Near Death Experience Story | NDE | Heaven | God | Imagine Heaven | John Burke
Dr. Ron Smothermon welcomed a house guest into his home during the aftermath of the man’s painful divorce. Then, without warning, his guest experienced a psychotic break—and Ron found himself fighting for his life.
As Ron was stabbed repeatedly, something extraordinary happened:–time appeared to stand still.
In this episode of the Imagine Heaven Podcast, Dr. Ron Smothermon joins John Burke to recount the near-death experience that unfolded during the attack, the overwhelming presence he encountered, and what it revealed to him about 9 of God’s extraordinary qualities that came in the darkest moments of human suffering.
What happens when heaven suddenly breaks into the worst moment of your life? And could God be closer than we realize—even when everything appears completely out of control?
Watch the full conversation to hear what Ron experienced when time stopped and how it permanently transformed his understanding of God, death, forgiveness, and the reality beyond this life.
Note: “Amin” is a pseudonym used at Dr. Smothermon’s request to protect the individual’s identity. John and Ron pronounce the pseudonym differently during the conversation, but both are referring to the same person.
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BTW, I forgot to say, but my little daughter did recover fully from the sub-dural bleeding, no issues, she's a brilliant business owner today, and the only one in our family with proof she has a fully-functioning brain. Haha!
Šeit ir piemērs , ka nedrīkst saistīties ar melnajiem. Kā arī psihiski neveseliem ! Savādi ka šis vīrietis esot psihiatrs nesaprata ka tas otrs ir nenormāls. Bet pat iespējams tāpēc viņi iepazinās ka tam sitējam bija psihes problēmas. + Ir skaidrs ka tas slepkava ir muļķis !!! Inteliģents , izglītots cilvēks tā nerīkotos. Turieties pa gabalu no sociāli zemākā sabiedrības slāņa. Rūpējaties par sevi, savu ģimeni.
Tam slepkavam nāvessodu !!! Ja viņu izlaidīs no cietuma…viņš turpinās nogalināt un kropļot cilvēkus.
Ir ļoti grūti ticēt tam ka Dievs tevi mīl kad tu lūdz viņam palīdzību …bet vinš tev nepalīdz. Ignorē tevi !!! Tāpēc cilvēki aiziet no Dieva. Mīlestība ir redzama rīcībā !!! Palīdzībā !!!
Ché belle parole dedicato a Dio grazie❤❤
just beautiful!!
God is the most terrifying to see in your life but the love of God we endure his presence I believe that that there is nothing in this universe is more fearful than the presence of God.. but He love us and will be able to endure it through Jesus Christ.
This is scary that There Are Such evil people in our lives – even in our families. A person you have lived with – and tried your best to show love as your family, only to realize that they have always only cared and loved themselves. Your Sacrifices were seen as an entitlement.
GOD PLEASE HELP me to STILL BE ABLE TO LOVE AND BELIEVE IN THE GOODNESS IN THE WORLD❤❤❤❤❤
There aren't billions of galaxies in the Bible, nor in reality. We do have stars out there, but they are under the firmament that contains the gases and lights that God put in the Heavens, but I would seriously NOT use "their" terminology to describe His wonders, not to that extent. There is super good evidence for the earth being a flat plane beneath a dome firmament, an enclosed world, and why the KJV Bible (and other older Bibles based on the majority texts) use the phrase IN EARTH. Read Edward Hendrie's book: The Greatest Lie on Earth to get a feel for what is real Biblical cosmology; also The Flat Earth Conspiracy is a good book.
I really enjoyed this brother's testimony. Thank you for interviewing him. 🙂 I didn't like how there wasn't an introduction to your wife interviewing him, but all in all, it was just great.
Great analogy with your daughter, explaining that we can trust Him! Love this. I also saw you finished the story in the comments. Thank you, John.
Of course He has a sense of humor. Have you ever watched baby animals, or heard the sometimes totally ridiculous things little children say. He has a sense of humor! I LOVED your Imagine Heaven book, btw. 🙂 Glad to hear you wrote another one, about Him. Awesome. Bless you and yours.
Since I grew up in a family that kind of made fun of everything, I easily imagine God with a sense of humor! He made us after all 😂
Doctors kill their patients, you should talk about it.
He was possessed or sick
It's miracle ur alive dr
Devil wanted u dead
All the Glory belongs to God 🙏 We have to be in self denial and genuinely repent of our Sinful nature believing in Jesus Christ. By God's supernatural power he will regenerate us. And therefore we are born again .
