FEBRUARY 28: Prophetic or Psychotic

Why This Book Was Written
This is not a book of triumphalism. It is not written to celebrate the fall of any nation or to dance on the graves of the dead. War is always a catastrophe. Every life lost on every side of every conflict is a tragedy known intimately by God, regardless of the political or theological frame we place around it. That must be stated plainly, and it must be meant. The author holds no contempt for the Iranian people — a civilization of extraordinary antiquity, intellectual achievement, and spiritual depth — whose suffering under cycles of empire, revolution, and theocracy has been immense.
This book is written for the honest seeker. For the Christian who opened their Bible on the morning of February 28 and felt the pages tremble. For the Muslim scholar who has quietly wrestled with what the Quran and the Hadith say about the end of days, and who watched the news with a complicated mixture of grief, confusion, and recognition. For the skeptic who has always dismissed biblical prophecy as the refuge of the credulous but who now finds themselves pausing at the strange specificity of what ancient texts seem to describe. And for the honest agnostic who simply wants to understand what is happening in the world and why billions of people believe it was written down thousands of years ago.
The title of this book asks a binary question: the prophetic or the psychotic? But the author holds that binary with open hands. It is a question, not a verdict. What follows is an attempt to examine, as rigorously and as fairly as possible, what the ancient texts actually say, what history actually records, and what the events of February 28 and their aftermath may or may not mean. The reader is invited to think — not to be told what to think.
Jermaine Joseph Williams