My belief is one step further. With God there is no time, no beginning, no ending. So I believe that when you die you see and are with everyone that you know, whether they be dead or alive. It’s why heaven is what they say heaven is supposed to be.
Personally, I prefer to see my Savior greeting me with open arms. (BTW, which do you think will be more crowded, Heaven or Hell? Just food for thought.)
After my cardiac arrest, people asked me if I saw “the light” or any family or friends who had died. I didn’t see either and was kind of bummed. Maybe it just meant that it wasn’t my time. It would be nice to know that there are people waiting for me when my number comes up.
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THOSE DYING SAID TO ENCOUNTER ROOM FULL OF PARENTS, SPOUSES,
CHILDREN, IN-LAWS, FRIENDS
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Except for the friends...this might be a trip to hell for too many people.
(yes, I’m being somewhat facetious...)
My mother will ask, “Is THAT what you’re wearing?”
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My mother will ask, “Is THAT what you’re wearing?”
From http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=44827
The physician, waiting up with Voltaire at his death, said that he cried out with utter desperation, “I am abandoned by God and man. I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months of life. Then I shall go to hell and you will go with me, oh, Christ, oh, Jesus Christ!”
The morning my mother died, she told a health care worker that her mother and father were “looking for her”. Momma died in 1999 and her faculties were about 80%, so I don’t think this was dementia or senility. Her father died in 1923 and her mother died in 1946.
My hope is to hear Jesus say to me “Well done, good and faithful servant”.
For those of you interested in this topic, you might want to read of Tiffany Snow’s near-death experience (lightning strike) and what she learned from it. Fascinating, believable (at least to me), reassuring and enlightening.
www.tiffanysnow.com
“God’s Law: Love Always Wins”
BTTT
In short, everyone I owe money too.
I was told that I was flat lined and required a lot of blood. I saw a tunnel with light on the end and a face. I asked; “Is that you God?” He answered; “My mother in law had the same operation and lived to be 85.” It was my doctor speaking to me as I came to. I experienced what appeared to be a tunnel but it was due to the anesthesia wearing off.
I have read enough accounts of near death experiences to know full well that we are reunited with loved ones who have gone to Heaven before us, and that the reunion will be beyond joyous. Heaven, and its wonderfulness is beyond all human explanation, and those who have already been received into the Lords arms are looking forward to the day they can welcome us Home. Yes, they are the ones who are Home.
I heard it said once that, - “as a Christian, the day I die will be the best day I’ve ever lived. But it won’t be the best I will ever live.”
It’s the Communion of Saints...quite a crowd!
Harps, white robes, and never-ending boredom represent many believers perception of Heaven, because that is what movies, cartoons, and paintings, and sadly even some messages from the pulpit have showed us what it is like. On the other hand, many without Christ think Hell is going to be one big party. Both perceptions are dead wrong, and not even close to reality.
The Heaven John wrote about in the Bible is so full of wonders and mysteries that in our wildest dreams we could not imagine how glorious it is. Certainly Heaven contains many surprises which we will never be able to comprehend in this life.
The only way I can relate to Heaven’s wonderfulness in my puny little mortal way of thinking, is to ask people to think back to the one single best day of their whole life. Maybe it was your wedding, the birth of your first child, your first visit to Disneyland, the anniversary cruise with your spouse, Whatever. Now imagine each day in Heaven being that multiplied 100-fold, and the number of those days will be endless. Is it no wonder that John also wrote about the multitudes he saw worshiping and praising the one who said he was going away to prepare a place for us, and then fulfilled that promise beyond our wildest imagination.
That is what I firmly believe Heaven will be like.
Our passed loved ones who are experiencing those wonders are not looking back with sorrow, but instead they are anxious for the day when the rest the family will join them.
An interesting story:
When my wife was around 10 years old and her family lived in Chicago, her very young sister (around 4) woke up one morning and, came into the kitchen where the family was gathered for breakfast. She asked, “Where’s Grandpa?” They told her that he lives in California and he’s not here. She said that when she was sleeping he woke her up and told her goodbye.” She was pretty emphatic that she saw him so, to calm her down they made a long distance call to California. It turned out he had died in the night.
Make of it what you will...