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Is there a supernatural dimension?
a world beyond the one we know?
Is there life after death?
Do angels exist?
Can our dreams contain messages from Heaven?
Can we tap into ancient secrets of the supernatural?
Are healing miracles real?
Sid Roth has spent over 35 years researching the strange world of
the supernatural.
Join Sid for this edition of It's Supernatural!
Sid: Welcome to my world where it's naturally supernatural.
I just so love breathing in the rarified air of Heaven.
You should try it.
You're going to like it.
My guest is an award-winning medical doctor that was an
atheist, went to Heaven and can't keep quiet about Jesus
now.
But that's not why I'm interviewing him.
I'm interviewing him because he totally demystifies death.
Now if you don't know the Messiah, there should be fear of
the unknown, death.
But many Christians have fear of death.
Trust me.
You will be in a whole new realm after you hear this medical
doctor.
Now Dr. Reggie Anderson is a medical doctor in church every
time the doors were open.
But as a teenager, your best friends you spent summers with
were involved in one of the most horrible mass murders in the
history of Georgia.
What happened to you, Reggie?
Reggie: Like you said, I was raised in a church, went there
every moment I got that the doors were open.
Then when I was 15, Jimmy and Jerry, my best friends growing
up were murdered, all six of their family members, and I ran
as fast and as far as I could ....
And I could not believe that a God that would allow something
like this, so horrible, to even happen.
And so I felt like at that time, that he must not exist because
he didn't help my friends stay out of that tragedy.
Sid: You did a little more than that, Reggie.
Did you take your fist?
Tell me.
Reggie: I really got angry.
I ran as far as I could into the forest near my home, and I
shouted angry thoughts at God.
I mean, I hit my fist against the tree and I said, "God, you
can't be allowing this and you must not even be here on this
planet, I mean, or not even exist."
Sid: So his new God became science and through science, he
went to medical school and they just reaffirmed that he should
be an atheist until he saw one of the most beautiful things on
Earth.
What was that?
Reggie: It was the human body.
I was sitting in a Gross anatomy lab and I looked, and it was a
piece of art.
It was, I could not fathom that this order came out of chaos.
Something so beautiful as the human body, I had no other
explanation other than an artist, a creator.
And so I started to think, there must be something else.
Sid: How did this defy your scientific understanding?
Reggie: Well I had been trained classically as a scientist in
physics to realize that unless there is an outside force order
as to disorder, that's physical law, and of course, the
biologists kind of disagreed with that.
They said that evolution explained everything, that we
came out of disorder.
So I could not really resolve that conflict in my mind as a
scientist.
So then I see the creation in front of me, the human body, and
I realize the only way this could happen was with a creator.
Sid: But it still wasn't enough because all that hurt inside of
him, all that anger, all that rage, God, why did you do this.
And some of you can relate to this.
So God knew exactly what to do with Dr. Anderson.
He saw the most beautiful woman at college and decided, I want
to meet her.
But there's a problem.
What was the problem, Reggie?
Reggie: Well I asked her out on a date and we went, and on the
way home, I was asking her for a second date.
But she asked me a very important question: are you a
Christian?
And I said the only thing I could think of, "My parents
are."
Sid: That must have helped a lot.
Reggie: So in response to that she said, "I don't think we
should date because my life is dedicated to Jesus Christ and
your life is going on a totally different path."
Sid: But he keeps pestering her and he overhears her saying to
one of her girlfriends, "This Reggie, he's an atheist and he's
kind of a stalker."
But that still didn't stop you seeing her.
And so finally, he goes off on a camping trip.
He promises her that he'll read a book.
What happened?
Reggie: Well she had given me a book a few weeks earlier, called
"Mere Christianity" by C.S.
Lewis, and my mother had mailed a Bible to me.
And I took those two books, and I sat down by the fireside, and
I read straight through "Mere Christianity" and I read the
Gospel of John, and then I fell asleep, and I started dreaming
the most miraculous dream for an atheist, especially.
Sid: What was it?
Reggie: Well in that dream, Jesus came to me and he spoke
these words, he said, "Reggie, why are you running from me?
Your friends are here with me in paradise."
And I turned and I could clearly see Jimmy and Jerry, and all
their family, and they were well and healthy, and I wanted to be
there with them.
I did not want to leave that space with them.
And then Jesus said, "If you'll stop running and listen to my
words, I have a plan for the rest of your life."
Sid: I mean, it was such a plan.
He found out what he was supposed to do the rest of his
life in Heaven, in this dream.
When we come back, you're going to find out it was preposterous
to him and surely preposterous to the woman he was kind of
stalking.
Be right back.
We'll be right back to It's Supernatural!
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We now return to It's Supernatural!
Sid: So Dr. Anderson, as a medical student, as a practicing
atheist goes to Heaven.
Tell me as a doctor, what you saw, what you experienced in
Heaven.
Reggie: Well I turned and saw my friends who were healthy and
well.
I saw Jesus and I felt his presence, and he spoke to me
into the deepest part of my soul, and he told me things that
I would experience later in life.
