Writing During the Last Days

By David Bergsland

With our deliverance in our near future, it's easy to procrastinate and get a little lazy. However, Christian author, this book is here to let you know that our Messiah has things for us to do. The bad news?

We can't leave until the Bride is complete

Yeshua [Jesus] is asking us to write and publish powerful Christian fiction to help get the remainder of the Bride saved and prepared for the Great Snatch. We can't leave until they're in the Bride.

This book is filled with tips and tricks about things like learning how to write under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, how to share transparently with your readers, what our Messiah expects from us, how much He's willing to help us in our writing, and much more.

The days of the Church are numbered. After we're gone, everything focuses on God's Chosen People, the Jews. The Church has been a two-millennia-long interlude where all Gentiles have been given an opportunity to join in the blessing of the Messiah by faith. The Age of the Gentiles is almost complete.

The King will eliminate the non-believing Gentiles and Satan's world system, simply known as the World. He will sit on His Throne in Jerusalem, ruling with a rod of iron. He will set forth the law, which will match up with what we know. As God in the [glorified] flesh, He has amazing power to rule. It's going to be nearly incredible.

We do not know how rebirth into a child of God will be handled in the Millennium. We know it will be a good solution—for the King of Kings is a Good God of Love. But all of that is above my pay grade.

What I know, The Lord has asked me to encourage believing authors to write outrageously powerful fiction which shows the Truth. The Truth is our Messiah. Ain't it a grand idea!

It's time to drop the fears of cancellation and concerns about sales, and focus on obedience to the Lord's call. He's assured me that he has it covered. All we need to do is seek Him, and follow His guidance.

Time is getting short, people!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Radiqx Press
• Release date: Dec 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201886639

David Bergsland

For me, my early life culminated with the great rebellion of the sixties. Ending up as a fine artist and heavy user of pot and acid, I needed help. I met Jesus in 1974, and my life began, for real. The Lord gave me an amazing Godly woman for my wife in 1976. I became a graphic designer, font designer, and desktop publisher. In 1991, I began teaching printing and digital publishing. That resulted in writing dozens of books and booklets about the practical processes, using InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. In 2009, I began the transformation into an author of fiction. By the end of 2022, I had 17 novels in five series, as I have developed my craft. This book is #20, and is the third book of the sixth series. I’m using Christian contemporary speculative fiction with some Biblical romance to share stories about the reality of how Jesus touches our day-to-day lives, while being strongly focused upon Biblical truth. I put the stereotypical Bible quoters in the same category as robo-callers. I attempt to reveal Jesus within a realistic world sharing my experiences. The goal is to reveal Jesus as a loving Creator building people into what they are designed to be. I currently assume time is running short, and the final harvest is here.

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Writing During the Last Days

Closing out the age of the Gentiles

David Bergsland

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Radiqx Press • 275 Sandalwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14616: This book was written by David Bergsland ©2022 • Designed & formatted by Radiqx Press • All rights reserved • http://radiqx.com

This is a work of biblical & Christian opinion: sharing the experiences of over forty-seven years of serving Jesus of Nazareth, teaching the scriptures, and walking in the Spirit. All opinions should be examined and prayerfully considered before they are blindly acted upon.

Copyright notices for scripture quotes

No Reference: My personal paraphrase based on 45 years teaching scripture.

MEV: The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

RSV: Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

NLT: New Living Translation © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.

NASB: New American Standard Bible®, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

This is dedicated to the many Christian authors I count as friends and acquaintances online in the various forms of social media. You are an inspiration!

Contents

1Writing During the Last Days

2How does holiness apply to an author?

3The tools of our work

4Determine your call & your vision

5Completing the Messiah’s Bride &…

6How to produce anointed books which change lives

7An anointed creativity is required for power in your calling

8What is your vision?

9The five levels of Christian fiction

10Working with the Holy Spirit on your book

11Let me give you a taste of what we’re about

12Some recent understandings

13Things your characters can teach your readers

14It’s the normal things which are so unusual

15In everything, follow the Lord’s lead

16But don’t try to fake it

17Teachings about these things

Acknowledgments

This is a great time for all of us. What we’ve been waiting for is coming to pass. I’ve always been a lone wolf, an asocial man who works best alone with my thoughts and ideas. As I have ventured out into social media, it has been a joy to meet people from all over the world with similar interests and passions—who know the Lord.

Many of the more stimulating interactions online have been in the closed Facebook group, Iron Sharpens Iron: Christian Speculative Fiction Authors. They have been a real joy and a serious reality check. It’s been fun.

Peter Younghusband, of Perspective by Peter in Australia, has become a friend and an inspiration in my quest to become a decent, usable book reviewer myself. Vikki Kestell and Ginny Jaques have been an inspiration. Michael and Mary Findley have also been an encouragement, an excellent source of information, and the source of many good books to read, both fiction and non-fiction. Guy Stanton III has inspired me by his books and warmed me with digital conversations.

I have found more authors as I have become immersed in Christian speculative fiction. Let it suffice to say that the New Christian Authors are putting out wonderful books in service to the Lord Jesus. This service is coming to a culmination in the near future, and we will all meet in the air.

I am grateful to have met all of you…

How does holiness apply to an author?

It’s the normal state of a born-again believer. At least, that is what is expected. But don’t be confused by the common definition you hear: set apart. Set apart is really only a religious thing applied to non-living objects.

Holiness (in Strong’s Concordance): hagioasmos; means consecration, purification

So you can see where the set apart teaching comes from—religious practice. Its meaning doesn’t really become clear until we look in Strong’s Concordance at the Greek for holy (hagios):

Sacred (physically, pure; morally, blameless; religiously & ceremonially, consecrated)

The culprit is Vine’s Expository Dictionary which tells us that hagios comes from the Greek root hazo,

to venerate, fundamentally signifies separated (among the Greeks, dedicated to the gods), and hence, in Scripture in its moral and spiritual significance, separated from sin and therefore consecrated to God, sacred.

Vine’s intellectual reasonings aside, and avoiding veneration, I see it as obvious that Strong’s definition applies to us in the practical, everyday living it out sense. That is, holiness means physically pure and morally blameless—pure, sinless,