This is a book full of surprises; intensely interesting and one that never fails to hold the attention. My first thought, on receiving the book for review, was to prepare something brief (and dismissive?) and thereafter to file it among other books and pamphlets on 'New Ageism'. However, after reading the introduction - a modest 9 pages - then glancing through the foot¬notes to each chapter, that idea was completely dismissed. An author must be taken seriously if he is familiar with Augustine, Calvin, Poole, John Owen, Whitcomb & Morris, Jonathan Edwards and, notably, Geerhardus Vos ... among many others.
Mohon's book … covers … the purpose, development history and end of, the entire cosmos. … Rooted in Scripture, this is a conservative, reverent, consistently Christian and Christ-exalting, view of all things. It is both Theocentric and Christocentric and could be considered an exposition of 1 Corinthians 15:21-28. The esteemed author embraces the biblical teaching i.e. six-day creation, literal Fall and universal Flood, the dispersal of Noah's descendents and the Kingdom of God established through the physical and spiritual offspring of Abraham. In dealing with these mighty themes he draws aside the curtain to show, behind the things which are seen, the unseen battle between God and the Satan. Our author sums this up in his introduction: 'From the earliest ages it has been the strategy of the powers of darkness to provide a substitute for the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15 and to develop an alternative apostate system of imperial and global dimension.' [p.1]
The reader will learn a great deal about the Creation and far-reaching consequences of the rebellion of Satan, and the Fall of Man. The Genesis accounts are accepted with a refreshing and believing reverence. He will also discover the significance of the apostasy of Nimrod. He may be surprised to learn that this ancient warfare is very much alive today. The reader will also receive fascinating information about the Pyramids, and towers (not least the Tower of Babel) and 'tower technology'! Above and beyond this wealth of fascinating facts, the Christian reader will be led to rejoice that, come what may, 'The Lord God Omnipotent REIGNETH.'
My conclusion: I heartily recommend this book to all who are willing to have their minds stretched, challenged and informed.
… A Christian browsing bookshop shelves or book lists might well pass by this book, with its stark white-on-black covers, sensational looking title and 'odd' sounding chapters … assuming it to be another lightweight 'Gospel' vs. 'the New Age' production. And that would be a tragedy.
Instead it is a scholarly, well reasoned, well documented, readable and fascinating production, covering very important ground indeed. Today early history is almost uniformly taught under the shadow of an assumed evolutionary past, with sub-human 'ancestors', stone age barbarism, the slow development of farming, followed by urban civilisations stretching over many long centuries until we reach more assured ground in the 'Classical' period. Bible readers know a very different 'earth model' but typically that remains in the realm of 'faith'; few Christians have challenged the worldly consensus, or produced works describing early history within that inspired framework.
This is what Pastor Mohon does, interfacing the facts of history and archaeology with the framework of Creation, Fall, Flood, Dispersion from Babel. It is no surprise that time and again the evidence fits neatly into the Biblical timescales, whilst creating anomalies in the 'secular' model. Also a 'spiritual' earth history opens dimensions that a secular one simply cannot approach; awareness of the unseen forces working wickedness and corruption on the one hand, and the grace of God leading to the ultimate and certain victory of good over evil on the other, all explaining otherwise 'causeless' events in history.
The rival 'kingdoms', the religious systems underlying them, and the ceaseless warfare resulting are still very much with us today: Nimrod and Babel are alive and flourishing in the 21st century! This is a 'pioneer' work which necessarily attempts to cover much ground in an accessible format. It is to be hoped that others will now follow the lead and provide textbooks and 'primers' at all levels weaving archaeology and history around the Bible framework to teach the true history – and destiny – of man and the earth. Christian educators take note!
The account is given a contemporary scenario by reference to the modern scientific age and how paganism has caused the deviation from the scientific method, which presupposes a rational Universe. Pastor Mohon argues carefully from many reliable sources.
Your book is most instructive and I read it with pleasure and profit. I particularly appreciated your having given the best interpretation I had yet read of the occupations of the descendants of Cain (Genesis 4) in the postdiluvial world. There can hardly ever be any other rational explanation.
The introduction of Roy Mohon’s book, subtitled ‘The true gospel distinguished from the global apostasy by reference to the early ages of man’, reminded me of a phrase my father used to repeat — ‘Know your enemy’. I am particularly thankful for this book, which documents ancient cultural evidences of spiritual war – a war that still rages silently around us. Not since I read Thomas Brook’s Precious remedies Against Satan’s devices and Ralph Venning’s The plague of plagues have I had my attention focused so sharply on the importance of knowing the enemy.
Mohon shows that this conflict originated with Satan’s rebellion in heaven. It then resulted in the historic fall of man in the Garden of Eden. After the Flood, apostasy reared up again at Babel. The subsequent dispersion of humanity across the earth led to a fascinating variety of idolatrous systems worldwide, each reflecting ancient but distorted memories of the truth – even though the peoples involved had levels of sophistication and technological ability they are seldom credited with. Mohon addresses our own culture too. Much contemporary 'science', far from rising above this conflict, sets itself up in opposition to the truth of God, offering its more ‘reasoned’ (though equally pagan) version of our age-old human apostasy.
This unusual book is a call to arms for the soldiers of Christ. Although intellectually challenging, it is written to reach the heart. It brought to mind the Bob Dylan lyrics, ‘You gotta serve somebody, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you gotta serve somebody’. No neutrality is possible.
Cosmic war survival should convince its readers that if there is to be a future church in the West, we must protect our children from the enemy, to whom we have exposed them for too long. The Bible, with its great subject, Christ, the true Daystar — rather than the idols of paganism and secular humanism – must mould hearts and minds.
I began reading your book to two of my older children, and it is engendering some great discussion already… We all appreciated the way you are interweaving historical and archaeological finds into the story, while distinguishing them as mere earthly evidences of spiritual truth. I have … found some of the quotations and lines of reasoning quite helpful for my second son, who is encountering all these lines of worldly arguments in college. I read several paragraphs to him, and he stored them up for future "discussions" with college folks.