12:00 reminds me of what stars look like through a telescope. Like a twilering "plasma" just a thought.
I find myself DRAWN to God by this testimony!!!! Yet, I fear what new trauma is it going to cost me for Him to get through to me. I understand we put up barriers to His love, to His revealing Himself to us. I know from experience that sometimes its very costly to know Him more deeply. By this testimony, I WANT to DRINK IN all of God's attributes!! Then I fear, what new trauma will it take for Him to do this. I suppose my next barrier is fear, fear of the cost.
What a testimony of the Love of God and WOW, can see And hear he had a true encounter with God…
I'm so encouraged to continue my Christian walk on the narrow Rd and when my earthly race is done, I'll be with my God of love forever 🔥…
Thank you for sharing this powerful testimony 🕊️
God is wonderful; that is why He deserves our praise and our love. He is holy, humble, and deeply loving.
Born in 1945? About 80? He's extremely physically fit! What a wrestler!
Half my blood value. Holy smoke! God bless you, dear brother in Christ.
I bet the dear physician plays tennis. Right elbow brace may be evidence of TENNIS.
The triangle light. Tri. Three. Triangular FATHER. SON. HOLY PRESENCE.
His gasping for breath concerns me.
"Dude" . (Narrator.) Keep the multiple interruptions on a leash. Hush, child. Let your guests speak without croacking like a bullfrog. (Please. Speak less. Listen More. ) Respectfully submitted for your consideration. Thank you
John THANKYOU for this episode… Incredible 🩵 I am so happy Dr Ron survived and was able to share this powerful testimony! 🙏 Ron has literally shone the Light on an experience I had… In 2023 I was incredibly depressed, I was estranged from my father and had been desperately praying to God to please help us. I had also recently been Baptised and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. I did not have a Bible or attend Church, it was all very new to me. One morning I had a very vivid, lucid dream of a younger and happier time with my dad, he was motioning to share a hug. Of course I accepted, stepping forward to embrace him. What happened next was overwhelming. Our bodies dissolving, imploding and expanding into Light. The Light was SO Powerful so full of tangible Love, Comfort, Peace and Pure happiness, but at the same time, it was TOO intense. My mind literally thought a nuclear bomb had gone off in my house and I forced my eyes open. Doh!! Instant praising and thanking God for this Dream ✨️🙏 I've NEVER had anything or felt anything remotely close to that. I KNOW it was God 💜 So thankyou Ron for confirmation of what I felt and now Know 🙏 I want the whole world to experience the Super Nova Love of the King Of Kings (((✨️🤍✨️)))
Wasn’t a tennis racket or a pickle ball paddle?
Religious people need to understand what Context means, instead of trying to validate religion which is wrong according to most NDEs God is not some controlling all powerful person, that's made up to manipulate people God is all around us and our bodies, we are all a part of the light/God/Energy which is the energy and source, God is not responsible for our accountability, both of which atheists and manipulative religious people lack
This was deeply moving and inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing.
I loved this video testimony AND your pastoral devotion. Be blest👩🏻🦳☦️👍🏻👍🏻
His Dr. Ron okay. Did he fully recover from all those injuries? Amazing testimony
Try to find out what's the cost of living on the other side!!!! Please it's important if not I need to stay here longer!
God is so good. Thank you for sharing this man's testimony as well as everything else.
I also calculated that if you took 1 second in between counting the next number and did nothing else but count (No eating, but still sleeping 8 hours) it would take 71.35 years. Not to mention that it takes time to count as the number grows, so yeah, we would be more likely to die before counting to 1 billion.
All you have to do is take a look at some of the different species. God has made mammals amphibians fish.etc. so comical, one can hardly help laughing out loud… that shows me God’s humor
Thank you for letting him tell his story.
I took special note that he didn't mention pain.
That put my heart to rest because my dad was stabbed to death and lost his life to the incident in 2000.
One day it'll all make sense.
I have faith
Are you lumping God, our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ into one being? I’m confused by some of your comments.
Thank you for your mess’s and sharing
"NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE DECEPTION ABOUT SALVATION? THERE IS NO SUCH THING COMING BACK TO LIFE AFTER DEATH. WE ONLY DIE ONCE THEN AFTER THAT JUDGEMENT."
