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In the backstreets of London, police officer Alexander O’Brien is working deep undercover in an Irish gang. As his bulletproof morals and his Christian faith struggle to keep pace with the violence and cynicism he is confronted with, his path crosses with a sociopathic drug dealer whose life is a complete contrast to his own, both spiritually and professionally. As the paths of these two opposites intertwine, good and evil will surely culminate in biblical proportions when they rise to a crescendo. Excerpt from the book“When I go I suppose I’ll be found in a ditch somewhere next to a run-down garage with one hand holding a smoking barrel in my mouth and the other a bottle of Glenfiddich. After that you can just throw me straight in the bin, or whatever’s easiest. For some people, religion is a very profitable scam that’s been going on since that little hippy cunt was crucified. Religion is outdated, an ancient work of pure imagination, the mind’s attempt to make sense of what it saw but could not understand back when we were troglodytes. Mass delusion and centuries of indoctrination have resulted in armies of bovine loyalists for religious leaders who exploit the blindness of this traditionalised spiritual cul-de-sac. To an atheist, every religion is just another excuse to argue with some other over-opinionated fanatic lunatics about who was brainwashed in a slightly better way.” About the writerEspen Niemeijer (b. 1997) is a Dutch-Danish author who grew up in Maribo, Denmark, and attended the regional catholic school, where he with certainty found his atheism. He initiated his authorship when he was eighteen years old, trying to word his somewhat controversial opinions about spiritual authority in religion and governmental flaws, as he found it helped to soothe the fundamental disagreements he had stumbled upon in society throughout his life.

Along with a correct understanding of the Bible as the God-breathed Word a correct interpretation is crucial. Basically, there are only two methods of interpretation, 1) the non-literal, allegorical or spiritualizing method, or 2) the literal, so-called grammatical-historical method. The latter, if employed consistently, gives the only correct understanding of what God originally intended to reveal about the salvation of mankind. The first part of this book demonstrates the advantage of the literal interpretation over the allegorical or spiritualizing method, which must be avoided at all costs - unless the text demands a shift from a literal to a figurative interpretation of a word or phrase - bearing in mind that figurative language still reveals literal truths. The second part of the book applies the teaching of the first part to Biblical prophecy, which must be interpreted in the exact same way as any other text in the Word og God. If employed consistently, the literal reading leads to Premillennialism (Christ returns to earth before and in order to establish the Millennial Kingdom), Pretribulationalism (the Church is raptured to heaven before the Tribulation), and Dispensationalism (God's dealings with man in seven consecutive dispensations or stewardships). Besides, 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is explained on the basis of the Greek text so as to be a conclusive defense of the pretribulational Rapture of the Church.