This book is about exposing the needle in the haystack. It cuts through smokescreens and numbing details of the COVID-19 pandemic to reveal its deeper significance. It's a wake-up call to all to "watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21:36). This pandemic is not necessarily the only or last sign of the end of the world. It is certainly part of the many tragic events Jesus foretold would signal His returns to this planet. This book guides the reader to what's most important when faced with alarming end time events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The reader must "watch and pray always" because in these twin actions is the key to being judged worthy to: a) "to escape all these things that shall come to pass" and b) "to stand before the Son of man".

This book shows that escaping pandemics that form part of the end time events does not necessarily mean escaping death. There are many whose lives will be snatched by COVID-19 but who will escape the eternal or second death because they believed in Jesus (John 3:16). These people are blessed. The good news is that in life one can choose to escape the eternal death, whether one succumbs to, or survives this deadly virus. Another outcome of watching and praying always is it enables all who practice these two spiritual disciplines during disasters such as this pandemic, qualify to "stand before the Son of man". When Jesus returns to our planet at the end of the world, unbelievers and all the wicked will run to the mountains seeking cover from His glory. The Bible states, "Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb" (Revelation 6:15-16). The only individuals who will be fit to stand before King Jesus are those who practiced a culture of watchfulness and prayer that kept them loyal to God amidst the deceptions and confusing distractions of the last day events. While some run away from Jesus, the saved will joyfully run to Jesus exclaiming, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation" (Isaiah 25:9). The more one steeps oneself in vigilant prayerfulness as commanded by Jesus to His disciples, the more will one's discernment of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic deepen. Armed with keen biblical insight, the prayerful person will recognize that the greatest impact of the Coronavirus is in forcing the world to march in lockstep. This prepares the whole world to move in unison towards the climax of earth's history. This fact has been clearly demonstrated by the list of precautions, everyone from country to country has been made to strictly follow to help curb the spread of the deadly virus. Arresting the spread of any pandemic is necessary.

However, the point still remains: the Coronavirus has unleashed unprecedented power to bring everyone into compliance for a common cause. This power to control human behavior in a particular direction, though to some benign, does serve as a curtain-raiser for imminent forced universal Sunday worship. Very soon Christians who keep all the Ten Commandments, which include the seventh-day Sabbath, will be persecuted. Jesus revealed that religious and political powers will unite and issue laws that will force "all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name" (Revelation 13:16-17). Be on the right side of eternity!