July 1980, Tucson Arizona: I contracted Cholera by drinking
contaminated water someone had left in a thermos while I was working at a local
construction site. The progression on this disease left me in a severe
dehydrated state which became terminal.
I was at home and lying in bed when it happened. My breathing was
becoming a series of protracted wheezing gasps. Looking around the room, I was
amazed that I could see so pristine clear without my glasses. The alarm clock
ticked. It was ten minutes till noon. Everything became surreal.
With a sudden swoosh, I floated above my body. Hovering there, I
fully realized I had died. At that time, I was not a Christian and fell into a
naturalistic agnostic atheistic belief system. Despite growing up in a loving
Southern Baptist family, I did not believe in the Christian concept of God. I
knew very little about Jesus, the afterlife, and God. All this was about to
radically change.
Soon this dazzling brilliant light began dispelling this pleasant
darkness in hues of colors never before seen. The light was being emitted by an
individual standing upon what appeared to me to be a huge rock suspended in
space. This person wore beautiful whitish robe like garments and seemed to be
sitting on a chair carved out from the rock. I landed below this person. He
stood up and walked down several steps to where I had landed. I wept and fell
like a heavy sack of wheat. Someone touched my shoulder. I stood up.
This marvelous person showed me my life course, which revealed I was
without excuse. It was then I knew I was being judged and deserved my fate. You
could do nothing but stand directly before him, whose robe’s drooping hood
concealed his face, and receive your sentence.
As I looked at him, I noticed that he bore terrible trauma to his
hands and feet. Around the wrist were gnashes deeply cut therein. The bones
clearly showing that the very joints had been ripped apart by bearing a great
weight. He just stood there. I felt ashamed.
He began to speak to me by the agency of thought and told me I was to
see another land for an appointed time. After arriving there, I was to speak his
name and title and see what I would see. He went on and revealed that it was
prearranged once for a person to die but returning is an option decided by his
Father’s will. Children were raised; others were raised, for God’s glory and
purposes when it was not their hour. He stated that I would return the way I had
come, and then he pointed towards an entrance of a tunnel off to his
left.
Seeing it, I was lifted by some gentle force and floated toward it,
feet first. When this occurred, I noticed I was wearing robe like garments. I
entered the tunnel and was engulfed within a violently spinning vortex heading
toward a yellowish dint of light. Reaching it, I found myself falling from its
sky and landed with a thud upon the ground.
I stood up and looked around. I saw a house on a hill, smelled
horrible odors, and heard strange sounds. People came from the house and neared
me with joyous shouts of welcome. Where was I? Heaven? Hell? At first, I thought
I was in a paradise but the sounds and smells were all wrong.
Something was not right about these people either. For some reason
they began appearing translucent. With this, I began to see them for what they
really were – strange foul creatures emitting the illusions of people. Upon
seeing this, two words erupted from my mouth like the staccato of a machine gun:
Jesus Christ. I said these two words non-stop till I left this place. I was in a
state of stark terror as the reality of where I was hit home.
One creature began to speak to me in a heavy unknown accent and told
me to follow it. What choice did I have? It walked to the horizon’s skyline,
which appeared painted on a wall, reached out, and parted the yellowish sky. It
walked through the torn hole it had made, bidding me to follow.
(The Following five paragraphs are a direct quote from my book: A
Land Unknown: Hell’s Dominion, Chapter Seven, used with my
permission)
“I followed the rank creature and immediately emerged on the other
side of the horizon. A wide, dirty, flat, barren expanse of land gently sloped
downward, betraying an endless circular spiral of misery. On the left side of
the coiled grade were rows and rows of cubes with more cubes columned high,
forming a wall of ten-by-ten foot partitions mirroring the events displayed
inside.
Each cube was stacked six high, marring each ascending and
descending spiraling level’s wall like a dirty mirror. The wide expanse was a
road. Strange entities were traveling on it. This wide dusty road ended at a
circular void, highlighting the center of this hellish domain.
The cubes appeared encompassed by thin smoke-tinted, gelatin-like
walls. Each cube appeared to be about ten feet by ten feet square. You could see
into these but not out of them. Within every chamber resided an individual
person, trapped, unable to escape as I had.
Looking through the torn wall of the cube I had just stepped out
of, the house and tree within were hauntingly calling my name to return.
Perplexed, I stepped back for another glance at this cubicle. I was surprised
that it was so small. Inside it had seemed so large!
Turning, I saw the lizard-like entity a few feet from me, reaching
its ugly, greenish-yellow arms as if to drag me away to a desperate fate. Boxer
style, I blocked the attempt. This fiend stepped back, grinning ear to ear.”
End Quote.
