SID: Gary Wood was in an auto accident, a horrific one. He died and he had the most amazing guided tour of Heaven. He saw the body parts room and sadly, there were so many unclaimed gifts. Let’s take a look at what happened on December 23rd, 1966 when Gary had that accident.
GARY: Well I was driving home and my little sister was in the car with me and we were just anticipating spending Christmas with our family, and she was singing “Silent Night, Holy Night.” And I was just listening to her beautiful soprano voice, when all of a sudden she let out a blood-curdling scream. And I turned to see what was the matter, and came to the back of a 10-ton truck that was illegally parked on the edge of the highway that evening. It was in the midst of, the town we were in was in the midst of a big oil field, but it was saturated it in the oil. She saw it, the reflection in the bumper and attempted to warn me, but it was too late. It’s just, Sid, like crashing into a brick wall, and our car just crushed like an accordion. I remember just rising up out of my body. Dying was just very painless. At first, I experienced pain. There was like an explosion in my nose. It was sharp, searing pain across the lower portion of my facial anatomy. And then I was just really relieved of all pain. It was just like taking your clothes off and discarding them, and laying them off side. And I was caught up in a real massive swirling, funnel-shaped cloud, and a real bright light, not as bright as the studio lights here, but just a very tranquil light that engulfed me. And I began to rise upward and I began to walk up a pathway, much like kind of one those modern airports where you walk and the walkway moves quickly. And suddenly I heard singing. Now I was a music major at the time of the accident at college. When I was in high school I had won several awards for singing.
SID: So unlike me, you know when there’s good singing or just average singing.
GARY: Absolutely, yes. And this is the most stupendous singing I’ve ever heard in my life. The angels of Heaven were singing, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive glory and power. Wisdom and dominion be given unto thee forever, O Lord. Amen and amen.” And Sid, you never heard anything until you’ve heard trillions and billions of angelic beings as they began to worship and magnify God.
SID: Have you heard anything on Earth close to that?
GARY: Absolutely not. Sometimes we’ll get into an atmosphere in some areas of churches that I go to where people begin to worship, but never at the magnitude that I heard when I was there in Glory. I remember then that this cloud just opened up and I saw this gigantic golden satellite suspended in space. You know Sid, the most stupendous thought that can ever occupy the mind of man is Heaven and how to get there. And thank God, that we’re left to grope in darkness, but God has given us His word as a lamp unto our feet to light our path. And so, I remember looking at the foundation of this city. It was solid jasper. That’s diamonds. And I remember each foundation, 12 of them, were different foundational stones, and I remember looking at the names of the 12 apostles inscribed on those 12 stones.
SID: That sounds like scripture to me.
GARY: Exactly. It’s in the Book of Revelation. And then I saw the gates of solid pearl. The Bible gives us the dimensions of the city and a scientist worked with me in Florida, and here’s the dimensions. It’s 2.7 cubic billion miles in its circumference. It’s 780,000 stories high and there’s enough room to comfortably accommodate 100,000 million people. That’s more people—
SID: 100,000 million people.
GARY: That have ever lived on Planet Earth at any one time. But Jesus said it like this, “In my Father’s house are man mansions. If it were not so I told you so. I go to prepare a place for you.”
SID: I don’t want to get too far, but did you see your mansion?
GARY: I saw my mansion Sid.
SID: What did it look like?
GARY: Well it looked a southern colonial home. I saw a fence and I saw the beautiful marble columns. I walked into my mansion. I was taken on a tour of Heaven literally by a friend of mine who had died, that you talked about.
SID: This was the guy that was decapitated?
GARY: Decapitated. I recognized him immediately.
SID: Without a head?
GARY: Well I knew him now and he had his head and he was exactly like I remembered him up on the earth.
SID: That was nice for God to send him to welcome you.
GARY: Exactly. I learned that when you go to Heaven during this transition God has a special person assigned to you. It may be your mother. It may be a loved one that’s departed. But God has someone to acclimate you so to speak and take you on tour.
SID: Did you hug him when you saw him?
GARY: I hugged him and we embraced, and we just shared for a while. And he said, “There’s many things that I need to share with you.” And he began to take me on this tour. I went to my mansion and I went in, and there were three buckets of paint sitting in what looked like a living room area. Well my friend dipped his hand, threw it against the wall and a beautiful floral arrangement appeared. Now if you really get to know me, my nature, I picked up the whole bucket and flung it against the wall, and the whole room was saturated with this smell. Sid, it was like roses and a fragrance. And then he told me, Sid, it’s not ready for you to occupy. He said, “You’ve got to go.” And so that’s when I went out. I walked on a street that was pure solid gold. It was transparent. You could see all the way through it.
SID: Gold is transparent?
GARY: Gold is transparent. You go to a jeweler and they will tell you that there’s an impurity in gold, and when that impurity is removed gold is not yellow.
SID: Gary, there is something that fascinates me so much. You went to the library. Tell me about that.
GARY: Yes. There were all kinds of volumes of books in there. And when someone receives Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and savior here upon the earth an angel will take a cloth and just wipe out all the transgressions and all the deeds that a person had done in their life, and then their name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
SID: Did you actually see this happen while you were there?
GARY: I actually saw it happen. I saw a man on the earth receive Jesus. I saw the angel receive the report that wiped out the transgressions of his life.
SID: That’s got to be so real to you.
GARY: It was very real because I saw my name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. I saw books with prayer requests in them, spiritual growth, you know, that we have here on the earth, and I saw—
SID: So they’re paying attention to whether we are growing or whether we’re just watching soap operas.
GARY: Absolutely, and the souls that we have won.
