Amateur hockey player Billy Garaffa’s 16-minute clinical death during a 2022 game led to a divine encounter that transformed him from a nominal believer into a fervent witness for Christ, proving that God’s miraculous power still operates in our modern world. Miraculous Survival Against Medical Odds Billy Garaffa collapsed on the ice during a 2022 amateur hockey game, suffering ventricular fibrillation that stopped his heart completely. Medical professionals pronounced him clinically dead for sixteen minutes before successful resuscitation. Doctors later discovered rare collateral arteries in his heart—additional blood vessels that likely prevented permanent brain damage during the extended cardiac arrest. This anatomical feature, which Billy describes as “God built this miracle into me,” enabled his full recovery without neurological deficits that typically accompany such prolonged oxygen deprivation. Divine Encounter During Clinical Death During his sixteen minutes of clinical death, Billy experienced what he describes as standing “in the light” with God. He recalls feeling more alive than ever before, encountering the Holy Spirit, and receiving divine guidance. The experience included sensory details such as a sweet smell and an overwhelming sense of peace. Billy emphasizes that this wasn’t a dream or hallucination but a real encounter that fundamentally changed his understanding of God’s love and the simplicity of faith. His testimony adds to documented near-death experiences but stands out for its theological specificity and immediate life transformation. Faith Transformation from Nominal to Fervent Before his cardiac arrest, Billy maintained casual Christian beliefs without deep commitment. The near-death experience radically transformed his faith perspective, converting him from a nominal believer to an active witness for Christ. He now publicly shares his testimony through podcasts, interviews, and appearances on Christian media. Billy’s transformation demonstrates how divine encounters can instantly redirect lives toward spiritual purpose. His wife, Isabella, supports his ministry, noting that “faith doesn’t mean you don’t feel fear,” but rather that it means trusting God through life’s uncertainties. The Garaffa family’s experience illustrates God’s sovereignty over life and death circumstances. Billy’s pre-game prayer for protection, sensing unusual foreboding, shows divine preparation for the miraculous events. Isabella’s immediate prayer to Jesus from the hockey rink stands demonstrates faith in crisis moments. Their testimony encourages believers that God orchestrates circumstances for His glory and our spiritual growth, even in the midst of medical emergencies that appear devastating. Testimony Gaining National Recognition Billy’s remarkable story gained renewed attention in January 2026 through appearances on The Juice Radio and Fox News and featured coverage by CBN News. His testimony resonates with Christian audiences seeking evidence of God’s active presence in contemporary life. The story provides hope for believers facing medical crises and demonstrates that miraculous healings haven’t ceased in modern times. Billy continues sharing his experience through various media platforms, emphasizing God’s love and the reality of spiritual encounters that secular society often dismisses or explains away through naturalistic interpretations. Billy Garaffa’s extraordinary experience serves as powerful testimony that God’s miraculous power remains active today, offering hope to believers and challenging skeptics to consider spiritual realities beyond medical explanations. His transformation from nominal faith to passionate witness demonstrates how divine encounters can instantly redirect lives toward eternal purposes that transcend earthly concerns. Sources: ‘God Built This Miracle’: Hockey Player Died for 16 Minutes, Says He Spoke to God Hockey player says he stood ‘in the light’ with God during 16-minute death Hockey player details holy encounter after collapsing mid-game

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Writing at Axios, energy writer Amy Harder says, “The climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning—in speed, scale and scope.” Harder quotes oil historian and S&P Global vice-chairman Dan Yergin as saying, “There’s no handwaving about how ‘We want to cooperate on climate.’ It’s, ‘We’re slamming the door on that issue.’ We’ve gone from over-indexing it to zero-indexing it.” Polling has never shown climate change as being an issue of primary concern to American voters. Americans have consistently been more worried about issues that impact their daily lives today than about warnings from modern-day P.T. Barnums like U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres about some nebulous “highway to hell” and “the age of global boiling. The issue had been slowly losing its effectiveness during the Biden years even as that administration tried to memorialize the movement’s objectives in policy. Even Democrat politicians have quit talking about the so-called “climate emergency” which used to be a central plank in their talking points list. When was the last time you heard New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, co-author with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of the “Green New Deal” introduced in 2019, talk about the supposed need to force ordinary citizens to give up their cars, flying, and vacations and spend trillions on a nationwide network of high-speed rails to save the planet? When was the last time you heard any Democrat utter the phrase “Green New Deal,” for that matter? It simply doesn’t happen anymore. One of the motivators for the political abandonment of the climate scam by Democrats came from a pre-election analysis from the center-left Searchlight Institute last November. That memo advised Democrat candidates to avoid using the term “climate change” entirely, and to focus on the supposed cost savings to be obtained by switching to green energy solutions. Never mind that such cost savings are a myth: The truth doesn’t matter. What matters is the ability to influence voters with the message. Therein lies the central existential threat to the movement’s survival in the coming years. For decades, liberal politicians and climate advocates were able to advance the climate alarm agenda by creating, well, alarm among the public that the world is going to end if we don’t stop putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Always the messaging had a deadline claiming, “We only have X number of years to stop burning fossil fuels before it’s too late!” Over the past 40 years, that deadline to act has given the term “moving the goalposts” a new green meaning. AOC claimed the drop-dead date was only 12 years in the future as she rolled out her ambition to control everyone’s daily lives in the name of climate alarm in 2019. But the very next year, in 2020, child activist Greta Thunberg moved the goalposts to a mere five years. But wait: Just a year later, Joe Biden read a script from his teleprompter that set the deadline at 10 years. It’s all so darn confusing. No doubt, these politicians and activists wish they could erase their past claims from everyone’s memory. Their trouble is, the Internet is forever. Advocates were even successful in convincing Barack Obama’s EPA to dummy up an Endangerment Finding declaring that carbon dioxide is in fact a “pollutant” that must be regulated under the Clean Air Act in order to save the planet. Never mind that CO2, otherwise known as plant food, the foundational basis for all life on Planet Earth: The truth doesn’t matter. Now, it appears that the movement is inheriting the wages of decades of deception with a sudden and stunning fall from grace. It could not happen to a more deserving bunch of people. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.   The post Is the Climate Scare Narrative Headed for Bankruptcy? appeared first on The Daily Signal.