Twenty-six years ago, I was driving my daughter home from school ( she was in 1st grade), when I suddenly felt myself being hugged tight around the shoulders. I could not see anyone, but instinctively knew this was my grandmother who lived in Michigan ( we were living in the South). I realized at that moment something had happened...within minutes of arriving home, the phone rang and my mom told me she had bad news. However, I told her I already knew that grandma had just died. To this day, that hug was the most precious moment of my entire life! Grandma and I were very close, and she managed to find me as she was leaving this world. Looking forward to seeing her in heaven one day 🙏 BTW, her husband, my grandfather, was one of the first writers for My Daily Bread leaflets, and was also a broadcaster for their radio program in the 30's and 40's ( he was a pastor).
My mom was painting the bathroom walls on a ladder, took a deep breath and stood very still....she knew it was her brother hugging her, he was in the Vietnam War. I witnessed it at 10yrs old, she knew it was her brother.
As my Godly dad lay dying, a big smile came across his face. My mom asked him, “what do you see”? His last words were “it’s so beautiful.” And he was gone. Still gives me cold chills. I so look forward to seeing them in heaven. Praise God!
This reminds me of Sam Kinison, who had the same kind of experience before he died. As raunchy as he was, he wanted to be a preacher at one time. I hope he got to heaven. It sounds like he did.
I lost two totally blind friends over the years. Both had amazing NDEs following heart attacks. One was able to describe accurately everything in the hospital room and the people when he was stricken. My best friend of 33 years had a heart attack in her home, and was soon resuscitated. After a week of being on a respirator, I asked her how was it? She described it was so peaceful and serene, with her vision, in a green meadow she never felt as good while she was alive. In an instant, her late mother and brother came to get her through a tunnel of light, then she was told not in words but in thought, she would return to be reunited with them. By the way, in the first experience, my friend, after going through a tunnel with light, he was reunited with not only his late mother but his dogs who had all passed on decades earlier. They were waiting for him! His mom told him that he had some unfinished business to do, and they would look forward to greeting him home soon. The docs were amazed that a totally blind man could accurately describe everything not only what was in the room, including their clothing, shoes and equipment, but what they said, and done to revive him. Both related that they no longer feared their own death, and they looked forward to rejoining those they loved throughout their lives. Bottom line: There is nothing to fear and what awaits us all is nothing bur pure love and joy. We cannot fully appreciate what is yet to come without experiencing challenging and hard times here. The Good Guys win!
When church people say that "there is no such thing," I want to say you're SO wrong about that. Lol I'm a Nurse who have worked in busy ER. Now a hospice Nurse. Oh, the stories that I could tell of what I have witnessed. Through these experiences, it has only strengthened my faith in Jesus as the Christ, there is a loving God and He gives us eternal life through His precious Son. There is something and someone's wonderful beyond what we can see. On the contrary, there is something sinister and frightening on the other side for eternity. I know that I want the wonderful experience with Jesus Christ for eternity.
Thank you for being a hospice nurse. It is a very special person who can do that kind of nursing. When my mother was terminally ill, hospice came in. All but one nurse were excellent. The organization was also wonderful. The monthly newsletter, that I received for one year after she passed, was a tremendous resource. It explained this is the 4th month and you might be experiencing grief like this or this. I had lost my father 5 weeks before my mother and really didn't have time to grieve for him because my mother was ill. I was the main caretaker. I actually bought books on grieving and I also took out library books. Losing a grandparent is sad, but losing two parents hit home. I didn't know what to expect. Reading about grief let me know I was, "normal."
@lorraineboyd8338 I appreciate you, also. We're never ready to say, "so long. Until we meet again," to our parent's. After all, they were our first loves and our constant loves for most of our lifetimes. If we're blessed with long lives. I've been asked by the patient's family member, " Will this grief get better?" My answer is no. The grief is still there. The absence of a loved one still remains. But, our minds are amazing and will help us cope with the grief as time goes by. Also, it may sound cliché, in my opinion, still holds true; as long as you can hold them in your heart, a part of them is still with you. And you're never alone as long as you keep that love alive in you heart, until you meet again. May God bless You and give you His comfort and peace. 🌹
I don't agree with either man on everything, but rarely have I had such admiration and affection for two human beings. Plus I just like them, lol. Courage, focus, humor, intelligence? Love these guys, truely love them. Strobel's books and story and lively personality, Metaxes spirited commentary and animated passion and humor and quick whit are just fun and so much more. What joy to get them both in one show. What a dream team. Blessed and gifted men. Thank God they spend their lives sharing their aparent huge hearts with all of us. Much love.
I’m not sure what you’re referring too, for the parts you don’t believe? So you believe some of it but not all of it? Although I have felt the same way about what people claim to believe in Universalism & Cult counterfeit religions, there’s always some truth in it, but how they interpret it is false. And the most dangerous ones, or on about most any topic, is like a good counterfeit $20 bill, because whatever comes the closest to the truth, is the most difficult to detect. And especially for people who are not well-informed about what & why they believe what they do.
As much as I'm undone about the people who want to do us in I pray they'll be judged in this life and not the life to come. Lord I don't want anyone to go to hell. 🙏🙏🙏
Neurologist Dr. Eban Alexander wrote a book on his NDA. He had menengitis on the brain, as a brain surgeon he's able to relate to the reader just how impossible his experience and recover was. Very detailed well written story.
I have not read his book, but I watched an interview of him describing his experience. He became a believer. He and his wife divorced because they were no longer on the same page.
If only we could help our atheist friends understand that hell isn't a way to criticise God, but is willingly landing in the claws of evil for eternity. It is so scary and I feel so powerless. 'Save others by snatching them from the fire' Jude 1:23
This interview and others have equipped us to know exactly what to say to an atheist. It wasn't only for educating ourselves, but to be prepared to speak up the next time we encounter an atheist.
I have been interested and studied near-death experiences since the 1960s. Most reports of the glowing warmth and light. But there are also experiences of the deep despair of the opposite. Heaven and hell are real.
Happiness, sadness, sweet, sour, and heaven and hell. Hell has to exist because there are demons roaming the earth trying to ensnare us. Also, not everyone tries to live a Godly life.
Some 15 yrs ago the Aedes Aegypty Mosquito bit me. I felt bad, so I drank 2 Aspirins; that was when it took a turn for worse. By lunch time next day I laid down to Die alone in my room. _I remembered that I never wrote down a Vision of the Lord that I had seen. Then I felt my Spirit 'separate' from my body; so I began praying The Our Father. _Suddenly, I felt a 'hand' ever so gently lay upon my left shoulder & it 'Absorbed' from my whole body the sickness; then it patted me twice & departed. I knew that it wasnt 'my time' yet!
