As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from the brink of destruction, the Jedi’s most fearsome enemy plots to end the war–and claim victory–with a final act of domination. . . . The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begun. As Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo negotiate its place in the galactic struggle against the Yuuzhan Vong, one of its organic ships is taken by the alien invaders. Scientist Nen Yim is ordered to use the captive to find weak spots in Zonama Sekot’s technology. But what Nen Yim discovers about the planet and its mysteries shocks her to the core. Clearly her people have gone terribly astray. For the peace-loving planet harbors not only the key to its own destruction, but the long-forgotten secrets of the Yuuzhan Vong themselves. Meanwhile, General Wedge Antilles, commanding one fleet in a three-pronged campaign to retake the Bilbringi system, is suddenly stranded deep in Yuuzhan Vong space, cut off from all contact. Wedge and his ships must rely on trickery and brilliant battle tactics if they are to survive long enough to ensure the success of one of the deadliest and most crucial missions the Galactic Alliance forces have ever seen. . . . Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

In 1981, two young girls in the former Yugoslavia reported seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary on a hilltop in a small town in southern Herzegovina. She called herself "Gospa." Since that day, millions of people have made the pilgrimage to the site. Hundreds have reported miraculous cures. The Catholic Church has yet to render judgment on the visions or the cures and medical science is at a loss to explain them. Pilgrims of all races, creeds, and colors continue to visit the shrine, each in hope of a miracle.

This commentary is the first major work on the book of Revelation in many years that expounds the historicist interpretation. The historicist school of interpretation was the dominant approach from Reformation times through most of the nineteenth century. The reasons for the current disaffection are too complex to address in a few words, but it is the author's conviction that from the standpoint of sound principles of biblical hermeneutics, the historicist inerpretation is still the most creditable approach for an accurate understanding of this, the last book of the Bible and the final prophecy of Jesus.

Predicts much turmoil in the Middle East, the collapse of the stock market and - worst of all - an appalling third world war, which will be masterminded by an Antichrist figure, in 2005, and which, after a four-year truce beginning in 2017, will end in 2025, the year Nostradamus's prophecies end. Only then will a new era of peace and understanding dawn in our changed world. Book jacket.