Larry Norman is the father of Christian Rock music, and this work, the second volume in his famous trilogy, is one of the foundational albums of the genre.

I have often wondered just how much influence the song "I wish we'd all been ready" had on the authors of the Left Behind series, and my wondering got a bit more intense after I read the book and realised that one of the central characters is a reporter, because the next cut on the album just happens to be "I am the six o'clock news."