John and Doves,

 

I was reading Dr Eby's account about his NDE and had a flashback to a few years ago when I was working at my brother's podiatry clinic--another employee there who is a born again Christian had a message for me at the time saying, "Jesus asked me to ask you why he was STANDING at the right hand of God when Stephen was being stoned and saw him". I really didn't understand (under stand) what that meant at the time, so I just forgot about it until recently. I've been down lately cause I was sure Dr Eby's NDE was a revelation from God and nothing has happened since. I was reading the official account of it when it struck me that Dr. Eby's account says Jesus was "seated" at the right hand of God when he allowed his chosen lad Stephen to see him. I checked the Bible again and it clearly says standing at the right hand of God in two places. I know that sounds like a small point, but I am sure it is significant in some way.

 

"Later I allowed my chosen lad, Stephen, to see me seated at the right hand of my Father in heaven, just to prove to his executioners that I was there, alive! Saul had ordered the stoning. He was holding Stephen's clothes. It shocked him to hear Stephen shout with ecstasy at seeing me. You see, I had plans for Saul that would require me to blind him with my light and later be stoned to death at Lystra so I could catch him up to this third heaven and show him the unspeakable glories of heaven. He would be instantly persuaded from then on that absolutely nothing could ever separate him from our love. After he saw paradise, I told him to write about it, and I changed his name to Paul." From near-death.com

 

The Bible's King James Version says,

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts 7:55-60

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Stephen Mullin