Six years ago, a man literally "rose" from the dead in the Yorkshire town of Doncaster in the north of England, with the doctors declaring him clinically dead for nearly an hour before he miraculously came back to life.
That man, Joe Stevenson, was recently interviewed by Assist News, and the article was subsequently shared by Charisma News.
Stevenson said he had no inkling of what he would undergo when he was admitted to Doncaster Royal Infirmary for a total knee replacement.
A day after his knee surgery, he suffered a massive heart attack. The doctors said for 55 minutes he had "no cardiac output and no respiratory effort other than what was maintained by the resuscitation team."
Word spread that Stevenson had died, and his church friends began to pray — not to ask God to revive him but to ease the sorrow of his family.
Then to everyone's utter shock and amazement, Stevenson's heart started beating again. "Spontaneous cardiac output and respiratory effort were returned," his doctors said.
Stevenson spent the next 72 hours in a coma, but the doctors found no brain damage despite being clinically dead for nearly an hour.
Stevenson now lives in good health at 75 years of age, together with his wife Wilsie in Coniston Road, Askern, England.
Since his miraculous return to the land of the living, Stevenson has revealed that he had a series of extraordinary visions during that hour when his heart stopped beating.
He said he saw a scene of "total chaos on the earth" with everyone struggling to gain power and some arguing over material possessions which had become worthless as money no longer had any value, according to Charisma News.
"The Lord showed me armies fighting one another, even beginning to kill their own people; young men and women taking people into alleyways, killing them at random and running away, laughing. I saw pillaging and rapes.
"Then I saw millions of dead bodies inside a massive lean-to, all in different uniforms. And giant earth-moving machines pushing the bodies into a quarry—something like a picture of Armageddon described in the Bible" (Rev. 14.20)
Dr. David Garrard, a senior lecturer at the Assemblies of God Bible College at Mattersey, Doncaster, and a fellow member at the time of the Reachout Christian Fellowship at Christ Church in central Doncaster, said Stevenson's visions "can be backed up by many portions of Scripture."
Garrard said what happened to Stevenson showed "the miracle of the resurrection power of Christ."
