Check out this idea I have for a book! 🙂
Okay, so there’s this legend in which King Solomon imprisons a demon in a jar for 1800 years. I might tweak the date a bit to suit my purposes. Solomon is able to do this because of his ring, the Seal of Solomon, that was given to him by God. Because he was the wisest man to ever live, he supposedly even had control over demons, who apparently helped him build the First Temple.
My premise is that the demon inside the jar is the demon who will possess someone and make him the Antichrist. Basically the book is about a guy having to find the jar and stopping religious zealots from releasing the demon because they believe in a post-tribulation rapture, meaning that after seven years (I think) of them releasing the demon, Jesus Christ will rapture His Church. The man wants to stop them because he doesn’t want billions of people to die in the Tribulation, he doesn’t think it’s right for them to basically “force” God to send Jesus back, and he wants the lost to have more time to come to repentance. At the same time, however, he in a way wants for the jar to be opened as he has lost someone close to him and longs to be with him again. As he is a Catholic, he believes that if he commits suicide to see the person again, he will automatically burn in Hell. He knows, however, that if the jar is opened, he will see the person again in Heaven in seven years. I want this to kind of have a Dan Brown effect with the gray area of the reader wondering whether it would be right or wrong to release the demon.
There’s more complications that involve how the demon is still sealed in the jar up to 2,984 years later and how the guy can keep the demon from being released, but I don’t want those to distract from the core idea.
Hope you guys like the idea! Let me know what you think! 🙂