FORGIVE OR HELL - Mike Peralta (best fantasy books to read .TXT) 📗

some spiritual obligation, and go to that brother to work towards reconciliation, just as Jesus taught.

Thus, both the offender if he realizes what he has done and the offended have responsibility before God to make no delay in working for reconciliation. And if they can't reach reconciliation, they should seek the help of others until reconciliation is reached or until one party is excommunicated from the church, according to Christ's instructions in Matthew 18:15-17. Obviously, this is serious stuff to God.

As our general rule, we should imitate God, who longs for sinners to turn from their sins and be reconciled to Him, and so He always is working towards reconciliation, patiently waiting for sinners to repent. We, too, should maintain an “open-heart” policy, always doing what we can to be at peace with others. In this regard, Paul wrote, “If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men”. Romans 12:18 . Both Jesus and Stephen prayed for God to forgive the very people who were killing them. We, too, have the same capacity to love by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Daniel Ekechukwu is now calling Christians to do what Christ has been commanding all His followers to do for two thousand years. Forgive one another. And he is doing it with the passion of a man who really believes that Jesus meant what He said. What if the whole thing is a hoax? Then the worst thing that will come out of it is that hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of Christians will examine their lives and obey Jesus' commandments regarding forgiveness. Thus they will be more ready to meet Him when He comes. That isn't so bad, is it? And even if we ignore everything that Daniel Ekechukwu says, we would be wise to not ignore anything Jesus said. He had a lot to say about the absolute necessity of forgiveness and the dire consequences of unforgiveness.

If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. 1 Peter 1:17- 19.

Finally, I videotaped an interview of Daniel himself for almost one hour on his experiences in Heaven and Hell. He is a passionate communicator. There is no doubt that he believes his experience was from God. He elaborated in much more detail than he had with me the previous year. As I listened to him, I had the continual sense that Daniel found it very difficult to describe to his own satisfaction what he heard and saw because the spiritual realm is so different than the material realm, and there is nothing to use as a comparison to provide an explanation. I get that same sense when I read any of the prophets or John's Revelation.

I also had the sense that he himself could not understand everything he experienced while he was out of his body, and he was still contemplating them and trying to figure them out. He would tell me his speculations about certain things he did not understand. For example, Daniel said that the angel who escorted him always used the word “we,” speaking of himself and at least one other person whom Daniel didn't see. Daniel thinks that perhaps there were other angels around him of which he was not aware. I suggested that perhaps that angel was speaking on behalf of God, as we read in Scripture that angels often do, and God was using the word “we” just as He used the word 'us” in the first chapters of Genesis. Daniel wasn't sure.

Daniel again told me that his whole experience out of his body seemed like only fifteen minutes to him, and that when he was resurrected, he thought his experience had just been a powerful dream. However, his wife eventually convinced him that he had been lying in a mortuary the previous two nights between two other corpses. If Daniel's experience was just a dream, it was a dream of amazing detail and revelation.

I also learned that Nneka had begged Daniel to forgive her for slapping him prior to his departure from their home on the morning of November 30, 2001. But he had refused. He said such a thing (a wife slapping a husband) is never done in his country. It is an “abomination.” His intention was to wait until after church on Sunday to ban her for one year's separation from him to his father's compound in the village of Amaimo. Women's liberation has not reached rural Nigeria yet. After his resurrection, however, Daniel told his wife that his forgiveness is like bread in the refrigerator -- if she wants it, she can come and get it anytime she wants!

Daniel also gave me some information about the difference between Paradise and Heaven, and Hell and the lake of fire. For example, he said that many people think that Hell and the lake of the fire are the same, but they are not. Hell is just a temporary holding place, and eventually everyone in Hell will be judged at the Great White Throne of Judgment, and then will be cast into the lake of fire. I already knew that, as it is contained in Scripture. We read in Revelation 20:14 that death and Hell, or as the N.A.S.B. more accurately says “Hades”, will be cast into the lake of fire.

Daniel said that prior to Jesus' death and resurrection, the saints who died went to a place in Hell. I would prefer to say “Hades,” as more accurately translated by the N.A.S.B. Hades is the Greek word that is equivalent to the Old Testament Hebrew word “Sheol”. compare Acts 2:27 with Psalm 16:10. Sheol or Hades was the Old Testament abode of the wicked and righteous after death, apparently consisting of a place of torment and a place of comfort. see Luke 16:19-31. Daniel said that after His death, Jesus took the righteous with Him to Paradise. I have heard the same doctrine taught many times in America by conservative Evangelicals.

