I’ll admit it, I was starting to doubt Amazon. I’d read the recent author success stories, and I’d followed their advice: write good books, publish exclusively with Amazon, and let the algorithms steer your work to readers who will love it.

Four novels in, I had quality stories and great reviews, but no breakout sales. Then, like lightning striking in the night, Amazon delivered. Over the past couple weeks, my sales have quadrupled.

This post is my best guess as to how it happened.

With over a dozen books, the sweeping Left Behind series has sold over sixty million copies. It has spawned movies. Even a recent Nic Cage sighting!

But the books aren’t just a story. They’re based on author Tim LaHaye’s premillennial view. Many have embraced that view after reading the books. That’s the power of story. The thing is, there are other stories to tell. Lots of them.

Revelation draws competing theories (check out my first and second posts on this wild old book). It also draws stories. And even if no human will ever get it right, these stories can help us. 

If I swore to you that the end of the world is coming in 2066, would you care? How about if it’s coming tomorrow? Would you change your New Year’s resolutions?

Nope. You probably wouldn’t. And I would never swear to such a thing. Predictions about the end have proven wrong a thousand times over, so we don’t believe them anymore. No one “knows the hour.” 

So, what do you think about the Millennium? Let’s look into it.