HE
WENT INTO HELL AND HEAVEN
Translation
from the transcription of the audio testimony recorded in Portuguese
in the beginning of the 1980s. This is the stunning report of Elder
Adão de Campos, about his conversion, disease, death and
resurrection occurred in October 1980, in the Rio Grande do Sul (a
State in the southern of Brazil)
Try not
to be frightened by the report. Instead of, try to think about it.
May the Lord God bless you in Jesus Christ.
[Grammatical
errors in this text were purposely left unedited to preserve the
translation in its original form.]
<Introduction
– Man interlocutor's voice>
I state
that this testimony is real and true! This is a warning for those who
have not accepted Jesus as your savior and, those who are out of the
Lord's way, that may they have their opportunity to return to the
feet of the Lord! And the Believers who serve God may watch over
constantly, so that they do not fall into the trap of Satan! And here
is, on speakerphone, our Brother, to tell their experiences as an
incredulous and as a Believer man.
My name
is Adão (Adam) de Campos. I am an elder of the Evangelical Church
Assembly of God, in the city of Cachoeirinha (Little Waterfall),
State of Rio Grande do Sul (Big River of the South).
<Woman
interlocutor's voice>
Brother
Adão! Tell us how your life was before knowing Jesus.
Conversion
I was a
very incredulous and a very hard-hearted man. I used to persecute the
religions and the Christians. I used to challenge the Christians to
quarrel with me, but they groveled. I stoned many churches. I stopped
many outdoor worship meetings. On one occasion, about a week after I
had stopped an outdoor worship meeting, the Angel of the Lord came
into our house, around midnight. He had a crown of glory on his head.
My wife had just gone to bed. She was awake and she froze, without
moving. She saw the Angel coming in, with that golden crown on his
head. He walked straight to the cradle of our daughter, who was one
year and nine months old. Then, at the footboard of our bed, he said
to my wife:
— I
will take your daughter. It is not because of you. It is because of
the unbelief and the hardness of heart of your husband.
And the
Angel came out! My wife got out of the bed and checked the doors (the
house went dark when the Angel left). She checked the doors and they
were all locked. Then she began to cry. It was about four o'clock in
the morning when I arrived. She told me:
— An
angel came into our house!
I did
not believe it. I even said to her:
— You
sleep with your stomach full and then say that an angel came into
here!
And she
spent the night crying, with our daughter in her lap. She was worried
about what the angel had said, i.e., that he would take our daughter.
My daughter had never been sick. She had never suffered any disease.
She was full of health and full of life. This happened in a Friday.
In the Saturday, in the beginning of the afternoon, my daughter began
to feel sad. In the midnight Saturday, my daughter was already dead,
after taking her last breaths in my arms! In the afternoon Sunday, my
daughter was already in the tomb.
About
seven days after the lost of my daughter, I was coming back from the
military service (I am a retired officer of the military police) and
I went into my house. When I went to the backyard, I heard a voice in
the air. It was a rough and angry voice, which spoke to me this way:
— Do
you know the reason why you lost your daughter?
I began
to look and to listen. A voice came from the air! And that voice said
to me:
—
Believers are to blame! They are to blame about you have lost your
daughter!
As I
had stopped an outdoor worship meeting in front of my house, I was
furious! I thought they are really to blame about I have lost my
daughter. I was with a great anger in that moment. It was anger
against the Believers, against the evangelical Christians. And I
decided to end with them. I even said:
—
Whatever the cost, I will eliminate these Believers! I will eliminate
them indeed!
And I
put six bullets in my revolver. I also put sixteen bullets in my
pocket and I took the machete, too. So, I went to the church. I tell
myself:
— I
know where they come together.
And I
went there! I arrived at the gate of the church. I gave a kick at
that wooden gate and it broke completely. And I came into the
courtyard of the church. But I had forgotten of grabbing the
revolver. I arrived at the door of the church. I looked inside. The
devil said to me:
—
Shoot inside! There is just one door to exit. Shoot inside and they
will come out. So, you cut their neck with the machete.
I put
my hands in the door and I looked inside. But I remembered that I had
not grabbed the revolver. So, I put my hand in my pocket in order to
pull the revolver. But, when I tried to pull it, my arm was static.
My arm did not move! I did not have strength in myhands. My hands
were fixed in the door, in the doorway. I could not speak, I lost my
tongue. And I stayed there. I saw that the doorkeeper was asking me
to come in. I could not speak; I could not go out from there, I could
not move, I could not walk! I felt that big hand, a very big arm took
me from behind, between my legs, and pushed me toward inside of the
church. I “was transported” and I fell down in the doorkeeper's
chair. I stayed there and that voice talked to me. The Heavens opened
and that voice talked directly to me. It called my name and said:
—
Adão! Do you know who I am? I am Jesus! You will not do here what
you were intending to do! I am Jesus! Today, you fell down in my
hands!
