Puerto Rican born Miranda is the founder and leader of a movement called
“Growing in Grace”. He claims that he is God…he is Christ returned, and
that he is Antichrist. How is this possible? Well, Miranda says that
there is a common misconception with the term Antichrist, and that
rather than meaning Opposing Christ or Opposite of Christ, it actually
should be translated as New Christ.
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda brain washed his members into having the mark
on the beast 666 on them Church members say the symbol doesn't connect
them to Satan but rather to De Jesus' claim that he has replaced
Christ's teachings with a new gospel.
Scholars and critics of the movement say the tattoos offer frightening
evidence of the influence De Jesus commands over his followers.
"What is he going to do next to call attention to himself?" asked Daniel
Alvarez, an instructor in the department of religious studies at
Florida International University who has studied the movement. "This
means that his control over people is so great that no matter what he
says to them, they'll follow him.
De Jesus — who preaches that sin and the devil were destroyed when Jesus
died on the cross and that God's chosen already have been saved — has
built a massive movement around his claim to divinity. Followers call
him "Daddy" and "God" and lavish him with $5,000 Rolexes and sometimes
40 percent or more of their salaries.
Christian leaders have denounced De Jesus, saying he distorts the Bible.
The Rev. Julio Perez of Nueva Esperanza, a faith-based community group
in Hialeah, said De Jesus was promoting himself rather than helping
members of his church. "What he's doing is trying to create his own
sect," he said.
De Jesus had just a few hundred followers when he launched his church in
a Hialeah warehouse about 20 years ago. Today, he commands a global
movement from his Doral headquarters that boasts 335 education centers,
200 pastors, 287 radio programs and a 24-hour Spanish-language TV
network that's available to 2 million homes — including by special
request from some U.S. cable companies. Only De Jesus and his right hand
man, Carlos Cestero, are authorized to preach.
In his sermons, De Jesus emphasizes wealth and success as a sign of
God's favor. Many of his members are business owners who give a
percentage of their corporate profits to De Jesus, said Alvaro
Albarracin, who oversees corporate donations to the church and holds the
title "entrepreneur of entrepreneurs." Albarracin, who runs the film
production company MiamiLa Entertainment, said he gave 20 percent of his
profit to the movement when he sold his Web-hosting company, Dialtone,
for more than $16 million in 2001.
Martita Roca, 25, a South Florida singer and actress from Guatemala,
said she sometimes gives 40 percent of her salary to Growing in Grace.
Giving a piece of her flesh by getting a tattoo was another way to prove
her commitment, she said.
"For all of those people who pray for us to come out of this movement,
this shows that this is it, there's no going back," Roca said of her
tattoos. "This is to make sure that everyone relates me to that vision."
Luz Fuentes, 51, a former Catholic who joined Growing in Grace in 1990,
said she and her brother give Growing in Grace up to 50 percent of
profits from their Hallandale mortgage company, Apos Mortgage. "Apos" is
short for "apostle," one of De Jesus' monikers. De Jesus is listed on
the company's website as its CEO.
"Antichrist" is the latest in a string of titles De Jesus has bestowed on himself.
In 1988, De Jesus announced he was the reincarnation of the Apostle
Paul. In 1999, he dubbed himself "the Other," a spiritual superbeing who
would pave the way for Christ's second coming. In 2004, he proclaimed
himself to be Jesus Christ. That claim caused some prominent members to
defect from the movement — including De Jesus' first wife, Nydia, and
his son Jose Luis Jr., who started his own church in Puerto Rico.
In January, during a packed worship service at the church, De Jesus took
off his coat and revealed the numbers 666 on his forearm.
"This is a congregation of Antichrists," De Jesus said, drawing whistles and cheers.
The number 666 appears in the Book of Revelation, a portion of the New
Testament that details the prophet John's apocalyptic vision of the rise
of the Antichrist, the tribulation and Christ's return. In Revelation, a
horned beast appears on earth and requires everyone to get his mark —
666 — on the right hand or forehead.
Experts on new religious movements say De Jesus' opposition to other
religions, and his claim to be the only legitimate spiritual authority,
resemble the teachings of some cults.
"It's clearly a personality-driven group," said Rick Ross, an anti-cult
consultant based in New Jersey. "It is defined by the claims of De Jesus
Miranda."
Nick Woodbury, director of the evangelical group Christ for Miami, said
most mainstream Christians would reject Growing in Grace's teachings as
unbiblical.
