What My Family Really Thinks About My End Times Book

When you tell your family you're writing a 500+-page novel about the Antichrist, the Tribulation, and the end of the world — and that you believe it's your prophetic calling — the reactions are... varied.

My Wife

My wife has walked this road with me. She's seen the late nights. The long pauses where I'd stop writing for weeks because I needed to settle a theological question before I could move forward. The revisions — oh, the revisions. She's watched me rewrite sections multiple times, each one getting closer to what I knew the book needed to be.

She supports the mission. She understands why this book exists. She knows I didn't choose this project — it chose me. And she's built a life alongside me that makes room for a man who thinks about Revelation at the breakfast table and talks about Daniel's toes the way other husbands talk about football stats.

My Son

My son is thirteen. He knows Dad wrote a book about the end times. He's heard me talk about it — probably more than he'd prefer. But he's also old enough to understand that this isn't just a hobby. This is something I believe matters on an eternal scale.

I don't force it on him. I share it with him the way I share everything — openly, honestly, and with room for his own questions and doubts. He's at the age where he's forming his own relationship with God, and I want to equip him, not pressure him.

What I hope he sees is a father who put everything into something he believed in. Not for money. Not for fame. For the message. That example — a man who builds what God tells him to build, regardless of what the world thinks — is worth more than any lecture I could give him.

The Rest

Extended family, friends, coworkers — the reactions range from genuine interest to polite smiles to the quiet assumption that Christopher has finally gone off the deep end.

I'm okay with that. Every prophet has been considered a little crazy by the people around them. Noah built a boat when there was no rain. Ezekiel lay on his side for over a year. Jeremiah wore a yoke around his neck in public. The message has always been more important than the messenger's reputation.

If people think I'm eccentric for writing a 500+-page novel about the Tribulation with a survival guide in the back, that's fine. When the seals start opening, nobody will think it's eccentric anymore.

What Matters

At the end of the day, my family is together. We're walking toward God's purposes. We belong to a church. We support it in multiple ways. We have a house, a dog, a life that looks pretty normal from the outside.

But underneath the normalcy is an urgency. We know what's coming. And we're preparing — spiritually and practically — for the people we love to be ready.

That's what this book is. It's not a disruption of our family life. It's the culmination of it.

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