Elijah, I am curious about your perceptions about church also. As for me, I was somewhat religious before my NDE, but when I went to church after my return, I thought: They sure are not talking about the God I met in heaven. I had to come up with my own paradigm, " God is Love." and anyone saying anything different had been deceived. I had become quite areader by this time and I began to explore the Bible as one of the books I read. Like Elijah, I found truth about where I had been come right off of the pages in my families big huge never opened family King James Bible. It was amazing. Every time I would try going to church though, I would not be able to stay at the church for too long...sometimes I would walk away right in the middle of service and walk out...My ears couldn't stand the lies they were saying from the pulpit. They would talk about God's love and then about half-way through the service, they would start trying to spin God as some evil executioner....it was absurd...I walked out in disgust several times.....I did finally find a home church and started attending for a few years. When the preacher started lying I just ignored it most of the time unless they started bashing gays or homeless people or saying something too hateful. I wonder what preachers thought when I gathered my family up and walked straight out...hehehe.... I wonder somehow how ppreachers could get it so wrong? I read the Bible and the words just lift off the page and I often see things in a totally different way than most folks...Thank you Elijah. Your NDE really brings home for me how we are supposed to think of God...The Being who Begot us....amazing...we are made by God himself.... I once spoke to God and he spoke to me in King James English; God told me me, "I will never forsake thee."
It is not often to hear someone say "thee" and it was pretty amazing....Tell us more.... your story is amazing...

I was not a Christian when I died and went to heaven. I was raised with two brothers and a sister, and my folks didn't ever take us to church. We were not raised, going to church, and they never discussed anything about God. I mean, when my Grandmother came and she "tucked us in," she said a little prayer and my folks told her not to do that. Why? I don't know. All I know is what I experienced when I died and went to Heaven was a 100% unlearned thing. I went there as a boy, and God himself sent me back.
After I went to Heaven and God sent me back, I was never the same. There were many questions that came into my mind, but my parents didn't encourage me to talk about it. In fact, they didn't want me to talk about any of it at all. They forbid me to speak about it. Every time I tried to bring it up they would tell me to quite talking about it; at first they scolded me and told me they didn't want to hear it. Then my dad started dishing out whippings with a belt or a tennis shoe. I couldn't say a thing to them, or my brothers, or my sister, so I finally gave up on all of them. My folks were absolutely against anything that they considered to be religion - and there I was, shouting and talking about Heaven in my head! I guess it really curled their toes.
Finally, I decided that the teachers at school would have be more open, and they would like to hear about it. Don't you think they would be willing to help, back then, 50 years ago? Certainly, they would have a little more consideration. Surely, they would have an open mind, I thought. And when school started that year, when I was living in New Orleans, I just couldn't wait to go! When the first day of school finally, came I was rejoicing! When I went to school, however, as soon as I tried to share what had happened with my teacher, who was a flaming red head and full of "cagen fire," she absolutely exploded! She would not let me tell her anything at all about it! I finally got the idea. What was going on was that nobody could talk about Heaven, or God, or anything at all like that! I was absolutely astounded! What a crack pot thing education is! It's no wonder our jails are packed with people and almost nobody has any moral values! No body is told about God! Nobody even gets the word, about what happens when they die - and they are going to die, someday. Instead everybody is just shuffled along like they were all going to live forever! It's incredible.
If you could only see what has happened. Everyone's been hoodwinked, fooled, or otherwise tricked into "not believing in God!" "Wake up!" I say! You need to stop squelching that voice that keeps speaking up inside of you! When you hear that little voice telling you that you're wrong, stop whatever it is you are planning to do because it
s trying to tell you, or alert you, about some danger or some unseen truth. It's an internal warning system that's inside every person - and it's always been there, and fully designed to keep you out of all kinds of difficulties and troubles, so heed it! God is real!
You need to start reminding yourself that those who were your teachers were forbidden to speak His name. The followers of Evolution poked their teachings into the school system, and it's time for everybody to wake up, and not be asleep, any more! If you don't get it - evolution is simply a "scientific idol." Go read what Francis Bacon wrote. He said, when there is evidence after evidence all piled up - like what is found in all the journals in our modern medical libraries - according to Bacon, you can be sure that there's a scientific idol involved, and you won't need to look very far to find it.
Do you want to know what's going on in reality, in regard to the medical community? I will be glad to share it with you in a future communication. Just let me know what your questions are, please.
You don't have to take my word for it. For example, in 1981, when Colin Patteson was asked to speak in New York on evolution, as the senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, when he stood up he declared that evolution was "positively anti-knowledge," adding, "all my life I have been duped into taking evolution as revealed truth." You can verify this as it's in a paper read at the American Museum of Natural History by Colin Patterson in New York, on Nov 5, 1981.
