The Mission - Getting you to heaven (and keeping you out of hell)
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"God is not so much interested in compliance as He is in character. God engineers our lives so that there are many moments of character development. Once character is in place, obedience is the resulting natural by-product. A leader with a heart for God will obey. It’s just who he is. That’s the way God wants it."

 Why concern yourself with this Bible stuff?   Because we are out of time!
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What you need to know about getting to heaven and staying out of hell.
This site is the result of thousands of hours of research and study over many years to determine the important things we need to know about our life here on earth as well as our life in the hereafter. Our life on earth is very short, but our life in the hereafter is infinitely long. There are things we need to know in order to make that transition successfully, ensuring we end up in the right place.  It is not an issue to be taken lightly nor one to be ignored. The information here is non-denominational. We do not currently belong to any particular affiliation and we are not trying to wrangle you into any. We find both truth as well as error in most all affiliations.

I used to start out with  how we know God exists  and how do we know the Bible is truly God's word.  .  But as time is short and the world becomes more twisted by the day I have to change focus to the parachute; why you need it, how you get it, and how you keep it.  The Bible does not preach a gospel of good times.  It preaches the good news of hoped-for redemption. We want to address the crucial redemption issue as that determines our fate at death; whether we end up in heaven or in hell. Everything else is just nice to know information.

Do all good people go to heaven?  Can you get to heaven on your own good deeds and by being a good person? Did you ever wonder about how good you would have to be to make it to heaven without Jesus? Well, God has told us how well we would have to do to get into heaven. He has revealed the passing grade in His class of life. Do you know what it is?  Jesus said: "Be perfect, therefore as your Father, which is in heaven, is perfect" (Matthew 5: 48).  There it stands! That's the passing grade! The amazing thing  is that God doesn't grade on a curve. God says, "Be perfect"!   Is that possible?  Well, no, in fact it is absolutely impossible.  But God HAS provided an “out” for us sinners, His son, Jesus; Yahshua our Messiah.

The “out” – another way to get heaven without having to be “perfect”.
If you willingly accept Jesus as your savior (one who does for you what you cannot do for yourself) His righteousness is substituted for your sinfulness in the eyes of the Father. This is called grace, a free gift that can’t be earned and isn’t deserved.  But you DO have to accept this gift and show your belief in that acceptance by your changed thoughts, words, actions, and deeds regarding your behavior.  Grace is not a license to freely sin and there is a difference between knowing Jesus and knowing ABOUT Jesus. But putting your faith in Jesus is the pathway to heaven.

 What does it mean to "put your faith in Jesus Christ?"  It means to personally trust in Jesus the same way you’d trust in a parachute if you had to jump 25,000 feet out of an airplane. The parachute being the only support device that would allow a safe landing.  You wouldn’t just "believe" in the parachute; you would put it on! In the same way, the Bible says, "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ..." and you will be saved. There are millions of people who "believe" Jesus exists . . . but they have not put on the Savior—there’s a BIG difference. And the difference will be obvious when you “jump” through the door of death. That's our focus now; the parachute. Little else is important except the parachute and learning why you need it, how you obtain it, and how you keep it. 

What is the parachute?   The parachute is Jesus of course, the substitution of His righteousness for our sinfulness in the eyes of the Father. If you don’t accept Jesus as your Savior and show that belief by your changed behavior; your thoughts, actions, words, and deeds; then you will go to hell and either stay there or be burned up and annihilated in the lake of fire at the end of the millennium – the only two recourses. Being a good old boy doesn’t get you to heaven because you are not perfect; God’s only passing grade. Only having the parachute on gets you to heaven and keeps you out of hell. Less than 10% of the people who obtain the parachute, keep it on. That means 90% of all those who make the altar call to accept Jesus as their savior take their parachute off at some point in time afterwards and backslide into sin. That's sad. 

I’ll give you the punchline here, on this page, as most will never make it past this page into the study guides and will therefore pass through the door of death without their parachute and land smack dab in the middle of the jaws of hell. Once in hell, there is no escape. It's a one way ticket only, no recourse, no changing travel plans. You either got your parachute strapped on all the time or you lose everything.  Depending upon interpretation of Rev 20:14 you will either stay in hell until you are terminated in the lake of fire at the great white throne judgment at the end of the millenium; or you will suffer “everlasting punishment”; Mathew 25:46.  The play on words is; does that mean everlasting punishing or annihilation in the lake of fire that is permanent extinction and final? Can you afford to find out? If you end up in the jaws of hell you can never say you weren't told what you needed to know.

Forget about religion, forget about which affiliation teaches what, forget about praying to your angel or the saints or the Pope (you are only supposed to pray to Jesus or God the Father anyway - 1Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"), or buying crosses and necklaces and pictures and figurines to show your allegiance (the second commandment forbids that also), or learning everything there is to know about the Bible. That is only nice to know information. And learning about the Bible may help you to keep the parachute on after you get it, but it doesn’t get you saved. Getting to heaven and staying out of hell is simple. Just understand what is on this one page. It is all that matters when all is said and done. Learn the parachute and teach the parachute to others. Especially stay away from religious arguments regarding interpretations that can poison you with doubt and tempt you to remove your parachute.  Focus on what gets you saved and keeps you saved. That’s what this page is all about.

This site is designed for people (like me) who want to know the truth about God's word, to sort out what we really need to know about how to get to heaven if there is a heaven, how to stay out of hell if there is a hell, and object to being told to "just believe" instead of having proof of our creator's existence and His plan for us.  This is a double edged sword; as Jesus told Thomas when Thomas said he wouldn't believe until he put his fingers in the holes in Jesus' hands and feet; "Blessed are they who believe without seeing."  There is a stigma associated with the "proof" thing. But this website contains the proof folks, and there is lots of it!

Heaven or Hell?   
Please know, Heaven is real and Hell is also real.  These are not mythological places. Both realms exist today. Purgatory is a mythological place, invented by Rome to extract more money from people. Great concept, but it doesn’t exist. Nowhere in the Bible will you find the word purgatory or even the concept of purgatory as a stopping off place to be purified in before going to heaven. Even Catholic priests today admit there is no such thing as purgatory. You will not go to some middle ground prison in purgatory to work your sins off; you will go to either heaven or hell upon death, period.

We are comprised of spirit as well as flesh and blood. One minute after you die on this earth, your spirit will arrive at one of those two destinations, heaven or hell, and there is no changing travel plans once you arrive at the wrong destination.  

Some affiliations teach that there is no hell. That there are only two options at death, only two fates listed. Sinners will perish, but the faithful will receive eternal life.  John 10:28 "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." I agree with that part; as the wicked are never given immortality. Only the righteous are give immortality as a gift from God.  The problem is the when. The when for the righteous is at the second coming per 1Cor 15:50-54. But when will the wicked perish? The answer is a thousand years later, after the millenium, at the Great White Throne judgment when death and hell is cast into the lake of fire per Rev 20:14  So what happens to the wicked, the sinners who didn't accept the salvation of Jesus, up until that point in time where they perish? I believe, and near death experiences support this, that there is a real literal hell they go to today where they are under torment until that point in time when they are annihilated and they literally perish; forever.

There is strong evidence to believe our spirit goes to heaven or hell when we die even though we do not have immortality at that point in time.  Our immortal resurrection body is not part of the package at the time of death if our death is prior to the first resurrection. Only God Himself has immortality at this point in time (1Timothy 6:16). 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 tells us when immortality is given to us; at the second coming, not at the end of physical life, unless the end of physical life occurs also at the second coming when we are “changed in the twinkle of an eye”.   Others preach that body and spirit (soul) remain in the ground un-separated, knowing nothing until the second coming. I now seriously doubt that. My research into near death experiences has shown me otherwise. Although you will NOT have a resurrection body at the time of death when your spirit departs, it is an ethereal or spirit body, you will have all five senses. You will be able to see, smell, hear, speak, touch and feel pain if you end up at the wrong destination. Your free will, your acceptance and belief in grace and salvation, and how you handle your life now and show that belief, especially regarding keeping the ten commandments and forgiving others and your treatment of others, determines your travel destination right here; right now, on earth, before death.  It is just as important to not get the ticket to hell as it is to get the ticket to heaven. Eternity is a long time. I am going to tell you outright how to make sure your journey at death takes you to the correct destination.

Journeys of others to heaven and hell 
At www.spiritlessons.com and www.bibleprobe.com/nde.htm  and in the folder “Libros de Cielo Y Infierno” on my Spanish Bible lesson CD  and Heaven and Hell books on my English CD  under NDE and NDE2, are many documentations of near death experiences which lend strong evidence to a Hell that exists today, deep within our own earth, has souls being tormented, tortured and burned there today, is receiving new occupants daily and is expanding everyday. In fact, just as the Bible states, MOST of the people that die on this earth every day go to hell.   Why? Because these people did not accept or believe in Yahshua (Jesus) as their Savior.  They may have known ABOUT Jesus, but they did not believe that Jesus IS God, that He came to earth in human form and died for our sins on a wooden cross, and was resurrected on the third day after death as was prophesied, and ascended back into heaven. These people are not covered by His shed blood. Their sins are not substituted by His righteousness. They do not understand the concept of what a savior does. And because they are not perfect and flunked God’s Class of Life, Satan gets them by default. Contrary to popular opinion, there are not multiple paths to the Father and His Kingdom.  There is only one; via Yahshua (Jesus).  False religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, New Age Spiritism and false deities only take you via the wide road to hell. Read about a Buddhist’s near death experience at www.bibleprobe.com/nde.htm  entitled "Back from the Dead" where he met Jesus in the afterlife, not Buddha.  

Using near death experiences to peek around the veil is not the same as actually being on the other side. It’s the destination, not the transition that counts. These NDE experiences do seem to confirm that at death the soul separates from the body. But we do not get immortality at that time. We only get that at the second coming. Just as Jesus is light, the devil can mimic light also. We cannot accept without scrutiny what people claim to have seen behind the curtain. Near death experiences may or may not reflect the true conditions of life beyond death. God gave Stephen, just before he was stoned to death, a glimpse of heaven. This was unique because it was before he died, not at death. Here was positive encouragement that heaven was ready to receive him. Same with Paul. He was caught up into paradise 14 years before he actually died, when he was stoned at Lystra and left for dead outside the city.   Maybe he had a "revived from death" experience. We have to analyze if all these NDE’s conform to the Biblical picture of the hereafter.

God condemns channeling. 
Saul lost his life and that of his sons due to channeling.  But today’s new agers in trying to convince you there are multiple paths to heaven outside of the salvation of Jesus, all use channeling to get their information; all coming from demonic sources. Satan only fears one person; Jesus. If you are covered by the shed blood of Jesus (you have your parachute on) then Satan doesn’t get you. Therefore it is his job to tell you and convince you that you don’t need Jesus or the Jesus parachute to get to heaven. That’s his lie and if you believe that, he wins your soul. 

I just finished a book entitled “Mathew - Tell me about heaven”  by Suzy Ward. Her 17 year old son died in a jeep accident and tells her about heaven telepathically via channeling so she can write books about it. Interesting book, and it contains many things she could not have made up which tells us she IS in fact channeling some spirit somewhere;  but the book  lacks Jesus. The salvation of Jesus message isn’t there. He speaks of reincarnation, of Hatonn, Ashtar and other characters of the Galactic Federation whom we know to be fallen angels. In my opinion she is channeling a demonic impersonator who knows all about her son and his goal is to convince everyone through her books that Jesus is not necessary to get to heaven. That’s a big lie. Satan is using her to create deception and steer people away from Jesus. Yes, there are evil spirits that pretend to be good spirits who tell us lies.

The whole message of the good news of the Gospel  is that our only pathway to God’s Kingdom is through Jesus.  Each one of us has broken every one of God's ten commandments; His law. You say, but I haven’t murdered anyone; but the Bible says to have anger and hatred is akin to murder.  Ever been through a divorce or child support issue? You say I haven’t committed adultery; but the Bible says to look at a person with lust is the same as the act. Have you not ever wished for something your neighbor had that you lacked? Have you not ever told a lie, no matter how small?  Have you not ever, even as a child, taken something, no matter how small that was not yours? Have you never cussed? The Bible says that if we break just one commandment it is the same as breaking them all. We cannot get to the kingdom on our own deeds.  God is a just judge. He is not a corrupt judge. He will not let you go without just punishment. Thinking that your God will let you in with sin on your soul because you were basically a good old boy is worshipping a false God. The real Yahweh won’t do that. Someone has to pay for those sins; whether it be you; or someone who pays that price for you. No other alternatives. That's why we need a savior. Jesus paid the price for our sins for us with His own death on the cross, because we simply cannot keep God’s laws, all of them, no matter how hard we try. His righteousness is substituted for our sins in the eyes of the Father. That’s what a savior does. He does for you what you cannot do for yourself. He paid for our ticket with His death on the cross. We just have to accept it, and show that we have accepted it by changed behavior reflected by our thoughts, actions, words and deeds.  

