Atheist on Death Bed Calls Out to Jesus to Save Him During Vision of Hell
“Hello, everyone. My name is Howard Storm. I had a near-death experience June 1st, 1985 and it changed my life completely.”
That’s how Storm, once a die-hard atheist, greets viewers on his YouTube video where he delivers his powerful conversion testimony.
Storm describes himself, at the time, as a college professor who was “completely self-centered” about his career and his life.
According to an article in The Epoch Times, Storm was raised near Boston, educated in California, and became an art professor in Kentucky. He was well-known as a sculptor and painter.
Today, at 75, he is a retired ordained Christian minister.
“I was an atheist. I thought that lives were short and sweet and then you die, so the whole point was to be as successful as possible.”
“I was an alpha male … I was totally self-absorbed. I considered myself to be a good person because I didn’t flagrantly break the law, rob, steal, or murder anybody. I was my own God.”
Then, while taking a group of students on an art tour of Europe, Storm collapsed in a Paris hotel room. He required emergency surgery to save his life from a painful “perforation of the duodenum.”
Storm waited ten hours in agonizing pain for a surgeon to arrive. Medical professionals tell him it’s miraculous he survived past his third hour.
At one point, he said good-bye to his wife, Marcia, and then lost consciousness.
That’s when Storm experienced a harrowing vision. He thought he woke up but no one could hear him. Next to him was a lifeless body. His!
He heard people calling to him outside his room.
“There was a group of people in the dark hallway, back in the shadows, maybe eight,’ Storm recalled. ‘They said, ‘We know all about you, we’ve been waiting for you for a very long time, and it’s time for you to come with us.’”
Storm then saw himself follow these people who verbally abused and bullied him into a dark abyss.
He tried to retreat but they beat him. He was in a “hellish place.”
He was so frightened by his vision, he recalled what he knew from his childhood Sunday school lessons about how to pray to Jesus.
“The prayer was very simple: Jesus, please save me. My prayer was from the heart, out of pure desperation, and it was simple and direct.”
He then had a vision of Heaven but was told he wouldn’t go there yet. He would return to his painful situation but that pain would be his teacher.
He recovered from his surgery, returned to the states, battled complications, recuperated, joined a church and became a minister.
Many of his friends mocked him, but today, Storm uses his art to share his faith and writes books about his experience to deter others from atheism and ultimately, from hell.
“To be loving toward those who attack you and do not share your same values is a life-long journey, he added, but Heaven is the final destination.”
