What Is Heaven Like? John Burke - Truth about Near Death Experiences | John Giftah Podcast

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. You can just share, like what is Heaven like to a person who has no clue what heaven is like.

0:55 Speaker 2: So I think one of the big misconceptions of heaven is that it's somehow less real than this place. And that is the opposite of what every near death experiencer tells me. They say, no, this is the shadow, that's the real thing. And by the way, interestingly, in Hebrews chapter eight, it says that it says that that God had Moses construct the tabernacle out of something real in heaven, and the tabernacle was just a shadow a copy of the real thing in heaven. So imagine. So this is the best way, and this is what I'm trying to get people to do through the books I've written and the podcasting and all that, is to imagine heaven more accurately.

1:46 Speaker 2: Right, So imagine all the beauty, all the wonders, all the pleasurable, enjoyable experiences we've had on this earth. Well they're all We enjoy them, and they are pleasurable because God created us to be able to right. And all the beauty we see is a gift from God. And yet this world is marred. Romans chapter eight says all creation is groaning. It's laboring, like in childbirth, under the birth pangs of disease and death and famine and misfortune. You know. So sin has entered and God remains somewhat hidden, and he lets human free will rule.

2:35 Speaker 2: And as a result, we experience a tiny taste of heaven and a tiny taste of hell, and both are far greater in wonder and far greater in horror than you can imagine. So the best thing when you think about heaven is think about all the things you love here magnified. And that's what people have told me so, like doctor Mary Neil, this spine surgeon who's kayak was pinned under the waterfall. You can hear her story in the podcast as well. She said, I went from alive to even more alive, from conscious to more conscious, and several of them, doctor Neil, this Captain Dale Black, the airline pilot.

3:28 Speaker 2: I asked them at one point, I said, so, do you realize you're dead? And they both kind of chuckle and go well, at that point I kind of thought, I guess I'm dead because they didn't feel dead, they felt more alive. And Jesus said this, by the way, you know Jesus last night on Earth and John chapter fourteen, he says to his close friends, you know, I'm going to prepare a place for you. Trust in God, trust also in me. I'm going to prepare a place for you. There are many rooms in my father's home, right, and I will come and get you, and you will always be with me where I am.

4:09 Speaker 2: And Jesus said, God is not the god of the dead, He's the God of the living, right And when people so some of the commonalities when people die is they go they enter into paradise, which, by the way, your death. Experiencers say what Jesus said to the thief on the cross, today, you'll be with me. In Paradise is actually the outside the suburbs, outside the Holy City of God. It's the place most like Earth, and we many of many come there first to kind of acclimate. But it's very much like Earth. It's beauty, it's mountains, it's trees, it's streams, it's valleys, it's you know, it's water, animals, people.

4:58 Speaker 2: There are hugs. There's this great reunion, this welcoming committee, usually of friends and relatives who have died before us, and they come to us and we hug. We remember, we still have our memories, we still have our humor. We are ourselves in fact, you know, John, One of the things is just most amazing to me is how themselves people feel in the presence of Jesus or this God of Light, the Father, and they describe how in heaven you don't think of them as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They're just one.

5:41 Speaker 2: Even though still they see Jesus and they see the Father on the throne, and they know the Holy Spirit is with them always. They experience the Trinity. But there is a there is an understanding that of there's just one God that isn't fusing there like it is here. And and the thing that they say most commonly is that it is life, but it's life without all that's wrong here. And so Jesus said all these things. He said, there's going to be responsibility. Some of you are going to govern nations. You know, you're his disciples.

6:29 Speaker 2: Are you're going to sit on twelve twelve thrones, ruling over, governing over the twelve tribes of Israel. But others are going to govern nations. Some are going to care for animals, others they're Maybe you're creative. You're going to create songs that are going to be sung in heaven. There's music that people talk about is like music on an otherworldly dimension. They talk about the colors of heaven and how vivid everything is. So it's it's like, imagine the greatest beauty you've seen on earth, but multiply it by a thousand.

7:09 Speaker 2: Color is beyond our color spectrum. Dale Black said to me, you know, we have like green and blue and red and yellow, but now take blue and imagine a thousand shades of blue, and you can see them all clearly. Vividly and that's the color spectrum. But far beyond colors we can't even describe on earth. And they consistently say this and then a life to all of nature. Interestingly, you know, Christians in America have kind of pushed away this idea of oneness, right, and that's more of a Hindu concept.

7:56 Speaker 2: But the truth is, there is truth. God is left. God has left evidence of truth all around the globe for everyone who will seek him, right. I mean even in the Vedas. I've read in the Vedas about the prush Prajapati who had come in the form of a man to die for the for the remission of karma, get off the cycle of Samsara. Well, that's salvation, right, So, I mean there are traces of the One True God everywhere.

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