Grace versus works – which is it; it can’t be both, right? 
Our works, no matter how much we try to do good on our own, will never get us to heaven.  Grace is the only thing that gets us to heaven. We are all sinners and God punishes sin. Grace is the gift of God, undeserved by us because of our sinful nature.  But grace is not a ticket to freely sin. It is NOT a free ride. Grace only churches today are preparing people to go to hell. Backsliders after being initially saved still end up in hell. Accepting grace comes with responsibilities; repenting of our past sins, and being careful about committing new ones. We show our belief in God’s grace and our acceptance of the salvation of Jesus as our savior by our works; allowing the holy spirit to work within us. If the holy spirit is truly in us, our behavior changes. If no works or fruits of the holy spirit are shown, it means we do not really have the belief, we have not really accepted the offer of grace; and no belief, no salvation. Head knowledge doesn’t cut it. Only knowing Jesus, allowing Him to be our Savior and following the narrow path leads us to heaven.

Statistically, out of every 200,000 people that ask God for the gift of grace and eternal life; only 15,000 to 18,000 stick with the program and are saved. That's less than 10%. Only these few keep the parachute on and stay with Jesus and remain saved.  The rest backslide back into their sinful ways and forget all about Jesus; some thinking that grace is a free license to sin now and others because they just become caught back up with the materialistic world we live in and the sinful influences Satan has provided to steal their salvation.  I personally believe a large reason for this is that the people were never taught from the git go the truth about the torments and fires of hell or the truth about how being good does not get them to heaven.  It is one reason I emphasize so much about what hell is like. They never went through the presentations I have for you below.  The evangelists that brought them to that altar call preached about the glory of God, how good God is, how loving God is, how God would not send them to hell; but they didn’t talk at all about how God is a just judge and the punishment for sin is hell.  They preached nice instead of necessity. They didn’t properly explain what the term savior means and exactly why Jesus as our savior is absolutely necessary to our salvation. No savior, no parachute, no heaven, we go to hell; no alternatives. Keep a daily walk with Jesus and don’t be a backslide statistic.  And there’s more to it than just repenting our past sins, forgiving others  and accepting grace.  Full immersion baptism to be born again and witnessing our faith to others so they might be saved also is part of the package if you want to do it right.

Beware of “grace only – once saved, always saved”  churches who preach that the new testament covenant doesn’t depend on promises or obedience from us. A covenant is a contract involving two parties, not just one. God is one side of this contract; we are the other. These people teach that Jesus “fulfilled” the law with His death and nothing is required of us in this contract. A careful analysis of that word “fulfill” from Greek using a concordance shows that word should have been more accurately translated “establish”. These people are claiming Jesus did away with the law by “fulfilling” it. The truth is, He came to “establish” the law, the ten commandments; He didn’t do away with them. In fact He clarified the law even further by stating that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us; which is in essence what the last six commandments require of us in relating to our fellow human beings.  In the new covenant God’s blessings are ours when we place our trust in Jesus. True. But the teaching that our own behavior and performance are not involved in our acceptance into the new covenant is a dangerous erroneous teaching. Jesus IS our salvation; our ONLY pathway to the Father. But again, if our changed behavior doesn’t reflect that belief, it means we have head knowledge only. We know ABOUT Jesus, but we don’t really KNOW Jesus and we have not really accepted the offer of grace in order to be saved.

Accepting Jesus means you have a lot of freedom. It is not expected that you will lead a sinless life. It is expected that you will sin a lot less than before though and that you will resist sin and temptation much more so than before. It lets you focus on getting others their parachute without worrying about your own salvation any more. When you slip and fall, Jesus makes up the difference, picks you back up and you continue on. Say you’re sorry and you’ll try not to do that again and move on. When your own salvation is secured, you are better able to focus on helping others get saved also.

It is more important that you know Jesus than to know facts about Him!  If you believe that Jesus is coming again, you will watch for His coming. If you earnestly watch for His coming you will purify yourself before Him by being obedient to His commandments, loving your neighbor, and witnessing your faith to others so that they might be saved also. You will commit some of your time and financial resources to that end also. The door the five wise virgins who carried extra oil for their lamps entered through is a symbol of the rapture. Remember five of the ten didn't get to enter. They weren't ready. The wedding banquet is the wedding feast of the Son of God and His Bride. Not all Christians get to go to this feast, therefore, not all Christians are part of the Bride of Christ. Only those that have taken the time to get to know Jesus will be allowed in. That is why he said, "I do not know you." These Christians will be left to be refined as gold during the great tribulation that is about to unfold instead of being protected by Yahweh by having His seal or mark during this time period.  (Document 2 tells what just what that seal is). Some Christians obey God; and some do all the things the world does, even the evil things. Those who obey now will be rewarded. The rest will discover they should have. If you are not praying, giving, and working in the "Harvest Fields" for Christ, YOU DON'T BELIEVE HE IS COMING, no matter what your Church doctrine teaches! If you believe there is a literal Hell, where men and  women go that do not know the forgiveness of sins, and you are not making some attempt to warn them, YOU don't believe He is coming back

Many people know little about Jesus,  correctly named Yahshua, which means “Yahweh saves”.  Yahweh is God’s proper name. Yahshua is Jesus’ proper name. J didn’t even enter the English language until around the 15^th century. Who is this man Yahshua, translated as Immanuel, and presently known as Jesus?  Why is He so important? Why is He the most written about person in the history of mankind? If He died here on earth 2000 years ago why will He affect where we end up after we die?  If you don’t know the story about Jesus, I strongly suggest you go to http://www.jesusfilm.org/languages/index.html  and watch a 2 hour video of his life. It is available there in hundreds of different languages and many speed options from a slow dial-up connection to T1 speeds. You need to know the story of Jesus to understand His importance as your Savior to you. If you do not have a computer or internet access, contact me and I will copy you a VHS movie of the Life of Jesus. Free.

To better understand just WHY it is necessary to know Jesus in order to be saved and avoid going to hell, there isn’t a better short summary than can be seen on this quick power point presentation found at  http://upchucky.com/worship/save.html  HOWEVER, before you view that presentation , please click on the small box underneath on that page that says "Are you a good person; good enough to go to heaven"  and go through the questionaire.  It sets the stage to show us WHY we need a savior and makes the main presentation at http://upchucky.com/worship/save.html much more meaningful. If you don’t have internet access and can’t access this important presentation, I have copied the contents of this presentation in print and you will find it in the “Savior-why do we need one” folder.

When you get done with that  go to  http://www.livingwaters.com/listenwatch.shtml and click on "Hell's Best Kept Secret". There are several viewing speeds to choose from depending upon your internet connection speed.  It is the best 37 minute explanation you will ever listen to. If you don't get what this is all about after spending time with these three links; all the lessons on this site cannot help you to be saved.  This is the gospel message as clear and precise and in as short a time period to absorb as you will ever hear it; anywhere. A transcript of this 37 minute video can be found at www.detailshere.com/hellsbestkeptsecret.htm  and is also included on this CD in the Hell folder.

The near death experience documentations  found at www.bibleprobe.com/nde.htm  support the concept that hell is a very real place; a place we don’t ever want to go to. It also supports the glorious life that awaits us in heaven.  One of the most intriguing realities to come out of studying the NDE cases is just how important our ability to forgive becomes in pleading our case. Preachers, men of God, who were dying and repenting of their sins as they were dying, did not have their prayers listened to because they harbored unresolved forgiveness issues. Once saved, always saved does not work.  It takes a daily walk with Jesus to stay on the narrow path to the kingdom.  I want to teach you the daily walk, either by blatantly showing you the realities of hell, or by showing you the incredible life that awaits us in heaven.

Modern medicine has reached a point where some people who are pronounced clinically dead; no heartbeat, no brain activity; can be brought back to life in a 4 to 6 minute period after true death.  And others have come back to life after even longer than that. The stories of where these people went and what they experienced show a different scenario of what happens to our souls at death than the soul sleep version being preached by churches who don’t want you to step out of your comfort zone today.  I have to hold the distinct possibility that one minute after we die our souls or spirit will enter heaven or hell and once there, there is no changing travel plans.

A fascinating site can be found at www.bibleprobe.com  (many of these are copied into the “Heaven and Hell Books” folder under NDE and NDE2 for you on this CD), which documents and also has videos of many NDE -near death experiences -  which allude to a real heaven and a real hell that exist today.   http://bibleprobe.com/hell2.htm   has the videos interviewing these people.

One of the strongest reasons for a Christian to believe in hell  is that Jesus Himself believed in it, and taught about it strongly, clearly, and frequently. Jesus Himself talks about Hell over 70 of the 162 times it is mentioned in the New Testament. Free will is one of the most convincing reasons for the existence of hell. Jesus Himself, in Mathew 25:46,  tells us, in the same sentence, that the righteous will have life eternal and if you don’t choose that door your other option is everlasting punishment; “ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal.” The question becomes: will hell be a permanent annihilation as some interpret Rev 20:14 to say or will it really be everlasting torment for eternity????  Do you want to wait until you die to find out? The parachutes are free!  

According to Sam Bacchiocchi, a respected Adventist theologian (see his whole chapter on “ Hell - as eternal torment” in the Hell folder or at the blue link) : The "eternal punishment" of Matthew 25:46 is eternal because its results are permanent. It is a punishment that results in their eternal destruction or annihilation.  The only way the punishment of the wicked could be inflicted eternally is if God resurrected them with immortal life so that they would be indestructible.  But according to the Scripture, only God possesses immortality in Himself (1 Tim 1:17; 6:16).  He gives immortality as the gift of the Gospel (2 Tim 1:10 & 1Corrinthians 15:50-54) to the righteous at the second coming, not to the wicked.  In the best known text of the Bible, we are told that those who do not "believe in him" will "perish [apoletai]," instead of receiving "eternal life" (John 3:16). The ultimate fate of the lost is destruction by eternal fire and not punishment by eternal torment. But even with this version, mortal souls will suffer torment in hell from when they die until the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the thousand years.

However, according to Erwin Lutzer, in his book “One Minute after you Die”, the fire does not annihilate the wicked but torments them. There will be no periods of rest during which the wicked are unconscious of torment.  The beast and the false prophet were thrown in the lake of fire BEFORE the millennium at the second coming. But Satan, who was chained in the abyss during that time period was also thrown in the lake of fire to join them AFTER the millenium. Notice the beast and the false prophet were NOT annihilated in hell during that thousand years. Eternal conscious torment is clearly taught; 
there is no other honest interpretation of these passages.

Hell may not be a politically correct topic  these days, as many churches sweep the issue under the rug, but many people enter hell everyday. Out of the 150,000 people that die everyday, most end up in hell. Hell is a real place despite the fact that people laugh and say that they want to go there. They simply don't understand how terrible hell is. Just because you've never seen hell doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you only have time for one book, read Katherine Baxter’s “Divine Revelation of Hell” in the Heaven and Hell Books folder. Yahshua took her to hell 30 different times to make sure she got it right and that she explained it right for you. Hell is intricately described there in very blatant graphic detail.

Did you know  that if you do not belong to Jesus Christ you belong to Satan, by default? You don't have to be a card carrying Satanist to serve Satan. You don't have to be a murderer, drunkard or drug addict, either. But you’ve already broken all of God’s ten commandments and all you have to do is ignore Jesus Christ; or fail to have a relationship with Him and call upon Him to be your savior.  He isn’t big on lip service.  If you don't have Jesus in your life and in your heart today, you are deceived and hell bound--you are a child of hell, a child of the devil.

