"인류는 200년 안에 태고시대의 낙원을 회복할 것이다" -하워드 스톰

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Howard Storm's NDE and the possible future of USA & the world

Before his near-death experience, Rev. Howard Storm, a Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University, was not a very pleasant man. He was an avowed atheist and was hostile to every form of religion and those who practiced it. He often would use rage to control everyone around him and he didn't find joy in anything. Anything that wasn't seen, touched, or felt, he had no faith in. He knew with certainty that the material world was the full extent of everything that was. He considered all belief systems associated with religion to be fantasies for people to deceive themselves with. Beyond what science said, there was nothing else.

Howard Storm's near-death experience

On June 1, 1985, at the age of 38, Howard Storm had a near-death experience due to a perforation of the stomach and his life was forever changed. His life was so immensely changed after his near-death experience that he resigned as a professor and devoted his time to attending the United Theological Seminary to become a United Church of Christ minister.

 

In Howard Storm's book, My Descent into Death (2000), he describes the future of mankind as given to him by angels he encountered during his NDE in 1985. Storm wrote how they told him, in 1985, that the Cold War would soon end, because "God is changing the hearts of people to love around the world." Storm states, "Since the time in 1985 when I was told these things about the future the Cold War ended with little bloodshed due to the hearts of people being unwilling to tolerate oppressive regimes."

USA will collapse economically

Storm described what the angels told him concerning the way things will be on Earth in future: "God is changing the world now. God wants worldwide conversion. God is going to awaken every person to be the person he or she was created to be. Those who accept God's will shall flourish and those who deny God's love shall perish. He asked the angels the question: "Will the United States be the leader of the world in this change?"

The angels replied:

"The United States has been given the opportunity to be the teacher for the world, but much is expected of those to whom much has been given. The United States has been given more of everything than any country in the history of the world and it has failed to be generous with the gifts. If the United States continues to exploit the rest of the world by greedily consuming the world's resources, the United States will have God's blessing withdrawn. Your country will collapse economically which will result in civil chaos. Because of the greedy nature of the people, you will have people killing people for a cup of gasoline. The world will watch in horror as your country is obliterated by strife. The rest of the world will not intervene because they have been victims of your exploitation. They will welcome the annihilation of such selfish people. The United States must change immediately and become the teachers of goodness and generosity to the rest of the world. Today the United States is the primary merchant of war and the culture of violence that you export to the world. This will come to an end because you have the seeds of your own destruction within you. Either you will destroy yourselves or God will bring it to an end if there isn't a change."

The U.S. has been given the opportunity to be the peacemaker of the world. With the medical, agricultural, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge, the U.S. could teach less fortunate countries how to give to every person food, clothing, housing, medical care, education, and economic prosperity. The U.S. has the power to help every person in the world access clean water and hygenic waste disposal. There are millions of people in the world dying for lack of things people in the U.S. take for granted. This is not God's will. God wants you to know that every person is your brother and sister. God wants every person to have the same fulfillment that a person in the U.S. has. God sees the people of the U.S becoming increasingly greedy, self-centered, and uncaring. There must be a turning to God or the reign of the United States will end.

Storm wrote, ".... I don't know if the richest country in the history of the world is doomed to lose God's blessing or if the people of the United States will become the moral light of the world. How long will God allow the injustice to continue? The future lies in the choices we make right now. God is intervening in direct ways in human events. May God's will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven!"

Failure of Infrastructure and power grid

In a SpiritDaily.com online newspaper article on August 18, 2003 by Michael H. Brown entitled Near-Death Prophecy: Man was shown Failure of Infrastructure, Power Grid, Reverend Howard Storm discussed America's future as shown to him during his NDE. He stated:

"They made it very clear to me that God had given this country the greatest blessing of any people in the history of the world. We have more of God's blessing. Everything that we have comes from God. We didn't deserve it, we didn't earn it, but we happen to be the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. And God gave us all this so that we could be the instruments of God's light in this world, and we are not instruments of light. In other countries people see us as purveyors of exploitation, military might, and pornography. They see us as completely hedonistic and amoral -- we have no morality. People can do whatever they want wherever they want with whatever they want. Our amorality is a cancer on the rest of the world, and God created us to be just the opposite.

"People get mad at me for saying it, but God is very unhappy with what we're doing. When I came back from the experience I was almost out of my mind trying to convert people. God wanted a worldwide conversion thousands of years ago. God pulled out all the stops 2,000 years ago with Jesus. From God's view, that was the definitive moment in human history. And the impact of the prophets and teachers and the Messiah has been a big disappointment to God because people have by and large rejected it. I was told that God wants this conversion. And if we don't get with the program fairly soon, He is going to have to intervene in some ways that from a human point of view are going to seem cataclysmic. God is really tired of what we're doing to one another and the planet and to His Creation. We were put in this world to be stewards and live in harmony with His creation and one another and we don't realize the important spiritual consequences of what we do when we raise a child in a faithless society."

"I asked how [America's purification] would come about, and they said it would be simple, that our society is very dependent on a lot of very fragile things -- energy grid, transportation. In each geographical area of the United States people used to be relatively self-sufficient as far as agricultural products. Now, how long would any state survive without the transport of food and energy?

"What would happen is these very complex and delicate grids of our economic system would begin to break down. We've created a society of such cruel and self-centered people that the very nature of civilization would begin to break down. The angels showed me that what would happen is that people would begin robbing the grocery stores, hording goods, and killing one another for gasoline and tires, and as a consequence everything would break down and would end up in chaos."