There are a lot of people I like in teaching positions but few I admire. Tom Horn is one of them. I'd love to hear his story. Do you have a link to that testimony?
I had a near death experience once, when I was twenty. I was still living with my parents. My left arm began to hurt in the middle of the night, and the pain became progressively worse, until I thought I wouldn’t be able to stand it. My father heard me and came into my room, and Mother followed. They took me to the nearest hospital. While being examined, I discovered I was unable to breathe! I too floated up and was watching the dr and his assistants, as they sat me up and cried Breathe! Breathe! I couldn’t. So I turned and left. I entered a tunnel with darkness in it. I started calling out to God, saying, God, I don’t want to die before I can live a life for You! Please let me live! I turned around and started going back to the hospital. When I landed in my body, I began breathing. I knew I would live. The dr laid me back down on the gurney and everyone left. While they were gone I found my parents and told them it was time to go.
Great interview, gentlemen! In 2020, I had an episode of internal bleeding and I knew I had to go to the ER. I don't like being the patient. I told the EMT that I don't make a good patient. He said I was doing fine. I said I know I am nice, but I don't like being the patient. Sure enough. Within minutes of being brought into the ER, I flatlined. I guess it was just for seconds, but I felt like it was minutes. I had a NDE. The area where I entered was peaceful and calm. It was mostly dark, with some light. There were about 6 people in a semicircle there to greet me. They were wearing brown monk robes. I could only see them from the neck down. The nurse was giving me CPR and I never felt a thing. She was calling my name and finally I came to. She said I looked angelic. Then, she says, I don't think I broke any ribs. She didn't. It was bad enough I was in for the bleeding issue. The last few months have been difficult for me. I get anxious thinking about what is to come to America. In listening to pastors and the rabbi talk about the end times, I know that God has me in the palm of His hand. The anxiety left and a peacefulness surrounded me. Then, I remembered this NDE. God showed me that so I would know I am going to get through the end times. I thank God for RUclips and other social media platforms so that I can learn from those who know more than I do about the Bible. May God continue to protect and bless both of you and your families.
Did you become a Christian after your NDE so next time you die you won’t see mostly darkness and faceless, unknown people in robes? I’m sure you have but it wasn’t clear in your comment. 😊
I lost my father to dementia on August 20th 2022, almost a year ago today. He was several months shy of his 100th birthday. He died in my arms at hospital. I was his full-time carer for 12 years. I had lived with him all my life. During his life, I never heard my father speak of anything spiritual, no mention of Heaven, not until his final days. During the last four days of his month-long stay at hospital, I stayed with him in his room 24/7, never leaving his side. I kept a journal, detailing his final hours. Here are my notes from that journal which I used for my eulogy at his funeral: His voice is veiled as he asks me to help him to stand up, he wants to go home. "Help me stand up" he says, "I want to go home. My mother will be wondering where I am!" Even if I could help him to stand up, he is so physically weak and depleted now, that I think we both would fall. Late yesterday afternoon, when I was about to leave him for the day, I asked him if he minded that I should go, assuring him as I do every day that I will see him again in the morning. "If I am here ..." he replies. "Where else would you be?" I ask him. "In Heaven!" How his broken voice it breaks me and so, I arrange with hospital staff for me to stay with him the night. Several hours earlier he had told me that there were people gathering about us in his room. Looking to either side of me, firstly over my left shoulder and then to my right, they who were there not for me but only him were dressed in white. "Do you recognize any of them?" I ask him. He raises a boney finger and replies: "Just one!" I ask him who the person is that he recognises and he tells me that it is himself. "What age are you?" I ask him. "I am 15!" At the time of writing this, I have been by his side a full thirty-four and a half hours. Inasmuch does his mind meander, I am never not so knowing of what he means. "Lift me up, I want to go home!" he says over and over: "I want to go home!" Holding his hand, I tell him that although I cannot lift him up physically, I can at least lift him up toward Spirit, and I place my other hand at where his heart is and say to him: "Home is where your heart is! If you live within the home that is your heart, you will always have Love; you will always know Love: God's Love!" "I want to go home!" Massaging his chest gently in a clockwise rotation, because the motion of Life is always forward even after Death, yet without actually lifting my hand from his ever weakening heart, I lean forward and whisper into his ear that he can go. "Go home! You do not have to stay, just know that I love you!" "And I love you!" He is even weaker now but not yet gone, and I do not think that I have ever known of a moment so innocent as this, the lingering of a Life as do the Guardians of Love they prepare His way. His doctor visits with me. She is concerned for me that I have stayed the night, telling me I need to look after myself. Squeezing his hand a little tighter in mine I look at her and say: "I Am" Another day passes during whose time he is bathed twice in his bed, first in the morning and then again at night: Bed Bath Lite. The ritual of cleansing a rite of passage now, water, glycerin, gels and fragrant oils, they do not soil the sheets but soothe his skin, tissue-paper thin. He breathes in and breathes out ever more purposefully on the exhale, and I copy the sequence of sighs sorrowfully, that none too cold each pant becomes, nothing so irregular, not just yet. I would bet myself he would live another year but for my fear the end is near we both do know it, and I think to myself how stealthily the dusk does creep before the breaking of each new dawn a waking day, how we live to die and die to live reborn. With his cheek resting softly upon the pillow I lay my head at his side. He places his hand on my head and touches my hair. and I want more than anything for him to keep it there. As his breathing becomes more shallow I chant: "Everything I am is of you; all my love is yours!" "Everything I am is of you; all my love is yours!" but then to add: "If you take my heart with you when you go, my love will be with you and forever more, because of the love I give to you are you a part, two soles, one heart!" I dim the light to dull the play of shadows upon his features that I see only myself in him now. And then, at the eleventh hour of my stay this day he takes his last breath and quietly slips away, into the silent land where there is only Love and Time it has no borders, bound not by night neither lit by day, only Love! Love has sped him away! (Leslie James Wilcher 16.01.1923 - 20.08.2022)
When my mother was terminally ill, she didn't want to die at first. As the days went by, she was coming to terms with her situation. She had been a strong, devout believer her whole life. I had no doubt where she was going. The hospice nurses were talking about how they were getting their strength from my mother. My mother finally told me she didn't want to leave the three of us--her children and her 6 grandchildren. But she was excited to be reunited with two people in heaven.
