Monday, May 9, 2011

MAMA - Mother


Quotations about Mothers

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  ~Tenneva Jordan
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries


The phrase "working mother" is redundant.  ~Jane Sellman


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  ~Rajneesh


If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln


Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.  ~Pearl S. Buck


If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author Unknown


Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce


Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  ~Golda Meir


The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  ~HonorĂ© de Balzac


All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish Proverb


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.  ~Margaret Culkin Banning


When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  ~Sophia Loren,Women and Beauty


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?  ~Milton Berle


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.  ~John Lancaster Spalding


Motherhood has a very humanizing effect.  Everything gets reduced to essentials.  ~Meryl Streep


The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?  ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson


The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.  ~Terri Guillemets


[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.  ~Emily Dickinson


A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.  ~Washington Irving


Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.  ~Lisa Alther


Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.  ~Beverly Jones


MOTHERS DAY 2011

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY


Motherhood

Some women give birth and raise children but never a mother to them. What we are talking here are real mother’s who raised their children to grow which is not measured by height, years or grade but it is marked by a sign of respect as the child learns to respond and appreciate a mother’s teaching and correction. Mother's day is a wonderful time for each of us to take a moment and honor motherhood.

Motherhood is not merely defined by the bearing and bringing up of children but is rather a statement regarding the wonderful and inspiring nature of women. All women, whether or not they bear children, can fulfill the role of mothers. If we only give superior worth as to the first great gift a mother gives her child which is love, and that love is expressed in the enduring amount of energy and time she spends teaching and nurturing her children as they grow at the loss of her freedom and denial to enjoy the supposed to be pleasure in life. What a sacrifice.  

Developing the whole child begins in the womb. As a fetus develops and grows into a baby, a mother considers how she cares for herself. She knows that her health and wellbeing will have either a positive or negative effect on the yet unborn human being. Therefore, she make it a point to voluntarily discipline herself and comes to examine what effect with regards to the food she eat, she will do, and behaves within the period of nine months just to protect the baby at her womb. But after a baby is born, a mother’s territory over which dominion is exercise is focused at home. She will be locked at the four corners of the home, fully occupied with boring, and monotonous works every day.

In spite of those sacrifices, she patiently and continuously cultivate with care and attention as homemakers and educators to the new born babe in addition to the existing children they have at home. What is sad, mothers are the only workers who do not have regular time off. There are no sick days. It's largely unpaid. All vacations are working vacations. Most of them are unsung heroes that even at the last breath of their life, they never received a respectful recognition and the worst of it, the word “I love you” coming from the heart of their children is very uncommon. The question is, how many times have you heartily said I love you to your mother?

Thus, it becomes a big argument whether, “Earning the money to put food on the table is just as important as cooking that meal and feeding it to your family. Normally, it is the husband responsibility to provide foods for the family, but when a man chooses not to be a full-time parent, it's acceptable or, at least, accepted. But when a woman decides to do of not being a full-time parent, the society she is living with will accuse her of abandonment. Is it fair and agreeable to the eyes and mind in hearing and accepting this kind of accusation?

George Washington a statesman, military leader and first president of the United States, once said, “All I am I owe to my mother.” What reasoned behind for Washington to say, “All I am I owe to my mother”? This historical declaration presents a wonderful challenge for mothers, as this unique role has a principle influence on children’s lives. The mother bears them, nurtures them; their primary education begins with her. Of the utmost importance, mothers are the positive force that shapes every new generation.

Secondly, President Washington said, “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.” To many people of the world today, beauty is an outward look that will catch and attract the eyes of men. But for President Washington, what he saw was not the beauty of her clothes, the way she brushed her hair, or other physical inherent characteristic of his mother. The beauty he saw was in her eyes, the doorway to her heart, her inner being. He saw the true beauty of a mother who lovingly cared for him and gave herself in selfless service. Can we say the same words as what President Washington said to her mother to our mother?

The same as we think of Hagar, being familiar on the Biblical story as merely a negative element in the whole story of Abraham and Sarah. A woman of Biblical example that when she was about to become a mother she fled from the cruelty of her mistress, intending apparently to return to her relatives in Egypt. Based on the explanations above as plainly stated and by unfolding the life story of Hagar as a mother, is motherhood a lifetime prison sentence or a lifelong journey of adventure?

To help us answer that question, may we invite you to look at the story of one mother by the name of Hagar.  We are sure most of us remember that Hagar’s story which is mutually involved with the story of Abraham and Sarah.  Sadly, we usually treat Hagar as merely a negative element in the whole story of Abraham and Sarah.  And that’s unfortunate for us, because Hagar’s story has precious lessons to teach us.  Today we will change our perspective on Hagar.