He promised that if I would stop running from him that all of
these things would come.
Sid: Tell me basically what he told you.
Reggie: He says, "You're going marry this young lady, Karen.
You're going to have four children.
You're going to practice medicine in Tennessee as a rural
doctor."
And all of these things have come true 33 years later.
Sid: Thirty-three years later.
Okay.
What about your friends?
What about that young man in the woods saying, "God, how could
you do this!"
Reggie: Well that experience with Jesus radically changed
entire spiritual DNA.
I woke up not really understanding what was going on
at that time.
But I woke up a totally different man, totally converted
into Christianity.
And as soon as I got back to civilization I bought a
postcard, and I wrote on that postcard to Karen, who would not
even go out with me, "I became a Christian.
I had a dream.
Jesus came to me.
We're going to get married."
Sid: Okay.
So you become a doctor.
But you told me also you got the distinct impression the why's of
your friends' death.
Reggie: Well I felt like God knew before their death why that
was going to happen and that he had them in his arms even before
they died, just like he has all of us in his plan even before we
die.
Sid: Are you afraid of death?
Reggie: Not at all.
Sid: How many people have you been with just before they died,
would you say?
Reggie: Hundreds.
Sid: Hundreds.
Because God gave him a gift when he came back from Heaven.
All of his senses are so tuned into Heaven, he can smell
Heaven, he can see Heaven, he can feel Heaven.
He can tell the exact moment someone's spirit leaves their
body.
But the supernatural began to overtake him in his medical
practice.
For instance, explain to me what parting the veil means.
Reggie: Sure.
The first time that it happened, I had just become a Christian
and I was in medical school still.
And the job of the medical student was to stand vigil at
the bed of a dying patient and to retrieve the attending
whenever it happened.
So I was in this room in the VA hospital in Birmingham.
And it was in the middle of the night, dark, sterile hospital
room, and this man, I knew he was a Christian because his
family had been in earlier and been praying with him.
And soon as he took his last breath, it was as if this door
had opened on a spring day and a kind of citrus and lilac smell
entered the room, as if God had come into the room to take this
man's soul.
It lit up the hospital.
Sid: What do you mean, it lit up?
I don't understand.
Reggie: Well you could just feel a warmth.
You could see the lights had, instead of being dark, it was
lit up just like this studio.
Sid: Now did you see a specific light?
Reggie: It was a glow and it was up into the right.
Sid: Yeah, but how do you know it wasn't one of your medical
machines?
Reggie: We had shut them off to make it quiet.
Sid: Now what impact did that have on you?
Reggie: Well it made me think back to my dream and it made me
realize that the reality of where we are going is more real
than where we are.
That what we are experiencing here on Earth is a dream
compared to that reality of where we are going to be.
Sid: I mean, he's been with hundreds, now, just before they
die.
He knows the exact second they leave.
By the way, when a Christian dies, you were telling me about
the expression on their face.
What have you noticed?
Reggie: They always get the gaze of glory.
They look up into the right and they start to get this glow, and
they're smiling.
They're, believers that leave this planet to go to Heaven,
it's a joyous experience.
Sid: Tell me about Irene.
Reggie: She was an elderly lady who had dementia, but she
recognized me that night, and she was dying of a heart attack.
But she had made it clear that she did not want to be
resuscitated.
And so, but she asked me one thing before we were going up to
her room.
She asked me to stay with her that night.
She wanted to have an escort because she was going to meet
Jesus that night.
Sid: She actually used the word "escort".
Reggie: Yeah.
Sid: Okay.
Tell me about it.
Reggie: Well I was sitting there with her and her heart started
to fade, and her breath started to be somewhat labored.
I look at that, it's called change soaked breathing, but
it's almost as if somebody is being born in birthed into
another world.
It's just like a woman going into labor and her breathing
changes.
And the veil parted.
The room again opened up and the sense of.. Sid: Now when you say,
"the veil parted", I mean, be more graphic with me.
Reggie: Well it's a very thin space between where we are now
and where we're going to be.
And that thin space, I think of it as a veil.
I mean, it's, I think of eternity really as not something
we run toward as much as eternity walks right alongside
us and it's just one breath away.
And once we take our last breath here, it's our first breath in
Heaven.
Sid: I think Dr. Anderson is taking away the breath of some
of you that are watching right now.
We're going to be right back and find out how the supernatural
started increasing more in Dr. Anderson's life.
We'll be right back to It's Supernatural!
We now return to It's Supernatural.
Sid: Okay.
I'm here with Dr. Anderson.
And he found out that his hands are naturally cold.
But when he exams a patient, what normally happens, Dr.
Anderson, with your hands?
Reggie: Well they are extremely cold.
And when I shake a person's hands, they usually comment on
it.
Even you said something to me the other day.
And they start to warm up whenever I'm examining a patient
and I find an area that's not cold.
Sid: Give me one example.
Reggie: Well I had one patient that I shook her hand and she
was just a friend of my mother's, and I asked her if she
had any thyroid issues and she did not know of any.
And I told my mom that she probably ought to check with her
doctor.
