I found some of the missing pieces to the puzzle reading The Harbinger and learned a lot of American and biblical history as a result.
As to speculating with great risk, to me, that would be speculating on how much one can get away with or how time one has or whether or not God exists or whether Hell is real.
What I've read in the Bible tells me that God is both a God of Mercy and a God of Justice. I'm told that God is slow to anger, getting an idea about what He wants from us, and how to get Him really ticked off.
There are stories of His love and of His anger. We aren't doing much to get the first, but plenty to get to the second. When it comes, it will be like a thief in the night...or a Cat 5 hurricane...or...
Well, technically all humanity is in a wrath situation... it’s vain to speculate the size of grace and the size of wrath; even if sermons that minimize the one and maximize the other may serve to make souls aware of their need for salvation, they also make the Savior seem rather small. However one CAN look at what spiritual wind they are allowing themselves to get filled with. If it’s devil (or world or flesh, which are redirection points for devil) then that wind carries you to hell.