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🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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"We were walking across a field in heaven, when a little boy walked up to me, said, 'Hi, my name is Daniel. I think that you're my dad.' He told me that he had been here for a long, long time. I've grown up here with a bunch of others, since we were little babies. Indeed, many years before, my wife had a miscarriage of a baby that we were going to call Daniel."
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In 2021, COVID nearly took Steve Boyls' life. His odds of survival were slim—15 to 20 percent—and he slipped into a coma for 21 days, on a ventilator for 45. His wife, Kathy, a doctor, knew exactly how bad it was, but because of hospital restrictions, she couldn't visit, even to hold his hand, for 20 days.
While Kathy was fighting on earth, Steve was being carried by his angel into heaven's throne room. He stood before Jesus and the Father. He saw war horses being trained for the end times, shared heavenly food, reunited with loved ones—including a son, Daniel, lost through miscarriage—and was taught truths he had never even wanted to read about. He returned with a new mission and a book titled, I've Been to Heaven.
This is a story that will touch both your mind and your heart.
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| 0:00.0 | And we're going across this field and this little boy walks up to me and he says, |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, my name's Daniel, I think you're my dad. |
| 0:18.0 | My wife was going to have a little baby and if it was a boy, we were going to name |
| 0:22.2 | him Daniel. And he said, I've been here since I was really little, because she was only like |
| 0:26.9 | four or five weeks pregnant at the time. And so he said, I've grown up in this place with a bunch |
| 0:33.0 | of other little babies and just grown up together with them. This is Touched by Heaven. |
| 0:38.5 | Everyday encounters with God, those moments when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:43.5 | And we see God reaching out to us, attempting to get our attention in these great encounter |
| 0:48.1 | stories with angels, divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions. |
| 0:51.5 | Today, a near-death experience. |
| 0:53.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm your host, Trapper, Jack. Who doesn't love, a near-death experience. Welcome. I'm your host, Trapper, Jack. |
| 1:01.3 | Who doesn't love a great near-death experience story? You know who doesn't? Who didn't? |
| 1:07.7 | The main character, Stephen Boyles, who had the near-death experience. He wouldn't listen to this podcast. He wouldn't read the books. His wife, Kathy, love this stuff. |
| 1:11.7 | Stephen, eh. |
| 1:12.8 | Then I would pass them and Stephen ask, hey, would you like to read this? |
| 1:17.3 | This is a really good book. |
| 1:18.6 | And he would always say, nope, nope, I'm not interested. |
| 1:21.3 | I'll go to heaven when I die, but I don't need to be reading that stuff now. |
| 1:25.9 | And then he had the experience. I got a degree in computer science from |
| 1:31.0 | the University of Tulsa, and I'd been a software engineer, developer, architect for the last |
| 1:36.7 | 35 years or so. COVID time, he almost dies multiple times. So his wife, Kathy, a doctor, knows full well the odds of him making it through |
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