"In the Christian evangelical sector, we would consider them a sect,"
said Woodbury, who has served as a missionary in Colombia with the
Mimai-based group Latin America Mission. "They take the Bible, but their
interpretation is very warped."
De Jesus' followers have lashed out against organized Christianity
because they believe their prophet holds the true gospel, they say. His
adherents have disrupted Catholic processions on Good Friday and
protested outside an evangelical church gathering in Miami's Tropical
Park. Last July, they tore up literature published by the Jehovah's
Witnesses and other Christian movements during a march in downtown
Miami.
Scholars who are concerned about the movement's growth say they hope De
Jesus' latest claim will insert doubt into the mind of some members.
"The symbol of the Antichrist is so negative, the only good thing that
will come out of this is that people will say, 'Hold on, this man is
going off the deep end,"' FIU's Alvarez said.
Romans 10:15-16, “And
how
shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful
are
the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad
tidings of
good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith,
Lord, who hath believed our report?”
The
Bible teaches that every believer is supposed to be a soul-winner. Many
believers have the wrong attitude that preaching the Gospel is only the
duty of
the full-time Christian worker or minister. Nothing could be further
from the
truth. God expects all of us to share the good news of Jesus Christ
crucified,
buried and risen (1st Corinthians 15:1-4) with those around us. Hell is
forever.
Few people believe that anymore. Romans 10:15 tells us that the Christian
who goes
soul-winning has beautiful feet. This is such an encouraging Scripture.
Proverb
11:30 says, “He that winneth souls is wise.” That means a fool
doesn't
win souls. Psalm 126:6, “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious
seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves
with him.”
And again we read in Philippians 2:16, “Holding forth the word of
life; that
I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither
laboured in vain.”2nd Corinthians 5:11, “Knowing therefore the
terror of
the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I
trust also
are made manifest in your consciences.” Over and over again we read in the
Scriptures that
God wants us to hold forth the Word of life, bear precious seed, bring
glad
tidings of good things, win souls and persuade men. In short, God wants
us to be
soul-winners. In 1st Corinthians 3:7-8, God has promised to reward us
for our
soul-winning labors. Most believers will be very poor in eternity, never
having
witnessed to anyone and having no converts. There will be bitter tears
of regret
and sorrow on Judgment Day.
Romans 10:15 calls the feet of the
soul-winner,
beautiful. Tragically, most believers today have spiritual gout (i.e., a
foot
disease). Most professed Christians have been choked by the cares,
riches and
pleasures of this world and never bring forth any fruit (Luke 8:14).
They have
spiritual gout, ugly feet that God doesn't want to look at.
Also notice that God mentions the “feet”
instead of
the mouth. You'd think that the Bible would have mentioned the lips or
the
tongue or the mouth. Why the feet? It is because it is with our feet
that we go
to where sinners are at and bring them the good news of Jesus Christ.
The most
eloquent speaker is worthless if he is not willing to “GO.” Notice the
command
which Jesus gave to His disciples in Matthew 28:19, “GO ye
therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
have
commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world.
Amen.” This passage of Scripture is often referred to as, The
Great
Commission.
Most believers never get past the “GO” part
of
The Great Commission. For most believers, this ought to be called,
The
Great Omission, because they live a fruitless selfish life. The are 2
parts
to The Great Commission: 1) soul-winning, 2) mentoring. Basically, Jesus
wants
us to get lost sinners saved and then teach them to go do the same. That
is
God's plan. Oh, how the world needs Jesus Christ. We
are saved
by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first
the
kingdom of God, and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; and all these things shall
be
added unto you.” Most people seek their own self-righteousness, such
as the
Lordship Salvation crowd who require men to stop living in sin to be
saved. That
is self-righteousness. A believer forsakes sin because they ARE saved;
not to
BECOME saved. There's a big difference between the two and it is the
difference
between Heaven or Hell. The gift of God is without any works of
self-righteousness.
Jesus taught that there's only one work we
must do
to be saved. John 6:29, “Jesus answered and said unto them, This is
the work
of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.” This is not a
work of
self-righteousness; but rather, simply trusting the Lord for one's
salvation.