Howard Storm's images of the possible near future

In his book he says that he saw images of the possible near future (remember that this NDE occurred in 1985) that showed increasing numbers of earthquakes, increased volcanic activity around the world and destructive changes in weather patterns. These changes in the weather patterns were described in ways that are similar to today's understanding of the more severe effects of global warming, such as massive floods hitting areas over time, increased hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, drought-caused famines etc. This eventually resulted in massive food shortages around the world and the collapse of the world financial system. He was also apparently shown images of persons actually "killing for a cup of gasoline". He described the world economic system as eventually being in total collapse, to the point that "the electricity was off and didn't come back on". He says that the images that he was shown included many terrible things, and that in the United States specifically, the population dropped to "just tens of thousands of people left alive" due to food shortages and the resulting violence caused by the starving population. In a recorded discussion that he made, he said that much violence was apparently committed by middle-class workers who had the means and desire to violently take what they could no longer buy, in order for themselves and their own families to survive.

It is important to note that he was told that this scenario was avoidable if there was a major spiritual "shift" in the consciousness of the world. The "shift" away from greediness and selfishness would help soften or eliminate the occurrence of a world economic collapse; less greed would mean less problems with the economy, as well as increased willingness to find mutually-beneficial solutions to large financial and economic problems. None of Howard Storm's publicly available works state if he believes that he knows a precise date for this predicted event, or even if he thinks there is enough of a "shift" that has occurred since 1985 that this predicted event will or will not happen.

Vision of life on Earth after transformation of the world by 'spiritual revolution'

Howard Storm: "I said, there will be an even worse third World War. They said, There will be no more World War. The world is at a beginning of a major transformation. It will be a spiritual revolution that will affect every person in the world.

I asked what would the world be like when this change takes place. We were in a beautiful natural wooded setting. There was no evidence of human intrusion or man-made devices. They told me that this was the future and we were in a garden that people tended. People came by and talked with each other. They were dressed simply and had exotic ornaments. They resembled Native Americans in their dress. I enquired about what they did. They raised children mostly. Everyone spent the majority of their time with the children teaching them about love and the wonders of the natural world. They didn't make any distinction between work and play. They all participated in child-rearing and teaching as the most important activity of their lives. People raised food by sitting next to plants and communing with them. In a few minutes they could harvest mature fruits and vegetables. They ate what they grew immediately without cooking. The cloths were all finely woven fibres. There was very little metal except in ornaments.I asked, is this paradise? They laughed and said, No, only compared to the world you live in. In this future world people will have sickness, but the treatment for disease will always be successful. People will gather around the person in need of help and through prayer, touch, and meditation the disease will be cured. People will grow only enough food for their needs. Collectively, all the people of the world will control the weather. The climate will be regulated by the collective will of humankind. The plants will be loved and raised by individual people. All animals will live in harmony with people. There will be countless small communities of people all over the world and each will have its own identity and culture. There will be many different languages, but all people will be able to communicate telepathically. There will be no technology because there will be no need for devices since humans will have the power to control matter and energy. People will stay within their communities unless they want to experience life in a culture which has different music, or vegetation, or scientific investigation. Everybody was a student of nature, which they knew intimately and with which they could communicate, knowing the sensations and vibration of every part of creation. People explored outer space without moving an inch. People communicated telepathically with everyone on earth and had relationships with intelligent beings on other worlds. There was no space travel because there was no need. People stayed put and shared life experiences across galaxies. People valued the life experience they had been given in the world because they knew it was a precious gift from God. There were no possessions. People sought the welfare of their community in its spiritual health and growth. When someone was troubled the community focused its attention on that individual. Occasionally, an individual would become a recluse for as much time as needed. When people were satisfied they had all the life experience, the community gathered together around them. They had a celebration while such a person lay down and his or her spirit moved to Heaven. This was the cause of great rejoicing. People were born, grew, learned, and died. They lived to love God, love one another, and to love themselves...

I asked, When will this come about? They said, 200 years. (From 1985)
I answered, Not in 200,000 years. People are not ready for this. They answered, This is the future God wants for humanity, and it will happen. This is the world God has created for us to live in. This is the way God has created human beings to live.

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하워드 스톰 교수는 무신론자였는데 어느 날 근사체험을 하면서 지옥도 보고 주님과 천사들을 만나 그리스도인이 된 사람.

천사가 보여줬다는 인류의 200년 뒤의 모습을 읽어보면 전혀 공상과학영화 속 테크노사회가 아니고 마치 스베덴보리 저서의 태고시대를 보는 듯한 착각이 들 정도다.
그의 신관이나 내세관 세계관도 스베덴보리와 상당히 비슷하다.

냉전체제 붕괴 예견은 이미 맞았고, 기후변화와 미국경제 몰락도 맞아들고 있다고..
특히 미국에 대해 '인류역사상 가장 큰 축복을 받았으나 제 역할을 못하고 이기주의와 물질주의에 빠졌다. 돌이키지 않으면 그 축복이 거둬지고 몰락할 것'이라는 천사의 경고를 전하고 있다.

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그의 인터뷰를 보면, 주님을 만난 순간을 얘기하면서 계속 눈물을 흘린다.

'그분은 사랑 그 자체다. 그분이 나보다 더 나를 잘 아신다는 것을 알게 된다'

'천국을 사람들에게 안 보여주는 이유를 알겠다. 천국을 보면 세상으로 돌아오기 싫어진다. 그렇다고 죽을 수도 없는 것이, 이 세상에서 이기심을 버리고 신과 이웃을 사랑하며 살아야 그곳에 합당해진다는 걸 알게 되기 때문이다.'

'그곳에 가면 고향에 왔다는 것을 느끼게 된다. 우리는 거기서 살기 위해 창조됐다.'

'지금 인류는 대규모 영적 전환기를 맞았다. 현대문명은 붕괴될 수도 있지만 영적 전환기가 끝나면 200년 뒤 인류의 미래는 낙원처럼 행복하다.'