Randy Kay, founder of MY FAMILY Church and Randy Kay Ministries and author of Heaven Stormed and Revelations From Heaven, writes the second Foreword. Identifying himself as a fellow afterlife survivor who has interviewed hundreds of near-death experiencers—and as a former clinician in neurology and cardiology—Kay states that he believes in both the authenticity of Poirot’s account and the medical improbability of his survival. He identifies the book’s reliance on biblical Scripture as one of its distinguishing features and argues that Poirot doesn’t seek to add to Scripture or create new doctrine. Kay previews several major revelations: the reality of heaven’s throne room, Jesus’s scars, and prayer’s dynamics in the spiritual realm. He situates Poirot’s experience alongside biblical precedents—Paul, Isaiah, and Stephen—and challenges skeptics to test everything against Scripture. He closes with John 3:16.

Writing four years after his near-death experience, Gabe Poirot describes his testimony as the most intimate and precious experience of his life. He explains that he wrote the book to introduce readers to the person he encountered after leaving his body and to share how that experience changed his life. He says that he waited until God “released” him to share the details and closes with a warning that every reader’s final breath is closer than they realize.

One month before his 21st birthday, Poirot arrived at the emergency room unconscious—his skull shattered was from hitting the pavement, blood was pouring from his ears, and his lungs were filled with vomit. Medics in the ambulance recognized the severity of his condition, and emergency-room staff communicated the same grim outlook. His parents, over a thousand miles away, received the urgent call to come immediately, while nurses already spoke about Poirot in the past tense. Yet, despite the expectation that he wouldn’t survive, Poirot perceived a voice calling him upward, one beyond human hearing. He says that his spirit had already left his body at moment of impact and that what he experienced afterward was more real than anything he had known. He states, “Heaven is not just a location. Heaven is Him” (2).

Poirot and his friend John Michael were traveling at 30 miles per hour when Poirot’s electric skateboard struck a small road bump, launching him into a backflip that ended with him landing on his skull. His spirit instantly separated from his body. From above, he watched John Michael rush over in shock and hold his rigid, unresponsive body while blood poured from his ears and vomit filled his lungs. John Michael called 911 as a second friend, Aaron, arrived, and both men frantically attempted to rouse Poirot. His spirit felt neither pain nor sorrow. When paramedics rushed his body toward the emergency room, his spirit traveled elsewhere—released from all earthly heaviness. He was drawn upward through a vertical tunnel of living, joyful light that gradually surrounded and consumed him. He heard a voice tell him that he had an appointment.

Comparing the sensation to a car finally breaking free of deep mud, Poirot describes how departing his body felt like shedding immense resistance. His entire life replayed in a single flash. The review showed him how much of his life had been guided by a presence he hadn’t fully recognized at the time. Before the accident, Poirot had considered himself successful: debt-free, educated, and charitable. However, the review revealed that many accomplishments and possessions mattered less than he had believed, while certain people, moments, and the value of time carried far greater significance. Most significantly, he could see love present beside him at every stage of his life, even in seasons when he had denied that presence. He notes that fuller details of the review will be shared later.

On earth, Poirot was unconscious in the intensive-care unit for approximately 18 days while family and friends endured grief, fearing he was lost. In heaven, the same period passed like a single breath. He clarifies that he hadn’t ceased to exist but had simply moved, and he explains that time operates entirely differently outside earthly constraints, referencing 2 Peter 3: 8 on the Lord’s perception of time. His pre-accident life now feels as remote as thousands of years in the past, as though it belonged to someone else. He foreshadows that his coming experience with “Him” would change everything.

After passing through the tunnel, Poirot arrived at the center of a heavenly city lit entirely by God’s glory. He saw Jesus face-to-face for the first time, their eyes locked, and he concluded that every prior earthly depiction of Jesus—paintings, films, actors—had failed to capture what he now saw. Jesus’s eyes contained every color in existence and radiated an endless depth of love; every physical feature communicated the same message of love. The throne room was simultaneously vast and intimate, containing elders, cherubim, the seven Spirits of God, harps, and golden bowls, and it was saturated with a fragrance simultaneously burning and freezing. Poirot says that everything in heaven—mansions, mountains, golden streets, libraries—exists solely to direct worship toward God.

