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I have some central scriptural verse that resonates with this story:

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. [Matthew 25:34 KJV]

Here is the key verse of the goal of the Excavatia book series:

And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people), Ephesians 1:18 Amplified Version

1. “The very center and core of your being” – The Mid-World
2. “Flooded with light by the Holy Spirit” – The realization and coming of Excavatia
3. “the divine guarantee, the confident expectation” aka “The Word of God” – The Marker Stone

Premise:  There existence of mankind is initially bound and confined into a limited perception fixed principally on the Physical World (The Surface World).  God says the “unseen world” is more real than what we perceive it to be. (2 Cor. 4:18) We who have been awakened to the larger, eternal reality, sense that it is there as we perceive it through the revealing in the Word of God, and through His Holy Spirit indwelling within us, making us come alive spiritually.  There is a purely spiritual realm yet to come where the all of the corruptible shall be raised and transformed into incorruptible (1 Peter 1:4) where we will dwell in an incorruptible body in the very presence of God Himself. (1 Cor. 15:52)
In our present cursed body, destined to return to the dust from which it was created, we cannot be in corruptible flesh and look upon the glory of God’s face and live.  God told Moses:
But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” [Exodus 33:20 NKJV]
But there is a central part of us, sometimes referred to in the OT as “the heart” and sometimes in the NT as “the soul”, but it is our essence, our personhood, that part of us that contains our identity, our will, and our thoughts and feelings and has a “metaphysical presence”, if you will.  It is not the same as our spirit.  Our spirit is the part of us that was still born, killed in the Garden by the entrance of sin into the flesh of humankind.  It is the part of us that MUST be born again, as Jesus told Nicodemus.  Our spirit is the part of us that is sensitive to the communications of the Holy Spirit, and of our communion with God.  We worship God in spirit and in authenticity. (John 4:23-24) Our spirit is the part of us that can praise Him out of the gratitude for our personal redemption. It is made alive through Christ and will never die. So, the body is the physical, the soul/heart is the metaphysical, and the spirit is purely spiritual.  This is the trinity of mankind, made in God’s image.  But what if…The Universe created by Him and consisting by Him is also triune?  We have a physical earth and all of the observable universe, and we are assured there is a Heavenly Realm where God’s throne room sits, and only the dead in Christ may enter it. But what if there is a third component that is overlooked in our myopic vision of thinking this is all there is?

If Evil and all its forms cannot endure the full glory of God’s perfection and survive, in what places do they dwell in the unseen?  Ephesians 1:3 & 2:6 says there is a dwelling of a heavenly place in Christ, in which Christ sits at the right hand of The Father (Ephesian 1:20) , so this must be the spiritual realm we are destined to go to. BUT there exists a heavenly place where wicked entities dwell that we must contend with. Ephesians 6:12.  I look at that place as “The Battlefield” and I highly suspect it somehow takes occupancy in the collective hearts of mankind.  These things occupy both the unsaved, but are squatters that have no legitimate claim on the territories of the souls who have been redeemed by The Blood of The Lamb.  This is where we contend with them, in our hearts, standing against them as more than conquerors when we fully grasp that we are called to use God’s authority to evict these evil forces and drive them out of the territories they had invaded, for the landscape of our heart now belongs to The King that redeemed us.  We are to take up supernatural armor, under God’s authority and tear down their strongholds, but we first must shed our old fears, by coming to trust Him more fully, and stamp His seal of Lordship over every vile thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 10:5).

This then makes up the three worlds: Earth as we know it (The Surface World), the metaphysical world of the heartland (The Mid-World), and the Promised Land and Hidden Kingdom we are called to seek first (Excavatia).

The story is the tale of 21 strangers, all from the Surface World, pulled out of time (not necessarily the same time) and into the mysterious land of The Mid-World to join together in a quest to carry one of the three Virtue Stones across the land peopled with friend and foe, humans and monsters, and every kingdom and fiefdom representing the major “human” worldviews that strive to corrupt and thwart the kingdom seeking journey to enter the distance mountains and restore their part of the questing stone into the stolen crown of dominion that the great red dragon tried to steal and escape with over the far stone mountain range.  Each of the three stones represents one of the eternal virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love.  The three things that last, according to the scripture (1 Cor. 13:13).  Some believe these stones have supernatural powers, but others know the truth.  All power is give by connection to Christ (Luke 4:6-8), and no one can conjure or wield power unless it be granted and used to serve the ends for which Christ gives it.  The most critical point of the quest is not in seeking power, but in learning how to surrender to the authority of Christ and experience His power flowing through us and channeled to do what He commands, even when it may not make sense to the bearer.  God’s ways are higher than our way, His thoughts than our thoughts and He uses the simple and weak things to confound the wise and defeat the strong. The MC returns to the Mid-World because he is called to lead this (the third and final quest), not because he is qualified to do so, but exactly because he isn’t.  He was the one who helped betray the prior quest and lead to its failure, but the twenty others following him do not know that.  But God qualifies those He calls, and they will eventually learn that each of them were called to this. To be there together, to learn to work together and become like a family, a band of brothers and sisters, each with their own shortcomings, insecurities, and secrets.  An unlikely team called to a seemingly impossible task, to save a land that they do not know is somehow connected to each of them, and that to save it together, they will be joining in God’s purposes to find the Kingdom, and the implications for their own personal testimony to carry back with them into the Surface World from which they were called.