How many times have we heard someone say, "A loving God wouldn't put His creatures in hell." Well, God doesn't put anyone in hell--their sins put them there. God is a just judge and sins require sentence. The Bible tells us all have sinned. ALL! Not ONE of us can get to heaven by our own accord. Satan gets you by default if you don’t have a savior.  Know ye not that hell was not created for man? Hell was created for the devil and his angels—but it is also home to unrepentant sinners who have not called upon the shed blood of Jesus to save them. That’s what we need to teach you; that not having Jesus as your savior to keep you out of hell at death is simply not an option unless you want to toast and roast.

Savior – Why do we need one?  Savior – derived from salvare – to save
Refers to a person who is a redeemer, deliverer, rescuer, who saves someone else from danger, harm, loss, peril, or destruction. A savior is someone who can do for you what you cannot do for yourself.  Jesus, as our savior, allows us to achieve salvation, which we cannot achieve on our own. Salvation gets us into the kingdom and keeps us out of hell.  Salvation is the act of being saved from the fires and torments of hell. Salvation buys us the ticket to pass through the pearly gates  into heaven. And yes those huge gates, all twelve of them, are each made of one huge pearl.

Example: In the United States from the 1640’s until 1865 when laborers were needed to plant, nurture, weed and harvest the cotton, sugar, and peanut plantations of the deep south, Negro slaves who had been purchased or shanghaied from Africa against their will were shipped across the Atlantic to the South to provide the large workforce to do this. These people were bought and sold just as we handle cattle, pigs or chickens today. The internal slave trade became the largest enterprise in the South outside of the plantation itself.  A Negro slave at that time had virtually no money of his own and was essentially bought and paid for by the plantation owner. He was considered property. He was in servitude to that plantation owner until he died or could buy his way out of slavery. For most, that was never a possibility. But for some fortunate slaves, someone else came to their rescue; a savior - a relative, a friend, a person who didn’t believe in slavery, and paid the plantation owner whatever sum it took to buy their freedom so they were no longer slaves, but could become free men. The vast majority of black slaveholders were free men who purchased members of their families or who acted out of benevolence to free their compatriots.  They were the saviors of that era.  They did for the slaves what the slaves could not do for themselves. If you will remember history, the civil war was essentially fought over the issue of slavery and human rights and ended with the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all the slaves. But the point is; without a savior, the slave could never escape slavery.

We are in the same boat as those black slaves.
Different set of circumstances, same need for a savior if we want to be emancipated from our sins in the eyes of Father Yahweh. We CAN’T get there on our own accord. We do not achieve His passing grade of being “perfect”. We have broken every one of His laws; sometimes unknowingly, sometimes accidently, sometimes in anger, sometimes in rebellion, sometimes in sorrow and oftentimes in remorse; but we have done so.  We need someone to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. We need to exchange our sinfulness for our Savior’s righteousness in the eyes of the Father or we simply aren’t allowed into His kingdom. If we don’t get into the kingdom, our sins send us to hell. No alternative.  Please take this seriously, your afterlife depends upon it. "You shall not steal."   "You shall not lie."   "You shall not make for yourself any idol."  "You shall not take the name of God in vain."   "Honor your father and your mother."   "You shall not murder." The Bible says, "He who hates his brother is a murderer," (1 John 3:15).  We can violate His Law by attitude and intent.  "You shall not covet."  "You shall have no other gods before Me." Have you ever failed to put Him first in your life? How many of us can honestly state we put God before our spouse?  Another tough one.  "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy."  "You shall not commit adultery." I say to you that whoever looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  The Bible says that adulterers (having sex with someone other than your spouse) and fornicators (those who have sex outside of being married) will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Who can say that they are not guilty of breaking these Commandments?
Virtually all of us have broken ALL of them at one time or another no matter how hard we’ve tried not to.  The Bible tells us that everyone has sinned.  There is nobody that is without sin.  This is what the Bible means when it says, "All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God."

Can you see our predicament?
You are guilty of sinning against God Himself, and, because you have a conscience, (con-with, science-knowledge) you have sinned "with knowledge." Isn't it true that every time you lied, stole, or lusted, etc., you knew it was wrong?

Does the fact that you have sinned against God scare you?
It should. You have actually angered Him by your sin. The Bible says His wrath abides on you, that you are an "enemy of God in your mind through wicked works."  Perhaps you think God is good and because of his goodness He will overlook your sins?  But if you knew of a human judge who turned a blind eye to the crimes of a guilty murderer or rapist... would you describe him as a "good" judge? No.......... That would be a "corrupt" judge. God could never be a corrupt judge.  He will punish all the rapists, murderers, and thieves.  But he won't stop there. He will also punish all liars, the lustful, adulterers, fornicators,idolaters, and blasphemers.   The place of eternal punishment is Hell.

God does not want you to perish.
He is rich in mercy and compassion, and has provided a way for you to be forgiven. He has invited you to come to Him for a full pardon and receive the free gift of Eternal Life. You cannot earn it, and you do not deserve it, but God is offering it to you as proof of His love for you.   Imagine you are standing in front of a judge, guilty of multiple serious crimes. All the evidence has been presented and there is no doubt about your guilt. Your apologies and good works cannot erase your crimes; therefore you must be punished. The fine for your crime is $500,000 or imprisonment, but you don’t have two pennies to rub together. The judge is about to pass sentence when someone you don't even know steps in and pays your fine for you! The court accepts the money and declares that you are free to go. The law has been satisfied, your debt has been paid in full, and the stranger’s sacrifice was a demonstration of his love for you. That’s what God did for you 2000 years ago.   The Bible says that the God of the Universe became a man (Jesus Christ), and suffered and died on the cross for your sins and mine so that we could be set free. It's as simple as this.... we broke the Law, and Jesus paid our fine. "God demonstrated His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)   "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us."  (Galatians 3:13)

Do you see God’s great love for you?
Do you see your need for His forgiveness? Do what He commands and “Repent…that your sins may be wiped out and times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” (Acts 3:19)  You must turn away from sin and turn to God. Desire to have NOTHING to do with sin, and surrender your life to the One who can save you. Jesus died to set you free, and then he rose from death to be your Lord. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” If you will confess and forsake your sins (repent) and trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, God will forgive you and you’ll pass from death to life.  If you are not sure how to pray, read Psalm 51 and make it your prayer.

You can pray something like this
Lord Jesus Christ, I know I am a  sinner and do not deserve eternal life. But I believe you died on the cross for my sins and arose from the grave to purchase a place in heaven for me. Lord Jesus, come into my life and take control of my life. Forgive me my sins as I forgive others who have sinned against me and save me. I repent of my sins, and I will turn away from sin, and I will place my trust in you for my salvation. Please forgive me, and grant me your gift of everlasting life.   In Jesus’ name, amen

There is nothing magic about these words
It is the attitude of your heart that God cares about.  God will transform you from the inside out. You will think and feel differently as you learn to trust and obey Him. God will give you new strength to live right and love Him above all else. Read your Bible daily and obey His Word. You can trust God—He loves you and will always be faithful.  If you've decided to reject the gift of forgiveness and you die in your sins, there is no hope for you. There is no purgatory. The wrath of God abides on you and you will spend eternity in Hell. Please take the time to read the Heaven and Hell Books in the “Libros de Cielo Y Infierno” folder, translated into Spanish there so you know what to look forward to in hell.

What does the Bible say about Hell?
Hell is a place of eternal damnation for those who rejected the Gospel of Christ. It is described as a horrifying place. Matthew 18:8-9 describes the eternal fire of Hell.  Matthew 3:12 speaks of unquenchable fire. Revelation 20 describes the lake of burning sulfur and place of perpetual torment. Mary Baxter describes Hell’s burning pit in her visitations to hell. Hell is a place of constant agony, unbearable heat, great stench, darkness, and ugly demons of all shapes and sizes whose job it is to torment the occupants. Hell is set aside for all of those who reject Jesus Christ. No person on earth would willingly walk into hell. But so many people are doing just that. Despite warnings, people continue to live in denial and are walking straight into Hell at death.  If this is you, please consider heeding the warnings of Scripture and answering the call of the Holy Spirit by accepting Jesus as your personal Savior.  1 John 1:9 promises, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Why would a God of love send someone to Hell?
Many people waver whether or not to become a follower of Jesus because of this question. How can a God of mercy allow people to go to Hell?  Each and everyone of us is born with a sinful nature. The sad thing is we are destined for Hell. The Bible says “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"   But..... What if God has provided the way of escape?  Wouldn't that display mercy?  It is God's desire that no person would suffer an eternity in Hell. The Bible says, "He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9).   God could not allow sin to go unpunished. But being merciful, God sent His very own Son to be the final payment for the sins of those who believe. It only takes faith. God gave so much but required so little. That is the epitome of a God of love.

Will the person who goes to hell cease to exist?
The body of the person who is lost or refused to accept Christ as Savior will be resurrected from the grave at the second resurrection after the thousand years. Some say this body is barely put back together enough to be tossed into the lake of fire, and the lake of fire will be permanent annihilation, that body and spirit will then cease to exist forever and ever.  But others say that this body will be supernatural and indestructible. It will join with the person's soul for eternity in “everlasting punishment”.  "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Rev. 20:12-15). It is a state of dying eternally, but death will never be achieved. Jesus warned about those headed for eternity apart from God and the second death.

Is Hell eternal?
We are brought into this earthly world as eternal beings. Our life here is simply a stop in God's plan.   We can't even begin to get a glimmer of what Heaven and Hell are really like. The only thing that we can comprehend is that each and every single one was created by God the Father. God wishes that "none of us should perish."

Because of God's great love for us, his children, He gives us free will.  We are given the choice to either accept or reject Him.  Just as we want our children to come to us willingly and lovingly, God wants us to come to him that same way, and as much as we love our children God loves us, plus more. The choices are either Heaven or Hell, accepting what His son Jesus did for us on the cross or not. It is that simple and each is "forever".

God doesn't send anyone to hell, we choose our final home. Hell has to be forever because Heaven is forever. What would be the reason for anyone to choose Heaven if we knew we would eventually "get out" of Hell? Hell is a consequence of a choice we make.  The Bible refers to the fate of the unsaved with such fearful words as the following:  “Shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2)   “Everlasting punishment” (Matthew 25:46)   “Weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:51)   “Fire unquenchable” (Luke 3:17)  “Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish” (Romans 2:8,9) “Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord” (2 Thessalonians 1:9)   “Eternal fire...the blackness of darkness for ever” (Jude 7,13)  Revelation 14:10,11 tells us the final, eternal destiny of the sinner: “He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone...the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day or night."

Honestly, I don’t know today whether hell will be annihilated in the lake of fire at the end of the millennium as some interpret Rev 20:14 to say, or if it will go on forever and ever somewhere.  Both views are a matter of interpretation using the same scriptures. It makes sense to me that a loving God wouldn’t punish people forever for their short time of disobedience here on earth. But then purgatory makes sense also except that it simply doesn’t exist. What makes sense to us is not always how it is. The point is, can you afford to gamble and find out the hard way when it is so simple to just get your parachute, keep it on, and ensure your salvation today and everyday?

Are you beginning to get the jist of this salvation thing?

Wow – we inherit this sinful nature from the first humans, Adam and Eve, who first sinned in the garden of Eden, so it is our nature to sin even if we don’t want to. God gives us His law to obey if we want to be considered righteous but as simple as these ten little rules are, we just can’t seem to follow them. We end up breaking all of them at one time or another during our lives. We know that if we are not righteous we will not enter the kingdom of heaven when we die.   If we don’t go to heaven, we know we will go to hell.  We know that hell is real and a very, very bad place to end up at, a place of everlasting punishment. There is no purgatory in the Bible where we can work our sins off. What a dilemma!

The Problem and the Solution
Let’s go over this one more time to make sure you get it right!  If you want to get to heaven on your own good deeds without the Jesus parachute, you have to be perfect, God’s only passing score. That’s not a possibility for any of us as we have broken ALL of God’s ten commandments; ALL of them. Every one of us.  Romans 3:23 “For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”  Sin is transgressing God’s law, and includes such things as lying, lust, cheating, deceit, anger, evil thoughts, immoral behavior, and more; essentially breaking His ten commandments.   And because of this man cannot save himself.  If you wanted to save yourself by good deeds, you have to be as perfect as God Himself?  Mathew 5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.”  With such a high standard, no one can save himself.  However, in spite of our sin…

There’s only ONE solution. No other options. That solution is the Jesus parachute. You put on Jesus and you keep Him on until you jump through death’s door. The Bible tells us how we can know for sure that we will have eternal life and will be with God in heaven. 1John 5:13  “These things I have written unto you…that ye may know that ye have eternal life.”

