There was an occasion when I was teaching in my church about the dangers of hidden sin. In our church, we held services on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I was supposed to finish the teaching on Thursday. However, I had not yet completed the lesson on hidden sin. That night, between Wednesday and Thursday, I was in good health. My wife prepared dinner, and we ate together before going to bed. At 3:00 in the morning, I got out of bed to go to the bathroom.
As soon as I stood up, I suddenly felt dizzy. At the same time, I developed an unbearable headache. I nearly fell to the ground because I was losing my balance. I had to hold onto the wall to keep myself from falling. I could only move by supporting myself against it. I was so dizzy that I could not make it to the bathroom, so I urinated outside the door rather than inside the house. Since the dizziness continued, I made my way back to the bedroom, still holding onto the wall for support.
The dizziness was severe, and my headache kept getting worse. When I entered the bedroom, I wanted to pray, but I fell to the floor. I got up and tried to pray a second time, but I fell again. The following morning, after everyone had left the house, I came out of the bedroom. I called my wife and explained how I was feeling. I watched her walk back and forth, unsure of what to do. I told her that I had a terrible headache and was experiencing severe dizziness.
I expected her to do something to help me, but she began washing the dishes instead. She did not know what to do. I lay there suffering while my son played nearby. The pain continued to intensify. A few hours later, I could no longer speak. At that moment, my son called my wife and said, "Dad is very sick. You need to come." My wife immediately stopped what she was doing and rushed back to me. She sat beside me and asked, "Is this the illness you told me about this morning? It must be meningitis."
She suggested a natural remedy, but I was not convinced it would help. She then sent my daughter, Sarah, to fetch some water. Sarah brought it, and my wife sprinkled the water on my head in an attempt to relieve the headache. However, it did not work. My wife then told Sarah, "Bring me a piece of cloth so we can cover his head and pray for him." Once my wife had covered my head with a cloth, she began praying with my daughter.
They prayed with deep devotion and intensity. They continued praying and praying until their voices began to sound as though they were far away from me, even though they were not more than 2 meters away. As they continued, their voices seemed to grow more distant, as if I were moving farther and farther away from them. I could hear them less and less until eventually, I could no longer hear them at all. I had lost consciousness and entered a coma.
While I was unconscious, my wife called a taxi. She dressed me in fresh clothes and took me to the hospital, where the medical staff checked my temperature. However, the doctor could not find anything seriously wrong with me. The doctor was astonished and asked my wife several questions because they could not understand what was happening to me. This is what my wife later told me, because by that time, I was already in a coma.
While unconscious, I remember hearing a loud bang, like the sound of a door slamming shut. Suddenly, I lost all awareness of earthly life and the natural world. Then, out of nowhere, I saw a figure dressed in white with a red belt around his waist. As I looked at him, his face seemed to radiate a beautiful, pulsating light. The place where I stood was filled with indescribable glory. I felt illuminated by the magnificent light.
No human being can look upon the Lord's face with ordinary physical eyes. His eyes were like a mirror placed beneath the sun, reflecting its rays. His gaze was impossible to behold. The experience was overwhelming. The Lord said to me, "I have come to take you with me and show you a great country." Immediately, he took me by the hand and we began ascending toward heaven. The journey was long. Eventually, we arrived and landed on something that looked like a carpet.
Although it was not actually a carpet, it was unlike anything on Earth. I cannot adequately describe it. The ground was not sandy, nor was it anything like the ground we know in this world. At that moment, I did not even realize that I was in a heavenly place. The Lord then dressed me in a magnificent, shining golden robe. He also brought sandals and put them on me. Afterward, he went to fetch a fruit and gave it to me.
I saw that the fruit was golden and radiant. He instructed me to eat it. In that heavenly world, I noticed that there was no sky as we know it, nor were there any stars. The glory surrounding me was beyond anything I could imagine or describe. It was like the light of the sun shining upon the Earth at midday, but I had the impression that the light in the heavenly world was a thousand times more intense.
It was extraordinary. I did not feel tired, nor did I sweat from the heat of the sun. I simply do not have the words to describe these things adequately. The Lord invited me to accompany him, and we began moving through the heavenly world. As we traveled through God's paradise, I saw flowering trees unlike those on Earth. They were strong and magnificent with evergreen leaves that did not scatter or fall as leaves do here.
The trees looked beautiful, perfectly formed and impressive in every way. Even the trees themselves filled me with amazement. I had the impression that I was seeing such trees for the very first time. None of their leaves tore or fell to the ground as they do in our world. Then I saw streams of water. I noticed that I could see straight through the crystal clear water. On Earth, we cannot always see what lies beneath the surface, but the water in the heavenly world was completely transparent.
