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God did not create the world out of nothing, He used the Force of His Faith.
-- Kenneth Copeland, Spirit, Soul and Body, #01-0601, Tape #1
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The most startling development in world history
Posted on Thursday, May 26 @ 10:15:38 PDT by 57chevypreterist |
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By Jim Rutz
Writer's note: You may have more trouble with this column than with anything you have ever read. I can't say I blame you. It took me a lot of research time before I fully accepted the now-well-attested fact that God has been bringing hundreds of people back from the dead in recent years.
As I was leaving New Delhi in 2003, I called an Indian friend, Rodrick Gilbert, who leads a network of house churches with 26,000 former Hindus.
"Rod," I said, "I have a little credibility problem in the United States when I teach people about resurrections. Could you send somebody over to my hotel who has come back from the dead? I'd like to take a few snapshots."
Rod graciously brought someone over himself – 7-year-old Arjun Janki Dass, along with his mother Mina, and Savitri, the lady who prayed him back to life.
Arjun died at age 5. The gist of his story:
At six o'clock on an April evening in 2001, Arjun was accidentally electrocuted by 220-volt wires touching his head.
His parents took him to a medical clinic where they worked on his body for two hours without success. They tried CPR, electroshock paddles, adrenaline shots – all the usual. But they couldn't get him off flatline. So the doctor charged them 5,000 rupees (about $110) and told them to call an undertaker.
But they didn't. Instead they called Rod at the nearby Deliverance Church. He then called upon Savitri, one of his staff members.
Savitri brought two other Christians to Arjun's home, and the five of them began praying over the dead body about 10:00 p.m. They prayed their hearts out for six hours with pleading and tears. Then, at 4:00 a.m. the next morning, Arjun snapped back to life with no brain damage, no physical problems.
Today, he's a normal 9-year-old kid except for two nasty scar lines behind his left ear where the wire hit.
Savitri is a 62-year-old widow, a Dalit (formerly called "untouchable") from the lowly Dom class. She spent her life as a street sweeper, which made her, in the caste system, the lowest of the low. The broom was her livelihood. In 1992, she turned from Hinduism to Christ. She remains today a fine, humble lady, and among the more serious people I have ever met.
As she and the others were leaving, I asked her through an interpreter: "I understand you've been active in ministry for six years. In that time, how many resurrections have you been involved with?"
She answered quietly: "Sixteen."
My neatly-ordered, conventional world began to spin.
I would give you Savitri's e-mail address so you could check her out for yourself, but she doesn't have one. She can't read.
You can view a few photos at Megashift.com. (After the intro, click on "About Megashift," then on "Resurrections.")
This is the new reality
The most shocking aspect of the growing turn of the world toward Christ is this: People are coming back from death after being prayed for by ordinary folks like you and me. To be specific, my newest book, "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," documents resurrections in 52 countries, mostly in the last 15 to 20 years. And these are not the well-known, "near-death" experiences where someone on an operating-room table passes out and goes down a long tunnel toward a light. These are stone-dead corpses.
The flood of solid new evidence is compelling. Two or three reports could be dismissed as faulty rumors or candidates for "Unsolved Mysteries." But hundreds of firsthand reports from 52 nations? Some with death certificates? No way. (Yet a few of the miracles in "Megashift" are even harder to believe than a resurrection!)
Here is what it all means: The lockdown of the common man has come to an abrupt end. Many of the limitations your ancestors endured for centuries are now fading into the bleak and brutal past. The resurrections are only the most obvious evidence of a megashift in the functioning of eager-hearted believers whom the book of Revelation calls "overcomers."
The recent changes in the quality of human life are profound. God is pouring His grace and power into people in ways not seen before. I don't expect that most Christians will be doing miracles on a daily basis, but a radically new Christian lifestyle now spreading around the globe will soon dramatically enable you to upgrade your own way of living.
We'll touch on that next Tuesday.
James Rutz is chairman of Megashift Ministries and founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries. His recent book, "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," announces major upgrades in human life and a coming transformation of society.
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Re: The most startling development in world history (Score: 1)
 by Virgil on Thursday, May 26 @ 13:45:36 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Now, let's see. Why is it impossible for a Preterist to believe in "bringing back from the dead" today? If one goes direclty into God's presence after death, or into the lake of fire, why exactly would God pull you out of that circumstance and put you back into a physical body? It makes no sense...
