Rock of Ages 4: The Story of Man

By Toussaint H. E. Brown

In this post-apocalyptic conclusion of the Rock Of Ages series we follow the lives of seven humans as they experience the joys of their new lives as immortal royalty and the sorrows of the responsibilities that come with their new inheritance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312673885

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Rock of Ages 4: The Story of Man

Rock of Ages IV:

The Story Of Man

TOUSSAINT H. E. BROWN

© 2014 Toussaint Brown. All rights reserved.

ISBN 978-1-312-67388-5

Message From The Author

Matthew 25:23 - KJV

"...Well done, good and faithful servant;

thou hast been faithful over a few things..."

We all have a purpose. God has given us all talents and skills to use for the purpose of spreading the gospel message. It is nothing to be afraid of. But an incredible responsibility that we all share.

God has given me all the skills and talents I need to tell you a story. Our story. Yes, this book is Bible Fiction, meaning the details of the story are fictitious. But it is based on Biblical facts (despite how improbable it may seem.)

It is my simple hope that, after reading this book, you too might study the events to come, for yourself.

May God bless you in your endeavor to write your own story.

Books of Reference:

Rock Of Ages Series

The Rock Of Ages (ROA) series was created to encourage further study into the war of The Great Controversy

and the post-war new life promised by God as an inheritance to the followers of Christ. The author’s mission was

to unveil the unseen truths and possibilities of the war between Christ and the devil, and reignite the study of the

end times.

The ROA series is made up of four eras. The first era is illustrated in the book ROA1: The Great Controversy.

It depicts the events of the war before man’s arrival. Both the following books, ROA2: The Bible and ROA3: Modern World, illustrate events during the war with mankind’s involvement. The Story of Man is the last book in the

ROA series and depicts the events following the second coming of Christ and the conclusion of the war between

the ultimate powers of good and evil. All books carry the storylines of multiple characters even as they interact

with each other.

The Story of Man focuses on the lives of seven humans as they are inevitably reintroduced into the great war at the time of the second coming of Christ. The book continues to follow the lives of these characters as they live and grow in Heaven, The New Jerusalem and the New Earth.

At the end of the book the author chose to continue following the lives of the saved characters for a few more years. The purpose of this was to give his audience a mere peak into the possibilities of what the newly restored Earth

could be like.

The Author

The Rock Of Ages series was created and written by Toussaint H. E. Brown. Brown was born into a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian home. He remained faithful to the denomination, while growing up, because of its mission of adherence to the whole Word of God as rendered by the Bible.

From his youth, Brown was enthralled by stories and interpretations of Heaven as told by the Adventist children’s books provided by the church. Prior to his teen years, he began studying the culture of Heaven and the New Earth through study guides commonly found in Bibles. He also began to study the visions of Ellen G. White but decided to only use the Bible as reference as it is the standard of undeniable truth by any Christian believer.

After his baptism at age 14, Brown expanded his studies to include the events that lead to the fall of man and theories of Earth’s origin, both biblical and scientific. After years of wrestling with his research he developed a theory with which to this day he continues to investigate.

In 2003, after Brown discovered a possible sequence of events to explain the great controversy prior to Earth’s creation, The ROA series was conceived. Its purpose to this day is to provide new perspective and visual interpretations to the history, present and future of the war between the Great Good and the great evil.

Chapter 1 - August 17, 2014

Peter Hartly

August 13, 1988 - August 17, 2014

Through the blurry squint of his eyes he slowly awakens. The heavy feeling of a deep sleep is slowly replaced by the constant feeling of elevation and euphoria.

What happened? he asks himself as he struggles to find stability.

With every blink of his eyes, his vision becomes more acute. But what he sees fails to offer logic to his current circumstance. What seems to be a swarm of rising stars convince Peter Hartly that he is in a dream.

You are not dreaming, states a gentle voice nearby.

He twists and turns and yet finds himself rising faster and faster towards the darkened sky slightly illuminated by the rising stars. The source of the mysterious voice eludes him. His eyes regain their focus.

No! he claims in utter disbelief. It can’t be!

Just before he enters the thickening of a cloud, he captures a glimpse of the true nature of the stars rising from the surface.

The feeling in his extremities return, and yet something has changed. But that does not distract him from learning the truth of his theory. Constantly increasing in altitude he manages to orbit his body to steal a glance of what was quickly fading beneath him.

Terra Firma! The planet Earth, covered in darkness and arrayed in destruction. What once was the bright blue pride of the universe has now been reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland.

All of man’s creations have been destroyed. Mountains have been removed and reduced to dust. Islands and continents have been quaked from their resting place. The geography of the known world has been refaced by mayhem. A plague of smoke traverses the earth’s surface as wild fires contend for whatever greenery is left.

This is it, he says to himself as he continues to elevate farther and farther away from the only life he has ever known.

In a mournful rebuke he turns towards the sky where, just beyond the clouds, a bright light is receiving what once appeared to be rising stars, but can now clearly be seen as the last survivors of the human race.

Jennifer Huxley

April 21, 1939 - August 17, 2014

What’s happening nana? the young Huxley yells as he runs through the field towards his grandmother.

She leaps from her chair on the porch in a panic. Come, come to me quickly!

But before the young boy could get through the old picket fence he was gone. Now surrounded by violent winds, relentless earthquakes and erupting fires, the elderly Jennifer Huxley clutches to a pillar on the porch and begins to pray in a last act of desperation. The air plagued with smoke and ash, the distant atmosphere above the cloud set a blaze by a majestic bright light. She clutches her eyelids filled with tears as the winds scream in agony.

"Our Father,

Who art in heaven…

Hollowed be Thy name,

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will…

…be done."

She slowly releases the grip of her eyelids to steal a glimpse of the moment. Her eyes strengthened in sight. Everything has changed. The sounds of the earth’s torment and all its elements howling in misery echo beneath her from a distance. She is no longer in the midst of the rampaging storm that continues to plunder the earth.

She slowly looks around at what she now recognizes to be people as far as the eye could see, rising to the brightly lit cloud overseeing the event. She whispers a prayer of thanks and sheds a tear of joy. Her curiosity begs her to turn around to catch a glimpse of what remains of the vanquished world she once knew. But the thought of her mother’s warning keeps her focused.

When the day comes, don’t look back.

Matthew Dougan

April 21, 1975 - August 17, 2014

Run Run, Run! he tells himself. Whatever you do don’t look back! Follow the crowd!

Towers and monuments continue to crumble before his eyes.

Terrorists! he convinces himself. The anger building as he runs faster fighting through the crowd, pushing an elderly man to the ground.

It’s every man for himself!

He begins to climb over the remnants of a fallen office building. What once was the prized metropolitan downtown area was slowly reverting to a rocky uninhabitable form.

His freshly dry cleaned suit tears across the right shoulder on an exposed wire protruding from the rubble. He slips on a pile of loose concrete, twists his left ankle and falls down the broken cement. Battered, bruised and covered in dust he pleas for help as the ever growing crowd passes him by.

His anger consumes him as he summits the rubble hobbling on one leg. He lifts his fist to the air and curses the sky. A monstrous plague of smoke consumes the sky from the north and is heading south. He begins to shed tears of frustration as he scans the panoramic view of chaos terrorizing the city.

He composes himself. Matthew Dougan does not get beat!

He tears the right arm off of his suit and ties it around his ankle for support. He discovers a nearby plank of wood with which to steady himself as he