Nita Johnson 2

The testimony describes a profound spiritual experience in which the author learns about the overwhelming and unwavering love of God and the cost of true union with Him. In a time of deep personal trial, the Lord appears in a symbolic vision—visibly "fat" with the Spirit of Truth—to illustrate how full He is of living, divine truth. This is followed by a deeper revelation of Divine Love—not emotional or fleeting, but immovable and steadfast, strong enough to carry a believer through the hardest trials. The testimony emphasizes that God's passion and love for His people is far beyond human comprehension, and that true spiritual union requires the surrender of self and the world.

Nita Johnson 1

The testimony describes a powerful encounter where the speaker was spiritually caught up into heaven during a walk with a friend. There, Jesus revealed the deep purpose behind creation—not just to form the earth, nature, and mankind, but ultimately to have intimate union with His people. Through divine questions and waves of liquid light and love, the Lord expressed His overwhelming longing for a people who would choose Him fully. He allowed the speaker to feel a single teardrop of His passion, which conveyed the intensity of His desire to dwell in His beloved—not just spiritually, but in a complete and abiding union of soul. The entire experience unveiled the depth of God's love and the ultimate purpose of creation: union with Him.

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SNATCHED TO HEAVEN: UNION WITH GOD PART 1

I would like to share with you about uncommon Christianity. What I am going to share is available to you if you will pay the price. What I am about to share is about the place of dwelling He designed for us from the beginning.

WALKING WITH SCRIPTURE

I love to go for walks in nature near a stream, or by the ocean, or in a park where there is a lake. About twenty years ago, I was walking down a path with my secretary and friend. I used to take her out for walks probably five days a week. I would tell her, “You choose whatever Scripture or Scriptures you want to discuss, and we will discuss those Scriptures throughout our walk.” We would do this for about two hours daily. There were times when I would be walking with her, and the Lord would, by His Spirit, take my spirit up to Him in the throne room or wherever He wanted to take me, and there He would speak to me.

CAUGHT UP BY EXPLOSIVE JOY

One particular time, while on one of our walks, He suddenly swept through me with a burst of explosive joy. It was so explosive that my spirit immediately left my body. If the Lord takes your spirit in this way, your soul can still conduct business on this earth, and Jesus also sends a heavenly guard to make sure you are kept safe until your spirit is returned. It is a unique experience in which the Lord makes provision to enable you to essentially function in two places at once. My friend was able to hear only my side of the conversation during this time when Jesus took me to His throne. My spirit was in heaven while my soul was here on the earth. My body was obviously responding tremendously to what was happening to me in heaven. The reason I am telling you this has to do with His purpose for taking me to heaven before His throne. He wanted us to know how much it means to Him to bring His loved ones into a union.

DIVINE QUESTIONS AND LIQUID LIGHT

As I stood before Him, He began asking me questions about creation while at the same time flooding me with light. He asked me simple questions such as, “Why do you think I created this?” I replied, “I don't know, Lord.” I have learned that when He asks you a question, He is not really attempting to determine how much you know. He already knows what you know. What He is trying to do at that moment is to help you understand what you don't know. Isn't that sweet? Thus, He engages us while He heightens our desire for more of Him!

THE PURPOSE OF CREATION

So He began, “Nita, do you know why I made the sun, the moon, and the stars?” I replied, “No, Lord. Why?” He responded, “So I could make the earth.” Then He asked, “Do you know why I made the earth?” I replied, “No, Lord. I don't know why.” (Even now as I share this I can feel His Spirit again exploding in my heart with the very same love I felt that day.) What a wonderful Lord! Back to the visit! He said, “So that I could make the trees and all the plant life.” Then He asked, “Do you know why I made the plant life?” I replied, “No, Lord. Why did you make the plant life?” He said, “I wanted to create the ocean, fish of the sea and all of the animal kingdom. Do you know why?” All I could say was, “No, Lord. I don't know why.” He said, “So that I could create the garden—so beautiful, so exquisite, and so fair.” Although this may not precisely relate His exact line of questions, I have given you a summary account of very close approximation.

