The Third Heaven: The Birth of God

by Donovan M. Neal

What would you do for love?
The sequel to the best selling book The Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars is finally here!
Heaven stands decimated by war. Lucifer’s exile places mankind at the center of the mad angel’s plot to overthrow God.

Meanwhile, Michael must now take on a mantle of leadership that he did not seek and is tested to see if he is worthy of the title of Chief Prince.

Yet a conflict eats at him as he wrestles with his sworn duty to Heaven and his obedience to God; torn over a vision of a future revealed by the Creator himself--a future that shows the death of God.

Will Michael succumb to a darker path that once more would plunge Heaven into civil war or will he trust and yield to the revealed will of God?

For in order to save humanity and heal the rift to his kingdom, God will make the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of his beloved creation, answering for all time the most powerful questions driving the universe—whom will you serve and whom do you love?

Genres: Christian Fiction

300 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 31, 2015

About the author

Donovan M. Neal is the Amazon best-selling independently published author of the Third Heaven Series: a speculative Christian fantasy four book series that explores the captivating story about the fall of Lucifer. The book takes readers on an epic journey through the celestial realms, offering a unique perspective on the events surrounding Lucifer's rebellion and his descent into darkness.

In this imaginative tale, Donovan weaves together elements of Christian theology, angelic mythology, and fantastical world-building. The story delves into the cosmic conflict between good and evil, painting a vivid picture of the spiritual warfare that unfolded in the heavens.

Donovan has published eleven books and is currently working on publishing five more in the year 2023 alone. His books have reached thirteen countries including India, Japan, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil and across Europe, Canada and the US. He has sold over thirty thousand units of his books and generated over a quarter million in gross sales without an agent. Donovan has produced fiction; non-fiction and most recently published a graphic novel. His genre of preference is fantasy and He has been compared among such notable authors as Frank Perretti, Brian Godawa, and the late Dr. Michael S. Heiser.

When he is not imagining comic conflicts between good and evil he is helping to secure employment for housing insecure women as the Executive Director of a non-profit in the city of Detroit and also serves in the prayer and discipleship ministry of his local church.

Reviews

[Herb · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think what makes Donovan Neal's writing so unique, is his ability to take scripture, early Hebrew writings and folklore and put them together in a thrilling plausible story written from a heavenly viewpoint. Handling time and theological mystery with aplomb, he gives us a glance into what an angel might view and feel.

I love the personalities and attributes of the different types of angels and the explanation of the ongoing war between Heaven and Satan's fallen angels. This was a fun read and in no way should we look at this book as revelation or scripture, though its contents are loosely based on scripture. As stated by the author this is speculative Christian fiction. You can't help but wonder at the things we cannot see and the longing in our hearts for the unknown back-story that frames the history of mankind. We know that God loves us, and yet to trust Him sometimes is so hard. We see the same problem with many of the angels in this story.

The character of Enoch is also very interesting and knowing the Old Testament we know that he did not die as other men but was brought to heaven because of his close walk with God. In this book he is given life and character. If he is anything like he is portrayed in this book I can see why God took him without death.

All in all this was a very satisfying romp through the imagination and story telling prowess of Mr. Donovan Neal. I would recommend this series to anyone who enjoys Christian Speculative Fiction. It is a real treat to look at heaven from a different viewpoint and let your imagination go! I am eagerly awaiting the third book of the series.

[Natalie Moorhouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting take on the Fathers plans.

Having read book 1 I was interested to see what happens next. I enjoy reading about the Fall and angels etc, this book was a great fiction story which I believe holds possibly some truths. I did struggle however with the attitudes of some of the angels, some appeared very arrogant and for me too human. I enjoyed the way the Bible stories were told briefly and how the Lord revealed his plan to send His Son to earth.
Lucifer was actually an interesting character who really thinks that he can outwit the Father. He really and truly believes he will overthrow God. I am really looking forward to reading book 3 to see how Lucifer tries to turn Jesus.
The descriptions of the angelic battles were very good, but again I struggled with the concept of angels being portrayed in such human terms. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Michael, his fear and doubt were for me a good moment as I too struggle with God knowing about Lucifer plans and doing nothing about it. That's what makes me human but as I keep saying I don't see angels in human terms.

It takes a lot of courage to write a book like this, clearly the author has thought long and hard about his characters, places and descriptions. Kudos!! However there were grammatical errors, speech marks, full stops in the wrong place. There were often words missing or just letters missing, by the end off the book I was just irritated with the frequency of these issues which did ruin the fluency of the read.
All said and done though I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend to any christian who has questions about the Fall and get a feel for some possible thoughts. If you just want a bit of religious fantasy then this book is something worth exploring.

