It is Biblical that we do not come back from death, until Jesus comes back.

I never heard or read about people coming back, and the in-between time of hesitation, until recent stories made it popular.

I don’t know—it could be.

But it’s not my experience—a one-way trip—a one-time trip—a one-way-up trip.

When my time came, there was no turning back, just like there was no turning back from following Jesus when I was alive.

I was fully conscious all the way through, even as my brain, my heart, my body faded beyond unconsciousness to lifeless and irreversibly cold.

Is it more sad if you don’t “come back?”

Is your story more exciting if you do, and you live to tell about it?

Can you more effectively tell people about heaven and hell if you “come back?”

Do more people believe someone who comes back—do more people have a genuine Biblical conversion with Jesus?

Answer—keep reading.

 

Leaving my body did not take a long time.

Actually, there was an exact moment in time when time ended for me, and I was beyond time.

Bottom line—my experience is over since I’m gone—no turning back.

Bottom line—my experience that determined my destiny at death was final when I gave my life to Jesus—no turning back since then.

And, the most important bottom line for you—my experience of telling you about Jesus while I was alive is also final—no turning around if I came back—that means you wouldn’t listen then if you didn’t listen before.

So, please get your eternal destiny settled now—or never!

Heaven or hell—Jesus or not.

The rich man in the Bible pleaded for someone to go back and warn his brothers—answer, they have the clear Bible message—if they reject it, “neither will they believe if one comes back from death.”

This casts doubt on some stories that people got saved by stories of near death experiences.

There are clear dangers, warnings, judgments on adding to His Book (Revelation).

 

Just a few more comments:

Death brings “No, No, No” from some of the living.

For me death brought “Yes, Yes, Yes!”

No regrets.

No pull back to earth.

I knew I was going.

My body reacted as I was leaving.

I could see the gates opening.

I lifted my arms—or the angel lifted them.

My voice said “Jesus.”

And I wasn’t the first to experience all that—folks in the Bible did too.

 

Like the blind Christian lady ended her testimony, all I can say is, “See you there.”

B E   T H E R E !

The problem with ‘most’ theologians is this:

They usually start with statements (“doctrines”) that they write, and THEN they write a whole bunch more trying to explain and prove their statements, including Bible “proof ” texts.

The problem, and the answer:

The perennial problem with most man-written theological positions—they never come to agreement (except within their brand), and there are always proof texts for opposing views.

The solution—just start with the Bible, instead of man-worded conclusions.

Take all the Bible verses on a topic, including those that seem to be on “both sides.”

Let God’s Spirit speak, to you (personal), fresh through all the verses, including those that make you uncomfortable or seem to contradict your “position.”

AND CEASE FROM CRAMMING THE BIBLE INTO THE BOX OF YOUR THEOLOGY ! ! !

The hardest thing for theologians of every era (OT, NT, modern times, and in between) is to let things rest that they don’t understand.

Education creates competition to prove we know more than others, indeed that we know it all, and that makes us better and more right.

So, “My brand has got it right—a corner on the theology market.”

And somehow church leaders throughout history have capitalized on people’s willingness to follow man-made structure, and endorse and defend systems of belief they don’t really understand—but the endorsement gives people the church’s stamp of approval and inferred right standing with God.

We are in need of REFORMATION AGAIN, to get the Bible straight to the people, not watered down by “learned” theologians.