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in two different dimensions — as of time. I immediately heard the
Satan... does everything though I were going through it words, though not from him, but
to discourage us from all again, and on the other hand, from an internal voice: “Twenty
as though I were watching from
minutes of earthly time passed,
prayer and to tear us above. It was amazing! I saw the time doesn’t exist where you
away from God; he dis- whole event playing out from were, but on earth twenty min-
courages us from the moment I entered the water, utes passed while you were out
through the experience of drown-
of your body”. The angel further
confession, from going ing and up to my stepping out of explained: “You were gone for a
to church and from the water. Again I had to wonder: long time and then I saw you by
doing good. “What was that? Was it real or the shore emerging from the wa-
some kind of hallucination?”
ter. I came to help you back to re-
ality”. At the end of the meeting
come to those who receive Me TheAngel the angel said: “Good-bye. I will
with love, to fill their souls with always be nearby. When you need
My mercy and with the power to I heard in my spirit: “Look — help, all you have to do is call. I
fight against evil.Tell them about someone is coming for you”. I saw will come and help!”
this!” a middle-aged man approaching
me from a distance. He had rath- Various persons who have sur-
A Hallucination? er long, light, curly hair and was vived clinical death have re-
wearing a nice pastel-colored shirt turned to life with no visions.
After this final conversa- and carrying a book. He came Others had visions of evil. These
tion with the Lord Jesus he sent closer, lifted his hand and greeted people remember just what God
me back to earth and I heard the me: “Welcome!” I greeted him in wants them to remember: what
words: “Stand up!” At that mo- return, and then we began talk- they need, or what they can and
ment I felt something solid under ing with each other. He asked me: should share with others, A per-
my feet; I felt my mind returning “How are you feeling?” I answered: son doesn’t awake from clinical
to me and the sense of my body. I “Fine”. “Are you sure you’re fine?” death just because they want to
could feel that I was at the bottom “I’m fine”, I countered. He asked: wake up, but because God wants
of the water, and I was wondering “Do you need any help?” I as- them to. It is God who rules the
how I would reach the shore as I sured him no. The conversation entire world. No person can live
was on the ocean floor! I heard was amazing; he went about 30 even a second longer than God
the words: “Straighten yourself meters from me, but despite this has planned for them. So if they
up!” I straightened up and my I had good contact with him and undergo the experience of clinical
head emerged from the water. I could hear him just fine! Then he death it must have been in God’s
was in water to the depth of my approached me slowly and said to plans for them. It doesn’t depend
chin. Next I heard: “Get out of the me: “But just a moment ago you on any man what he might see
water.” I started to head in the needed help”. I didn’t know who during clinical death, or what vi-
direction of the shore and came he was or how he knew what had sions he might have. I survived my
out at exactly the same place happened. This was very confus- own death. It is also apparent that
where I had entered the water. It ing for me. Then he said: “You it wasn’t time for my departure for
was physically impossible, since went into the water, but you didn’t that world. The time of our death is
the riptide was flowing the entire know there was a riptide”. Then determined. I was shown this dur-
time! I had returned to life be- he told me everything I had just ing my trip “to the other side”. The
cause that was what the Lord God been through. I thought to ask: time of our death is already set at
wanted. Not for a moment did I “If you saw everything, why didn’t the time of our birth. God has al-
feel any fatigue, nor did I feel any you rescue me?” At that moment I ready determined the time, how
suffocation or that I was trying to heard an internal voice telling me: long we will live, and what mission
catch my breath. It was as though “You are talking to an angel. My we are to fulfill. Whether we fulfill
I had simply jumped into the water angel has come to you”. Then the it depends on us, because we are
and came right out, nothing more! angel relayed everything to me free. The circumstances of death
When I stepped onto the shore I up to the moment when the wave are changeable. They can change
heard: “Sit!” So, I sat down on pulled me under the water. He told up to the last moment, but the
the sand, looked in the direction me: “A couple of times you man- date of death is established from
of the water and began to won- aged to escape, but ultimately, above. “It is appointed for mor-
der. My memory came back and I you didn’t get out. Then for a long tals to die once, and after that the
asked myself the enormous ques- while I couldn’t see you”. judgment”(Hebrews 9:27). V
tion: “What was that?” I started to I wanted to ask: “How long?” Reprinted with kind permission: www.
see everything again, as though it I wondered about it, but knew that loamagazine.org/archive/2019/2019-47/i-
were a film. I could see as though “on that side” there is no sense survived-death-i-saw-heaven

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