Imagine Heaven Podcast with John Burke
May 19, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 15 segments
Blind from birth, Brad Barrows stopped breathing for 4 minutes during a near death experience at just 8 years old. During his NDE, he described heaven with details shockingly similar to what sighted…
John BurkeHost
It's so inspiring, isn't it? I mean, Brad had struggles that most of us will obviously never face, and yet he says he feels blessed by God, that God is good even when life is not.And I wanna talk more about that, but, but first, I mean, this is incredibly compelling evidence of heaven's reality.
And you know, most people don't realize this, but Jesus was actually a man with an address in, in history.
There are around 60 Jewish prophecies that foretold of this Jewish Messiah who would come as the savior for all nations, for the whole world.
And all these prophecies were written down between about 1500 to 400 years before Jesus was born.
God would claim to f- come in the form of a, of a human, a form we could relate to.
And he talked about what he would do for all nations, and he put this in advance so that we would know it's not just myth.
In episode four, uh, of this podcast called Different Religions See the Same God, I'll link to it bef- below.
But then, there I show you how there is historical proof that these things were written down before and, and history actually has fulfilled it.
And yet even people back in Jesus' day, though they, they knew these things and they saw Jesus, when times got difficult, they still questioned and struggled and doubted.
You know, and that's true of all of us, right? When God doesn't do things the way we're expecting, we struggle.
He was a prophet himself, and he, and he said, when he baptized Jesus, he said, "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the, of the world." And when Jesus was baptized, he hears a voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son." And yet John gets thrown in prison by King Herod.
And it says this, "When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of Jesus, he sent his disciples to ask him, 'Are you the one, the Messiah, who is to come, or should we expect someone else?'" And listen to what Jesus said.
It's so inspiring, isn't it? I mean, Brad had struggles that most of us will obviously never face, and yet he says he feels blessed by God, that God is good even when life is not.And I wanna talk more about that, but, but first, I mean, this is incredibly compelling evidence of heaven's reality.
And you know, most people don't realize this, but Jesus was actually a man with an address in, in history.
There are around 60 Jewish prophecies that foretold of this Jewish Messiah who would come as the savior for all nations, for the whole world.
And all these prophecies were written down between about 1500 to 400 years before Jesus was born.
God would claim to f- come in the form of a, of a human, a form we could relate to.
And he talked about what he would do for all nations, and he put this in advance so that we would know it's not just myth.
In episode four, uh, of this podcast called Different Religions See the Same God, I'll link to it bef- below.
But then, there I show you how there is historical proof that these things were written down before and, and history actually has fulfilled it.
And yet even people back in Jesus' day, though they, they knew these things and they saw Jesus, when times got difficult, they still questioned and struggled and doubted.
You know, and that's true of all of us, right? When God doesn't do things the way we're expecting, we struggle.
He was a prophet himself, and he, and he said, when he baptized Jesus, he said, "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the, of the world." And when Jesus was baptized, he hears a voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son." And yet John gets thrown in prison by King Herod.
And it says this, "When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of Jesus, he sent his disciples to ask him, 'Are you the one, the Messiah, who is to come, or should we expect someone else?'" And listen to what Jesus said.
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