Sure enough, two weeks later, she called her mom and said,
"You do have some thyroid issues."
Sid: You know, the thing that still amazes me about how he
holds hands with hundreds of people.
And you told me that there's almost like a breeze that you
feel.
Tell me.
Describe graphically things you see and feel, and sense.
Reggie: Well there was another case of a young boy that was in
the emergency room, that I had examined after he had injured
his head.
And I put my hand on his head where he had injured it, and
there didn't seem to be anything outwardly wrong with him.
As a matter of fact, I was going to send him home with just some
instructions.
But as I was speaking the words to the mother, I said, "I think
we need to send your young son to Vanderbilt to have a CT
scan."
Sid: Why did you say that?
Reggie: I don't know to this day other than God spoke those words
through me.
Sid: What happened?
Reggie: Four hours after I sent him in, the neurosurgeon called
me.
And I was expecting him to kind of give me up the country
for sending a normal child in,
But he said, "If you had not sent this child in, he would
have died.
He had a bleed inside his head and we just finished surgery."
Sid: Tell me someone that died, medically speaking, came back to
life and told you what they saw.
Reggie: Sure.
She was suffering from a heart attack and we sent her in to the
cardiologist, and he discovered that she had a blockage.
Took her to the cath lab, was doing a procedure to open the
blockage and she died.
And he did CPR on her.
She was flat-lined for two hours.
Sid: And you're sure she was dead.
I guess flat-lined is short hand for dead.
Reggie: Right.
The cardiologist called me as said, I mean, we went on and on
with this procedure because I had a resident that I wanted to
train on how to do CPR.
Anyway, after two hours she woke, I mean her heart started.
So we took her to the ICU.
Sid: Why did her start after the flat-line for two hours?
Reggie: God only knows.
Sid: Medically, is there an explanation.
Reggie: There was not any explanation and neither did the
cardiologist have one.
He just said her heart started, despite us. Sid: So if he
hadn't been experimenting, she would have died.
Reggie: Absolutely.
Sid: Okay.
Let's go on.
Reggie: So three days later, she was in the ICU and woke up, and
they estivated her.
And the first thing she wanted to tell the nurses was to call
me.
And so Karen and I went to the ICU in Nashville to visit with
this lady.
And the first thing out of her mouth was that she had been with
Jesus and her family, and that she had wanted to tell me that
where she had been was better than where she is now, and she
wanted to get back there as soon as she could.
Sid: Was she upset that she came back?
Reggie: She was very upset and for seven years, she told me she
was upset.
Sid: Tell me about a patient you had that was not going to go to
Heaven.
Reggie: Yes.
I had this, a few patients.
But fortunately, most of my patients have actually gone to
Heaven.
But I have had one that I tried to, I struggled with, constantly
trying to bring him back to the Lord, because he was a man that
was, had given up on God and many years of bitterness, and
that sort of thing.
At his bedside when he took his last breath, it was very, very
different than the ones that go to Heaven.
Sid: What was different?
Reggie: Instead of being smiling and happy, and you know,
looking, he was very angry and taking, almost fighting his last
breath.
And there was a sense of darkness and coldness in the
room.
So it changed radically very different from one of my
experiences where the patients go to Heaven.
Sid: What would you say to someone that is facing death
right now, that is a Christian?
Reggie: What I would say is that you have nothing to fear, that
the veil is very, very thin.
That we're not running toward eternity, but eternity walks
right alongside us, and it is waiting for us.
Jesus is waiting right pass this very thin veil and that he is
loving that we are coming to meet with him.
Sid: And what would you say to someone facing death that has
not believed that Jesus died for their sins, has not repented and
has not made Jesus their Lord?
What would you say to them?
Reggie: I would say, give up on the old life.
Except that you are about to meet eternity and that if you
don't except Jesus, the eternity that you're going to be part of
is not a heavenly one.
It is a hellish one.
So I would recommend very clearly that you look to Jesus
as your savior.
Sid: I don't recommend.
You see, he's a doctor.
I tell people.
I'm telling you, you do not know, even though you might have
gotten a death sentence.
But maybe you haven't even gotten a death sentence.
You flat, flat-line, you flat don't know when your end will
come, do you?
Of course, you don't know.
But I know this.
I'm a Jew and when I was 30 years of age, Jesus came into my
bedroom and he's real.
And I know my orthodox Jewish father, who was just like Dr.
Anderson with his hand in a fist towards God, I know that on his
death bed he had an encounter with Jesus and said this prayer
that I want you to say with me out loud right now.
Say, I believe Jesus died for my sins.
Audience: I believe Jesus died for my sins.
Sid: And by his blood.
Audience: And by his blood.
Sid: God remembers my sins no more.
Audience: God remembers my sins no more.
Sid: And I'm clean.
Audience: And I'm clean.
Sid: And now that I'm clean.
Audience: And now that I'm clean.
Sid: I ask Jesus to be my Lord.
Audience: I ask Jesus to be my Lord.
Sid: Live inside of me.
Audience: Live inside of me.
Sid: I'm going to Heaven!
Sid: Next week on It's Supernatural.
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