Confronted by this holiness, Poirot expected judgment for his history of addiction, hypocrisy, and sin, identifying with Isaiah’s terror before the divine throne (Isaiah 6: 1-5). Instead, Jesus called him by name, embraced him, and lifted his face, welcoming him home with unmistakable joy. In Jesus’s eyes, Poirot perceived God’s own love—identical to what God has for Jesus himself, which he associates with John 17:23. A room in heaven bore a special name prepared for him, and he later associated this with Revelation 2:17’s promise of a white stone bearing a new name, though he says he’s not permitted to share it.

Still fearful about his sins, Poirot watched as Jesus responded not with words but by displaying the wounds near his wrists. Jesus asked why Poirot was searching for a record of wrongdoing that no longer exists. Within the scars, Poirot understood that every transgression—past, present, and future—had been fully paid for; the nails that pierced Jesus’s hands remained fixed in the cross permanently. The wounds glowed with wholeness, proclaiming, “It is finished!” (19). Poirot recognized that his guilt had been a false reality already dissolved by truth. The depth of the scars appeared endless, sufficient for all of humanity’s failures. Written just above both wounds was Poirot’s full first name, “Gabriel.” Jesus stated plainly that he (referring to himself) paid the price joyfully and then sternly warned Poirot not to repay a debt already settled. Poirot came to believe that there was no record of his sin in heaven—only a record of blood. Jesus then commissioned him to reveal who he truly is and how much he believes in people so that they will be set free. Poirot accepted that he didn’t need to earn righteousness and instead needed to accept that he belongs to God.

Expanding on the earlier life review, Poirot describes seeing himself as a thought and dream in God the Father’s mind before the universe existed. He heard the Father declare plans for a son who would serve family, spouse, children, and the wider world through speaking, writing, and athletics. He says that, at the moment of conception, the Father’s own light joined Poirot’s parents’ biology, which he understands as evidence that he originated from the Father’s heart. Poirot asserts that no pregnancy is unplanned from heaven’s vantage point, and the text includes a direct appeal to defend life from conception onward.

The review revisited pivotal moments where limiting labels were placed on Poirot while Jesus simultaneously declared the opposite. Teachers identified a speech impediment and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; Jesus declared that he would speak for God. A young Poirot despised worship; Jesus declared that he would love God wholeheartedly. Teenage misconduct was met with declarations that he would reject worldly influences and bring others into the light. Fear of public speaking met a declaration of fearless proclamation to nations. Failure at writing met a declaration that he would write for God. Doctors’ grim coma prognosis met a declaration that he would be sent back to fulfill his destiny. Poirot confirms that every one of these declarations has since come to pass.

Poirot contrasts the transactional love modeled by Hollywood’s romanticism with the love he encountered in Jesus, which he describes as unconditional. Persistent criticism from coaches, teachers, and his father during childhood had left him feeling perpetually inadequate. In heaven, that deficit was addressed by the simple reality of Jesus’s presence: Being with him was sufficient, and his correction felt like wise guidance rather than assault. Poirot adds that Jesus communicated directly through his spirit, often without audible words. He cites several scriptural passages about the union of the human spirit with God’s Spirit.

Jesus took Poirot to observe the origin of humanity as though it were unfolding in the present—because in heaven, past, present, and future exist simultaneously in one eternal now. Poirot watched the Father breathe humans into existence from radiant, crystalline breath. Jesus told Poirot that humans were created to reflect God’s image, and Poirot understood himself as part of that design. Each human being, Poirot explains, is a unique expression of God’s nature, the way each turn of a diamond reveals a new sparkle.

Jesus then showed Poirot why so many people struggle to perceive God: Wounds inflicted by earthly fathers, church leaders, and religious institutions have distorted their view of the divine. Poirot felt Jesus’s deep displeasure toward systems that have replaced genuine relationship with ritual and understood that Jesus was already grieving alongside people before those wounds were inflicted. Throughout his entire heavenly stay, Poirot perceived Jesus as wholly focused on him—tracking every detail of his life, large and small. This unchanging love was set against the unreliable truths of earth—broken contracts, shifting cultural definitions, artificial-intelligence fabrications—and Poirot concludes that Jesus himself is the only completely trustworthy source of truth.