Eternal Life is a FREE gift.
Romans 6:23 “…the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”  And because heaven is a gift, like any other genuine gift,  it is not earned or deserved.  No amount of personal effort, good works or religious deeds can earn a place in heaven for you. Ephesians 2:8-9  “For by grace are ye saved by faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.”  sin…

God is merciful
And therefore doesn’t want to punish us, and He says….Jeremiah 31:3  “I have loved thee with an everlasting love”.  But the same Bible that tells us God loves us also tells us that God is just and must punish sin.  He says:  Exodus 34:7 “…(I) will by no means clear the guilty”   Ezekiel 18:4 “ … the soul that sinneth, it shall die”.  We have a problem.  God loves us and doesn’t want to punish us.  But He is just and must punish sin.

God solved this problem in the person of Jesus Christ;  Yahshua our Messiah.
Who is he? The Bible tells us clearly He is the infinite God-Man, God the Son.  John 1: 1,14  “In the beginning was the word (Jesus), … and the word (Jesus) WAS God. And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”.  Jesus came to earth and lived a sinless life, but while on earth he died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins and arose from the grave to purchase a place for us in heaven.   Isaiah 53:6  “All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned, every one of us, to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him (Jesus), the iniquity (sin) of us all.”  Jesus Christ bore our sin in His body on the cross and now offers you eternal life (heaven) as a FREE gift.

This gift is received by FAITH, saving faith.
Faith is the key that opens the door to heaven.
Many people mistake two things for saving faith.

a.     Saving faith is not mere intellectual knowledge, like believing certain historical facts. The Bible says that even the devil believes there is only one God, so believing that there is one God is not saving faith.

b.    Saving faith is not mere temporal faith, that is, trusting God for a temporary crisis, such as family, financial or physical needs. These are good and you should trust Christ for these, but they are not saving faith.

Saving Faith is trusting in Jesus Christ alone for salvation and eternal life.
It means resting on Christ alone for what He has done rather than in what you or I have done to get us to heaven.  Acts 16:31  “Believe (trust) on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved”.  You have just read the greatest story ever told, about the greatest offer ever made, by the greatest person who ever lived;  Jesus Christ.  The question that God is asking you now is:  Would you like to receive the gift of eternal life?

Because this is such an important matter, let’s clarify exactly what this involves.  It means that you need to:

1.       Transfer your trust from what YOU have been doing to what Christ has done FOR YOU on the cross.

2.       Accept Christ as your savior. Open the door to your heart and invite him in.  Rev 3:20  “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice, and opens the door I will come in to him…”.

3.       Receive Jesus Christ as Lord; give Him the “driver’s seat” and “controls” of your life, not the “backseat”.

4.       Repent of your sins.  Be willing to turn from ANYTHING that is not pleasing to Him.  He will reveal His will to you as you grow in your relationship to Him.

You can go to God in prayer, right here, right now, right where you are.
You can receive God’s gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ right now.  Romans 10:10,13  “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”  If you want to receive the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, then call on Him, asking Him for this gift right now.

Here’s a suggested prayer.
Lord Jesus Christ, I know I am a  sinner and do not deserve eternal life. But I believe you died on the cross for my sins and arose from the grave to purchase a place in heaven for me. Lord Jesus, come into my life and take control of my life. Forgive me my sins as I forgive others who have sinned against me and save me. I repent of my sins, and I will turn away from sin, and I will place my trust in you for my salvation. Please forgive me, and grant me your gift of everlasting life.
In Jesus’ name, amen

If this prayer is the sincere desire of your heart, look at what Jesus promises to those who trust and believe in Him.  John 6:47  “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Welcome to God’s Family!   
Today is your spiritual birthday; a day you will want to remember. The Bible speaks of those who receive eternal life in these words. John 1:13  “Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.

Are we done???  Is that all there is to it???  Well, no. It isn’t.

Consider the term “Backsliding”.
Out of every 200,000 people that make the altar call and ask God to save them and give them eternal life, only about 15,000 to 18,000 keep the parachute on and stay with Jesus and remain saved.  That’s less than 10%. The rest backslide back into their sinful ways and forget all about Jesus; some thinking that grace is a free license to sin now and others because they just become caught back up with the materialistic world we live in and the sinful influences Satan has provided to steal their salvation.  I personally believe a large reason for this is that the people were never taught from the git-go the truth about the torments and fires of hell or the truth about how being good does not get them to heaven.  They never went through the presentation you have been shown above.  The evangelists that brought them to that altar call preached about the glory of God, how good God is, how loving God is, how God would not send them to hell; but they didn’t talk at all about how God is a just judge and the punishment for sin is hell.  They didn’t tell us just trying to be good doesn’t work. They preached nice instead of necessity. They didn’t properly explain what the term savior means and exactly why Jesus as our savior is absolutely necessary to our salvation. No savior, no parachute, no heaven, we go to hell; no alternatives. Keep a daily walk with Jesus and don’t be a backslide statistic.

Grace is not a license to freely sin. |
It is not easy to explain to someone that although our works will not get us to heaven; if we do not show good works by our thoughts, actions, words, and deeds; it simply proves we lack the belief that we have been saved.  James 2:17 says "In the same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by action; is dead".  Mathew 7:21 is pretty explicit ," Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."  Whoever has the faith can't help but show it by his/her actions.  Logically, eternal salvation is provided for man solely by God's grace through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. Man is saved through faith alone in Christ alone, independant of his works, but good works are a necessary result of true faith;  like doing the rest and worship thing on Sabbath, keeping the ten commandments as well as you can, treating your fellow man with respect and forgiving his faults against you, witnessing your faith to others, and being baptized by full immersion are all part of being born again.

Slipping into sin occasionally like a white lie here or a slip of the tongue there, staring too long at a low cut blouse, wishing that yellow corvette across the street was yours, or getting angry with your kids but realizing it and reconciling soon thereafter; these things are expected. God doesn’t expect us to be perfect like He is. We are covered by Jesus’ righteousness as long as we continue to wear the parachute and we pick ourselves back up, quickly repent, and try not to do it again. We keep His commandments as best we can.  We forgive our fellow man when he trespasses against us. We treat our fellow man as we would want to be treated.  This is MOST important in retaining your status of saved. We put our relationship with Jesus above all else. We pray daily. We open our Bibles and study some daily. We don’t just ask Jesus to grant us grace and then put Him on the shelf.

Baptism
If not already, you need to be baptised; full immersion Baptism to be specific. Full immersion means going completely under the water, just as you see John the Baptist doing at the river Jordan in the Jesus movies, not sprinkling. See the document “Baptism”  for a full explanation of why this is also a necessary requirement to get into heaven.  Christ emphasized, baptism is necessary! It's in the Bible. (See John 3:5).  " I am telling you the truth," replied Jesus, "that no one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven without being born of water and the spirit".

Baptism demonstrates true repentance. Such repentance is a turning to believe, follow, and obey Jesus Christ, and is the only kind of repentance that will save us. True repentance must lead a person to the waters of baptism. In baptism we identify ourselves with the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Jesus died, bearing our sins and paying the penalty for them in Himself. He was buried, taking our old life into the tomb with Him. He was raised from the dead, that He might give to us by the power of God, His new life, a supernatural resurrected life of peace, joy and victory over all that previously bound us.

Are there any prerequisites for it? Among the prerequisites for baptism noted in the Scriptures are belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God (Acts 8:36,37) and repentance (Acts 2:37,38), and being of sufficient age (usually ten or older) to know what Baptism is really all about. Baptism isn’t about being dunked in a pool of water. It is about taking off the old self, getting rid of all sin, and starting anew; giving your life over to Jesus, letting Him have the helm. It’s about letting God’s Holy Spirit come upon you and show you what to do.  It’s a serious step in your life. Being baptized lets you show that you understand what the parachute is all about and you have made the decision to put it on and wear it.  God’s Holy Spirit working within me allowed me to cast out demons in a possessed woman in Jesus’ name; a day in my life I can never forget.

Witnessing to others
Are you ashamed of your new status of being saved? Do you want to keep it a secret? Do you think your friends will laugh at you if you tell them you asked God to give you eternal life so your spirit doesn’t go to hell when you die?  God never promised easy. In fact He says you will be mocked and scourned because of Him.  Don't keep it a secret because people might think you are a little strange talking about God and what's right and what's wrong. When he tells us to share the good news; he means just that.   I get angered at the people who badmouth the Jehovah's witnesses or Mormons for their house to house tactics.   I certainly don't agree with everything these people had to say to me over the years, in fact both groups have serious flaws in their doctrine and belief system, but I have to give them an A for effort in trying to share the "good news"; because many people are just downright mean to them and slam doors in their faces; or issue profane words at them for bothering them, or call them kooks and cultists; it takes a lot of guts and fortitude to continue witnessing under those demeaning circumstances. With that, why would you want to witness about the salvation of Jesus to others?  Maybe a better question is; knowing what you now know about hell; why wouldn’t you want to keep others from going there?

If you are not praying, giving, and working 
in the "Harvest Fields" for Christ, YOU DON'T BELIEVE JESUS IS COMING, no matter what your Church doctrine teaches!  If you believe there is a literal Hell, where men and  women go that do not know about eternal life as a FREE gift and the forgiveness of sins, and you are not making some attempt to warn them and teach them about salvation, YOU don't believe He is coming back. Witnessing your faith to others is all a part of knowing Jesus. See tracts  at http://www.detailshere.com/tracts.htm for more about witnessing along with sources of witnessing tracts to hand out.  In fact, in the book The Divine Revelation of Heaven by Mary Baxter, which you can read in the “Libros de Cielo Y Infierno” folder on the Spanish Bible lessonCD, she was shown that angels are actually keeping track of who and how many each of us bring to Jesus through our witnessing efforts. Witnessing to others may not only affect getting into heaven but may well affect what your reward is once there.

Entering into the Kingdom of Heaven is by grace only,
but the test of that faith in the salvation of Jesus, manifests itself in obedience to the will of God.  "Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven."  "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves," James 1:22

The kingdom of God is a Spiritual realm, 
attained by walking in the Spirit, and producing the fruit of the Spirit; which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.   We need to study the love walk and how we're to walk in love as if our Kingdom citizenship depended on it, because it does. Why does citizenship depend upon love? Because if we don't learn how to forgive and love, we can't claim to know Him. Pay particular attention to the word documents on this cd  or on this website “Saved – How do I know” and “Saved – grace or grace plus works”. It’s a touchy but important subject. You must learn that works cannot save you, only faith in salvation can save you; but if works are not manifested in your life, it also then shows you don’t have true faith but only head knowledge.

This website is a collection of both bible evidence and bible lessons to teach you the important things you need to know to develop your faith and be on that boat to heaven. It is non-denominational information sticking to pure scripture. We will not try to wrestle you into any particular church. We don’t even attend a particular affiliation today. It is our opinion ALL churches teach both truth and some doctrines that are not scriptural. This CD contains empirical evidence showing the bible is NOT a bunch of mythological tales but is an accurate record of historical events that actually occurred, that the people involved actually existed, and that the places where the events occurred also existed.

This is presented for anyone who will develop a greater spirituality for God by being shown the "proof"; and for fence sitters who "think" God might be real but are not sure and in case the bible is a collection of mythological stories  they don't want to spend too much time on it or waste good worktime going to church on Sundays (actually the Sabbath, the required day of rest, falls on a Saturday, the seventh day of the week. It was changed from Saturday to Sunday during the Roman persecutions of Christians and in 321AD when Roman officially took on Christianity but erroneously changed Sabbath to Sunday in an attempt to bring more pagans over to their church who were used to worshipping the sun god on Sunday).  Satan thrives on bringing fencesitters over to his side by default as he slowly takes away your money, and increases your indebtedness and workload so you have no time to do anything else except work, complain, argue, and turn your attentions away from God. He hopes you never learn about Jesus the Savior.