[Philip Dodd · Rating 4 out of 5]

In 2014, I enjoyed reading and reviewing The Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars by Donovan M. Neal. Now, here at the beginning of 2016, I have just finished reading its sequel, The Third Heaven: The Birth of God. I found it as impressive as the first book and thought it continues the story of Lucifer and his rebellion against God very well. Apart from the King James Version of the Holy Bible, I detected that the high style and the plot of both books were influenced by the Book of Enoch, which not only contains chapters about the fallen angels but gives the names of their leaders.
In The Third Heaven: The Birth of God, I liked the way Donovan M. Neal presented his angel characters convincingly as beings who were other than humans, far higher and more gifted than them. His original way of describing Heaven and Hell I admired, too. Bravely, he has written of high matters in a high style, and has managed to do so successively, in an intriguing, fascinating way.

[Angela Lambkin]

Wow!! What a spiritual adventure story!

It was quite an impactful story! With lists of fighting towards the middle and on into the end! Full of drama. I recommend this ebook only for those who could stand to read about fighting and blood being shed,etc. This is not an ebook for those who could not stand any of these and are very sensitive to reading things with a lot of violence! More for an adult to read than any young sensitive kids or adults. I wound up buying this myself and am ow giving it an honest review for my senior self adage. Very great drama Neal! I pray though that you may find lots of people to buy this ebook. By Angela Sorry, I could not get this read any faster but I got overwhelmed with too many other ebooks to read shortly after I had downloaded your ebook but I said, I would get it and read and review it,yes? So.here it is!

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so different from what I expected. I totally enjoyed this book. Reading this book felt like a walk through the Bible through the eyes of Angels. Mr. Neal has written a book which will tug on hearts and intrigue the mind with the vivid imagery of his story telling.

[Vickie Durst]

Awesome books. the story is intriguing and believable. Was written for me and my buddies. great conversation during and after the read. it induced us to get into the unseen war around us. Waiting on book 3. HURRY!!!! Thanks Donovan.

[Kimberly E. Soenyun · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series

Talk about making God a reality. These books give me hope especially in the Luciferian world we are yet again living in. Man seems to always sin no matter what. I wonder will we always recycle back to live a life void of love and good? P

[Brandy Marks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve said the same thing about all of his ’The Third Heaven’ novels. I loved the first few chapters, very interesting. I’ve read a lot of mysteries with a lot of political stuff but there was also enough intrigue you didn’t notice the political BS. Not so in these novels.
I had to skip through the middle of the book, reading just enough to see what was happening then get on through the not-so-interesting heavenly political stuff to finally reach the end to find out what is happening at the end. Good stuff. He’s a good writer, if not for those parts. Too bad the rest of the novels aren’t as interesting.
I’ve sort of read all of his The Third Heaven novels and they’re all the same - boring - except for the first few chapters and the few end chapters, which are fabulous. I believe he’s missed the boat along the way and don’t know how he got so many good reviews.

[Pamela S Eveland · Rating 3 out of 5]

The struggle with trusting God

This book focuses on the struggle with trusting God, even when you not only think you know better, or God's plan doesn't seem to be getting fulfilling properly (safely, in this case), but when it appears to you that His plan could lead to the destruction of all creation. Mr. Mark's imaginative capacity is still going strong and he weaves a good storyline, including Biblical history as the story unfolds. I enjoyed the book, and really enjoy expanding my vision and entertaining new ideas of what heaven and God might be like. However, once again the use/misuse of punctuation really distracts from the reading, since it is punctuation that indicates the cadence for the prose. I don't think this book is as good as the first one.

[Kathie Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best!

Mr. Neal has captured my heart with his writing. His words have been an inspiration to me. When I hear a passage of scripture my mind automatically sees how he described it. It has brought life and imagery to scripture. I get confused about the names of the characters but I just read over them. I would recommend these books to everyone. I could hardly put it down. Thanks Mr. Neal.

[Sean Helms · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent follow up in a great Christian fantasy series.
I call it a Christian fantasy because it's written from the author's imagination while the overall story makes great use of the Bible. I enjoyed it very much and encourage everyone to read it, especially Christians, as it is not just entertaining, but also thought provoking.
Aside from typos and some interchanged words, likely due to auto-correct, the story is well-written. The pacing is good and often quite difficult to put aside.

[Marie Reynolds · Rating 5 out of 5]

salvation

Thanks once more to the writer, though the book is fictional, yet for me it brings light to many things that I have read in the Bible. Things like: war in the heavenly, we wrestle not against flesh and blood. It all give me a greater understanding, salvation also took on a greater greater meaning for me, as I see that satan was not asleep when Jesus entered planet earth. Thank you.

