Writing Myself Into Heaven: Why the Narrator of My End Times Novel Is Me

The narrator of Surviving the Antichrist is named Christopher. He's a construction worker. A father. A man who spent years warning his coworkers about the end times while they smiled and called him "preacher man."

People ask me: is Christopher you?

Yes. And no. And maybe he's you too.

The Man Behind the Narrator

I'll be honest — Christopher is modeled after me. I did work construction. I know what it feels like to swing a hammer at six in the morning while your mind is somewhere in the book of Daniel. I know what it's like to look at the guys on your crew — good men, funny men, hardworking men — and wonder what happens to them when the end comes.

That's something I carry with me. Not as a burden, but as a weight. I look at the people around me and I see two futures. I see the one where they turn to Christ and everything changes. And I see the one where they don't. Both are real possibilities. Both keep me up at night.

Christopher carries that same weight. He watches the world from Heaven after the rapture, and he sees the people he warned living through exactly what he told them was coming. He sees Jake — his best friend — slide into the Antichrist's system one compromise at a time. He sees Samir — a man he barely knew — become the hero he never expected.

That's what it feels like to care about people's souls. You watch. You pray. And you wonder if anything you said made a difference.

An Everyman

But I also designed Christopher to be general enough that anyone could see themselves in him. He's not extraordinary. He's not a pastor or a theologian or a prophecy expert with a PhD. He's a working man who reads his Bible and takes it seriously. That's it.

I wanted the reader to think: That could be me. Because it could be. You don't need special training to understand what's coming. You don't need seminary credentials to read Revelation and take it at face value. You just need to be willing to look.

Christopher is me, but he might also be the reader. The father who wonders how to protect his family. The friend who keeps trying to reach someone who won't listen. The believer who feels the urgency in his chest and doesn't know how to make people understand.

What Haunts Him

There's a specific tension that Christopher lives with throughout the novel, and it's one I live with too.

I sometimes look at the people in my life — coworkers, acquaintances, people I pass every day — and I wonder how they will handle the Tribulation. I know they don't love God. I can see it in how they live, what they chase, what they dismiss. And I wonder: will that change before their end comes?

Because here's the thing most people miss — not everyone will see the Tribulation period through to the end. People die every day. Car accidents, heart attacks, cancer, violence. The Tribulation will be seven years of catastrophic death on a global scale. Many who are left behind after the rapture won't survive all seven years.

What matters isn't whether they make it to the Second Coming. What matters is whether they're ready when their end comes. Whether it's day one of the Tribulation or day 2,520 — the question is the same: do you know Christ?

Christopher watches from Heaven and sees this play out across millions of lives. Some turn to Christ in the ashes and are saved, even though they suffer. Some never turn, and their end comes quiet and unwitnessed. Both break his heart. Both fuel his urgency.

Why First Person

I wrote the book in first person because I wanted you inside Christopher's head. I wanted you to feel what he feels — the awe of Heaven, the grief of watching Earth, the love for people who are making the wrong choice.

Third person would have been easier. It would have given me distance. But distance is the opposite of what this book needs. I wanted the reader pressed up against the glass, looking down at a world on fire, knowing the people below by name.

That's what Christopher does. And that's what I hope every reader does after they put the book down — look at the people in their life by name and ask: are they ready?

Surviving the Antichrist is available now on Amazon. 40 chapters of prophetic fiction. 15 chapters of survival training. 500+ pages.