After reading the entire New Testament, the five books of Moses (Torah), and many of the prophecies in the Old Testament, I found myself increasingly drawn to study the scriptures, to the point where I was unable to concentrate on my studies. One day in early 1987, while walking toward Arnold Hall, my thoughts settled on Revelation 13:18. That was the second day in less than a year that God turned my life upside down. On that day, I prayed for wisdom according to what is written in James 1:5-6 and Revelation 13:18. Within one month of that momentous prayer, a local pastor by the name of Monte Judah invited me to an unusual sabbath meal. While there, Monte showed me his preliminary information on what would become the main subject of this book--Prince Charles of Wales. That information included the prince's English name calculation and a rather poor black and white photocopy of an unofficial version of his heraldic achievement. Through Monte, The LORD challenged me to re-examine what I had been taught to that point concerning eschatology, much of which I subsequently concluded to be false.

I returned to my dorm room at USAFA following that sabbath meal, where I proceeded to tell various classmates that I was going to write a book. At the time, I knew only that the book was to concern biblical prophecy. With that revelation, however, I completely dropped my academic studies, and began the process of voluntarily resigning from the academy. While awaiting a decision from the Secretary of the Air Force, I pursued research on a wide variety of scriptural subjects. This research led almost immediately to a color copy of the official version of the heraldic achievement of the Prince of Wales, which I found in a book on heraldry in the Cadet Library.

In November 1987, my resignation was accepted. Because I resigned in my final year at USAFA, however, I was required to enlist for a period of three years. While training for that enlistment in Texas, I met another man by the name of Steve Klein. Steve spoke of the fact that he and his wife were home-schooling their daughters, to which I made the off-the-cuff remark, "In a little over seven years, you won't have to worry about that." Steve oddly responded, "I hear you," and then invited my roommate and I to have dinner with his family that evening. When Steve arrived to pick us up, he brought with him a large copy of the official lineage of Queen Elizabeth II. Up to then, I had said nothing to Steve. The lineage later proved to be of great value in preparing this particular work.

Following the war with Iraq in 1990, I left the service. During my period of enlistment, The LORD not only provided me with a condominium, but enabled me to save sufficient funds to live for years without work. Over the next three years, I researched the subjects of biblical history and eschatology, and wrote, full-time.

This book, The AntiChrist and a Cup of Tea, is merely the first published fruit of ten years of research and writing. As such, it was originally a part of a much larger work still in progress. That work, entitled Messiah, History, and the Tribulation Period, is foretold--from my perspective--by a childhood event.

At the age of ten, I enjoyed my only oceangoing fishing trip to date. The night before the "big event," unknown to me, my father and ten other adults--all family members who had prior experience--decided to add some excitement to the event. Each one would contribute $3.00 to a pot, which they decided would be divided in three. The person who caught the first fish would receive $11.00, as would the one who caught the largest and the one who caught the most. Almost from the moment we threw our lines in the next morning, I called to my father for help; something was pulling fiercely on my line, and as a child, I simply lacked the strength to reel it in. With my father's help, however, I was soon staring at a large and rare silver salmon. That day, my father caught the most fish, while I caught just one--the first and the largest![2]

That event was, if you can receive it, prophetic of my future. From an allegorical standpoint, this book is a part of my childhood silver salmon. May reading it bless you, as writing it has blessed me.

THE ANTICHRIST AND A CUP OF TEA will answer your questions about the AntiChrist. How literally should you take God's written Word? Is it literal even to the point of its apocalyptic symbolism?

- Gain understanding and sweep away popular misconceptions as you learn the stunning truth concerning the AntiChrist and his rise to power. DON'T BE FOOLED_EXAMINE THESE TOPICS:

- How the AntiChrist will use the United Nations to control the world
- Who has requested to be the King of Europe
- Whose name scripturally calculates to 666 in English and Hebrew
- Who claims descent from Jesus, Mohammed, and David, yet appears to be from Dan and Satan
- Whose heraldic achievement literally bears the satanic imagery_the "calling card"_of the AntiChrist
- Whose powerbase is behind the New World Order
- Who has authority over Freemasonry and the Illuminati worldwide
- Whose power, throne, and "great authority" literally derive from the "red dragon" or Satan
- The rise of "global governance" in response to the "signs of the times"
- How the AntiChrist will control the world's false religions and cults
- Whose media exposure has already exceeded that of every other man in history
- Who steers the environmental ethics and business agendas of the world's most powerful multinational corporations
- Who initiated the United Nations' Global Security Programme, and who has partnered with the World Bank and the United Nations
- Who is really behind the Mideast "peace process," as prophesied in Daniel9:27
- Who has already taken a traceable bio-chip implant
- Who appears to be the first real candidate ever to fulfill the role of the prophesied AntiChrist

