Study Guide for Darkness Comes in Like a Flood

By Richard Nathan and Linda Nathan

Loren and Eve Montcrest are new Christians in a fierce battle they don't yet understand--a battle every Christian faces. The warfare is intense. The worldly powers are aligned against Christ and His followers. Our sinful natures are deceitful and rebellious, and the devil and his demons hate us.

It's a world a lot like ours today.

What can you do when darkness comes in like a flood?

Let our Guide help you.

This in-depth, chapter-by-chapter guide to Darkness Comes in Like a Flood, the second novel in the Omega Point Series, explores our characters' struggles with key issues raised in the story from a biblical point of view. Numerous links to helpful information make this a rich and lively resource.

Designed for individual or group study.

A few key issues the guide explores:
• Understanding your faith
• Christian vs. pagan
• The Holy Spirit and miracles
• Defending your faith
• Standing against persecution
• Discerning New Age and occult influences
• Drugs and deception
• Demonic doorways
• Sanctification and fantasy
• The battle for the Bible

Three appendices focus on timely key areas:
• The Foundations of Our Faith
• Understanding the Spiritual Battle
• The Armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18)

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9781735705934

Richard Nathan

Richard Nathan is a Director and Principal of Bosquet Capital and Co-Founder and Director of Red Circle Authors Limited. Prior to this he worked for Kyodo News, the international journal of science Nature and the international publisher Macmillan.

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STUDY GUIDE FOR DARKNESS COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD

BY RICHARD AND LINDA NATHAN

CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Appendices

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Notes

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This study guide further unfolds the novel Darkness Comes In Like a Flood, a work of fiction by Richard and Linda Nathan (Little Tree Media 2020). All names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents referred to in this guide or the above novel are either the products of the authors’ imaginations or used in a fictitious manner to further the story. The accuracy of the information in this study guide is entirely the authors’ responsibility.

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Cover design by Eric Nathan

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For our children and grandchildren

And all who follow.

May you grow in your knowledge and love

of Jesus Christ.

And always remember...

When the enemy shall come in like a flood,

the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a

standard against him.

(Isaiah 59:19 KJV)

FOREWORD

Study Guide for Darkness Comes in Like a Flood

Welcome.

Welcome to a deeper walk in our Omega Point Series and its second novel, Darkness Comes In Like a Flood (Little Tree Media, October 2020).

When we were writing it, we had no idea how much darkness would come in like a flood at publication time. But despite an overwhelming tide, no one can cancel Jesus Christ! The Lord does not want us to be anxious, fearful, or passive but trusting in His great promises and equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:17). We hope this little book will help you do that.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. Isaiah 59:19 (KJV)

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 2 Corinthians 2:14

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8

When a great multitude came against King Jehoshaphat and his people, the Lord instructed him to respond with faith and praise (2 Chronicles 20:20–21). We have the same call today.

Who are we? 

Let’s start with some introductions. We trust you’ve read The Glittering Web, the first book in the Omega Point Series, and now have read the second book, Darkness Comes In Like a Flood. Our series arose out of our lives both before and after Christ rescued us, so we wrote it to share the truth and confront the times.

We met in 1962 in an anarchist meeting in San Francisco and for fourteen years were immersed in the counterculture rebellion that began in the Sixties on the West Coast. In 1976, Jesus Christ rescued us and began transforming our lives. As part of that transformation, we awakened to the tremendous paradigm shift our nation has been undergoing since then—a change away from a Christian worldview and into an intensely dark pagan one. It’s a transformation that deeply fuels our writing.

If you’d like more details, you can read Glorifying the Savior / Exposing Deception: Why We Wrote The Omega Point Series on our website blog here. ¹ (By the way, all links are in the footnotes.)

We also talk about it on our October 24, 2020 radio podcast interview on the Parker J Cole Show. You can listen to it at the link below. ²

Two other podcast interviews that may interest you:

Richard talks about growing up Marxist and his transformation by Christ. ³

Linda shares her rescue from the occult and death by Jesus Christ. ⁴

Who are Loren and Eve Montcrest? Creating this study has been a great opportunity to think about God’s work in our lives and what He offers all Christians. Yes, our characters Loren and Eve Montcrest are based somewhat on ourselves, warts and all, but not entirely. They’re real fictional persons (an oxymoron?) in their own right who formed out of our hearts and experiences over the years and have their own story to tell—a story about an undying Savior in a world where darkness seems to reign.

The Glittering Web left our couple as new Christians just becoming aware of the evil they’ve been living in. Jesus Christ had rescued them from the devil’s realm and hell. As book two opens, they are facing persecution with little support in a world controlled by demonic powers and under great spiritual deception. They only know that everything they believed was wrong, but they have a wonderful Savior.

They are also facing the struggle with their own sinful natures and the fallen world system. In other words, they’re like new Christians today. We hope Loren and Eve will turn out to be faithful, but who knows? The warfare is intense. The worldly powers are aligned against Christ and His followers. Our sinful natures are deceitful and rebellious, and the devil and his demons hate us.

You’ll just have to stick with this series to see what happens to them!

How to use this study

In the meantime, we hope we can help you be faithful to Christ and grow in discernment and understanding of the battle all Christians face. Each chapter raises relevant issues both to the story and to the times, and we’ve tried to make it easy and exciting to delve into them. Here’s how it’s set up:

The Story. Each study begins with a short summary of that chapter along with questions to stimulate your thoughts. Answer as many or as few as you want. You won’t be graded!

Our View. A section called Our View follows that reveals our thinking behind the chapter.

Going Deeper. A Going Deeper section then follows with an in-depth look at important and timely related issues.

Resources. Sometimes we recommend helpful resources

Note: Just a reminder—all links are in the endnotes.

Group or Individual

You can do this study either individually or as part of a group, or perhaps you’d like to start your own study group. The next section will help you do just that. Maybe you'd like to have a Zoom group or set up a regular online live group. Email us at [e-mail] if we can help.

Whether you choose to start a small group or