Beneath the river of life, I saw beautiful precious stones that shone with multicolored light. It was an extraordinary sight. As we continued through the holy city, I began to see enormous buildings. There were gigantic palaces and magnificent mansions. These heavenly buildings were not built with steel, cement, or aluminum. None of the ordinary construction materials used on Earth had been used to build them.
The houses were magnificent and belonged primarily to individual saints in heaven rather than to entire families. On Earth, many people live together in one house, but in heaven, it was different. These mansions were assigned to individual saints. Some were square, while others were rectangular. Their designs and forms were beyond description. They were truly magnificent. There were countless palaces and enormous mansions.
Even if the entire world were to enter heaven, there would still be houses left unoccupied because there were so many of them. As we continued walking through the city, I asked the Lord, "Are there more things you want to show me?" The Lord answered, "Come, I will show you hell." At a crossroads, we took the path on the left, which led toward hell. As we walked, I saw a tunnel ahead of us. Its entrance was enormous and completely dark.
The darkness was so intense that I could not see someone standing just 1 meter away. Yet, within that darkness, I was somehow able to see clearly. I do not know whether this was because of the fruit I had eaten. As we proceeded through the tunnel, I saw a man entering the darkness. When he came closer, I realized that he had no eyes, mouth, nose, or ears. Instead, he had one enormous eye in the middle of his forehead.
The eye was huge and shone like a lamp. We crossed paths with him. He passed us and continued on his way. We continued walking through the darkness until another figure appeared. This time, I saw someone with three ears, four arms, and four legs. There were no words to describe his hands and feet. He was a monster with strange hands and unusual toes. When I looked at him, I became frightened. He crossed our path, passed us, and continued walking.
As we proceeded farther into the tunnel, another man approached. When he came closer, I saw that he had two faces, one at the front of his head and another at the back. He could see in both directions. He also had four hands and four legs. His appearance was extremely strange. I looked at the Lord, hoping he would explain who these monstrous creatures were. However, I noticed that his eyes were fixed on something else ahead of us.
While I was concentrating on these creatures, the Lord did not appear to be paying attention to them. We continued through the tunnel, and a fourth figure approached us. As he came closer, I realized that he was nothing but a skeleton. He was made entirely of bones, yet he moved and made noises as he walked. I looked at the Lord, wondering whether he could see these beings and what his reaction or feelings might be toward them.
But his attention was focused elsewhere. Then I saw a fifth figure approaching. He was extremely short and had an enormous head. His head was open with his brain exposed and two whiskers protruded from his face. Unable to contain my curiosity any longer, I asked the Lord, "Who are these beings passing us in this tunnel?" The Lord asked me, "Do you not know who these beings are? I have heard you preach about them. How can you say you do not know them?"
He continued, "They are demons, the very demons you have preached about. They will come to the earth and enter people's lives. They have caused people to sin against the law of God." Then the Lord said, "Let us discuss an important matter concerning pastors." Knowing that I was a pastor myself, the Lord began questioning me. He asked, "Why do you pastors fail to preach the whole truth to the children of God?
Why do you preach only what benefits you? Why do you favor certain members of your congregation while neglecting others? Why do you create divisions within your churches by accepting some members and rejecting others for your own personal benefit? And why is it that when you pastors are invited to celebrations, you are served special food? The food and drink you receive are different from what is given to my sheep.
Why do you do this? I do not show favoritism. Do you not understand that some members of your congregations have surpassed you in spiritual maturity? There are people sitting in your churches who are more spiritually mature than you are. Some of your members have greater spiritual understanding than you yourselves possess." The Lord then declared, "I do not judge you in the same way that your earthly teachers judge you."
Eventually, we reached the end of the tunnel and I saw hell. Before me stretched a vast land of fire extending farther than my eyes could see. It was an endless kingdom of flames. I saw different kinds of fire burning in a multitude of colors. I also heard explosions that seemed to come from thousands of kilometers away. It was as though you could be standing in the Central African Republic and hear the thunderous explosions taking place in Asia and Europe.
The noise was truly overwhelming. When you saw that fire and heard its roaring and thunderous explosions, you might have died from sheer terror if you had not been prepared for what you were witnessing. The fire produced a deafening sound. Its explosions and thunderous roar were unbearable to human ears. I was astonished that I could endure such terrifying noise. I knew it was because of the fruit the Lord had given me.