Forsaking sinful habits and denying one's self to be saved are works of
self-righteousness, and a road to Hell. Jesus paid our sin debt. All we
can do
to be saved is to simply let Jesus save us. Everything else that
pertains to our
salvation, God will attend to, rest assured. Our part is to simply
acknowledge
our sinful condition and believe on Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God,
to
forgive our sins. Acts 10:43, “To Him give all the prophets witness,
that
through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of
sins.”
I don't know about you, but I want to have
beautiful feet in the sight of God. The Bible speaks of hands that shed
innocent
blood (Proverb 6:17), and of the tongue set on fire of hell (James 3:6),
and of
eyes that are never satisfied (Proverb 27:20), and of the ears of a fool
(Proverb 23:9), and of feet that be swift in running to mischief
(Proverb 6:18).
Oh, that our hands, tongue, eyes, ears and feet would all be committed
to
preaching the Gospel of our precious Lord Jesus Christ. The world is
going to
Hell and it is up to us to hold forth the Word of life to them. Do you have beautiful feet or spiritual
gout?
I just
read this mail and i decided it would be of immense revelation to u even if we
do know these things before but we would understand more the causes of certain
things happening in excess in our lives, i pray you receive that revelation. God Bless You
SATAN'S MEETING
Satan
called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said,
"We can't keep Christians from going to church."
"We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."
"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their
saviour."
"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is
broken."
"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish
dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a
relationship with Jesus Christ.."
"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:
"Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that
vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work
6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty
lifestyles."
"Keep them from spending time with their children."
"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from
the pressures of work!"
"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small
voice."
"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their
home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays
non-biblical music constantly."
"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."
"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."
"Invade their driving moments with billboards."
"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes,
and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services
and false hopes.."
"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands
will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become
dissatisfied with their wives. "
"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."
"Give them headaches too!"
"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to
look elsewhere."
"That will fragment their families quickly!"
"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the
real meaning of Christmas."
"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and
power over sin and death."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."
"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."
"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation.
Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies
instead."
"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and
small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."
"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek
power from Jesus."
"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health
and family for the good of the cause."
"It will work!"
"It will work!"
It was quite a plan!
The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to
get busier and more rushed, going here and there.
Having little time for their God or their families.
Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.
I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?
You be the judge!!!!!
Does "BUSY" mean:B-eing
U-nderS-atan's Y-oke?
Please pass this on, if you aren't too BUSY!
I think I know 10 people who would admit they love Jesus.
This is a short summary of
the testimony by Victoria Nehale
I was born and lived in
Namibia all my life and surrendered my life to Jesus on February 06, 2005. The
Lord Jesus Christ has revealed many things in the spiritual realm to me
including a couple of trips to hell. The Lord instructed me to share my
experiences with the people; He also warned me not to add anything or omit
anything from whatever the Lord Jesus Christ showed or told me. By the time of
the writing of this book, end of 2006, I was visited 33 times by the Lord Jesus
Christ. Every single time of those visitations, the Lord would tell me before
leaving that:
TIME
IS FAST RUNNING OUT!
First trip to hell
On the weekend of 23
July 2005, I took a thirty-minute taxi ride from the town of Ondangwa where I work and
stay, to my home village, to spend the weekend with my parents. On my way home,
I had a feeling that something extraordinary was going to happen that evening.
I arrived home at around 18H00 and that was the time people were preparing for dinner.
I was in the kitchen with the rest of my family, lying down on an old sheet on
the ground, while my little nieces and nephews were singing their Sunday School
songs. Suddenly I felt a heavy anointing come upon me, my body became very
weak, and I was out under the power of God. I saw a man, wearing a long white
robe tied with a rope of the same colour, walking towards where I was lying.
There was a brilliant light around Him as though it were radiating from Him. He
was wearing brown sandals; His features were like people from the Middle East, with a beautiful tanned skin. His face was
very kind and full of glory but I was unable to look Him in the eyes. When He
spoke, His voice was tender, kind and loving, yet authoritative; waves of love
were emanating from His very being.
He extended His hand to me and pulled me up from where I was lying.
Suddenly I was in a beautiful, transformed body; I looked the same as I was
when I was eighteen years old. I was wearing a white robe tied with a white
rope. Although my robe was white, the material was different from the man’s
robe. His robe was silky with a brilliance that I do not know how to describe.
He said, in a most loving and tender voice: “Victoria, I want you to come with me; I will
show you frightening things and I am taking you to a place where you have never
been before in your whole life”. He held my right hand and we
went. I felt as if we were walking on air and we were ascending all the time.
