Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Apostolic Friend xx
In Memoriam xxiv
Author's Note xxv
Interview with John and "Spencer" xxvii
Chapter 1 Awakened by Death 1
My First Experience with Death 1
My First Post-Death Experience 3
My Life Rehearsal 6
Angelic Nurses 8
My Friend, the Bully 13
Relationships Are from God 14
Our Lives Matter 16
Dispensational Priority and Purpose 17
Visiting My Wife as a Spirit 17
Angels among Us 18
The Ministry of Angels 23
The Power of the Fall 25
Exploring the Hospital 27
Hearing the Wood and Rocks 28
The Purpose of Things 29
Our Premortal Glory 29
A Cry for Justice 31
Returning to My Body 32
Many Different Death Experiences 33
Back at Home 34
Chapter 2 Paradise Lost 35
Rearranging My Life 35
We Are Never Alone 36
Redirecting My Life 37
Tahiti 39
The Diorama of Hell 43
The Intercessory Prayer 44
Beloved Prophet 48
Chapter 3 Vision of the Savior 52
Vision of the Savior 52
What Is in a Name? 54
To Really Know 55
How Far Man Has Fallen 56
Trying to Make Sense 57
Healing the Children 58
Layers of Meaning 59
Chapter 4 Deepening Trials 60
Waiting to Die 60
An Apostle's Advice 61
Cancer 63
Surgery in Mexico 63
My Beautiful Angel 65
You Are Not Going to Die 67
I'm Healed! 68
Chapter 5 Caves, Keys, and Callings 70
Three Visitors 70
The Third Visitor 71
My Angel Guide 73
Caves and Bars 74
The Key 76
The Meaning of the Symbols 77
Tunnel of Light 80
Folding the Universe 81
Meadow and Lake 83
Spiritual Childhood 86
My Room 88
The Library 91
God, Time, and Law 92
Returning to Visit My Body 93
Chapter 6 Angels and Devils 94
Evil Spirits and Temptation 94
In the Bar 97
At the Horse Race 100
Entertainment 101
Spiritual Gifts 102
The Chains of Hell 103
The Ministry of Angels 103
Light, Darkness, and the Earth 105
Flying across America 106
The Next Spring 107
Two Months Later 107
Foreign Troops 108
Chapter 7 Tribulation and Fulness 110
Earthquakes and Floods 110
A Devastating Plague 117
The Mark of the Beast 123
Signs of the Second Coming 124
Raising the Dead Boy 124
Fulness of the Priesthood 125
General Conference 127
Joseph Smith Jr. 130
Adam-ondi-Ahman 130
The Son of God 133
Changed! 136
Chapter 8 The Journey Begins 137
Preparing Our Company 137
Other Companies 139
Our Big Truck 139
Gifts of the Spirit 142
Build Zion Where You Are 143
Changes in the Earth 145
Zion in Canada 147
Conference in Cardston 149
Waiting in Cardston 151
An Evolving Society 153
Leaving Cardston 160
The First Vignette 162
The Second Vignette 166
The Third Vignette 168
The Fourth Vignette: The Temple 170
Chapter 9 The Millennial Day 177
The Cavern 177
Their Arrival in Zion 185
The Water of Life 185
Becoming Ageless 188
A Blessing to Be Simple 189
Pillars of Fire 189
Expanding Zion 190
Return of the Ten Tribes 193
Portals among Us 195
Two Prophets 198
Dealing with Warfare 198
Teaching with Power 200
The City of Enoch 201
Spiritual Technology 202
Translated versus Millennial 206
The Millennial Day 207
The 144,000 209
The Second Coming 212
The Red Planet 214
A New Heaven and a New Earth 216
Afterword 218
Appendix 220
John Taylor's Dream (1877) 220
The Cardston Prophecy (1923) 223
By Sols Caurdisto 223
Warning to America (1880) 230
By President Wilford Woodruff 230
Destroying Angels Are Active (1931) 230
By President Wilford Woodruff 230
A Great Test Coming (1930) 231
By Heber C. Kimball 231
An Army of Elders (1931) 232
By Heber C. Kimball 232
A Dream (1894) 232
Charles D. Evans 232
The Dream of the Plagues (1884) 237
Orson Pratt Prophecy (1866) 240
About John Pontius 242