I asked Daniel about the sign he saw over the gate of Hell that he saw which said, “Welcome to the Gate of Hell.” I told him I had a hard time believing that God would put such a sign there, as it would seem to be sarcastic, out-of-character, mockery. Daniel told me something that I had never considered, and still would like to consider in light of Scripture. He said that Satan still has authority over the un-righteous in Hell, just as he did on earth, and that Hell is actually Satan's domain. There the devil tortures and torments his own, keeping them captive to the very sins they were enslaved to while they served him on earth. Having nothing to lose, Satan no longer deceives them about his true nature, and so he fully reveals it to them, hating his own spiritual children who have served him.

God doesn't deal with the unrighteous until they are brought before the Great White Throne of judgment, after which they are cast into the lake of fire. That lake is a manifestation of God's judgment against them, and that is why both Hell and Satan himself are ultimately cast there. One could wonder: If Hell is God's domain of punishment, why would He not cast people into Hell after their judgment at His Great White Throne, rather than into the lake of fire? Why wouldn't He cast Satan there as well, rather than into the lake of fire as we are told He will do? And why would God cast Hell itself into the lake of fire if it is something of His design? Finally, why did Jesus promise that "the Gates of Hades" , or "Hell" as the King James Version says, would not overpower His church. see Matthew 16:18, if "the Gates of Hades" speak of or represent a place of God's domain? Those are a few questions to think about.

Daniel also indicated that Paradise and the place of the great mansion, the “Father's house” that Jesus has prepared for His people, are different places. Presently, believers who die go to Paradise, not to the great mansion. He said it is only at the return of Christ when Jesus will take believers from Paradise and the earth and bring them into the mansion, His “Father's house”, as He perhaps implied in John 14:2-3. Daniel said that the great mansion he saw is the New Jerusalem, or at least part of it, that will one day come down from Heaven to earth. See Revelation 21:2,10.

In any case, I completed my investigation even more convinced that Daniel Ekechukwu did die on the night of November 30, 2001, and came back to life on the afternoon of December 2, 2001, in response to the persistent faith of his wife, Nneka. The evidence is very compelling. I am also more persuaded that Daniel's out-of-the body experience was genuine, and that he did have a divinelygranted opportunity to see parts of Heaven and Hell. And I have once again made certain that I am harboring no unforgiveness in my heart! 

 

 

Chapter 4: Prophetic Testimony by Susan Davis

 (Email Sent By Susan Davis. Used by permission.)

 

 

“I am your GOD and I am telling you, that

You will not enter MY Kingdom if you have

unforgiveness for anyone.”

 

Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013

Subject: The LORD's Words: SERIOUS WARNING

The LORD's Words for Today (Posted at www.End-TimesProphecy.Com)

 

Dear Followers of CHRIST: In a previous Letter from the LORD, HE gave a warning to the people about “un-forgiveness” and the importance of forgiving everyone to be received into the Kingdom of GOD. A reader sent this powerful letter after reading the LORD’s Letter on “un-forgiveness.” I have decided to send his letter and to re-run the LORD’s Letter about “un-forgiveness” along with it. Here is a letter from our reader, Evangelist Sommy Erekosima of Nigeria, who is graduate of Sonite Publishers Ltd, Publisher, EndTimes Revelations Magazine and leader of GOD’s Armour Bearers Outreach, a ministry that is engaged in witnessing CHRIST, organizing miracle crusades and training evangelists in Nigeria and abroad:

Bless you beloved Susan for delivering the LORD’s un-diluted Truth. Several things happened that taught me the how to truly forgive and how to be delivered from un-forgiveness.

First, a Christian brother, who was highly gifted in prophesy and revelation died for four hours in 2003, 18th June. I had just concluded a three days waiting on the LORD without food and water.

This brother’s anger and un-forgiving spirit was prayer number 11 on my prayer list. FATHER GOD heard my cry and gave him a second chance.

My Christian brother had a four hours after-death encounter. In his account he said, the Bible was opened before him and he was told that he could not enter heaven because of the spirit of unforgiveneass. He said the angel told him that because I was pleading on his behalf, he has been