To understand the lessons from Hagar’s story, let’s forget for the moment the unfortunate circumstances in her relationship with her masters Abraham and Sarah.  Let’s focus on Hagar, as the angel of the Lord found her in Genesis 16:7-8 “Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. And He said, “Hagar, Sarah maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarah.”

Notice the very interesting two-part question of the Angel of the Lord: “Hagar, Sarah’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?”  Notice, too, the answer of Hagar: “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarah.”  Hagar answered only the first part of the Angel’s question: where she came from. Hagar did not answer the second part, where are you going? Right here, from the story of Hagar we find the first important lesson for mothers.  Motherhood confronts every mother with two questions: Where have I been? Where am I going?  Or, we may rephrase the questions: How did this baby come? Now that I have a baby, what will happen to me?

A common joke address to a man/woman to be married, “welcome to a world of continued occurrence or recurrence of arguments?” This joke becomes popular because they considered marriage as prison walls.  Let’s look at verse 7 again, Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. The word Shur is very interesting.  According to Strong’s Hebrew dictionary, Shur means “wall”.  So, we may read the verse in this way: “by the spring on the way to the Wall”. Probably the city of Shur was a walled city, as was the custom of that day. In the ancient, a wall is to protect them from enemies and wild animals. On this case, walls may symbolize prison walls.

So, the Angel’s question to Hagar can mean: “Hagar, now that you have this baby, where do you think you’re going?  Are you going to prison?  In your opinion, is motherhood a lifetime prison sentence?” This is not an impossible question, is it?  Is it not true that we hear many mothers today saying that the arrival of a baby means the loss of freedom? It is the restriction of a woman’s lifestyle, limiting of her opportunities, and denial of her pleasures?  And because of the threat of loss of freedom many pregnant women exercise their freedom of choice by choosing abortion. Is this not so?

How did Hagar make motherhood a lifelong journey of adventure?  Let’s read Genesis 16:13-14: Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You Are the God Who Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”  Through her encounter with the Lord, Hagar discovered who God was. She even coined a new name for God, to represent her very personal experience with Him:  “You are the God who sees.”  And so that she would not forget this life-changing experience, she renamed the well where God encountered her: Beer-Lahai-Roi: The well of the God who sees me.

This is probably the greatest lesson of Hagar’s story for us.  To make motherhood a lifetime journey of adventure. We must know this powerful truth Hagar experienced with God. First, God sees you.  God knows you; God knows everything about you; God knows all the past, everything that has happened, what were the circumstances that forced you to make the choices that you made which resulted in this baby.  We are not talking now about whether your choices were good or bad.  We’re only talking about the fact that God sees you.

Secondly, we need to see God.  Whether our choice were good or bad, we must see that God is love; God is merciful; God is gracious, and He is here right now offering you forgiveness for the past and presenting you with the opportunity to begin again. Thirdly, God will help you to see. God will open your eyes to see powerful truths about motherhood.

And what is this powerful truth of motherhood Hagar learned from God? Lets read Genesis 21:18 “Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.” The Angel commanded Hagar: “Arise, lift up the lad.” Mother, lift up your child.  Accept your baby as God’s special gift and trust placed under your care.  Accept the responsibility. Secondly, Mother, hold your child by your hand.  That’s the next command of the Angel to Hagar.  In other words, nurture and teach and guide and do all in your power to raise up your baby in the right way.

Thirdly, Mother releases your grown son/daughter to fulfill his/her destiny.  In verse 21 we read that Hagar took a wife for her son. In other words, the time came when Hagar released her son to go on and follow his destiny.  Mothers, you must never baby your children.  In our country Philippines, traditional families have a custom: grandparents and parents want to keep their children close to them; they never want their children to go away, if possible.  They will build extensions to their houses, and build extensions to the extensions, just so that everyone will live within the same compound for as long as they all live. 

We must learn the ancient lesson of the eagle. When the young eagles have become full-fledged, the parent eagles will push them off from the nest and into open space so that they would learn to fly by using their own wings. 

Mothers, this is a never ending challenge in life.  How do you want your motherhood to be: A sentence to a lifetime imprisonment or a lifelong journey of adventure?  We must choose how it will be. Hagar experienced is a good lesson to follow. Happy Mother’s Day! Bon voyage on your lifetime journey of adventure. God Bless.

