Absolutely, the number one question I get asked every week, without fail, is when I’m going to write another book. And my answer is that I usually write them every seven or so years, which has been true throughout my adult life. My two favorite things, reading and writing, are activities I spend a lot of time doing, so it’s natural that writing a book is something I tend to do. But this one is different, because lately my answer has been that I’m writing one now. It will take a few years, and I didn’t go into it with a publisher in mind or some means of distribution. It’s currently in the raw writing stage, which is the most fun and where the quality of a project like this has the most impact. And this one is different for me, as it’s a big project and will be a pretty big book. It’s called The Politics of Heaven. I feel I have to write it because God won’t leave me alone about it. He talks to me constantly about writing this book and the urgency was certainly more frequent after a trip my wife and I recently took to Washington D.C. We were on the fifth floor where they do their big presentations and enjoying the view of the Capitol and Mall in front of us when the urgency from God was nearly as loud as a screaming kid begging for a candy bar. This project was one of those things I had planned to do in a few years, about on schedule with my usual 7-year pace between projects. But this one couldn’t wait. God wanted to express himself, and it just couldn’t linger. So, we’ll see how things go and what options present themselves along the way. However, for the sake of what I do, I am shifting my focus to this project, as well as several other urgent matters that have arisen in conjunction with it.
Strategically speaking, I see an opportunity here that is unique, and it’s something I originally started thinking about heavily while I took my family to the Sainte Chapelle, with its high ceilings and magnificent stained glass windows, obviously mimicking Heaven and the human ascent into it. Paris had been getting frequent attacks by Muslim radicals, and it was more than just a war going on over religion. And I had been thinking that someone needs to write a book in a unique way that puts things in perspective with people. What is excellent about Christian writers is that they produce a lot of material. Some of the most prolific writers in the world are associated with Christian scholarship and have been in the business of analyzing scripture and its applications. I enjoy them. I look forward to every new addition to Biblical Archaeology Review that I get, and I hadn’t been thinking about it too much, just enjoying them. But the problem is that this is a strategic necessity. People with Trump in the White House are looking to fill a void that has been put in them, politically, and what I do that most don’t is deal with politics. To me, politics is like baking a cake. You make it, people eat it, then everyone sits down and watches a football game and falls asleep on the couch. But these messages to me, and how do I know they are from God and not some random spiritual stranger like a homeless person begging for money, are urgent and time-driven. I have some experience in this area, and this isn’t my first time. And this time he certainly wasn’t shy about it, frustrated by the limited means that there are to communicate across dimensional time and space.
The Bible is selling very well, with a spike in sales directly tied to the expanding economy and the politics behind it. For what people have witnessed over these last three decades, who could expect otherwise? People want goodness in their lives, or at least the pursuit of it. People were hungry to understand how to extract goodness from something, which, in most cases, is a relationship with the most essential piece of literature the world has ever known —the Bible. But for most, these are very purposeful excursions into the battle for good over evil, and people usually keep it all to themselves. But the time we’re in now is different; this is a political enterprise, and it involves a spiritual realm at war with each other, and we’re reflections of that war, where individual battles are erupting all over the landscape. And politics is kind of my unique thing that is different from what anybody else writes. Specifically I want to deal with the political problem of the spirit world constantly trying to attack God and his creation from the border of the firmament and to chronical the attack vector of many demonic entities as they were captured by the Apocryphal book The Testament of Solomon which I argue should have been one of the Books of the Bible where God gave him a ring to control the demons of earth and force them to build his temple. I think this is more than a fantasy story by post-Second Temple early Christians. I believe there is compelling evidence to support this story, which is very relevant to our present time. Many of the evils we have been witnessing can be firmly attributed to the influence of occult magic and the yearning for it, with numerous factions now working against us. And is best captured in the Bible in Ephesians 6:12.
One of my favorite books in the history of the world is Graham Hancock’s “Sign and the Seal,” which is about the purported discovery of the actual Ark of the Covenant, allegedly located in Ethiopia at Axum. I will have more to say on the recent revelations from the CIA on this topic soon, but needless to say, I think that book is one of the most fantastic adventure books I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of them. However, there is much more to the story, and I believe several steps can be taken beyond the adventure part of these stories. We know enough to peek behind the veil at a real war that has taken place and to understand our role in that war. And part of that strategy is to enable people to form a relationship with the Bible and to continue gaining perspective on how it can improve their lives by helping them win battles they may not even be aware of. It is my intention for them to figure it out, which is why this urging from me is so timely. It’s a project that can’t wait. Of course, I will continue to do all the other many things that I do. This will be just another project to add to all the others. However, due to the timing and necessity, I’m doing it now rather than five or more years from now, when I’ll be well into my sixties. This is an effort that requires a voice that understands politics and can put it into perspective, so people can fight the battle that needs to be won by the forces of good. And for that to happen, context is in short supply and needs to be made much more abundant.
Rich Hoffman
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