In today’s deep and hopeful conversation, John sits down with John Burke to ask the age-old question: what really happens after we die? What unfolds is a powerful journey from skepticism to faith, sparked by near-death experiences from across the world—all pointing to light, love, and a vivid, personal encounter with Jesus. This isn’t just abstract theology—it’s a call to embrace heaven as a real, rich, promised future. Through stories of spiritual transformation and glimpses of resurrection life, this episode challenges us to trade our vague hopes for a bold, anchored trust in the life to come.
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'Imagine Heaven' was literally LIFE-CHANGING for me. I see things in a different light now as if I experienced an NDE. l've always had a
"connection" to God since I was young but also questioned, doubted and were skeptical (even after witnessing a miracle when I was 17!). Goes to show you that even if God is looking you in the face we still find ways to "rationally" explain it. Your book further ignited my faith and outlook on this life we're currently experiencing on earth. So I cannot than you enough, John. And I thank God for that blessing and giving you that gift also. Now I am enjoying ' Imagine the God of Heaven! God bless you, brother in Christ. 🙏🏼. And thank you, John for interviewing John lol. God bless you too.
I love your Passion, but you should let the guest speak more, so we get a different perspective. I think there is more to the after life than just heaven and heck, they exist but there is also so much more. I think souls with more positive energy get to explore the vastness that is outside of heaven as well. The problem with religious thought is it puts everything neatly in a box.when God is a great big mystery!
Jesus we need you as we get older we hopefully understand our weaknesses and disabilities all too soon. Jesus is there on the other side waiting to accept us, accept him.
You guys are literally playing with fire paying forward the demonic deceptions that these experiences are. I heard the voice of my demons back in the 1990’s and after I trusted Jesus Christ — which prevents these deceptions because of the protection of the Holy Spirit — I now make it my mission to out these masters of deception and destruction and the believers — in name only — that present them as the truth of God to their trusting followers!
What a fantastic interview.
Thank you gentlemen
When my sister died, I bought every one in my family, a copy of Imagine Heaven. I’ve read it three times. I love it.
Raymond moody is still alive you know…. I can’t help but notice that you’re talking about his qualities and achievements as past tense? Anyway… i liked the discussion very much… thank you.
I have Johns Book in the Dutch language
Please site scripture on near death experiences…Bogus
Thank you to John Burke. I love your work.
I was about to comment the worst things about Jesus but it’s not right to offend your beliefs to that degree. Instead I’ll say if he is real he must be a sadistic tryant, one who loves watching babies die of cancer and women get assaulted. One that likes to see soldiers get blown to pieces and their mothers choke on their own tears for the rest of their lives. When you have that level of a traumatic experience beg jesus for a little help, for a hug, some momentary relief…that’s when you’ll realize nobody is listening. He will abandon you bc he was never there, you mistook your comfortable life for his presence, in reality you’ve just been shielded from the true horrors of life and human nature. I can’t help but hate you for being lucky enough to be so naive, untouched by ptsd and completely blind to the true nature of life. Now I do believe we are much much more than this, but we come here as prisoners to be tortured, not to worship a sadistic “holy” pos
What would you say to Muslims who say that people that experience NDEs see Jesus because Jesus, the prophet, IS still alive and hasn't gotten to the highest level of heaven –because he's still alive?
New Sub here, I struggle with the thought and fear of death
Fantastic guest and discussion. Imagine Heaven indeed‼️
Truth is truth and every human needs to accept that, regardless of books and religions, corruption and falsities we have been subjected to since birth
🗾🌹Dear John Burke, I was on a New York subway years ago & your book was on the seat!!
I read it over & over… wowza changed my worldview brother‼️ Ty!
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have you listened to NDE of John Davis? He’s confused me by saying there’s no hell… yet many ppl reported ending up in hell & radically changed them for the better!
And have you met the pioneer of NDEs Raymond Moody?
And do you believe in reincarnation as reported by many ?
Ty so much 🗾🕊️♥️
Definitely read Revelations from Heaven by Randy Kay. Very biblical account of his NDE in heaven.
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Family love God and love Jesus Christ. ♥
(The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached On Salvation) https://youtu.be/RjwgWn4mU4o
It would be interesting to find out whether NDE experiencers from different faiths i.e. Muslims , Buddhist , Hindu etc see their equivalent of Christianity ( Jesus ) ascended masters.
The Phenomenon of UFOS and NDE’s helped to bring me back to the Lord, and I was fighting it too.. But my Faith is stronger than ever before, and I’m so glad that He didn’t give up on me..Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙌
that's good to hear ,there is hope in the next life
God says not to interact with spirits or the dead .
True-believing Christians always have the same 'look' about them.
As soon as I hear the word scripture I turn off.
Same old stories same old John Burke interviews… Believe if you want to believe…
This was amazing
Thank you so much! I started to seriously look into this Truth recently after losing a child and needing to know and understand what he is experiencing now. As Believers in Jesus Christ, we, my wife and me raised our children in the Lord and had some biblical knowledge on the subject, however, like most life's experiences, our need for greater understanding of matters often occurs once we experience a major life changing crisis and our souls require a genuine desperate need for the Holy Spirit to help us in our sorrow and grief. This is just some of what Almighty God revealed. I pray and hope that this helps someone.
