When death came knocking, it didn’t just tap once—it burst through the door again and again. For years, Abigail Robertson says she had never experienced the loss of a close loved one. Then, in a whirlwind of events over the span of just a few years, she lost both sets of grandparents, her husband’s father and finally, her own mother.
“Three weeks after our daughter was born, my husband’s dad is diagnosed with cancer. He dies five days later,” Robertson shared. That devastating loss was quickly followed by the passing of her grandmother, then her grandfather and just months later, her mother.
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Before her grandfather, CBN founder Pat Robertson, passed, God gave Abigail a vision about him, signaling that he would soon be entering paradise.
“I just say ‘Dear Jesus.’ And then I go silent because I have this vision of my grandfather sitting on a really placid beach—it looks like the Sea of Galilee—and I see a choir of angels pouring out through the sky and I just see my grandfather. He’s the age—it’s an age I didn’t even know him at—he looked like he was in his mid-20s, very youthful, biggest smile on his face and he’s just ready. And he just is like, ‘I’m ready, Lord.’”
Right after this, Robertson booked a flight by the prompting of the Holy Spirit to go visit her grandfather one last time. She sat by his side, holding his hand, reading the Psalms.
“Every single one of them had a line about the righteous will not be shaken,” Robertson says. After this, her uncle disclosed something to her that she did not know. “When he [Grandfather Pat] was a baby, he had an aunt Josephine who sat by his crib and would read him Psalms,” she recounts.
Soon after, Pat Robertson passed, near the 4 a.m. hour, just as Abigail had sensed by the prompting of the Holy Spirit.
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In the midst of unimaginable grief and repeated loss, Abigail Robertson discovered something deeper than sorrow—an invitation to see heaven’s nearness in life’s most painful moments. Each death carried with it a divine encounter, a vision or a gentle nudge from the Holy Spirit that pointed to the reality of eternity. What began as heartbreak unfolded into a sacred story of how God speaks, comforts and prepares His children in the final moments of life on earth.
This story is ultimately a reminder that for the righteous, death is not the end, but a beautiful beginning.
Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
