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Heavenly Realms: Empyrean Falling
On the Sixth Day God created Man. On the Seventh Day He rested. Then all Hell broke loose.Lucifer has seen the creation of humanity and he is afraid. Will the angels be cast out of Heaven in favor of God's new creation? They have built a mighty kingdom in the Lower Realm but the Prophecy of the Dragon looms as a storm on the horizon. Lucifer would sooner upset the balance of power than allow the angelic host to be cast out. Can his younger brother, Michael, maintain his faith and conquer his fear? Can he hold fast to his choir of warrior cherubim in the face of angelic heresy? Can their youngest sibling, Gabriel, overcome his desire to protect his choir of seraphim at all costs?Who will stay loyal to the White Throne and who will choose to follow Lucifer on his quest for the Phoenix Empyrean? Though the angelic host has trained for millennia to defeat the Dragon, nothing can prepare them for the maelstrom their Morning Star is fomenting in the shadowy nadir of his luminous heart. Saints will sour to villains. A kingdom will come under siege. But amidst a Heavenly Realm torn by war, the Sons of God will find their faith.Seen as a revelation through the eyes of Archangel Gabriel's last prophet, Heavenly Empyrean Falling is an epic romance of faith and hope, love and fear. It is a recounting of the war that is neither fact nor fiction, but a myth that can make a believer out of anyone....
402 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 8, 2019
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About the author
Jonathan Goss
5 books1 followerJonathan Goss was born and raised in middle Tennessee. He grew up in a Christian household and graduated from Lighthouse Christian School in 2001. His father, Lari Andrew Goss, was a Southern Gospel producer, arranger, pianist and singer. Jonathan had a strong background in theology and church as a child. That, mixed with his love for fantastical storytelling and medieval warfare, laid the groundwork for what would become the Heavenly Realms series.
Jonathan was always creative with a strong imagination, but it wasn't until he was seventeen years old that he felt inspired to write what would eventually become the Heavenly Realms series. He credits two seemingly random occurrences with planting the seed of inspiration in his mind: the Kevin Smith film "Dogma" he and his friends sneaked into the theater to watch, and Mrs. Haggerty's English class at Lighthouse Christian School, where they read sections from John Milton's "Paradise Lost". These two glimpses into the angelic world propelled Jonathan to randomly start writing what would eventually become the first chapter of "Empyrean Falling", all on a Five Star notepad while daydreaming in a weekly chapel service at his private school. Irony is the spice of Creation, it would seem.
Over the next several years, Jonathan would work tirelessly at completing the first Heavenly Realms novel, "Empyrean Falling". The first draft was completed in 2005 but was unwieldy and unwanted by both secular and Christian publishers. Refusing to relent, Jonathan continued writing, completing five more novels over the next few years. With the seven novel series largely finished, Jonathan again attempted publication. No one in the traditional publishing world expressed valid interest; secular agents and editors woudn't touch anything Christian and Christian agents and editors said the material was too violent and too theologically challenging.
It wasn't until the passing of his father in 2015 and his mother in 2018, when his older brother, Nick Goss, released his Traveler's League series of middle grade fiction on Amazon, that Jonathan saw his chance. Rejected by mainstream traditional publishing, Jonathan set on the path to blow the dust off his old Heavenly Realms manuscripts and polish them up for entry into the world.
The Heavenly Realms series is long awaited and long overdue. Inspired by Star Wars, classic mythology, Excalibur, Robin Hood, the Bible, the works of Steven Pressfield, Glen Cook, Robert Heinlein, and Wallace Breem, as well as movies such as "The 13th Warrior" and "Lord of the Rings", the Heavenly Realms series is a journey into Christian mythology, Heavenly cosmology, and a collection of stories that are relatable, fantastical, and full of all the passion and pitilessness of the human condition.
Whether you are a fan of fantasy, a lover of the Bible, or curious what the wars between the angels might look like, you owe it to yourself to give Heavenly Realms a chance.
Jonathan was always creative with a strong imagination, but it wasn't until he was seventeen years old that he felt inspired to write what would eventually become the Heavenly Realms series. He credits two seemingly random occurrences with planting the seed of inspiration in his mind: the Kevin Smith film "Dogma" he and his friends sneaked into the theater to watch, and Mrs. Haggerty's English class at Lighthouse Christian School, where they read sections from John Milton's "Paradise Lost". These two glimpses into the angelic world propelled Jonathan to randomly start writing what would eventually become the first chapter of "Empyrean Falling", all on a Five Star notepad while daydreaming in a weekly chapel service at his private school. Irony is the spice of Creation, it would seem.
Over the next several years, Jonathan would work tirelessly at completing the first Heavenly Realms novel, "Empyrean Falling". The first draft was completed in 2005 but was unwieldy and unwanted by both secular and Christian publishers. Refusing to relent, Jonathan continued writing, completing five more novels over the next few years. With the seven novel series largely finished, Jonathan again attempted publication. No one in the traditional publishing world expressed valid interest; secular agents and editors woudn't touch anything Christian and Christian agents and editors said the material was too violent and too theologically challenging.
