The book illuminates the flaws of the mainstream Western religions as it guides and empowers its readers to embrace an enlightened spirituality. A sharp-cutting treatise that backs its revolutionary insights with scholarly depth and substantiating wisdom, it will shock the world by debunking the “fire and brimstone” theology of mainstream Christianity.

The book primarily accomplishes this by unraveling the apocalyptic prophecies of Daniel, the gospels and Revelation in their entirety. In fact, they contain hidden spiritual messages that contradict what has been confidently preached for all these centuries. Like a challenging riddle that cannot be solved, the answer is obvious in hindsight. Only the blinding power of a paradigm can explain how we missed it for so long.

The revelations will strike with devastating force because the book first arrives at the same conclusion through more traditional means. It convincingly describes how Jesus had come to uproot Judaism, but the version of Christianity that developed in his wake failed to make the paradigm shift. Erroneous tenets that should have been discarded were instead institutionalized in both theology and authority.

The book also blazes a third independent trail to the same destination by applying this advice for discerning false prophets: “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit” and “by their fruit you will recognize them” (Mt 7:18–20). It shows how this ancient religious tree bore its poisonous fruit in both the Holocaust and the abomination of slavery that fathered the Civil War.

Furthermore, the book illuminates the nature of evil and its well-cloaked ways, which is essential for unraveling the prophecies. This wisdom yields a new and astonishing interpretation of the Book of Job that delivers a quantum leap in insight over the prevailing understanding.

In addition, it presents an array of scientific evidence for the spiritual realm’s existence that complements its amazing demonstration that long-range prophecy is truly possible. It thus shows the atheistic religion of scientism is also doomed.

Meanwhile, the book proves Jesus was the “Anointed One” (Messiah) with a telescoping trio of prophecies (from Daniel) that foretold the onset of his ministry to the reign of the Roman Empire, to its first ten emperors in the first century CE and to 27–34 CE. Most Christians will thus either fearfully denounce it as a satanic assault upon their religion or courageously embrace it as the inevitable completion of the Reformation.

The book’s main title is derived from what Jesus supposedly proclaimed during his Sermon on the Mount: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Mt 7:13–14).

The book objectively explores the broad road of the Western religions and validates this sobering truth. It will thus help those who are lost in unenlightened dogma to leave the safety of their religious herd and find the sacred path of Jesus and other spiritual masters. The book’s primary purpose, then, is to encourage and empower readers to make a monumental transition from religion to an enlightened spirituality.

At the heart of the book is the unraveling of the apocalyptic prophecies. The spiritual realm had long ago foreseen that the divine kingdom heralded by Jesus would be convoluted and crushed by the darkness. It therefore had a serious agenda behind those prophecies. From Chapter 6:

Daniel’s prophecies remained a mystery for a host of historical and psychological reasons. The greatest reason they remained unsolved, though, is because the spiritual realm designed them to be that way.

The timing of their unraveling was meant to coincide with our collective awakening. The spiritual realm did not override our free will and dictate this momentous breakthrough. Rather, it long ago saw when we would finally achieve it and decided to support our spiritual evolution with a supernatural revelation.

In other words, the spiritual realm intended for the prophecies to remain a mystery until the moment was right. When we finally began awakening, they would be easily solved as we unwrapped a gift of heavenly affirmation.

Ultimately, the book paints an exquisitely informative picture so the prophecies will make their divinely destined impact. The end result of it all is that the book will most likely launch a theological earthquake as it rocks the mainstream versions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. From the book’s Introduction:

Ready or not, the end times are upon us. As may already be suspected, though, they are not the apocalyptic horror that has been taught by mainstream Christianity.

Rather, it is the time of the end of a very long era when only a fringe minority could find the narrow gate. It is also the time of the end for the fearful belief about a wrathful and judgmental God and the unenlightened teachers who have been indoctrinating such dogma. As an omniscient angel disclosed the historic milestone that would mark the fulfillment of all prophesied events, “When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed” (Dn 12:7).

After Jesus had just addressed the Jewish teachers of his day, he supposedly told his disciples, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit” (Mt 15:13–14). This statement applies just as much today as it did back then, and it especially applies to mainstream Christianity.

The book is in courageous service of that divine purpose. Given how clearly and powerfully it accomplishes this task, labels of “extremely controversial” and “revolutionary” might be understatements.

Stated another way, the book’s primary purpose is to help us awaken from our collective nightmare, whereupon we will be able to climb out of the horrific pit in which we’ve been living. As also written in the book’s Introduction:

There is great wisdom to the view that all problems are ultimately spiritual issues. The book delves into their roots by candidly examining our religious beliefs.