[Stephanie Serrano Hargrove · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read

Story gets a little bit crazy with the Heavenly hosts always seeming to lose to satan. I believe that the LORD wouldn't allow His angels to fall to the enemy as often as they do in the book. Now Chronos the father of time does what happens now Yahweh just let's a daemon take over time?

[S Hartje · Rating 3 out of 5]

2nd in series

Once more the horrors of the enemies of God are shown as they are. It isn't getting any easier to read such graphic portrayals but the end is not yet. The enemy won't win.

[Cory Shook · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic. The action is incredible and the imagery is wild. I wondered how the human interaction was going to be with this book, but it's very minimal, this book like book one is about the angels. It's their story. Man I wish there was some artwork to go along with these books.

[Shannon Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book

[Franklin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story

I can’t wait to read the next book- such a great story filled with the word of God, great read

[Beckie Linebarger · Rating 5 out of 5]

The power of God

Good love and power comes through in this story. It is beautiful, sad, and happy all at once. I find strength in this story. I absolutely love it

[Connie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is such a wonderful reveal of one man’s version of creation, Lucifer’s fall, his effect on earth/man and God’s love. No one knows for sure but this sure makes you think.

[TJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this one. I thought the story progressed nicely & there were definite moments that I loved, like how the author wrote the Trinity & the individual Godhead. I also really liked Enoch. I'm guessing there is another book & I can't wait to read it. This book desperately needs a thorough editing by the way. If reading the word "angles" instead of "angels" over & over again bothers you, it's still worth the read because the story is great but that plus other grammatical errors definitely was distracting.

[lisa floyd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome read!!!!

I like how the book showed how ALL HEAVEN does the will of Almighty GOD!
It is a good reminder to the children of GOD that there are definitely more with us than against us.
The one thing I didn't like was the show of there being more of the fallen than the Heavenly Host. Not true at all but a good read anyhow.

[Robert Mills · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mr Neal has a good idea for a series and has executed a good story but the mistakes distract from the enjoyment of the prose. I really hope in book three the editing team give it a more critical eye of detail. I think calling the prophets Daniel and Jeremiah, Danielle & Jeremy seem disrespectful.

[T. Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Noooo! I cannot wait for the next book.
Intense. I was wanting more the second I started reading.
Wow!!! Wow!!!! Wow!!! I loved it.
Wow!!! Wow!!!! Wow!!! I loved it. I was hooked after the first sentence.

[Nelson Candelario jr. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining read

This is a really entertaining take on biblical stories. Written from the perspective of Angels, the author takes a pretty refreshing approach on traditional text. I enjoyed both books in the series so far.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent second book in this series

This audiobook was both well written and the narrator has a very good voice. Similar to the first book you need to suspend your beliefs and this book could be how heaven, earth and man came into existence.

[T.J. Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every bit as good as the first book. For anyone who has read the scriptures at length, here is a book that shows you a plausible view from behind the scenes. Well done Donovan.

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

better than the first one. I liked the tie to Greek Mythology!

[Christie Schmitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Third Heaven

Great read. I have gone from true crime to mystery & now im here. I love it cant wait for the 3rd book release

[L.W. Clay · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story continues!

Once again we join Michael and his fellow angels in trying to make sense of things in Heaven, and fighting the fallen ones on Earth. This book picks up after the war in heaven and continues to the birth of Yeshua..

Great writing and a superb storyline lead to five stars, with only one star removed for the few errors found.

~ Many grammatical errors. It seemed that the author should get a refund from his editor.
~ Storyline errors. For example, King Herod didn't dream of a that to the Throne until the Wiseman actually arrived and a threat was posed. The Wiseman didn't visit the manger, but the toddler Yeshua.
~ Name errors. The author used the Hebrew name, Yeshua, for the Son of God, which is 100% correct. This is His real name. However, the author did not use the Hebrew name for the Holy Spirit (Ruach Hakodesh), but a Latin phrase for The Breath, or God Breath.
~ Definition errors. Some of the definitions of words in the back are wrong. A Principality is an authority or ruler noted by Paul in Ephesians 6:12 to be what we fight against. "For we wrestle not against flush and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (NKJ) Does the use of principalities or powers in this verse sounds like a plain, lower, non-governing angel rank?

Despite these errors, this is a fictionalized account after all, I loved this book as much as the last, and am continuing my support of Mr Neal by purchasing, and reading the next installment. You should, too.

Never give up on a good author...they'll only get better.