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WHEN THE BELOVED DEPARTS - an insight on what happens after death

An amazing encounter on the other Side

Sometimes it happens that you wait for a moment without knowing that you are waiting for it, and when it happens, you know it has marked you forever. One such moment happened about fifteen years ago, when I was still leading prayer meetings in one of the church communities in Ljubljana. We used to gather after the service on Friday evenings and sometimes prayed and worshipped God until the early morning hours. The meetings were informal, we were learning to yield to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and God visited us. Sometimes members of other churches joined us, and sometimes also people in distress who needed God's touch.

One evening, only a very small number of us gathered. The community was quite shaken by the sudden departure of a person who lost the battle with a treacherous illness. Everything happened so quickly that her family didn’t even manage to say goodbye to her. That evening, her younger son and his wife joined us in prayer, although in recent days the daughter-in-law hadn’t been on the best terms with the mother-in-law. They were completely crushed and burdened by the loss and by unspoken things. Nevertheless, they decided to give glory to God that evening, and in fact, they didn’t even expect God’s comfort. What God showed us that evening was astonishing. He lifted the veil of eternity and showed us the heavenly perspective — of both the living and those who have fallen asleep.

At the prayer meetings, it would often happen that God opened my spiritual eyes, allowing me to see the reality of the spiritual dimension of our worship and the effects of our prayers in very concrete visions. Many times, when we began to pray, God let me see the throne in heaven and what looked like a sea of people worshipping before the throne, just as it is written in the Holy Scriptures. Whenever we prayed, He would take me to that same place before His face. Unimaginable for a person of the Earth, but very real. The visions were so full of glory that I would walk around for days as if in a cloud. Many times, I saw multitudes before the heavenly throne - of different races, colors, nations, languages, from various churches and from all generations who had ever walked this earth.

These are those who, during their earthly life, believed in God and were born again, and after death passed into unimaginable glory. But there were also those who are in their earthly bodies, yet serve God in spirit and in truth. These are the ones who are part of Jesus’ true priesthood, washed by the blood of the Lamb. This is His body.

That evening, suddenly among the multitude of worshipers in heaven, I saw the sister who had left us the day before. What a thing! Yet I knew at the same time that it was not God’s intention for me that evening to get caught up in conversation with her and forget everything else and the prayer we perform weekly before God’s face. Based on my character, that could have very easily happened, since I often go off in my own direction. I understood that, because of the distress of her loved ones, I was given the chance to exchange a few words with her. She was extremely surprised to see me there and asked me if I had died too? That was one of the funniest things. Died? It became clear to me that the child in her was only just discovering the threshold of eternity, and that she, like most people, thought that only the dead are in heaven. I replied that no, we come to this place every Friday during our group prayer. In the next moment, I became aware of everything she wanted me to know about her, and I went further into God's presence and closer to His throne. She remained behind, among the group of worshippers. I, however, was taken into the closeness of God. To that place where prayers for nations and cities are born.

When we finished praying, I told the completely broken son and daughter-in-law what I had seen and conveyed what she wanted them to know — about the love she had for her daughter-in-law, and even that Jesus had shown her their descendants — yes, she even told me that it was the first thing she wanted to know when she met Jesus in His glory. At that time, they didn’t yet have any children. A few years later, the mother’s first wish in the beyond was fulfilled — they had a son.

That evening, they were both deeply comforted; the burden fell away. The monstrous emptiness caused by the sudden death was filled with joy in God and the eternal life we have in Him. The mother, who on earth had lost the battle with illness, joined those at her death who are always able to look upon the face of God — she was full of unspeakable joy and childlike curiosity about the eternity surrounding her. During her life on earth, she didn’t always live with God. In fact, she accepted faith in Jesus only a few years before.

To avoid misunderstanding, I have absolutely no desire to communicate with those who have fallen asleep in the Lord — nor does God want us to dig into our losses. Life must go on. Sometimes we cling to pain and think that the voice of a loved one or a sense of their presence will restore our wholeness. But often the opposite happens. When those feelings fade, the emptiness hurts even more. Only when we can completely entrust our loved ones to God, knowing that their lives are not over, can peace and wholeness settle within us again. They too, would not want us to grieve because of their loss, for they allowed Jesus to wipe away all their tears and cast the memories of earthly suffering into the sea of forgetfulness.

Yet God does not want those who have hope and faith in Him to grieve too much over the loss of their loved ones. For the Holy Scripture says that if we believe in Christ only in this world, we are most to be pitied. We must realize that God is the God of all the LIVING! Whoever has accepted the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and made Him their Lord has eternal life within and will not see death. When the conversion to God happens, eternity is no longer hidden from us — our eyes are opened, and we can behold the eternal world.

In fact, the vision revealed to me another, even more astonishing truth, one that is written in the Holy Scriptures, but which I never understood this way before: that worshippers who NOW worship God on earth in Spirit and in Truth can be just as connected in their hearts to God — or even more — and can know Him just as intimately — or even more — than those who, after death, have left this world and are already in the heavenly assembly. God desires such worshippers — ones who would not bow to earthly representations of heavenly realities, but who would have the courage to truly become His children. Children don’t need special permission to approach — they can always run into the Father’s arms. These are heroes to the heavenly multitudes, but mostly mocked by the dwellers of the earth.

This is the mystery into which even the angels long to look. It is incomprehensible that God would want to reveal Himself to us — people, mortal and fragile, and yet immeasurably proud of our civilizational achievements. Why would He want that? God desires sons and daughters. Just like the mother in our story, who at the threshold of entering eternity asked Jesus one, for her the most important question. Offspring. A lesson for all those who would question Him about the origin of the earth, the source of evil, illness, hell, heaven, and life on other planets. The mother grasped the depth of God's heart.. What You desire, God, I desire. And let no one say we are not like Him.