Dean Braxton had a routine procedure to remove a kidney stone at St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way, Washington, when suddenly he had multi-organ failure.
Braxton’s heart flat-lined, twice. Each time, he found himself in a place he understood to be Heaven. Here’s his description:
“When I first entered in, it was bright and it wasn’t so much what I saw as much as what I experienced. The first thing I perceived was, “Everything is right. There’s nothing wrong here. And it’s past peace.’ There’s a scripture in the Bible, Philippians the fourth chapter that says, ‘Peace past understanding.’ That’s what’s going on there. It’s landscape but more. Everything is alive. Nothing is dead. And I don’t mean alive like grass. It’s intelligent. It can move. It thinks.”
When his heart flat-lined a second time, Braxton saw Jesus:
“The first thing that comes to me is, He’s bright, just like John said, ‘He’s brighter than the noon day sun.’ and the next phrase I say, I wish people could grab it, and it’s this one, and ‘We could look at Him.’ And what you’re looking at is not so much the physical part of it, you’re really experiencing the love He has for you. And I tell people, ‘It’s like He only loves you and no one else.’ I saw Him communicating to angels. He would just look at them. Communication there was thought to thought. They would acknowledge receiving His information, bow before Him like this and then, back out. And it was like, ‘Whoa!’”
Braxon also family he hadn’t seen in a long time: “And yet, on the other side of Jesus was my family, my grandmother Mary. But with her were other relatives. Some I recognized, I’d been on this planet when they were here. Then there was generation, after generation, after generation, after generation, of those that accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who helped to produce me on this planet. They came to greet me in. I was like, ‘God…’”
Despite doctors’ concerns that Braxton’s prolonged ordeal would leave him impaired or even worse, there are no signs that he had a brush with death. He’s the picture of health. The staff at St. Francis Hospital call him “The Miracle Man.”
Braxton’s surgeon, Dr. Manuel Iregui, said, “It’s a miracle that he’s alive. There’s no question about it. It is a miracle – that he’s alive, that he is talking with no brain damage. But this is very exceptional, because he was really, really dead for a long time.”
Source: The 700 Club
~Éowyn
