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A Glimpse of Hell: Part I
Donna Wasson / RaptureReady.com
I was standing in the grocery store checkout line when I saw Snookie on the cover of some national magazine. Snookie, a/k/a Nicole Polizzi, is a 24 year old cast member of the MTV reality show, Jersey Shore. She’s in that strange celebrity category of being famous because she’s famous. Like Paris Hilton.
Snookie is well known for her partying prowess, ability to tolerate vast quantities of hard liquor, her leather-like overly tanned skin, clown-like makeup and a mouth that could offend a sailor. The kind of girl you pray your son never meets. Anyway, the magazine cover showed her standing, cupping her pregnant belly with the joyful announcement: “It’s a boy!” *sigh*
Lord have mercy, how far we’ve fallen! We’re actually celebrating and glorifying a pregnant, unwed mother carrying a bastard son. Only thirty or forty years ago, this young ‘lady’ would have been shipped off in shame to a distant ‘aunts’ home for the duration of the pregnancy. Her baby would be adopted by an eager, upstanding married couple of the opposite sex, and she would have come home, kept her head down for a while and resumed her life.
No more! What happened to this country? The beginning of the end was when we took prayer out of schools and public life. We banish the Creator of the universe, but embrace some girl of questionable intellect whose moral compass is so skewed its needle is missing! And this is what we celebrate. Someone whose soul is completely lost, just like the vast majority of her fans.
What will eventually happen to the billions of people who refuse to accept the pardon from sin that Jesus Christ died to purchase for them?
Well, there are those who believe in heaven and think they’ll go there after they die because they are ‘a good person.’ Then there are some who simply cannot believe a loving God would create hell, a horrible place of eternal torment, and send people there. How unfair! How mean! ‘No, the God I believe in would never do that!’ Or would He?
I’m sadly amused at the ignorant arrogance of that attitude, as if we puny mortals, formed out of the elements of the earth have any say over the decisions of the Creator. So what’s the deal with hell? Does it exist? Is it as bad as church folks make it out to be? Is there really fire and little demons with pointy tails, jumping around, poking people with their red hot pitchforks? Well,…yes and no.
Let me tell you two different stories of men who visited hell and returned to describe it. Although it’s my opinion both testimonies are safe to believe, I know for a FACT that one of these eyewitness accounts is true! Stay tuned and I’ll explain later.
On November 23, 1998, a Southern California man named, Bill Wiese went to bed, woke up at 3am and inexplicably found himself in hell. He was directed by Christ to write a book about his experience which is called, 23 Minutes in Hell,and I’ll use some of his own words to describe what he saw and felt during that nightmarish experience.
He awoke to the sensation of falling and landed in a dimly lit, prison cell type of room, with walls of rough-hewn stone and a door of thick metal bars. Isaiah 24:22 “And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison.”
By then, he was fully awake and noticed he was naked but otherwise, his body looked normal. However, one of the first things he felt was the heat; it was so unbearably hot that he was shocked his skin didn’t disintegrate off his body.
The heat seemingly sapped his energy physically, mentally and emotionally. He was completely confused, trying to figure out where he was and how he had gotten there, when he realized he was not alone in the cell. Lifting his head, he saw two huge, horrifying beasts that were approximately 13 feet tall and were like nothing he had ever seen before!
He instinctively knew they were a physical manifestation of pure ‘evil’ and ‘terror’, both of who were staring at him with a hatred he had never imagined existed. They were bizarre creatures who looked like reptiles but in human form, having scales, gigantic teeth, long claws and razor sharp fin-like protrusions.
He could hear them conversing in a language he’d never heard; even so, he was able to understand the fantastically blasphemous words that spewed from their mouths, expressing extreme hatred for God. Suddenly, their attention turned towards him and he knew he was going to be the target of their hostility and rage.
He wanted to get up and run but was so weak he could hardly move, as if the weight of the world was pressing down on him and he somehow understood there would never be a moment of recuperation or respite from this condition. Psalm 88:4 “I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength.”
All of a sudden, the dim light that had illuminated the cell vanished, leaving him in a darkness so profound he could literally feel its suffocating grip. Exodus 10:21 speaks of “darkness which may even be felt.”
One of the creatures picked him up easily, as if he were a mere ragdoll. He was thrown up against the stone wall and crumpled to the floor, feeling like every bone in his body was broken. Strange thing was, he knew the pain should have been much worse and he wondered why he had not experienced the full brunt of the agony. He understood death would never be an option to escape the torture.