CASCADE OF LIQUID LOVE

While He was speaking to me, remember, He was washing me with a cascade of liquid light, filled with healing love. It flowed down directly from Him, repeatedly washing over me. It was not exactly like standing inside a waterfall as the cascade was inconstant. Instead of a constant rate of flow, these waters of liquid light and love cascaded down upon me like waves moving across the sea. What an experience it was!

WHY MAN WAS CREATED

He then tenderly asked, “Nita, do you know why I wanted to create the garden?” I replied, “No, Lord. I don't know why.” He said, “So I could create man.” Painful thoughts raced through my mind. Thoughts, such as, “Why? Why would you want to create the man who has given You so much trouble? There has been so much pain on this earth, and since You carry all that pain within You, why would You want to engage?” I wrestled with such unanswered questions at that time in my Christian walk. If I could only receive answers from My Father, it seemed they would heal the deep hurt I felt over what we as humans have done.

THE DEPTH OF GOD’S LONGING

He heard my thoughts before they even entered my mind. He answered gently, “I knew before I created man what would happen. I knew I would have to send My Son to redeem man from sin. I knew! However, there was an aching and a longing so deep in My heart that only this one dream could satisfy. This dream was the hope of the day when a vast community of believers would come to love Me enough to give up everything to have Me living inside them in such a capacity as union with Me can give. And Nita, you don't know passion such as Your God feels when He feels passion.” While He said this, the liquid light and love continued to flow over me. I felt completely overwhelmed.

ONE TEARDROP OF DIVINE PASSION

He said, “I'm going to let you feel just one teardrop of My passion.” Think of how minuscule is the size of a single teardrop. He let the teardrop fall upon me. The amount of His passion for us contained in that single teardrop was so enormous, so magnanimous, and so forceful, that it felt like He had poured into me the whole of heaven itself. The love and passion contained therein caused my heart to hurt so much that I thought I was going to die. It was, however, a wonderful hurt that carried with it a divine longing and full expectation of the longing’s being met. It was not a longing that ached from a lack of satisfaction, but one which He fully intended to satisfy. So although my heart ached with such intense pain, the pain was also filled with divine love and expectation.

THE HUNGER FOR UNION

His longing was coming from the fact that He missed having a people of such caliber who would pursue Him above all else. It could be likened to the intense natural longing that forms in a mother while she is carrying a baby in her womb. She yearns for the baby to go from the womb into her arms so that she can embrace and love her child. In that same way, He just wanted to hold us. He intensely desired to be in us, not just in our spirit but on the throne of our soul in union with us. He longed for that link and connection. He was so hungry for each and every one. He longs for you with an unquenchable yearning that only union can satisfy. God knows and understands passion like no human being can experience. He wants you. The bottom line is that He brought into existence all of creation so that He could have union with us. Isn't that amazing?

The Unspeakable Glories of the 7 Heavens

This testimony describes an intense near-death experience in which the individual feels overwhelmed by an immense white light filled with divine love and power. Initially paralyzed by the light, they surrender to it, experiencing an ecstatic unity with it. They are then carried through multiple celestial realms, each increasing in divine glory, love, and wisdom by a factor of a million. 

On December 22, 1986 (around 4:15 pm), I suddenly felt like I was going to die. So I laid down, and soon I was inundated by an intense white light—filled with the most fabulous Power of Love in the universe.

Inside this light, I could hear the roar of deafening winds but also the most beautiful song—the voice of angels that covered the sound of the winds. My body was paralyzed by the power of this Light. This Love was beyond me. I was afraid of losing control of my physical functions.

The desire to stay in control—the desire itself, movement, thought—everything that was human died in the light.

BECOMING THE LIGHT 

When it swallowed me whole, an explosion of Ecstasy and Love rose from my navel, merging with the light itself. Soon, I became the Light. I became Innocence, Love, Ecstasy, Peace, Power, Beauty, and Wisdom of Light.

Like a mother carrying her child in her arms, the Light carried me upward at breakneck speed. The Light spoke to me—and I knew it was God, the Power that had created the whole universe.