@@Magazinelady It was much the same with my mother who transitioned in 2005, she did not want to leave me. Heartfelt condolences, Lorraine on the loss of your mother, That is beautiful, how the nurses were getting strength from her. I play music to patients in end of life care at the local hospital, patients of all ages although mostly middle to late age. They are all so grateful for the life they have lived, mostly always smiling and some joke with me. They are engaging, something I did not expect to find when I applied to do the volunteer work. Some have expressed the same excitement you say your mother expressed, that I have realised even more than I knew before, that there is no death, only a relocation of spirit. Blessings!
@@PhillipLWilcher Thank you, Phillip for your kind words. My father had passed away 5 weeks before, of a heart attack. He had COPD. After my mother passed, I felt like an orphan at the age of 39. That was an unexpected feeling. Thank you for sharing your volunteer work with me. That must be rewarding for you. Is it one of those experiences where you receive more than you give from the experience? I am sure the patients enjoy your music and company. After my mother passed, I felt like my mother was very close to me, just on another plane. That feeling has since disappeared. Not a day goes by that I don't think of both of my parents. It has been 21 years already. Blessings to you, too!
@@PhillipLWilcher I was a very shy kid. Working in retail helped to bring me out of my shell a bit. Advocating for my mother in the hospital was a whole new level of speaking up. As I have had more experiences in life, I no longer have a shy bone in my body. What I have noticed is there is such a difference between sympathy and empathy. But other than knowing the definitions of the words, you don't experience the feeling until you experience a loss or a certain situation. I know when to listen and when to speak. I know exactly what to say. Whereas when I was younger, I would be nervously thinking of something to say. The person speaking wasn't getting my full attention. And then 5 minutes after saying good-bye, I would think of something and I would say, you should have said that or you could have said this. To me this is a positive thing about aging! LOL!
@@Magazinelady Oh, that is such a young age to lose both parents, and in such close succession. I have always said that eventually we become orphans and there you have experienced. I'm so sorry. I can relate to the feeling of your mother's presence (prayer-sense?) close to you but that with the passing of years since, it has become less. My own feeling this past years was that my father's transitioning eclipsed my mother's passing, but the feeling of losing dad is still keen for me. He had become my son. Perhaps it is more a case of acceptance that those feelings we go through feel like they have disappeared after all, and like you, there's not a day that passes when I do not think of my parents. Yes, the volunteer work has its own reward as is Love its own reward. I mostly do it in memory of dad and to give something back to the hospital for the care they showed both dad and me during his final weeks of life. I was allowed to stay with him in his room 24/7 for his last four days, and the nurses cared for me as much they did my dad. It was all a blessing. God bless you, Lorraine!
Thank you, Eric, for covering this phenomenon. If we believe in life after death, why not believe the testimonies of these individuals who have had near-death experiences.
Stonewall Jackson, a devout Christian, dying in agony from fever from an arm amputation, suddenly a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an expression, as if of relief, 'Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.' It’s been said that Voltaire on his deathbed cried, the devil himself has come to get me.
Hi Eric, have u ever watched "23 minutes in hell" testimony by Bill Weise. that will be a good guess to have in your studio. It is a very awakening call for all of us.
I read Bill Wiese' book.....WOW, what a horrific trip!!! I felt as if I was there with him in deep dark despair. No hope, no love from God totally isolated and alone and NO ONE knows your alive and being tortured forever and ever. The cages click as they go down one more level deeper into hell, each cage has a human in it, reliving over and over and over the very sin(s) that brought them to that desolation. At times I had to put it down for a while, my heart was pounding! If this book doesn't scare you.... you don't exist!
A near-death experience proves you need assurance of your salvation and be thankful that you now have that opportunity! What you need to know. [ABOUT SALVATION: I Cor. 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren (fellow Christians), I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand: By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain (don't really care). For I delivered to you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Eph. 2:8-9 For by grace (from God) are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Rom. 10:9-13 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. For scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between Jew and the Greek (Gentiles): for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Joh. 3:16 For God so loved the world (us), that he gave his only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever believes in him should not perish (in hell), but have everlasting life (with God). Joh. 14:6 Jesus said to him (us), I am the way (salvation), the truth (trustworthy), and the life (eternal): no man comes to the Father (God), but by me (God the Son). Rom. 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing (studying), and hearing by (studying) the Word of God. Rom. 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Rom. 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:]
Thank you for this interview Eric, so glad Lee did this book, I've been collecting these testimonies for over 30 years and this book makes it possible to hand someone else a source without having to search. When do you think they do a bio pic of the case for heaven?
Not all NDE’s are experiences with the true God. Many come back from an NDE with another gospel…like there are many ways to heaven, or Jesus isn’t the only way, or we all live forever in heaven when we die. I think there needs to be a distinction between these NDE’s. People with these types of messages are leading many people to hell because they are using their (demonic) experience to send the message that Jesus isn’t a factor in being heaven bound.
Yes, it is the same with the hell NDE's. Jesus said that hell was created for the adversary and his angels. Hell is not the devil's domain to rule and torment others, it is a place for his imprisonment.
@@shanli2693 Some say they went to hell and were tortured by Satan and demons. This isn't possible since the devil and demons aren't there yet. Also the bible describes hell as a place of torment not torture BIG difference. I believe from the context that the torment comes from yourself.
No one that had an experience of hell came without trauma or PTSD. To my knowledge they all came back screaming and they had some sort of deep shock for at least 3 months.
Quantum entanglement describes the Holy Spirit infilling. How God can be in more than one place at a time and connected to the spirit filled Christian, those who speak in tongues.
Blessings ,Lee Strobel ,Has awesome move call The Case for Christ is a powerful WItness story made after a real Story of His ,it`s a little rough around the edges PG 13 ,I said real Life . Thank You, Eric Your Interviews are Body of Christ Minded, also ENjoy you on Flash Point ,it a GOD Thing Pray as always ask Holy Spirit to translate ,
The authors of the books in the Bible rarely spell things out in detail. Paul’s experience being caught up to the third heaven 2 Corinthians: 2-4 implies that it was a near death experience to many of us. I believe that God gives some near death experiences to encourage us to want to go to heaven, and to accept Christ as our Savior to get there. But we must be very cautious as not to be deceived by those that make their stories up to gain fame and fortune.
I believe in an afterlife in the Kingdom of God. I find it odd that of all the resurrection experiences in the Bible and all the Interest in those times in this subject that not one of these experiencers speak to this subject. You simply have to ask why this is so. The afterlife is a promise not yet seen and rarely what is seen is faith.
