MY ENCOUNTER WITH HEAVEN AND HELL
I was sick. A persistent, very rare, intestinal problem I had since a child was only getting worse. In 2008, I went to have it checked out, but the doctors said there was nothing wrong with him. A year later, my intestinal pain was getting almost unbearable, and in 2009, at the age of 23, I was admitted to Korle Bu Hospital, a prominent hospital in Ghana (in Western Africa). There, at the Korle Bu Hospital, my condition worsened.
The surgery had to be delayed. On March 9, 2009, when I finally could have surgery, a doctor told me that everyone my age who got that surgery did not survive. I wanted to get the surgery anyway because I was in extreme pain. During the operation, my spirit left my body and was taken to Heaven. What I experienced there will open your eyes.
THE SURGERY
Intense pain pierced through my chest, most intense at my heart, and I screamed. I had been through three hours of surgery (at the Korle Bu Hospital) after being given anesthetics, but the pain had suddenly shot through my heart. The words of the surgeon just prior to the surgery echoed through my mind: “…no one with this kind of condition at your age has ever survived this kind of surgery.”
I felt I had no choice. The pain in my abdomen had only been getting worse and while I was at the hospital, it grew in intensity. I knew I could very well die, but I was willing to take that risk because the pain from a rare intestinal condition had been with me since my early twenties. Besides this, I told the doctor that I am a Christian and said I have my faith and hope in God, not in statistics.
Now, three hours into the surgery, I screamed in pain. The pain in my heart was like a sharp sword and I could not hold on any longer. Suddenly, I blacked out. The last thing I remembered on Earth was screaming in pain.
I LEFT THE EARTH
Before one could blink an eye, I found myself rapidly zooming through clouds like a rocket. Then, suddenly, I was in a beautiful garden filled with trees, flowers, and a paved path.
I started walking down the path and hadn’t gotten far before a large being suddenly stood before me. The being asked me what I was doing there. I told him that I was in a hospital and that now I was there in this beautiful place.
Then, the tall being introduced himself as an angel of God. He said it was not a mistake for me to find myself in that garden.
(God has revealed the things of God to us by His Spirit. See 1 Corinthians 2:9-16. See also Joel 2:28.)
1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Joe 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
BLOOD OF JESUS
As the angel and I walked along, we encountered some altars along the way at intervals. The third altar we came to had what appeared to be fresh blood poured out upon it. I learned from the angel that the blood was not the blood of an animal: it was the blood of Jesus Christ. The angel told me that this blood was pleading for mankind and that it was speaking.
Blood that is 2,000 years old should have dried up by now, I realized. The kind of blood I saw was fresh, so very, very fresh.
The angel said that the blood is so fresh because it still has to power to redeem or save mankind on Earth. It appeared as fresh new blood as if the precious blood of Jesus Christ had just been shed on it. Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
I knew from then that there is an ultimate indeed an ultimate power in this universe. We have an ultimate or a sovereign power in this world which is above or which exceeds all other powers.
Because, I knew that ordinary blood, once it is shed and once air blows on it, it dries up or clots in no time. But the precious blood of Jesus Christ, even though it had been shed 2,000 years ago, is still fresh. It’s made me know that God is indeed God and God is all-powerful or has the ultimate power in this world.
PARADISE
The angel of the Lord told me to hurry up because there were little time and a lot of things that he had to show me in Heaven. We arrived at a place where I saw a very large house made of glass.
I saw a lot of people who were wearing white clothes which were all identical. They were very happy.
In the same place, I lifted up my head and I saw two thrones. They were both occupied. I asked the angel of the Lord, "Who are those two sitting on both thrones?" He said to me, "The first one you see is Abraham. He’s the one sitting on that throne. And, the second one you see is Moses who is also sitting on that throne."
I asked the angel if I was permitted to talk to anyone in that place. I wanted to talk to the people who were so joyous. The angel gave me permission.
Before I talked to the people, I asked the angel for the name of the place I was now at. The angel said, “Here is Paradise.”
The angel told me that this place is for those who “died in the Lord Jesus Christ” and, “This is the place where their souls come.”
I then asked one of the people, a man clothed in white, how he came to be in Paradise (or Heaven). The man told me that he lived his life for Jesus all the days of his life on Earth. He gave himself to Jesus Christ and also obeyed the commandments of Jesus and he did not deviate from the commandments of Jesus. When he died, he found himself in Paradise.
I did not see anyone I knew in Paradise.
The angel of the Lord told me that we needed to hurry up and move on because he had other things to show me. My tour guide led me down a road. On this road, I encountered three groups of angels doing different tasks.