MOTHERS DAY 2011

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY


Motherhood

Some women give birth and raise children but never a mother to them. What we are talking here are real mother’s who raised their children to grow which is not measured by height, years or grade but it is marked by a sign of respect as the child learns to respond and appreciate a mother’s teaching and correction. Mother's day is a wonderful time for each of us to take a moment and honor motherhood.

Motherhood is not merely defined by the bearing and bringing up of children but is rather a statement regarding the wonderful and inspiring nature of women. All women, whether or not they bear children, can fulfill the role of mothers. If we only give superior worth as to the first great gift a mother gives her child which is love, and that love is expressed in the enduring amount of energy and time she spends teaching and nurturing her children as they grow at the loss of her freedom and denial to enjoy the supposed to be pleasure in life. What a sacrifice.  

Developing the whole child begins in the womb. As a fetus develops and grows into a baby, a mother considers how she cares for herself. She knows that her health and wellbeing will have either a positive or negative effect on the yet unborn human being. Therefore, she make it a point to voluntarily discipline herself and comes to examine what effect with regards to the food she eat, she will do, and behaves within the period of nine months just to protect the baby at her womb. But after a baby is born, a mother’s territory over which dominion is exercise is focused at home. She will be locked at the four corners of the home, fully occupied with boring, and monotonous works every day.

In spite of those sacrifices, she patiently and continuously cultivate with care and attention as homemakers and educators to the new born babe in addition to the existing children they have at home. What is sad, mothers are the only workers who do not have regular time off. There are no sick days. It's largely unpaid. All vacations are working vacations. Most of them are unsung heroes that even at the last breath of their life, they never received a respectful recognition and the worst of it, the word “I love you” coming from the heart of their children is very uncommon. The question is, how many times have you heartily said I love you to your mother?

Thus, it becomes a big argument whether, “Earning the money to put food on the table is just as important as cooking that meal and feeding it to your family. Normally, it is the husband responsibility to provide foods for the family, but when a man chooses not to be a full-time parent, it's acceptable or, at least, accepted. But when a woman decides to do of not being a full-time parent, the society she is living with will accuse her of abandonment. Is it fair and agreeable to the eyes and mind in hearing and accepting this kind of accusation?

George Washington a statesman, military leader and first president of the United States, once said, “All I am I owe to my mother.” What reasoned behind for Washington to say, “All I am I owe to my mother”? This historical declaration presents a wonderful challenge for mothers, as this unique role has a principle influence on children’s lives. The mother bears them, nurtures them; their primary education begins with her. Of the utmost importance, mothers are the positive force that shapes every new generation.

Secondly, President Washington said, “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.” To many people of the world today, beauty is an outward look that will catch and attract the eyes of men. But for President Washington, what he saw was not the beauty of her clothes, the way she brushed her hair, or other physical inherent characteristic of his mother. The beauty he saw was in her eyes, the doorway to her heart, her inner being. He saw the true beauty of a mother who lovingly cared for him and gave herself in selfless service. Can we say the same words as what President Washington said to her mother to our mother?

The same as we think of Hagar, being familiar on the Biblical story as merely a negative element in the whole story of Abraham and Sarah. A woman of Biblical example that when she was about to become a mother she fled from the cruelty of her mistress, intending apparently to return to her relatives in Egypt. Based on the explanations above as plainly stated and by unfolding the life story of Hagar as a mother, is motherhood a lifetime prison sentence or a lifelong journey of adventure?

To help us answer that question, may we invite you to look at the story of one mother by the name of Hagar.  We are sure most of us remember that Hagar’s story which is mutually involved with the story of Abraham and Sarah.  Sadly, we usually treat Hagar as merely a negative element in the whole story of Abraham and Sarah.  And that’s unfortunate for us, because Hagar’s story has precious lessons to teach us.  Today we will change our perspective on Hagar.

To understand the lessons from Hagar’s story, let’s forget for the moment the unfortunate circumstances in her relationship with her masters Abraham and Sarah.  Let’s focus on Hagar, as the angel of the Lord found her in Genesis 16:7-8 “Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. And He said, “Hagar, Sarah maid, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarah.”

Notice the very interesting two-part question of the Angel of the Lord: “Hagar, Sarah’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?”  Notice, too, the answer of Hagar: “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarah.”  Hagar answered only the first part of the Angel’s question: where she came from. Hagar did not answer the second part, where are you going? Right here, from the story of Hagar we find the first important lesson for mothers.  Motherhood confronts every mother with two questions: Where have I been? Where am I going?  Or, we may rephrase the questions: How did this baby come? Now that I have a baby, what will happen to me?

