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    Battlefield Heaven: Genesis
    Battlefield Heaven: Genesis
    Battlefield Heaven: Genesis
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    Battlefield Heaven: Genesis

    By Michael Charles

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    Lucifer was decimated in the first war in heaven, but now harnessing the power of mortal sin, he has launched a second war on The Host of heaven, except this time human, sin is so great that his forces are so powerful that they now threaten to bring down the gates of heaven. Now God has to do something he swore he would never do because now all of creation depends on it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMay 7, 2015
    ISBN9781503568563
    Battlefield Heaven: Genesis
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    Michael Charles

    Knowing God was a foundation that sustained Michael, the Kenya farm boy, from a young age. At boarding school, as a Pommie jackeroo in outback NSW and subsequent trials in marriage, news reporting and finally becoming an ordained clergyman.Praying to God, the Father, was an anchor which repeatedly gave strength to endure many trials. Michael - nicknamed "Wire Whiskers" when he tried to grow his first moustache - was not religious, but instinctively turned to the Almighty when there was nowhere else to go.Whiskers was born in Nakuru, Kenya, six weeks after his father had disappeared to serve his country in World War II. His genteel English mother was left to care for him on a remote cattle farm, surrounded by the Kipsigis, lions, leopards and Alsatian dogs.Being more inclined to be a writer than a farmer, stirred by his mother's creative talents, Whiskers sailed to the Land Downunder, alone, to discover for himself the path he should follow. Having experienced work on a sheep station, riding rough bush horses, he returned to Sydney and an uncertain future. Learning the hard way, he battled his way into a career as a newspaper reporter, starting on the Sydney Daily Telegraph.Sacked repeatedly as he developed the required skills, and marrying his red-headed shorthand teacher - his second wife and the daughter of a police inspector with convict ancestry.Together, Michael and his wife travelled overseas, working in Rhodesia for two years before heading for England where the ambitious young journo dreamed of landing a job in Fleet Street, an international icon of journalistic excellence and achievement. On the way, they visited Jerusalem, bumping into a group of Christian pilgrims, an experience which changed their lives radically. They become born again Christians and Whiskers finally left journalism, after three years of sub-editing in London. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in NSW, an unconventional preacher of the Gospel who didn't fit well with conservative traditions.Whiskers and his wife produced three sons, one of whom became a drug addict, dying or a heroin overdose. Faith in God continued to sustain them in their grief and sundry other trials.

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