In heaven, everyone has wings (except Jesus) and it's always light, according to Colton Burpo.
In heaven, everyone has wings (except Jesus) and it's always light, according to Colton Burpo.

Four months after his emergency surgery, 4-year-old Colton Burpo started telling his parents about experiences he had in heaven while he was lying in the hospital bed having an emergency appendectomy.  When the picayune boy from small-town Nebraska described where his female parent and male parent were during the surgery and what they were doing while he was "upwardly and out of his body," Colton'southward parents, Todd Burpo (a Protestant pastor) and Sonja Burpo, knew he was telling the truth.

They decided to share Colton'southward message of organized religion through a book, "Sky is For Existent," which is now a New York Times all-time seller. A motion picture based on "Heaven is for Real" will be in theatres on April 16th.

Before Colton's descriptions of heaven are released on the large screen, we thought we'd give you a sneak peek. Here are some of the things little Colton says he saw:

one. Angels sang to him because he was scared. He asked them to sing, "We Volition Nosotros Volition Rock You," merely they wouldn't.

2. Colton describes heaven'south gates as existence fabricated of gilded with pearls on them. The metropolis of heaven, he said, is fabricated of something shiny, like aureate and silverish. There are more than colors in heaven, and the flowers and copse are beautiful. Colton says he saw animals of every kind — including Jesus' rainbow-colored horse and dogs, birds and friendly lions.

3. Colton says he sat on Jesus' lap at one point while he was in sky. He says Jesus has brown hair and hair on his face. He told his begetter that Jesus' eyes are so pretty.

4. Colton says Jesus had "markers" in the palms of his hands and on the tops of his feet, and that he wears white with a purple sash and a gold crown with a pinkish diamond in the eye.

This painting of Jesus Christ by Akiane Kramarik is what the Savior looks like according to Xxx.
This painting of Jesus Christ by Akiane Kramarik is what the Savior looks like, according to Colton Burpo.

5. Todd and Sonja Burpo showed Colton many paintings of Jesus to find out which one he thought came closest. It wasn't until he finally saw the painting of Christ by viii-yr-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik, who claims to have seen heavenly visions from the age of four, that Colton said it was right. After Kramarik continued to share her visions of heaven and turn them into life through her paintings, her atheist mother started believing in God.

6. Colton told his parents nearly meeting his sister in sky, whom his mother had miscarried earlier Colton was born, and whom the parents had never spoken to Colton about. He says this sister looked a lot similar his living sis, Cassie, but was smaller and had nighttime hair. Colton says she wouldn't stop hugging him.

vii. Colton also claims he met his grandfather, who died thirty years before Colton was built-in. When Colton'southward father showed him a photo of "Popular" shortly before he passed away, Colton didn't recognize him. When his father showed him a photo of "Popular" at 29 years sometime, Colton instantly recognized him as the man he spent time with in heaven. Colton told his father that no ane is old in sky.

eight. Colton said everyone in heaven has wings except Jesus, who "merely went up and down like an elevator." As well, co-ordinate to Colton, everyone in heaven has a "lite" over their heads.

A coloring sheet available at heavenisforreal.net shows what Colton Burpee says God's thrown looks like.
A coloring canvass available at heavenisforreal.net shows what Colton Burpo says God and Jesus' thrown resemble.

9. Colton claims to accept seen God's throne, which he describes every bit "really, actually big" and says Jesus' throne is "right side by side to his dad's," on the right, and that Gabriel's throne is on the other side. Colton says he saw Mary kneeling at Christ's throne and at other times standing by him. He said "she withal loves him like a Mom."

ten. Colton says it never gets dark in heaven, considering God and Jesus calorie-free it upwardly.

To learn more about Colton's entire story, as told by his father, Todd Burpo, click here.