The Book Of Bill Wiese
23 Minutes in Hell
Bill Wiese states that he had an experience
on the night of November 23, 1998. He was a real estate broker and he had an
out of body experience. He found himself in a cell, approximately
15 feet (4.6 m) high and 10 feet (3.0 m) by 15 feet
(4.6 m) in area, where there were two foul-smelling beasts, personifications
of evil and terror, who spoke in a blasphemous language. He says that the
creatures had strength approximately one thousand times greater than a man's
strength. The beasts threw him against the stone wall, breaking his bones, and
then ripped his flesh. He nevertheless managed to crawl out of his cell, where
he heard the screams of the billions of damned people in hell.
He states that he then encountered Jesus, who
told him to tell other people that hell is real. He states that his experience
ended with him waking on the floor of his living room, screaming in horror.
A couple months
ago, Mike Bickle, whom I work with at the International House of Prayer, asked
me to teach on the subject of Hell. While studying that subject, I was
handed a tape by a friend named Steve Carpenter. On that tape was the
message you're going to hear by Bill Wiese and his wife Annette. His
message rocked my world. And it permanently altered the way I engage my
family, my friends, and even people I don't know. It's permanently
altered. I'm not exaggerating, so please don't think I'm speaking in hyperboles
here. It has permanently altered the way I look at the few remaining
years I have on this earth. It's my prayer that God will do that in you
today. I can not exaggerate the importance of this message.
Bill is a
Christian. He surrendered his life to Christ at age 16. He has
known the Lord for 32 years. He moved to California in 1976 and spent 10
years under the ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith in Costa Mesa, California.
Bill is a Realtor, as is his wife.
For the last 15
years, Bill has been in the congregation and in the leadership during different
seasons of Eagles Nest, under the Pastorate of Dr. Gary Greenwald, there in
Orange County, California. A Pastor there at Eagles Nest named Pastor
Raul came to Bill and said several months ago, "Bill, God's going to do a
work of revival. He's going to begin in Kansas City for America.
He's going to send you there, and you should go.
Bill and Annette
have never been to Kansas City in their whole life. The next day, I
called Bill and said, "Would you consider coming to Kansas City?
I've seen your video and I think you're supposed to come." I
believe they are here at God's command.
You're going to hear the vision of Hell, but even more important, you're going
to hear a vision of intimacy with Jesus Christ and the love He has for this
whole world. Bill was in Hell. He wasn't a casual observer, as so
many people have been in legitimate visions, but He experienced the torments of
Hell for about a half an hour with absolutely no hope of ever escaping.
Bill and his wife are deeply devoted to Jesus Christ, and to the work of
God, and to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. You're going to like him also.
Please welcome Bill and Annette Wiese.
(Bill Wiese speaking)
It is an honor to be here. This whole trip has been such a blessing
to us. Like Hal said, we are in the Real Estate business. We don't
do this for a living. We don't do this for money. We just know that
God has told us to go and tell the world about His love for people and the
place He doesn't want any of His creation to go to. So that's why we're
here. So, for the sake of time, I'm going to shorten this testimony and
just get right into it.
But, first, I want to address a couple things, questions that might be in your
mind. The first question that would be in mine, if I was listening to me,
would be, "How do you know it wasn't just a dream that you had? A
Bad dream?"
A couple points
to make, first of all, I had left my body. I saw my body when I returned,
lying on the floor. So, I know for sure it was an out of body experience.
Some Christians have said, "Oh a Christian can't leave his
body." But that's not true, In 2 Corinthians 12:2, when Paul was
caught up into the third heaven, He said, "whether in the body, or out of
the body I do not know." So if he didn't know that must mean it's
possible. And also he said in verse 1 that it was a vision, so I believe
this comes under the classification of a vision.
In Job 7:14, it says, "Thou scarest me with dreams and terrifieth me with
visions." So this is definitely what the Lord did, terrified me
through a vision. Also in returning from this, it took me a year to calm
down, and become like a normal person again. I was so upset and
traumatized from the fear that it's changed my whole viewpoint on how to
witness and how much to appreciate what God saved us from.
I asked my wife to come up for a minute so that she could just share with you
what happened when she found me in the living room, because I don't remember
that part. So I want her to say a few words. Thank you.
(Bill's wife Annette speaking)
It was about 3:23am in the morning, when I woke up. I just remember that
because I looked at our digital clock, and I noticed Bill was not next to me,
and I heard screaming coming from our living room. I proceeded to go down
the hallway. I found my husband in a way I'd never seen him before.
If anyone gets to know Bill, he's very conservative by nature, very calm,
and a professional man. He's just not the type to get excited or get real
emotional over anything, unless it's God at times.
But, anyway, I
saw him there traumatized, literally traumatized holding his skull, holding his
head between his hands, and crying out and screaming. He was in a fetal
position on our living room floor. I didn't know what to do. I thought he
was having a heart attack. I just started to pray and he cried out and
said, "Pray that the Lord would take this out of my mind! The Lord
took me to Hell. I feel like my body is dying, I can't handle this."
So I proceeded to pray over him, and in about ten to twenty minutes, he
began to calm down. He was literally in a traumatized state, like someone
who went to Vietnam and has a reoccurrence, or a horrible car accident where
they're reliving it. It was not just someone who had a bad dream and woke
up. So I just wanted to testify to that.