After a while on the way, I was very tired and told Him that I was unable to
continue the journey and begged Him to allow me to go back. However, He looked
at me tenderly and said, “You are not tired -
you are fine. If you get tired, I will carry you, but for now you are fine. Peace
be with you. Let us go.”
The place at which we arrived was very arid, worse than the worst
desert known to man, with no sign of life in any form whatsoever. There was not
a single tree or blade of grass or any living thing in sight. It was a very depressing
place indeed.
We came to a gate and the man turned to me and said: “Victoria, we
will enter through the gate and the things you will see will frighten and upset
you - but you must rest assured that wherever I take you, you will be well
protected. Just open your eyes and observe everything I will show you.”
I was terrified and started to weep. I was protesting and pleaded with the man
to take me back. I told Him that I did not want to go into that place because I
could see through the gate what was going on inside. He looked at me and said, “Peace be with
you; I am with you. We must go inside, for time is fast running out.”
We entered through the gate. I cannot describe to you the horror of
that place. I am convinced that there is no other place in the entire universe
as bad as that place. The place was extremely large and I had the sense that it
was expanding all the time. It was a place of utmost darkness and the heat of
it could not be measured: it was hotter than the hottest of fires. I could not
see any flames of fire or the source of the heat but it was HOT. The place was
filled with flies of all sizes - green, black, and grey flies. Every
conceivable kind of fly was there. In addition, there were also short, thick,
black worms everywhere, climbing on everything. The worms started to climb on
us and the flies were also all over us. The place was filled with the most
disgusting stench; there are no words to describe the intensity of the stench
in that place. The smell was almost like rotten meat but was a hundred times
worse than the most decaying meat I have ever smelled in my entire life. The
place was filled with the noise of wailing and gnashing of teeth, as well as of
demonic, evil laughter.
The worst thing about this place is that it was filled with people.
There were so many people that they could not be numbered. The people were in
the form of skeletons. I can say with confidence that these skeletons were
humans because I recognized some of my very close relatives and people from my
village. Their bones were dark grey and extremely dry. They had long sharp
teeth like wild animals. Their mouths were large and wide and their tongues
were long and bright red. Their hands and feet had long, thin toes and fingers
with long, sharp nails. Some of them had tails and
horns.
There were demons mingling with the people: the demons in
appearance looked like alligators and they were walking on four legs. They were
comfortable in that environment and were constantly teasing and tormenting the
humans. The noise that the demons were making was more like a celebration, as
they seemed happy and carefree; they were also dancing and jumping all the
time. The humans, on the other hand, looked miserable and depressed; they were
in a state of helplessness and hopelessness. The noise from humans was caused
by pain; they were weeping, screaming and gnashing their teeth, and were in a
desperate situation of unimaginable pain and agony.
The people in this place, were innumerable but I could clearly see that
the vast majority of them were women. They were divided into many different
groups. Even if they were in the groups, it was not possible to estimate the
number of people in any single group because the groups were extremely large.
The man led me to one of the groups on the eastern side of the place.
He looked at me and said: “Victoria, this is a group of people who refused to forgive
others. I told them many times in many different ways to forgive others but
they rejected me; I have forgiven them all their sins but they refused to
forgive others. Their time ran out and they found themselves here. They will be
here for all eternity; they are eating the fruits of their labour for ever and
ever. However, it is painful for me to see them in this horrible place and in this
eternal situation - because I love them.”
I was then led to the next group, and the man told me that the people
in the second group were those who had debts. There were three different
categories in that group. The first category was of people who owed to others:
they could afford to pay their dues but they kept postponing and
procrastinating. They would claim that they would pay tomorrow, next week, next
year, until the time ran out for them and now they had found themselves in this
place. This is where they will stay forever; they are eating the fruits of
their labour.
The second category was of those who had debts that they could afford
to pay back and they were willing to pay their debts, but they were afraid of
the consequences because, perhaps, if they told the truth they might suffer
rejection or they might go to jail or what they had done would be made known to
the whole world and they would be humiliated. The man said: “None of them
came to me to ask me for a way. If they had done so, I would have shown them
the easy way out. They used their own wisdom and reasoning which did not help
them in any way. Their time ran out and they found themselves in this place
where they will be for ever. They are eating the fruit of their labour.”
