The idea of the „Judgement Day“ – „The End of the World“ – „Apocalypse“… has been haunting the human imagination for centuries. During the last 2000 years, every generation considered its times to be the last times in which the horrific events foretold in the Bible will strike the mankind.
The novel „SECRET OF THE APOCALYPSE“ (Goran Ergovic, Solin – Croatia, 1st edition 2020. , 2nd edition 2021., 3rd edition 2023.) leads the reader from the origins of the BOOK OF REVELATIONS which the youngest apostle of Jesus, John of Zebedee, better known as the Saint John the Evangelist, has written during his exile on the Greek island of Patmos at the end of the 1st century. This chapter, the last of the today’s Bible, also known as APOCALYPSE, hides many secrets in its essence. The mind-shattering analyses in this novel related to the impact of the John’s heavenly visions to the mysticism and symbolism of the Renaissance introduce us to the exclusive discoveries which have been kept a secret for half a millennium. The reader is presented with the clearly defined conclusion about the final product of John’s visions. The Apocalypse is the only Biblical text which is not a chronicle of those times, but is related exclusively to the future; therefore, it was rightly placed at the end of the Bible.
The plot of the novel is a carefully woven mosaic of real historical events, persons and relations which were almost lost in the mist of centuries past. This story is, among other things, a real historical textbook which, through the plot, expands our knowledge about the events in Jerusalem, Constantinople, Rome, Salona and Vatican. In the second half of the novel, true to the rhythm of a thriller, the plot takes us to the streets of Rome and Vatican, confronting us with various and unexpected events, twists and outcomes.
Finally, the novel reveals the key secrets which, since the time of the writing of John’s Revelations 19 centuries ago, represented inexplicable theological conundrums. The novel proves that they could not be revealed until the present times, and they remained a secret until „THE SECRET OF THE APOCALYPSE“ was finally published in the autumn of 2020. Become a part of the story of this many-layered, tense novel on 650 pages, which is, believe or not, read at least two times in a row.
Although the novel is titled The Secret of the Apocalypse, this narrative drives you to reveal at least three secrets that, at the time of the novel publication, still persist among the greatest unanswered mysteries of symbolism.