​evening news 20181213

[Interviewer:]
Best story of the night right here
A Michigan couple getting the shock of their lives
When they got an alert from their security camera in the driveway
[Husband:]
It was kinda like really unusual we’ve never ever seen anything like it
[Wife:]
I was like wow I mean that is an angel
[Husband:]
The photos are exactly how they were taken I choose to believe it I think it's an angel
[Interviewer:]
Take a good look
Many, including their pastor said that they believe this image captured by security camera shows an angel hovering over the families truck last week so could it be and in the next picture we have it it looks like it has moved to a different part over the truck
So joining me now is an expert pastor Don Piper who has written about his own experience, he was in a terrible car accident and he died and went to heaven and came back. He is the author of “People I Met at the Gates of Heaven”
Pastor Don Piper good to see you
I'm pretty sure you believe these folks when they say that's an angel right?
[Pastor Don Piper:]
I do I think we are around them all the time
The Bible says in Hebrews that um we should treat strangers with absolute courtesy because we never know if they are an angel and what that says is that we ought to probably treat each other better as humans and it also says that angels are everywhere and we may not always know who we are talking to it could be an angel flying above our truck and any time any place anywhere
[Interviewer:]
So this was a motion activated security camera that they keep attached to their home to look at their driveway and their car so they they believe that the motion of this angel that they feel that they saw is was set off the motion detector and they were able to-to t-trap it on a video which you can do if you have one of these cameras and it is a very stunning beautiful image that they got but tell me a little bit about your experience pastor Piper because you were in a car crash and you say that you were transported instantly to the gates of heaven, tell me about that
[Pastor Don Piper:]
One of the things that happens at the moment of death, and I was killed in a head on collision with an eighteen-wheeler tractor trailer truck is that uh we are absent from this body and present with the lord. if we are prepared to go I wasn't planning to die that day but I was ready. and uh I was transported by angels and um the bible says that we are transported to heaven by angels to abraham's bosom and that's another euphemism in the bible for heaven itself so we go there by (?) angels other people who are with someone who is dying feel like there is a presence in the room, usually there is, and I arrived at the gates of heaven and I was greeted by people who helped me get to heaven who preceded me in death. so I was surrounded by a lot of humans but there were angels everywhere as well. angels are not just little cherubs playing harps on clouds, these are robust amazing creatures, some have 6 wings some have 2 some have none but I could hear their voices and I could actually hear their wings, thats one of the things that was most stunning. Most encouraging in company
[Interviewer:]
And you said it when you were there this I just wanna put this fact up that the numbers of people pointing out who believes in angels and 72% say they do you can see the other numbers there, you say that everyone person you saw there was someone that you knew
[Pastor Don Piper:]
They were um I think that the people that I did not know in this life were inside they did not come up with me I think the ones I greeted at the gates of heaven were the people who helped me get there which of course when I came back that motivated me all the more to try to get people into heaven because I know these people helped me get there and the question ultimately is who are we gonna greet there I think it's gonna be the people we help get there. There was an angel back here when I got back to earth when I returned and then climbed in the car and into the wreckage and he prayed over the body and he did return and a lot of people were praying for me that did not already know I was dead. When I came back I met him 3 weeks later after I recovered enough to be conscious and I told him thank you, thank you for praying for me and I found that he prayed for me but I didn't know he held my hand
[Interviewer:]
That's an amazing story, I'm gonna leave it there but thank you so much for sharing that with us