Can you imagine explosions occurring in France and people being able to hear them in Africa? That was how powerful the sounds of hell were. I saw brown flames, maroon flames, and gray flames. There were unbearable explosions of multicolored fire. I was terrified. There was also liquid fire. If anyone were to throw a bomb into that liquid fire, it would melt. Even tons of steel would be destroyed if thrown into it.
The souls trapped in that liquid fire were reduced to skeletons. Then, when they were brought out of the flames, their bodies were restored only for them to be thrown back into the fire and reduced to skeletons once again. This was their eternal torment. There was no rest. That, I was told, was the fate of those who fell into hell. The explosions of that fire were beyond what human beings could endure.
We then arrived at a place where I saw a woman. She was a preacher holding an open Bible while preaching to people. She was telling them to repent, abandon their sins, and turn away from wrongdoing. She was even listing different kinds of sin as she preached. Suddenly, I saw fire consume her and she was reduced to a skeleton. I noticed that a burning flame was visible in the woman's chest. I turned to the Lord and said, "Lord, that woman was preaching. Her preaching was good."
The Lord answered, "You have never traveled to Europe, but what you have seen took place in Europe. This woman had a husband, and both of them were Christians. Her husband committed fornication. When she discovered what he had done, she became furious. When her husband realized that she knew the truth, he went to her and asked for forgiveness, but she refused to forgive him.
After some time, her husband asked for forgiveness a second time. Again, she refused. On the third occasion, he came to her once more hoping she would forgive him, but the preacher continued to refuse. Days passed. One day, her husband returned home from work and entered the bedroom to change his clothes. The preacher took a gun she had already prepared and shot him. After killing her husband, she went out and found the woman with whom he had slept.
She shot that woman as well. Finally, the preacher took her own life. The Lord explained that this was the story of a preacher who had refused to forgive. She had preached about Christ. She had exhorted people powerfully and taught them well. Yet, in the end, she had gone to hell. The woman was burned, her body was restored, and she burned again and again. The fire never stopped, and she had no rest.
The Lord then said, "It is not good to live with jealousy." He continued, "We must not refuse to forgive. We must always forgive." The preacher had refused to forgive her husband. She had rejected every opportunity to extend forgiveness to him. There were other serious sins involved in her story. First, she had allowed jealousy and hatred to consume her. Second, she had refused to forgive. Third, she had committed murder.
The Lord's message was clear. We must warn people to turn away from such things. We must not commit fornication, and no one has the right to take another person's life. We then came to another part of hell, where I saw an enormous lake of fire. It was immense. In that sea of flames lay the souls of men and women. As the sea of fire erupted and threw people into the air, I could see their heads and necks falling back into its depths.
The Lord said, "These are atheists. They are people who do not believe in me, who reject my word and say that God does not exist. To them, the church has no meaning. They believe that the things of God have nothing to do with them. This is their place. I want to tell you that we must help people come to know God so that they do not die in their sins because God is real. The Bible is not a false story. It is reality."
As we began to leave that place, I could still hear the thunderous explosions and roaring flames of hell continuing behind us. When people see hell, they will not need someone to persuade them to change their lives and repent. The horror of hell itself will make them understand the seriousness of repentance. They will not need a pastor to explain it to them. The terrible reality, however, is that those who are in hell can no longer repent. Their condemnation is eternal. They are condemned forever.
We arrived at another place in hell where I saw what looked like a lake. People were bathing in it. They were sitting in the lake with the water reaching up to their waists. They appeared to be washing themselves and drinking the water. But they were crying and screaming in pain. Suddenly, their bodies disappeared from my sight and they became skeletons.
I turned to the Lord and said, "Master, I saw these people bathing and drinking, but now I cannot see them anymore. They have become skeletons." The Lord answered, "They are not in water. They are in beer. They drink the beer and wash themselves with it, but the beer burns them. They scream in agony because the alcoholic beer that people drink on Earth becomes fire in hell." I watched as the bodies of these souls were restored to a human form only for the fire to consume them again until they became skeletons. Their bodies were restored, burned, and reduced to skeletons repeatedly. This cycle continued without end.
Then the Lord showed me an image of a tree and told me to sit down. Immediately, a chair appeared. I sat on it and another chair appeared for the Lord. We sat facing each other. He asked me, "Do you see this tree?" I answered, "Of course I do." The tree had objects hanging from wires attached to its branches and leaves. I could see bundles of bank notes, suitcases, and precious stones, including diamonds. Everything looked attractive and beautiful.
The Lord said, "I want you to climb this tree. Once you reach the top, you will be able to take all the wealth hanging there. You will become rich. You can obtain all these things if you can climb this tree." When I tried to climb it, however, I discovered that the tree was covered in a sticky liquid. Its surface was extremely slippery. I could see all the money and precious stones, and I desperately wanted to climb up and take them so that I could become rich. But the tree was too slippery. The wealth attracted me, yet I could not find a way to climb the tree and reach it.
