By
Sir Archibald McLeod, OBE
VANISHMENT presents a fictional, imaginative, and delightfully irreverent account of what might happen if Jesus Christ—yes, the Jesus Christ—were to make an unexpected return to Earth in the year 2011. And not in Jerusalem, Rome, or atop a mountain, but in the backyard of an ordinary middle-class man lounging beside his pool in Boca Raton, Florida.
What follows is an extraordinary chain of events that reshapes humanity and the world forever.
The author offers a wry, humorous, and occasionally outrageous interpretation of the long-anticipated “Second Coming,” a prophecy pondered for two thousand years. Why Jesus returns now, and why He selects a suburban pool deck as His landing site, is left for the reader to imagine. Equally mysterious—and endlessly fascinating—are His actions as He sets about His divine work.
Echoes of the Book of Revelation resonate throughout this tale, with its vivid visions of judgment, apocalypse, and renewal. Yet VANISHMENT reinterprets these ancient themes through a modern lens, imagining how God—armed with omniscience, infinite power, and a celestial sense of efficiency—might “clean up” the world humanity has so thoroughly complicated.
The result is a sharply crafted, often humorous vision of divine intervention. God, knowing the hearts of all men, removes the “poisonous influences” infecting His creation with precision and finality. And in this story, His chosen people turn out to be a far broader category than traditional doctrine might suggest.
In the end, the world that remains is pristine—purged of all evil, pettiness, corruption, and cruelty. The ultimate question is left for the reader:
Is the world Jesus creates truly better… or merely different?
Customer Reviews
“Sir, I have waited all my life for this book. Thank you. How I pray that things turn out as you have predicted…”
— Alice Ward, Pretoria, South Africa
“Dear Captain Firth, what a wonderful world you present. I’d love to live there. Your depiction of Jesus’ ‘fixed’ world is marvelous.”
— Mildred Stevens, New York