(Bill Wiese speaking)
I'm so blessed with a good women. I'm really grateful to God.
I've been married for four years, and have known her for six, and it's
been the best six years of my life, I have to say, so praise God.
Bible Search
I wanted to find
out when I got back from this experience, if there's any body in the Bible who
has ever experienced Hell. So I began research. I listen to Chuck Missler
a lot. He's a Bible teacher across the nation, a real scholar and he had said
that Jonah had experienced Hell. In Jonah 2:2 it says, "in Hell he
cried out." And In Jonah 2:6 it says, "the earth with her bars
was about me forever, yet thou has brought up my life from corruption."
So, at least, there was somebody in the Bible that experienced Hell,
Jonah.
I also wanted to find out, because I was raised in the early days of Calvary
Chapel, that any spiritual experience that you would go through should already
be in the Word of God. So, I knew that if what I experienced was true, it
would already be there in the words. So, I began to research and I found
over 400 scriptures that depicted everything I saw, heard, felt, everything to
do with Hell. It's already in the Bible, so whatever I'm telling you it's
already there. I'll make reference to some of the scriptures as we go.
I can't quote all 400, but I will for some of them. I also found
out there were about 14 other people that had experienced some portion of Hell.
Most of them were near death experiences, people in the hospital dying
and were brought back.
On The Day Of The
Encounter
So, to get right
into it, quickly: My wife and I were at the First Day night prayer meeting that
we always attend with our pastors. And we went home like any other normal
night and went to bed.
About 3:00
o'clock in the morning, I was taken. I did not know how I got there,
until I returned. Then, the Lord explained. But, I was just dropped into a
prison cell, just like a regular prison cell, like you imagine, with rough huge
stone walls and bars on the door. I didn't know where I was yet. All I
knew was that it was extremely hot, terribly hot. It was so hot, I
couldn't believe, that I was alive. I felt like I should have disintegrated
with this heat, but I was still alive. It was light in the room for a
little while, and I believe the Lord's presence was there for me to see the
scenery better, but then it got dark after about a minute.
Bible References
In Isaiah 24:22, it says: "And they shall be gathered together, as
prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison...."
Proverbs 7:27 "they shall go down to Hell in the chambers of death"
By "Chambers" it means rooms. So part of Hell has prisons
cells, chambers, pits of fire, and big areas of fire, so I was just in a prison
cell at this time.
Also in Jonah 2:6, "the earth with her bars was about me for
ever...."
And Job 17:16 "They shall go down to the bars of the pit..."
So, again, everything I saw was in The Word. Stones are talked
about in Isaiah 14:19.
Horrible Demons
I found myself in the cell, and these 4 creatures were in the cell with me.
I didn't know they were demons at the time, because I went there as an
unsaved person. God took it out of my mind that I was a Christian.
I didn't understand why, but He explained it to me on the way back.
These creatures, I didn't realize that they were demons, but they were
enormous. They were about 12 or 13 feet tall, one you will see in the
video. One of the people that gives their testimony, he saw the same
demon that I did. So you will see what one actually looks like.
There is a really good picture of it in the video where one guy was drug
up to the bars of Hell. It's Kenneth Hagan's testimony.
Anyway, it was all scaly. This one had scales all over its body, giant
jaws with huge teeth, and claws sticking out, along with sunken-in eyes.
They were just enormous. And the other one didn't looked like this
at all, but it had razor sharp fins all over, with one long arm and out of
proportion feet. Everything was deformed and twisted and out of
proportion, out of symmetry, no symmetry, one arm longer and one shorter and
just odd looking creatures, horrible, horrible looking things.
Blaspheming God
And they were blaspheming God. The whole time they were cursing God. I
wondered, "Why are they cursing God? Why are they hating God so
much?" And then they turned their attention to me, and I felt the
same hatred they had for God, they had for me also, and again I thought:
"Why do they hate me? I haven't done anything to them."
But they hated me with a hatred that I have never experienced on earth;
way beyond what man has the ability to hate with. They absolutely hated
me, and I knew they were assigned to torture me.
Keen Senses And
Awareness
There were things that I am going to say, that I don't know how I knew.
In Hell your senses are keener, you are just aware of more than our
physical bodies are. I was aware of distances, I was aware of time, and
so forth, much more than you are here. I knew these things were assigned
to me, to torture me forever in this place.
Terrible Torments
I was lying on the floor in this cell and I had absolutely no strength in my
body. I wondered, "Why can I hardly move? What is wrong with
me?" I was just aware of no strength, and I was helplessly lying
there. One Demon just grabbed me and picked me up, and threw me into the
wall like a glass. He just picked me up like a glass. That was how light
I was, or how strong he was. And threw me into the wall, and every bone
in my body just broke. And I felt pain! I just began to lie on the
floor there, crying out for mercy, but these creatures don't have any mercy at
all, absolutely no mercy.
The one picked me up, and the other one, with his razor-sharp claws; he just
shredded my flesh right off. He just tore it off, and had absolutely no
care what so ever for this body that God so wonderfully made. It had a
hatred that was so intense against me. I wondered, "Why am I alive?