……Eric your podcast have been on a very different theme..of late. It would seem it borders on emotional experiences… I do believe in them, but coming from a background that emphasized the profound need of these , & speaking tongues , always when you pray, to do have issues listening to these.. I do enjoy most of your conversations with different walks of life…believers.. I grow weary of all the sensationalism that these topics stir up… We all have a story…. You have a gift… A ministry… I say keep it simple & always real , as you have done… The Cost of Discipleship….. Would be a great study… Blessings
Our Salvation is contingent on God choosing us. We don’t choose him. He chooses us. When we make a confession of faith, it is at the direction of the Holy Spirit, not the human spirit.
1Peter 1:1 From Peter, an apostle of Jesus the Anointed One, to the chosen ones who have been scattered abroad like “seed” into the nations living as refugees, to those living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and throughout the Roman provinces of Asia and Bithynia. 1:2 You are not forgotten, for you have been chosen and destined by Father God. The Holy Spirit has set you apart to be God’s Holy Ones, obedient followers of Jesus Christ who have been gloriously sprinkled with his blood. May God’s delightful grace and peace cascade over you many times over! (TPT) It is Harvest Time!
The state of the dead according to the word of God. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof *thou shalt surely die* {Genesis 2:17} Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? ... So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their *sleep* O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, *until thy wrath be past* that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, 👉till my change come. ... His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. {Job 14:10, 12-14 & 21} And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my *flesh* shall I see God. {Job 19:26} Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. {The Preacher 9:10} Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. {Psalm 146:3-4} Then said his disciples, Lord, if he *sleep* he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, "Lazarus is dead." {John 11:12-14} ... Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection 👉at the last day. Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet *shall* he live:" {John 11:24-25} But go thou thy way till the end be: for *thou shalt rest* and stand in thy lot *at the end of the days* {Daniel 12:13} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him *should not perish* but have everlasting life. {John 3:16} And *the serpent said* unto the woman, *Ye shall not surely die* {Genesis 3:4} Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down *in the midst of the stones of fire* {Isaiah 28:14} ^ (satan always turns the tables on God, for he is the father of lies.) The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; {Isaiah 33:14-15} If anyone errors in their understanding of this doctrine of the dead, then they will in no way be led to the understanding of the truth, for it will be a stumblingblock unto the decernment of spiritual things, including soilterology and eschatology.
Believers it's time to get serious, Revelation 3:14-22 is real! Have you answered the knock? We are sharing this warning message as a comment to all post's of a Christian nature. As Jesus said in Matthew 10:27, "What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops." As God said, it is foolishness to non-believers and we understand that. Believers, though, hopefully, will know it is wisdom from God. Last Days Message - Where Is The Book Of Acts Power Today? Does The Church You Attend Have The Book Of Acts Power? Are the Spiritual gifts as active in the church you attend, as they were in the book of Acts? Or are you attending a church that does not believe that the power from the book of Acts is for today? 2 Timothy 3:5 says avoid such men that deny the power, but yet seem godly. Acts 13 shows us how a church should be. Can we recognize what has been taken away from God's word and what has been added to God's word, that prevents Acts 13 from becoming a reality in the church. The book of Acts is for today, despite what some men say, and God is looking for those that look to Him to run His own church through a true man of God. So much of what is considered church today looks just like the world. The "special" days the world celebrates maybe nice, but they do not belong as part of the church. When the church looks just like the world and celebrates like the world, that is a sign to believers to walk away from such a church. Making sure a church has a sense of community, or social justice ministries, or having "God in a box programs", may sound nice, but only a committed relationship with Jesus will prepare believers for eternity. The path is narrow and those that abide solely with Jesus will be pleasing to God. Those on the broadway, AKA "everyone is doing it", are not pleasing to God and are heading for destruction. Jesus warns us over and over and over to be ready, to avoid those that teach even a, slightly, different way of worship and service of God, we should turn away from such people. All believers need to be transformed by the renewing of their minds before it is too late. If believers don't know how to worship God, go to God's word and build on the sayings of Jesus, not on the words of man. Time to leave your own ways behind and follow God's word only. Be ready! Religion created by man and traditions of man are not of God. If it is not in God's word, get rid of it. God is not referring to driving a car or things like that, this refers to how we worship and serve God. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. Please take the time to listen to this video to get the full warning message. ruclips.net/video/EqMx2dFv7qs/видео.html
Charles Spurgeon himself said that Calvinism is just shorthand for Biblical Christianity. Your slurs about Calvinism are not appreciated. And I don’t come from a Calvinistic background.
Deceptions of the last days from the devil. Show proof from the Bible. The Bible says that when we die we don’t know anything. Either the Bible is false or these stories are false. You choose.
For the wages of sin is death; (not hell;) but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. {Romans 6:23} Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such *the second death* hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. {Revelation 20:6} And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. *This is the second death* And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. {Revelation 20:14-15} Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha *into ashes* condemned them with an overthrow, making them *an ensample* unto those that after should live ungodly; {2 Peter 2:6} Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are *set forth for an example* suffering the vengeance of *eternal fire* {Jude 1:7} (Sodom is not still burning, so it is not the fire / punishment that is eternal, but rather the consequences thereof.) And ye [the saints] shall tread down the wicked; for *they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet* in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. {Malachi 4:3} Thou [satan] hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and *I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth* in the sight of all them that behold thee. {Ezekiel 28:18} What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. {Nahum 1:9}
I say stick with the Bible. The stories are tantalizing but I remain a skeptic. There is so much deception and demons are capable beings. I don't know...I just tend to steer clear of this sort of thing on general principles
Twenty-six years ago, I was driving my daughter home from school ( she was in 1st grade), when I suddenly felt myself being hugged tight around the shoulders. I could not see anyone, but instinctively knew this was my grandmother who lived in Michigan ( we were living in the South). I realized at that moment something had happened...within minutes of arriving home, the phone rang and my mom told me she had bad news. However, I told her I already knew that grandma had just died. To this day, that hug was the most precious moment of my entire life! Grandma and I were very close, and she managed to find me as she was leaving this world. Looking forward to seeing her in heaven one day 🙏 BTW, her husband, my grandfather, was one of the first writers for My Daily Bread leaflets, and was also a broadcaster for their radio program in the 30's and 40's ( he was a pastor).
Amazing, thank you for sharing this ❤️
Heart warming story and it sounds like you came from a lovely God fearing family.
Blessings to you and your family.
Shalom
My mom was painting the bathroom walls on a ladder, took a deep breath and stood very still....she knew it was her brother hugging her, he was in the Vietnam War. I witnessed it at 10yrs old, she knew it was her brother.
@@goaskmymom1350 Good point. I think "God=fearing" family is key
As my Godly dad lay dying, a big smile came across his face. My mom asked him, “what do you see”? His last words were “it’s so beautiful.” And he was gone. Still gives me cold chills. I so look forward to seeing them in heaven. Praise God!