Agnostic and atheists, who have encountered an NDE, “near death experiences”, often describe the beauty and Divine attributes and surroundings of eternity, yet in their ignorance, none will EVER reside in this dimension WITHOUT a relationship with the Eternal Creator, YHWH, (Almighty God).
These who see what God has prepared for all men, yet have NOT permanently entered into eternity as they ALL return to their human bodies to "tell their stories", (resuscitated), OFTEN with a skewed perception of their experience and reach false conclusions regarding their future destiny, UNLESS they repent and embrace Jesus Christ, (Yeshua, Messiah). John 1:12.
WHEN A HUMAN PHYSICALLY DIES AND ENTERS ETERNITY, THE INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT REMEMBER ANYONE IN HIS/HER LIFE ON EARTH!
ONCE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO BELONGS TO JESUS CHRIST BY THE PROFESSION OF THEIR FAITH JOINS THEM IN ETERNAL LIFE WITH THE CREATOR, THESE WILL KNOW EACH OTHER!
TO THE CONTRARY, EVERYONE WHO REJECTS YESHUA MESSIAH AND PHYSICALLY DIES IS ETERNALLY SEPARATED FROM ETERNAL LIFE WITH YHWH, (ALMIGHTY GOD), AND DOES REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL THEY HAVE EVER KNOWN WHILE LIVING ON EARTH.
THIS IS ETERNAL DAMNATION, THE ULTIMATE "SEPARATION" FROM YHWH, (ALMIGHTY GOD), ETERNAL LIGHT AND LIFE AND LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS WITH NO CHANCE TO REUNITE THOSE WHO LIVE IN ETERNITY WITH CHRIST! YOU EXIST "OUTSIDE" OF THE ETERNAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND OTHER BELIEVERS, (IN JESUS CHRIST)! "WEEPING AND GNASHING of TEETH".
Isaiah 65:17 DECLARES THIS TRUTH!
17 “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind".
THIS "STATE of ETERNAL EXISTENCE BEGINS THE MOMENT AN INDIVIDUAL ENTERS ETERNITY AND CONTINUES ON INTO THE "FINAL" CREATION! YES, THERE IS A FINAL CREATION FOR HUMAN BEINGS WHO LOVE AND EMBRACE YESHUA AS THEIR ONLY SAVIOR AND MASTER!
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." David. Psalm 139:13-15.
When a man physically dies, his complete "IMAGE", (Genesis 1:26 – The essences of ALL that the individual is), immediately enters eternity and has an intense awareness and sense of "being home".
This awareness is experienced by ALL who leave their human body because the "spirit" of a human is IMPARTED by the SPIRIT of The Almighty God, at the moment of "inception", NOT "conception". Jeremiah 1:5. YOU ORIGINATED FROM HIM, WHEN YOU RETURN, YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE "HOME".
This human "FAMILIARITY", (eternal spirit connection" to God) exists prior to his human birth, as he is created by the very source of LIFE, the (Spirit) of YHWH Himself.
Inception: of the source; beginning; start; dawn, derivation, provenance, provenience. Once entered into eternity, this spiritual awareness does NOT determine the final ETERNAL destiny of an individual's “soul”!
That ultimate destination is determined by individual choice while one is in the human body and is ONLY resolved, without exception, PRIOR TO PHYSICAL death.
While “in the body”, the human choice to receive, accept and acknowledge or reject Yeshua, Messiah, (YOUR CREATOR) determines your final ETERNAL outcome.
"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you". Jeremiah 1:5.
This does NOT in ANYWAY indicate any form of the false and perverse belief in "reincarnation", which claims the conscious awareness of a prior earthly existence.
Biblical Truth clearly defines a "UNIQUE" SOUL, (individuality), is created and is interwoven to both spirit and BODY at the moment of human CONCEPTION. There is a definitive difference between the human soul, (conscious) and spirit, (life source).
"I AM" – Eternity is where time does not exist. Eternity is not a “Long Time”; it is NO Time in the spiritual dimension of The Creator, (Isaiah 42:8).
HOWEVER, when YHWH created the universe, TIME increment counting and human consciousness began and He has interacted with man on earth, inside the dimension of TIME, yet perpetually exists OUTSIDE the dimension of TIME.
When man departs earth, he enters the Eternal dimension of a TIMELESSNESS existence.
Even AFTER the final resurrection and the instant promised manifestation of a NEW perfect human body, REDEEMED man will continue to move between the eternal dimension and the physical dimension, just like Yeshua did after His Resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8, Luke 9:28-36), 2 Peter 1:16-18.
Jesus was seen by over 500 people AFTER His Death & Resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Over 500 people at one time saw Jesus after His resurrection. Over a period of 40 days up to the day Jesus went back Home He was seen by, and talked to a number of individuals.
I Am that I Am, Yahweh's answer to Moses upon being asked for His Name in Exodus 3:14. “I AM”, defining a perpetual, unending, ceaseless, timeless, infinite, endless, immortal, eternal existence.