In the words of Ron Wyatt, "Occasionally someone will say to us, "I don’t need to see all of these discoveries - I believe by faith." And that’s wonderful. But, after seeing all the things I’ve seen which confirm even tiny little details of the Bible, I can say without a bit of doubt that nothing will ever be able to shake my confidence in the Word of God. And years ago, there were times when preachers and writers had me thinking that just maybe, some parts of the Bible really were a little "messed up"... I mean, after all, it’s been thousands of years since the Biblical writers lived, and well, maybe the Bible wasn’t all that correct. Do you know what I mean? But that's not true; the discovery of the dead sea scrolls (writings 500BC to 118AD) proved that the word has been faithfully transposed all the way down the line as they provided the proof for an almost thousand year gap in scriptural writings.

Eternal life is not a matter to take lightly - the things God has revealed are exciting, but they also have a purpose. These are God’s works. And because He has revealed all the wonderful evidences that have come to light in the last century, we must know that He has a purpose in this. Sure, we all believe by faith. But how strong is that faith going to be if the time comes when we are forced to make a decision based on that faith which may require us to lose our home, our family or maybe even our life (remember the prophecy that if you fail to take the mark of the beast you may be beheaded)? Is our faith that strong? Look around you, at the world we live in. It’s all almost over. And we are living in the time when our faith will be tried to its utmost - Satan knows his time is short and he is furious. So let us be thankful for the gifts Yahweh (proper name for God)  and Yahshua (proper name for Jesus) are giving us which increase our confidence in His Holy Word. And as the end gets nearer, and the trials we face seem unsurmountable, remember His promise: REV 2:10 "...be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life".

On a positive note , if you die by sticking by Yahshua (Jesus’ proper name)  and refusing the mark of the beast ; you will have the reward of being resurrected as soon as Christ returns in the clouds at the end of Tribulation at the first resurrection along with the rest of the righteous dead, and not 1000 years later when the wicked people are resurrected for judgment and it is possibly only a judgment of damnation. One theory says all people going to heaven go at the second coming at the end of Tribulation ; this includes the righteous dead who are resurrected at that first resurrection and the righteous living who are raptured at that time.  There is NO second boat to heaven, no second rapture, no second judgment with a chance to go to heaven. You are either “saved” or “lost” at the second coming.  Revelation 20:4-7, 1Corinthians 15:51-54 

Another theory says that at the second resurrection, those that never had a chance to know Yahshua and choose to follow a righteous path, will get that chance. That doesn’t include those that had a chance to know Jesus but failed to do so.

Now folks, I don't want to scare you with "end of the world" stuff; but we are living in the end times, a judgment time, and have been since around 1850 when the 2300 year time period spoken of in Daniel ran out and cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary began.  We're in the fifth seal timewise now, the time of persecution, as near as we can tell.  Jesus said that the end times would be like it was with Noah.  It took Noah 120 years to build the ark and all the time he preached to non listeners.  We are overdue. This mark of the beast thing should be seen in our lifetime yet; especially with Planet X (Niburu) headed our way ( see www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm ) or click on the "Planet X "  Word Document file on this CD for that event. 

You think we aren't in the end times and coming right down to the wire for the second coming? Take a gander at these two videos a few lines down.  We are closer to the end than anyone realizes.  St. Malachy in the 11th century before his death in 1148AD had a vision showing him a succession of 112 popes remaining who would reign from Pope Celestine in 1143-1144 to the end of times, only 112 of them. He was right on target. He didn't name them by name but by traits and every Pope's traits have fit, including #111 Benedict's olive leaf.  Pope John Paul II, the most popular Pope in history who just died in 2005 was #110.  How old is this current #111 Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger)?? 80 years old. Spend a few minutes with these YouTube videos and you can see that we are possibly looking at the Anti-Christ surfacing in the next few years, as the last pope, #112, is supposed to be the antichrist himself.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UThJkZuI1c&NR=1  and

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUH4fu4NheQ  

How strong is your faith on faith alone versus how strong is your faith with the addition of being  witness to all the proofs we can show you on this CD??   I will tell you these findings have made a tremendous impact in my faith and belief and relationship to others.  That's why I feel I need to bring this to you. I even reached the point of being able to cast out demons and heal. See the word document “Exorcism” on this cd for that story. It proves spiritual warfare is not a myth but a very real battle going on right now, right here today for your soul.

I was raised a Catholic, although I am not catholic today, in a somewhat Christian environment  and went to Catechism classes in my youth to learn about God, but to be honest with you I didn't have a clue as to what the Bible was all about and there appeared to be NO proof to me that God even existed; why should I believe in Him???  Because my mom, the nuns, and my Catechism teacher told me to???  Well let me tell you, the degree of belief in God from someone just telling me I had to believe compared to the discovery that there IS empirical evidence, and lots of it, supporting the fact the biblical events actually did happen and God is for real, is monumental. These incredible findings cannot be ignored. 

It is my hope that by bringing to you some of these discoveries that you too can become excited about Christ's return soon and can share an enhanced perspective of the bible, God's teachings and the meaning of Christianity with others you know who may be doubtful also because of lack of proof. I also learned that the Catholic Church as well as the Lutherans, Mormons, Presbyterians, and other religious affiliations have retained many pagan related customs, traditions, and changed many things from pure scripture to suit their needs along the way; man's doctrines not in tune with God's Laws.   This website covers some of those issues such as keeping Saturday as the Sabbath and praying ONLY to Yahshua (God the Son) or Yahweh (God the Father) - NO ONE else. Read this site with an open mind instead of a "my religion is right" attitude and you can be enlightened. NO affiliation has everything right today. All have bits and pieces of the truth mixed with untruths.  This is an extremely extensive CD of information.

As promised in the Bible, especially since we are now well into end times events; God is revealing many things to us to prove that the stories and events depicted in the bible are NOT just tales of myth but are events that actually happened. My website links page   www.detailshere.com/bible.htm  as well as copied information into files on this CD, will make available to you proof of the existence of Noah's Ark, proof of the existence of the Ark Of the Covenant which contained on the mercy seat  actual blood from Jesus the Christ and Messiah who was crucified 25' above the mercy seat of the Ark of the  Covenant which had been placed underground there 588  years previous to the crucifixion during a siege of Jerusalem.  That blood when analyzed only contained 24 chromosones instead of 46 like you and I (for you non scientific folks that's 23 from Mary and a y to make him a him instead of 23 from mom and 23 from dad to equal 46 like you and I have). Also discovered are the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the place of the  parting of the Red Sea by Moses during the Israelite's exodus from Egypt, and scientific substantiation beyond the shadow of a doubt that the controversial Shroud of Turin actually IS the burial cloth that covered Jesus at the time of his entombment and resurrection.

Much archeological information comes from an "Indian Jones" type of man named Ron Wyatt, a biblical  archeologist responsible for bringing out the truth of many of these important finds.  He has an extensive but fascinating site upon which Ron shares with you the chronological events and biblical background history of each discovery which he has spent the last 20+ years  of his life working on.  Fascinating videos are available at his site www.wyattmuseum.com  and http://www.pilgrimpromo.com/WAR/index.html http://www.arkdiscovery.com/index2.htm
www.anchorstone.com
www.pinkoski.com
 
Robert Michelson

http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/RCM/RCM/5RCMArkeology/6Durupinar.html 
www.lipetsk.ru/~wyatt/    Russian (this is a huge site of pictures; use the translators above to put the words in your own language)

www.findelmundo.cjb.net   Spanish
www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/oxford/1163/index.htm  Spanish
to bring you a 20 year story in an couple hours of time. _____________________________________________________

If you want to know the truth about such issues as:
What happens to us when we die?
Are we immortal?
Do we have a soul or a spirit that goes someplace when we die?
When is the rapture?
What is revelation all about?
What is heaven like?
What is hell like?
What is the abyss?
Is channeling okay?
What exactly are Christian beliefs?
Who is the anti-christ?
What is the mark of the beast?
What is God's seal on his people?

You will find many of those answers in the lessons and files on this website. As this website is the culmination of many years, it probably has on it some files that are no longer correct or do not represent 
my most current viewpoint. I am not a final authority on the Bible. I provide for you choices and information. YOU have to choose what you will believe.

 Go to here for my endtime message and links to several timeline graphs.

Why is it a big deal that Jesus is coming soon? Because it may be the end 
of life on earth as you and I know it. It is the time for the removal of the tares (the wicked) from the earth. It is the time of the first resurrection, the resurrection of the righteous dead , and the rapture to heaven of the righteous living immediately following. Some preach the earth will be desolate following the second coming, void of human life, and others claim that after the wicked are removed God will restore the earth for the saved survivors that didn't do the will of the Father sufficiently to get to go to heaven. And yet others claim heaven will be right here on earth. The truth is a puzzle.
 
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says:
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

Jesus will take righteous people who followed His commandments, loved their neighbor, and witnessed their faith to others to heaven at His second coming.
Others who did not give themselves over to Satan but also did not go out of their way to do the "will of the Father" may remain on earth during the millenium, the 1000 years succeeding the second coming but preceding the second resurrection and Great White Throne Judgment. This is not clear, at least to me.
Adventists claim that the earth will be barren of human of during the millenium. United Church of God and Christian Bible Church of God claim Jesus will reign over His kingdom right here on earth. 

There is little agreement amongst theologians regarding any "saved" who do not go to heaven at the second coming; if that option even exists. Some say the saved left on earth will be taught more about God before being allowed into heaven. Many passages in the Bible refer to the saved as those who accept the salvation of Jesus and willingly receive the gift of grace from God. In Acts 16:25-33, the jailer anxiously asked Paul, "What must I do to be saved?" Paul answered "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved ..." verse 31".  The question may be, how are you showing that belief; by the fruits of the spirit? Your deeds, thoughts, and actions ? 

The Bible also seems to make a distinction between the saved and those whose "fruits of the spirit" entitle them to go to the Kingdom of God. Mathew 7:21  says ," Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."   
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves," James 1:22  Or is there such a distinction? It appears entering the kingdom of God is by obedience to the will of God, and the new birth is evidenced by obedience, not by lip service.

The big question becomes then; is there in fact only two roads, two gates, two groups of people, and two destinies - heaven or hell, eternal life or permanent death?  Or will some saved people who do not show sufficient fruits of the spirit allowing them into heaven at the second coming be left on earth after the wicked are removed  to gain knowledge and sufficient spirituality to be able to make the cut at the Great White Throne Judgment a thousand years later? This is a possibility according to some but not according to others who hold to the two roads only theory. Personally, I wouldn't gamble with that possibility. None of the books I have read regarding visitations to heaven or hell ever mention that third alternative.

The true plan of salvation is repentance towards God and faith in Christ Jesus (Acts 20:21). We prove our faith and repentance by our deeds (Acts 26:20). The Lord Jesus taught the road to life is "hard" and only a "few" will find it (Mathew 7:13,14). Many get saved, but afterwards fall away (Lk. 8:13; Jn. 6:66; 1 Tim. 1:19; etc.).

After initial salvation we must endure to the "end" to enter the kingdom of God and escape the lake of fire (Mt. 10:22; Heb. 3:14; Rev. 2:10,11). Although eternal life comes to the repentant the moment such believe on Jesus for salvation (Jn. 3:16; 6:47; 1 Jn. 5:12,13), it doesn’t end there.

If a saved person sows to please his sinful nature he'll die spiritually (Rom. 8:13; Gal. 6:8,9). The end result of sin is spiritual death; DO NOT BE DECEIVED (James 1:14-16), do not fall into apostacy.  Many think they can believe on Jesus without obeying him. This is not the message of the Bible, 
but a dangerous misunderstanding and spiritual snare.

Mathew 7:21 is pretty explicit ," Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." 

According to true grace teaching, eternal life is also a HOPE (Titus 3:7), yet to be REAPED (Gal. 6:8,9) in the AGE TO COME (Mk. 10:30) for only the ones who PERSIST IN DOING GOOD and DO NOT GROW WEARY AND GIVE UP (Rom. 2:7). Walk daily and continuously with our Saviour Jesus Christ
and the Kingdom of Heaven (also called the Kingdom of God) shall be yours.

Jesus Himself made us a  promise while here on earth, 
John 14:2-3 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."  This statement tells me heaven is not right here on earth. 

What happens to the unrighteous, the wicked people still alive at 
His second coming if the righteous living are taken by Jesus in the rapture?
Luke 17:26-30. "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and DESTROYED THEM ALL. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulphur rained down from heaven and DESTROYED THEM ALL. IT WILL BE JUST LIKE THIS ON THE DAY THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED."

The Bible says the unrighteous living ( the tares of Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares in Mathew 13)  will become toast on that day of the second coming, and the wicked dead will stay in the ground until the second resurrection at the end of the millenium when they come before the Great White Throne Judgment to account for their deeds. As we are ALL sinners and the wages of sin is death and the only path to the Father and His kingdom is through the salvation of Jesus. If you don't have the Jesus parachute on, you are a tare at the second coming, and it looks like permanent eternal annihilation in the lake of fire at the end of the thousand years may be your only option. 

When is that day, the day of Jesus' second coming?? 
Matthew 24:36 & 44 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

Be like the five virgins who carried extra oil in their lamps and were ready, not like the other five who failed to bring extra oil, had to go back to town to get more, and  were not ready when the bridegroom came and were not allowed in.

BUT - Jesus tells us the when four times in the Bible. It is on the LAST DAY, at the end of tribulation, at the 7th trumpet.
John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:54 Who so eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but WE WILL ALL BE CHANGED - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMPET. For the trumpet will sound, THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED IMPERISHABLE, and WE WILL BE CHANGED. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality."

When??
Mathew 24:29-31 
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken
30: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 
31: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

See also  www.detailshere.com/whenisjesuscomingagain.htm 
                 www.detailshere.com/secondcoming.htm 
                 www.detailshere.com/whenjesuscomesforyou.htm 

Rapture
Oh-Oh,  what happened to the pre trib rapture? We were supposed to be whisked out of here before the tribulation. The pre tribulation rapture is a lie. 
See www.detailshere.com/apostocy.htm for how that lie all came about. See www.detailshere.com/rapture.htm for the truth on the issue as well as www.detailshere.com/whenisjesuscomingagain.htm 

Bottomline
Take this matter of our Lord's return. It is more important that you know Him 
than to know facts about Him! If you believe that Jesus is coming again, you will watch for His coming. If you earnestly watch for His coming you will purify yourself before Him by being obedient to His commandments, loving your neighbor, and witnessing your faith to others so that they might be saved also. You will commit some of your time and financial resources to that end also. The door the five wise virgins who carried extra oil for their lamps entered through is a symbol of the rapture. Remember five of the ten didn't get to enter. They weren't ready. The wedding banquet is the wedding feast of the Son of God and His Bride. Not all Christians get to go to this feast,  therefore, not all Christians are part of the Bride of Christ. Only those that have taken the time to get to know Jesus will be allowed in. That is why he said, "I do not know you." These Christians will be left to be refined as gold during the great tribulation that is about to unfold. They will not be sealed with Yahweh's protection during the tribulation. Some Christians obey God; and some do all the things the world does, even the evil things. Those who obey now will be rewarded. The rest will discover they should have. If you are not praying, giving, and working in the "Harvest Fields" for Christ, YOU DON'T BELIEVE HE IS COMING , no matter what your Church doctrine teaches! If you believe there is a literal Hell, where men, women, boys, and girls go that do not know the forgiveness of sins, and you are not making some attempt to warn them, YOU don't believe He is coming back regardless of your Church teachings.
 
1John 2:6 "Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."
Jesus is coming again, soon. Will you be ready to meet Him in the air, when you hear that trumpet sound? Or will you be burned as a tare and be thrown into the Lake of Fire later, with the devil and his followers?

A sign posted in the 13th level of the alien Dulce military base in New Mexico
states that Nibiru is Satan's home planet and is due here between 2006 and  2012. 2012 is also the closing date of the Mayan calendar, although no one has figured out what that really means yet. As aliens ARE Satan's fallen angels, it appears they know what our military is not telling us. We do know there has been mass underground building and stockpiling of these facilities with food and supplies by our government at our expense for the elite in preparation for this event. Nibiru's close passage may well be the opening of the 6th seal of revelation. Some think this event will usher in the antichrist and the last 3.5 years of life on earth as we know it. If you layout the chronology of the Bible from Adam and Eve to present (send an email to irinashka@iisusbog.com for that power point presentation) the end of the jubilee time period coinciding with Jesus' return may well be 2016 to 2017. 

So what happens to us when all this happens?
Heaven or Hell - are either or both real? Are either or both in existence today? 
Some churches rationalize that Hell cannot be the forever fear, burning, torture and torment we have been led to believe and that a loving God would never do that to His creation. The booklet "Heaven and Hell  - what does the Bible really teach" - at  http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/HL/ gives you a very detailed analysis of that line of reasoning. Many churches teach that is what the Bible says. Here's another study guide from a different church along that same line of thinking.  Go to http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/study_guides.asp and open the study guide, "Is the Devil in Charge of Hell?"

Whether it is a correct interpretation or not is for you to determine. If people are in hell today  I do believe that God does not send them there, their sins do if not covered by the shed blood of Jesus, Satan gets you by default because you didn't accept salvation from Jesus and the offer of grace God offered you. You didn't have the parachute on. You pursued the material things of this world instead. The words , "I do not know you" apply. For an alternative view of hell, go to http://www.av1611.org/hell.html or for an even more detailed version http://www.av1611.org/hell_place.html  These two pages certainly cover the belief that hell exists today; correct or not.  

Life in Hell is a big price to pay for being wrong on this issue as well as missing out on what Heaven has to offer. There are 162 references to hell in the Bible, 70 of them given by Jesus Himself. It's not a subject to be taken lightly.

What is Hell like?
According to privileged people Jesus has taken to hell to show them what it is like; if you believe these visitations were not satanically induced hallucinations as most try to explain it off as, it truly exists today, is right here deep inside the earth;  and it is not a place you want to end up at. Darkness, fear, torture by huge demons and torment by fire and burning embers are how it is. Once there, always there, at least until hell is annihilated in the lake of fire at the end of the millenium; IF that is a correct interpretation of Rev 20:14.    There is no recourse to get out. According to the people taken out of body to visit there, hell has inhabitants there now that are in torment, and whose flesh is being burned off their skeletons, and have worms that do not die crawling inside of their skeletons. See www.spiritlessons.com  and www.bibleprobe.com/nde.hm  for many descriptions of visits to both Hell and Heaven in which Jesus has shown to several privileged people to prepare you for His second coming. In all of these visits there is consistency in the message and what they saw and heard.   

Jesus emphasized several things. 
One, that He is coming soon, very soon.  How soon is soon? For one gal, Choo Thomas, he spent much time and over thirty visits to heaven to show her the truth so she could report it accurately to you. He also showed her parents burning in hell, who had never come to Him. She had a one year old child.  She witnessed a vision of her child as a young adult with long hair being raptured up into the sky at the second coming. This was in 1996; add 20 years for her child to become a young adult and you get the message. This jives with the sign in the Dulce base level 13 which predicts Nibiru's arrival by 2006 which could usher in the years of the anti-christ.  

Two, that HE is ready for US but we are not ready for him. He is ready to come for His bride. The mansions, the streets, the rivers, the trees, the countryside that he has built for us are all completed. These people have been shown these mansions and dwellings. Many even have summer houses to go along with their main house.  Many things have been built to give us the same recreational pleasures we have right here on earth; boats, animals, fish, beautiful flowers and fields and forests. 

Three, anyone’s heart that is not as pure as the water and does not live by His Word will not enter His Kingdom. He repeats this time and time again. He states: “Many will not come to the kingdom because they do not live by My Word.  Even faithful Christians doubt that there really is a kingdom of heaven. I want all of My doubting children to believe My kingdom is real. This will lead them to be more faithful, obedient and pure of heart so that they can enter My kingdom.” 
Go to http://www.tencommandmentfacts.com/pg1.asp  for an excellent lesson on the ten commandments and how obedience and grace interact to get you there. 

Obedience spoken of  includes not only following His commandments and treating your fellow man with love, honestly and integrity, but witnessing your faith with your time and financial resources. He emphasizes tithing of both time and resources in many places during these visitations. In fact there is a room in heaven where the angels log in and document all those people you bring to Jesus and all the things you do to witness for Him; and each of us has a book of deeds where our every thought, word and action is recorded.  Spend some time at www.spiritlessons.com and read about these visitations and you will have a much clearer picture maybe of what we can expect when we go to heaven; or what the unpleasant alternative in hell may be if we don't. Once in hell, there is never, ever, any possibility of getting out. There is little time left to make the necessary adjustments and corrections in your life if you are living a life of sin.
If you are not ready, my website here will help you to prepare. Don't forget to put on the Jesus parachute. 

My wife believes that not all people who are saved by believing in salvation will go to heaven. The Bible says in Mathew 7:21  ," Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."
She thinks the saved who were simply good people, did not turn their lives over to Satan,  and maybe even believed in salvation but did not do anything to bring others to the Gospel or spend any of their time or money helping their fellow man will stay on earth during the millenium.  Some churches preach that also. Some churches tell us that the kingdom of God will be right here on earth. But none of these visitations ever mention this third alternative. Heaven or hell are the only choices any of them talk about. Perhaps the Bible is correct when it says wide is the road to destruction and narrow and difficult is the path to the Kingdom of Heaven. Don't bank on there being that third alternative.

I ask those of you in churches who believe God would never put you in hell  because "you are a good person", even though you don't go to church much of the time or support any worthwhile causes with your time or money, to think about this. The Bible clearly states there is a hell, 162 times, 70 of those by Jesus Himself, although it was mainly created for Satan and his fallen angels.  These people that were privileged to visit hell and report back to you so you won't end up there; do they have any reason to lie? A couple of these people had over thirty visits to make sure they had things correct to tell, not just one. It wasn't just a dream. They were taken out of body to hell so they could experience the terror and fear and fiery torment going on there. And please understand it isn't God who puts you in hell. Your sins put you in hell. It is Satan who puts you in hell after you have been defaulted over to him by failing to take advantage of salvation and grace by God. Don't blame God.  You didn't put on the parachute.

Some say the NDE (near death experience) or OBE (out of body) phenomena are most likely sub-conscious brain activity, assisted or even induced by Satan. This may be true in some cases, especially when the Jesus they encounter tells them there are multiple paths to heaven.  It is a high-stakes game.  The devil has an arsenal of deceptions and employs his full power and talent to achieve his own insane ends.  Getting people to think God would put them in hell for being good people who just didn't happen to believe in the salvation of Jesus will drive them further from God. Misery loves company, and Satan wants lots of company.  He knows that he can hurt God the best by taking out His children.  That's his strategy.  He knows he won't win, but he still is twisted and a bitter and evil incarnate.  He is the destroyer and destroy he will.  As much as possible in the time he has left. . . However, if you read these accounts of these visitations to heaven and hell shown online at www.spiritlessons.com  can all of these be  brain induced sub conscious activity brought on by Satan?  I don't think so. Jesus is trying to get us to prepare for Him. He wants us to put on the Jesus parachute so when the death door opens we won't smack the ground in the middle of the jaws of hell. 

I'll cover the grace versus works issue further down. You can also find that lesson starting at www.detailshere.com/saved.htm 

So where do we go at death?
Genesis 2:7 says -  "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
Soul = elements of the earth + God's breathe of life= a living person  
just like a light bulb is made of elements of the earth and electricity added makes it yield light. But this word "nepesh" which refers to soul above, also is applied to sea creatures, animals, birds, cattle and creeping creatures. So soul using "nepesh" really simply means a living creature.

The word soul as "psuche" is used in other places in the Bible such as 1Kings 17:21 "And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again."   where the word soul is definitely talking about the spirit or God's breathe of life and not soul as a living person. 

Job 27:3 tells us that the spirit is the same as God’s breath of life or His power.
"All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils".

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 12:7 “the body returns to the dust and the spirit [or breath of life] returns to God.”

Psalm 146:4 says, "When their spirit departs, they (their physical bodies) return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing."

Psalm 115:17. “The dead do not know anything.”  

This may mean that at death, if you are a child of God, if Satan did not take your mortal soul to hell by default, your body lies in the ground but your mortal soul or "psuche" or spirit is returned to God for safe keeping until it is time to be matched up with a new body and given immortality at the first resurrection (1Cor 15:50-54). 