The time has come to address them with intelligence, attention, courage and deep intuition. The time has come to embrace an enlightened spirituality that will enable us to solve the problems we face at individual to global levels. As Albert Einstein explained, “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”¹

The time has come for us to become aware of the nature of the universe and the purpose of our existence. The time has therefore come for hundreds of millions of people to leave the broad road that has led to destruction and to begin finding the narrow gate that leads to true life. The book reveals what until now has been hidden from all but a small percentage of people—and thus its title.

To make way for the new, though, we must release our viselike grip on the old. Doing so is a frightening process and an inescapable part of spiritual growth.

Clearly seeing the founding errors of our religions will help with transcending this prodigious fear. Therefore, the book does not bow to any sacred cows or refrain from calling it like it is because such uncompromising language might offend somebody. Too much is at stake to not be as clear and sharp as possible, for the sword of truth was meant to cut through the deceptive web of the entrenched darkness.

The book’s secondary title may be an overused cliché, yet the tale of the writing on the wall comes from the fifth chapter of Daniel. It is appropriate, then, because the book is so deeply involved in Daniel. The secondary title is also quite descriptive because the book mirrors the biblical tale in portending the end of a mighty institution.

The history of science has taught us that paradigm shifts do not happen overnight. As physicist Max Planck (1858–1947) solemnly reflected, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”²

If new scientific truths are hard to accept by intelligent scientists, surely new spiritual truths will be even harder for the population at large. The divinely ordained and inevitable result, however, is clearly proven in the book for all to see. As the cliché so aptly communicates, it is only a matter of time before it materializes.

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¹ A. Calaprice (2005), The New Quotable Einstein, p. 292.
² T. Kuhn (1962/1970), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 151.

Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle has probably not seen any prophetic visions, but he knows where life is heading. As he wrote in his 2005 book, A New Earth:

But the ego is destined to dissolve, and all its ossified structures, whether they be religious or other institutions, corporations, or governments, will disintegrate from within, no matter how deeply entrenched they appear to be. The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. This has already happened in the case of Soviet Communism. How deeply entrenched, how solid and monolithic it appeared, and yet within a few years, it disintegrated from within. No one foresaw this. All were taken by surprise. There are many more such surprises in store for us.¹

The most rigid structure in religion is the Catholic Church, and it is about to start imploding from the great awakening. Yes, the book will hit the Catholic Church the hardest but not because of any kind of vendetta or malicious writing. It is just the way the prophecies unfold and align with greater spiritual truths.

Although the prophecies will grab the spotlight, their unraveling is made possible by the book’s insights into the nature of evil and the metaphysical darkness. Having first established this critical awareness, which also unlocks the enigma of Job, the book shows how the spiritual realm foretold the Church’s true colors long before it ever came into being.

The revealed prophecies will strike with exponential force because they are corroborated by other powerful insights. The book first distills and leverages the existing scholarship to demonstrate the errors and deceptions in the Bible upon which the Church was built. It also shines the light upon the Church’s horrific behavior in the Middle Ages and 20th century to further demonstrate the veracity of the prophecies. This is all done, by the way, without even once mentioning the sex abuse scandal of recent decades.

Yet the shock waves of the theological earthquake will go far beyond the Catholic Church. For what will all forms of biblical Christianity do when their apocalyptic prophecies have been shown to not be about an antichrist and the pulverizing of our planet but rather the tyrannical Church and a great awakening?

Moreover, what will they do when the book has shown how biblical Christianity was a hybrid religion instead of a pure one, a bastardized composite whose earliest champions had failed to reject the erroneous tenets and traditions of ancient Judaism? What will they do when the book has shown that the New Testament is littered with errors and fabrications? What will they do when lost souls have every reason to believe they have nothing to fear from a God of pure, unconditional love?

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¹ E. Tolle (2005), A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, p. 19.

The book strongly advocates the teachings of Jesus. As mentioned already, the Daniel prophecies conclusively prove he was indeed the Anointed One the Judaic world had long been expecting.

However, the book dismantles the Bible-driven theology of mainstream Christianity. In doing so, it addresses the systemic problem that led Martin Luther King Jr. to write about Mahatma Gandhi, “It is ironic, yet inescapably true that the greatest Christian of the modern world was a man who never embraced Christianity.”¹

All in all, there is hardly any middle ground between the book and mainstream Christianity. Either Christians will leap across a theological chasm and overhaul their beliefs to align with its revelations, or they will retrench in the traditional foxholes and reactively fight those who do. It will thus be interesting to see how the Christian churches, seminaries and booksellers deal with this gravely unorthodox book.

