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Book 1: The Third Day Bible Code

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The Third Day Bible Code is Book 1 in this Still Here series. Published by BookPros in 2006, it is softcover and 267 pages in length. This book represents some serious, pioneering research about a repeated third day motif in the Bible. This mysterious, cryptic, and therefore obscure subject occurs mostly in the Old Testament.

The Apostle Paul wrote that God raised Jesus from the dead “on the third day according to the scriptures”--the Old Testament (1 Corinthians 15.4b). What scriptures? Paul doesn't say. Jesus cited one, about the Prophet Jonah being in a big fish for three days. Jesus said it was a type (sign) of his impending resurrection on the third day. This should alert us to look for other types about three days or third day in the Scriptures.

Indeed, a peculiar third day motif occurred in some of the most important events in Jewish history that are recorded in the Bible. For example, it was on the third day that Abraham offered Isaac, the Israelites met God at Mt. Sinai, and Esther saved the Jews. I interpret these and other incidents as obscure types that prefigure Jesus, some forecasting his resurrection on the third day. Jews have recognized the importance and significance of this third day motif, and they have partially understood its meaning. Christians have done neither; yet they have had all the more reason to do so, since they believe God resurrected Jesus on the third day.

The third day motif in these narratives serve as a code that unlocks God’s timetable for the future. By applying to them the principle "that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day" (2 Peter 3.8), I further interpret that Jesus will return in the early part of the third millennium following his departure, approximately between the years 2070 and 2250.

Whether or not one accepts this sensational thesis about the approximate timing of Jesus' return, this book will serve as a strong apologetic for God's existence as well as Jesus' resurrection on the third day, and it will strengthen Christians in their faith.

This book placed second in the Religion/Christianity category in USA Book News' National "Best Books" Awards contest in 2007.

Back Cover Text, Table of Contents, Preface, Chapter One | Synopsis | Story Behind Front Cover, Title & Song

 

Vic Zarley wrote a song inspired by this book. It's called "On the Third Day". Take a listen:

Book 2: Warrior from Heaven

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Warrior from Heaven is Book 2 in this Still Here series. Published by BookPros in 2009, it is softcover and 242 pages in length. It is a dramatic narrative about all biblical prophecies that portray the second coming of Christ and all events thereafter. No detail is left behind. Thousands of verses are joined together in a chronological framework and written about in a journalistic style in the present tense. This action-packed, biblical epic is quite engaging, easy reading, and written for the general public. About 15% of it is poetry, half of it from the Bible.

The book begins with the military forces and heads of state of all of the world's nations gathering into northern Israel. Then the Antichrist leads them to annihilate all Israeli Jews and wipe the State of Israel off the map. But Jews repent and Jesus returns on clouds as a warrior-king to lead them in destroying all of these enemies. Then he sets up his worldwide kingdom of peace centered at Jerusalem, with Israel as chief of the nations. Here is the kind of Messiah the Jews were looking for when they rejected Jesus.

To enhance readability, the thousands of Scripture references are placed in the book's margins alongside their corresponding lines in the text, as in some study reference Bibles. Also, there are six maps, few notes, and several text boxes that explain issues in the narrative. This unique book has been in progress for 35 years. It represents a lifetime of studying Bible prophecy. Warrior from Heaven may be the most sophisticated, chronologically-arranged narrative of end-times prophecies in the Bible ever published. An illustrator was hired to produce the striking image on this book's front cover. It is about Jesus returning in the sky, riding on clouds.

Other Books by Kermit Zarley

Palestine is Coming: The Revival of Ancient Philistia
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 Learn about my unique proposal for solving the prolonged Palestinian-Israeli conflict in accordance with historical precedent. That is, let Jews have their "ancestral land," a right they claim in their Proclamation of Independence, which includes all of the West Bank, and let the Palestinians have "the land of the Philistines," from whom they derive their name. Such a Palestinian state would be an expanded Gaza Strip, extending north, east, and south.

Palestine Is Coming is a softcover, 269-page book published in 1990 by Hannibal Books and reissued by Wipf and Stock Publishers. Its first two chapters provide a history of the possession of this disputed land during antiquity. In doing so, I differentiate between the historical land of Israel (ancestral land) and the Promised Land. And I show that the Israelites never possessed the land of the Philistines for any appreciable length of time. The purpose of these two chapters is to try to stimulate discussion in the peace process regarding the identification of the land of Israel. The book's middle chapters relate the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Chapter ten shows the advantages of this proposed Palestinian state compared to the world focus being on a Swiss-chees West Bank-Gaza entity. In the four remaining chapters, I interpret ten prophecies in the Old Testament to show that this is indeed how this conflict will turn out.

This book continues to be increasingly more relevant than when it was published, in 1990. The U.S. government, as the peace broker, has called for the establishment of a Palestinian state. In 2007, Israel relinquished the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. And the Palestinians' high birth rate will arouse two important issues in the near future. Israel must agree to the creation of a Palestinian state or Palestinians will be in the majority in Israel, so that it will no longer be a Jewish state. And because the Gaza Strip already is perhaps the most densely-populated piece of real estate on earth, it surely will have to be expanded.

I apologize to the Palestinian people for the incorrect placement of colors in the Palestinian flag on this book's front cover. The green and black should have been reversed. The Israeli Consulate in Houston, Texas, misinformed me, innocently I'm sure.

For more information about this book, and to read several updates to its proposal, visit my other website at kermitzarley.com.


The Gospel
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The Gospel is a 237-page softcover book published in 1987 by Victor Books, a division of Scripture Press. It is a single-narrative (composite) harmony of the four New Testament gospels in the words of the New International Version of the Holy Bible (NIV). It is a chronological narrative of the life of Jesus that interweaves every detail of the four gospels together while eliminating all repetition. The result is a condensation representing 75% of these gospels. This compilation has been carefully produced by rigorously adhering to "Ten Principles of Composition" drafted by the author. Its chronological arrangement of events in Jesus' life has not been achieved arbitrarily; rather, it has been determined by a sophisticated table that shows the majority view of each event by thirteen scholars who produced the most successful gospel harmonies in English over the past 325 years.

This book is no longer in print. However, in 1991 it was translated and adapted into German, retitled Das Leben Jesu (The Life of Jesus), and remains in print in hardcover in Germany. Also, most of The Gospel was included in the hardcover book entitled 101 Days in the Gospels with Oswald Chambers (1992), compiled by James R. Adair and Harry Verploegh.

The Gospels Interwoven
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The Gospels Interwoven is a 415-page book that was also originally published by Victor Books in 1987. This “Reference Edition” is a two-part book. The first part includes the entire single-narrative harmony in The Gospel as well as footnoted questions that identify apparent discrepancies when comparing especially the synoptic gospels (first three gospels). The reader is then directed to the “Harmonization Endnotes” in the second part of the book. Therein, answers are provided to these 132 questions (121 pp.) by appealing mostly to distinguished New Testament scholars. The Gospels Interwoven also includes a defense of this type of gospel harmony, twenty-five maps of the journeys of Jesus appropriately placed in the gospel narrative, and other helpful aids.

Dallas Theological Seminary's former Greek and New Testament professor S. Lewis Johnson Jr. wrote this book's foreword. And Evangelist Billy Graham and Dick Halverson, Chaplain to the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 1994, added their endorsements to it. Graham says, "It may well become a classic."

This hardcover edition is no longer available. But Wipf & Stock Publishers republished The Gospels Interwoven in 2002 with a new (soft) cover, seen here in the accompanying image, so that this book is still available.

For more information about The Gospels Interwoven, visit kermitzarley.com.


   

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