The second beast then grabbed him from behind in a bear hug and pressed his naked body into its chest, its sharp fins cutting into his back. It then sunk its claws deep into his chest and ripped the flesh downward into ribbons, dropping him onto the floor.
He realized they derived great pleasure from torturing him and his pleas for mercy only seemed to increase their desire to inflict maximum pain. Micah 3:2 “You who hate good and love evil, who strip their skin from my people and the flesh from their bones…”
The mental anguish and fear of being trapped in complete darkness with these demonic beings was indescribable. They emitted an unnatural stench so foul, so putrid and toxic it made him nauseous. He was then dumbfounded to realize his terrible wounds were not bleeding at all!
Somehow, he managed to crawl to the doorway, which was cracked, and got out of the cell. For some reason, the creatures allowed him to leave. It took all his strength to stand and once on his feet, thoroughly exhausted, the fear, darkness, pain and heat continued to amaze him. It was then he began to hear the deafening screams of a multitude of people, crying out in torment.
As the noise seemed to penetrate his body, it was then he knew where he was. He thought to himself, “I’m in hell! This is a real place, and I’m actually here!” He could not comprehend why he would be in such a place since he’d always felt he was a good person.The fact that he was a Christian and knew God was temporarily kept from his mind so he would be able to experience the full horror of his circumstances.
The utter hopelessness and despair he felt was overwhelming because he knew he would never escape. As he looked off to his right, he could see flames in the distance, glowing like a dimly lit skyline. He automatically knew it was a gigantic fire, coming from a pit about a mile in diameter which was approximately ten miles away.
Even from that far away, the air was smoky and had a dirty, deathly, decaying smell and it seemed all the oxygen was being sucked up by the distant flames. He could hardly breathe, which exhausted him all the more. However, one of the very worst sensations he suffered was an insatiable thirst.
There was no water or even humidity in the air and he longed for just one drop of water! Nothing but complete dryness everywhere. Luke 16:24 “Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.”
He desperately wanted to find someone, anyone to talk to but there was no one to turn to. He was alone in his misery. Ecclesiastes 9:10 “For there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave.”
He states in his book, “All the memories of what a wonderful life I had enjoyed were now a world apart, just a thing of the past. There was no work, no goals, no wisdom and no opportunity to speak to anyone or solve any problem. All life was over, and a useless ‘wasting away’ permeated my being.” He ached with longing for his beloved wife and mourned he would never see or talk to her again.
He continues, “However, to entertain such memories was futile and would only lead to bitter disappointment and total frustration. How could I accept the reality I was now faced with? It was a reality filled with an endless eternity of pain, loss, loneliness and doom—a most miserable existence.”
In an instant, he found himself next to that enormous pit of fire with raging flames that climbed high into a huge, open cavern. The heat was beyond unbearable and through the flames, he could see the outlines of millions of people. “The screams from the condemned souls were deafening and relentless. There was no safe place, no safe moment, and no temporary relief of any kind.”
Revelation 14:11 “And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night.”
These people were contained in a massive pit whose perimeter was lined with demonic creatures, preventing any hope of escaping the flames. He writes, “Without the ability to help even one defenseless, tormented soul, I felt the hopelessness deepen. To witness people in terror, in desperation and in unending torment was more than I could bear.”
“Any form of rest is completely nonexistent. There is never any peace of mind. No rest from the torments, the screams, the fear, the thirst, the lack of breath, no sleep, the stench, the heat, the hopelessness and the isolation from people. I desperately wanted to talk to a human being, but I knew I would never get the chance.”
He added, “You are kept from any kind of fellowship, conversation or human interaction. The innate, human desire to communicate, ask questions and relate with someone who shares in your suffering will never be fulfilled in hell.” So much for partying with your friends…
He was aware there were different levels and varying degrees of punishment but all areas were horrible and held no place of relief or comfort. Wiese states, “Any level, area, or degree of torment was much worse than any concept a mind can conceive.”
Hebrews 10:28-29 “Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot?”
Very soon after this, he was met by Christ who restored his strength and rescued him from the pit. He was instantly aware that he did, in fact, know Jesus as his savior and would never experience that nightmarish existence again. He wondered to himself, “Why did You send me to this awful place?”
Jesus replied, “Because many people do not believe that hell truly exists. Even some of My own people do not believe that hell is real.” Bill understood that it was, “out of His great love for mankind that He wanted them to know this place exists, so they could instead choose life with Him.”