Beautiful!
This reminds me of Sam Kinison, who had the same kind of experience before he died. As raunchy as he was, he wanted to be a preacher at one time. I hope he got to heaven. It sounds like he did.
I lost two totally blind friends over the years. Both had amazing NDEs following heart attacks. One was able to describe accurately everything in the hospital room and the people when he was stricken. My best friend of 33 years had a heart attack in her home, and was soon resuscitated. After a week of being on a respirator, I asked her how was it? She described it was so peaceful and serene, with her vision, in a green meadow she never felt as good while she was alive. In an instant, her late mother and brother came to get her through a tunnel of light, then she was told not in words but in thought, she would return to be reunited with them. By the way, in the first experience, my friend, after going through a tunnel with light, he was reunited with not only his late mother but his dogs who had all passed on decades earlier. They were waiting for him! His mom told him that he had some unfinished business to do, and they would look forward to greeting him home soon. The docs were amazed that a totally blind man could accurately describe everything not only what was in the room, including their clothing, shoes and equipment, but what they said, and done to revive him. Both related that they no longer feared their own death, and they looked forward to rejoining those they loved throughout their lives. Bottom line: There is nothing to fear and what awaits us all is nothing bur pure love and joy. We cannot fully appreciate what is yet to come without experiencing challenging and hard times here. The Good Guys win!
When church people say that "there is no such thing," I want to say you're SO wrong about that. Lol
I'm a Nurse who have worked in busy ER. Now a hospice Nurse. Oh, the stories that I could tell of what I have witnessed. Through these experiences, it has only strengthened my faith in Jesus as the Christ, there is a loving God and He gives us eternal life through His precious Son. There is something and someone's wonderful beyond what we can see. On the contrary, there is something sinister and frightening on the other side for eternity. I know that I want the wonderful experience with Jesus Christ for eternity.
There are at least 2 hospice nurses on RUclips telling their stories. Nurse Hadley just wrote a book and nurse Julie has lots to tell too 👍🥰🥳
Lisa Beth, I would love to hear your stories.
Thank you for being a hospice nurse. It is a very special person who can do that kind of nursing. When my mother was terminally ill, hospice came in. All but one nurse were excellent. The organization was also wonderful. The monthly newsletter, that I received for one year after she passed, was a tremendous resource. It explained this is the 4th month and you might be experiencing grief like this or this. I had lost my father 5 weeks before my mother and really didn't have time to grieve for him because my mother was ill. I was the main caretaker. I actually bought books on grieving and I also took out library books. Losing a grandparent is sad, but losing two parents hit home. I didn't know what to expect. Reading about grief let me know I was, "normal."
@lorraineboyd8338 I appreciate you, also.
We're never ready to say, "so long. Until we meet again," to our parent's. After all, they were our first loves and our constant loves for most of our lifetimes. If we're blessed with long lives. I've been asked by the patient's family member, " Will this grief get better?" My answer is no. The grief is still there. The absence of a loved one still remains. But, our minds are amazing and will help us cope with the grief as time goes by.
Also, it may sound cliché, in my opinion, still holds true; as long as you can hold them in your heart, a part of them is still with you. And you're never alone as long as you keep that love alive in you heart, until you meet again.
May God bless You and give you His comfort and peace. 🌹
@@lisabeth479 Thank you. My parents have been deceased for 21 years. I think of them every day. God has blessed me!
I love Lee Strobels story of redemption. Excellent testimony. We love you, Eric.✨🇺🇸
I never thought about a blind person seeing during a NDE....amazing
I don't agree with either man on everything, but rarely have I had such admiration and affection for two human beings. Plus I just like them, lol. Courage, focus, humor, intelligence? Love these guys, truely love them. Strobel's books and story and lively personality, Metaxes spirited commentary and animated passion and humor and quick whit are just fun and so much more. What joy to get them both in one show. What a dream team. Blessed and gifted men. Thank God they spend their lives sharing their aparent huge hearts with all of us. Much love.
I’m not sure what you’re referring too, for the parts you don’t believe? So you believe some of it but not all of it? Although I have felt the same way about what people claim to believe in Universalism & Cult counterfeit religions, there’s always some truth in it, but how they interpret it is false. And the most dangerous ones, or on about most any topic, is like a good counterfeit $20 bill, because whatever comes the closest to the truth, is the most difficult to detect. And especially for people who are not well-informed about what & why they believe what they do.
As much as I'm undone about the people who want to do us in I pray they'll be judged in this life and not the life to come. Lord I don't want anyone to go to hell. 🙏🙏🙏
Wow thank you...this helps me to understand the idea of the soul
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. My near death experience . Before ever reading the word !
Neurologist Dr. Eban Alexander wrote a book on his NDA. He had menengitis on the brain, as a brain surgeon he's able to relate to the reader just how impossible his experience and recover was. Very detailed well written story.
I have not read his book, but I watched an interview of him describing his experience. He became a believer. He and his wife divorced because they were no longer on the same page.
If only we could help our atheist friends understand that hell isn't a way to criticise God, but is willingly landing in the claws of evil for eternity. It is so scary and I feel so powerless. 'Save others by snatching them from the fire' Jude 1:23
Tku for scripture 🛐💞🙏
This interview and others have equipped us to know exactly what to say to an atheist. It wasn't only for educating ourselves, but to be prepared to speak up the next time we encounter an atheist.
I have been interested and studied near-death experiences since the 1960s. Most reports of the glowing warmth and light. But there are also experiences of the deep despair of the opposite. Heaven and hell are real.
Happiness, sadness, sweet, sour, and heaven and hell. Hell has to exist because there are demons roaming the earth trying to ensnare us. Also, not everyone tries to live a Godly life.
Some 15 yrs ago the Aedes Aegypty Mosquito bit me. I felt bad, so I drank 2 Aspirins; that was when it took a turn for worse. By lunch time next day I laid down to Die alone in my room.
_I remembered that I never wrote down a Vision of the Lord that I had seen. Then I felt my Spirit 'separate' from my body; so I began praying The Our Father.
_Suddenly, I felt a 'hand' ever so gently lay upon my left shoulder & it 'Absorbed' from my whole body the sickness; then it patted me twice & departed. I knew that it wasnt 'my time' yet!
Allelu'jah 😀🙏🛐💞🙏😊
Dr. Tom Horn's NDE was amazing....
There are a lot of people I like in teaching positions but few I admire. Tom Horn is one of them. I'd love to hear his story. Do you have a link to that testimony?
