You have been warned . . . They said faith would protect you. They were wrong . . .
In a village in Mexico, thousands of believers - and twenty-four specially chosen men and women - witness the miraculous, the impossible, and the terrifying. Suddenly, from California to India, religious leaders of all persuasions face their flocks and utter the unimaginable: the Day of Judgment is at hand.
For the skeptics, there is no escape. For the faithful, there is only prayer. Plants wither. Disease ravages the world. War erupts. The death and the suffering have begun.
But one man, a loyal emissary of the Vatican itself, questions the world disaster taking hold around him. Now, in a mad race to stem the coming Apocalypse, he will enter a life-and-death struggle over an even more horrifying question: Is this phenomenon a case of mass hysteria . . . a devious, far-reaching plot . . . or has God truly spoken?