In any case, the Christian question will ultimately be answered by those who read it. Readers who place the greatest emphasis on living the teachings of Jesus will be the most likely folks to deem it a Christian book.

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¹ A. Ayres (Ed.) (1993), The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 91.

Chapter 1 (“The Search for Truth”) motivates our journey and introduces concepts that foreshadow the later revelations. The principles of free will, responsibility and spiritual power are especially important and surface throughout the book. The stages of spiritual growth provide an orienting map and help explain why the religious earthquake was inevitable.

The next two chapters explore the West’s two major approaches to understanding the universe. Chapter 2 (“The Trustworthy Horse of Science”) differentiates a pure version of science from the religion of scientism. It also explains science’s limitations, introduces the blinding power of paradigms, and presents scientific evidence of a greater spiritual reality.

Chapter 3 (“The Frozen Pillars of Religion”) examines the traditional religious approach to truth. After explaining how this mindset is solidified upon fear and repressed doubt, the chapter surfaces and debunks core assumptions as the book begins unearthing the erroneous roots of the Judeo-Christian paradigm. It also introduces a more enlightened version of Christianity and addresses questions about the devil, deception and hell.

Chapter 4 (“Judaism, the Messiah and the Hybrid Religion”) continues the spiritual gardening by clarifying Jesus’s ministry and showing how the gospels were significantly distorted by human processes. It explains how the version of Christianity that developed in his wake failed to make the paradigm shift, thereby resulting in a hybrid religion of unrenounced tenets and traditions (from the Old Testament), unacknowledged errors and fabrications (from the New Testament), and unchallenged theologies and authorities (from the splintered fusion).

The book abruptly shifts gears with Chapter 5 (“Egoic Pride and the Book of Job”), which shines the light of consciousness upon the nature of evil and its well-cloaked ways. Drawing from the wisdom of Jesus and modern psychology, it reveals the true colors of Job in a new and stunning interpretation. This pivotal chapter is the backbone of the book, for clarity about the metaphysical darkness is essential for understanding the shocking meaning of the apocalyptic prophecies.

Although the first five chapters deliver great value, the best is yet to come as the book turns to the Bible’s apocalyptic prophecies. The next five chapters unravel them in their entirety by progressing through Daniel, the gospels and Revelation.

Since so much is riding on Daniel’s prophecies, Chapter 6 (“The Book of Daniel”) introduces the great debate about their dating and references the appendix that conclusively resolves it. The chapter also reviews the Reformation, as this history helps explain the reason for the spiritual realm’s communication.

Chapter 7 (“Daniel’s Prophecies”) is the heart of the book. The chapter and its accompanying appendixes reveal how prophecies long believed to be forewarning an antichrist were instead foretelling ancient kingdoms, emperors and events that have long been forgotten. Far more importantly, an astonishing set of spiritual messages are laced within this matrix of interwoven references. Shrouded in mystery for over 2,500 years, these revelations will be obvious in hindsight.

The prophecies are a buried treasure that includes a priceless gem for the world of science. Their accuracy and precision about ancient history render some amazing empirical data that the future can be foretold. This practically proves the nature of time is paradoxical: it both exists and does not exist. Although a linear progression of past-present-future exists from our physical perspective, the nonexistence of time is also a reality for the spiritual realm and its otherworldly dimensions.

To substantiate the interpretation of a key part of Daniel’s prophecies, Chapter 8 (“Triangulating the Great Awakening”) explores some corroborating sources. The highlight of this material is the ominous prophecy of Saint Malachy. Tendered to the Vatican in 1140 and published in 1595, it pinpointed the Catholic Church’s demise to the reign of Pope Francis (2013–present)!

Chapter 9 (“The Little Apocalypse”) deciphers Jesus’s sermon about the end times. It also explains why we are and will be living amid the “days of distress unequaled from the beginning…and never to be equaled again” (Mk 13:19).

Leveraging the answer key from Daniel, Chapter 10 (“The Vision of Revelation”) delivers another dramatic set of surprises with its unraveling of Revelation. It shows that a spiritual awakening paradigm provides an almost infinitely better interpretation to the bizarre imagery than a cataclysmic destruction paradigm.

Although nothing can match Daniel’s mastery of forthcoming history, Revelation is just as impressive in foretelling the metaphysical story of humanity. Because so many people are familiar with Revelation and what it means to Christian theology, the chapter may be the most impactful of them all.

At this point, the book has traveled two independent paths to the same destination. The third and fourth chapters integrated the scholarly insights and evidence to arrive at this ironic conclusion: the religion based upon the man who came to uproot Judaism must itself be uprooted. Then the seventh through tenth chapters showed how the apocalyptic prophecies are proclaiming the same shocking truth.