Of course God can resurrect dead bodied today...He always had and has the ability to do that. I want to see the benefit for doing that today....there is none, and Preterism proves this notion wrong. |
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Re: The most startling development in world history (Score: 1)
 by chrisliv on Thursday, May 26 @ 17:58:22 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Golly Gee,
Humble Christians in India who believe God can actually do something beyond the norm. It's my guess that they probably have not been tainted too badly by Dispensationalism nor the Preterist tendency to believe that God no longer transcends physical laws on a post-70 AD Earth.
India's churches should consider sending illiterate missionaries like those mentioned immediately to the missionfield of North America.
Peace,
C. Livingstone
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Re: The most startling development in world history (Score: 1)
 by forgivenone2002 on Friday, May 27 @ 02:48:32 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | For anyone interested, here is (1) a brief snippet from a Probe Ministries article regarding what happens after death (talking about NDE's), and (2) part of the Gary Habermas/Antony Flew dialogue where, when pushed, Flew admits that the NDEs that were documented were a strong evidence of an incorporeal existence of "some kind".
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Near Death Experiences
[[ For the past thirty years, thousands of people have reported experiencing what are called near death experiences (NDEs). NDEs are encounters where a person, being in full awareness, leaves the body and enters another world. Such experiences have resulted in life transformation in many individuals. What are we to make of these accounts?
Let us understand that NDEs come from those who have been clinically dead, not biologically dead. In clinical death, external life signs such as consciousness, pulse, and breathing cease. In such cases, biological death results if no steps are taken to reverse the process. Biological death, on the other hand, is not affected by any amount of attention, for it is physically irreversible.{1}
The NDE accounts occur at various stages of clinical death. Some occur when the patient is comatose, very close to death, or pronounced clinically dead. Other accounts occur when the patient's heart stops beating. Others occur while the patient's brain ceases to register any activity on the EEG monitor. There have not been any cases of biological or irreversible death for a significant amount of time followed by a resurrection.
What has intrigued scientists and theologians in their study of NDEs is that many of the patients have similar experiences. These include leaving the body and watching from above as doctors work on it, entering a dark tunnel, seeing light, seeing others, meeting a spirit being, experiencing peace, and then returning to the body.
Scientists and doctors from various worldviews have sought to explain this phenomenon. Those from an atheistic worldview have sought to give naturalistic explanations. Their explanations range from hallucination induced by medication, chemical reactions the brain experiences in near death crises, previous encounters long forgotten, and others. These fall short of explaining NDE events.
Many NDEs have occurred without medication. Drowning victims are one example. Also, thousands of NDE victims were able to clearly describe places and people with exact detail while they were clinically dead. One girl, while near dead, was able to describe what her family did that night at home, what was made for dinner, where everyone sat and even what was said. Others were able to describe in detail objects in rooms nearby and far away from them. One patient described a shoe on the rooftop of a hospital. When the nurses looked, they found the shoe exactly as described. A boy in an accident involving his brother and mother told those around him moments before he died, "They are waiting for me now." The doctor discovered that at that exact time in another hospital the boy's mother and brother had just died. Dr. Gary Habermas and J.P. Moreland provide a comprehensive discussion of NDEs in their book Beyond Death, arguing that naturalistic explanations cannot satisfactorily explain the events that occur in NDEs.
NDEs may not conclusively prove there is a heaven or hell, but they do indicate that at death the soul separates from the body, and that a person's spirit is conscious and coherent at death.
However, NDEs do not accurately reflect what lies beyond the grave. NDEs deal with accounts that give a short glimpse behind the curtain of death and therefore they give us an incomplete picture. Colossians 1:18 tells us that Jesus "is the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy." Christ overcame biological death and lives forevermore as ruler over all creation. His supremacy over everything was established through His resurrection. Also, we know
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Re: The most startling development in world history (Score: 1)
by forgivenone2002 on Friday, May 27 @ 03:06:33 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Here's another link to a really interesting 58 minute video by Dr. Gary Habermas. I just watched it this morning on RealPlayer. It's entitled: Near Death Experiences. "Gary Habermas describes a number of cases of near death experiences and their implications for materialistic philosophy."
I guess my only question would be: are NDEs "resucitations" rather than "resurrections"? I would be interested in reading comments contrasting the two from a biblical standpoint. Thanks everyone!
-Bill
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Re: The most startling development in world history (Score: 1)
by the_prophet_whiteboy on Friday, May 27 @ 09:37:44 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Why is it that when people are raised from the dead physcially, its always in 3 world countries?
Though I do believe people are being ressurected everyday, Its not something that is taking place in the flesh.
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