After nearly six millennia of stagnation, humanity stands at the brink of its last evolutionary step. But it is a step that has come at a tremendous cost. One third of the world's population lays dead. Those who survive face a fundamental choice: follow Christopher Goodman, the Messiah of the New Age, or cling to the deity that has wrought this destruction. Goodman has brought peace and offers the human race an end to sickness and disease, and the means to attain eternal youth and godlike powers. Yet, incredibly, there are still those who resist and threaten the unity, which is essential to achieving the planet's destiny. Their opposition leads to continued bloody tribulation and ultimately to Armageddon-humankind's final battle between good and evil.