Dear friends:

A week ago I reported a story from a reader and ministry friend, Wayne Warmack, about a dead man in Missouri being raised by a pastor's prayer.

My source, Wayne, has issued a correction to the story, which is below.  I appreciate his attention to detail and desire to report the story with total accuracy.  The result is still miraculous.  The victim was comatose, brain dead, and with no vital signs.

This does not detract from the fact that other dead people have been raised throughout the world, just like in Bible times.  Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, and God changes not.  In my essay on this, I provide the biblical basis for this amazing phenomenon, and give some modern-day examples.  See http://choicesforliving.com/spirit/part4/raising_dead.htm

Below is the latest clarification from Wayne.

Jim
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Correction to the story of the main purportedly raised from dead in Joplin Missouri:

I received a phone call late last (Wednesday) night (10 Oct) from a close friend who knows the Hispanic pastor in Noel, Missouri, Eric, who raised the man.  Here are the new, and apparently more accurate details that I received:

The victim of a fever or some kind of deadly infection was from El Salvador, and his vital signs had faded so critically that he was placed on life-support in a comatose condition with no independent vital signs.  Subsequently, the proper documents were obtained to legally take him off life-support. Pastor Eric arrived at the Joplin Missouri on that Friday night last month to pray for him, not knowing that he was comatose and brain-dead. His family had been notified that official plans had been made to disconnect him from life support the following Monday and ship his body home to El Salvador. Shortly after pastor Eric arrived and began praying for him, the victim began to move his limbs and become somewhat agitated. At this time, all his vital signs became normal and he experienced a full recovery immediately. On several occasions, Sandy and I also have seen the comatose revived by prayer. We rebuke the spirit of death, and we command the comatose person by name to “come back, in the name of Jesus the Son of God”.

Even without the drama of a hospital morgue and a refrigerated body, that is still a praise-worthy miracle.  I do apologize for the botched details.

Wayne Warmack
Rogers AR