Today we see financial and environmental disaster facing the whole world, human trafficking on a global scale, family breakdown at unprecedented levels and wars being fomented by cynical profiteers.

In the so-called democratic West, we see democracy being gradually eroded by vested interests manipulating the electoral system and people being prosecuted for thought crimes. The images of society painted by George Orwell in his books Animal Farm and 1984 look very much like the society we are building today.

It might surprise many to know that a time of great tribulation was predicted a very long time ago. These times are known as The End Times after which there will be an end to transgression and peace would reign over the whole world. The question addressed in this book is whether we are in the End Times now and whether we are entering the time of darkness predicted over two thousand years ago.