During a near-death experience he receives a message from the archangel St. Michael (full text)

In 1984 Ned Dougherty had a near-mortal experience (NDE), in which he clinically died for almost an hour and met a "Lady of Light" who showed him visions of his future life and the future of humanity. His NDE was led by a deceased friend. While Ned was visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to find his friends' names, he collapsed and had a powerful encounter with Archangel Michael. Ned received a message.

Excerpt from Ned's book to Heaven.

Archangel Michael's Message:

“Your ancestors created a nation, under God with freedom and justice for all. They were men of high ideals, spiritually guided and inspired to create a nation and civilization to admire and respect, to set an example for the rest of the world By exercising their free will under the guidance and direction of God, they created a Constitution and a Charter of rights so that every man, woman and child can live freely in the search for happiness. However, these high-spirited and spiritual men were soon replaced by others who, in the exercise of their free will, chose to put their ego before God and join the plan of God.

You have become a nation of spoilers, man against man, brother against brother, government against citizens and the chosen nation has become a warrior with and against other nations. You have become a nation of criminals and murderers. Kill in wars. Kill the innocent. Kill your kids. Your leaders create laws to justify murders, to try to correct wrongs, to rewrite morals and ethics to support your greed and land-related desires.

You have become a nation increasingly distant from the spirit and influence of God. You have created sciences and philosophies to support activities that recognize only earth-related realities, which not only refuse to recognize the spiritual nature of man himself, but refuse to even recognize the existence of God!

You brought God and his works of prayer and meditation out of your government, your institutions, your schools. You have done everything possible to deny its existence and you find yourself in a world full of wars, hatred, hunger and death, and you do not understand why the rest of the world does not follow your brilliant example.

You are a nation at war with itself, full of hatred, prejudice, crime, drugs and murder. Yet when few of you looking to God asking why all these things can happen, don't hear His answer!

You are a member of the human race, universally created by God and individually given a free will by divine right, and you would not want to have it in any other way. Yet every little act of free will that man has exercised since the beginning of time, which was not in conformity with God's plan, has multiplied in its impact and negativity on the future of man. Every simple act of aggression multiplied into acts of world war. Every simple act of greed multiplied in human suffering and hunger worldwide. Every act of destruction of God's environment on Earth multiplied into destructive forces of nature, earthquakes, floods, plagues, nuclear destruction and nuclear waste.

However, God created a nation of high ideals to survive other empires and civilizations that have crumbled into oblivion for their leaders positioned as men above God, and now those empires and civilizations are only heaps of dust or buried under the waters. You sit on the edge of the new millennium, ready for the future of humanity, and you are directed, like all the great civilizations of the past, to shrink into piles of dust, to be covered by the waters!

However, God comes to you again, to appeal to you as a people, to appeal to you as a nation, to appeal to your leaders! His army of angels is visiting you with a life force of energy, a spiritual energy radiated by the Creator to all humanity. Many of you feel the liveliness of his energy and his divine presence. He is communicating with you spiritually to raise you to a level of spiritual transformation that is necessary for those of you who listen to him to spread his message and his energy, to recognize that he is coming!

Guided by prayer and meditation, all men, women and children can answer his call, but it must be early. Time is running out! Angels are coming! Can you hear them? Are you listening?