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<\/p>\nWhen a young boy died in a car crash, he says he went to heaven. After being resuscitated, he came back with a message he says Jesus gave him to share with the world \u2014 and he wants everyone to hear it before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n
Landon Whitley was in the backseat, riding home from church with his mom and dad, on October 19, 1997, when tragedy struck. \u201cI didn\u2019t see what he was yelling at. I didn\u2019t see the ambulance coming, but I remember him yelling. That was the last thing I heard from him,\u201d Julie Kemp, Landon\u2019s mom recalled, according to Fox News. The \u201che\u201d she is referring to was her husband Andy, and the ambulance she speaks of broadsided their car in an intersection<\/p>\n
Landon was just 8 years old when the ambulance, returning to its station, T-boned his family\u2019s car at an intersection. His dad died instantly. Rescuers stabilized Julie but didn\u2019t realize Landon was also in the car. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t see his body because of the damage that was done to the driver\u2019s side of the car and Landon was sitting behind his dad,\u201d Julie explained. When they saw Landon\u2019s shoe, however, they began to search for a child\u2019s body, CBN reported.<\/p>\n
They eventually found Landon, but he wasn\u2019t breathing. Resuscitation efforts began immediately, then he was life-flighted from the scene. He died two more times that day. Each time, he was brought back to life, but he wasn\u2019t out of the woods. \u201cThey told me that if he lived, which did not look good, but that if he lived, that he would be like an 8-year-old baby,\u201d Julie recalled. \u201cHe would not know how to walk or talk or to eat because of all the brain damage. I was so desperate that that was okay. I would take that just to have him. He was all that I had.\u201d<\/p>\n
As her son fought for his life, Julie had to lay her husband to rest. At his funeral, she admits that she felt abandoned by God. \u201cI was very disappointed, heartbroken. And when I\u2019m sitting at the funeral I\u2019m fussing at God. I don\u2019t understand why this happened,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t understand why He didn\u2019t send angels to protect us. But in the very next breath, I\u2019m praying as hard to Him as I\u2019ve ever prayed in my life for Landon to live.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Landon suffered massive head trauma during the accident and was left in a coma, hooked up to all kinds of machines to keep him alive, after two weeks, the boy opened his eyes \u2014 an answer to Julie\u2019s prayers. To everyone\u2019s shock, he didn\u2019t have any brain damage. In the midst of celebrations that her boy was finally awake, however, Julie realized she had to tell him that he had lost his dad. \u201cHe had scars on his face. And his head was just full of hurt. And I didn\u2019t want to hurt him anymore,\u201d Julie remembered. \u201cSo I asked Landon, I said, \u2018Landon, do you know where your dad is at?\u2019 And, he told me, \u2018Yes, I know where he\u2019s at. I saw him in heaven.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not all Landon saw in heaven, either. He saw family friends who had passed before and siblings he never knew he had. \u201cHe looked over to me and he says, \u2018Oh mom, by the way, I forgot to tell you. I saw your other two kids.\u2019 And I just looked at him because I wasn\u2019t sure what he was talking about. But I had two miscarriages before Landon was born. And he saw them in heaven,\u201d Julie said. \u201cWe had never shared that with Landon. He did not know that we had lost two children before him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew that they were my siblings even though no one had ever told me about them,\u201d Landon explained. \u201cJust being in Heaven, I guess you know\u2014you know your own or you know who everyone is.\u201d Each time Landon died, he said he had a different experience in heaven. During his third visit, he says he met Jesus and was given a message and a mission<\/p>\n
\u201cJesus came to me and told me that I have to go back to earth and be a good Christian and tell others about Him,\u201d Landon shared. \u201cI just want people to realize that Jesus is real, there is a heaven, there are angels. And to follow His word and the Bible, and life does get better at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n