First the attached thread talks about the experiences of a boy, and then a list of articles showing that islamic people have been having dreams about Christ.

http://www.kundalini-support.com/forum/index.php/topic,2053.0.html

Barry is a Christian missionary to Ethiopia who is an acquaintance of my parents and regularly visits their church.  The NDE experienced by his ex-Muslim friend Ahmed is as significant as any I've ever encountered.  Ahmed was dying of AIDs in a hospital in Addis Ababa.  One day, a young Christian couple was making the rounds, praying for the sick.  When they arrived at Ahmed's bed, he was irate when he realized they were Christians.  He would later admit, "I wanted to kill them, but I was too weak to react!"  Later that day, Ahmed experienced an NDE.  A luminous figure entered his hospital room and quietly laid hands on him without speaking.  To his horror, Ahmed realized that this man was Jesus--not Muhammad, Allah, or an angel. One can hardly argue that Ahmed projected this identity onto the Being because a visit from Jesus was the last thing this Christian hating imam was expecting.

Ahmed's health immediately improved, although tests revealed that he still had AIDs.   He rallied enough to gain release from the hospital and immediately sought out the Christians.  Again, hands were laid on him for healing in Jesus' name.   This time he was completely cured and subsequent medical tests confirmed this miracle.  

At this news, Ahmed went "berserk" with joy.  He immediately went to nearby mosques and boldly proclaimed his healing and his resulting new faith.  Because his prior role had been to train Muslim leaders, his impact was profound.  Many Muslims were directed to him by visions which instructed them to seek out Ahmed to hear the truth.  Others were healed in response to the prayers of Ahmed and his growing band of recruits.  Soon they were able to convert 3 mosques into churches.  

His Christian mentor, Barry, was concerned about the danger to Ahmed and his converts. They were unphased by their severe beatings and death threats from Muslim radicals.  But when Barry urged Ahmed to take a more low key approach, Ahmed simply mused, "Oh well, I was already as good as dead from AIDs."  Now Muslims struck back with lawsuits to regain control of their mosques.   Worse, in his missionary zeal, Ahmed was neglecting his marriage and putting his wife's life at risk.  She was willing to accept his Christian conversion, but not his neglect.    Barry convinced Ahmed to enter marriage counseling to save his marriage.  Ahmed is far from perfect, but his deathbed experience is a remarkable testimony to the impact of a luminous visit from Jesus during an NDE.

This Ethiopian NDE reminds me of biblical hints that God would want a highly varied response toe NDE Being of Light.

"Do you Israelites think you are more important to me than the Ethiopians? asks the Lord.  I brought you out of Egypt, but have I not done as much for other nations, too?  I brought the Philistines from Crete, and led the Arameans out of Kir (in modern Iraq--Amos 8:7)."

God's confrontation of Israelite exclusivism is prompted by their neglect of social justice and compassion for the needs of the poor.  Amos's prophetic word implies that God reserves the right to communicate under different symbols and mythologies to peoples from other cultures and religious backgrounds.  Indeed, this implication is already implicit in God response to Moses at the Burning Bush at the very foundation of full-fledged Judaism.   Moses doubts the Hebrew slaves will believe in his mission and asks what divine name he should give as his authorization.  God refuses to provide a name and instead evasively instructs Moses to reply: "Tell them, I will be whatever I will be has sent you (Exodus 3:14)."  In the Ancient Near East, people believed that a god's name adequately expressed the god's essence.  So God's evasive reply to Moses amounts to a warning not to lock Him into a doctrinal box.  

God is similarly evasive for the same reasons on two other occasions.  When Samson's father, Manoah, asks for the divine name, his question is brushed off: "Why do you ask my name?  You wouldn't understand if I told you (Judges 13:18)?"  In Jacob's visionary experience of wrestling with God, his request for God's name meets with similar evasion: "Why do you ask me my name (Genesis 32:29)?"  To me, the various identifications of the Being of LIght in NDEs are exactly what biblical revelation would lead me to expect.

Don

Seems strange Jesus would cure a non believer - yet millions of the people who believe and worship him everyday, die horrible deaths.

Were is the justice?

Betson:

I don't know who helps prepare the way for Christ.


betson wrote on Apr 9^th, 2007 at 9:28pm: