What to make of a little girl who said she had a vision of Jesus during a near-death experience a while back?
If you know, you are ahead of us.
Evangelicals jump to call it a “rapture” prophecy, a prediction we don’t quite buy. Take what sounds right and leave the rest.
We’ll call it only an interesting item.
She is identified as Annabel Beam. She survived a thirty-foot head-first fall into a hollow tree in Texas in 2011 at age five, later sharing that she had visited Heaven, met Jesus, and was miraculously cured of incurable chronic digestive disorders (you can see her testimony below). This event inspired the book and film Miracles from Heaven, documenting Annabel’s mother’s account.
The girl had suffered from severe, incurable intestinal disorders requiring a feeding tube. While unconscious, she reported going to Heaven, sitting on Jesus’ lap, and being told it was not her time.
After the fall, she was found completely unharmed and as stated was cured of her digestive diseases. This story is often cited alongside other near-death experiences (NDEs), such as that of Colton Burpo, which inspired Heaven is for Real.
Jesus told her there’s going to be another world. He had a white robe and long curly brown hair and his eyes were blue.
Safe to say, you’ve got to buckle up for this one, because the cute little girl has come back from Heaven with one of the most detailed visions of the End Times.
Jesus held a book—it was a Bible—and He supposedly went to page 424. “He told me, ‘Don’t worry, Annie. Don’t be afraid. Everything’s going to be normal first.’
“‘The ice will melt on the polar bears and they will die; they will need water to keep them alive. The penguins and the baby penguins will die, and the little baby polar bears, too.
“If some people don’t believe in God, they will go to death. Jesus told me this.
“He told me there might be an evil king named Harold [confused with “Herod”?] who can destroy the world if he wants. The stars will fall down and there’s going to be tsunamis. It’s real. Everything will be gone—phones, pillows, houses. Everything will be gone in the Name of Jesus.
“It might happen next week, tomorrow, today, or any week. Jesus can do whatever He wants.” [scroll for more:]
That we know is true.
“This earth is not our home,” Annie adds. “Jesus said it is just our ‘pretend home.’ In Heaven, that’s our real home.”
This we’ll also accept.
Annie’s prayer: “Dear God, protect Daddy and Mommy and everyone on this road so they can’t die. Please, please say to them that it’s going to be the end of the world and to believe Him. Tell everyone—all 100,000 people—that it will happen, and You’re not joking.”
For your discernment in these strange (and too often confusing) times.
[resources: books on the afterlife]