A common joke address to a man/woman to be married, “welcome to a world of continued occurrence or recurrence of arguments?” This joke becomes popular because they considered marriage as prison walls.  Let’s look at verse 7 again, Now the Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. The word Shur is very interesting.  According to Strong’s Hebrew dictionary, Shur means “wall”.  So, we may read the verse in this way: “by the spring on the way to the Wall”. Probably the city of Shur was a walled city, as was the custom of that day. In the ancient, a wall is to protect them from enemies and wild animals. On this case, walls may symbolize prison walls.

So, the Angel’s question to Hagar can mean: “Hagar, now that you have this baby, where do you think you’re going?  Are you going to prison?  In your opinion, is motherhood a lifetime prison sentence?” This is not an impossible question, is it?  Is it not true that we hear many mothers today saying that the arrival of a baby means the loss of freedom? It is the restriction of a woman’s lifestyle, limiting of her opportunities, and denial of her pleasures?  And because of the threat of loss of freedom many pregnant women exercise their freedom of choice by choosing abortion. Is this not so?

How did Hagar make motherhood a lifelong journey of adventure?  Let’s read Genesis 16:13-14: Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You Are the God Who Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”  Through her encounter with the Lord, Hagar discovered who God was. She even coined a new name for God, to represent her very personal experience with Him:  “You are the God who sees.”  And so that she would not forget this life-changing experience, she renamed the well where God encountered her: Beer-Lahai-Roi: The well of the God who sees me.

This is probably the greatest lesson of Hagar’s story for us.  To make motherhood a lifetime journey of adventure. We must know this powerful truth Hagar experienced with God. First, God sees you.  God knows you; God knows everything about you; God knows all the past, everything that has happened, what were the circumstances that forced you to make the choices that you made which resulted in this baby.  We are not talking now about whether your choices were good or bad.  We’re only talking about the fact that God sees you.

Secondly, we need to see God.  Whether our choice were good or bad, we must see that God is love; God is merciful; God is gracious, and He is here right now offering you forgiveness for the past and presenting you with the opportunity to begin again. Thirdly, God will help you to see. God will open your eyes to see powerful truths about motherhood.

And what is this powerful truth of motherhood Hagar learned from God? Lets read Genesis 21:18 “Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.” The Angel commanded Hagar: “Arise, lift up the lad.” Mother, lift up your child.  Accept your baby as God’s special gift and trust placed under your care.  Accept the responsibility. Secondly, Mother, hold your child by your hand.  That’s the next command of the Angel to Hagar.  In other words, nurture and teach and guide and do all in your power to raise up your baby in the right way.

Thirdly, Mother releases your grown son/daughter to fulfill his/her destiny.  In verse 21 we read that Hagar took a wife for her son. In other words, the time came when Hagar released her son to go on and follow his destiny.  Mothers, you must never baby your children.  In our country Philippines, traditional families have a custom: grandparents and parents want to keep their children close to them; they never want their children to go away, if possible.  They will build extensions to their houses, and build extensions to the extensions, just so that everyone will live within the same compound for as long as they all live. 

We must learn the ancient lesson of the eagle. When the young eagles have become full-fledged, the parent eagles will push them off from the nest and into open space so that they would learn to fly by using their own wings. 

Mothers, this is a never ending challenge in life.  How do you want your motherhood to be: A sentence to a lifetime imprisonment or a lifelong journey of adventure?  We must choose how it will be. Hagar experienced is a good lesson to follow. Happy Mother’s Day! Bon voyage on your lifetime journey of adventure. God Bless.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Near Death Experience

AWESOME WORLD EVER


IS A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE) BIBLICAL  ?



















CLINICALLY DEAD 



STOPS BREATHING

HEART STOPS BEATING

BRAIN ACTIVITY CEASES






NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES

8-10 MILLION IN THE UNITED STATES
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE
TUNNEL EXPERIENCE ( WHITE OR BLACK ) 
RAPID MOVEMENT TOWARD A POWERFUL LIGHT
ENCOUNTER BEINGS OF LIGHT, DRESSED IN WHITE
ENCOUNTER DEMONS, SMELL OF BURNING SULFUR
VISIONS OF HELL, FAMILIAR PERSONALITIES

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE








TUNNEL EXPERIENCE







LEVITATION







TOWARDS THE LIGHT





REPLAY OF MEMORIES







VISION OF DECEASED RELATIVES








 HOPE







DESPAIR





YOUTUBE SENSATION
ANGELICA ZAMBRANO & HER STORY
DEAD FOR 23 HOURS 

JESUS GAVE HER PENCIL AND PAPER TO WRITE ALL SHE WILL SEE
JESUS ACCOMPANIED HER TO HELL
SAW POPE JOHN II, MICHAEL JACKSON, SELENA, GRANDMOTHER
SAW PEOPLE IN TORN GARMENTS WALKING THRU TUNNEL
SAW DEMONS WITH DARTS-TARGET PASTORS & FAMILY