THE THREE GROUPS OF ANGELS
I saw a group of angels, with serious expressions, picking up things from the ground and putting them into a sack or bag. Once it was full, they lifted the bag up and took it in the same direction my guide was leading me.
I asked the angel, “Where are we going?” The angel told me I would find out when we got there. I cannot describe exactly what the angels were doing and why they were picking up things and putting them into bags to take away because I had never seen anything like it before.
The second group of angels, I came across on the road, were bringing things from the place my guide and I were going to and bringing these things to the place my guide and I had left.
A little later, my guide and I came across a third group of angels. A few of the angels were working, but the majority of them were sitting around, doing nothing.
I asked the angel of the Lord why (1) the first group was serious and busy picking up things to take away; (2) why the second group was busy taking things back; and (3) why the third group of angels was divided between busy angels and idle angels.
The angel explained that the first group of angels was gathering the prayers of the righteous believers. These prayers had arrived in Heaven from Earth. The second group of angels was taking the answers, from God to the prayer requests and bringing them to the righteous believers who had been praying.
The third group of angels had the responsibility of gathering the thanksgiving and praise to God from the Earth. The angels who were idle had nothing to do because many saints (or Christians) in the Earth were not giving thanks and praise to God. The few angels who were working gathered the comparatively small amount of praise and thanksgiving that some of the saints had given to God.
Angels sit idle when no thanksgiving is being rendered to God.
As my guide and I went along, we came upon an indescribably beautiful place. I saw that everything increased in beauty as we got closer to the place the angel was leading me to.
THE ROYAL PALACE
At last, we arrived at a huge, beautiful building with an inscription on it: “The Royal Palace”
We entered the building and saw a person sitting on a white throne. I asked the angel who He was. The angel of the Lord told me, "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of mankind. He is the One who is sitting on the throne.”
After the angel told me that, I said, “Jesus Christ”. When I mentioned the name Jesus Christ, suddenly, immediately they all bowed down to worship—all the angels bowed down, and they began to worship.
When I asked my angel guide why the angels all bowed down, he said, “It is because of the name, Jesus Christ. When we heard it, we bow down to that name.”
Philippians 2:10-11 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
I saw the angels bow before the throne of Jesus Christ, the Lamb. I looked at Jesus Christ’s face and saw light radiating out from it. His face was full of glory. I wanted to walk toward Jesus and spend more time in the Royal Palace with Jesus, but the angel told me he had other things to show me and that the time was running short.
I also saw the 24 elders worshipping Jesus Christ, praising Him. Each elder took his turn to bow prostrate before the throne. When each did, he set his crown on the floor and praised God with his face to the floor. He was there for some time before he stood up and rejoined the other elders. Then, the next elder would take his turn. This continued for all the elders as they praised God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
It was in this place that I got to know what true worship is all about. I really saw true worship, great worship being done by these elders in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. That is where I learned what true worship is all about.
The angel told me we had to hurry up because he had other things to show me. The angel brought me to another place. It was a building with a door. No one was allowed to enter through that door, but the angel and I had been given special permission, that time, to enter.
THE VISIT TO HELL
When we had passed through the door, I realized we were descending down into the ground. The angel and I had left Heaven and now we were headed toward a new destination, far away from Heaven.
The place we were in was a tunnel and it was very, very dark. I’ve never seen such darkness in all my life before. The place was very dark. We kept on moving on. Then, I began to feel heat coming from the place.
I began to smell something awful coming from the place far below me that the angel and I were heading toward. When I asked the angel about it, the angel told me I would find out when we arrived.
As we went toward this place, I began to hear screaming and crying coming from the place. I became very afraid. When we got closer, I saw fire all over the place.
I saw fire everywhere and people crying out loud and screaming. The fire was like a consuming fire.
I saw a woman in a cage. The woman was crying out for mercy but no mercy was granted to that person. After crying awhile, the woman started cursing God. A demon picked her up and threw her against the wall and she continued to cry and scream and curse God. There is no mercy in Hell.
PASTORS IN HELL
I also saw pastors in Hell and they were also crying out.
(A Christian can turn away from God. See Revelation 21:7-8, Hebrews 3, Hebrews 10:25-31, Luke 16:13-15, Mark 9:42-50, Revelation 3:5, Matthew 13:1-23, John 15:1-7, 2 John, Ezekiel 33:13, Romans 8:13)
When I asked the angel guide why pastors were in Hell, the angel told me, "The pastors who were in Hell did not rely on the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of God, when they were doing ministry on Earth. They were rather relying on occultic powers for their church and for their ministry. They were not genuine pastors. They did not use the power of God. They were using occultic powers in their ministry.”
