The Sealed, a three-book Jewish end-times thriller. Book One, Hold the Four Winds, is available now. Book Two follows on November 11.
The series
The people are fictional. The prophetic sequence is drawn from Scripture.
Beginning with Hold the Four Winds, The Sealed follows a world transformed by the catching away of the Church, a seven-year covenant, the rebuilding of the Temple, the judgments described in Revelation, and the events leading to the visible return of the Messiah.
Through Natan and Ari Kessler, Mark Hale, and the people whose lives become entangled in the unfolding crisis, the trilogy explores faith, deception, allegiance, sacrifice, and the cost of choosing what to believe.
The story is fiction. The passages are there for readers to read.
Daniel 9:27
The trilogy follows Daniel's seventieth week from beginning to end. Each book carries the story through part of those seven years.
The midpoint “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.” Book Two builds to that moment. Book Three covers the twelve hundred and sixty days that follow.
Read in order
Every Scripture quotation in the series is from the King James Version.
Book OneAvailable now
She left her glasses on the floor and a letter for her sons.
On a Friday evening in Jerusalem, Miriam Kessler disappears from her Shabbat table, and millions vanish in the same moment. Her letter tells her two sons what will happen next: a covenant for seven years, a rebuilt Temple, two witnesses, and a mark no one should ever take.
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Book TwoNovember 11, 2026
The Temple is finished. Someone is coming to sit in it.
Natan Kessler walks into Jerusalem sealed, one of the 144,000. His brother Ari is building the house his people have prayed toward for two thousand years. In the middle of the week, the man who signed the covenant will walk into the Holy of Holies.
Coming November 11
Book ThreeNovember 18, 2026
Twelve hundred and sixty days. Then every eye shall see Him.
The man sits in the Holy of Holies, and the world bows. Natan flees with a remnant into the desert. Mark Hale feeds the families who refuse the mark. The armies of the world gather below Megiddo, and the count is almost finished.
Coming November 18Official trailer
Two minutes, from the Shabbat table in Jerusalem to the light over the Mount of Olives.
The Scripture behind the story
The characters and places are fictional. The biblical passages behind the story are identified, so readers can examine them firsthand.
All Scripture quoted in the novels comes from the KJV.
The series follows a literal, premillennial, pre-tribulational framework.
Book Three closes with a guide to the passages behind each major event in all three books.
About the author
Philemon Briggs writes Scripture-rooted fiction that brings biblical prophecy into a continuous narrative of human choices, faith, deception, judgment, and redemption.
His trilogy, The Sealed, moves from the catching away of the Church through the judgments of the Tribulation to the visible return of the Messiah. Its fictional characters confront the events of Daniel, the Gospels, and Revelation, and the series invites readers to open those passages and consider what they say.
Philemon Briggs writes under a pen name.
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