What's that all about? It's all about everybody not wanting to change anything because the whole bubble is soon going to pop. Believe me, that's why so many are against every aspect of Holistic medicine. Let me put it this way. The cell theory is incorrect, in that, the cells which make up a given tissue are cooperatively inner linked. That is, what makes a tissue. So, the point is, cells don't just come from cells! The point is, cells work together, they pull together, they act in a cooperative manner so as to form each tissue where ever it is found in living matter. And when you start looking at things from this point of view, there's a whole lot about holistic medicine that makes great sense. The big problem is, however, they can't just let go of the cell theory, and then start up with some other concept! It's like finding out the world isn't flat - so they hang on to the "flat earth" concept, and nobody gets healed of much of anything. I don't think you can miss it. Surely, you need to start listening to that little voice inside of you, in earnest!
He, God, made us like that. WE all have that little voice inside of us and anyone who is a NDE'er is 100% absolutely sure, that God is so wonderfully kind and so loving that he never meant for people to suffer and be sick or ill. I mean, I had already passed through the judgment and then He gave me a new life! And then He sent me back! He has the ability to heal, or do even this, and I have done my best not concealed either the works or the words of the Holy One. (Job 6:10)
His exact nature is pure love and holiness. Not merely like the kind of "good traits" that we find among mortal men. Love and holiness make up His very being! They literally flow from His very presence. Nor are they anything short of the essence of His existence - they are not "in part," like some good quality on a list of virtues, but in total! Anyone who is a NDE'er will tell you the same thing, we who have been there all know this as true, simply because we have been here. Take my word for it. I have kneeled before Him - and I know for an absolute fact that God is real. He is real - and He exists! Nor is this "a teaching;" or "a story," or "a fable of old" that I was brought up to believe, or told by some preacher or a priest! I mean, I've actually knelt before Him! I've even heard Him Speak! And He is an absolutely real, conscious being, whose very essence is love, energy, and absolute power over the entire matrix that we view as our universe! Well, if you have any questions on this, let me know. I think that the tree of life is a super matrix that possibly represents every living entity in terms of the plant kingdom.
The power-side of His nature is also equally incredible. There is so much sheer energy just boiling up from His very being, and it is so strong that it generates a secondary force of energy that flow from his body, and it's so strong as to vaporize the very air around Him! It produces an endless number of puffy, white, "clouds of glory." They flow around and from Him, and these "glory clouds" are all around His Throne. Moreover, whenever he moves the 'glory clouds' may stack up so thick and so abundant, that they take on the appearance of a long, white, bridal train! I know this by experience, and not by some teaching of man.
Think about it. Any time just one of those "glory clouds" brushes against you, you get all kinds of feelings of love, peace, and joy - rapidly flowing into your body and your very soul! Every emotion of peace and every manner of good feeling wells up within you. It is an absolutely incredible exhilarating experience. This is what happens when you go before God, or when you are in the presence of God!
We even have the same type of body as He has. It is as spiritual beings that we are so much alike. Our spiritual bodies are made out of light. Many of those in the medical community already know this to be true in that patients who happen to be involved in a "near death experience" often speak of this fact. They also report how very peaceful they felt. Not only do they tell of being a body of light, they found themselves "floating around a room," or seeing everything in the room just as it was happening, while they were moving through walls, and able to move rapidly over very great distances. Also, they report - nobody could see them! That's because the light-wave frequency of the "spiritual body" is designed for the next realm. It cannot be held here any longer, once the capture-maintaining energy of the body drops to a certain level. It is then that the spirit or soul is able to leave and move around freely. Hence, we are like Him. We each "exist" as a matrix of living matter and light, and for as long as we live, that "spiritual body" (of which we are) is ever so neatly tucked away inside these outer " bodies of blood and flesh!" In so many words, we each have on something of the nature of an "earth suit," as opposed to a "space suit!"
Nor have I made any of this up. There is not one word of any of this, untrue. Nor am I one without suffering. We live in a very skeptical time. Many times I have been treated as if I were Job by those whom I have dared to share these things. I have no fear, however - in that I was truly given a new life. I've been sent back from Heaven to let you know that you'll have a new life too! At one time I was freed, and out of this earthly body. I left this estate completely behind; I was in Heaven - and I even went through the judgment! I can never forget it. Not one detail of it. If you had been you would have seen me. I have personally run at full speed, charging across utterly magnificent green grass growing in the Elysian Fields of Heaven. I have bent down and intently studied the veins in the leaves of the light- filled flowers that grow there. I ran over to, and actually stood so close to the Great Tree of Life I could have bumped it with my nose. I was so close to it I could have easily reached out and touched it! I almost did! I had intended to climb it, but it was too big - it was altogether awesome, and larger around than a great house. The bark looked like that of a great oak. But I head a small, quiet voice tell me not to touch it, and I obeyed. I even took a quick look to see if some body might bump me, and knock me into it when I took the time to take a real close look at the bark.