Ah!
When that voice talked to me, I began to cry. It took me to pieces,
it touched deeply my life. I was broken-hearted. That voice was
veiled to me, between the Heaven and the Earth. I heard that voice
speaking, that soft voice, that sweet and lovely voice! And I was
crying, desperate, but I had no voice, I could not speak. And that
voice said to me:
— Are
you seeing these people here, Adão? These people! There are people
here who do not have footwear to wear. But I am among them. It is
here that I am where you never thought I would be! Today, you fell
down in my hands!
And
that hand let go of my neck. I raised my face. That preacher was
talking about my life! He was telling my life:
—
This life you live is a life of sadness and pain! That statement came
to me and. I shouted in the church! I said:
— It
is true! This life I live is not a life!
And
everybody looked back. The church was crowded. The people looked back
and I felt embarrassed, because I was inside the church! And the
preacher said to me:
—
Stand up and came here, get down your knees, Jesus has a plan in your
life!
And I
stood up! (But I had never bent the knee to anyone!) When I stood up,
I remembered that I had a revolver. I put my hand in the cartridge
belt, but the revolver jumped mysteriously from my belt. I had never
dropped my revolver, but it was there, on the floor! A being caught
me by one of my arms and another being caught me by my other arm, in
such a way that I could not bend down to pick up the revolver and put
it in my pocket. It was there, on the floor, and my belt was on the
chair. And I went before the pulpit, I was taken there. I arrived in
front of the pulpit, I was put there. So, the preacher asked me to
bend my knees. I knelt down, with my eyes opened. They began do pray,
and I was with my eyes opened. All of sudden, I felt like a punch in
my chest. I looked and I saw two thick ropes snapping on my chest. I
was terrified! I tried to catch those ropes (there were threads
coming off from them), but I could not catch them, because they
disappeared in my hands. When those ropes snapped, I fell down with
my face on the floor of the church, in tears, weeping. My soul was
touched! My soul, my spirit and my body were touched.
<A
short unexpected pause> Brother Adão began to cry.
<Woman
interlocutor's voice>
Dear
Brothers! This is a live interview with Brother Adão! He cannot
control his tears. He cries, because we know that God had a plan in
his life. And we know that there are hundreds and hundreds of souls
that have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior, through his
testimony! Dear Brothers, I am speaking now so that Brother can
recover after these tears that are given by Jesus and by the Holy
Spirit, and can continue his wonderful testimony!
And so,
Sister, I stood up. There was a green carpet in front of the pulpit,
which sank our feet! I saw that clouds of glory from Heaven, rays of
light. I was like a little lamb! I wanted to leap! I wanted to leap
for joy; I could not resist the glory of Heavens! I began to walk by
the corridor of the church. It seemed that I wanted to fly! I came
back to my chair, I sat down, I grabbed that rubbish, that revolver,
with the great embarrass that I have never felt in my life! I came
out the church, I wanted to leap! I wanted to shout for joy, because
of that glory that was following me! I went to home, I spent the
night in that glory, and I could not sleep for joy, for glory! Next
day, I went to the military service. From three o'clock in the
afternoon, I said to the captain, my commander in the military
service:
—
Captain! I want that you let me go; I want to go to the church that I
went last night. I am feeling a joy that I cannot resist! From the
moment that I went to the church yesterday, in order to kill the
Believers, I was transformed this way!
And he
said:
— You
are crazy, man! You were not this way!
I said:
— No,
I am different. I feel a glory, a joy inside of me!
And I
began to cry before him, because I could not resist talk about that
glory. And he let me go, he let me go home. When I arrived home, I
said to my wife:
— You
get yourself ready, because we go to the church that I went last
night. I cannot resist this glory; I want that you go there, so that
you can feel the same thing that I felt!
And
this was the way by which Jesus converted me, Sister. This was the
way. He really saved me in that night. He came into me, the Heavens
came into me. God spoke directly to me and saved me. He came into my
blood, into my flesh, into my veins. So, I was totally transformed in
that night. And I never changed my mind!
<Woman
interlocutor's voice>
Brother
Adão! In the Rio Grande do Sul, your story is much commented. They
know about your disease, your death and your heart transplant that
was testified by the doctors in that State. We want that you tell us
this wonder!
For the
rest of his amazing testimony where he described his visit to Hell
and Heaven and his resurrection after three days, kindly download