It wasn't until the passing of his father in 2015 and his mother in 2018, when his older brother, Nick Goss, released his Traveler's League series of middle grade fiction on Amazon, that Jonathan saw his chance. Rejected by mainstream traditional publishing, Jonathan set on the path to blow the dust off his old Heavenly Realms manuscripts and polish them up for entry into the world.
The Heavenly Realms series is long awaited and long overdue. Inspired by Star Wars, classic mythology, Excalibur, Robin Hood, the Bible, the works of Steven Pressfield, Glen Cook, Robert Heinlein, and Wallace Breem, as well as movies such as "The 13th Warrior" and "Lord of the Rings", the Heavenly Realms series is a journey into Christian mythology, Heavenly cosmology, and a collection of stories that are relatable, fantastical, and full of all the passion and pitilessness of the human condition.
Whether you are a fan of fantasy, a lover of the Bible, or curious what the wars between the angels might look like, you owe it to yourself to give Heavenly Realms a chance.
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August 15, 2021
Loved it! Not much detail is mentioned in the Bible about the War in Heaven, this book gives you a glimpse behind the veil of what the war COULD have looked like. No one has claimed it's accurate; but the assumptions and situations do follow logic (a human trait). As a Christian male, it's great to see that the warrior ethos that exists in a lot men can be combined with our Christian faith. Not all angels played harps...
October 10, 2019
You can judge a person by their friends, but a person can judge themselves by their enemies. 🦄🦄🦄
Archangel Gabriel comes to meet Markus in his abode.
He tells him the story about Heaven, about his brothers Lucifer and Michael and how the sin of jealousy and greed led to the First War.
Lucifer, envied God's love for man and was displeased that the Angel's were not good enough for him that God had to create other living beings in his own image.
Michael and Gabriel go into war against Lucifer and his recruited army from the cherubim and seraphim.
(The Cherubim and Seraphim are choirs of heaven which Michael and Gabriel arebin charge of respectively)
Lucifer, was known as the pinnacle who had never had an equal.
But now he is the reason that humanity and the heavens could come to an end.
🦄🦄🦄
Heavenly Realms: Empyrean Falling is the story of how heaven lost a great angel and God lost a don that he loved.
It gives us an insight to what could have happened that led to the most powerful being created by God to be deemed as the most dangerous being.
It's no surprise how the book should end because it's something many of us choose to believe be it in the name of religion or any other reason.
The book is written with such complicated language that you need a lot of patience to really read and understand every last detail.
At the end of the book there is a glossary with some of the terms explained if you have difficulty understanding like I did.
Overall it's a good book as long as you have the time, patience, energy and mental stability to read the whole thing.
🦄🦄🦄
Rated 90/100.
Melina L.
Archangel Gabriel comes to meet Markus in his abode.
He tells him the story about Heaven, about his brothers Lucifer and Michael and how the sin of jealousy and greed led to the First War.
Lucifer, envied God's love for man and was displeased that the Angel's were not good enough for him that God had to create other living beings in his own image.
Michael and Gabriel go into war against Lucifer and his recruited army from the cherubim and seraphim.
(The Cherubim and Seraphim are choirs of heaven which Michael and Gabriel arebin charge of respectively)
Lucifer, was known as the pinnacle who had never had an equal.
But now he is the reason that humanity and the heavens could come to an end.
🦄🦄🦄
Heavenly Realms: Empyrean Falling is the story of how heaven lost a great angel and God lost a don that he loved.
It gives us an insight to what could have happened that led to the most powerful being created by God to be deemed as the most dangerous being.
It's no surprise how the book should end because it's something many of us choose to believe be it in the name of religion or any other reason.
The book is written with such complicated language that you need a lot of patience to really read and understand every last detail.
At the end of the book there is a glossary with some of the terms explained if you have difficulty understanding like I did.
Overall it's a good book as long as you have the time, patience, energy and mental stability to read the whole thing.
🦄🦄🦄
Rated 90/100.
Melina L.
January 7, 2021
- Strictly from a fantasy point of view, it's average
- From a theological point of view of a believer there are quite a few things I'd argue with
- The author clearly never heard the advice "show don't tell"
- The word preternatural comes up almost every paragraph...somewhere under the all the wordiness (and repetitiveness) is probably a 3 star story.
I give it 1 star for effort, and 1 star because I actually finished it for a total of 2 stars.
- From a theological point of view of a believer there are quite a few things I'd argue with
- The author clearly never heard the advice "show don't tell"
- The word preternatural comes up almost every paragraph...somewhere under the all the wordiness (and repetitiveness) is probably a 3 star story.
I give it 1 star for effort, and 1 star because I actually finished it for a total of 2 stars.
June 8, 2021
I didn't know something this bad could be published.
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