I am that I am, a Hebrew phrase, ’ehyeh ’ašer ’ehyeh – also “I Am Who Am”.
There is no present tense of the verb "to be" in the Hebrew language. So, for example to say "I am a book" in Hebrew would be Ani Sefer (literally in English is "I book").
Then YHWH, (the Almighty God) SAID, (SPOKE), “Let there Light". BUT, WHAT LANGUAGE DID HE SPEAK TO CREATE? I AM CONVINCED IT IS ANCIENT HEBREW, THE LANGUAGE of CREATION. YHWH IS THE GOD of ABSOLUTE "ORDER" AND MUCH MORE:
CONSIDER the following: "ETERNITY”. IT IS WRITTEN INTO OUR "DNA"! UNDERSTAND the very "NAME of Almighty God contains the corresponding HEBREW AND DNA NUMERIC EQUIVALENT of His HOLY NAME: 10 … 5 … 6 … 5 … ( Y … H … W … H…). The NAME of YHWH IS LITERALLY WRITTEN INTO OUR DNA. Research this out and you will find this to be factual.
When man departs and proceeds forward from the human body at physical death and earthly dimensional realm of existence, he immediately enters into the timeless dimension of eternity. ALL time instantly ceases at that precise moment upon entering eternity and TIME then becomes irrelevant with regards to incremental measurements of “existence”.
However, man’s “measured time” on earth is relevant to eternity in relationship to how he has spent his life and most importantly, whether he embraced or rejected Yeshua Messiah’s sacrifice and resurrection. -BOZUNG.
Absolutely gripping. what a blessed program for a troubled heart. And these three remain, faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is Love!
Thank you, I needed to hear this ❤
I dont read the scriptures or the bible but I believe! I am not afraid of dying as I believe there is another place we go to. A beautiful one from the NDE stories.
Dallas Willard had so much confidence in the person of Jesus Christ– his intelligence, his sufficiency, his authority– that he (Dallas) could be unafraid of any truth, unafraid what whatever is 'out there'. He could explore everything in peace and rest.
Listened intensely, very encouraging. ❤
Wow! This was life changing. I have had these kinds of thoughts and just figured I was way off base. I will be listening to this again.
Wow! This was fascinating and so wonderful. What a merciful, beautiful Lord we have!
Wow… a long day but I didn't want to skip today's lesson. My mother passed away five years ago from heart failure, but I believe she did not have a troubled heart when she left her earthly body. She was in hospice, and her time was near. She had accepted she would be leaving her physical being behind and its weaknesses. I sat next to her and read selections from the Bible. I read Psalm 15… which asks who may dwell in the Lord's tent? The one who speaks the truth from the heart, and who does no wrong to a neighbor. She tried to live her life that way. My mother's breathing was labored but her eyes seemed to relax under her eyelids as a faint smile graced her lips. I believe she was being made ready to join Christ, the angels, and my father who had passed before her. I kept reading. A few minutes later, her breathing stopped. She was in that other dimension John described in today's lesson. Maybe, if she could, she would have wanted to tell me how wonderful things were in that dimension… but that's OK… I will wait until the day comes when she can share it with me.
I'm sorry but it's hard to wrap my head around either God saying Opps you're not supposed to be here it's not your time back you go or saying here look at how beautiful the afterlife is but sorry you can't stay so back to the fallen imperfect world with you. It's like giving someone something they have always longed for and then snatching it back from them. That is not who God is to me. Would God do that?
It's so cool that C.S. Lewis made the same "more real" description of heaven in The Great Divorce.
John is great. 👍
Thank you! I will be sharing this video with love & faith. So meaningfull to me ♡ Thank you!
We were created to live forever. That's why if we have the opportunity to see our new life, it isn't that we know we died. It's like your description of a better life. I have lived for 45 years with disabilities from surviving the Munich Oktoberfest terrorist bombing on September 26,1980. Among the life altering injuries were the loss of both of my legs. Like Paul mentions our life as an old tent, I'm looking forward to my perfect body I will have when I open my eyes in my real life.
What a treat to hear you both, John and Pastor John Burke, and what a great exchange of tangible extracts and experiences of the Near- Death but brought back to Life persons..
Specially the testimony of Santosh, Which I found incredible… A man who has never been exposed to other spiritual leanings..
Indeed, God works in mysterious ways…So that we may have life….even in abundance…
Thank you Both highly articulate and sensitive people who are leading a wretch like me to a deeper love and understanding of Almighty and His Son, Our Saviour Jesus Christ..
In Peace to both you stalwarts, the excellent team and multitude of listeners to this fantastic programme.
God Bless you all.
Amen….Arnold (UK)…….Winter is back with us…There's a saying here in UK…" Ne'er cast a clout, Till May is out "…True and wise words…( Keep your woollies handy )…🙂🙏✍🏵🌹🌸💐
I love this conversation! When I live my life with a sense of purpose and hope, I feel better and I do better! Our faith assumption is one of hope! Julian of Norwich said it well, "All shall be well, in all manner of things all shall be well." Thanks John Ortberg and John Burke!
Wonderful talk ….
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