Says the author, "The story provides a viable explanation as to what the growing cult-like fascination with UFO phenomenon might be about, how it could be readily used by the Antichrist as both a scare tactic to unite the various cultures on earth, [and to explain the disappearance of millions of Christians at the rapture."

The novel derives its inspiration from Floersch's desire to get nonbelievers to reevaluate their position on the concepts of eternal existence and Christ's gift of salvation: "I believe if you truly study and apply deductive logic, the scales distinctly tip toward the existence of God," he says. "This ultimately is the thought process I want to plant in the minds and hearts of the nonbeliever. I want them to have to think about it logically."

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