How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

major surgery and saw (in a clear vision) loved ones who had passed on. What I am going to share now is very important. In every instance the only people to appear were those who were solid, praying people who loved the Lord. At times the person in the hospital would question where other family members were, but they never appeared. In each instance a believer never saw a person who died without Christ! In other words, in such situations those who died lost have never appeared to anyone to warn them about the land of lost souls. Why is this? In Luke 16:19–31 Christ revealed a true story of a poor man who begged for food and a rich man who refused to feed him. Both men died. The poor man went to paradise, and the selfish rich man found his spirit in hell. The rich man begged that the poor man would come back from the dead and warn his five brothers not to come to this forbidden place. The answer to this tormented man’s request was, “They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear [believe] them.…If they do not hear [believe] Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead” (vv. 29–31). The reason for this comment is that someone who believes in the Bible should also believe in the supernatural and the afterlife, which are taught about through the Scriptures. Sinners, agnostics, or unbelievers would never believe if they actually saw someone from the dead. They would tag it as a hallucination, a wild imagination, or a result of some medication they were on. This happens now when a believer tells the average doctor that he or she saw the afterlife or a loved one who had passed. An unbeliever is an unbeliever, and seeing a departed loved one will not change that.