We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?