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Charles’s mother Elizabeth II lived to 96, his father Prince Philip to 99, and his grandmother Elizabeth to 101. Given the longevity of his parents, Charles’s life expectancy looked equally promising. However, on February 5, it was reported that Charles had been diagnosed with cancer while undergoing treatment for prostate enlargement. Buckingham Palace issued an official statement about the king’s cancer but did not disclose the type of cancer, stating that the king “remains completely positive about his treatment and looks forward to resuming full public duties as soon as possible.” The palace also announced that “his doctors have advised him to postpone public engagements” during his treatment. Charles had already survived a mild case of Covid-19 in 2020 and again in 2022.

In my December 2022 interview someone commented on YouTube, “How will you react when Charles dies of old age, and there is still no sign of the Antichrist, and all of that is still just a product of imagination?” As if this question had never even crossed my mind. What if I’m wrong? I hadn’t even considered that possibility. But thanks to the commenter for making me realize that I am just a human who can be mistaken. Yesterday, I received another deeply contemplated comment on my YouTube channel: “King Charles IS NOT the Antichrist!” I had previously disagreed with this, but the capitalized letters convinced me of how wrong I had been. Many others don’t bother to comment on how wrong I am and instead resort to mockery: “Samuel is not playing with a full deck. A grown man publicly writes such crap,” remarked someone on my Facebook ad. Another quipped even more humorously: “The medication has clearly failed badly. Samuel needs to get into some care quickly. Because he is among us.”

Were such comments a surprise to me? Not at all. I suspected that most people—even Christians—would react exactly like this when I started writing about the topic publicly since January 2015. I also knew that if, in the end, it turns out as the commenter suggested, that “Charles dies of old age, and there is still no sign of the Antichrist,” I would have to endure ridicule like that quoted above for the rest of my life. I could have chosen a pseudonym and hidden my identity, but I would see it more of a sign of cowardliness if I not dare to stand by my thoughts publicly with my name and face. I am the captain of my ship, and if my ship sinks, I decided to sink with it. When the questioner asked “how will you react to that…,” maybe my reaction is that I actually want to sink with my ship. Maybe I want to “go underground” and burn all my written work—about one and a half million words or the equivalent of two Bibles of textual and research data. I would also worry about and grieve for those people who dared to take the risk of promoting my ideas publicly within their own circle of friends or family—perhaps receiving the same kind of contempt as I did in the quoted comments above.

So my likely reactions would probably be shame and guilt, feelings I have carried with me throughout my life so far. But the feeling of some kind of calling has made it more bearable and given my life direction and purpose. After Charles’s death, I would also start to question whether my calling came from Satan, from God, or from neither. Maybe everyone here is trying to find some meaning in their lives and inventing stories in their heads to fill the emptiness in their lives. Maybe I too am one of those wandering souls looking just for direction and purpose in life.

The feeling of purposelessness in my life is something I have carried inside me since I was a young boy. It only dissipates in those moments when I feel I am doing something meaningful, something that even one person can feel is valuable or that brings some joy to their day. Of course, in my own delusions, I can imagine that my task is to warn humanity of its future deceiver. Looking at my own miserable life, I have no difficulty in questioning these delusions. While I often doubt my own calling, I have never doubted the validity of my arguments. And I am a person who strives to critically examine everything, including the validity of my own conclusions. And in this sense, it cannot be said that I live in delusions, because many well-read and highly educated people around the world have said that the arguments in my books have been persuasive and credible. But even convincingly presented and thoroughly reasoned arguments are not always true, because human reason is very deceptive.

According to the Myers-Briggs personality test, I am an INTP-Logician. So, I derive pleasure from solving logical puzzles, grasping the big picture, and expressing creative ideas (someone recently praised my apologetic argument about the existence of God and thought I had quoted it from someone else, although I arrived at the thought just through creative contemplation). I find pleasure in pieces falling into place and when I understanding reality better. It is not painful for me to admit being wrong about something if I have sufficiently satisfactory logical reasons for why I have been wrong about some previous belief and why an alternative explanation would be more convincing and likely.

The same could be said if Charles is not the Antichrist. If I were to find Emmanuel Macron or anyone else in the public eye fulfilling the prophecies in the Bible about this man as thoroughly or even more so than Charles, where I could attach also a series of historical arguments to his persona about how the visions in the book of Daniel have been fulfilled in different historical empires (like in Charles’ case), then of course I would be willing to change my stance on the identity of this individual in a heartbeat.

For it doesn’t matter to me who that person will ultimately be. It only matters if he is able to fulfill the prophecies of this man as well (or better) than Charles. And I have not yet found a competent competitor for him. Because in my studies related to the identity of the Antichrist, it ultimately concerns the authority of the Holy Bible, about how accurately and literally we should understand its numerous prophecies about the end times. For this reason, about one-third of the arguments in my book do not even concern directly Prince and now King Charles, but rather how the book of Daniel predicted the various historical events from the fall of Western and Eastern Rome to the rise of Islam and Western Christendom (and how it relates to Charles as the final AC candidate). It would be a shame if I had to burn all of these historically valid arguments, which also the most significant writers of Christianity promoted for centuries, just because I was wrong about Charles (if I was).

