That's really cool, Phil. Did they say what the conversation was about?
I always chuckle to myself when I read the scripture where Jesus raised
someone from the dead and the person began to speak, but they never say
what he said. I would think it would be fascinating to know what the first
words out of someone's mouth who had been raised from the dead would be. I
mean, would he be angry at having been raised? Would he have been bursting
with information about what it was like on "the other side"? So I wonder
what the old man and his family were talking about. What a cool witness to
the power of faith and life after so-called death!
Peggy
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. - Sir
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
At 08:12 AM 12/12/2004, you wrote:
>Last night, we had some friends over whom we haven't seen for a couple of
>years. They were members of a church we were in awhile back. The wife is a
>care giver for eight different people. She had been caring for an elderly
>man for several years and the man asked them to move into his large house
>with him which they did. He was not born again. Linda, the wife, led the
>old man to Christ just two days before he died. Ed, the husband of Linda,
>was telling us last night what happened to the old man the very night he
>died. In their bedroom, they have a monitoring intercom so they could
>listen in case he called for help during the night. The night he died, the
>intercom was on. About midnight, Ed and Linda awakened because the man was
>talking. Ed said they could hear the other side of the conversation, that
>is, the other people talking back to him as they carried on a conversation.
>They thought someone had, somehow, gotten into the house. Ed got up and
>went into the old man's bedroom but he was talking to himself. Ed looked
>around but could find no one else. He returned to his bedroom and in the
>intercom, they once again could hear both sides of the conversation. The
>old man was talking to people he knew, such as his mother, who, of course,
>were long passed away. This continued on through the night so Linda finally
>got up and went into the man's room to check on him. She, too, reported
>that no one but the old man was in the room and he was fine. They said,
>after he got saved, he acted, physically, as if he were a new man with a
>brand new body. When Linda returned to their bedroom, the old man was still
>talking to people and Ed and Linda still could hear the other people through
>the intercom to whom the old man was talking. At 5 in the morning, the man
>went to Heaven. It doesn't get much better than that, folks. Jesus is real
>and so is Heaven. Wait until you hear what is going on with George and his
>daughter, Jennifer. If you have trouble believing the story I just told,
>you definitely won't believe what I'm going to tell you about George and his
>daughter.
>
>Phil.
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