Rise of the Nephilim: Pergamos Ascending

By Michael J. Lindsay

Michael J. Lindsay wrote this fictional story of a deep state murder that is utterly intertwined with demonic forces and end-time prophecies for the benefit of people who are just wondering what is going on today. This saga comes straight from the abyss and current events. The story line is a continuation of Mike's previous novel, The Nephilim's Revenge, in which Mike's hero uncovered the involvement of the country's elite with Nephilim, fallen angels, and other dark characters in a scheme to subordinate all mankind. At the center of this scheme is a top secret government project to create several genetic lines of supersoldiers through a method known as transhumanism.

The main character, detective John Michael McIntyre, attempts to bring all of those responsible for the murder to justice, but the leader of the group escapes after a shoot-out in the Arizona desert. McIntyre's pursuit of this former FBI agent takes him into bizarre territory. The title of this book, Rise of the Nephilim, Pergamos Ascending, reflects the increasing success of these nefarious characters in creating their supersoldiers and world, and evading discovery or capture. This worldwide confederacy is soon to establish its New World Order, which many citizens do not even recognize as rapidly materializing in our day. Detective McIntyre discovers that these demonic goals all parallel what happened in Genesis 6:1-7, and now their nefarious plan is apparent.

Readers will be surprised to find that by the end of this complex tale of deception, they will have a real working knowledge of latter-day Bible prophecy that will enable them clearly to see world events that unquestionably signal our entry into the end-time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 2, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886167726

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Rise of the Nephilim

Pergamos Ascending

Michael J. Lindsay

ISBN 979-8-88616-771-9 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88616-772-6 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Michael J. Lindsay

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 25

Away We Go

Chapter 26

Into the Occult

Chapter 27

Like the Hound of the Baskervilles

Chapter 28

Entering the Mirky Way

Chapter 29

Spooky

Chapter 30

A Deep Dive

Chapter 31

I Don't Know

Chapter 32

Lies, Lies, and More Lies

Chapter 33

Wringing the Rags

Chapter 34

The Big Reveal

Chapter 35

Jiggers, the Cops

Chapter 36

The Silver Lining

Chapter 37

Over the Hill and Through the Woods

Chapter 38

Old Home Week

Chapter 39

The Revelation

Chapter 40

Back Home Again

Chapter 41

In the Snare

Chapter 42

The Long Drive

Chapter 43

Riding on a Cloud

Chapter 44

The Cornucopia

Chapter 45

Trials, Trials, and More Trials

Chapter 46

Respite or Redemption

Chapter 47

The Big Dunk

Chapter 48

Wrapping It All Up

Chapter 49

A New Beginning, Maybe

Chapter 50

A Jubilee

About the Author

This work is dedicated to all of my friends of many years who gave me the experiences that made this book possible and to all of my future friends who are helped by this book.

To honor these longtime friends, I have memorialized them by using derivations of their names as characters in this book, as I did in Revenge of the Nephilim. Besides fragments of their names, I have scrambled personality types so that a name does not necessarily correspond to that person's personality type, but bits of their personalities that have been incorporated into my being over the years are nonetheless revealed in this story. I hope all of these friends enjoy untangling these puzzlements as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Foreword

Aforeword is usually written by some famous person who knows the author and has substantial knowledge of the subject. The celebrity of such a writer helps create interest in the book. I know no famous person nor not many who have much knowledge of this topic. Consequently, I will attempt to create some initial interest by revealing the fascinating and unusual subject matter of this book.

This work, a novel, intertwines real end-time Bible prophecies into nearly every nook of this story. To complete this work, the author needed much help, but it did not come directly from pastors or friends or experts or workmates who knew a lot about latter-day prophecies. There are, in fact, relatively few in the entire world who know much about this subject today. That was not the case in previous years, however.

How far back does this knowledge go? The Old Testament is full of these references, and even Saint Paul wrote about this in his very first letter to the Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17, so it was discussed early on and routinely in the young churches and synagogues of the day. This knowledge has been mostly lost or corrupted over the millennia. In the last two years, there has been a rising interest in this subject once again. Hopefully, this book will help spur that interest and inform readers as well.

The expertise I needed for writing this and my other prophecy-based novel came from my wife, a great researcher, and my many friends of fifty-plus years who helped pour the foundation of my character which opened me, years ago, to the possibility that today's worldly events would certainly manifest and to the biblical prophecies that allowed me to decipher events and prepare for these realities. Some might claim that this mindset came from my forty-six years in active law enforcement, which naturally generates a degree of cynicism. If so, I thank every one of those fellow officers who helped shape my biblical worldview.