Why am I living through this? I don't understand why am I not dead."
My flesh just hung there in ribbons. And there was no blood, just
flesh hanging, because life is in the blood, and there is no life in Hell.
And there is no water in Hell.
Bible
Descriptions
In Isaiah 14:9-10 it says,
Hell from beneath
is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee,
even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art
thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
Psalms 88:4
I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man who has no
strength,
And we know that the Devil does have strength, in the scriptures were there was
a demon-man running through the graveyard, it says:
Mark 5:1-4
Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.
And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of
the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs;
and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been
bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by
him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him.
They couldn't bind him; he had broken the chains into pieces. And that
was just a man with a demonic strength. I understood these demons had
about 1000 times the strength of a man. So, even if I had my natural
strength, I could not have fought them off anyway. So, I was absolutely
at their mercy, which they don't have any mercy. The Demons run your life
in Hell.
Horrible Smells
The smell of these demons and the smell in Hell were so atrocious; I can't even
describe it to you. There was a smell of burning flesh, of sulfur.
The smell of these demons was like an open sewer, putrid, rotten meat, bad
eggs, sour milk and everything you can imagine. Take it in, times 1000,
and put it up to your nose. And you just breathe it in. It was so
toxic, that it would kill you; if you were here in this body, you would die.
And I wondered, "Why am I living through this smell, it is so
horrendous?" But, again, you don't die, you have to endure it.
The profanities, that they were cursing at God is mentioned in Ezekiel 22-26
"I am
profaned among them. Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things;
they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made
known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden
their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Profaning, degraded vulgar language and blasphemies.
The torment they were doing on me was mentioned in Deuteronomy 32:22-24.
For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest Hell; It shall
consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of
the mountains. ‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on
them. They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter
destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the
poison of serpents of the dust.
So there are teeth of beasts upon you.
2 Samuel 22:6 states:
The sorrows of Hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
And in Micah 3:2, there is an interesting scripture where the Philistines, who
hate the Israelites says:
You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the
flesh from their bones;
That was what they did to the Jewish people. That was in the natural, but
where did they get that idea from? That comes from Hell. That is what the
Demons do,
and the mercy? There is only mercy in Heaven. Mercy comes
from God, and the Devil has no knowledge of any kind of mercy, he is totally
against that.
Psalms 36:5
"Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the
clouds."
It is defiantly not in Hell. And in Psalms 74:20 it says:
Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the
haunts of cruelty.
Demonic Rule
It is just a
cruel, miserable, horrible place that you have to endure. You have to
endure all these things.
God has made mankind the highest form of creation, and these demons are the
lowest form of creation. As men, we work hard to get ahead in life, we
better ourselves, we study. But in Hell, your life is run by demons.
These creatures have a zero IQ, absolute ignorant creatures. All
they know is hatred for God, hatred for you and torture. And they run
your life, and you can't do anything about it.
There are scriptures about the humiliation you have to endure. "This
thing is going to run my life, I can't stop it!"
Confirmatory
Bible References
In Isaiah 5:14-15
Therefore, my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge;
Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.
Therefore, the grave enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without
limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and
revelers. So, man will be brought low and mankind humbled, the eyes of
the arrogant humbled.
Isaiah 57:9-16
You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent
your ambassadors far away; you descended to the grave itself! You were
wearied by all your ways, but you would not say, 'It is hopeless.' You found
renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.
"Whom have
you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither
remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have
long been silent that you do not fear me? I will expose your
righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you. When you cry
out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry
all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But the man who makes
me his refuge will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain." And
it will be said: "Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the
obstacles out of the way of my people." For this is what the high
and lofty One says—He who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a
high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to
revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. I
will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit of man
would grow faint before me?the breath of man that I have created.
Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all her multitude, All around her grave, All of them slain,
fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the
earth, Who caused their terror in the land of the living; Now they bear their
shame with those who go down to the Pit.
On and on it goes. That was a horrible thing, to have your life run by
these creatures, that have no mercy for you whatsoever.
The Darkness And Screaming In Hell
I was lying in the cell and it went dark, pitch, pitch black. I mean a
darkness I have never ever felt before. And I have been down in caves,
way down in iron mines in Arizona. There was a blackness that you
couldn't even imagine.
I managed to
crawl out, somehow I was able to crawl and they let me apparently. I
remembered where the door was so I crawled towards it and I felt my way, and I
got outside the cell.
I looked
one direction, all black, and all I heard was screams, billions of people
screaming in this place. I knew there were billions, and it was so loud.
If you have ever heard someone scream before, it is so annoying.
Well, if you hear billions of people screaming, you can't imagine how it
affects your mind. You just can't stand it. You hold your ears, because
it is so loud and penetrating. You can't get away from the screams.
And the fear that overcomes you is unbelievable. Everything is dominated
by fear. There is no presence of God in this place, so you have to endure
the fear and the torment and the blackness. You can't see anything. You
can't even see what is coming up against you.
The Scripture
talks about this darkness in Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.
Revelation 16:10
Then, the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his
kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the
pain.
Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom
is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
And there is a darkness which may be felt, as shown in Exodus 10:21
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that
darkness will spread over Egypt—darkness that can be felt."
You can feel this darkness.
