Joseph McNamee was a wild partier until Jesus got ahold of him. He then had transformation and started attending church. However, some people who attended his church were actually Satanists posing as Christians who, through a series of brilliant deceptions led him into another church. This church told him lies about the nature and character of God and invariably told him that God was angry at him. He eventually got out of that church and started attending a church where he was restored.

He also gave his recorded testimony of being in the Satanic church to his friends and relatives. Upon being delivered, he set out to help a woman who attended there and was a sex addict. She had advanced herself upon Joseph sexually when he first arrived there. He misguidedly tried to help her by enticing her out of her addiction by giving her a sexually explicit card, thinking she may then desire him, as he had turned down her initial sexual advance. Joseph's pastor testified in court saying he was mentally ill.

This pastor was the same person who spent close to four years healing his mind from the onslaught of the lies of the Satanic church, and after she did so then turned around and said he was mentally ill! He was sent to the Anoka State Mental Hospital. Just prior to Anoka, he lost his job unjustly. and had gone to several churches, seeking prayer and direction in his life, never money, all of whom called the police on him. He found a job at the Salvation Army working as a floor monitor. While there, he witnessed many problems, along with a prejudiced boss, who told him only to speak to blacks to "demoralize" them.

He then wrote a letter to the boss, citing various improprieties. He was fired yet again and went homeless once more. As a result, Joseph went back to that Satanic church and asked them to pray that God would protect him from the Christians! The book is titled Joseph because of the numerous similarities between him and the Joseph of the Old Testament.