What does the hero of a world-changing mission look like?
If you’re picturing a battle-hardened soldier, a charismatic leader, or a seasoned man of faith with an answer for everything, think again.
Dr. Rigel Emerson is a physicist in his early thirties. He’s brilliant beyond measure, the kind of mind that walked the halls of MIT and understands things most people can’t even imagine. He has a beautiful wife named Anna, and (as we learned in Millennium: Preparations Begin, the first book in The Millennium Series) a newborn son named Michael. Rigel lives a quiet life built around the laws of the universe he has spent his entire career mastering.
He is also one of the most socially awkward, self-doubting, unlikely heroes ever put on a page.
And that is exactly what makes him impossible to disparage.
Rigel has spent his entire life in the company of equations, not people. He’s a lifelong Christian believer and his faith has always been the one thing that came naturally to him, even when conversations didn’t. He understands God’s creations at the molecular level. He just struggles to look someone in the eye across a dinner table.
There’s something deeply human about that tension. Many of the greatest people God has selected to do great things were not an obvious choice. Moses stuttered. Gideon was the least of his family. David was the youngest son left in the field to tend sheep while his brothers stood before Samual.
Rigel Emerson fits that lineage.
One day, without warning, he was introduced to luminous interdimensional beings who stepped through the rift and delivered a commission directly from the Throne of God.
The mission: develop a scientific system that will render every weapon on earth, from handguns to nuclear warheads, permanently inoperable, but do it without any human blood shed, without a single casualty. It must be accomplished before Christ returns to establish the Millennium.
The foundation for the story lies in Scripture. Isaiah 2:4 declares that in the last days, nations will beat their swords into plowshares and learn war no more. What Rigel is being asked to do is not fantasy; it’s the fulfillment of a promise God made thousands of years ago. Rigel is simply the instrument chosen to bring it to pass.
The problem? Rigel doesn’t feel like an instrument. He feels like a man who is in way over his head, carrying a secret he can never share, tasked with an achievement that defies every boundary of known science.
What sets Rigel apart from most fictional heroes is not his intellect; it’s his faith and his burden.
He must carry the weight of his mission largely in silence. He cannot explain to Anna what is happening to him. He cannot tell his colleagues why his research has suddenly taken a direction no peer-reviewed journal would ever publish. He must appear, to everyone around him, like an ordinary man living an ordinary life, while quietly working to change the world forever.
His faith is not the polished, confident faith of a man who has all the answers. It’s the raw, daily, sometimes desperate faith of a man who has been asked to trust God completely in circumstances that make no earthly sense.
That is the kind of faith most of us want to know.
The greatest characters in fiction are not the ones who are the strongest. They are the ones who are most recognizably human, and who rise anyway.
Rigel Emerson is a man who doubts himself but trusts God. A man who is more comfortable with the laws of physics than the laws of social interaction. A man who loves his wife and son deeply, and who carries a loneliness that no one around him fully understands.
He is not a superhero. He is a servant.
In Millennium: Preparations Begin, the first book in The Millennium Series, you will watch him take the first steps of a journey that will span a series. It’s a journey rooted in Scripture, driven by faith, and charged with the kind of intrigue that keeps you reading long past the time you meant to stop.
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Won’t you please join me in our journey to The Millennium!