I said to the Lord, "Lord, climbing this tree is difficult." He replied, "Do you not see that some of the things hanging here are missing? Some people managed to climb the tree and take the money, precious stones, and other riches. Your friends managed to climb it and take that money." I asked the Lord, "What did they do to climb the tree? I also want to climb it and obtain the money." He answered, "If you keep my commandments, ask for whatever you want, and it will be granted to you. This is my way of blessing you. People think this way is too difficult. Instead, they turn to dishonest and unlawful methods to obtain wealth. They become rich in this life and acquire temporary blessings, but when they die, they go to hell and lose their souls."
The Lord then showed me a board divided by a line with names arranged in two sections. Above the line were the names of prophets, pastors, apostles, evangelists, and other ministers. Below the line were more names. The Lord asked me, "Between the names above the line and those below it, which group has more names?" I answered, "There are more names below the line."
The Lord explained, "The line separating the names above from those below represents the median. Those whose scores fall below the line have marks lower than 10, while those above the line have scores higher than 10." The Lord held my hand and encouraged me. "My son, I want to encourage you because your score is above 10. Nevertheless, it is still not enough." Then he told me to look at the board. When I examined it closely, I saw numbers such as 12, 15, 17, and 18 written before the names above the line.
The Lord said, "Look carefully at the board. Even the children who attend Sunday school have scores higher than yours. Even the women are doing better than you. There are people who are doing better than you." The Lord continued encouraging me, telling me to begin again and work harder to improve my score. He said, "I encourage you to start afresh. Make a greater effort to improve your marks. Do you hear me?" I answered, "Yes, Lord." Three times the Lord asked me, "Do you hear me?" Each time I replied, "Yes, Lord."
Eventually, he released my wife's hand and showed me my wife's score. Her score was below 10. It was eight. The Lord said, "Those who receive a score below 10 will go to hell. There is nothing I can do for them, and I will show no favoritism. Whether they are pastors, evangelists, prophets, deacons, or people with any other religious title, they will go to hell if their score is below 10." My wife was among those whose scores were below 10. When I saw this, I felt deep anguish and pain in my heart.
I said, "She is only two points away from 10. Surely, she will not go to hell." I was speaking these words within my heart, but the Lord heard my thoughts. He asked me, "What are you saying? Are you worried that your wife is two points short of the required score?" When the Lord asked me this question, I admitted that I was worried. I had not spoken those words aloud, yet he was expressing exactly what was in my heart. When the Lord revealed my innermost thoughts, I feared him even more. He truly is good, and his greatness is beyond comprehension. The Lord knows everything that is in our hearts.
He then said, "Since you are so concerned about your wife's score, I will show you how I give people their marks." He showed me a plastic container filled with water. I watched as a single drop of water escaped from the container and fell into a bottle. The water dripped so slowly that I realized it would take a very long time for the bottle to fill. The Lord explained, "Every time you fill one bottle, you receive one point. Each bottle represents one point." I felt distressed when I heard this because the water was dripping so slowly.
The Lord continued, "When you suffer for me, when you surrender yourself completely and give for my sake, you receive reward. When you sacrifice yourself and endure suffering for me, when you are persecuted because of me but refuse to abandon me, the water flows from the plastic container into the bottle. Every act of suffering and sacrifice is like that water dripping into the bottle. Therefore, you must do good works on Earth if you want to inherit a place in the kingdom of honor. You must surrender yourself. You must offer your life as a sacrifice. You must endure suffering. You must invest your money in my work and help advance the work of God. When you are saved and baptized in water, you must serve the Lord with your whole soul and your entire body."
Later, as we moved to another place, I saw a man smoking a cigarette about 15 meters away. Smoke came out of his nose and eyes. He was trembling, screaming, and crying. Then the fire consumed him, reducing him to a skeleton. I watched as his flesh regenerated and his body returned to its former shape. The fire burned him again, and once more, he became a skeleton. The Lord said, "Did I not tell you in the Bible that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?"
We then arrived at another place in hell. There, I saw a gigantic furnace. It was enormous, and inside it were men and women being burned by intensely red flames. They were screaming in agony. Within the furnace, I saw people who had practiced rituals involving candles, rosaries, chains, and bones. The Lord explained, "These are sorcerers, magicians, and occultists. They have brought into hell the very objects they used on earth." I saw the souls inside the furnace glowing red from the intense heat of the flames and the violent explosions of hell.
