SAINT PAUL'S JOKE is a joke played upon those who believe, as Martin Luther asserted, that they will achieve salvation through faith and can willfully ignore biblically mandated deeds. Prior to its publication, the Vatican studied the text, with the result that Pope Benedict resigned, and the current Pope Francis -- the 112th and final Pope in St Malachy's Prophecy of the Popes -- emerged to bring the Church slowly back to its roots.

This book begins by recounting the history of the period in terms of the people involved -- from the actual date and stated events of the birth of Jesus, to the history happening around them. It then focuses upon premise underlying the words of a Hebrew merchant, a tent maker, called Saul of Tarsus and known to us as St. Paul -- the author of over forty percent of the defining Christian work known as The New Testament.

For the first two centuries of the Christian era which ended with the emergence of a king named Constantine, and a Roman-Egyptian apologist known as Augustine of Hippo, to be a Christian meant one was either a Hebrew who followed the teachings of a man called Peter, or a pagan convert defined by the teachings of Paul. Under either identity, to be a Christian meant that - in accordance with the centuries-old promise of a Davidic king whose power and law would encompass the world - you identified with, and practiced, the teachings said to have originated with Moses.

Nearly four centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton calculated the dates, the years, associated with the threatened apocalypse -- a period when all humanity would be judged by their faith in, and adherence to the decrees of, the biblical deity variously known as HaShem, Allah, or the father of Jesus. The time of that judgment, agreeing with, but derived through a different manner than the one utilized by Newton, could begin within your lifetime -- in theory it will span the period from 2034/5 to 2064/5. In fact, the events symbolically depicted in The Book of Revelation have already begun and we are living through them.

SAINT PAUL'S JOKE looks at why and explains what those who truly believe in the teachings and prophecy will need to focus upon in order to survive that Judgment, or have their children survive it. It is not the "end-of-the-world prophecy which those who want your money will proclaim. In fact, it only means the loss of a third of all those living [animal, fish, plant and people] today; it is no different than the predictions associated with climate change and post-baby-boom population demographics.

Deniers deny reality. They deny Climate Change and proclaim a deity who uses magic -- one who they see as too incompetent to create a self-correcting and advancing systems like the universe and evolution.

Then there are those who deny that all things have an origin -- that even a self-sustaining universe had to emerge from something.

Finally there are those who want to believe, but have been conned by religious charlatans into ignoring the actual text which was intended to serve as a manual for a proper life -- believing that life does not require action, but can be lived on wishes or through breaching a third party to take actions and disrupt the normal workings of a "perfectly imperfect" universe.

SAINT PAUL'S JOKE, is the reason the Bible stated Jesus would not know, or defend, many who claim to come in his name.