During my life, I have tried to always stay very close to God. In 1957, five years after going to Heaven, I heard about Jesus and His having come to this earth. Ever since returning, I had been in lock step with God. He answered my every question, as I grew up. He was with me day by day. We walked and talked about many, many things.
I was so angered at the way the schools were all run that I wouldn’t even open a book or do any homework when I wasn't physically, at school. I flatly told them all, "If it isn't going to get me to heaven, I don't want it in my head." When I first found out about Jesus, however, I was pretty much in shock. So I prayed and asked the Lord to tell me if what I had been told was true or not. His reply was, "Yes, and you will do well simply to follow 'in His steps.'" That's when I joined the church.
At the time, I became a member of the First Baptist Church of Sarasota Florida. But what happened is, as I listened to many preach about Heaven, the River of Life, and many other things that I have actually seen and experienced, there was a lot about it that they didn't know. Many speak like they have come from Heaven above, but - when I go over to speak with them in their offices or after their meetings - as soon as I tell them what it actually looks like or what's truly involved they readily pull away. You see, they're just telling a story! They don't know of Heaven in terms of having actually been there. They claim to be filled with "new wine," but they often don't know and they don't want anyone to speak to them, so they don't know what to say, or what to do. It urkes me to tears when the ministers who are supposed to be representing God, have various henchmen nearby, so as to draw away anyone who wants to ask them a question, or say something to them. And they're so blind; they think nobody recognizes what's going on! Often, so often, I have been interrupted and cut off; that I can't even begin to say how many times it has occurred. Or, otherwise, I have had various ministers just plain avoid me like the plague. I have seen God remove many from the pulpit, after having done such a poor job in terms of doing what they should have been doing. What is going on? They set themselves up as briers and thorns by their unbelief and, often, by their deceit. When I do get to speak to any of them, I am sure my words may blister their souls, as I speak what is true - and I've actually been to Heaven.
Believe me, I never considered being a priest or a preacher because I have never been truly welcomed by those within the churches where I have thus far been. This is a sad, sad commentary, as I have nevertheless SEEN the rich forest of the Promised Land . . . just beyond the river! And one other thing, just so you know, just for the record here on earth - no one in Heaven is allowed to go over there. Even those who live in Heaven are forbidden to cross over to the "promised land." And please don't write and sing songs about not being able to wait to stand before the Lord! Nobody stands before the Lord! Every knee shall bow, and I mean every knee.
So these are my credentials. I didn't get them, or earn them, or learn them, and I was not told about all this at any Bible school. I didn't get them here on earth. I went to Heaven! I have heard Him speak to the elders. I have heard His words as clear, to all, with a sound of absolute authority, and a deep thundering tone. The sound of God's voice issues forth with a quality of eternity, and omnipotent, holy authority - that it is unerring in its accuracy and in the content of His every uttered word.
I am an unbiased witness - that God is real. I exist, because He sent me back! And what's wrong with America, is that 50 years ago those who have no moral values pushed the truth of God out of the schools. That's partly what's wrong! And, godly men and women of character need to get up on their feet, and speak out so as to give the honor and glory to God.
The following is taken from the Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter III. Please read this. I haven't added a word, or a dot to any of it!
"5 The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing. 6 For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial. 7 But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest. 8 For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. 9 But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
10 He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated. 11 Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. 12 For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind. 13 He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: 14 For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked. 15 This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect unto his chosen.
16 Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous. 17 For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety. 18 They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore. 19 For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish. 20 And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.

Chapter 5
1 Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours. 2 When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for. 3 And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach: 4 We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: 5 How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints! 6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us. 7 We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it. 8 What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?
9 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by; 10 And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves; 11 Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is to be found; 12 Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man cannot know where it went through: 13 Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness. 14 For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
15 But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. 16 Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord’s hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them. 17 He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies. 18 He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true judgment instead of an helmet. 19 He shall take holiness for an invincible shield. 20 His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise. 21 Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark. 22 And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them. 23 Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.

Chapter 6
1 Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth. 2 Give ear, ye that rule the people, and glory in the multitude of nations. 3 For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels. 4 Because, being ministers of his kingdom, ye have not judged aright, nor kept the law, nor walked after the counsel of God; 5 Horribly and speedily shall he come upon you: for a sharp judgment shall be to them that be in high places. 6 For mercy will soon pardon the meanest: but mighty men shall be mightily tormented. 7 For he which is Lord over all shall fear no man’s person, neither shall he stand in awe of any man’s greatness: for he hath made the small and great, and careth for all alike. 8 But a sore trial shall come upon the mighty. 9 Unto you therefore, O kings, do I speak, that ye may learn wisdom, and not fall away. 10 For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy: and they that have learned such things shall find what to answer. 11 Wherefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be instructed."
See: The Wisdom of Solomon, chapters 3-6
in The King James Version Apocrypha

Elijah
October 22, 2003