Author Randy Kay says he saw heaven – and that’s an experience where he still gets emotional rebuttal.
It all happened a few years ago when Kay experienced a medical emergency. He recalls that he woke up in the middle of the night with a swollen calf after a business trip.
“I barely walked, I went on a bike ride of everything. It made the problem worse, so I shouldn’t have done it,” he told Billy Hallowell and Jen Lilly on the “Into the Supernatural” podcast. “I was able to ride my bike up the San Diego coast and barely breathe. My calves were about half the size.”
At first, he thought he was experiencing asthma, but soon realized it was completely different. By the time he reached the clinic he collapsed and ended up in the emergency room.
And things got worse from there to worse:
“The ER doctor said I had let this go so long that I was a dead man walking,” Kay said. “When I was in the emergency room, there were seven masses that were blocking the pulmonary artery, blocking the pulmonary artery, the main flow of blood to the lungs.”
Already struggling to survive, Kay ends up contracting into methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that entered his bloodstream. Suddenly, he was clinically dead, but rather than being overtaken by the darkness or nothingness, Kay experienced something he would never forget.
“At a moment, my body was still and at first I felt like I was pulling my hospital gown,” he said. “And later I realized that it was my mind, and then I became a third person in my body, so I was looking down at this body.
Kay said he was suddenly “in another place.” He realized he was moving to a new location. He witnessed a spiritual battle over his body. He cried out as it unfolded.
“As soon as I cried out the name of Jesus Christ, I was alongside this figure I knew was Jesus,” Kay said. “I just fell, I fell, and I sobbed. I knew I was before God. The first thought was, ‘This is love.’ ”
And he said that love began to start tunneling all over his body and inject joy into him.
“At that point, he was holding me so close to me… and he brought me on a journey, and it was a journey of my life,” Kay said. “And it came back to my childhood and there were various vignettes he showed me, and I finally became an agnostic so I realized he was showing me how he redeemed different parts of my life.”
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He continued.
Kay emotionally recalls witnessing the power of prayer in heaven. He served in the hospital neatly and saw the vignettes of his care for a very ill little boy. As a teenager at the time, Kay hesitated to get too close to her children.
“I just gave him his food to the tray and he said, ‘I’m going to heaven,'” Kay said. “As an agnostic, I said, “Well, that’s fine, and I said, ‘Well, you know, I don’t really believe it, but if there’s heaven, I’m sure you’re there.” And he said, “I pray for you.
Kay said he was watching this replay while he was in heaven and was fascinated by how Jesus had shown him the effective prayer of a little boy.
“I didn’t know him. He didn’t know me,” he said. “His prayer brought me to Jesus’ knowledge of salvation. It was the only prayer from the boy, and it is a testament to how deep our prayers are.”
Wanting to stay in heaven, Kay says he had clinically died for 30 minutes and 49 seconds, but miraculously returns to his body. He said that Jesus told him he needed to return.
At first he held his story intimately. But more than a decade later, Kay began to share his stories publicly, and has since written books like “Heaven Storms,” among other things. He also has a popular YouTube channel. There, he tells an incredible story of a near-death experience.
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