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16 Will they return? When will they return? These questions have been asked of me countless times, “they” being the Anunnaki gods whose saga has filled my books. The answer to the first question is yes; there are clues that need to be heeded, and the prophecies of the Return need to be fulfilled. The answer to the second question has preoccupied Mankind ever since the watershed events in Je- rusalem more than two thousand years ago. But the question is not only “if” and “when.” What will the Return signal, what will it bring with it? Will it be a be- nevolent coming, or—as when the Deluge was looming— bring about the End? Which prophecies would come true: a Messianic Time, the Second Coming, a new Beginning— or perhaps a catastrophic Apocalypse, the Ultimate End, Armageddon... It is the last possibility that shifts these prophecies from the realm of theology, escatology, or mere curiosity to a mat- ter of Mankind’s very survival; for Armageddon, a term that has come to denote a war of unimagined calamitous scope, is in fact the name of a specific place in a land that has been subjected to threats of nuclear annihilation. In the twenty-first century B.c.E., a war of the Kings of the East against the Kings of the West was followed by a nuclear calamity. Twenty-one centuries later, when B.c.E. changed to A.D., Mankind’s fears were expressed in a scroll, hidden in a cave near the Dead Sea, that described a great and final “War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness.” ARMAGEDDON AND PROPHECIES OF THE RETURN