In May 2025, something changed. It did not happen all at once. There was no single moment I could point to and say, this is where it began. Instead, it arrived quietly through sleep.
I began to dream,not occasionally, but relentlessly. Night after night.
The dreams were never the same, yet they felt connected, as if each were a fragment of a larger message revealed only in pieces. They were symbolic, layered, and often unsettling.
Faces appeared without names. Scenes unfolded without context. Warnings came without explanation.
I would wake with my heart racing, carrying the strange certainty that something important had brushed against me, something I did not yet understand, but could not dismiss.
The weight of the dreams lingered. They were not nightmares, but they were heavy. Pressing Purposeful.
It felt less like imagination and more like instruction delivered indirectly, as if meaning were being withheld until I was willing to slow down and listen.
And the dreams did not remain confined to sleep. They followed me into the daylight, intruding on ordinary moments without warning.
Memories from decades earlier resurfaced suddenly. I had seen the Dead Sea Scrolls in Charlotte, North Carolina, years before, but now they carried new significance.
Events I believed were long behind me no longer felt finished. The past and the future seemed to brush against one another, and I struggled to anchor myself in the present.
Nothing arrived in sequence. There was no timeline. Only fragments.
Then, one night, a voice cut through everything.
It was my fathers voice, clear and unmistakable, impossible to ignore.
You should have been dead. If God did not have a plan for you, the dirt would already be over your body.
The words stopped me cold.
I stood there in silence, unsure whether I was awake or still dreaming. The air felt thin. Time felt distorted.
And I found myself asking the question I had been avoiding:
Am I losing my mind?
Or is this what it feels like when God begins to dismantle a person, not to destroy him, but to remake him?
I will not pretend the experience was easy. Some nights, it frightened me.
I questioned my sanity. I wondered how much more I could endure.
But beneath the fear, something steadier remained, something I could not explain away.
I did not feel condemned. I felt prepared.
Every warning. Every close call in my life. Every moment when death should have taken me, but did not.
Like repeated strikes of a hammer against hot metal. Painful. Deliberate. Forming something slowly.
Not for my story. For His.
The realization did not arrive dramatically, it came quietly almost gently.
This was not madness.
It felt like a calling.
As I write this, I sense time pressing with a quiet awareness that something is approaching.
Scripture often moves in patterns. Seven years of preparation. Seven years of trial. Seven years of tribulation.
That rhythm began to echo not only in Scripture but in my own life.
Every wound. Every test. Every narrow escape. Every dream.
Each one was fire. Each one was shaping something.
And gradually, undeniably it became clear: all of it was leading here.
To this moment. To this question. To this book.
I did not set out to write The Last Peace Treaty.
I resisted it. I questioned it. I tried to dismiss what I was sensing.
But the dreams would not cease.
They kept pointing in the same direction, toward a convergence of events, toward a covenant that appears to promise peace while concealing something darker beneath its surface.
This book exists because I could no longer ignore the questions that kept rising within me.
Whether these experiences were meant only for me or meant to be shared, I leave that for the reader to discern.
I know only this:
They led me here.
And they would not let me turn away.
I had to write The Last Peace Treaty.