Job 7:9 (KJV)
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Over the years, many people have asked me about those who claim to have died and been revived. Some have even made themselves evangelists of sorts, telling their beyond-the-grave stories in speeches and books. People often ask whether I believe their stories.
I generally respond with remarks like these:
- If someone truly died, saw Jesus, and came back to tell us about it, I believe his life would be more radically changed than most of these accounts reveal.
- The story of Saul calling Samuel from the grave seems to teach that such experiences are not of God.
- The account of the rich man in Luke 16 and his request for someone to return from the dead to warn his brothers also teaches against it. He is specifically told that the Word of God is sufficient. If they would not believe the Scriptures, neither would they believe though one came back from the dead.
Job later affirms that even if he dies, he will one day see God in the flesh. Here, however, he argues that when a person dies, he is not coming back. I believe he means he will not return as a ghost, a spirit, or in some visible form before Christ calls the dead from their graves.
I do know of one boy whose family was involved in a terrible automobile accident. He was critically injured and remained in a coma for many weeks.
After several months, he regained the ability to speak. His pastor, a friend of mine and by no means a sensationalist, eventually asked him, "Do you remember anything from the time you were in the coma?” The boy answered, "Yes. I played with my brother, and I talked to Jesus. He told me my brother was going to stay, but I was supposed to come back to earth and serve the Lord here."
I have no answer for the boy's words. But I can say this: I watched him grow into adulthood. He is physically handicapped, and that certainly affected his life. Yet he did not become an extraordinary evangelist with an amazing story to tell.
God has already given us everything we need to know in His Word. No story from beyond the grave carries more authority than the Scriptures.
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