Hebrews 9:27-28 kjv.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
2 Corinthians 5:8 kjv.
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
WHEN THE BIBLE SAID GOD DID APPOINTED MAN HIS DEATH AND WILL BE JUDGED AFTER THAT, THEN IT'S TRUE, GOD WILL NEVER LIE. HE IS NOT THE GOD OF CONFUSION. WHO IS THE GOD OF CONFUSION? SATAN IS THAT GUY.
1 Corinthians 14:33 kjv.
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Numbers 23:19 kjv.
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Hebrews 6:18 kjv.
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Titus 1:2 kjv.
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT VALIDATED THAT THERE'S NO COMING BACK TO LIFE AFTER DEATH, GOD DOES NOT ALLOWED IT:
Luke 16:19-31 kjv.
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
DECEPTION OF SATAN: People who claimed that they died and went to Hell and came out from Hell and got up to Heaven is false. This is not a Island hopping. The truth is if you are lost person automatically will drop down to Hell when you died, and if you are saved person you automatically goes up to Heaven when you died. Let say, how can if a saved person(Which is sealed with the Holy Spirit) goes to Hell?, and also how can a lost person(Without the Holy Spirit) goes up to heaven after death?, this does not jive with the Holy Scriptures.
SAVED PERSON CANNOT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO GO DOWN IN HELL AFTER DEATH, BECAUSE IF IT IS POSSIBLE THEN THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT ARE SEALED WITH HIM GOES WITH HIM ALSO IN HELL. THE SCRIPTURES PROVES THAT THIS "NDE" ARE FALSE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION.
Ephesians 1:13-14 kjv.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 4:30 kjv.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Jesus Christ IS NOT GOD OF THE DEAD BUT OF THE LIVING. WHY NDE BELIEVED THAT JESUS TOUR THEM TO HELL, AND HEAVEN. THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAID HE IS GOD OF THE LIVING. SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEIR CLAIMED.
Matthew 22:32 kjv.
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
SINCE SATAN IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF THE AIR, THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT HE CAN MANIPULATE OR CREATE OR SIMULATE VR(Virtual Reality) THE LIKENESS OF HEAVEN AND HELL.
Ephesians 2:2-4 kjv.
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Ephesians 6:12 kjv.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 kjv.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Matthew 7:15 kjv.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
1 Timothy 4:1 kjv.
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Isaiah 14:12-14 kjv.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Luke 10:18 kjv.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
THE FACT THAT THIS NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE TESTIMONY'S ABOUT SALVATION IS MORE ABOUT WORKS SALVATION IS QUESTIONABLE. THEY NEVER MENTION ABOUT THE BLOOD ATONEMENT(THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST) WAY OF SALVATION, THIS IS A RED FLAG. OUR SALVATION IS ONLY BASED ON GRACE THROUGH FAITH ON "HOW" Jesus Christ DID THE SAVING. BY UNDERSTANDING THAT He SHED HIS BLOOD ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS, He DIED, WAS BURIED AND ON THE THIRD DAY He ROSE AGAIN ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES. OTHER WAY OF SALVATION OUTSIDE OF THIS IS USELESS AND IT'S ACCURSED.
Galatians 1:8-9 kjv.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
"THE TRUE WAY OF SALVATION ACCORDING TO NEW TESTAMENT IS ONLY THROUGH "THE GOSPEL" OF PAUL, THE GENTILES APOSTLE."
Romans 11:13 kjv.
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Romans 2:15-16 kjv.
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
"OUR SALVATION, THE GOSPEL, BELIEVED OR TRUST THIS WITH YOUR HEART ALONE, INSTANTLY YOU'RE SAVED"
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 kjv.
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Ephesians 1:13-14 kjv.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 4:30 kjv.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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This is such an inspiring testimony, and John Burke's following comments are equally as good!
He has a beautiful soul ❤❤❤❤ thank you for sharing how Great Gods love is God Bless You❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The only question I struggle with is WHY satan would even want to fall, how was he able to feel that feeling of jealousy in the first place with how loving and amazing God is, and why is it that once it's over in this realm how is NOT possible for jealousy and sin to enter again?
God didn't create billions of galaxies. You're touting luciferarian ritualistic lies believing in space. And you're sinning against God by accepting what the rulers of this realm lie to you about without actually doing your do diligence. You'll all put God through the ringer demanding that He provide proof he's real, while blindly accepting the worlds explanation of where you live. And their explanation is designed to create a scenario of creation where you don't need a God!!!!
The deceit is so much more than anyone thinks. Vet history, vet NASA, vet the globe. There's a reward worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single globe proof without using fake space agencies or countries.