Visions of Angels on the bed during illness and near death

Many people around the world said shortly before their death that they experienced visions of angels that seemed to help them make the transition to heaven. Doctors, nurses and loved ones also report seeing signs of deathbed visions, such as seeing dying people talking and interacting with invisible presences in the air, heavenly lights or even visible angels.

While some people explain the angel's deathbed phenomenon as drug hallucinations, visions still occur when patients are untreated and when the dying talk about meeting angels, they are fully aware. So believers say that such encounters are miraculous proof that God sends angelic messengers to the souls of dying people.

A common event
It is common for angels to visit people who are preparing to die. While angels can help people when they die suddenly (such as in a car or heart attack accident), they have more time to comfort and encourage people whose death process is more prolonged, such as terminally ill patients. Angels come to help whoever is dying - men, women and children - to ease the fear of death and help them solve problems to find peace.

"Deathbed visions have been recorded since antiquity and share common characteristics regardless of racial, cultural, religious, educational, age and socioeconomic factors," writes Rosemary Ellen Guiley in her book The Encyclopedia of Angels. "... The main purpose of these apparitions is to signal or command the dying person to come with them ... The dying person is usually happy and willing to go, especially if the individual believes in the afterlife. ... If the person has had severe pain or depression, a complete reversal of mood is observed and the pain fades. What dies literally seems to "light up" with splendor. "

Retired hospice nurse Trudy Harris writes in her book Glimpses of Heaven: True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey that angelic visions "are frequent experiences for those who are dying."

The famous Christian leader Billy Graham writes in his book Angels: Resonant certainty that we are not alone that God always sends angels to welcome people who have relationships with Jesus Christ in heaven when they die. “The Bible guarantees all believers a journey escorted to the presence of Christ by the holy angels. The angelic emissaries of the Lord are often sent not only to capture the redeemed of the Lord at death, but also to give hope and joy to those who remain and to support them in their loss. "

Beautiful visions
The visions of angels that describe dying people are incredibly beautiful. Sometimes they simply involve seeing angels in a person's environment (like in a hospital or bedroom at home). Other times they involve glimpses of the sky itself, with angels and other celestial residents (such as the souls of loved ones of the person who have already passed away) that extend from celestial to earthly dimensions. Whenever angels present themselves in their heavenly glory as beings of light, they are radiantly beautiful. The visions of paradise add to that beauty, describing wonderful places as well as magnificent angels.

"About a third of deathbed visions involve total visions, where the patient sees another world - heaven or a heavenly place," writes Guiley in the Encyclopedia of Angels. "... Sometimes these places are full of angels or bright souls of the dead. Such visions are resplendent with intense and vivid colors and bright light. Either they take place in front of the patient, or the patient feels transported out of his body. "

Harris remembers in Glimpses of Heaven that many of his former patients "told me that they had seen angels in their rooms, that they were visited by loved ones who had died before them, or that they listened to beautiful choruses or smelled fragrant flowers when they weren't there. there was nobody around ... "He adds:" When they spoke of angels, which many did, angels were always described as more beautiful than they had ever imagined, one meter eighty tall, male and wearing a white for which there is no word. "Luminescent" is what everyone said, like nothing they had ever said before. The music they talked about was far more exquisite than any symphony they had ever heard, and several times they mentioned colors that they said were too beautiful to describe. "

The "scenes of great beauty" that characterize the deathbed visions of angels and skies also give people feelings of comfort and peace to die, write James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver in their book Angels from A to Z. “As the deathbed vision accelerates, many have shared that the light they encounter radiates a warmth or security that brings them ever closer to the original source. With light comes a vision of beautiful gardens or open fields that adds a sense of peace and security. "

Graham writes in Angels that: “I believe death can be beautiful. … I have been alongside many people who have died with triumphant expressions on their faces. No wonder the Bible states: 'Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints' "(Psalm 116: 15).

Guardian angels and other angels
Most of the time, the angels that dying people recognize when they visit are the angels closest to them: the guardian angels that God has assigned to take care of them during their earthly lives. Guardian angels are constantly present with people from their birth to death and people can communicate with them through prayer or meditation or meet them if their life is in danger. But many people don't actually become aware of their angelic companions until they meet them during the death process.

Other angels - especially an angel of death - are often recognized in deathbed visions as well. Lewis and Oliver cite the researcher of the angel researcher Leonard Day in Angels A to Z, writing that a guardian angel "is usually very close to the person [who dies] and offers relaxing words of consolation" while an angel of death "of usually remains at a distance, standing in the corner or behind the first angel. "They add that" ... Those who shared their meeting with this angel describe him as dark, very silent and not at all threatening. According to Day, it is the responsibility of the angel of death to summon the departed spirit in the care of the guardian angel so that the journey to the "other side" can begin. "

Trust before you die
When the visions of the angels on their deathbed are complete, the dying people who see them are able to die with confidence, having made peace with God and realizing that the family and friends they leave will be fine without them.

Often patients die shortly after seeing angels on their deathbed, Guiley writes in the Encyclopedia of Angels, summarizing the results of numerous large research studies on such visions: "Visions usually appear a few minutes before death: about 76 percent of the patients studied died within 10 minutes of their vision and almost everything else died within one or more hours. "

Harris writes that he has seen many patients become more secure after experiencing visions of angels on his deathbed: "... they take the last step into eternity that God has promised them since the beginning of time, totally fearless and in peace."