What I saw is best described in the Holy Bible within the pages of
Ezekiel 32:17-32. This chapter describes hell as a circular burial pit where the
dead are buried within the walls of a pit in accordance to his or her deeds.
Each individual is placed in a chamber described symbolically as a bed chamber
(Ezekiel 32:24-25) where the resident restlessly rest experiencing recompense
for his or her deeds (Note context of Ezekiel 32:30) performed on
earth.
Inside each cube, I spied individual people in various stages of
boredom, anguishes, and hideous various torments. Ghoulish entities were inside
these cubes giving the illusions of people, places, and things to each trapped
soul enacting the scenes from each person’s life. I also traveled between these
cubes to more cubes that lay behind as the journey continued.
The creature before me began speaking to me again with such foul
language and curses that I cannot record what it really said for you. I began
understanding its speech and could sort out the general theme it was speaking
from its cursing. It then began showing me around this domain.
Out from the cubicle wall’s was a large dusty plain or road. Both
ugly and beautiful beings roamed in lose packs on this plain. During the
duration of my stay, many of these entities attempted to engage me in
conversation. I was too terrified to respond but only spoke out the words,
“Jesus Christ” non-stop.
I was taken on a hellish tour of this place by the ghastly creature
in front of me. We descended to the lower levels of the spiral road as well as
observed what was happening inside the cubes to each lost soul we passed. This
hellish journey seemed to last forever. I wanted to wake up so bad, but could
not (For more details please see my book: A Land Unknown: Hell’s
Dominion, published by Xulonpress).
Each trapped soul reaped in full measure whatever they had sown
during their lives. Many entered this pit and into the cubes by means of
spinning vortexes. I also noticed another entrance. All those people trapped
resided totally alone and were not aware of each other. The only thing each was
aware of, were the creatures residing with them and the scenes enacted within
their own personal square nightmarish abode.
I would say that each person trapped there felt a peculiar separation
from God in the form of feeling banished forever from the loving nature of God
and true life. Each knew fully that they deserved his or her fate because each
chose to walk away from God and now resided in place without God as they desired
during his or hers life lived on earth. God, in his great justice, fairness, and
unfathomable love gave them what they desired: a place without God and where
each was receiving the fruits of his or her own doings.
When many of these individuals entered their private abodes, they
were first deceived into thinking they had arrived in a paradise. As eternity
passes – the real nature of this place was fully revealed to them. Others
entered into instant anguish. It is truly a place of doom, despair, and unending
nightmares.
I felt greatest fear when the beastly guide tried to entrap me inside
a unique cubicle. It is here, I was rescued while screaming out the words, Jesus
Christ. I felt someone coming for me and arrive behind me and then lift me up.
(Quote from Book) “One arm was under my shoulders and the other
under the bend of my knees. Oh! A sensation of love, mercy, authority, power,
justice, and righteousness overwhelmed me. I no longer had any need to speak the
two words that I previously spoke without ceasing. I turned my head into the
cleft of the being’s shoulder and wept profusely against the white
garb.
The Person who held me fast said not a word. I glanced at the hand
gripping my shoulder. There was an ugly gash near the wrist close to the hand as
though a great pulling weight had made this mark and separated the bones above
the wrist. A hole went straight through, then the tear. You could easily have
placed a finger through the gash, with your fingertip protruding to the other
side, but to do so would have been very disrespectful and inappropriate at a
time like this.” (End Quote)
I wept as the redeemer carried me back to the cube I arrived in and
then through the vortex back to the rock. He set my feet upon that Huge Rock
where I was granted a glimpse of Heaven and was told that none can enter Heaven
unless they come through the gate which was the robe clad personage standing
before me.
Many things were revealed to me there, on that rock, to numerous to
record. I was told it was time to leave and return. I floated back the way I had
come. I was soon in my room above my body looking at the scene below. I glided
back into my body and awoke with a start. I could not regain my breath until
someone began hitting me on my back. I was rushed to a Hospital for further
treatment and recovery.
The duration of my NDE, was about four hours. I remember seeing a
clock when I first left my body stating the time was 11:50 AM and when I
returned, it was close to 4 PM. I still suffer several health effects from this.
My heart makes a nice clicking sound. My short term memory suffered as well.
Afterwards, my speech was slurred a bit but has returned to normal with the
passage of time.
My experience has left me a deep appreciation for the work of Jesus
Christ and His salvation. I became a born again Christian because of it. I have
renewed understanding of God’s profound love, justice, righteousness, grace, and
mercy. Jesus came to save that which is lost. You see, heaven is real and hell
is real. Eternity is without end. Do you really want to spend eternity without
God? Or with God? That choice is yours alone – the decision is yours? What will
it be? What will it be?
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
To Hell and back
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