The last words Jesus said to Bill Wiese before he was returned unharmed to his home were these: “TELL THEM I AM COMING VERY, VERY SOON!”
Folks, hell is much more than a mere expletive or the subject of jokes. Unfortunately, it is a real, physical place with real, physical creatures and real physical, emotional and mental torment far beyond anything a movie producer or fiction author could produce. It is a subject only a complete fool would laugh off, and the opportunity to avoid it is quickly coming to a close.
This is only the first glimpse of hell I wanted to share with you. I’ll tell you about the second encounter, the one I know for a fact is true, in A Glimpse of Hell: Part II
PART II:
/story/2211/248/A_Glimpse_of_Hell:_Part_II.html
http://raptureready.com/soap/wasson49.html
You can reach the author at: [email protected]
And who the feck do you think you are criticising someone else “Lord have mercy, how far we’ve fallen! We’re actually celebrating and glorifying a pregnant, unwed mother carrying a bastard son.” ???
The retort has got to be ‘what, you mean like Jesus, the son of an unmarried rape victim’.
“The beginning of the end was when we took prayer out of schools and public life.” No the beginning of the end was 1’700 years ago when tin pot dictators like you burned people alive for disagreeing. You can’t make a silk puse out of a sows ear. And a deity that is into racism, sexism, homophobia, mass murder, rape, dashing infants against rocks, symbolic canibalism, and disgusting blood sacrifices, is more like a sows arse than an sows ear mate.
So much for the “kind and loving” Christian God theory….
Why not just be instantaneously taken out of existence by your deity rather than be subjected to eternal torture?
On the many occasions that I have had to put down injured or rabid animals, I took no joy in it whatsoever. My goal was to end their lives as quickly and painlessly as possible; now it is so hard for me to kill anything that I usually hand the job off to my son-in-law, a very fine Apache man that takes pity on his father-in-law.
If what the author presents is true, then what is the purpose of human life? Where is the free will that is espoused by the Christians? If we are made in the Creator’s image, why do I not take pleasure in the suffering of others? Why do I not take pleasure in revenge?
My ancestors were totally destroyed, their freedom and culture killed, the children and women raped, reduced to a mere fraction of their past numbers by European disease, their way of life forever taken away in favor of a terrible lifestyle forced upon them by European “Christians”; where is the justice in this? By the way, are all of my ancestors in your hell because they were not Christian?
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, this metaphysical crap is a riot to read! you people are completely NUTS! no validity, whatsoever. it is like my saying “at 3am, i found myself in candyland, where i saw barney the purple dinosaur. he instructed that i write a book about my experience, and the sheer horror as candyland transformed into ‘shoots and ladders.’”
seriously, why do you people believe so strongly in a fairy tale that CAN NEVER BE SUBSTANTIATED WITH LEGITIMATE PROOF?
Well if that’s taught me one thing it’s: If that’s how evil and twisted children of married people turn out, then lets have more ‘Bastard’ children! Also, it now makes me question the religion.
along with this and the homosexual issue the teen rebelling against adults,our so called leaders are godless and evil,people killing people,sex out of wedlock and same sex is acceptable,this is fact,how much will our maker take.
im very sorry to state if i had anything to do with ushering in the last days,id be breaking open the seals but good thing i dont have anything to do with it.
all i can say is god must have more hope with mankind to change without the destruction hes going to usher in,YET AND YET IS THE KEY WORD
Old Bill should have stayed off the LSD in the 60s. Flashbacks are a killer.
Sounds like my first marriage.
It could have been worse. He could have found himself to be a Palestinian in Gaza.
Hell is real. Read The Bible. Repent (turn from your sins) and pray to God to direct your steps. Read The Bible. Do what The Bible says. Pray. Fast. Repent. Follow God. Read The New Testament. Hell is very real. It was prepared for the devil and his angels. Those who reject Jesus Christ and follow Satan will go to Hell. Please repent and read The Bible and follow God. You can go to Heaven.
Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkFRPt4xIVY&feature=related
el_jefe, I think you will find your proof here, http://www.near-death.com/index.html… I would guess there are way more than a thousand events recorded on this site. And this one is a real tear jerker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgF_iwUNqFU I would say tho a person can disbelieve anything they want to. Anyone can justify anything to themselves it’s depends on how much you lie to yourselve.
