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FINAL MESSAGE FROM A MAN OF GOD: Jimmy Swaggart’s Family Shares His Last Sentences Before He Passed — “If You’re Watching This… I’m Already…”
The Swaggart family has shared what they describe as the final recorded message of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart — a quiet, deeply personal farewell left just days before his passing. According to those closest to him, the recording was never meant for the world, but for his family. Yet its words were so filled with faith that they felt compelled to let others hear it.
The video was filmed in a softly lit room, far from the pulpit where Swaggart spent a lifetime preaching. There were no crowds. No choir. Just a man, a Bible, and a camera.
His voice was weaker than the world remembered, but still unmistakable.
“If you’re watching this,” he said gently, pausing to catch his breath, “I’m already where every believer longs to be.”
Those words alone sent chills through those who later viewed the recording. But he continued, speaking slowly, as if measuring each sentence.
“I’m not afraid,” he said. “I see more clearly now than I ever did on this side of life. Heaven is not a dream. It’s home.”
Family members say he recorded the message after sensing that his time was near. He asked for no doctors, no interruptions — only a few quiet moments to speak from his heart.
In the video, Swaggart thanked his wife, Frances, for standing beside him through decades of ministry and hardship. He spoke to his children and grandchildren, reminding them that faith was not something to perform, but something to live.
“Don’t remember me for the crowds,” he said. “Remember me for the love.”
He also addressed those who had followed his ministry across generations.
“If my preaching ever helped you find Jesus,” he said softly, “then my life was worth it.”
The recording ends without music or closing prayer. He simply smiles faintly and lowers his eyes.
The family says those were the last words he ever recorded.
For millions who heard him preach over the years, Jimmy Swaggart was a voice that filled stadiums and airwaves. But in his final moments, his message was reduced to something far simpler — hope, faith, and the promise that death is not an ending, but a crossing.
And in that final message, he crossed in peace.