Then He said: “The third category had debts which they could not afford to
pay back, but, again, none of them had told me that they had debts they were
unable to pay. If they had done so, I would have paid their debts. They also
tried to use their own reasoning and wisdom, which did not help them in any
way. Now they have found themselves in this place where they will always be.
They are eating the fruit of their labour. My heart is aching for all these
people because I love them dearly.”
In the first group, I saw two of my very close female relatives, as
well as a twelve year-old, also a relative of mine. I knew she was twelve
because that was how old she was at the time of her death. In the second group
I also saw some of my relatives, as well as a Pastor whom I knew very well.
Jakes, my boyfriend who had committed suicide because I gave my life to Christ,
was also in the second group. I saw some of my neighbours in both groups as
well.
I recognized the people I knew before their deaths; they also
recognized me. My relatives were very angry when they saw me and they started
to shout obscenities at me; they were using the most vulgar language as they
were cursing me. One of them said that I was not worthy of following the man
who was with me; they were telling the things I used to do before I gave my
life to Christ. They were not lying; the things of which they were accusing me
were the truth. Jakes was saying that I belonged to him and I should go where
he was because I had committed the same sins as he. At first the Pastor seemed
happy to see me and he said I did well by coming but his attitude changed
immediately when he saw who was accompanying me and then he also joined in the
cursing and the use of obscene language. The man with me told me to ignore them
for they did not know what they were doing.
I was petrified and extremely sad; my body was shaking and I could not
stand. I was crying uncontrollably. The man turned to me, gave me a hug, and
said: “Peace
be with you, Victoria.” My strength returned and I felt very secure
in His embrace. Then He told me that we had to leave the place and go back. He
looked at me and said: “Victoria, I have shown you. Now you must choose in which of
the groups you want to be; the choice is in your own hands. You must tell the
people everything you have seen and experienced but do not add or omit
anything.”
I remembered that we left the place of horrors together but I do not
know where I left Him because then I became aware: I opened my eyes and I was
back in my physical body, lying in OshakatiHospital. There was a
drip in my left arm, and I saw my mother and other neighbours from our village
in one corner of the room, where they were looking at me in amazement. I could
see on my mother’s face that she had been crying. I asked one of the nurses if
she knew what was wrong with me but she only made a joke and said: “You were
sent back; perhaps you have done something wrong and you need to repent.” The
nurse was trying to speak lightheartedly about my condition but I could see she
was afraid to come closer to me. I asked her to call the doctor who attended
me.
When he arrived, he said that he did not know what was wrong with me.
Initially, he had thought that I had contracted malaria but the malaria results
were negative. He continued to tell me that my temperature, pulse and blood
pressure were dangerously low but he could not find the cause for it. He said
that there was nothing he could do for me; he could not admit me because I was
not sick. The drip they had applied was not working at first but when I opened
my eyes, it started to work. He recommended that the nurse administered another
drip to me once the first one had finished so that I could get enough strength
to go home.
I was frightened by what I saw in that place and couldn’t stop crying.
The stench of that horrible place continued to be as real as when I was there.
The scenes from that place were flashing before me all the time. I was unable
to sleep and my whole body was in great pain. I felt as though all my limbs had
been taken apart, and re-assembled. Oh, I felt awful. I had diarrhea and a
pounding headache for an entire week.
My mind was made up that I would not talk to anybody about my
experiences because who would believe me? What would people think? I kept
telling myself that I would never relate my experiences to anybody. One of my
mentors phoned me three days later to enquire about my well being because I
sent her a text message asking her to pray for me. Before I knew it I was
telling her about my experiences. When I realized what I was doing I had
already told her most of the story. I wanted to kick myself. I was crying
because I was convinced that I had made the biggest mistake of my life. Now the
story was told, there was no possibility I could hide it anymore. Now I knew
that if God wants something to be told, it will be told. He is God, after all.
On August 19, I woke up, feeling the signs of the anointing in my
physical body. I was weak and trembling, while waves of electricity were going
through my body. In the evening I saw a brilliant light coming into the room
and in the midst of it was the same man. This time He sat down on a chair next
to my bed. I have no idea where this chair came from but it was there as soon
as He was ready to sit down. It was a beautiful chair made of solid gold; the
shape was that of a conventional chair, with back support. On each leg was a
silver star embedded in the gold; the same star was also in the centre of the
back support. There are round wheels on each leg.
