My Testimony

Hello here is my testimony. I accepted Christ in 1984 while I was in college during a revival. Something had changed in me and God told me he had called me to preach. Satan came to me and suggested I was not called to that and dumb me believed it. 

Fast forward 1988, I joined the Navy and in boot camp I injured my right shoulder, in December I had surgery to repair the damage. At 5 am I walked up the hill to the hospital and checked in. The doctor told me this would be a simple orthoscopic procedure a couple of hours then all done

I remember going to sleep. Suddenly I started seeing another place. A brownish hazy dim dusty late in the day right before sun went down feel.

I was walking and talking to someone I had never seen before and did not recognize. He was showing me around and telling me that he would be with me and I would not be seen there and no one would know I was there. I walking into a small holding cell that was dark. I noticed everything was very quiet. I tried to speak but nothing came out I was making sound but would not go more than a inch from my mouth. I remember sitting for what seemed like hours looking around and seeing more cells no bars on them open doors. But we could not leave. It was total darkness like nothing I have ever seen. While in the cell, I started hearing people calling me. Telling me I am here now and nothing I can do it is too late. I started getting scared because this wasn’t supposed to happen. Then I was allowed to walk around and even though it was dark I could see somehow. While walking around I heard yelling and running and someone saying you are mine and I have been looking forward to this! I started screaming this is a mistake I am not supposed to be here and the others were saying the same back to me. I started crying to Jesus asking where he was I was a Christian and supposed to be saved from this and they were grabbing me and yanking at me and I thought I was lost, then all the sudden I hear a loud NO! Let him go! It is not time! Then all the sudden I was looking down on my body at the doctors and all the sudden. I was awake on the operating table looking at the nurse who made a comment about oh no then nite nite. And I was out. This time I woke up in recovery and I could not talk or swallow then they removed a tube from my throat. I was asked how I feel I said good then I threw up and I heard the Doctor said get a X-ray and blood gas. He put oxygen on me and I yanked it off I could not breathe and after I yanked it I tried to tell him can’t breathe and I had idea the o2 would be hard to breath and he said if you can't with o2 how much worse would it be without. I relaxed and said makes sense then looked around and blood everywhere and thought that was strange.After I woke up he talked to me and said everything is fine but will be staying a couple of days. I said what happened in operation, he said nothing so I asked him about dreaming in surgery and said not possible so I told him what I saw and then told him what I saw in surgery then he told me we have a issue. Turns out the issue was a negative pressure pulmonary edema. Which happens when a breathing tube used to breath in surgery is removed so you can start breathing but your body is not ready to, this causes and vacuum where you try to breath but can’t. The only way to fix it is to paralyze the body so you can reinsert it and that means the heart too. So they reinsert the tube then they had to resuscitate me by using the paddles and adrenaline. I was dead for 5 minutes on the table. 

I have wondered why I went through this and I realized to show me I was living a lie. I believed that since I was a Christian I was saved from everything automatically in the future with out repenting, once saved always saved. God shocked me out of this and showed me that from now on to not sin but if I stumbled then I need to repent and put it under the blood of Christ so I would be forgiven of it. Also, to testify that hell is real not the flames that we think of that is later. But total a complete darkness and separation from God and tortured. You do NOT want to go there!

All you have to do is pray, Dear Jesus, I am a sinner, I repent of what I have done the sins against you. I ask you to forgive me and from this day forward I will be yours and you will be mine. In Jesus name. Amen.