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ave you ever heard someone say,
“While I was dead I saw a great light, and then came back to life”?
Have you ever wondered if this can be true? What does it mean? Why did it happen?
One man, an agnostic, has written a book about his near death experience (NDE).
In his book, we discover that he died when his pickup fell on him, flattened
his chest, and killed him. He was “dead” for about 15 minutes. Yet,
he returned to life. He said that while he was “dead” he traveled
through a tunnel and saw the “Light of God.” He said that God sent
him back to tell everyone that God loves without any conditions. He wrote about
seeing Jesus and asking God many questions. Eventually, he revealed that the “Jesus” he
talked with was not the Jesus who walked this earth. He believes
that we are a part of god, and yet we are all god. This is revealing because
Jesus did not teach that we are a part of god, nor did He teach that we are god.
He did not teach that we all went to heaven either. This man did not see God.
He saw something else.
Heavenly Vision.
The Apostle John saw God too, but John was alive - not dead.
He did not have a NDE. The apostle had a different experience.
He saw God in a vision.
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After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing
open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard,
like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come
up here, and I will show you what must take place after
these things.” Immediately I was in the Spirit;
and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One
sitting on the throne. (NASB) Rev. 4:1-2
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The Holy Spirit gave the apostle a vision of heaven, a throne,
and of One sitting on the throne. We will discover soon that
the One sitting on the throne is God. We will also read that
there were others around the throne too!
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