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90 Minutes in Heaven is a bood by a pastor who was killed in a car accident on his way home from a conference. He was declared dead at the scene. 90 minutes after the accident, another pastor stopped at the scene and recounted how he was moved by God to pray for the accident victim whose car had been crushed under a truck. The emergency crews told him not to bother -- that the man had died instantly. The pastor prayed over the man nevertheless and saw the man recussitated. He told the emergency workers to come help that the man was alive but they didn't believe him. Interesting account of his death and his recovery.

Please excuse me but, it's technically called a Theophany, when you experience an encounter with God. Moses got his face sun burned. All the OT prophets have a theophany account in their books in the Bible. They relate what being in the presence of a totally Holy God is like. They may call it "the Angel of the Lord", which is the name for the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ. Real theopanies always bear fruit in the lives of those that have been in His presence.

I've read all of the prophets experiences and more, because I had an experience (a theophany) back in 1997. I'd never been in a church or at a worship service before, nor had I ever prayed let alone read anything from the Bible. I searched around for a politically correct explaination. A version of what happened to me that night that allowed me to ignore my sense of foreboding for seven long months. First, I thought it might be an OOBE, but after reading along thinking yes this has got to be the only rational option, I got all the way to page 297 when the author said "While your outside of your body you may encounter people following Jesus in an enormous joyful happy horde,but don't be tricked into joining them because they have duped many by their charity and fooled by their love"

Abruptly, I knew who was the real author involved with marketing OOBE's. I picked up a Study Bible and read it cover to cover lessons and all without a stop. Nothing in the Bible or in my theophany was inconsistent, which I definately could not say was true from the other trash I'd wasted my time reading about. There was no longer any other possible way out with a potential scientific explanation either. I'm a medical professional and a scientist and I'm a sinner desparately looking for a loophole. Finally, I enrolled in fulltime graduate student status at a Seminary. Mind you I'm still trying to find a way out of this notion that life could not be reduced to quarks, molecules, radiation, light,physics and gravity.

Then I had a most dreadful encounter with what just a short taste of the alternative to being in God's presence was like. This occured just after my marathon study Bible cram session was over and I foolishly asked God to show me what the other place was like. sinking in and I knew that I had to make some kind of changes and tell somebody else that I knew who my Lord and Savior was Jesus and that I trusted Him completely.