The Fear In Hell
The fear, I got to tell you about, was so powerful. It grips you.
If you have ever seen some scary movie, where the fear jumps up in your
throat, if you can take that and multiply it by at least a thousand, and
hold it there, that is how you stay all the time!
And I know
something about fear. When I was young, I use to surf. When I was
really young, we were in Coco Florida surfing, and there was a school (group)
of sharks coming around me. And a 9 foot Tiger shark came up and bit my
board right in a half. And it grabbed me by the leg and pulled me down.
So my leg was in the mouth of this giant shark. I wasn't a
Christian then; it was before I was even saved. And all the sudden, it
let me go. I know God opened that shark's mouth.
But for a few
moments, the fear that comes into you is absolute overwhelming. If
anybody ever saw JAWS, that fear was NOTHING compared to actually going through
it. The fear was terrifying. The guy next to me was just a couple
of feet away, and a shark ripped his leg right off! And they dragged him
up on the beach, with blood everywhere. He was screaming and had no leg.
So I understand fear, but that fear was nothing, absolute nothing
compared to the fear I felt in Hell, no comparison at all. I think the
fear I felt from the shark attack was one of the greatest fears we could
experience on earth.
So, these are some of the things we have to endure in Hell.
In Isaiah 24:17,
it says:
Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
And it shall be that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall
into the pit, and he who comes up from the midst of the pit shall be caught in
the snare; for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
earth are shaken.
Prison Experience
Ted Koppel, during a presentation he did on "Night Line" a year and a
half ago, visited some of the prisons in our country and spent the night there.
He couldn't believe how loud it was, that he couldn't sleep, everybody
screaming at the top of their lungs. He said on TV that he was shocked by
how people just scream and whining all night long. So even in our earthly
prisons, people are screaming, how much more in Hell.
In Job 18:14, it
says that the wicked ways of a man, a person who rejects the Lord...
He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of
terrors.
The devil is
certainly the King of terrors.
Desolate In Hell
I was now outside the cell, and I looked in this direction. And, as I looked
this way, I could see there were flames of fire, about 10 miles away from me.
I knew it was 10 miles. And a pit of fire, about 3 miles across,
had flames that lit up the skyline enough to see the landscape of Hell just a
little bit.
The darkness was so heavy; it just eats up any light. But, there was
enough to just see some of the skyline. It was all brown and desolate!
I mean absolutely not one green leaf, not anything of life of any kind,
just stone, dirt and black sky, and smog in the skylight. The flames were
really high, so I could see it.
There was a
scripture in Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it
bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah,
and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and His wrath.
There is no life whatsoever in Hell. It is so strange to be in a world
where there is no life. Here we enjoy trees and fresh air, but there,
inside hell, it is absolutely all dead.
Heat
The heat was so intense, you can’t even describe it. It says in
Deuteronomy 32:24,
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with
bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the
poison of serpents of the dust.
Jude 1:7
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these,
having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh,
are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall
be the portion of their cup.
That's what is going on in Hell, it is so hot. All these things should
kill you, but you don't die! You had to keep enduring all these things.
I wanted peace of mind, to get away from the screams and to get out of
there. It's like when you want to go home at night, when you had a rough
day, you just want peace of mind. But, there you endured all the
screaming and all the torment. And you never ever get away from it, ever.
In Isaiah 57:21
it says:
"There is no peace," says my God, “for the wicked.?
You are also naked in Hell. It is just another thing to have to endure.
Shame! In Ezekiel 32:24 it talks about shame in the pit.
There is Elam and all her multitude, all around her grave, all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the
earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living; Now they bear their
shame with those who go down to the Pit.
And in Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before Him, and Destruction has no covering.
That means God can see into Hell, so it is observable to Him. But, also,
you are naked in Hell, just another thing you have to go through.
Dryness
There is no water in Hell, at all, no water. There's no humidity in the
air and no water of any kind. It is so dry; you are desperate for a drop
of water, just one. Just like the scripture says in Luke 16:23-24,
And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off,
and Lazarus in his bosom. “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have
mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.?/i>
Abraham said, "Son remember", and then he went on to talk about his
brothers. He wanted him to just dip the tip of his finger in water, just
to get one drop. That would have been precious, one drop, but you never,
ever get a drop. It's hard to imaging how dry your mouth is. If you
can imagine doing a marathon run through Death Valley and having cotton in your
mouth and staying there for days, and it just continues like that, just dry,
absolute, desperate for a drop of water.
Another thing this scripture revealed to me was we knew there was a great gulf
fixed between them, in Hell; between Paradise and Hades. And the rich man
saw Abraham far off. In the natural, how could he recognize Lazarus and
Abraham? First of all, he never met Abraham, and then, to see someone
that is far away, you wouldn't really know who they were. But, there are
just certain things you know in Hell. You understand, like I was saying,
the depths, how far away, and so forth.
Demons Tearing
People Apart
Then, one of the demons grabbed me, and dragged me back into the cell and began
all these torments again, which I really hate to talk about, because I don't
like to have to re-live the torment. They began to crush my skull.
One demon grabbed me and tried to crush my head. I was screaming
and begging for mercy, but no mercy! About this time, they each grabbed
an arm and a leg and were about to tear off my legs and my arms. I
thought, "I can't endure this, I can't endure this!"
