I was in a horrendous car accident in my late 20’s-had both lungs punctured, a fractured sturnum, a horrendous head wound that practically scalped the skin off my head entirely, a broken jaw and two busted legs.
To this day remember nothing about the accident except that some car crossed into my lane on the highway and it was a head on collisioin.
My first remembrance was that I could see my body laying on a gurney.
I was not in my body. I saw my mom crying over my body and my dad standing looking down at me. I felt no pain. I heard the ER doc say my blood pressure was 40/0 and then God started talking to me.
God said, “ can you see your mother.”
I said, “yes, she’s crying and I feel bad for my mom and dad.”
God said, “ I feel bad for them too, so I am going to have to send you back because it’s not time for you to come with me yet. When I send you back, you will have a lot of pain, but it won’t be any more than you can handle. Are you ready?”
I said, “yes, I will do whatever you ask.”
Then very suddenly, I was in my body looking up and felt a lot of pain. I was trying to talk to my parents and tell them I wasn’t going to die, but I couldn’t talk with my shattered jaw.”
I will NEVER forget this incident and I KNEW it was God talking to me. It was like talking to someone you’d known all your life. No introductions neccesary. It all seemed very normal at the time.
So yes, anything can happen as you’re nearing death! And God is there with you.
Wow! Thanks for telling us about that experience. I’ve heard of people who claimed they looked down on their body during their near death experience, but I’ve never heard of someone who had such a lucid conversation with God Himself during it all, wow!
Thank you for adding yet another story to add to the growing lists of such events compiled over several decades by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Dr. Ray Moody and others. Death is NOT the end.
UVA has an entire department devoted to the study of life after death.
Some of the more remarkable stories start around 8 minutes at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtTM9hgCDw
Thank you for adding yet another story to add to the growing lists of such events compiled over several decades by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Dr. Ray Moody and others. Death is NOT the end.
UVA has an entire department devoted to the study of life after death.
Some of the more remarkable stories start around 8 minutes at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtTM9hgCDw
I read a book about a bitter old man in a nursing home. He stayed in his room with the shades drawn and literally frightened all the nurses except one. She speaks of the day she entered his room and, amazingly, the man had the shades open, sitting at the edge of the bed fully dressed. A warm smile awaited her.
“I’ve seen Timmy!”, he exclaimed, “and he’ll be back tomorrow to take me home.”
Timmy was the man’s son who had drowned as a child. The man described how Timmy had told him he forgave him over the drowning and that he’d return at 12 noon the next day to take him to Heaven.
The nurse thought the old man was delusional and made a point to go visit him the next day so she could be there to help him through the disappointment when Timmy didn’t show up.
At 11:45 a.m. the next morning, the nurse entered the man’s room. Again he was alert, smiling, peaceful and fully dressed with the sunlight shining brightly through the open window. The man repeated his story of how Timmy would take him home at 12 noon. The nurse searched for words to say when the magic hour passed with no change.
As the two spoke, the man suddenly began speaking to someone else in the room but she could not see who was there. Then the old man said, “okay”, leaned backwards on his bed and stopped breathing.
The nurse checked his vital signs and then rushed out of the room to get some assistance and an ambulance. They tried to resuscitate the man but it was too late. He had passed on. In her haste, she forgot to note the time this happened but as she counted back the moments, she concluded the man died at approximately 12 noon.
Sounds fantastical but the writer who tells this noted the nurse did not believe in God and was highly skeptical of the entire story until it happened to her.
I can’t say what sort of death experience I’ll have but I have a strong faith that I’ll be welcomed by Lord Jesus soon after going. If I have any sadness at all, it will be for those left behind like the unbelieving nurse. If I’m allowed to see what’s ahead, I’m sure I will feel blissful about the glory that awaits.