How the Millennium Chronicles Project Came To Be

The Bible says the New Jerusalem will be about 1400 miles on each side of its square base, and 1400 miles high! At its pinnacle it will be illuminated by Christ's glory! How great is that!

Well folks, the Millennium Chronicles project is well on its way! It all started a few years ago with one idea, which led to the notion of writing one book. It has now grown to a planned series of six books -- the first two of which are written! Here's what happened...

The original idea was speculation on what the Millennium, earth's final 1000 years, will be like. It'll be like nothing before. Cohabiting on earth will be mortal people and immortal people. Among the mortals there'll be followers of Jesus Christ and many others opposed to Him. There'll also be many immortal people -- basically everyone reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, what you'd call a "Christian", who had previously died. The Bible says they are given an immortal body like the body Jesus has ever since He rose from the dead. These immortals have AMAZING bodies! Like Jesus' body, they can exist on earth but also in heaven (whereever that is). They can eat and drink, but maybe they don't need to -- something to ponder and speculate about. Jesus teleported Himself here and there, so it seems these immortals may be able to do that also. Here's another thought-provoking idea. Just as a lot of the curse placed on the earth when sin entered will be removed in the Millennium, returning the earth to something close to its "pre-sin" state, maybe the immortals also have "pre-sin" capabilities like Adam and Eve had before they were changed by sin. Here's the interesting part. God told pre-sin Adam and Eve to rule over lots of things including fish in the sea and birds in the air. How could they do that? We sure can't just look up in the sky and command an eagle up there to come down and do our bidding! And who can command whales, or gigantic schools of mackerel? No one! But apparently Adam and Eve could. So... maybe in the Millennium, since the immortals are operating in their sinless, perfected condition, maybe they have those capabilities too. What a world that would be! Here's more Bible-oriented speculation. The Bible is clear that Jesus Christ will have returned to earth and will be ruling from Jerusalem as king over all. Even so, there'll still be population, rapidly increasing since the Bible says people will live a lot longer and it implies they'll be a lot healthier. And that growing population will still be organized into nations. And the population will still be a mix of people happily following Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and many others who only submit to Him because they're forced to obey. I think that's why the Bible says the immortals will "rule and reign" with Christ during that time. It looks like there will still be a need for governance, and even law enforcement. What an interesting world it will be!

These speculations led to the idea of writing a novel about someone living in this incredible world. I picked a guy, named Dan, and gave him a job flying daily survey routes mapping new areas of habitability. You see, the Bible describes the few years just prior to the Millennium as a time of unprecedented cataclysms as God judges the rebellious population of the world. By the end of this time very few people are left on earth, and most of the earth has been rendered uninhabitable. So it occurred to me that as the Millennium kicks off the little habitable areas of earth would "fit" the few people living on it. But as the earth's population grows exponentially, the earth would need to be "terraformed", renovated and repaired if you will, to accommodate the people. That's Dan's job, to keep track of the land transforming week by week into habitable acreage.

So I started writing. I wrote an interesting scene where Dan, flying along, lands and rescues a young teenage girl and her older brother from a "biker gang" harassing them. I won't go into all the details, hopefully the scene will be in book five, but the scene includes the appearance of an immortal, a little old lady, who effortlessly "handles" the big, mean, and aggressive gang leader. It's a pretty cool scene if I do say so myself. After that, though, I thought I'd better introduce my readers to Dan before this time, so I went all the way back to before the start of the Millennium, before the seven years of trouble that preceded it, and to the point where all the Christians then living are "plucked up" from the earth to meet Christ and go back to heaven with Him -- the event the Christians call "the Rapture." I started writing the story from that point in time. I put Dan and his newlywed wife Susie on an airliner at night when it happened, and wrote that both pilots had disappeared. I started with Dan's struggles to figure out how to operate and manage this plane flying across the Atlantic through the night, unattended on autopilot, and bring it safely to land in America -- and with Susie's struggles back in the passenger cabin dealing with frantic passengers. I wrote all that and enjoyed putting in a lot of pilot details; asking myself, what would I do? Then Dan and Susie had to somehow get home through a world rapidly descending into lawlessness. After I got them home I started thinking, with so many people in the U.S. having disappeared, how would this affect the world? I remembered when just a few thousand people tragically died in the 9-11 terror attacks and how that "hiccup" in international financial markets really threw many nations through a loop... so what would happen when all the things the U.S. runs for the advanced and interconnected nations of the world just stop? I figured the nations that were still functioning, those who had not lost too many people, would have to "take over" from the U.S. just to protect themselves if for no other reason. So came the next major arc of the story, a war when all those nations invade the U.S. and try to take it over. By the time I'd written that part of the story, and its aftermath for Dan and Susie, I was up to over 200,000 words! And the story was only at best a third of the way through the whole Millennium story! I realized I was writing another book like War and Peace, so lengthy few would read it!

That's when the six-book series idea emerged. It took me a few weeks to flesh out the titles and general outlines of the books, but now I've got a pretty good outline for everything through book four. I divided what I'd already written into two books. The first one, The Disappearance, covers Dan and Susie's airline flight and their perilous trip home. The second, The War, covers the U.S. war against "the world", including a couple F-16 missions Dan flies, and the aftermath. Both those manuscripts are full-length novels and completely written. I'm in the process of searching for a literary agent to join the project and sponsor these books, and the whole series, to a publisher.

So that's how it all got started and where I am now. If you subscribe to be automatically notified of new posts to this BLOG you'll be able to receive updates as the project progresses -- especially when books one and two go to press, which I hope happens in 2026.

Thanks for reading!