The First Heaven

The Light told me that this first sky of Light where I was—whose light and love exceeded a million times what I had known on Earth—was filled with an infinite number of heavenly planets. I looked at my body and saw that it was made of pure white light, but it still had a bright human form.

The Second Heaven

I stayed there for a while. Then I was transported higher, where the Joy and Glory of God crushed me to the point of not being able to bear this Ecstasy for a long time. I exploded in a new light, where the Glory of Innocence, Love, Ecstasy, Peace, Power, and Wisdom was a million times brighter than in First Heaven.

My new body was more radiant, clearer, and could somehow support an exponential increase in Glory. I was told this Second Heaven had an infinite number of planets.

The Third Heaven

I exploded once again inside a new light—a million times brighter than the previous one. It was the Third Heaven. My body still looked human, but there was so much white light in it that I couldn’t believe my eyes. I could see clearly and perfectly millions of miles away.

The song of the Angels above me was magnificent, deafening, and glorious. I felt that the vibration of sounds carried such sophisticated wisdom that it could actually create life and myriad possibilities in the universe. These Angelic sounds were intended to create.

The Fourth Heaven

I left the Third Heaven for the Fourth, where the Glory of God was so resplendent that I had the impression that the beings existing on this plane exceeded any concept of Glory imaginable.

My body was so bright here that it had little human appearance left. This Glory was so radiant that I said to God, “I cannot bear any more. You are so much larger than the God that I had imagined to be beyond my understanding.” Entire galaxies of energy could be created with this light.

The Fifth Heaven

I asked God not to bring me higher, but He did it anyway. At this stage, the splendor of Glory clearly exceeded my capacities. An astonishing quality of light descended from an even more radiant plane above me. I don’t think there were planets on this plane—but maybe there are beings living inside the stars themselves.

The Grace of God, its most poetic and marvelous quality, descended like millions of leaves falling harmoniously—soothing and purifying Ecstasy and Glory to a point that I could not bear. I could write an entire chapter on this Grace without being able to do it justice.

The Sixth Heaven

Then I was brought to the Fifth Heaven. My body now looked like a giant sun. I no longer had any human appearance. Glory is indescribable. What is happening there is completely inconceivable for humans.

I stayed there for a while. Then I was taken to the Sixth Heaven, a million times more radiant than the Fifth. I will not speak of the splendor of God on this plane. The Angels sing so loud that no human ear can hear this music of the universe.

My body had become an even brighter sun—merged with the light that is at the center of God.

The Seventh Heaven

I was then transported to the Seventh Heaven. What was going on there was so beyond my ability that God brought me down. I could only stay in Seventh Heaven for ten seconds.

Light could create entire galaxies with the utmost ease. The beings who can go there are a million times more advanced than me. Since the level of Light and Glory of Innocence, Love, Ecstasy, Peace, Power, Beauty, and Wisdom increases a million times from one heaven to the next, going through these planes and staying there is very difficult.

Supporting Scriptures 

• 1 Timothy 6:15–16 “Which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto…”
• John 14:2 “In My Father’s house are many mansions…”
• Colossians 3:2 “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
• Philippians 3:20 “For our conversation is in heaven…”
• Psalm 73:25 “Whom have I in heaven but thee?”
• Psalm 19:1–2 “The heavens declare the glory of God…”
• Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To every thing there is a season…”
• Matthew 6:19–20 “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven…”
• Matthew 19:14 “The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
• Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth shall pass away…”
• Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah Lord God! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth…”
• 1 Timothy 6:7–8 “For we brought nothing into this world…”
• 1 John 3:2–3 “We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”
• Psalm 108:5 “Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens…”
• 2 Timothy 4:18 “The Lord shall deliver me…and preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom…”
• Amos 9:6 “He builds His lofty palace in the heavens…”
• Genesis 1:1–2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…”
• Psalm 124:8 “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
• Isaiah 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth…”
• Matthew 19:21 “Sell what you have and give to the poor…you will have treasure in heaven…”
• 2 Corinthians 12:2–4 “Such a one caught up to the third heaven…”
• Luke 24:50–51 “He was taken up into heaven.”
• Jeremiah 23:24 “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.

—David