Mike's Wednesday-night church visit and the end-times lady

Mike tells a story from his week out of town: at a Wednesday-night Bible study walking through the book 'The Story,' he sat next to a woman who warned him the Lord's army would advance the next week — from China, from Florida, and via the Vietnamese from the California side — with earthquakes and the dead rising. He played along politely, concluded she was the congregation's lone end-times enthusiast, and the timing — days after Harold Camping's failed October 21 prediction — gives the hosts a springboard into how the deceived stay deceived because deception demands nothing of them.