'90 Minutes in Heaven' Don Piper Warns That Heaven Is for Prepared People
Piper describes heaven as being more tangible than reality.
"Being there was my most real thing that's ever happened to me. Nothing here, even though I came back to just a brutal period of surgeries and recovery, was as real as what I saw in heaven. So heaven became my reality and the journey here that we're all living on earth became just what it is. Which is a trial heat," he said.
He did not stay there though, and the film "90 Minutes in Heaven" walks the audience through the process following it all. A very upset Piper laid in a hospital bed for the months following his divine trip wondering why he was sent back. He now believes God brought him back to help others be prepared for glory.
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"Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people so you have to be ready for it and we're trying to get people prepared for it and this movie is a perfect example of just that very thing," he stated.
"Why would anybody go through the trouble of having their lives played out on a screen, which was a very excruciatingly difficult part of life? Well the reason we would go through it is because we want people to see heaven is real, it's a better place and you can actually live a better life than the one you're living on the way to that place," the Pasadena, Texas resident continued.
At the Box Office, the film has reportedly grossed over $4 million to date. "90 Minutes in Heaven" is presented by Giving Films, a non-profit company that has vowed to donate all the profits made to people that can't help themselves. Piper is very grateful for the collaboration and maintains that by releasing his book and now the film he is hoping to also spread the hope that awaits people in heaven.
"The story is about being ready everyday of your life. The people I had met in heaven had been various ages when they died but they were ready when they died. That's the key, is trying to get people ready for heaven causing them to stop and think 'am I ready?'" he proceeded to say.
"The reality is when the truck struck me on the bridge it hit all of us. It hit our church our extended family, our immediate family, we were all affected in a very dramatic way by this," Piper confessed. "We all became victims because of the accident even though they didn't get hurt in a physical sense like I did, they were hurt in another sense."
He added, "I only survived this because somebody prayed, thousands of people prayed. God does answer prayer and I'm a living testimony to that. God is in the miracle business because many, many miracles had to happen for me to survive. I knew those things before the truck hit me but when you're going through this experience, answered prayer becomes very obvious because there's no other reason why you're still here. And then the miracles, even though I didn't feel very miraculous, it's an incredible miracle that I survived and that I can work again and function based on all the catastrophic injuries that I had."
"90 Minutes of Heaven" is filled with themes on the importance of prayer in the midst of tragedy. But what the Baptist preacher really wants people to understand is that tomorrow is not promised and they should be mindful of eternity now.
"The death rate here is 100%, so the question is what happens next? There are only two options and one of them is hell and one of them is heaven. I think we know where we want to be and that's heaven and that's with God, the one who created us in the first place," Piper concluded, "We are born into sin, which means we are just not eligible for heaven so in order to get there, there's going to have to be some kind of reconciliation, some bridge, Jesus came to do that. He is God in the flesh and he provided a way by his sacrifice on the cross. The wages of sin is death. He died but he didn't stay dead, and we don't have to either. We can be in heaven with God, through Christ and having a relationship with Jesus."
For more information on "90 Minutes of Heaven" visit 90minutesinheaven.com