Sounds to me like our Bill may have been remote viewing prisoners lives at Guantanamo or some other american prison. Bradley Manning could possibly have posted a similar article dealing with hell.
The author failed the Jesus test! Do not judge others.
I wonder sometimes if people post just to try and discredit what people hold dear to their hearts! This article is so obviously biased and so stupidly open to attack it can only be deliberately done. Anyone with just a modicum of understanding of what Jesus was about would never have written the article in such a way.
Jesus would be offended by this article.
Not sure what motivates the respondents? I don’t in anyway believe the account but in a vain attempt to scare people to Christ, he failed. God is not scarring people to himself, a simple provision has been made and that being the full payment for our fallen nature, or sin. One will accept or reject it, this is a simple proposition. So enjoy life it’s quick and without reward. Take a measure when you get in your 30′s too your 50′s, it will surprise one to see how shallow life really is. And note the distractions.
What a load of garbage!
Hell is living on a planet full of morons that believe in this garbage.
Christian blackmail. Attacting people to Christ is better done with the carrot than the stick. Exactly where is the free will in this piece? Either you pledge yourself to Christ or unspeakable suffering. If there was a possibility that some people would pick the latter, it would be free will. Since there is really only one choice there is NO free will. I love Jesus and already chose his path. If did not, this story would insult me rather than convince me.
Sounds like a FEMA camp in the deep south to me.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
The “comments” verify the authors assertions better than the piece ever could….
America has turned her back on Him and now He is going to turn His back on her..
Biblical prophecy is unfolding right before our very eyes and yet people still doubt….
Sad…
@anonymous, saturday, june 02, 2012 12:01: you didn’t provide “proof” with those links. if what you’ve provided is “proof” then the psychotic experiences of a schizophrenic (including hallucinations) are also proof for whatever the schizophrenic claims, via their “experience.” personal experience cannot be verified. multiple individuals “experiencing” the same “bad trip” (dmt is naturally produced in the brain, and is released at the moment of death) does not mean “heaven” or “hell” exist.
Like I said el_jefe anyone can justify anything. Hope your right cause I will be out nothing, but if your wrong, just remember call out to christ for forgiveness and help and he will come. May the Lord Bless you and show you the truth.
How awful that the centuries of brainwashing and conditioning that the human race has been subjected to by the major monotheistic religions and churches produced dreams of such intensity and horror. Anyone who claims to represent religious ideology should be held responsible for this form of human psychological torture. It is time for humanity to throw off the shackles of medieval religion and move on to achieve its full potential.
The critics really have no answers. The hellish nightmare of psychiatric drugs that will one day affect 1/3 of the world population is no answer either. Why wwill it one day affect one third 1/3 of the world´s population? Because every possible human behavior is being categorized as a mental disorder. Psychiatry is taking the place of the Bible and it won´t get any better.
If the person who wrote this truly knows the gospel, he should know better than to share dreams of this depth to an unbeliever. If this was a spiritual revelation, only those who are born of the spirit would understand it.
False religion that Jesus warned us about is what incarcerated not only so-called witches, but all of followers of Y´shua the Messiah who did not want to be part of the gigantean false church that did not represent his teachings. Someone once said that organized religion is satan´s greatest masterpiece. In some European countries,dissidents of the “Mother Church” where they resided as the majority, became the minority as they were exterminated by the government under the orders of the major church.
There are similar testimonies regarding hell by people who were raised as atheists. Check the InterNet and search for possible titles.
rapture is not going to happen. it’s a made-up doctrine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxtONT4mirk
Very few Christians know that reincarnation was a common belief among Jews when Jesus was alive. In the 5th Century the church leaders removed the doctrine of reincarnation from Christian scripture and placed more emphasis on eternal damnation.
So the astral realms called hell might exist eternally but no soul is tortured and punished for eternity. Souls keep on reincarnating until they perfect themselves.
We know that God is Love. However, He is also Just, and will therefore have an accounting for sin. Many of the sins which people commit are almost beyond the definition of evil; they are acts which are clearly instigated by Satan himself. I am thinking of the horrific tortures inflicted on Christians by the largely Jewish Cheka in Soviet Russia, and also of the tortures inflicted on heretics by Torquemada’s Inquisition, both of which equal or even exceed the sufferings imposed by the serpentine monsters recorded in this piece. But herein lies the key; these actions are driven not by men and women per se, but by satanic forces; Paul tells us that we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with Principalities and Powers. These forces therefore will find their eternal condemnation in the Lake of Fire. But Isaiah ch 66 v 24 tells us that on the New Earth which God has said that He has made and which He will reveal to us in due course, “they shall go forth and gaze upon the carcasses of those who have transgressed against Me, for their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched; they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh”.
