{"id":3902,"date":"2019-02-02T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T23:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:53:39","slug":"my-near-death-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3902","title":{"rendered":"MY &#8220;NEAR&#8221; DEATH EXPERIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Biblical that we do not come back from death, until Jesus comes back.<\/p>\n<p>I never heard or read about people coming back, and the in-between time of hesitation, until recent stories made it popular.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know&#8212;it could be.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not my experience&#8212;a one-way trip&#8212;a one-time trip&#8212;a one-way-up trip.<\/p>\n<p>When my time came, there was no turning back, just like there was no turning back from following Jesus when I was alive.<\/p>\n<p>I was fully conscious all the way through, even as my brain, my heart, my body faded beyond unconsciousness to lifeless and irreversibly cold.<\/p>\n<p>Is it more sad if you don&#8217;t &#8220;come back?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is your story more exciting if you do, and you live to tell about it?<\/p>\n<p>Can you more effectively tell people about heaven and hell if you &#8220;come back?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do more people believe someone who comes back&#8212;do more people have a genuine Biblical conversion with Jesus?<\/p>\n<p>Answer&#8212;keep reading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leaving my body did not take a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, there was an exact moment in time when time ended for me, and I was beyond time.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line&#8212;my experience is over since I&#8217;m gone&#8212;no turning back.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line&#8212;my experience that determined my destiny at death was final when I gave my life to Jesus&#8212;no turning back since then.<\/p>\n<p>And, the most important bottom line for you&#8212;my experience of telling you about Jesus while I was alive is also final&#8212;no turning around if I came back&#8212;that means you wouldn&#8217;t listen then if you didn&#8217;t listen before.<\/p>\n<p>So, please get your eternal destiny settled now&#8212;or never!<\/p>\n<p>Heaven or hell&#8212;Jesus or not.<\/p>\n<p>The rich man in the Bible pleaded for someone to go back and warn his brothers&#8212;answer, they have the clear Bible message&#8212;if they reject it, &#8220;neither will they believe if one comes back from death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This casts doubt on some stories that people got saved by stories of near death experiences.<\/p>\n<p>There are clear dangers, warnings, judgments on adding to His Book (Revelation).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a few more comments:<\/p>\n<p>Death brings &#8220;No, No, No&#8221; from some of the living.<\/p>\n<p>For me death brought &#8220;Yes, Yes, Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No regrets.<\/p>\n<p>No pull back to earth.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I was going.<\/p>\n<p>My body reacted as I was leaving.<\/p>\n<p>I could see the gates opening.<\/p>\n<p>I lifted my arms&#8212;or the angel lifted them.<\/p>\n<p>My voice said &#8220;Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn&#8217;t the first to experience all that&#8212;folks in the Bible did too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like the blind Christian lady ended her testimony, all I can say is, &#8220;See you there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">B E\u00a0\u00a0 T H E R E !<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Biblical that we do not come back from death, until Jesus comes back. 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