Hmmmm. Just curious. What does it say this week? I am not sure mine has ever said that. Where did yours say it?
Ok, a little smart-alecky, perhaps, but maybe someone told you something that wasn't quite right. The nice thing about the Bible is that it is easy to read, and things can be checked out. Even easier at biblegateway.com.
Like this whole "near-death" thing. I am pretty sure God describes it this-a-way:
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality."
Not much of a flash or twinkling in the story that started this thread.
This whole brain-dying dreaming strikes me like deja-vu - more of an artifact of the way the brain works than a description of the way God looks at it.
But it's a nice story.
Pardon me, I looked at the wrong reading try Matthew 9 verse 13.