I had a near death experience once, when I was twenty. I was still living with my parents. My left arm began to hurt in the middle of the night, and the pain became progressively worse, until I thought I wouldn’t be able to stand it. My father heard me and came into my room, and Mother followed. They took me to the nearest hospital. While being examined, I discovered I was unable to breathe! I too floated up and was watching the dr and his assistants, as they sat me up and cried Breathe! Breathe! I couldn’t. So I turned and left. I entered a tunnel with darkness in it. I started calling out to God, saying, God, I don’t want to die before I can live a life for You! Please let me live! I turned around and started going back to the hospital. When I landed in my body, I began breathing. I knew I would live. The dr laid me back down on the gurney and everyone left. While they were gone I found my parents and told them it was time to go.
Great interview, gentlemen! In 2020, I had an episode of internal bleeding and I knew I had to go to the ER. I don't like being the patient. I told the EMT that I don't make a good patient. He said I was doing fine. I said I know I am nice, but I don't like being the patient. Sure enough. Within minutes of being brought into the ER, I flatlined. I guess it was just for seconds, but I felt like it was minutes. I had a NDE. The area where I entered was peaceful and calm. It was mostly dark, with some light. There were about 6 people in a semicircle there to greet me. They were wearing brown monk robes. I could only see them from the neck down. The nurse was giving me CPR and I never felt a thing. She was calling my name and finally I came to. She said I looked angelic. Then, she says, I don't think I broke any ribs. She didn't. It was bad enough I was in for the bleeding issue. The last few months have been difficult for me. I get anxious thinking about what is to come to America. In listening to pastors and the rabbi talk about the end times, I know that God has me in the palm of His hand. The anxiety left and a peacefulness surrounded me. Then, I remembered this NDE. God showed me that so I would know I am going to get through the end times. I thank God for RUclips and other social media platforms so that I can learn from those who know more than I do about the Bible. May God continue to protect and bless both of you and your families.
Did you become a Christian after your NDE so next time you die you won’t see mostly darkness and faceless, unknown people in robes? I’m sure you have but it wasn’t clear in your comment. 😊
@@stephaniebeaulieu6382 I have been a Christian for my whole life. My faith increases daily.
I lost my father to dementia on August 20th 2022, almost a year ago today. He was several months shy of his 100th birthday. He died in my arms at hospital. I was his full-time carer for 12 years. I had lived with him all my life. During his life, I never heard my father speak of anything spiritual, no mention of Heaven, not until his final days. During the last four days of his month-long stay at hospital, I stayed with him in his room 24/7, never leaving his side. I kept a journal, detailing his final hours. Here are my notes from that journal which I used for my eulogy at his funeral:
His voice is veiled as he asks me to help him to stand up, he wants to go home.
"Help me stand up" he says, "I want to go home. My mother will be wondering where I am!"
Even if I could help him to stand up, he is so physically weak and depleted now, that I think we both would fall.
Late yesterday afternoon, when I was about to leave him for the day, I asked him if he minded that I should go, assuring him as I do every day that I will see him again in the morning.
"If I am here ..." he replies.
"Where else would you be?" I ask him.
"In Heaven!"
How his broken voice it breaks me and so, I arrange with hospital staff for me to stay with him the night. Several hours earlier he had told me that there were people gathering about us in his room. Looking to either side of me, firstly over my left shoulder and then to my right, they who were there not for me but only him were dressed in white.
"Do you recognize any of them?" I ask him.
He raises a boney finger and replies: "Just one!"
I ask him who the person is that he recognises and he tells me that it is himself.
"What age are you?" I ask him.
"I am 15!"
At the time of writing this, I have been by his side a full thirty-four and a half hours.
Inasmuch does his mind meander, I am never not so knowing of what he means.
"Lift me up, I want to go home!" he says over and over: "I want to go home!"
Holding his hand, I tell him that although I cannot lift him up physically, I can at least lift him up toward Spirit, and I place my other hand at where his heart is and say to him: "Home is where your heart is! If you live within the home that is your heart, you will always have Love; you will always know Love: God's Love!"
"I want to go home!"
Massaging his chest gently in a clockwise rotation, because the motion of Life is always forward even after Death, yet without actually lifting my hand from his ever weakening heart, I lean forward and whisper into his ear that he can go.
"Go home! You do not have to stay, just know that I love you!"
"And I love you!"
He is even weaker now but not yet gone, and I do not think that I have ever known of a moment so innocent as this, the lingering of a Life as do the Guardians of Love they prepare His way.
His doctor visits with me. She is concerned for me that I have stayed the night, telling me I need to look after myself.
Squeezing his hand a little tighter in mine I look at her and say: "I Am"
Another day passes during whose time he is bathed twice in his bed, first in the morning and then again at night: Bed Bath Lite. The ritual of cleansing a rite of passage now, water, glycerin, gels and fragrant oils, they do not soil the sheets but soothe his skin, tissue-paper thin.
He breathes in and breathes out ever more purposefully on the exhale, and I copy the sequence of sighs sorrowfully, that none too cold each pant becomes, nothing so irregular, not just yet. I would bet myself he would live another year but for my fear the end is near we both do know it, and I think to myself how stealthily the dusk does creep before the breaking of each new dawn a waking day, how we live to die and die to live reborn.
With his cheek resting softly upon the pillow I lay my head at his side. He places his hand on my head and touches my hair. and I want more than anything for him to keep it there.
As his breathing becomes more shallow I chant: "Everything I am is of you; all my love is yours!" "Everything I am is of you; all my love is yours!" but then to add: "If you take my heart with you when you go, my love will be with you and forever more, because of the love I give to you are you a part, two soles, one heart!"
I dim the light to dull the play of shadows upon his features that I see only myself in him now.
And then, at the eleventh hour of my stay this day he takes his last breath and quietly slips away, into the silent land where there is only Love and Time it has no borders, bound not by night neither lit by day, only Love! Love has sped him away!
(Leslie James Wilcher 16.01.1923 - 20.08.2022)
When my mother was terminally ill, she didn't want to die at first. As the days went by, she was coming to terms with her situation. She had been a strong, devout believer her whole life. I had no doubt where she was going. The hospice nurses were talking about how they were getting their strength from my mother. My mother finally told me she didn't want to leave the three of us--her children and her 6 grandchildren. But she was excited to be reunited with two people in heaven.
@@Magazinelady It was much the same with my mother who transitioned in 2005, she did not want to leave me. Heartfelt condolences, Lorraine on the loss of your mother, That is beautiful, how the nurses were getting strength from her. I play music to patients in end of life care at the local hospital, patients of all ages although mostly middle to late age. They are all so grateful for the life they have lived, mostly always smiling and some joke with me. They are engaging, something I did not expect to find when I applied to do the volunteer work. Some have expressed the same excitement you say your mother expressed, that I have realised even more than I knew before, that there is no death, only a relocation of spirit. Blessings!