There is no place in the Bible where it speaks of immortality of the soul. The only person to ever have received immortality was Jesus, God Himself. 1Timothy6:15.  The Bible does say we will be given immortality at the second coming, first those righteous dead who were laying in the ground knowing nothing (whose mortal souls or spirits were in God's care for safekeeping), and then the righteous living when we are changed in the twinkle of an eye, given new bodies, and everlasting life at that time; but not before. 1Corinthians 15:52 and 53

No matter what preacher tells you that he has this part down pat; it isn't pat.
Soul sleep isn't verifiable by the near death experiences, nor by the visitations where Jesus has shown people heaven and hell. Perhaps this particular mystery cannot be interpreted literally.

I propose to you this concept 
- this may not be correct either but this is where my studies have taken me -
that at death we have mortal souls, not immortal souls; a spirit that DOES go somewhere at death.  A mortal soul can be terminated eventually, or given immortality eventually.  God does not send people to hell. People's sins send them to hell. God is just and a just God punishes sin. Sin is punished in hell. God loves all people. In fact God has given us the gift of eternal life regardless of our sins if we just accept it. That gift is called grace, and is termed the Salvation of Jesus. But God gives us free choice and free will. We don't have to put on the parachute offered by Jesus. . But we need to know we will go to hell if we don't.  The wicked who have given over to Satan, willing and knowingly sold their soul to Satan in exchange for materialism on this earth, practiced sorcery and witchcraft and satanism, occultists,  aetheists who disown God, backsliders, and those not allowing the holy spirit to work within them; simply do not belong to God. They belong to Satan by default and Satan gets their mortal souls in hell at death.
We have learned the only way to avoid hell is to have on the Jesus parachute; His righteousness as a substitution for our sins as our savior is the ONLY thing that keeps us out of hell.  We have ALL sinned and sin is punished in hell. Mortal souls still have all five senses, and will feel pain in hell.
Hell is laid out like a human body with arms and legs outstretched, it has a beating heart, and it has jaws that open to accept new occupants daily who are wrapped in chains and carried off by demons to the pits. Hell expands in size daily. There is no recourse once there. They will burn and be tortured and tormented and in fear until after the millenium when God destroys hell by tossing it and death into the lake of fire for permanent, eternal destruction and annihilation, Rev 20:14. That's the good interpretation. There's also the possibility we are misinterpreting what is said in Rev 20:14 or Mathew 25:46.   Does "everlasting punishment" mean annihilation and termination forever or simply punishing forever? We covered that issue previously. Either way it's bad news and lots of suffering in hell.  You don't want to chance going there.

Those mortal souls or spirits not given over to Satan at death are returned to God for safekeeping.  Did Lazurus come back and tell us about heaven after Jesus brought him back to life?  Nope. Why not? Because his soul had not yet achieved immortality. He was spirit only during that time period. Some will be resurrected at the second coming, and given new bodies and immortality and taken to the Kingdom of Heaven which is also called the Kingdom of God.  These are the righteous who obeyed God's commandments, loved and forgave their neighbors and witnessed their faith to others with their time and some of their resources.  The wicked are not given immortality; ever.  

Others may  remain asleep until the second resurrection at the Great White Throne Judgment - those who did not belong to Satan but were lukewarm to God and didn't go out of their way to keep the commandments, love thy neighbor or witness their faith to others. They didn't do the will of the Father per Mathew 7:21 but maybe squeeked through the "saved" status door.  And maybe this group simply doesn't exist???  What is the exact truth on this issue? I don't have it.  Things that make sense are not always correct. Purgatory makes sense but it doesn't exist.  A group of lukewarm Christians who are saved but don't go to the kingdom at the second coming may exist also. It makes sense but isn't supported in other places of my studies. In my opinion you either have the parachute on or you don't. Seeing it lying on your seat as you jump out the plane doesn't save you.  Maybe this is what the Bible means when Jesus says the road to heaven is narrow and arduous and the route to hell is wide and broad. 

This is where my studies have led me. Do I have all the truth? I doubt it. My wife certainly doesn't think 
I do. I am not convinced of her "saved people who do not go to heaven but don't go to hell and stay on earth for further refinement" theory either.  But both www.ucg.org and www.cbcg.org believe that nobody's going to a heaven in outer space; that heaven will be right here on earth. But Jesus tells us He is coming back for us so we can be where He is, and He is in the third heaven with God the Father right now, and He has built mansions for us, and the New Jerusalem certainly doesn't appear at the second coming.  Some members of the church we left recently certainly think I am way out in left field for talking about a hell that exists today. They think and preach that hell is the lake of fire at the end of the millenium;  I don't believe they are one and the same. That isn't what Rev 20:14 says. It says death and hell are tossed into the lake of fire. How can you toss something into itself?  The visitations to hell and the near death experiences certainly allege to a hell that exists today.  You have to do what I did, and study the issues yourself and decide what makes sense and what the Bible says for yourself. I wish I had a resource for all the right answers, but I don't. There are thousands of affiliations teaching many different things all using the same Bible. You wonder how can that be. Can we ever know the real truth?  Probably when we get to heaven and can ask Jesus in person. 

Meanwhile, you gotta give it your best shot and just keep your parachute on.  The parachute is really the only thing that matters when all is said and done. If people waited until they felt they had all the answers correct to do any witnessing; there would be no witnessing. We have to tell others what we believe based upon the level of understanding the holy spirit has brought  to us. God will not punish you for teaching what you feel is the truth. He may turn his back on you and allow Satan to lay claim to you by default if you do nothing or teach false doctrine knowingly however. But for me now, it's two roads, two gates, two groups of people, and two destinies - heaven or hell, eternal life or permanent death. And even though the possibility exists that "everlasting punishment" means  everlasting punishing; I don't think a loving God would do that. It just doesn't make sense to me. The strongest case for annihilation of the wicked in the lake of fire at the end of the millenium lies in the fact God gives immortality as a gift to the righteous only (1Cor 15:50-54); not to the wicked.  The wicked are still mortal at the second resurrection for judgment at the Great White Throne judgment and final termination, permanent extinction in the lake of fire,  instead of forever and ever torment is the conclusion that makes the most sense to me. They would have to made immortal to undergo a forever and ever torment; and God doesn't make the wicked immortal. 

Are You Saved?
Before reading the vast materials on this website, we  ask you to make peace with God through the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. If you are not sure you are saved, please click here...  (taken from www.biblebelievers.com)  This is an excellent page and gives one a lot to think about. Please read it all. 

AFFILIATION
We do NOT promote any specific church's beliefs. Most all churches have some things right and many things wrong in our opinion. We are not here to wrangle you into any particular church. We stick with what the Bible says and provide much information and studies here  so you can study and choose what you feel are the right answers to key issues and questions you may have. Example. Is Hell an annihilation of the wicked or a forever and ever torture in a fiery pit? We present both views; with scriptural support for both views ironically.  Does it matter? Hell is obviously a place you don't want to end up at. Is death a sleep until the resurrection or does our "spirit" go somewhere after death? We present both views, and ironically,  with scriptural support for both views.  What is the real truth in these issues? You will have to decide. Although there is one Bible , there are hundreds of different denominations all teaching different things.  I don't think any one of them has everything right. We pursue Bible truth, not affiliate doctrines. You must understand the misgivings of your affiliation as well as their teachings that stick with the Bible. The devil's job is to create confusion so you will give up and not believe anything. He does this through hundreds of churches teaching different things. Don't fall prey to nitpicking and doctrinal differences which really don't affect your salvation and ignore the important issues that we can all agree on that can get us to heaven.  Stay focused on the parachute. 

There ARE things a majority of Christians, regardless of their affiliation, agree upon. Stay focused on what you need to believe in to get you saved.

1. That Jesus (Yahshua the Messiah) is the only way to the Father. Don't be praying to ANYONE else except Yahshua (Jesus) or Yahweh (God the Father), period. Not your angel, not the saints, not Mary who is most probably still asleep in the ground - just Yahshua or Yahweh. 
1Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus".
 
2. That to believe in Jesus and that He died on the cross 2000 years ago for our sins so that WE might be saved is the gospel message of salvation. 

3. That to be justified (forgiven) of our sins is solely a matter of grace. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast" (Ephesians 2:8,9). Only by faith in salvation and the holy spirit working within us do we show that faith by the words, thoughts, actions, and deeds that constitute our works. Faith without works is dead. Works only happen if the justification is really truly appropriated.  But they are not OUR works.  Of ourselves we can do nothing.  Anything good we do -- truly good, from a motive of selfless love alone - is only because of the indwelling of Christ inside us via the Holy Spirit.  There is no good thing in us.

4. We are definitely in the end times, the time just preceding the second coming. Many of us will be witness to Jesus' coming in the clouds. Are you spiritually secure in the concept of salvation? Do you KNOW for a fact that you are saved? This website is built to help you develop that assurance.

5. We are told from the Bible that the "saved", will be sealed by Yahweh, they will have His mark as opposed to the mark of the beast to protect them during the tribulation period.  What IS this mark of Yahweh? It's not complicated. But the answer lies in "obedience" to God's Laws, not just in accepting grace and doing lip service. In all of the visitations Jesus has given to people to whom He has shown Heaven and Hell, he emphasizes that obedience, witnessing and what you do with your time and money are important factors that determines where you end up. If you want the parachute to save you; you gotta wear it correctly for it to work.

To be sealed by Yahweh:

Ezekiel 20:20 says : "And hallow MY sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God."
 
Together with the true seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday), these annual Sabbath days constitute the signature (sign) of Yahweh, the Creator of the universe.

Isaiah 8:16 “Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.”

Hebrews 8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people”

Exodus 31:13 “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.”

Ezekiel 20:12 “Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.”

Exodus 13:9 “And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.”

Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them”.

These texts clearly prove that Yahweh's law, and the Sabbath commandment in His law, constitutes the identifying seal and signature He places in the minds of His followers.
 

But I'm not going to be here for the tribulation! 
Jesus is going to rapture us out of here before that happens. Really, now?
Ask yourself this, going back in history. How many of the plagues poured down on Egypt did the Israelites go through?  All ten, even though they had God's protection from the last seven.  Did Noah go through the flood or was he whisked away from it? God protected him and his family in the ark but he truly went through the flood.  Did the three young Hebrews in Babylon captivity get tossed into the fiery furnace or did God whisk them away before it happened?  They were tossed into the fire although Jesus was right there with them to ensure they didn't get burned. 

Did Daniel escape the lions den after his sentence? No, he did get tossed into the lions den but Yahweh shut the lion's mouths so they couldn't eat him. Are you getting the message here? God will protect those he has sealed during the tribulation period but we will definitely go through that period. What would be the need to seal us if we weren't going to be here for the tribulation? The pretrib rapture is a hoax. It was created back in 1530 by Jesuit priests who were assigned the task of getting the Catholic church off the hook as the endtime beast power. See my pages at www.detailshere.com/apostocy.htm   apostocy  for how that all came about as well as www.detailshere.com/rapture.htm 

Mark of the Beast - the alternative - only two choices folks.
Want the mark of the beast instead? ANYONE who gets the mark of the beast 666 is DOOMED!  There is no turning back.  There is no hoping that, "God will understand, He'll forgive me for taking the mark, He's merciful and He doesn't want me to lose my life, does He? I don't have to worry, I'm saved."  If you get this mark of the beast 666 on your forehead or your hand, you're finished!  You will NOT be saved!  You have claimed loyalty to the beast.  At the time the mark is given out, it will probably seem like the wisest thing to do, solving many problems.  And great pressure will be upon you to get it, like lose your life, lose your job, lose your children, loss of possessions, reputation, house, freedoms, etc.  At that point in time, you MUST be ready to die rather than get the mark.  You must be ready to face execution rather than take the mark of the beast.  Don't compromise, and make no mistake about it, those who get the mark, even believers, will be CONDEMNED forever! 

What specifically IS the mark of the beast? That one is not so easy to determine. Many say it is a chip implant, even though now they are finding cancerous tumors around chip implants so chances of this being the mark aren't good. Some say it will be an ID card, others say it is Sunday keeping. Maybe it is a combination of things. Maybe it is just what the Bible says it is, a 666 tatoe'd on your forehead or on your hand. For everything the true God requires; satan has devised a substitute. As the true weekly Sabbath (the day known as Saturday), keeping the clean/unclean food laws,  and the Annual Feast Days in the sacred calendar constitute the Sign or Signature of Yahweh the Almighty God of Israel, then the Mark of the Beast, the signature of the Lawless One, the one who vainly thinks that he can change laws and  Sabbaths in Yahweh's perfect law and replace them with festivals of his own choice, must, by a process of simple deduction, be the bogus rest-day of Sunday, eat all the pork and other unclean foods you can put down (remember Noah put clean animals by seven's and unclean animals by two's onto the ark),  and the keeping of all the other unholy festivals of heathenism which are currently posing as the festivals of the Almighty God; (Christmas, Easter, May Day, White Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Halloween, Valentine's Day, etc.)
See God's Holy FeastDays for more info on what you SHOULD be celebrating each year IF you want to be marked by Yahweh instead of Satan.