Next To The Pits Of Fire
And all of a sudden, something grabbed me and pulled me out of this cell.
I know it was the Lord, but then I didn't know that. I was there as
an unsaved person, so I didn't know these things. I just went there as if
I had never accepted the Lord. I was placed over next to the fire that I
had seen. I was standing along side that pit. I was beneath a
cavern, like a giant cave, with a tunnel going up.
Along side the fire, I could see through the flames, just enough to see bodies,
people in the fire, screaming, screaming for mercy, burning in this place!
And I knew I didn't want to go in there. The pain I'd endured
already was bad enough, but the heat from that flame I knew was worse.
These people were begging to get out.
There were these big creatures lined all around the edge of this Pit, and as
the people crawled up trying to get out, they would be shoved back into the
fire and not allowed out. I thought, "Oh, this place is so horrible,
so horrible and horrendous."
All these were going on at the same time. You're thirsty, you're hungry,
and you're exhausted. You don't get to sleep in Hell either. You
need sleep just as you do now. Your body needs sleep. Rev 14:11
says,
And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest
day or night,...
You never get to sleep. You can imagine how that is, never sleeping.
Regarding the water, in Zechariah 9:11,
...I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
Absolutely no water in Hell.
Location Of Hell Fire
I knew that
Hell's location is in the center of the earth. That's were it's at, in
the center of the earth. I understood that I was about 3700 miles deep in
the earth. We know that the earth's diameter is 8000 miles. Half
way would be about 4000. I was about 3700 miles down. In Ephesians
4:9 it says that Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth.
In Numbers 16:32 says,
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and
all the men with Korah, with all their goods.
That's were Hell is right now. Later, Hell and Death shall be cast into
the Lake of Fire, and then, cast into Outer Darkness. That's after
Judgment Day. But, right now, hell is in the earth.
Demons
I was along side this pit of fire, and I saw all these demons, all lined up
along the walls. Demons of all sizes and shapes of every kind, deformed, ugly
creatures, you can imagine. They were twisted, deformed creatures, huge
ones, small ones. There were giant spiders, huge spiders this big (5 feet
tall). Rats, snakes and worms, because the Bible talks about worms that
cover the sinners (Isaiah 14:11). There are all kinds of abominable creatures
everywhere, and they seemed to be chained to the walls. I wondered
"Why are these things chained to the walls". I didn't understand
that, but there's a scripture on that in Jude 1:6 says,
"And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own
abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of
the great day;"
And so, maybe that's what I saw, I don't know, but that is what it appeared to
be. I was glad because I didn't want them to get to me. They all
hated me with a passion! That was another thing I didn't understand, they
weren't just creatures, they had hatred towards mankind. So I was glad
they were chained to the walls.
I began to ascend up this pit in this tunnel, and to leave the flames.
Soon, it got darker, but I could see all these demons along the walls and
they had such awesome power. I thought, "Who could fight off these
creatures. No one could fight these things." But yet, that
fear was so overwhelming, I just couldn't even stand the tolerating this fear.
No Hope
The worse thing in Hell, the worse thing, worse than all the torments, as I
understood was that, first of all, that there was life going on up here on the
earth. And that people up here, most people, had no idea that this world
even existed down here! They don't even know this is a real world down
here and there's billions of people suffering and begging for one chance, if
they had an opportunity to get out. But they never get a chance to get
out, and being mad at themselves for not taking the opportunity to have
received Jesus, that they are stuck there forever.
This is the worse thing about Hell, that there is absolutely no hope of ever
getting out. I understood that. I grasped eternity. I could
understand eternity. Here on earth, we can't quite, can't get a hold of
it. But, there I understood it. I knew I would be there forever and
ever, and had no hope of getting out. I thought about my wife. I
could never get to my wife! I've always told her that if we were ever
separated by any kind of earthquake or something horrible, I said "I'll
get to you. I will find you. I'll get to you if we're ever
apart." But here I couldn't get to her. I could never see her
again. She would never have any idea were I was, and I just could never
ever talk to her again. That thought just absolutely bothered me
terribly! To not be able to talk to her, get to her, and for her not to
know where I was, and have no hope to ever get out! You understand, you
never get out of here, ever! See, on earth there's always hope.
Even people in concentration camps had a hope of getting out, or dying at
least, to get out of it. But, we've never experienced a totally hopeless
situation. In Isaiah 38:18 it says,
"Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth."
No hope, and the Truth is Jesus. He is the Truth.
Jesus Appears
About this time, I was going up this tunnel, and I'm just in absolute
fear, hopelessly lost, and fearing these demons. All of the sudden, just
all of the sudden, Jesus showed up! "Praise you Lord", Jesus
showed up. This bright light lit up the place. I only saw His
outline, the outline of a man. I couldn't see his face, it was so bright.
I just looked into this light and saw His outline. And I just fell
on my knees and collapsed. I couldn't do anything but worship Him.
I was so grateful. One second ago, I was lost forever; and now, all
of the sudden, I'm out of this place, because I had already known Jesus.
Those people can't get out, but I could, because I was already saved.
I knew and understood that there was no way out of this place, only by
Jesus. He is the only way to keep from going to this place.
