My website turned ten years old on Sunday, the 26th. Over the past decade, it has hosted 613 blog posts and a million and 370 thousand words (including the word count of my books, this reaches almost two million), or about 500 words for each day. This time, I couldn’t come up with any other birthday gift than to change the look of my site to be a bit more stylish. I don’t know how to code CSS for websites, but nowadays you can also use artificial intelligence to write the desired code. Yesterday, I spent the whole day asking the ChatGPT language model to code a function for my site where the left navigation menu would appear white in its normal state but would turn green and bold when the mouse pointer hovered over the link, and the link would remain green while the chosen page was open. The AI was able to write the code correctly, but it didn’t work for all the links in the navigation menu, which is why it took the whole day to resolve the issue. After about half a day’s questioning session, I finally thanked the AI for its great help and effort and promised to offer it coffee and pastries as a reward if it happened to drop by sometime (the bot understands my humor quite well now).

My thoughts on the redesign of my website were also part of my “rebranding” effort, as I have written on so many other topics that interest me, besides the possible identity of the Antichrist (which I could just as easily be mistaken about, as I emphasize in the introductory texts on my homepage). Although I originally started my career as an eschatological writer specifically to promote this theory—and I still believe that there are very strong biblical evidence for the theory—I do not want my entire vast body of work to go down the drain if I were to be mistaken about that person’s biblical identity (the possibility of which I have of course acknowledged from the very beginning, since only God knows the future events with 100% certainty).

I want to be known and remembered as a biblical scholar and a defender of the Christian faith, who enriched our discussions on eschatology, history, politics, technology, philosophy, and many other contemporary and theologically significant topics, and contributed something that could inspire perhaps future eschatologists just as I drew my inspiration for my work from many eschatology researchers who preceded me. “We stand on the shoulders of giants”, as Sir Isaac Newton was fond of saying (one of those giants of history whose eschatological studies have also inspired me as a writer and biblical scholar). Someone once asked me on my YouTube channel:

How do you react when Charles dies of old age, and there is still no sign of the Antichrist, but all of this is still a product of the imagination?

I responded to the commenter at that time: “Well, then I must have simply been wrong. What else do you expect me to say? You can probably notice that I’m talking all the time in this interview about the theories and possibilities that I believe simple because I find them highly probable in light of what I know about the Bible’s already fulfilled prophecies or the numerous prophecies that have already been realized in Charles’ persona. However, even the things we consider most likely do not always come to pass. The Independent newspaper and a large portion of other mainstream media declared a couple of days before the 2016 presidential election that Hillary Clinton had over a 99% chance of being elected president. Some even promised a 100% probability.”

But of course, it is never easy to admit one has been wrong. However, I have publicly apologized many times on my blog when I’ve made mistakes regarding some of my previous theories or teachings. Admitting a mistake is not personally so difficult for me because we can always learn something new on our mistakes and because I respect most those people who can acknowledge they were wrong in light of new information. Making mistakes is quite a human trait that affects every descendant of fallen Adam. A person who claims to be infallible or is unwilling to listen humbly to another’s viewpoints has lost touch with that human side, and their ego has become too inflated. Our Lord, however, said:

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

While James said:

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to rein in the whole body as well.

James does not say that only some of us stray and deviate from the truth, but that in many respects we all go astray. Of course, the preceding verse also emphasizes the teacher’s responsibility: “Do not become teachers in large numbers, my brothers, since you know that we who are teachers will incur a stricter judgment.” Or as Jesus emphasized: “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matt. 12:37). Therefore, I have also wanted to always welcome all kinds of criticism towards my teachings, as long as that criticism is only constructive and relevant.

My public role as a writer on eschatology for my blog and as an author began about 10 years ago when Leo Meller, the retired director of the Patmos Mission Foundation and a legendary Finnish Bible teacher—also one of those giants—encouraged my work in an email correspondence with the following words: “It is clear that you have been given understanding and gifts from heaven that are not meant to be hidden under a bushel. After ten years of preparation, God is leading you in the way He desires to share what has been deposited in your spirit… your literacy and mastery of the subjects are remarkably fascinating.”

Around the same time, I also received feedback from Tim Cohen via letter (a giant too, although he may be it a bit too much in his own eyes as well), who wrote the first English-language book regarding his and his predecessor Monte Judah’s theory about Charles as the Antichrist in the Bible at the end of the 1990s. To be honest, Meller’s comments had excessive words, as I am not learned or read as a person (although I often wish I were). I can agree on the “mastery of the subjects” part since I can combine various perspectives and schools of thought very well. Where others see things in black and white, I see them in many shades. I can gather and compile different types of information effectively, as Meller noted in an another comment on my blog.

Samuel Tuominen’s texts provoke deep reflection and exploration. It is astonishing how much and how widely one person can investigate and compile results for sharing. The latest piece about America and this summer is breathtaking reading. At some moments, God allows and raises the texts into a secular focus, and the topics explode in the world’s view. Jealousy, fears, personal interests, and perceptions of what is right, along with 96 other reasons, prevent the broader consideration and debate of ST’s thinking within the so-called Christian eschatologists’ circles until the secularists “discover” it, after which the discussion erupts. Keep it up, bro!

But this is of course solely a gift of God’s grace, not my own merit or excellence, if my teachings have been able to capture the attention of people like Meller and have even been recognized by one professor of physics living abroad. Soli Deo Gloria, glory to God alone. This phrase has also served as the backbone of my own work. Thanks and glory for all our gifts and achievements belong solely to God, not to ourselves, for we have deserved nothing but perdition and exile from the presence of our Holy God. But thanks to the completed work of atonement by our Savior Jesus Christ on Golgotha, a gift of eternal life in communion with God is offered to all of us.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

If through my work I can guide people in some way to the foot of His cross, then I see my mission as having been successful. Often, I have felt a sense of inadequacy regarding my abilities, talents, and resources, and failures in front of both people and God. But as the saying from the Jewish Talmud (Sanhedrin 37a) goes: “According to the holy scriptures, anyone who saves a single life is as if they have saved the entire world.” In this time, which often relies on numbers – the number of followers on social media or church membership – it is easy to forget that there is joy in heaven for the salvation of even one soul. Perhaps my mission is not to save the whole world but to save the whole world by saving one person. Perhaps that person is you, dear reader, who is currently reading this blog of mine. Perhaps God led you here on purpose.

One might ask what my ramblings about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, King Charles, etc., have to do with the Christian gospel. Well, I personally believe that the message of the Christian gospel can be proclaimed and expressed in many different forms. For instance, the atheist-turned-Christian English apologist C.S. Lewis decided to proclaim it through his fantasy book series The Chronicles of Narnia, which has been read by millions of children and adults alike, and its message has even reached Hollywood adaptations. Additionally, J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings, was a Roman Catholic Christian, but he did not want to blend the message of his books with Christian faith as explicitly as C.S. Lewis did in his fantasy works.

But on my part, I want to thank all my old readers who have accompanied me all these years and welcome new readers for the times to come. Perhaps together we can make many groundbreaking new discoveries and insights, shedding more light on things as our increasingly dark world approaches the day when all creation rejoices at the appearance of God’s children to reign with their Savior who bore the debt of their sins (Rom. 8:20-23, Rev. 20:4).

And so we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. (2 Peter 1:19)

Soli Deo Gloria

See also:

• Website’s One-Year Birthday
• Website’s five-year anniversary