A Broken Paradise (The Windows of Heaven Book 3)

Book 3 of
The Windows of Heaven

A Novel Series by K.G. Powderly Jr.

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Original version Copyright © 2004 by K.G. Powderly Jr.

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Dedication

For Shannyn and her husband Wes: No father could be more proud of his daughter, and no man could hope for a better son-in-law, who held up my right hand, as Hur did for Moses when under attack
For my granddaughter, Laurelin Mae Jordan—grow strong and courageous in Christ, Mini-Mae!

For Jim Cline, who held up my other hand as Aaron did in the heat of battle

For Rob Mullin, without whose help and encouragement this whole project would not rise like the Phoenix

For young Katarina and for Mary Jean, may your broken paradises, as very different from one another’s as evening is from morning, be transformed
for you by our Father’s kindness and mercy
For the Promised Seed—the suffering servant, wonderful counselor, mighty God, and the once and future King who waits to welcome us with those who are willing at Time’s End

Acknowledgements

Chapter epigraphs appear from the following books with thanks and respect:


All Bible quotations not from the
King James Version
(KJV) or
Revised Standard Version
(RSV) come from the New King James Version (NKJV) © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.


R.H. Charles –
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
© 1913 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Plato,
Critias
, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Harvard Classics, ©1909–14


Slavonic Enoch
(
2 Enoch
) Translated by W.R. Morphill, M.A.


Ethiopic Enoch
(
1 Enoch
) Translated by Richard Laurence, LL.D in
The Book of Enoch the Prophet
, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co. (1883)

Paul C. Vitz,
Psychology as Religion
, © 1977 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2nd edition © 1994 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Paternoster Press

C.S. Lewis,
The Pilgrim’s Regress
, © 1933 by Clive Staples Lewis, reprinted by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1979


Judd H. Burton,
Encyclopedia Mythica
,
Judaic Mythology
,
Nephilim
, © copyright 1995 - 2004
Encyclopedia Mythica
. All rights reserved. On-line at http://www.pantheon.org/


John Woodmorappe,
Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study
, © 1996 ICR


Henry M. Morris,
The Long War Against God
, © 1989 Baker

Lynn E. Catoe,
UFOs and Related Subjects
: USGPO, 1969; prepared under AFOSR Project Order 67-0002 and 68-0003


Dr. Jaques Vallee,
Confrontations
, © 1990, Ballentine Books

Norman Wirzba,
Caring and Working: An Agrarian Perspective
, The Christian Century, 116:25, September 21-28, 1999, pp. 898-901


John Ankerberg and John Weldon,
The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena
, © 1992 by Harvest House Publishers

Table of Contents

Introduction

1: Shrine
11

2: Moon Goddess
29

3: Armistice
47

4: Tactics
69

5: Brothers
83

6: Aeden
95

7: Architecture
113

8: Campaign
129

9: Colossus
145

10: Guides
167

11: Encounters
183

12: Cause and Effect
205

13: Minstrel
223

14: Union
241

15: Offerings
255

16: Drydock and Flood-Haven
283

17: Barque of Aeons
307

Epilogue
323

Appendix:
A Chronology of the World-that-Was

Glossary of People and Terms
(Revised for Book 3)

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

—
Matthew
24:37-39 NKJV