In Rev 1:6, it says John, when he went to heaven, he saw Jesus, that His
countenance was as the sun shining in the fullness of its brightness and
strength. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet like a dead man.
That's just how I did. I fell at His feet like a dead man.
Now, you would think that I had a million questions to ask him, but when
you're there, all you can do is worship Him and praise His Holy Name, and thank
Him for what He saved us from.
When I got my composure, at least enough to start forming thoughts, I thought
about saying to the Lord, I don't even think I asked Him out loud, I just
thought it and He answered me. I said, "Lord, why did You send me to
this place? Why did you send me here?" He said to me
"Because people do not believe that this place exists." He said
"Even some of my own people do not believe this place is real."
I was shocked at that statement. I thought every Christian has got
to believe in Hell. But, not everyone believes in a literal burning Hell.
I said Lord, "Why did you pick me?" But He didn't answer
me on that question.
I have no idea why He picked me to go there. I'm the least likely to go
to this place. My wife and I hate evil movies. We hate anything
bad. I don't even like the summer time, much less heat. It's filthy.
There's no order. It's all chaos and disorder and disgusting. And I love
everything orderly and excellent. He didn't answer me on that question.
He said to me, "Go tell them that I hate this place, that it's not
my desire for one of my creation to go to this place, not one! I never
made this for man. This was made for the Devil and his angels. You have
to go and tell them! I've given you a mouth, you go and tell them."
I thought to myself, "But, Lord, they're not going to believe me.
They're going to think I'm crazy or had a bad dream." I mean
wouldn't you think that? As I thought this the Lord answered me and He
said, "It's not your job to convince them. It's the Holy Spirit’s
job! You just go and tell them!" And it was just inside,
"Yes, Sir!" Absolutely, I have to go and tell them."
You can't worry and fear what man is going to think of you, you just have
to go and do it and let God do the rest. Amen?
And I said,
"Lord, why did they hate me so much?" "Why did these
creatures hate me?" He said, "Because you're made in my image,
and they hate me." You know the Devil can't do anything against God.
He can't hurt God, per say, but he can hurt His creation. That's
why the Devil hates mankind, and deceives people into Hell. And he
inflicts diseases upon humanity, anything he can do to hurt God's creation.
The Peace Of God
And then, God flooded me with His thoughts. He let me touch a piece of
His heart. Oh, how much He loves mankind. Unbelievable, I couldn't even
take it. It was so overbearing. The love He has for man, you can't
take it in this body. You know how much we love our wives and our
children? Well, the love we have can't even be compared to the love God
has for us. His love is infinitely greater than our love and our ability
to love. It's just the same as it says in Eph 3:19, “… to know the love
of Christ which passes knowledge...” It goes so far past knowledge, you
can't even grasp it. I couldn't believe how much He loved mankind, that
He would die for just one person to not go to this place. And it hurts
Him so much to see one of His creation going to this place. It pains the
Lord, He weeps to see one person going into hell fire. And I felt so bad
for the Lord.
I felt His heart, He let me just touch a piece of His heart. He felt such
sadness for His creation going there. And I thought "I've got to go
out and witness, and take every last breath I have and go tell the world about
Jesus, how good He is." I mean, we have the gospel. It's good
news. It's good news, and the world doesn't know. They have to be
told! You know, we have to share this knowledge. People just have a
lack of knowledge in this area. God wants us to share with them how good
He is, and how He hates this place of wickedness, the hell regions.
He said to me also, "Tell them, I am coming very, very soon."
And He said it again, "Tell them, I'm coming very, very soon."
Now I think, why didn't I say to him, "What do you mean, Lord?
What's 'soon' to you?" That's how we think. But I didn't
ask. You just don't think to ask those things then. You just want
to worship Him so much. The peace of God that comes over you for being
next to Him is unexplainable. I've been in anointed services, but there
is no comparison to the love and the peace of God, which you feel for being
next to Him.
And then, I looked up, and I saw those demons on the
wall, that were so ferocious, they looked like ants on the wall! They
just looked like ants! They were still big, but
with the power of God next to you, all of God's creative power, they looked
like ants on the wall. I couldn't get over it. I thought,
"Lord, they're just ants!" And He said, "You just have to
bind them and cast them out in my name." I thought "boy, the
power He's given the church." These things that were so ferocious,
we were no match for a Devil without Jesus, none. They're ferocious, but
with Him, they are nothing! A boldness rose up in me right then, when I
saw these creatures, I felt like saying, "You creatures were the ones
torturing me, wanting to tear me apart? Come on! Come on,
now!" Maybe a little bit of my flesh rose up or something, you know,
I thought, Jesus get 'em."
Leaving Hell
As we left, we went up above the earth’s surface. We went above, because
we were still in a tunnel. Soon, I couldn't see it any more, but it was
like a whirlwind, a giant whirlwind we were in. We kept going up.
We had to go up, to get out of it apparently. When we got to the
top of it, I looked down at the earth and it was about this high. The
curve of the earth was like that. It's awesome to look back at the earth!
I know God allowed that for me. He could have left that tunnel any
which way He wanted. He knew in my heart, as a kid I always wanted to see
what the earth looked like from space. Maybe, I watched too much Star
Trek or something, you know? I just thought it would be really neat to
see the earth, and to see it hung on nothing. Like the Bible says.