The ultimate emphasis of my research is in apologetics – the rational defense of faith – rather than speculation about future events. I would much rather defend faith in ways other than by speculating about an uncertain future. But we cannot deny that the prophecies of Jesus’ second coming are a significant part of the message of Christianity and the reality depicted in the Bible. If our task as Christians is to defend the historicity of Pentateuch or the four Gospels, then we should equally defend the message of the Book of Revelation about Jesus’ second coming.

In 2020, when I asked for a prayer for the mental plight of my now deceased big brother Mikael, a brother in Christ said he had received a message from the Lord for me in prayer, which stated, among other things, the following:

I have given you the skill to put biblical prophecy into words, in a form that people can understand. It is your gift, received from Me. As I said to Jeremiah, so I say to you; You have seen well (Jer. 1:12) Soon the Antichrist is going to appear on the face of the whole world; I have revealed him to you, and I will continue to reveal great, hidden things (Jer. 33: 3). I will bless your ministry as I have blessed you so far. With these words, I want to strengthen you… Words of the Lord are pure words; Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, filtered seven times (Psalm 12:6).

A beautiful message, which I would like to believe was God’s speech sent through the hand of a Christian brother by the Holy Spirit. Even though such messages would give me personal confirmation and encouragement in my work, I am also skeptical enough to acknowledge that Christians may sometimes give false messages and false prophecies, whose source is more in their soul than in the Holy Spirit of God. Therefore, a much stronger foundation for my belief that the Holy Spirit was revealing the identity of the Antichrist through my writings has been how well his characteristics fit numerous criteria in God’s Word about this man. This is why I have presented in my book, among other things, precise mathematical probability calculations on how unlikely it would be for such characteristics to coincide with one person in numerous examples.

In my English book, I have listed 23 unique prophecies about the Antichrist in the Bible that Charles has already fulfilled or whose potential fulfillment would be in him. Here is my list of 27 fulfilled prophecies from my 2018 blog article.

Unfulfilled prophecies include, for example, the mysterious reference in the Book of Revelation to the beast that “was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction” (Rev. 17:8). In Revelation 13, John saw “one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed”. The interpretation of these passages is controversial. While some teach that they refer to the Antichrist dying and being resurrected (imitating the death and resurrection of Jesus), others say that the beast’s wounded head does not refer to the Antichrist himself but to his kingdom, because the heads of the beast were explained to refer to past kings or kingdoms (Rev. 17:9-11). Thus, the beast himself would not rise from the dead, but his kingdom would represent the revival of a previous kingdom, such as the Roman or Babylonian empire.

Perhaps both interpretations are simultaneously possible, and since the Greek word “antichrist” means the opposite of Christ and His substitute (i.e. imitator), it would make sense that the false Christ also rises from the dead through a satanic miracle. Paul said about the Antichrist that “the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish” (2 Thess. 2:9). Therefore, the emergence of the Antichrist should be surrounded by satanic miracles and signs. But does “wonders” here mean supernatural miracles, or technological miracles of the modern age (which would seem like a magic to the past generations)? Is it miraculous powers enabled by modern technology, as the false prophet is described as follows:

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

When talking about the image of the beast, it is noteworthy that a kind of digital resurrection of the dead is already possible. With the help of artificial intelligence, it is now possible to create a digital clone of a person – dead or alive – if there is enough digital data available, such as videos of the person, their voice, gestures, and speech patterns, which the artificial intelligence can mimic so that we would not be able to recognize which one is the real and which one is fake. In my books, I have talked about real-life holograms creating holographic 3D illusions, through which politicians and entertainers – including deceased ones – have given stage performances. Prince Charles was one of the first world leaders to utilize this technology in 2008.

Using artificial intelligence, digital clones can also be created from a living or deceased person, enabling the creation of a digital hologram that delivers speeches without them being recorded video from the original speaker’s presentations. Such a hologram would be a kind of digital doppelganger, trained to mimic all the mannerisms, expressions, and speech patterns of the person it is supposed to represent is 3D form. It could be made to either replay the speaker’s original speeches or deliver entirely new ones, which, however, mimic the original speaker’s thoughts. This is an interesting theory on how the “beast’s fatal wound” could be healed. On the other hand, this idea is difficult to reconcile with the notion that many other prophecies suggest the Antichrist will be physically alive when Jesus returns, rather than just existing as a digital version of himself.

But for what reason “the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast” unless he undergoes some miraculous resurrection from the dead? But I confess, this requires quite wild speculation, and a person who receives a head injury would fit the prophecy better than a person who dies of old age or cancer. If I want to stay in this reality, it would be better on Charles’ death day to just admit that I was wrong rather than live in delusion that a deceased person could return from his grave like a zombie. Such a miracle has already happened once, so a second time would be extremely unlikely.

Charles has not yet been declared dead, so I don’t want to get ahead of things. But at the same time, I am trying to prepare my readers for that possibility, to acknowledge that we were wrong. Charles was just one of many potential antichrist candidates who did not fulfill the final lawless one’s identity. If this is the case, I apologize to God, the church, and even to Charles for demonizing his character (whether it was justified or not) and I hope for his healing and long life. Long live the king!

PS. This cruiser has not yet sunk, but as the captain of my ship, I order to lower the lifeboats and escape from the ship if you feel that your captain has betrayed your trust and directed the ship towards the iceberg.