Imagine all the love you’ve ever experienced in your life from your parents, spouse, friends and family and multiply it by 1,000.
That is the type of love experienced by those who have had a near-death experience. They report being in God’s presence.
John Burke, the Texas-based best-selling author of “Imagine Heaven” and currently publishing his next book, “Imagine God in Heaven,” is a lively voice on the subject. is written.
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He and his wife, Kathy, of Gateway Church in Austin, are the presidents of the nonprofit Gateway Leadership Initiative (GLI). He and his family live in Austin.
In an interview, Burke said that for “Imagine God in Heaven,” he “spoke to 70 different people” from every continent and every religious background. And indeed, they encountered this God of light and love, but many of them also encountered a God who was: Jesus. “
Near-death experiences are “often life-changing experiences that often occur under extreme physiological conditions, such as trauma, cessation of brain activity, general anesthesia, or cardiac arrest.” (St. Petersburg)
A near-death experience, as it is known, is a scientifically recognized phenomenon that occurs when a person clinically dies.
They are “very vivid and often life-altering experiences, many of which, according to conventional wisdom, involve no conscious or sensory experience, such as trauma, cessation of brain activity, deep general anesthesia, or cardiac arrest.” “It occurs under extreme physiological conditions that should be impossible,” says the Department of Perceptual Research at the University of Virginia.
Some have even described scenes that could only have been supernatural.
People often see visions of themselves: they see paramedics trying to resuscitate them, doctors in surgery, and even family members in the waiting room.
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Some have even described scenes that could only have been supernatural.
Mr. Burke is Podcast “Lighthouse Faith”So I interviewed a woman named Mary who died during childbirth.
Burke said, “She leaves her body and is in the presence of God. She feels an incredible amount of forgiveness and love. And God says to her, ‘Your son will live.’ ” he said.
“Imagine the Gods of Heaven” by John Burke is now available in paperback. Burke said he has always been a skeptic when it comes to religion. He wasn’t an atheist, but he had doubts. However, he said people without a Christian background or understanding have reported seeing things described only in Judeo-Christian scripture, especially Revelation 21. (Amazon)
Burke said Mary has been told she must return.
“On her way back to her body, she passed through the ceiling and over the top of the ceiling fan… She revived and is about to tell the doctors and nurses about this amazing experience. No one… But she thinks it’s just a hallucination.” A psychotic person. ”
Medical staff apparently said Mary had no heartbeat or brain waves.
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So a curious nurse got the instructions and a ladder and took a look.
“Sure enough,” Burke said. “Mary somehow put a red sticker on the top of the ceiling fan.”
Pastor and author John Burke’s new book is “Imagine God in Heaven.” (John Burke)
One of the first documented near-death experiences was that of Dr. George Ritchie. In December 1943, Ritchie died of pneumonia, when he was a 20-year-old Army private.
After nine minutes, he came back to life and changed a lot.
He became a physician in psychiatry and wrote a book about near-death experiences. In an interview with Joan Rivers in the late 1990s, Ritchie spoke about what he encountered and the incredible light and love and presence of what he believed to be God in Jesus Christ.
Science has continued to study near-death experiences ever since. According to the European Society of Neurology, a 2019 study found that one in 10 people are thought to have had a near-death experience. Dr. Bruce Grayson of the University of Virginia studied more than 1,000 cases.
Burke said there is overwhelming evidence that what people experienced was actually written in the Bible.
Although he retired in 2015, he still consults with other researchers at UVA who continue to work in this field.
Burke said he believes science is limited to understanding the metaphysical aspects of near-death experiences.
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And there is overwhelming evidence that the things people experienced are actually written about in the Bible.
“Christians don’t realize how many of these things are tied to what’s in the Bible.”
Light and love are two attributes of God in the Bible. These are also two common things people describe in his near-death experiences.
- Light: “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life'” (John 8:12).
- Love: “For God is love” (1 John 4:8).
Burke said he has always been skeptical when it comes to religion.
Although he was not an atheist, he had serious doubts.
However, he said people without a Christian background or understanding have reported seeing things described only in Judeo-Christian scripture, especially Revelation 21.
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Burke said he interviewed a Hindu man named Santosh, a manufacturing engineer who was doing “coding.” When his heart stopped, medical staff were unable to get his heart beating again.
Santosh was on artificial life support for three days. Burke later said, “He was brought to this place by a personal god of light that he knew was protecting him.”
In Revelation 21, the apostle John described being carried away by the Spirit to heaven, to a great high mountain. He looks down on the Holy City.
Most people who have a near-death experience say they never want to return to life on Earth, and this incredible love that exists there is all they were looking for in life, Burke said. . (St. Petersburg)
“And he brought me up by the Spirit unto a great high mountain, and shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God; and the city was with the glory of God, and its brightness was It was like a very rare gem, jasper, and clear as crystal.The city had a great and high wall, and twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates. The names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel were written on it” (Revelation 21:10-12).
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Burke said, “And this same city is what Mr. Santosh, a Hindu who has never read the Bible, is describing. “And he said it was great and wonderful.” He noticed these large things because he called them mansions and buildings made of otherworldly building materials. ”
“He called them mansions, or buildings made of otherworldly building materials. And he was a manufacturing engineer, so he would notice that.”
Burke said he was surprised that Santosh said there were 12 gates and that angels were guarding the gates.
The majority of people who have had a near-death experience say they don’t want to go back to life on Earth, that this incredible love that exists there is all they were looking for in life.
Lauren Green, Fox News Channel’s chief religion correspondent, spoke with John Burke, a Texas-based author, pastor, and speaker. (Fox News)
Richie, who died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 84, also talked about this love and much more. He said there are several different levels of this afterlife.
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But one of the most important things he said to Joan Rivers was, “Life is truly eternal. We never die. Death is just a portal through which we pass.”
That raises a question for Mr. Burke.
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Are those who have had near-death experiences meant to help humanity find God?
Only heaven knows for sure.
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