The other people who provided my initial background knowledge were the few television Bible prophecy teachers who really knew their stuff like Jack Van Impe, Chuck Missler, Tim LaHaye, Cris Putnam, and Hal Lindsey, most of whom have passed. I thank each of them for getting me started in the right direction. As for validating my accuracy in these prophetic matters, you will only need to perform an easy Internet search on the events and organizations I mentioned to link them to the proper biblical scriptures.

Perhaps this murder mystery will entice you into researching a few of these topics on your own. If so, you will discover that you can obtain a real degree of expertise compared to nearly everyone else in this forward-looking study not because you are ready to commit yourself to years of dedicated research but because the bar is so low today. Reading just one of my short books will likely put you well above your local pastor in this important biblical area. Why? Because neither seminary students nor pastors study the prophetic verses any longer. Ironically, this seems like a particularly critical moment in history when all citizens of the world should be reading these verses.

—This is your author's forward-looking foreword, for lack of any other expert.

Preface

This mystery novel is a continuation of The Nephilim's Revenge , a contemporary murder mystery. In fact, this work begins in chapter 25, picking up where chapter 24 in the previous book concluded. This book, nevertheless, can be read and understood as a stand-alone work.

In The Nephilim's Revenge, the main character—John Michael Stewart McIntyre, a police investigator from a small department in a remote area of Arizona—tracks down a murderer after becoming involved in a bizarre set of events that leads to the uncovering of a massive end-times conspiracy connecting certain rogue elements of the government to some of the satanic belief systems just today surfacing in our society. This is, in fact, Pergamos Ascending!

In the final showdown of The Nephilim's Revenge, McIntyre and his fellow officers attempt to arrest several of the main characters of the murder conspiracy. A shoot-out ensues, and all the bad guys are apprehended except the main villain, a veteran FBI agent who escapes into the night. This story picks up where McIntyre obtains arrest warrants for murder and attempted murder for the suspended FBI agent Mick Duland and begins a pursuit that winds its way through several secret societies, Luciferian belief cults, modern Genesis 6 manifestations, and several current one-world political schemes.

The plot in this book is meant to guide readers through a fun and fast-paced journey that reveals what the end-time biblical prophecies are saying about today's events without the drudgery of tedious study or hours of rote memorization. The author believes the character development among our three heroes will hook readers into looking forward to what happens next. This is a police mystery novel that strongly interacts with actual present-day occurrences that the reader will easily recognize. Written almost in a journal format, the book makes the abstract biblical connections effortless by relating those to current events.

If you like a good mystery, enjoy digging into some dark areas, are attracted to watching strong interpersonal relationships develop during challenging times, want to decipher what is actually happening in current worldly events, or desire an understanding of what will be happening in the next one to three years, this will be a worthwhile read for you.

This seldom-explored topic is novel and typically fascinating to mystery readers, even if a little bizarre, and this author can guarantee that we have just scratched the surface of these topics in this preface.

Introduction

This murder mystery incorporates many areas of human interest and one overarching, albeit somewhat hidden, theme. The author is a forty-six-year veteran of law enforcement, and this story is consequently, technically precise and forensically sound. In fact, the author spent more than ten years instructing crime scene processing and criminal investigation at the central academy in Indiana after his street career. Those readers looking for a highly accurate and legally abiding plotline—similar to what actual investigators must confront each day—will not be disappointed. A reader will recognize whenever one of our heroes steps over the line into those proverbial gray areas and how these push the case into perilous territory.

This work is written as a novel but incorporates actual locations, events, and people to make it more relevant. The story line also intentionally interweaves current real-world events and latter-day biblical prophecies that are now manifesting with increasing frequency. Although I hesitate to use the term sci-fi in my description of this plot because this fictional story is based on real end-time prophecies and actual events, I believe those attracted to sci-fi plots and comic-book-style heroes will easily be able to get hooked on these characters and their surreal pursuits of evil.

Also, along this line of relevance, the easy identification of real geographic locations in this plotline, by well-traveled readers, gives the story context and makes it just plain fun, especially if a reader has some knowledge of that particular area or even a general knowledge of Arizona, Indiana, or the highways between these two marvelous states. This story is geographically rich and aesthetically diverse. Readers will quickly be able to identify many notable venues as well as several positive regional stereotypes.

Likewise, the fast-developing interpersonal relationships of our heroes begin to manifest soon after these three begin working together as a team. Bumpy at first but later co-supportive, our heroes' relationships seem to be on a continual rollercoaster of love-hate-love moments as this story unfolds. Two of the three heroes wrestle with what would be expected of them if they were ever to accept the dreaded Christian worldview. Their former and current careers continue to reinforce how far they are from that ideal. These are all deeply flawed but lovable characters. Each has a few noble qualities that make that character very bondable with our readers.

