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CLAIRE CLONINGER
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THE END OF THE AGE by Pat Robertson.
Copyright © 1995 by Pat Robertson. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published by W Publishing Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Robertson, Pat.
The end of the age: a novel / by Pat Robertson.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8499-4414-7
1. End of the world—Fiction. 2. Prophecies—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.02498E5 1995
813'.54—dc 20
95-34672
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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To my wife, Dede, with thanks
for her encouragement
and support . . .
“This is how it will
be at the end of the age.”
—The Gospel of Matthew
CONTENTS
Part One
Chaptter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Part Two
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
About the Author
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE
CARL THRONEBERRY was having a bad day. Agitated, rest-less, and hot, he turned off the television in his den and walked outside. He was hit immediately by a blast of dry heat. The meteorologist on the news had just reported that the temperature had hit a searing 112 degrees, as it had nearly every day for the past three weeks.
Not that it’s all that much cooler inside the house, Carl thought as he stood on the front porch of his spacious Mediterranean-style dwelling, surveying what was left of his once-green lawn. Brownouts in southern California had become more and more frequent over the past several weeks, and despite the sweltering heat, the air conditioning was little more than a sometime luxury. There simply wasn’t enough power in the system to support it.