@@PhillipLWilcher Thank you, Phillip for your kind words. My father had passed away 5 weeks before, of a heart attack. He had COPD. After my mother passed, I felt like an orphan at the age of 39. That was an unexpected feeling. Thank you for sharing your volunteer work with me. That must be rewarding for you. Is it one of those experiences where you receive more than you give from the experience? I am sure the patients enjoy your music and company. After my mother passed, I felt like my mother was very close to me, just on another plane. That feeling has since disappeared. Not a day goes by that I don't think of both of my parents. It has been 21 years already. Blessings to you, too!
@@PhillipLWilcher I was a very shy kid. Working in retail helped to bring me out of my shell a bit. Advocating for my mother in the hospital was a whole new level of speaking up. As I have had more experiences in life, I no longer have a shy bone in my body. What I have noticed is there is such a difference between sympathy and empathy. But other than knowing the definitions of the words, you don't experience the feeling until you experience a loss or a certain situation. I know when to listen and when to speak. I know exactly what to say. Whereas when I was younger, I would be nervously thinking of something to say. The person speaking wasn't getting my full attention. And then 5 minutes after saying good-bye, I would think of something and I would say, you should have said that or you could have said this. To me this is a positive thing about aging! LOL!
@@Magazinelady Oh, that is such a young age to lose both parents, and in such close succession. I have always said that eventually we become orphans and there you have experienced. I'm so sorry. I can relate to the feeling of your mother's presence (prayer-sense?) close to you but that with the passing of years since, it has become less. My own feeling this past years was that my father's transitioning eclipsed my mother's passing, but the feeling of losing dad is still keen for me. He had become my son. Perhaps it is more a case of acceptance that those feelings we go through feel like they have disappeared after all, and like you, there's not a day that passes when I do not think of my parents. Yes, the volunteer work has its own reward as is Love its own reward. I mostly do it in memory of dad and to give something back to the hospital for the care they showed both dad and me during his final weeks of life. I was allowed to stay with him in his room 24/7 for his last four days, and the nurses cared for me as much they did my dad. It was all a blessing. God bless you, Lorraine!
Fabulous interview!!! Can't wait to read his new book!!
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!❤
Thank you, Eric, for covering this phenomenon. If we believe in life after death, why not believe the testimonies of these individuals who have had near-death experiences.
I really like Lee Strobel ... wonderful interview 👍
God is amazing
Read Dale Black's book
He's a pilot
He has an incredible testimony
Stonewall Jackson, a devout Christian, dying in agony from fever from an arm amputation, suddenly a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an expression, as if of relief, 'Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.'
It’s been said that Voltaire on his deathbed cried, the devil himself has come to get me.
So interesting!
Hi Eric, have u ever watched "23 minutes in hell" testimony by Bill Weise. that will be a good guess to have in your studio.
It is a very awakening call for all of us.
I read Bill Wiese' book.....WOW, what a horrific trip!!!
I felt as if I was there with him in deep dark despair. No hope, no love from God totally isolated and alone and NO ONE knows your alive and being tortured forever and ever. The cages click as they go down one more level deeper into hell, each cage has a human in it, reliving over and over and over the very sin(s) that brought them to that desolation.
At times I had to put it down for a while, my heart was pounding! If this book doesn't scare you.... you don't exist!
A near-death experience proves you need assurance of your salvation and be thankful that you now have that opportunity!
What you need to know. [ABOUT SALVATION: I Cor. 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren (fellow Christians), I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand: By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain (don't really care). For I delivered to you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Eph. 2:8-9 For by grace (from God) are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Rom. 10:9-13 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. For scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between Jew and the Greek (Gentiles): for the same Lord over all is rich to all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Joh. 3:16 For God so loved the world (us), that he gave his only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever believes in him should not perish (in hell), but have everlasting life (with God). Joh. 14:6 Jesus said to him (us), I am the way (salvation), the truth (trustworthy), and the life (eternal): no man comes to the Father (God), but by me (God the Son). Rom. 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing (studying), and hearing by (studying) the Word of God. Rom. 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Rom. 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:]
Thank you for this interview Eric, so glad Lee did this book, I've been collecting these testimonies for over 30 years and this book makes it possible to hand someone else a source without having to search. When do you think they do a bio pic of the case for heaven?
Not all NDE’s are experiences with the true God. Many come back from an NDE with another gospel…like there are many ways to heaven, or Jesus isn’t the only way, or we all live forever in heaven when we die. I think there needs to be a distinction between these NDE’s. People with these types of messages are leading many people to hell because they are using their (demonic) experience to send the message that Jesus isn’t a factor in being heaven bound.
So True !
Yes, it is the same with the hell NDE's. Jesus said that hell was created for the adversary and his angels. Hell is not the devil's domain to rule and torment others, it is a place for his imprisonment.
@@shanli2693 Some say they went to hell and were tortured by Satan and demons. This isn't possible since the devil and demons aren't there yet. Also the bible describes hell as a place of torment not torture BIG difference. I believe from the context that the torment comes from yourself.
No one that had an experience of hell came without trauma or PTSD. To my knowledge they all came back screaming and they had some sort of deep shock for at least 3 months.
Eric I've really loved to tune into you from Denish Desouza and Amanda Grace. I'll stay tuned in.
I met a guy who worked serving a mission who went to hell and said the smell was remembered. He became a believer.
The Stargate series and movie was showing us the existence of portals that exist.
The song INFINITE DREAMS/Iron Maiden
Quantum entanglement describes the Holy Spirit infilling. How God can be in more than one place at a time and connected to the spirit filled Christian, those who speak in tongues.
HE/OurDear HolySpirit is omnipresent like 👍🏼 GOD ...
I speak in tongues also...
Is Dante’s Comedia a near death experience? I’m starting to think so.
Blessings ,Lee Strobel ,Has awesome move call The Case for Christ is a powerful WItness story made after a real Story of His ,it`s a little rough around the edges PG 13 ,I said real Life . Thank You, Eric Your Interviews are Body of Christ Minded, also ENjoy you on Flash Point ,it a GOD Thing Pray as always ask Holy Spirit to translate ,
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The authors of the books in the Bible rarely spell things out in detail. Paul’s experience being caught up to the third heaven 2 Corinthians: 2-4 implies that it was a near death experience to many of us. I believe that God gives some near death experiences to encourage us to want to go to heaven, and to accept Christ as our Savior to get there. But we must be very cautious as not to be deceived by those that make their stories up to gain fame and fortune.
