The Angelmen's Race to Battle

Do you remember being seventeen? Junior year in high school. Possibly the biggest problems you had were your chemistry grade and who you'd be going with to the prom.

Amity David worried mostly about her grades and pleasing her father, pastor of Dewdrop Fellowship Church. The youngest of six kids, though, she was happiest to sit by quietly as others did the talking and all the important work.

But that wasn't what God had planned for her. As a matter of fact, what God had in store for Amity, He had planned thousands of years prior, before Noah's flood.

That was when Satan changed the game. Knowing that God's plan to save mankind would come from the seed of a woman, he corrupted that seed by sending his demon followers to  procreate with human women. The resulting race of half-human/half demons were described in Genesis 6 as the Nephilim. His plan backfired when Jesus Christ was born in spite of his efforts.

Now, in the 21st century, few people had ever even heard of the Nephilim. The attitudes of man have seldom altered the will of God, however, God gave the Nephilim a second look. He chose to bring awake this special race and bring them into His fold. Nephilim, now called Angelmen, were called out one by one by their guiding angels and prepared for battle. 

The devil reworked his plan. Demon blood put the angelmen under Satan's command. They could be used by him in the final battle between Jesus and his saints and Satan and his followers. 

But after years and years of nothing but human parents, the angelmen began to tug on the heart of God. He determined to bring them out of Satan's bondage through a battle of their own. He chose four very special angelmen, who would work in perfect harmony without even realizing it, to lead the battle against Satan.

Working with human-like beings, whether favored by God or not, had its downfalls, not the least of which would be fallibility. The four leaders - Amity, Asher, Caedmon, and Malachi - each had their own flaws. Getting them to all work together, looking past their own needs, to achieve a goal they could barely understand - saving a race of thousands they had never even know about before - wouldn't be easy.

Amity was called to be the Messenger. She was tasked with delivering a very important message to get the ball rolling. However, confrontation was not her strong point. Although a strong Christian who would love to please her God, she wasn't sure just how far she was willing to go to do that.

Asher, on the other hand, loved the limelight. His athletic success as a track and football star made him feel unstoppable. Professional football, any girl he wanted, and love from the public with his winning smile were on his near horizon. His human life was way too comfortable to leave, starting over in a field where he wasn't the top dog. 

Malachi had already made way too many mistakes in his life of twenty-one years. So many, he had been trying to escape his life for years. Starting a new one was not what he had in mind. Being called as the commander of an inexperienced army would never be something in his future ... unless he was bribed with just the right hope.

Then there was 10-year-old Caedmon. (pronounced "KADE man") Still mourning the loss of his parents in an accident that should have also claimed his life, all the boy could do was try to pick up the pieces and avoid his nasty guardians. Given exciting new powers was exciting... when he could control them. But who was going to trust a kid as a leader in battle?

The four were called at the same time, because getting them to a very specific destination at the same time would be essential. Getting them to work together beyond that meant saving the race of the angelmen from Satan's control.

Will they be able to get beyond their own problems to bring their kin into God's favor? Thousands of others are counting on it.

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