Christopher is an extremely popular Secretary General of the United Nations, who was nominated following his supernatural healing of various members of the Security Council, and elected unanimously prior to his assassination, and subsequent resurrection.

Christopher reveals to the world that humanity is on the brink of its greatest evolutionary step, which people are now heralding as the New Age.

The greatest threat to humankind in taking this evolutionary step is represented by Fundamentalist Christians and various Jewish sects, including a group of 144,000 Jews which call themselves the Koum Damar Patar or KDP for short.

These groups remained loyal to Yahweh, whom Christopher has identified as a power-hungry Theatan, intent on keeping humankind as they are, in order to prevent them from becoming his equal.

Here, Christopher also begins a revitalization plan for healing the Middle East, which was decimated in a recent plague of mass psychosis that affected every man, woman, and child in the region, which now sits bereft of humanity.

He also indicated that he planned to move the United Nations main headquarters there, relocating from the Secretariat Building in New York City.

These powers include the ability to control others' behavior, telepathy, precognition, rapid healing of fatal injuries, and very detailed memories of past lives.

Christopher attributes this phenomenon to the fact that people are inching ever closer to that evolutionary step which will bring humanity into its New Age.

He also reminds Decker of Robert Milner's advanced age, yet remarkable health, due to a blood transfusion with Christopher years before.

The mark of communion is a depiction of the numerals 666, since Christopher's name adds up to that value in the Hebrew alphabet, with the intent being to keep Christians and other religious fundamentalists away.

These protests grow more violent and when the doors are finally opened, the clinics become the targets of terrorist attacks, apparently by Fundamentalists trying to prevent people from taking the communion.

Public clamor for the capture and punishment of these terrorists grows until Christopher is forced to take stronger actions.

His wife and daughters had reincarnated immediately after their deaths, and Decker will not be old and tired after the Communion, and he could go to them and reunite his family.

Scott presents very convincing arguments about the existence of God, the accuracy of the Bible, and the messages it contains, and how Christopher was a liar and the personification of evil.

After Shabbat, Decker is provided a ride, as promised, to Israel, where he catches a plane back to his home in Maryland where he plans to rest for a few days.

The rationale is that although capital punishment is distasteful for many, removal of the opposing force is necessary to Humankind's evolutionary journey, and furthermore, individuals will be reincarnated free of their past prejudices and philosophies, and will join everyone else in the procession into the New Age.

After a couple of days people in coastal areas grow sick from the decay and stench of the rotting blood, and the surface of the oceans begin to scab over.

A week after the plague began, Robert Milner walks out to a bloody coastline and throws a charged quartz crystal that lands on the scab, liquefying it, and turning the liquid back into water.

In reaction to anger caused by the plague, the United Nations again increases the penalties for sedition and collusion with Yahweh, this time extending capital punishment toward anyone refusing to take the mark.

Decker calls his property manager, Bert Tollinson, and has him reinforce a room in his house with insulation and air-conditioning units, and stockpile ice.

A week after the heat subsides, a dark murky substance engulfs the entire planet, with the exceptions of Petra and Christopher's office in Babylon.

In a televised address later that week, Decker watches as Christopher promises that there will be no more plagues and that humankind will receive three signs that their step toward the New Age is nearly complete.

Finally, Christopher promises that the last remaining vestige of Yahweh's followers are trapped in Petra, and they will all be destroyed.

Since Decker does not bear the mark, he has to get Bert Tollinson to arrange his passage to the United Nations building in Babylon.

Christopher finally shows his true self to Decker, admitting that he is the Antichrist and his only desire is to acquire as many believers that he could, and kill anyone who opposes him.

Followers also gain the strength, health and vitality of youth as well as the fantastic powers of telepathy and telekinesis that Christopher had promised them.

For those desperate enough to do so, the self-mutilation is justified by scripture: citing Matthew 5:30, "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off".

As the people of the world gather in Tel Megiddo in the northern Jezreel Valley, Babylon is destroyed by an immense earthquake and vehicle-sized hail stones.

As Christopher issues the call to begin the invasion of Petra, Jesus Christ appears on the top of a nearby mountain.

The epilogue features Decker's reunion with his wife and children, his brother Nate, and the Donafins, including Tom, as well as many friends and acquaintances from throughout his life.