Here another man who saw Jesus while not dying
Seeing Jesus
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My own testimony. It happened when I was in my 7th grade. Now
I'm 29 years old.
I was then in my bed at night about 8 pm. I felt terrible about
my life. i felt that many people seemed to hate me for no obvious
reasons. Then I started to cry. But Because I'm a boy I covered my
face with my pillow not to let anyone knew I was crying. As I began
to cry I started to imagine that I was hugging Jesus where in fact
I was hugging my pillow. As I was doing this I thought to myself
that no one was worth defending except Jesus and a powerful thought
came to me that Jesus was the one without sin. After that thought I
felt love for Jesus. Small at first but in a mere few seconds that
small love for Jesus was growing exponentially such that in the end
I was really really in love with Jesus(I have fallen in love twice
and it was deep but still what I felt for Jesus much much much
deeper still, I was madly deeply fully in love with Jesus, not the
kind of love that produces lust of course, just a pure love, loving
for the sake of loving and I really believe that it was God who
gave me the love because it grew exponentially in a few seconds for
no apparent reason whatsoever). I would give to Jesus anything that
He asked of me anything at all because I loved Him so much. Then a
thought came to me that I could ask something from God.
So I did.
I asked to be allowed to see Jesus face because even then I knew
that all the pictures of Jesus all of his depiction and
illustration was all man-made and not the real Jesus. So I wanted
to know how the real Jesus looked like. Mind you I didn't really
realize that Jesus was not mere man as I was still a child(to me
then God the father was like the God and Jesus was like a
supporting actor so in a sense I played down Jesus divinity then).
I never read the bible then too(there is a verse in the bible
that says whoever sees me has seen the Father, I now know that it
could literally mean exactly that). After I uttered my wish with my
thought a powerful vision(very clearly seen) came to me while I was
still fully awake laying on my bed. I saw what I believed to be
Jesus. His whole body was covered with such immense white light
that was coming out from His face but I didn't see any figure just
an immense white light which shine brightest in the direction of
His face(I knew the direction of His face but didn't see any figure
at all). And because I wanted to see His face I tried to look into
the direction of His face but the intensity of the light was such
that I couldn't penetrate the light. The light wasn't giving me any
pain though. But I was persistent(or foolish) that I kept on trying
over and over again. Until I thought to myself: Never mind not
being able to see Jesus face. I've seen God and now I could tell
this to others which was probably out of frustation. After I
thought that to myself I tried for the last time to stare into the
direction of His face but this time both of my physical eyeballs
hurt. It felt like burning(I didn't realize it was a burning
sensation then though) it felt like many small needles hit both of
my eyeballs. After this I didn't dare to stare in the direction of
His face and only dared to stare down. The vision then began to
grow weaker and weaker until it disappear completely.
Be blessed
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