It says in Job 26:7,
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
As you look, you think, "What's holding this thing up? What's making
it turn so perfectly?" God is in such control. The power of
God that flooded me, that He has, it's awesome. He has so much power.
Every single thing is in His control. Not a hair on your head falls
to the ground that He doesn't know about. Not a bird hits the ground that
He doesn't know about. I was flooded with these thoughts. God has
so much power. It overwhelmed me. There's scripture in Isaiah 40:22
that says the Lord sits upon the circle of the earth. There I was upon
the circle of the earth. I even thought, "Lord, how come before
Christopher Columbus they could have read that scripture and known the earth
was round." You know? People wondered, they thought it was
flat?
Anyway, as we came back down we passed through the shields; I knew we were
passing through the heat shield that was around the earth. I just knew
it. I even thought stupid thought, here I am with God, and I thought,
"I wonder how He's going to go through that shield?" You know
how in space they have to penetrate it at just the perfect angle. We went
through it with no problem what so ever. No surprise! I'm sure the
Lord must have rolled His eyes and said 'I can handle that one'. There is
a scripture in Psalm 47:9 that says,
...For the shields of the earth belong to God...
He is in control of everything, everything. I just didn't want Him to
leave. I just wanted to be in His presence. We were coming up fast
on California. Just coming real fast, we were moving so quick, and came
up to our house. And I looked and I could see right through the roof of
our house. And I could see myself lying on the floor. This really
hit me strong, right here because I saw my body lying there and I thought,
"That can't be me, I'm here, this is me!" You know, you've
never seen two of yourself. Here I was laying there and I thought,
"That's not really me." And that scripture that Paul says, were
we are just in a tent (2 Corinthians 5:1), that hit me so strong. I
thought "that's just a tent, that's nothing. That's temporary.
This is the real me." This is what eternity is all about.
That life that we worry about, it also hit me that we're a vapor, that
life is just a vapor as in James 4:14 it talks about and how short this life
is. It's short. A hundred years if you live, it's nothing! It
goes up like a vapor. And I thought, "We’ve got to live for
God." What we do now, here, counts for eternity. We've got to
witness. We've got to get out there and save the lost. We can't
worry about all these little petty things that we all get so tied up in and
hung up on. We need to really get out there and preach the gospel and the
good news, because this is over real quick.
But I saw my body lying there and I thought it was just as if you got out of
your car and looked back at your car. That's not you, it's your car.
It just gets you around. That's how it looked to me. It just
gets me around here on the earth, but this is the real me. And I thought,
"Lord don't leave, don't leave". I just want to stay with You
for a while. But He left. I came up to my body, and something pulled me
back into my body, like I was sucked back into my nose or my mouth.
Right then, when He left, that's when all the fear, the torture, and the
torment came back into my mind! Because it says in the Bible (1 John
4:18), "Perfect love casts off fear." So I was next to perfect
love all that time, so that left me, and when He left, all of the sudden all of
the fear and the horrors of Hell entered my mind. I couldn't stand it, I
couldn't stand it! I was screaming. I was in agony. I
couldn't live with it. I knew that this body was not capable of
withstanding that kind of fear. You can't hold up under that kind of
pressure. Your body isn't strong enough. So that's when I prayed
and I was able to pray, "Take it out of my mind!"
In the natural, you would have to go through all kinds of counseling to get
through this kind of trauma, but God took it out, instantly took it out, the
trauma. He left the memory, but took the trauma and the fear out. I
was so grateful.
Anyway, after this, so many things happened, I wish we had time to go into all
that God confirmed would happened to me.
If there's someone here tonight, that doesn't know the Lord; you have to ask
yourself a question. You have to say, "Do I believe these people,
that what they saw is real, all these people and myself??nbsp; But more
importantly, what the Word of God says about Hell. Do you want to take
that chance and say, "No I don't believe it, I don't believe that's
real." You have to throw out all the Word of God, and all of us
trying to tell you. Are you willing to take that chance with your whole
eternity? That would seem pretty foolish to me. You can't let the
devil deceive you. That big creature in the end there, that was laughing.
(shown in the video) That's how the devil would be when you got to Hell.
He would laugh, because you had an opportunity to receive the Lord and
you missed it. But once you're there, there is no turning back.
There's absolutely no turning back. You would be there lost for
ever.
You might be saying to yourself. "I'm pretty good. I'm a
pretty good person. I don't deserve that place." And you probably
are pretty good, compared to most people. But that's not what you need to
compare yourself to. We need to compare ourselves to God's standard.
His standard is so much higher than ours. He says in the Word that
if you lie once, just once in your whole life, that makes you a liar. If
you've stole one thing in your life, a paper clip, a couple minutes of your
boss's time, anything, just once. That makes you a thief. If you
were angry without cause, if you didn't forgive someone that did something
wrong against you, if you lusted after a women, any of these things, if you
just did it one time, that makes you a sinner, and you can't make it to heaven.
So you see all of us come short. We all fall short and can't get
there on our own works. Titus 3:5 says,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He
saved us...