Although the false prophet is not a major subject of this treatise, some points are relevant. Many have held through the centuries that the false prophet and even the AntiChrist would arise from the Roman Catholic Church. Christians of all backgrounds recognize that while Roman Catholicism has historically advocated a Judeo-Christian morality, it nevertheless remains, in many respects, a pagan religion--a curious mixture of the holy with the profane. According to Revelation 13:11, the false prophet will have "two horns like a lamb," and speak like "a dragon." It seems especially noteworthy, therefore, that Rome's current pope, John Paul II, wears a "two-horned" miter which, around its base, depicts the pope as a lamb wearing the miter. This lamb, because of the papal miter shown on its head, actually looks like it has two horns.[8] This same pope, who has "two horns like a lamb," routinely makes statements revealing his intolerance for true Christians, his antichristian ecumenism, and his worship of "Mary" and the dead, which Roman Catholicism euphemistically call "saints." In other words, John Paul II speaks like "a dragon," even the red dragon or Satan (Rev 12:3, 12:9). Given the pope's "Marian devotion" (i.e., worship), it seems only appropriate to note that the author has encountered statements attributed to a Roman Catholic priest and theologian asserting that "Mary" is calling faithful congregants to receive a mark in their hand or forehead for protection from coming catastrophic judgments (cf. Rev13:16-17). Based upon this and other information, the author agrees with those who have argued that the false prophet, who shall work to exalt the AntiChrist, could readily be Rome's final pope (see Rev 13:11-17, 16:13-14, 19:20; cf. 20:10).[9] Moreover, as we shall see, many of the ancestors of this book's subject--the strongest candidate ever for the role of the AntiChrist--were Roman Catholic. Indeed, the European Union (E.U.) has begun to actively promote Roman Catholicism to the exclusion of true Christianity.[10]

Past suggestions for the identity of the AntiChrist have included Antiochus IV, Caligula, Charlemagne, Mohammed, Napoleon, and Nero. Suggestions in this century, now mostly abandoned, have included Alister Crowley, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, Ayatollah Kohomeini, Benito Mussolini, Yitzhak Rabin, Ronald Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. Current suggestions include Yasser Arafat, George Bush, Juan Carlos, Bill Clinton, Louis Farrakhan, Bill Gates, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Mikhail Gorbachev, Al Gore, Otto von Habsburg, Saddam Hussein, Henry Kissinger, "Maitreya," Sun Myung Moon, John Paul II, Shimon Peres, Prince Philip, and Maurice Strong. None of these suggestions seems truly plausible. Walvoord observes, "An almost unlimited number of identifications of antichrist to specific historical characters can be found. Among the more prominent are Mohammed, the founder of the Muslim faith; Caligula, a Roman emperor who claimed to be God; and Nero, a popular candidate for the title because of his burning of Rome and persecution of the Jews and Christians. To these can be added almost every prominent ruler of the past, including more modern characters such as Napoleon and Mussolini. In all these historical identifications, there is little more than evidence of being antichristian, but the variety of claims leaves the concept of [the] antichrist in considerable confusion."[11]

Indeed, there must be far more than merely antichristian beliefs and activities on the part of a person to justify a consideration of him as the AntiChrist. Any individual under serious observation must not only have antichristian beliefs, but also be capable of fulfilling every biblical prophecy related to the AntiChrist, without exception. Such a person, for example, must have a name or title that calculates to precisely six-hundred and sixty-six, preferably using a system that was recognized within Judaism--by both believers and unbelievers--when the Apocalypse was first penned (see Rev 13:18). Also, he must be associated in some manner with the imagery of the beast described in Daniel (ch.7) and the Apocalypse (chs. 12, 13, 17, and 18). Further, he must be a prominent ruler, presumably a prince, of Roman lineage (Dan 9:26-27). Some scholars would even add that he must be a descendent of Israel's tribe of Dan (discussed later).

Besides the biblical "musts" for qualification, there are, in this author's opinion, some prudent "shoulds." Any individual under consideration should have a prominent royal and religious lineage that will be viewed as proof-positive of his claims to world-leadership by all the world's major religions and cults. Also, he should have diverse royal, religious, political, military, and economic connections, as well as substantial wealth, to aid in his transition to power. Finally, he should be a man whom the world loves and desires to follow (despite any moral shortcomings he may exhibit), and who appears to be willing and able to cope with global problems and crises (e.g., the environment, religious and ethnic disputes, etc.).