Even as the many elements of this work play into the story, the real reason for this book—a teaching goal—is not entirely visible. Upon completion of this captivating story, the reader will have a solid knowledge of biblical end-time prophecies that most longtime pastors and priests do not possess. The process of learning these often hidden and technically demanding prophecies is fun and easy because they are wrapped in real-world events that are familiar to everyone today. These are just thought-provoking enough that they linger and then allow readers to begin to make the connections as those real-world events begin to manifest. The eventual benefit to this is that readers will be able to anticipate and recognize what is soon to occur in our dystopian world. This is hugely reassuring and calming even though such events seem destined to further decay our planet.

Chapter 25

Away We Go

Four long months have now gone by without any break in locating Mick Duland, an accused murderer and former FBI agent, who is apparently able to disappear into thin air. Even though Detective Corporal John Michael McIntyre, a veteran criminal investigator, has devoted all of his work hours to locating this unrepentant killer, his efforts have produced no additional leads from the day when he presented his two murder affidavits to the country judge. From that effort, he obtained two arrest warrants. One for the premeditated murder of Barry Michael O'Rary, and a second warrant is for the attempted murder of McIntyre himself during a shoot-out in the Arizona desert. All of McIntyre's efforts thereafter just seem to confirm that Duland has the ability to surface whenever expedient for his purposes but then to disappear again without a trace.

McIntyre had suspected that apprehending this former FBI agent and intelligence officer would be a challenge, but he had no idea that he could disappear so completely. It seemed as if Duland might still be in Arizona, probably in Phoenix or Tucson, as McIntyre would get notices when Duland would use a debit card on a small bank account in one of those two cities to purchase groceries or other consumable items, but those purchases were getting to be fewer in number as the months went by. It was likely that Duland was developing a new identity and would soon not need that debit card any longer. If he is successful in developing this new identity, he will be even harder to track.

In addition, Duland's knowledge of police procedure and his years of contact within the intelligence community undoubtedly serve him well in his efforts to evade apprehension. This is certainly no typical warrant service. After all, Duland had attempted to kill McIntyre during McIntyre's last arrest attempt. Nonetheless, the real surprise for McIntyre, after running down so many leads, was that Duland was getting most of his help not from prior law enforcement or intelligence contacts but through the covert Luciferian groups that are becoming so prevalent in our society today.

Because of the O'Rary murder case, McIntyre had been promoted to corporal, but he was beginning to feel a little inadequate in his new role as the department supersleuth because of his inability to serve the very arrest warrants he so brilliantly justified. Even with copies of these warrants being filed with all of the major law enforcement agencies in Arizona and entered on the National Crime Information Center server, known simply in law enforcement as the NCIC, he had received not even one strong lead.

Like a similar time during the initial phases of this murder case, McIntyre is again being assigned additional cases because he is not making any progress in serving his murder warrants. Consequently, he is afforded even less time for investigating the whereabouts of Mick Duland, murder suspect.

*****

I am that officer. My name is John Michael Stewart McIntyre, and this is my story.

I had been working the Phoenix area, the county next to mine, as the most likely area into which Mick (Michael) Duland, former FBI agent and murderer, could most easily evade detection. There had been a couple of possible sightings in South Phoenix around Guadalupe Road near where he maintained an apartment in a large house. I had checked the apartment twice with the landlord who lives in the other part of the house and noted that there were items missing the second time I check it. This indicated that the sightings by neighbors of a man who matched Duland's description were probably him, but he had removed everything from the apartment of real value or that would further link him to the crimes. Since Duland had not paid rent for the last four months, I suggested to the landlord that he leave an eviction notice in the apartment and then change the locks, which he eventually did.

The landlord asked me what he should do with the personal property left behind. I told him that he should contact an attorney for advice, but the attorney would probably tell him to rent a storage unit into which he could place Duland's property. Eventually, he could probably auction the property if no one came to claim it. I suggested a storage location owned by a couple friendly to the police. My thought is that if anyone were to inquire about the storage location or if there is a break-in, these owners would be more likely to contact me.

I also know that I could probably get a judge to give me a warrant to go through the property in this unit if these items appeared to be abandoned and were no longer stored in a place of habitation. My self-serving claim of abandonment was somewhat of a shortcut rather than my demonstrating that there was probable cause to believe that there were specific evidence items at a habitation that supported the probability that Duland committed the murder of Barry O'Rary. That could certainly get messy. Obtaining a warrant to search a storage locker, where items are seemingly abandoned, is not so challenging.

