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Ezekiel was sitting in his house. Then was Ezekiel’s spirit leaving his body in Ezekiel 8:
1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign Lord came on me there. 2I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man. From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal. 3He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood. 4And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.
John was on the Island of Patmos. Then was John’s spirit leaving his body in Revelation 17:
1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”
3Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
A 3rd example was pointed out by Nigel’s comment:
2 Corinthians 12:1 I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
According to Paul, some kind of out-of-body experience is possible without causing death.
Can a person’s spirit supernaturally leave its body temporarily?
Anonymous
come on somebody Terry Wiles Roscoe Barnes III Philip D Burns
Anonymous
How I was delivered from unbelief!
Visiting Heaven can change what we believe about this present world!
Anonymous
yes Duane L Burgess our friend Philip Williams visited heaven and was done
Anonymous
Philip Williams could you share your experience?
Anonymous
Gerardo de Dominicis you mean when the Lord rebuked me to my face?
Anonymous
Philip Williams Well if that’s too intimate don’t do it. I’d like to know what happened , how it happened and the direct consequences in your life. After all, spiritual experiences are to be shared with the body of Christ for encouragement and nurishment.
Anonymous
Gerardo de Dominicis I was an atheist just moments before I repented of my arrogance after reading a statement made by George Washington Carver. A deep black cloud filled the bottom half of the room where I was sitting. The sound disappeared as I was looking through my eyes, then through the top of my head. I flew rapidly upward. The Lord was filling the sky. I flew into his robe. He rebuked me as a small child who was getting out of his place. I was terrified but immediately I saw a council table with my family looking over the world. They were trying to calm me down. I could tell that they loved me. There was such beautiful order. They were ruling this world with the Lord. I was eager to learn and see more. But I heard them saying, “He is Ok now. Let’s put him back.”
The next moment, I am getting up from my couch, the same as when this happened, except I am grinning with incredulity about what just happened. The grin was so great that it made the sides of my mouth painful.
I was however so grateful. I was not a happy atheist.
Neither Jesus nor my family told me what to do. I began reading the Bible and learning Christianity 101. I also wanted to discover how my teachers had misled me. That later led to me investigating the archaeological evidence of Noah’s Flood.
Anonymous
Scripture provides no support for this idea,
however, there are a few miraculous events such as one being “caught up to heaven.” Scripture doesn’t explain in detail how this works.
What is important is to not be deceived by supposed near death experiences. We have no way of examining their perceived experience to know the source.
I did follow up once on a person with a near death experience. His web site had NOTHING about sin, condemnation, the Gospel, etc.
Do not be deceived.
Anonymous
Duane L Burgess 1 Cor. 5:3, how do you interpret it?