eruptions, diseases is that have no cure. he said they would be like birth pains and when you see them increasing in frequency, not just once every ten years, now it is every year and month and week and when you see them increasing in intensity which is they are record breaking. the one this month breaks last year s and the one that week break s last month and see them increasing in frequency and intensity those are birth pains. it is leading to the birth of the kingdom of god on earth and i believe god is using them to wake us up to warn us. mike: i think christian believers would get encouragement for your book. for christians the thought that the world is going to come to an end is not the worst thing. what about ske skeptics? is it a book for skeptics as well astronauts believers. if they are interested in what god has to say. how we can look to the signs and know the signs. i put them in five categories.
him. if you have known him and sort of fall away from the relationship there is a longing in your heart and nothing else satisfies. i had that longing for him again and i knew where to find him in the pages of my bible. i just didn t have the discipline to do it. somebody told me about bible study fellowship. i had 500 ladies show up for the class. i used to throw up before i went to teach. mike: better before than on them. that is exactly right. but i wanted to be in the scripture and come back to god and i did through the discipline of that study i did. mike: you have a brand new book out called expecting to see jesus and it is all about your believe that we may be in the very, very last days of this planet. that is a pretty bold position to take. does that cause you pain when people say come on now, how do you know the end of the world is near? i don t know the end of the world is near but i read what jesus said in matthew 24 and
to turn things around. and what i want people to know is that the poured concreter to save our country is in their hands is and we need to get them back engaged with the process. and i want to be part of that and i m going to follow where the grass roots go as far as the presidential race. mike: let s talk about the book because in it you said that there was something that happened in you, a personal change because of the crisis in the country. i want you talk about that. what that was moment, if it was a moment or if it was a process. tell me about what happened in jim demint s mind and heart that said this country is in a very different place? mike, when i first came to congress and i was elected in 1998, i was elected to the house. we had about $5 trillion in debt and i thought i was joining a republican team that was going to reform the tax code, fix social security, help people buy their own health insurance. and i m afraid i ran into a republican party that was really focused
america s first principles. so i see strengths and i see some weaknesses and i really want to just let it play out right now. i don t have a favorite. and i think as we saw in the last election that you were part of things really change as you move towards that first caucus and i want to make sure that and i also found whenever i endorse a candidate they generally stop listening to me and i m hoping that we can encourage them to move in the right direction. mike: is there any candidate on that stage that you would find unacceptable as a republican nominee? no, there is not. i think there is some as we get further along that may appear to be more electable. and it is really important that we win, mike. i wrote about it in the book the great american awakening of what the grass roots movement did to change things in 2010 and actually we saw signs of that when you first ran. but 2012 may be our last chance
mike: she hails from a family of preachers and has been called one of five most influencial evangelists in america. also the author of a new book called expecting to see jesus. please welcome anne graham lotz. welcome. great to be here. mike: i want to it talk about your book. i can t help but asking the obvious question that you get asked all the time but i haven t asked it yet so here is goes. what is it like growing up the daughter of billy and ruth graham? i have nothing to compare it with. it was the only family i grew up with. i was pretty much raised by single parents anded grand