Nonetheless, I was running out of ideas on how to track Duland down. By this time, he probably had built up a good set of false IDs, grown a beard, created a backstory, and established a number of alibis as to where he was on the day of the original crime. I had asked Phoenix PD to detail a couple of officers to watch the apartment, which they did for about a week. They then surmised that he was not going to return and pulled the detail. I had learned from others who worked with him at Area 52, a top secret government site, that he had claimed not to be married and to have no immediate living relatives. He did seem, in fact, to be married to his work, although his job description probably did not include murdering people to keep Area 52's classified projects secret.

In those highly classified areas, what is officially claimed and what is fact is often quite different and difficult to sort out. I have received no cooperation from the federal government on this case whatsoever, not a surprise. The one thing that the federal government does really well is lie to cover itself. This seems the case as I can get no real confirmation from the Bureau that Duland had actually been terminated after I got the murder warrants and submitted copies of my case reports to the local FBI office.

They keep saying that they have to allow all of his administrative appeals periods to run, but he would certainly be terminated as the evidence was strong for him trying to kill me when I attempted to arrest him for O'Rary's murder. Yes, I would say the evidence is strong. He shot at least four times at me and wounded the person who was standing right next to me. The gunfire at that exchange also seriously wounded one of his fellow agents, Jack Nelson, and resulted in the rapid response team—what I call the SWAT team—deploying for hours in the desert just east of Apache Junction in an unsuccessful effort to apprehend Duland who had run into the shadows that night and escaped.

Since his work at Area 52 was so secret, it has not been surprising to me, in light of recent highly publicized deeds of dishonesty by the FBI, concerning supposed national security issues associated with an election, that the deep state within that agency would be concealing and perhaps even continuing to work Duland in his role as a supervisor and security analyst at some other top secret facility by giving him a new identity.

Hoping this is not true but realizing that it might be, I began again watching the private Air America terminal on the north side of the Phoenix International Airport, where Duland and others involved in this case boarded a plane every weekday morning to be flown someplace to their worksite. After two weeks of this, I gave up watching those departures and arrivals. If he was still working at Area 52, he was either living there or commuting from a different terminal. In the days, weeks, and months since then, I have attempted every technique I know to pick up his trail without success.

Rick Schiavi, my partner on that case, has since retired and has been vacationing the last three months in Cabo San Lucas, spending his retirement checks as fast as they come in. I hear that he has recently returned to Florence, Arizona, where he now maintains an apartment. Perhaps I should chase him down to see if he has any ideas on tracking Duland. I am certainly at my wit's end.

Well, it took me almost a week to find Rick even though Florence is a relatively small town. Perhaps I need to go back to detective school. At any rate, I eventually located him by watching the bars in town, and sure enough, one day I see him walking into a bar about midafternoon. Rick does not seem that happy when I present myself.

The first thing out of his mouth is, Have you caught Duland yet?

That is not the greeting I had hoped for. He knew that this would not be an easy task although he often makes comments to the contrary like a two-week apprentice cop could do that. I had been flying high on obtaining two murder warrants for such a difficult case back then, and Rick's usual sarcastic attitude did not bother me then. I have since gotten a monster shot of reality on how difficult this apprehension will be, and Rick's comments wear a little thin.

Rick and I talk for nearly an hour that day. He asks if Agent Jack Nelson had survived his gunshot wounds. I say that he was in the hospital for several months, teetering on the edge, but had pulled through. Rick then asks if I had gotten anything out of him. I have not, but his trial for accessory to murder is scheduled for next month.

The other rogue agent, Seth Head, has already been tried, convicted, and sentenced to a Department of Correction facility in Flagstaff. He had claimed at trial unsuccessfully that he had been ordered to accompany Duland to pick someone up for questioning when everything broke loose, and he knew nothing of a planned assassination. He was convicted on the attempted murder charge but not on the first-degree murder charge for O'Rary. The one thing we did correctly during Head's trial was to make the case sound sensational so that it received widespread media coverage. In that way, it was not so likely that Duland could again resume his duties at Area 52. All of his coworkers would be aware that he is a fugitive. However, that would not be true if he were moved to another distant facility with a new identity.

Rick suggests that I wait until just before Nelson's trial when the thought of spending the rest of his life in prison would really take hold and then offer him a grand plea bargain. As they say, timing is everything. That sounds like good advice, so I will make an appointment with the county attorney to see what he is willing to offer. I then ask Rick if he wants to come back to active duty to help with this case. Such a look he gives me. I will take that for a no!

The next morning, I head for the county attorney's office. It is obvious that he thinks the attempted murder charge is a slam dunk, but the first-degree murder charge for Barry O'Rary's death is wrapped in government espionage and top secret classifications that will be difficult to prove without the federal government's cooperation, just like it was in the Head case.

His suggestion, which I think is excellent, is that we amend the charge for Barry's murder to a capital offense