This statement does not imply that the carcasses are animate; rather it suggests that the animating spirit has left the body; these bodies are there to remind those of us who have joyfully pledged our eternal souls to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of this world and everything in it, including ourselves, of things which existed in a past era.
It is stated that Christ died for the sins of the world, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world!”, and we know that God does not rejoice in the death of a sinner. So all human sins were atoned for by Christ at Gehenna. God’s judgement on His own Son was complete, and paid the price for every sinner to enter into His presence. The veil of the Temple ripped from top to bottom, opening up the sacred way into His presence. His cross was the focus of eternity. God therefore does not need to punish the sinner a second time; Christ was punished one time for the sins of men. His last words were “It is finished”.
Praise His holy and perfect Name.
Such individuals as do not, or will not, because of their misplaced pride, receive Him as Saviour and eternal Lord will therefore quite legitimately be switched off at the Judgement; they will be then forever as the dead are now, knowing nothing. Their torment and anguish will be brief, and will comprise a full, perfectly lucid, sudden, and total understanding of why they have no place in the blissful eternity to come; which eternity is fully laid out for all to see in the book of Revelation. Such will be the power of this revelation to them, that the entire Day of Judgement will take place, as stated, in a single day. There will be no appeals, or need for them. Having accepted the justice of God, they will then die a second time, and will no more be remembered.
I suspect that the scenario laid out in the main piece here is to make people hate God, just as those demons described therein hate God. So the piece is authored by these same demons, whose sole desire is to separate you from that love which passes understanding.
In His presence is fullness of joy.
And for the Indian man, whose contribution is above, he can rest assured that he will be judged fairly by YHVH. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? I suspect that there will be many like him who will stand before the Throne of God, justified and washed in the blood of the Lamb. I hope, and earnestly desire, to see him there.
Someone spoke about evidence for these things. The evidence is overwhelming. Visit “The Other Bible Code” website, where God’s power and perfect wisdom will be spelled out for you to marvel at, in a language which is beyond all human ability to refute or gainsay.
To HereAmI on Mon 04 Jun 2012 11:21; thank you for your contribution. The clarification that you provided is most sincerely appreciated.
The writer mistakes the realm of Lucifer with Hell. They are two completely different things.
Lucifer is Gods first. Like in the Fable his name is Geppetto. The one made of metal, who wishes he could become a real boy. Metal can only do us harm. We make all weapons of metal. One day the Lucifer will have a body here on earth. By your command.
The realm of Lucifer is fire and brimstone, but his realm is the underworld, and not of Hell.
Hell, is where we go when we die. Into the event horizon of light, and the realm of the Set. When the Set rises in the sky it consumes all light. So when you go into the light, you are actually entering Hell.
Show me 1 example of God being of Love? He destroys cities, he floods the world, he orders murder and kills 1000′s of innocent people. The God in the Bible is none other then Ares, the god of war. You all have no idea what it is you do when you sacrifice Jesus every weekend then eat his body and drink his blood. It’s a satanic ritual, where you’ve just murdered your saviour and ate his body and no one has even noticed because Lucifer has taken control and blinded you. Forgive them for they know not what they do.
I guess the fact that Satan’s biggest deception was convincing mankind that He and hell do not exist! who are the real sheep following the wolf to it’s den? Repent!
The author is just another judgmental (I’m assuming) christian who gives people of faith a bad name.
Then another in the millions of Internet threads that immediately turn into a heated religious argument.
Seems like Satan is probably somewhere laughing his ass off. He didn’t have to lift a finger (as usual).
“”…Thus says The Lord: Listen, all you churches of men!… Shall I, even I, torment My beloved, they who are tormented continually by he who is, and has, torment in his vesture?!… Satan is the tormentor!… Unknowingly, you My children, by your own mouths have called your God, satan! Repent therefore, and mend your ways!
Forsake all your corrupt and evil teachings!…”"
http://www.trumpetcallofgodonline.com/index.php5?title=Proclaim_NOT_the_Hell_of_the_Church_of_Men…In_Their_Word_is_No_Mercy_Found%2C_Only_the_Makings_of_Satan
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones. The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind. This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.” (Bhagavad-gita 2.22-24)