But you say - GRACE!!!  I live under GRACE! 
Keeping laws is legalism. My name was written in the Book of Life when I came to Jesus. Once saved, always saved! Really?  Then why when the "books" are opened (plural) , are there several other books that are opened besides the Book of Life?? On the Day of Judgment all the books  are opened; but particularly these books:

 In these books, (plural), for  there is a book for each individual, is recorded the thoughts, motives, words and deeds of every soul that walks this earth. Nothing is missed, absolutely nothing. The Scriptures provide proof that willful disobedience can - like a parent's act of disinheriting a worthless son - result in a believer's name being deleted from the Book of Life!

Psalms 69:28 "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous."

Want more proof?  
Go to http://www.spiritlessons.com  and read or listen to just two online books by Mary Baxter - Divine Revelation of Hell and Divine Revelation of Heaven. Jesus took this woman to both places so she could tell you about them in exquisite detail, including the books the angels are keeping on your every move.  I think both places are very real, they exist today; choose one. 
Here's a link to a quickie sermon version of the 23 minutes in Hell by Bill Weise.
http://www.spiritlessons.com/Documents/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm  

For you "grace only, I have a license to sin " fans, please read the following passages.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mathew 12:36  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Mathew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Revelation 2:23: And I (Yahshua the Messiah speaking) will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Works  means fruits of the spirit, faith which is reflected in obedience to the Almighty's commandments. In my opinion, besides the ten commandments,  this includes possibly obedience to the clean/unclean food laws as well as honoring a Saturday sabbath, and  God’s Holy Feast Days  and treating your fellow man with respect, love, honesty, and integrity and especially harboring NO forgiveness issues towards anyone. 

Good works is expressed in the fruit of the Holy Spirit: (love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,& forgiveness) The Master said in his sermon on the mount: "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)

Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

To fear God (Yahweh) means to respect him, to honour him, to have faith in him, to love him, to stand in awe of his immeasurable holiness and worth; and above all to gratefully accept the priceless gift of salvation which he has made available through his only begotten Son, Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ).

To keep His commandments needs little if any explanation. It simply means to obey Yahweh's law , the ten commandments (Exodus 20). Obedience is in fact an expression of faith, the fruit of faith, the only reliable manifestation of true love to God. In other words, believers who love the Almighty should seek to obey His commandments, because faith without obedience is dead (1 John 5:1-3, James 2:17-26). All those who fear Yahweh and keep His commandments will most certainly escape His wrath and  the seven last plagues. 

Human nature is to sin. We will slip into sin occasionally; a white lie here, a swear word there; looking too long at a mini skirt or low cut blouse; we are just not perfect.   Jesus' righteousness makes up the difference in the Fathers eyes in those instances.  We get back up, repent,  and try not to do it again. But grace is not a free license to sin. Committing adultery and then going to the priest for confession so you can turn around and do it again via the ritualism of confession (only Jesus and God can forgive sins anyway - a priest pretending to forgive  sins is blasphemy) may not put you back in good standing with Yah. If you believe in Jesus and the Holy Spirit is truly within you; you simply won't do those things to start with.

Don't believe the devil or demons exist? 
Go to www.amazon.com  and order either Bob Larson's "Larsons Book of Spiritual Warfare" and /or "Remarkable Healings" by Shakuntala Modi M.D.
You can get them used, cheap. These are both amazing books that bring you up to speed in what's going on in the spiritual realm.  I used information in both of these books to deliver a woman recently who had been possessed ever since the age of 6. The Bible gives us authority over demons, use it.  It was truly the most amazing experience of my life. 

I will document  my experiences in spiritual warfare here.
For some reason it appears I have been chosen to possibly minister in this particular area. We don't always know what Yahweh is going to send our way; we just need to be willing to handle the tasks assigned, just as our angels are assigned to protect us while we carry those out.  I will give you the first case here. 

A 50 year old woman's case - 46 evil spirits removed
Some time  ago a woman in our development saw our ten commandments sign out front and started coming to church; we held church in our house every Sabbath. I am not an official pastor although I do present sermons and Irina presents power point presentations on Revelation and other Biblical subjects.   On her second visit during service I was discussing what the Bible says about spiritual involvement with seeking mediums, channelers, divination, etc. Her son,  admitted to playing with a ouija board. And he went into depth about what he asked it and what it spelled out to him. It was during that session that the woman's demons gave their first display. A demon surfaced in mid service. It was close up, violent,  and in your face. It left no doubt with everyone present that the devil exists. She spoke in tongues, eyes rolled back in her head and she became very violent requiring several men to hold her down. She spoke blasphemously with much anger and hatred.  The demon said he was going to kill her, and us too and he had come to destroy our church. Well, we did lose some members over that one. It was too real for them. For  three months we studied everything we could find on spiritual warfare, deliverance and exorcisms. We had attempted several exorcisms on her, could speak with the demon, but could not get it to leave her. A priest even let me into his private forum on exorcism which was only for priests to gather information and ideas. I promised him not to discuss conflicting theological doctrinal issues I have with the Catholic church. I told him we have to be on the same page doing spiritual warfare.  I ordered several books on the subject; Bob Larson's "Larsons Book on Spiritual Warfare" and "Remarkable Healings" by Shakuntala MD - both excellent with different approaches were the best of all of them. The internet is loaded with videos and advice on exorcism. We attempted several more exorcisms, were able to speak with the demons again, but couldn't seem to get rid of them. We learned about generational curses from Bob Larson's book Shock Talk. These can go back 14 generations or more, minimum 4 generations, and are easy to get rid of by simply denouncing them. We made up a page for her to read to do this. She got through the second sentence, stood up, threw the papers across the room and yelled,"I have had enough of this" - and the battle began, but after two hours we still didn't get rid of the demon(s). We recorded that one on video tape. It is an eye opener. Our next studies took us into forgiveness issues. If you don't forgive others, how can God forgive you?  We discovered lots of forgiveness issues in her family with her brother, her sisters, her aunt as well as her mother. None of them believed her problems were related to demons. They felt she was mentally ill and schizophrenic. Irina and I were the only ones who were convinced it was demonic possession and not mental illness that was the root of these issues. 
We finally had to show the tape to her family members to get them to get into forgiveness. They did, and her mother died in her arms (she had cancer) with all issues resolved. These issues went back to age 6 and she is now 50 years old. One more hurdle was removed. We even fasted on one occasion because the Bible says some demons will not be removed without fasting, but that didn't work either.  

After three months and many attempts we finally met with success.  
In Jesus name, we cast out 45 demons from her, including the gatekeeper Rushta. Rushta named off all of them; all strange names, five to seven letters per name.  I should have audio taped the whole thing. It was the most amazing experience of my whole life. I spoke with the gatekeeper for almost two solid hours. He said he was either 360 or 3600 years old (don't remember which) and has killed 6 persons before her, making each of them commit suicide. I asked him when he entered her and under what conditions. She was 6 years old and wasn't loved by her mother; at least that was her perception.  We suspected that based upon the forgiveness issues we have gone through recently with her. He said 12 demons entered then and he named them all. The balance came in at a later age, 36, when she was committing so much adultery. He named all of them too. I must have asked all the right questions and made the right commands (with angelic messages inside my head  giving me the cues). I must have had the full angelic force behind me. AFTER the gatekeeper released the other 44 demons I discussed hell with him and the different aspects of hell; the fun place, the tower, the pits, and what Satan would do to him by not completing his mission. He talked about hell and agreed it exists today, has occupants that are being tortured, tormented and burned; is receiving new occupants everyday , and that hell will be annihilated in the lake of fire at the end of the millenium; Rev 20:14 supports this also.   He talked about all the promises Satan had offered him and how he delivered on none of them. He talked about how cunning and deceitful Satan is. He talked about how Satan would punish him for not killing this woman. Per the technique in the book Healing Miracles, I offered him to change horses and come join us in service to Yahweh instead of sending him back to the pit.   He had had enough experience with Satan's lies, he knew what the end was going to be, and he took the offer. He was a fallen angel. He stated many things that this woman would have had absolutely no knowledge of. Rushta, the gatekeeper, after accepting our offer to join God's angels had us pray for him, at length, both me in English and Irina in Russian. We did so and shortly afterwards he stated he had just met with God and had been accepted back. We were stunned when he asked us to do that. We were stunned that with such violence and brutal speech from him in other sessions that he would just be willing to hang it up.   Now Bob Larson's book Larsons book of Spiritual Warfare, claimed he had never had a demon want to cross over, but the other book we have been studying, Remarkable Healings by Shakuntala, MD claimed several instances of getting the demon to leave the person by offering him servitude on the good angels side. The priest whose exorcism forum I have accessed emailed me back  that indeed, "We have had the same experience as you. It seems to be that there are fallen angels that are not truly demons, but fallen angels, because they did not reject God entirely. Therefore they can go back to God.  And yes, every possessed person has a gatekeeper demon; a demon (most of time not a powerful one) who keeps the door open for the rest of the demons. This is why it is so dangerous for astral voyagers, reiki, mind travel, people who try to project themselves into the future, etc, as they open the person to demonic possession. But all this information has to be very confidential; most Christians will never understand why certain fallen angels can turn back to God."

Rushta said God accepted his offer to denounce Satan and cross back over. He described God's angels. Said they had wings, all of them. He said I was under full protection and that God loved me a lot and he (Rushta) couldn't touch me, even with all the threats he had made to me over the past several months. In fact as an evil spirit he was extremely jealous of my position with Yahweh and the amount of love I had for others and that he wanted to kill me too but couldn't because of the enormous protection I had. He hated how we brought this woman back to God and that God forgave her and that I had ruined his kill.  He also stated that he would be with me always because God had assigned him to be one of my protectors. I thought that was interesting. I will never undergo another exorcism without a tape recorder. There was so much to learn from it. Rushta said my faith this time was different from the other times. He sensed unsuredness in the other attempts, which is why he never left. He said this time my faith had full confidence and the angels that were around us were just too powerful to overcome.  What an experience. Only time will tell if we were being deceived or not. But after 8 months now she is still demon free. I think this was the first night the woman really gave God her full heart also. She almost committed suicide just before we got there but a song she was playing seemed to talk to her as if God was talking to her. She played us the tune. How appropriate it was. It WAS a song about God talking to her.  It bought the time needed for us to get there and complete the mission. 

We started out with a confessional type prayer, humbling ourselves before God , letting Him know we were sinners, that we repented of our sins, that we were no one special but we were in fact His servants, claiming only to be the instrument He was going to work through that night. All the glory is His. 

Then we went into a protection prayer for us, our family and the woman  and her family too. Then we went into revoking of any generational curses she may have had. Last time we did that the demon surfaced and became quite violent but didn't this time. I had her repeat back to me everything we had covered on the sheets we had prepared.  Then I looked her in the eye and asked to speak with the gatekeeper. It was still the woman speaking then and asked what I meant by gatekeeper. I defined the gatekeeper as the specific evil spirit who lets demons into her and out of her. It was then that Rushta surfaced and claimed he was the gatekeeper. I didn't yell at him but was matter of fact and frank with everything spoken. Later on when he stated he had released the other 44 demons, I asked  him to give me a sign that he had released them; the woman made the sign of the cross on herself.  In the end I asked him when he was leaving. He said now, and then the woman's personality came back to the front. She had a different demeanor than when we started. She was happy. She felt they were gone. 

The work of our personal salvation  depends upon our cooperation with the divine .

We must accept the gift of God, we must repent, and believe in Christ.

We must watch, we must pray, we must obey the requirements of God.

We must practice self-denial and self-sacrifice for Christ's sake.

We must grow up into Christ by constant connection with Him.

Whatever turns the mind away from God to trust in man, or conform to a human standard,

will prevent us from cooperating with God in the work of our own salvation

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