Chapters one and two are a partial autobiography that includes much of the author's testimony and describes events leading up to a moment of serendipity when the author realized the commentary he was reading about Old Testament prophecy and the accounts he was reading about recent history were both describing the same things. These were events that were prophesied to occur in the "last generation." Chapters three, four, and five identify in graphic detail those persons and events suggested in 500 B.C. who were unmistakable characters and episodes in mid-twentieth-century world history. The author believes that this is incontrovertible proof that the end of the age and the return of Christ draw near. Finally, Volume One includes an appendix, "Through the Valley," which describes thirty-one times in his life when he could have, or should have, died.