Shadowed: The Final Judgment

I am a law prof who teaches First Amendment and religious liberty law. This wonderful series illustrates what happens when a Nation turns its back on God and His role in the Nation's history. We are not there yet in Secular America, but we are moving in this direction, in the direction of religious cleansing from the public square. Highly recommended!

This was a great finale to the SOON series. I enjoyed each book very much, but this one I liked the best. I blew through this one in about 4 days, which is pretty fast for me. The concept of a futuristic one-world government is written well by the author. The idea of a banishment of all religion is quickly approaching, at least from a Christian stand-point because we are "judgemental" and "intollerable" Well, forgive us for being honest. I liked the resolution of this series and I think that this trilogy had me hooked and more interested than the first 3 books in the Left Behind series. I liked LB alot also, I am not one of those bashers, but I thought that this story-line was more gripping than that one, at least the first books of it. I hope to see more from Mr. Jenkins. He is an easy read, but that just means I can get through them faster and have more time to read more stories.

World War III was a holy war with no winners as survivors eke out an existence on a decimated planet. Reactionaries felt that religion was the cause of all wars and for this reason religion was banned and people who prayed openly were declared traitors and arrested. The Nation Peace Organization was formed to find the underground zealots and arrest them and until recently Paul Stepola was one of their best agents. While hospitalized a believer talked to him and Paul eventually became a believer which was when his sight returned. He became a double agent, a mole who helped the believers whenever he could. With the oppression getting worse, the believers pray to God that the first born male of non-believers will die and He answers theirs their prayers proving to the world that he does exist since the underground announced the event before it happened. Neither Paul nor his son dies so the NPO knows that he is a believer. He and his family go on the run from the man who needs to punish his beliefs, his father in law, Ranold Decenti, the founder of the NPO. He wants his son-in-law his daughter and grandchildren punished for breaking the law. This futuristic thriller in which religion is banned and an organization is formed to find and execute the traitors to the one world government is Jerry Jenkins at his very best. The characters are well developed, there is plenty of action and the storyline is believable because with God, all things are possible. The protagonist is a hero who risks his life to save the believers and overthrow the ban on religion while the antagonist is a frighteningly believable opponent who is more interested in power and revenge than the ideology he once believed in. Harriet Klausner

Once again corraling his skills in sci-fi-ish mysteries, Jerry has provided another title with a deeper purpose. That's to cause readers to ask how valuable they regard their faith in the God who's promised to put a punctuation mark on the end of history. Jerry's books are in a league by themselves. Yes, he crafts page-turner novels. But he also forces us to put ourselves in the characters' shoes and ask what we'd do if our lives depended on what we believed as eternally true.