Did Woody Allen go into a witness protection program? I think I found him.
Annihilationism isn’t that all humans get snuffed out. Only God has immortality and only Christians are gifted eternal life.
I believe in an afterlife in the Kingdom of God. I find it odd that of all the resurrection experiences in the Bible and all the Interest in those times in this subject that not one of these experiencers speak to this subject. You simply have to ask why this is so. The afterlife is a promise not yet seen and rarely what is seen is faith.
……Eric your podcast have been on a very different theme..of late.
It would seem it borders on emotional experiences… I do believe in them, but coming from a background that emphasized the profound need of these , & speaking tongues , always when you pray, to do have issues listening to these..
I do enjoy most of your conversations with different walks of life…believers.. I grow weary of all the sensationalism that these topics stir up…
We all have a story….
You have a gift…
A ministry…
I say keep it simple & always real , as you have done…
The Cost of Discipleship…..
Would be a great study…
Blessings
Lazarus was more than clinically dead. He was already rotting!
Our Salvation is contingent on God choosing us. We don’t choose him. He chooses us. When we make a confession of faith, it is at the direction of the Holy Spirit, not the human spirit.
1Peter 1:1 From Peter, an apostle of Jesus the Anointed One, to the chosen ones who have been scattered abroad like “seed” into the nations living as refugees, to those living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and throughout the Roman provinces of Asia and Bithynia. 1:2 You are not forgotten, for you have been chosen and destined by Father God. The Holy Spirit has set you apart to be God’s Holy Ones, obedient followers of Jesus Christ who have been gloriously sprinkled with his blood. May God’s delightful grace and peace cascade over you many times over! (TPT) It is Harvest Time!
There are words and spellings that don't even have dictionary definitions, yet
Take it one further.. put of body experiences
Malakismeni
So, Sam Harris is a Calvinist!? That explains a lot!
The state of the dead according to the word of God.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof *thou shalt surely die*
{Genesis 2:17}
Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their *sleep*
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, *until thy wrath be past* that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait,
👉till my change come.
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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
{Job 14:10, 12-14 & 21}
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my *flesh* shall I see God.
{Job 19:26}
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
{The Preacher 9:10}
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
{Psalm 146:3-4}
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he *sleep* he shall do well.
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, "Lazarus is dead."
{John 11:12-14}
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Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection
👉at the last day.
Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet *shall* he live:"
{John 11:24-25}
But go thou thy way till the end be: for *thou shalt rest* and stand in thy lot *at the end of the days*
{Daniel 12:13}
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him *should not perish* but have everlasting life.
{John 3:16}
And *the serpent said* unto the woman, *Ye shall not surely die*
{Genesis 3:4}
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down *in the midst of the stones of fire*
{Isaiah 28:14}
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(satan always turns the tables on God, for he is the father of lies.)
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
{Isaiah 33:14-15}
If anyone errors in their understanding of this doctrine of the dead, then they will in no way be led to the understanding of the truth, for it will be a stumblingblock unto the decernment of spiritual things, including soilterology and eschatology.
You’re putting-off a lot of your viewers with your Presbyterian-Calvinism remark.
Believers it's time to get serious, Revelation 3:14-22 is real! Have you answered the knock? We are sharing this warning message as a comment to all post's of a Christian nature. As Jesus said in Matthew 10:27, "What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops."
As God said, it is foolishness to non-believers and we understand that.
Believers, though, hopefully, will know it is wisdom from God.
Last Days Message - Where Is The Book Of Acts Power Today? Does The Church You Attend Have The Book Of Acts Power? Are the Spiritual gifts as active in the church you attend, as they were in the book of Acts? Or are you attending a church that does not believe that the power from the book of Acts is for today? 2 Timothy 3:5 says avoid such men that deny the power, but yet seem godly.
Acts 13 shows us how a church should be. Can we recognize what has been taken away from God's word and what has been added to God's word, that prevents Acts 13 from becoming a reality in the church.
The book of Acts is for today, despite what some men say, and God is looking for those that look to Him to run His own church through a true man of God.
So much of what is considered church today looks just like the world. The "special" days the world celebrates maybe nice, but they do not belong as part of the church. When the church looks just like the world and celebrates like the world, that is a sign to believers to walk away from such a church. Making sure a church has a sense of community, or social justice ministries, or having "God in a box programs", may sound nice, but only a committed relationship with Jesus will prepare believers for eternity. The path is narrow and those that abide solely with Jesus will be pleasing to God. Those on the broadway, AKA "everyone is doing it", are not pleasing to God and are heading for destruction.
Jesus warns us over and over and over to be ready, to avoid those that teach even a, slightly, different way of worship and service of God, we should turn away from such people.
All believers need to be transformed by the renewing of their minds before it is too late. If believers don't know how to worship God, go to God's word and build on the sayings of Jesus, not on the words of man. Time to leave your own ways behind and follow God's word only. Be ready!
Religion created by man and traditions of man are not of God. If it is not in God's word, get rid of it. God is not referring to driving a car or things like that, this refers to how we worship and serve God. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Please take the time to listen to this video to get the full warning message.
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Charles Spurgeon himself said that Calvinism is just shorthand for Biblical Christianity. Your slurs about Calvinism are not appreciated. And I don’t come from a Calvinistic background.
Deceptions of the last days from the devil. Show proof from the Bible. The Bible says that when we die we don’t know anything. Either the Bible is false or these stories are false. You choose.
For the wages of sin is death; (not hell;) but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
{Romans 6:23}
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such *the second death* hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
{Revelation 20:6}
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. *This is the second death*
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
{Revelation 20:14-15}
Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha *into ashes* condemned them with an overthrow, making them *an ensample* unto those that after should live ungodly;
{2 Peter 2:6}
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are *set forth for an example* suffering the vengeance of *eternal fire*
{Jude 1:7}
(Sodom is not still burning, so it is not the fire / punishment that is eternal, but rather the consequences thereof.)
And ye [the saints] shall tread down the wicked; for *they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet* in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
{Malachi 4:3}
Thou [satan] hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and *I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth* in the sight of all them that behold thee.
{Ezekiel 28:18}
What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
{Nahum 1:9}
Any stories from the baby's murdered in the womb? Or the new sex change operations from Frankenstein doctors ?
Near death experiences are not in God's word, so why should we believe man's word?
2 Corinthians 12:2-4
@@miketrent8134 Yes, Paul was caught up in the third heaven, but it doesn’t say it was a near death experience?
I say stick with the Bible. The stories are tantalizing but I remain a skeptic. There is so much deception and demons are capable beings. I don't know...I just tend to steer clear of this sort of thing on general principles