In case that is not enough to awaken humanity, the final two chapters blaze a third truth-seeking trail to the same destination. This path applies Jesus’s advice for seeing through the deceptions of false prophets. As he was quoted, “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,” and “by their fruit you will recognize them” (Mt 7:18–20).

Chapter 11 (“The Broad Road That Led to Destruction”) explains the three independent dynamics that converged like a perfect storm to generate the Holocaust and how Christianity created or enabled all of them. While showing how this ancient religious tree bore its poisonous fruit in Nazi Germany, the chapter also surfaces some vital lessons for the future.

With the writing on the wall shining like the sun for all to see, Chapter 12 (“The Time Is Now”) pulls it all together in a powerful synopsis of the spiritual thesis. The concluding chapter also shows how Christianity was the primary reason America experienced the nightmare of slavery and the Civil War.

Although the appendixes are not required reading, they make important contributions. Appendix A (“Reincarnation”) and Appendix B (“Spirit Possession”) present scientific and clinical evidence that will be new to most readers. They also deliver insights regarding Christian theology, especially Appendix B’s paradoxical answer to the question of the ages about the devil’s existence. In addition, Appendix B presents vital wisdom from the clinical evidence so you can avoid a traumatic experience after you die.

The next three appendixes pertain to dating the Book of Daniel. Appendix C (“The Septuagint and Daniel”) introduces the ancient translation of the Jewish scriptures into Greek and the different biblical versions of Daniel.

Appendix D (“Redirecting the Debate About Daniel”) is akin to a doctoral thesis and close to being its own book. Its main objective is proving Daniel’s prophecies were indeed penned in the sixth century BCE as advertised. Since a solid majority of scholars have dated them to the second century BCE and thereby deemed them fraudulent, a formidable parade of data and logic is needed to debunk each and every argument behind their erroneous conclusion. There is, however, one glaring exception.

The wealth of archaeological and historical data also serves the secondary objective of demonstrating the ancient book has some gross errors. Therein resides the exception, for the fraudulence theory’s arguments are still in full effect for two of Daniel’s chapters. To reconcile the contorted mess, the appendix presents a rigorous hypothesis to explain Daniel’s developmental history.

Appendix E (“The Egregious Error in Ezra”) reveals a major gaffe in Ezra that appears to be intimately linked to the anomalies in Daniel, much like DNA evidence links the same perpetrator to two different crimes. It also completes the theory of how the majority of Daniel could be written in the sixth century BCE yet be so absurdly erroneous with its secular history.

These three appendixes have been written for the newcomer to the scholarly fray. However, they are only worth reading if you are interested in the proof of Daniel’s dating, obvious examples of biblical errors and fabrications, or fascinating insights about the developmental history of Daniel and Ezra.

The next six appendixes present the historical data for, and explain the fulfillment of, key passages in Daniel’s prophecies. Although summarized in Chapter 7, Appendix F (“The Beast With Ten Horns”), Appendix G (“Constantine the Great”), Appendix J (“The King of the End Times”) and Appendix K (“Understanding the 69 ‘Sevens’”) deliver the spine-tingling details of how the spiritual realm accurately and precisely foretold history that occurred centuries after the era when all scholars agree Daniel was on the historical record (160s BCE).

Appendix H (“The Numbering of Days”) also brings new insights to the table but addresses a red-herring problem and can be skipped without much loss in value. Appendix I (“The Angel’s Prophecy of Ancient History”) simply renders material that can be found in a decent study Bible.

Appendix L (“The Catholic Church in the 20th Century”) shows that although the Church no longer champions crusades, sequesters Jews in ghettos, or tortures and kills those who believe differently, its underlying darkness has continued unabated. The majority of this other book within a book details how the Vatican helped Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler gain dictatorial power and then made strategic alliances with them, ignored their pre-war crimes and assaults upon the Jews, sanctioned their predatory aggression upon other nations, and turned a blind eye to the Holocaust.

After illuminating the essence of the papal choices before and during World War II, the appendix exposes the dark nature of the Vatican’s financial affairs. It shows how the sudden death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 was most likely a blackmail-enabled murder by the Vatican Bank’s nefarious partners.

The next two appendixes support the interpretation of Revelation. Appendix M (“The Crashing of the Great Star”) delves into a passage that foretold the damage we would be inflicting upon our environment and health. Appendix N (“The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”) overviews the Crusades, Inquisition and witch hunts.

The book is focused on the Judeo-Christian paradigm, and its length prohibits a similar study of Islam. Nevertheless, Appendix O (“The Impact on Islam”) shows how its insights are also inscribing the writing on the wall for that religion.