hundred years—from aliens.

Andy Zach pulls out all the stops on his imagination as he serves up this smorgasbord of silliness. Try it. Laughter is good for your soul

Oops! You Get Double Gifts! Short Stories Advent Days 9 and 10

Here are the chapter icons for Oops, with the main character’s introduction.

A queen from long ago

Oops! You Get Double Gifts

The Story of Sound

One queen saw the problem more clearly than anyone else. Her king and prince had both drowned only a short distance from the shore because no one saw them signing for help. The queen sat vigil all night long, and in the morning she sent heralds with large signs in every language to all the humans, elves, dwarves, fairies, leprechauns, and even a dragon. She pled with all to find something that would let creatures communicate without signs or gestures when they couldn’t see each other. She promised she would give whatever was in her power to whoever could accomplish this.

Andy Zach during his doctoral research – Your first free story A Phoenix Tale

Oops! My SciFi Oops! You Get Double Gifts
A Phoenix Tale

I left the air-conditioned comfort of the taxi, and the sights, sounds, and smells of the old bazaar in Jeddah assailed me: a robe-clad man on camel plodded by, an adjacent fishmonger added his smell to the fresh dung in the street, and the hawkers yelled their wares.

I could only speak Arabic at a middle school level, but as I strolled through the bazaar, I heard “Fresh dates!”…”Highest quality rugs!”…”Finest gold jewelry!”… “Ancient books! The rarest in Saudi Arabia!”

My head snapped around. A bald, stumpy man in a white caftan saw me look and said, “Books? You want ancient books?”

“Yes.” I spoke carefully, knowing my poor accent. “Can you speak English?” I didn’t have much hope.

“Of course, my friend. Come into my shop.”

Click for your free short story.

Brice Butterworth, a genetic engineer from Gift #2 – In a Pickle

Oops! You Get Double Gifts

Now, what was he going to do? Brice Butterworth’s boss just told him to double the productivity of Vegan Inc.’s pickle strain they used for their Kilwowski Pickle brand. That was completely impossible.

But keeping his job required it. Brice was the low man on the genetic engineering totem pole at Vegan Inc., the last one hired and the first one to be fired if another recession hit.

He couldn’t think. He couldn’t face this. So he cruised the internet. “The origin of zombie turkeys? I didn’t know they’d found that. Hmm, a Midley Beacon exclusive, the foremost zombie news source,” he read out loud.

Read more here: In a Pickle

Oops! You Get Double Gifts, Gift #3 – The Butterfly Effect

Oops! You Get Double Gifts

“Whatcha doing, Brice?” asked my boss Wilma O’Reilly after sneaking up behind me.

I jumped. As usual, I was cruising the internet, bored with my job. How awkward.

We worked at Vegan Inc., an agricultural conglomerate. I was their lead geneticist in charge of enhancing the qualities of the corporation’s vegetable products through genetic modification.

Read more here: The Butterfly Effect

Tell Me What you Think of Oops! You Get Double Gifts

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Move short stories to come in my next post! This is a double header!

Check out my past Advent gifts listed below:

  1. Advent Day 1 – Get Your Free Copy of Secret Supers on Advent Day 1

2. Advent Day 2 – Grab Villain’s Vacation for 67% Off, For Advent Day 2

4. Advent Day 4 –Three Free Excerpts from Three Secret Supers Books – Advent 4

5. Advent Day 5 – Get Your Free Copy of My Most Popular Book–Advent Day 5

6. Advent Day 6 – Three Free Zombie Detective Excerpts – Advent 6

7. Advent Day 7 –Meet My Undead Mother-in-law My Gift for Advent 7

8. Advent Day 8 – Paranormal Privateers Is Your Wildest Ride — Get Your Excerpt