I saw these pastors screaming and crying out loud in Hell. I saw many pastors in Hell. I will describe four groups of pastors I saw in Hell and what their exact sins were that brought them there. The angel of the Lord explained to me why the pastors were in Hell. There were several different groups of pastors in Hell.
The first group I saw was comprised of pastors who had slept with women from their churches. They had fornicated and committed adultery with women from their churches and when they died, they found themselves in Hell. Their screams and cries filled my ears.
The second group was made of pastors who did miracles, signs, and wonders. This was not by the power of the Holy Spirit, but by occultic power, the power of demons. They had chosen the power of the devil instead of the power of God to do so-called “miracles”. They had sold their soul to the devil and had turned away from God.
The third group was composed of pastors who were murderers. They were in Hell because they had killed people, shedding innocent blood.
The fourth group of pastors loved money. God did not call them into the ministry. They did not know God and that they were in the ministry to make money. And, they were using the name of our Lord Jesus Christ for material gain: they were lovers of money. Because money was their god, they are in Hell.
Beloved, I was very sad when the angel showed me all these pastors in Hell.
As we went further, I saw what I compare to a sea or an ocean of fire. It covered the people. I could hear screaming and crying. I began to feel some of the heat. It was very hot in that place. I told the angel of the Lord that I wanted to get back because I could not stand the heat anymore.
The angel took me by the hand and we ascended back up the same way we had come and arrived in Heaven.
BACK IN HEAVEN
We arrived at the place where the elders were worshiping Jesus Christ. There I heard a loud voice saying, “The time is set. The time is set. The time is set.” Then, another voice said, “The Blood. The Blood. The Blood…”
The angel of the Lord now took me to a window, and behind the window was an altar with blood on it: an altar of sacrifice. And on that altar, I saw blood on this altar of sacrifice.
God wants to come back to the Earth to destroy the Earth because people are not repenting; people are not giving their lives to Jesus Christ; people are not worshiping God. People are thinking that everything is a fairy tale and they are just living their lives anyhow. They are not repenting and they are not turning to God.
The only reason God has not come yet to judge the Earth is that the blood of Jesus Christ is still pleading and begging God for mankind.
God’s time is set all ready to come for His bride, but the blood of Jesus Christ is still pleading for mankind. Because, if God is to come now, a lot of people are not ready. People are not repenting. People are not turning to God. People are not living for God. People are not worshiping God in truth and in Spirit.
The only reason God has not come for His Bride and to judge and destroy the earth is that the blood of Jesus Christ is still pleading for the lost (including those who call themselves Christians who don’t know God’s name).
The angel told me that God was giving me a second chance. I was told to tell people what I had seen and what I had heard. I was told to tell people that “The time is up, the time is up, and that Heaven is real, … and Jesus Christ is alive, and the blood of Jesus Christ is still speaking.”
I HEAD BACK TO EARTH
An angel took me back to the Earth, to my body, and I opened my eyes and wept. I had come back to consciousness after four days of having been gone. It was a Thursday. I had left my body on a Monday during the surgery. All that time in Heaven it had only been daytime. There was no night, day, morning, or evening in Heaven. My time in Heaven seemed like a flash. It was very fast.
On Earth again, my body was still getting worse. Even so, I knew that I was going to be well and get out of the hospital, by God’s grace. Just as the angel had told me, God returned me to good health and I was able to share my amazing testimony of life after death.
Now, this is what I’d like to tell you, hearers. I want you to know that whatever the Bible has said or whatever the Bible is saying is true. Whatever the Word of God, the Bible, has said, it is true. I want you to also know that man cannot help you. Man cannot help you. Only God can help you. If you put your trust in man, he fails you. Only God can really help you. You cannot put your confidence or your trust in man. Only God can really help you. I also want you to know that we are living in extra time. We are living in extra time.
The only thing keeping God from coming to take His Bride and destroy the Earth is the blood of Jesus Christ, which is pleading for mercy so that the lost could be saved.
If you are to die today, where would you find your eternity?
1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”
Acts 4:12: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
God loves us so much that He sent His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins and shed His precious blood to pay for all of these sins. (See John 3:16 and 1 Corinthians 15:3-5.)
If you repent (turn away) from your sins (Acts 3:19), and believe and confess aloud that Christ has done this for you (Romans 10:9-10), and have made Him your Lord and Savior (again Romans 10:9-10) you are saved.
Now seek God with all your heart. Seek to know Him and you will (Jeremiah 29:13).
John 17:3 says: “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
Jeremiah 29:13 says: “And ye shall seek me, and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.”
John 14:6: “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
