It is one hundred years before the start of the Common Era. The Age of the Angels has long passed into history and that of the prophets is now ending. A new era is beginning, that of the sword. Armies are on the march. Empires are falling and rising. In Palestine, the Maccabee dynasty is battling with the Hellenizing Syrians for supremacy. Watchers, fallen Angels exiled after the Great Flood, have returned to assist men in their bloody conquests. Meanwhile, communities of Jewish mystics living in Palestine await a messiah, the Mashiakh, who will save the world. The Watchers and their allies however, will stop at nothing to prevent the coming of a Mashiakh. This is the first book of the Mashiakh Trilogy. Based on themes from the Books of Enoch and writings attributed to the Essenes, the Mashiakh Trilogy chronicles the turbulent events of Palestine in the century leading up to the Common Era and the spiritual ferment it creates. The Mashiakh Trilogy offers an alternate way of viewing this unique time and place, versus the standard storyline. It weaves actual historical events into a web of spiritual fantasy to provide readers with a sense of the mysticism, until now mostly obscured, that played such an important role in shaping spiritual events that were to take place in Palestine at the start of the Common Era.