Amen, so it depends on how you compare. It's like a woman that saw a
flock of sheep on a hill, and they were all so white and beautiful against this
hill. She said, "Look at those white sheep, look how beautiful they
look, so white." She went to bed and overnight it snowed. She
looked up the next morning and saw the sheep and they all looked dull, dingy
and gray compared to the white snow. So we need to compare ourselves to
God. His standard is way higher than ours. So we have need of a
Savior. We can't get there on our own. God made it a free gift.
He said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man come unto the Father but by Me." He's the only way out
of this place.
So if there's anyone here who doesn't know the Lord, anyone here who really has
never asked Jesus to be Lord and Savior of your life. You never really
came to that point where you really had to voice it out your own mouth and ask
Him to come into your life, would you stand up? If there's anybody here
would you stand up now, for Jesus? Don't let the devil, that creature
laugh at you. Stand up now, when you have the chance, cause you don't
know how much time we have. You don't know that you might die tomorrow,
and end up in that place.
Let me tell you, that place, just the heat alone would be horrible to endure.
Those people that we saw jump out of the New York towers. They held
hands and jumped. How horrible that must have been. You know if
you've ever been up high and looked down, to jump would be unthinkable.
But they had to face that heat. And that was only for about five
seconds, it would have incinerated them and that was about two thousand
degrees. Scientists say that in the center of the earth is about twelve
thousand degrees. So you have to endure that for eternity. If
you're willing to go through that, that would be awfully foolish. Now is
the time....
(announcer speaking)
The Bible is real plain, we are all sinners, and whoever will call on the
name of the Lord will be saved. Jesus said if you will confess me before
men, publicly, then I will in turn; confess your name before my heavenly Father
and the Holy angels. But if you deny me before men, I will deny you
before my Father. I want to ask you to do something. If you've
never publicly, in front of other people, if you've never publicly declared
Jesus Christ as your Savior, and made Him the Lord of your life, or if you're
unsure whether heaven is your eternal home, remember Jesus hung naked on a
cross, in a market place, he hung there for you, He endured your shame.
If you'll pray this prayer from the depths of your heart, God will save your
soul, and He'll give you an opportunity in the not to distant future for you to
make it public. Pray with us, especially those who are in the
congregation and know you should. "God I believe in You. You
are my Creator. I am a sinner. I sinned in many points, willfully,
and unconsciously. I've fallen short. I've missed the mark.
I'm stained with sin. Jesus I believe in You. You are the
eternal Son of God. You're the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the
world, who takes away my sin. I believe You died on a cross.
Shedding Your innocent blood for my guilty soul. I believe You were
buried and on the third day You arose. You are alive forever more.
I call You my Lord. I call You my Savior. I give You my life.
I will love You, serve you for the rest of my days. I belong to
You, the good parts, the bad parts, the sinful parts, all my plans, all my
dreams, I give everything to you. Thy will be done in me. I believe
I'm saved. Not by good works, but by faith, by trusting in You. In
Jesus I pray. Amen."
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That response is perfectly appropriate. The Bible says heaven has no
greater joy than when one sinner repents. And we only know a pale example
of what goes on in heaven when it witnesses what you've done today. I
want to address the rest of you, and then I'm going to drop out of this.
I want to give an alter call for those of us who've witnessed this.
We're really most fortunate to hear brother Bill tell what he
experienced. I'm going to issue a challenge to you and I really would
warn you, don't accept this unless you're ready for some activity of the Spirit
in your lives. I'm not trying to be flippant, I'm just saying don't make
this your confession unless you really mean it, and here's what it is.
It's got two parts. One, I will no longer fear the face of man.
The biggest single inhibitor to us acting like you really know there's a
Heaven and there's a Hell. I will no longer fear the face of man.
Two, I will talk to everyone I know, the rest of my life about Jesus, and
Heaven, and Hell. That is a huge commitment. Every person I know
who reached people for Christ came to these two points of commitment. Why
else have a relationship with anyone, if not to share with them the glorious
good news that saves their soul from Hell. It's a felony in the Spirit to
know someone, to converse with them, to entertain yourselves with them, to
enjoy their presence, and never tell them that, without Christ, they are going
to Hell. Every relationship is to be a doorway to communicate the truth
that you've witnessed today. That's logical. If you're not ready to
do that, I understand. But if you're ready to make those two commitments,
if you agree, say this to God, "God I believe in You. I believe in
Jesus Your Son, Your precious Holy Spirit. I receive the challenge of the
hour. I declare of myself, this is my confession. I will no longer
fear the face of man. I will not concern myself with the opinion of man.
My reputation is of no importance. I hate the fear of man. I
will tell everyone I know for the rest of my life about You Lord Jesus.
About Heaven and a place called Hell. I step over the line. I
will no longer be indifferent, preoccupied, not caring. I accept Your word.
I will not fear, and I will speak up. This is my confession to
Almighty God." Raise up Your army God, all over this city, nation,
and world, a people who have rightly discerned the times in which they live.
A people who have come to understand eternity is the next moment away, to
see with clarity into the glory of Heaven and the horrors of Hell, and order
their priorities to obey God. Now, we ask for grace. They've made a
bold confession God. Without Your grace, it will not come to past.
We believe Your grace is sufficient to do what the word of God tells us
to do. Grace, Grace, Grace upon Your people here, in JESUS name.