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Artist and screenwriter Brian Godawa used to revel in his ability to argue the truth of the gospel, often crushing his opponents in the process. In time, however, he began to realize that winning an argument about the logic of Christianity did not equal persuading people to follow Jesus. What was missing?

After four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites are prepared to enter the land of Canaan. There’s only one problem: It’s crawling with giants. They’re the Seed of the Serpent with many clans: Anakim, Rephaim, Zuzim and others. Two Israelites, Joshua and Caleb, have the faith to lead Israel against these monsters.

It’s A.D. 70. The abominable Roman armies surround the holy city of Jerusalem. The end is near. Famine, plagues and civil war tear the Jewish people apart from within. Christian doctor Alexander stays in Jerusalem to help the sick and wounded, as the evil apostate Jacob plans to murder him. Alexander’s wife Cassandra tries to leave the safety of her hidden city Pella to help her husband in Jerusalem, only to discover that she’s not safe from supernatural evil. And neither are her children.

There are so many Christians teaching outrageous speculation about End Times Bible prophecy these days. It’s enough to frustrate the serious Bible student. What if you found out most of it is simply mistaken? What if you found out that everything that modern prophecy pundits are looking for—the Rapture, the Tribulation, the Antichrist, The Beast—was not what they told you it was, but something different?

What was God doing between the Old and New Testaments? There was a four-hundred-year gap between the last Old Testament prophet and the New Testament arrival of Jesus Christ. It’s called the Intertestamental period. In that time period, there were some very significant things happening and they were related to the Bible and its prophecies as described by the prophet Daniel. This book explores some of the biblical and historical meaning of it all.

870 B.C. Israel. Beautiful Jezebel of Tyre marries King Ahab of Israel to bring peace in a time of war. But when Jezebel builds a temple of Baal in the heart of Israel, God’s prophet Elijah challenges her to a duel of deities. In the supernatural realm, spiritual warfare breaks out as the demonic Canaanite Watchers led by Baal battle to take the land back from the Archangels who protect the Remnant of Israel.

The most beloved story of Israel’s deliverer and the Exodus as you’ve never read it before in a novel. Fully biblical and fully researched in its ancient Egyptian context. A standalone novel of spiritual warfare, fatherhood and the triumph of love from the Bible. We all think we know the story: Moses adopted by Pharaoh, discovering his Hebrew identity, fleeing to Midian, falling in love with Zipporah and building a family. And then Moses being called by Yahweh to return to Egypt to face Pharaoh and bring his people out of slavery.

The Supernatural Story of Hanukkah. A supernatural epic novel about the Abomination of Desolation predicted by the Bible prophet Daniel that was fulfilled in the books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha. This is Part 1 of 2 novels. In Israel, reluctant Jewish mercenary warrior Judah Maccabee falls in love with a beautiful and passionate Greek convert to Judaism, Sophia. They marry and settle down to start a family around Judah’s four brothers and their father in Jerusalem.

Respected Christian author Brian Godawa shares the Biblical, ancient historical and mythical research that undergirds the stories behind his best-selling novel series, Chronicles of the Watchers, Bible stories retold through a supernatural lens of the ancient Hebrew worldview.

Best-selling Christian author Brian Godawa examines Psalm 82 to reveal its fascinating storyline of the Sons of God who surround the heavenly throne. They’re more than just angels. Way more. This booklet is author Godawa’s biblical proof for the narrative he follows in his two best-selling series Chronicles of the Nephilim and Chronicles of the Apocalypse.

It’s 220 B.C. The ancient Western Empire is crumbling. In a desperate bid to save his throne, the Greek king over Babylon sends his son, Antiochus, a dishonored warrior, into the mysterious land of the Far East to capture a mythical creature that will give him absolute power: a dragon. What Antiochus finds is beyond his imagination.

The isle of Patmos, 66 A.D. Roman warrior Severus is ordered by evil Nero Caesar to kill his target, the Apostle John. But he is torn between his loyalty to Caesar and to the Christians who saved his life, Alexander and Cassandra. When they learn the true meaning of the scroll of Revelation, they journey to Jerusalem to warn the Christians, only to find themselves caught up in a Jewish revolt led by fiery Zealots.

It’s A.D. 67. Nero’s Roman armies plunder the land of Israel, led by General Vespasian and his son Titus, whose ruthless strategy threatens his affair with Jewish princess Berenice. Christians Alexander and Cassandra return to Jerusalem to help the sick, wounded and orphans of war. But they are opposed by the apostate Jacob, who hates Christians and wants to make them suffer.

After the Great Flood, the giant king Nimrod builds the Tower of Babel and unites the world in rebellion against the Creator. But God has other plans. He chooses a simple nomad Abraham as next in the line of the Seed of Promise. So Nimrod sets out to find Abraham and kill him in order to thwart God’s plan forever.

Alexander, a Jewish doctor loyal to Rome, has his life turned upside down when the evil emperor Nero Caesar launches a horrific persecution of Christians. When Nero discovers that an apostle has written a secret apocalypse about the end of the world, he orders a Roman warrior to hunt down the scroll, destroy it, and kill the author. But a bold Christian woman named Cassandra holds a dark secret that opens the door to a world of spiritual warfare they’re not ready to face.

In the ancient world after the Flood, the sons of Noah fill the earth. Wickedness reigns. One giant warrior king named Gilgamesh sets out on an epic journey to seek eternal life in a land filled with death. Accompanied by his only friend, the wild-man Enkidu, his quest takes them from a giant’s forest, to the mountain of the gods, to the Path of the Sun in the Underworld…

You’ve heard the Bible story of Moses and Pharaoh, the Ten Plagues, the Exodus, the parting of the Red Sea and the Ten Commandments. Now explore the spiritual world behind the story. It’s even more supernatural than you first thought. Written by respected Christian writer Brian Godawa, author of When Giants Were Upon the Earth, about supernatural strange things in the Bible and the unseen realm.

The Abomination of Desolation in the Bible has two fulfillments in history. One in the days of the Maccabees and one future to that time. But when? And who? Respected Christian author Brian Godawa answers those questions in a way sure to shock you with the biblical truth from the prophet Daniel and Jesus. And it’s not what the prophecy merchants are telling you.

The Supernatural Story of Hanukkah. A supernatural epic novel about the Abomination of Desolation predicted by the Bible prophet Daniel that was fulfilled in the books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha. This is Part 2 of 2 novels. After the story in Part 1, Judah Maccabee now leads a growing force of Jewish guerrilla freedom fighters in Israel against the ruthless Greek forces of Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes. Judah takes a beautiful Greek princess hostage. Her name is Laodice V, and she hates her uncle the king.

Noah Primeval is a speculative retelling of the beloved story of Noah for a new generation. In an ancient world submerged in darkness, fallen angels rule as gods, and breed giants and monsters. Mankind is enslaved to evil. Noah, a tribal leader, has been prophesied to bring an end to the rule of these "gods" and save humanity from coming destruction. But Noah's wife and son are captives of these dark forces.