Heaven Is Beyond Your Wildest Expectations
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Authors: Sid Roth
CONTENTS
D
ESTINY
I
MAGE
B
OOKS BY
S
ID
R
OTH
Stories of Supernatural Healing (with Linda Josef Ph.D.)
Supernatural Experiences
Supernatural Healing (with Linda Josef Ph.D.)
The Incomplete Church
There Must Be Something More!
They Thought for Themselves
Truth Seekers (with Mike Shreve)
BEYOND
YOUR
EXPECTATIONS
Ten True Stories of Experiencing Heaven
SID ROTH
& LONNIE LANE
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DEDICATION
To all who hope for Heaven, may you find the assurance you seek in these pages.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
My thanks to Sid Roth for the opportunities he has provided for me, for his partnership in this book, and for being a man who is committed to always doing God’s will. –Lonnie Lane
The heavens will praise Your wonders,
O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the
assembly of the holy ones.
—Psalm 89:5.
As a young Jewish boy, I remember being home in bed late at night alone. A strange question continually crossed my mind,
What will happen to me when I die?
We Jews most definitely believe in life after death, but my parents had never discussed this with me.
My logical sequence of thoughts went like this,
If I die, I will cease to exist.
Then I tried to imagine what it would be like if I ceased to exist. The more I exercised my vivid imagination, the more objectionable my thoughts became. Whatever was “me” I didn’t want “me” to be snuffed out. So I did the only sensible thing I could do. I stopped thinking about it and blocked it from my mind till many years later.
At age twenty-nine I had an early mid-life crisis and death looked better to me than my life did. At a moment of great crisis, I did the only thing left to do, I cried out to God for help. And suddenly He was there! I knew instantly He was real and that the Bible account about Heaven and hell was true.
Up to this point, I have never visited Heaven. However, I have interviewed many who have had Heaven and hell visitations. Frankly, for me, it is not necessary; but I still wish I could visit Heaven and see it before I die. Those whom God has selected to be living witnesses on earth of the glory of Heaven provoke me to jealousy.
I remember in the early ’70s interviewing Dr. Richard Eby. He was a medical doctor who died and went to Heaven, then lived to tell about it. Because of his amazing memory, he made me feel I was experiencing Heaven also. Then, over the years I have interviewed many more people who had heavenly visitations. Their stories all had many similar ingredients and none of them wanted to return to earth. They all longed to stay in Heaven.
In recent years, the number of visitations has increased dramatically. Why? The Messiah is getting ready to come to earth. I believe when you read this book it will make you more heavenly minded than earthbound. It will give you a glimpse of the love God has for you beyond anything you have imagined until now, and it will give you a wonderful picture of your glorious and eternal future. It will bring you such a supernatural peace that it will grow daily; and this peace will overpower the cares of this life. You were created to taste the rarified air of Heaven, even while still here on earth. Enjoy!
Shalom and love,
S
ID
R
OTH
Welcome to our world, where the natural is naturally supernatural! Sid Roth and I share the longing for every person, Jew or Gentile, to know the wonders of life with Messiah Jesus (in Hebrew, Yeshua), not only in this life but forever! Do you have an assurance of your eternal destiny? Read these stories and have your ideas of Heaven explode into fireworks of brilliance and glory in the truth presented in them. I guarantee that you will never see life, especially your eternal life, the same way ever again.
These stories give you an opportunity to see into the heavenly realm perhaps even beyond what His disciples understood about Heaven at that time and even about Jesus as the Lord of all that exists, for we know so much more of the universe today than they did. Perhaps we are being given the greatest privilege of any generation to know what awaits us in eternity. Why is that?
On Sid’s television show,
It’s Supernatural!,
Sid has interviewed a number of people who have been to Heaven and to hell and returned to tell about it. One man, Bruce Allen, told of meeting his aunt in Heaven who had died seven years earlier. She told him that Heaven is abuzz and excited because the culmination of all things is coming and many individuals are visiting Heaven now and being sent back to tell the people on the earth of the validity of Heaven, and the message that the Lord is coming back very soon. How soon is very soon? Only God knows, but we are exhorted to make ourselves ready to meet Him whenever He comes. God has also made us aware that hell is as real as Heaven but that it is not His will that any should go there. The choice is ours as you will see in some of the stories you are about to read.
It is our hope that as a result of reading this book you will see the challenges that life offers us here on the earth as momentary light afflictions compared to the glory that awaits us in Heaven,
“for momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison”
(2 Cor. 4:17). When we know that splendor and glory is our eternal destiny, we can endure whatever we must while patiently waiting for the day when we too enter Heaven and our eternal joy in the presence of the Lord.
As you read the stories of what these people experienced, keep an open ear for what God might want to tell you about Himself or what He might want to say to you. You might even want to keep a notebook near you to jot down things you feel God might be saying to you or thoughts you may want to remember. Use this book not just as something to read, but as your own opportunity to experience a taste of Heaven from here on earth.
Blessings upon you!
L
ONNIE
L
ANE
Dean died in the hospital. Three times he came before Jesus but each time Jesus sent him back saying, “It is not your time.” This time he hoped to stay.
It was wonderful to be going to where Jesus is. I was not looking for anyone else but Jesus. I knew where I was going. I was moving super fast. As the Bible says, I was absent from my body and heading for the presence of the Lord. I was moving faster than it takes you to read the next sentence. I was immediately in the presence of my Lord.
From the first moment I was in Heaven there was the continual sound of praise and worship. The atmosphere seemed to be filled with a continuous musical sound. It was constant and like no other sound I know. I was more than just hearing it. I was experiencing it. The closest I can come to describing it is like when you can feel drum beat vibrations. Praise was always there in the atmosphere.
When I first arrived in Heaven and knelt before Jesus, all I could do was say, “You did this for me? Thank You, thank You, thank You!” Everything in me cried out in praise to Jesus. It was pure joy. Jesus is pure light! His brightness was before me, around me, part of me, and in me. He is brighter than the noonday sun, but we can still look at Him in Heaven. It seemed to me that if someone was not right with Him, that person would be burned up by this brightness. But those who were right with Him could look at Him and have perfect joy. If you were not right with Him, then terror would be what you would experience. You have to look at Him with a pure heart.
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Jesus is more beautiful, wonderful, and glorious than I can explain. I stopped looking at Him with my eyes and saw Him as He is—from my heart. I was on my hands and knees as I looked into His face. How do I tell you what His face looks like? His face was as if it were liquid crystal glass made up of pure love, light, and life. From His face came the colors of the rainbow and colors I cannot describe inside His being. All these colors were part of Jesus and they were coming out from His being as the waves of the ocean come to the seashore. He is not a color as we know colors. I was seeing the colors, and I was part of the colors. I was in the colors, and the colors were coming out of me. I was seeing Jesus, and I was part of Jesus. I was in Jesus, and Jesus was shining out of me. I would see the brightness. The brightness was around me. I was part of the brightness, and brightness was shining out of me. All of it was life. I just wanted to praise Him forever.
I was seeing Jesus, and I was part
of Jesus.