JESUS BROUGHT HER TO HEAVEN
SAT BESIDE HOLY SPIRIT
SAW NEW JERUSALEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF MANSIONS
AFTER COMING BACK TO LIFE, SHE WAS TORMENTED BY DEMONIC SPIRITS



IS NDE BIBLICAL?
ACTS 17 : 11 
FOR THEY RECEIVED THE MESSAGE WITH GREAT 
EAGERNESS AND EXAMINED THE SCRIPTURES 
EVERY DAY TO SEE IF WHAT PAUL SAID WAS TRUE

2 CORINTHIANS 12 : 1-4
NDE OR A VISION ?

I MUST GO ON BOASTING.  ALTHOUGH THERE IS NOTHING TO BE GAINED,
I WILL GO ON TO VISIONS AND REVELATIONS FROM THE LORD.
I KNOW A MAN IN CHRIST WHO FOURTEEN YEARS AGO WAS CAUGHT UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN.  WHETHER IT WAS IN THE BODY OR OUT OF THE BODY, I DO NOT KNOW – ONLY GOD KNOWS.
AND I KNOW THAT THIS MAN – WHETHER IN THE BODY OF APART FROM THE BODY I DO NOT KNOW, BUT GOD KNOWS-
WAS CAUGHT UP TO PARADISE.  HE HEARD INEXPRESSIBLE THINGS, THINGS THAT MAN IS NOT PERMITTED TO TELL.



THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS IN HADES




      LUKE 16:26
      NOR CAN ANYONE CROSS OVER FROM THERE TO US

       LUKE 16:31
     IF THEY DO NOT LISTEN TO MOSES AND THE PROPHETS,THEY WILL NOT BE CONVINCED EVEN IF SOMEONE RISES FROM THE DEAD

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DEATH ?
       GENESIS  2 : 7

      THE LORD GOD FORMED THE MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, AND THE MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING

        ECCLESIASTES 12 : 7
   AND THE DUST RETURNS TO THE GROUND IT CAME  FROM,AND THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT.

        HEBREWS 9 : 27
     JUST AS PEOPLE ARE DESTINED TO DIE ONCE, AND AFTER THAT TO FACE JUDGEMENT.

      FOR THE BELIEVERS
          2 CORINTHIANS 5 : 6 – 8
         THEREFORE WE ARE ALWAYS CONFIDENT AND KNOW THAT AS LONG AS WE ARE AT HOME IN THE BODY WE ARE AWAY FROM THE LORD.
WE LIVE BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.
WE ARE CONFIDENT, I SAY, AND WOULD PREFER TO BE AWAY FROM THE BODY AND AT HOME WITH THE LORD.



FOR THE UNBELIEVERS
REVELATION 20 :  13 – 15

THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD THAT WERE IN IT, AND DEATH AND HADES GAVE UP THE DEAD THAT WERE IN THEM, AND EACH PERSON WAS JUDGED ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAD DONE.
THEN DEATH AND HADES WERE THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.  THE LAKE OF FIRE IS THE SECOND DEATH.
IF ANYONE’S NAME WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE, HE WAS THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE


BIBLE IS SUFFICIENT TO DESCRIBE LIFE AFTER DEATH

JESUS CONQUERED DEATH   
LUKE 23:43 
TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE



JOHN RECORDED REVELATION
 REV 22:18-19  
“DO NOT ADD OR SUBTRACT”


Is near death experience biblical ? 

The closest story to nde in the bible was when Paul was shown the third heaven or the throne of God. However he was not sure if it was nde or a vision. 

I believe nde is not biblical. Jesus himself told the story of the rich man and lazarus who both died and were prevented to return to life. 

John was shown heaven in Revelation. Jesus spoke in detail about heaven and earth. 

God's word is sufficient to describe heaven and hell. The story of Angelica Zambrano quoted several bible verses. However there were parts of her story that contradicted bible doctrines or teachings. 

An example is new jerusalem city of gold. She said angels were working on several mansions. Some angels were working fast, some slow and some completely stopped. Their actions depended on how the recipients are living their lives in this world. 

God already knows who will be saved and the New Jerusalem and our dwelling places in this city are already completed and reserved for true believers.