After greeting me, He told me that He knew that I had many questions
about His identity and that He came to reveal Himself to me and to explain
certain things that I have experienced. He said: “I am Jesus Christ, your Saviour. If you
have any doubts, look at my hands. That place where we went is Hell.”
When I looked at His hands, I saw scars where the nails pierced Him.
Dear friend, I want to tell you that hell is not a figment of anybody’s
imagination but it is a real place and it is unpleasant. It was not made for
people but for Satan and his demons. Our rightful place is in Heaven with Jesus
but we have to choose Jesus before it is too late. Today, when you hear His
voice, do not harden your heart; accept Jesus as your personal Saviour today
and live for Him. Hell is a terrible place: it is a place of fear and sadness;
it is a place of torment and eternal cries and gnashing of teeth. Satan wants
to take as many people with him as possible. Do not co-operate with him;
co-operate with Jesus and you will live and not die.
I could not understand why the Lord would tell me to make a choice
between the two groups He showed me in Hell when I was already a born-again
Christian. I have accepted Him into my life and He was still telling me to make
a choice whether I want to go to Hell or not. I could not understand. I started
to pray and asked God to give me a revelation of what He meant and what He wanted
me to do. The Lord revealed to me that I was harbouring a lack of
forgiveness
and resentment in my heart towards one of my sisters, as well as to my cousin. I asked the Lord to forgive me for my unforgiving
spirit; I also asked my sister to forgive me for harbouring anger and
bitterness in my heart toward her. The Lord instructed
me to go and ask forgiveness from my cousin.
The Lord also reminded me that there was a time when I acquired a
teaching job with a fraudulent diploma and He considered that to be debt and
theft. I was determined to do
what was right and I asked the Lord to help me through this problem and to show
me an easy way out because this was a serious crime which could send me behind
bars. He directed me to go to the Department of Education and confess what I
had done. I was ready to go to jail if this was unavoidable. I experienced the
Lord’s favour in a big way. The officials in the Department of Education told
me that I should decide what I wanted to do: whether to pay back the salary I
had received from the government or not. They promised not press charges
against me because they were stunned by my confession. Our God is a faithful
God who honours His Word.
If you are in a situation similar to the one I was in, I want to
encourage you to do what is right, no matter the consequences. You might be
incarcerated in the earthly jail but that is temporal. No pain or shame will
compare to Eternity separated from God. Hell is not a nice place: it is better
to allow God to judge you now before it is too late. We must not fear God’s
judgment while we are in the time of Grace: we must allow Him to expose
whatever is wrong in our lives while we still have time to make right with Him
because there is no forgiveness on the other side of the grave.
2nd
Trip to hell
On October 18 2005
I woke up at 05H30 but I could not go to work. I was feeling very weak and
drunk; I could not move or turn around in my bed, and the presence of the Lord
was very heavy in the room. I was trembling and felt electricity going through
my body. The Lord came to take me just before 08H00 because the last time I had
looked at my watch, it was 07H48, and he arrived very shortly after that. He
greeted me and said that we should go again because time was fast running out.
I stood up and we began to walk. The way we were walking on this day was very
different from all other times; although our legs were doing the walking
movements, we were sort of floating more than walking. While we were on our
way, Jesus told me that all sins are bad and there is nothing such
as small sin and big sin. All sin will lead to death, no matter how big or
small. The Lord told me that we were going to visit Hell again and then He
asked me if I was afraid. I answered that I was afraid.
He said, “The spirit of fear is not from My
Father or from Me, it is from the Devil. Fear will cause you to do things that
will land you in hell.”
Without faith it is impossible to please God and fear is the direct
opposite of faith. It is obvious that fear does not please God because it
destroys one’s faith. For the whole time we were on our way, we were walking
side by side but as soon as we arrived at the gate of Hell, He took my hand
into His and held it for every second we were in Hell. I was very happy that
the Lord was holding my hand because the firm grip of His hand removed all the
fear from me. The place was still the same: nothing was different from the
first time. There were flies, worms, extreme heat, the smell, skeletons, the
noise: everything was just as it was the first time I was there. We entered the
same ugly gate again and the Lord took me to one group of people. There were
many people I knew when they were still alive on Earth. The poor people were in
a terrible state; they looked miserable and in great agony but the worst of all
was the look of hopelessness on their faces.
The Lord pointed out one middle-aged woman whom I knew before her
death. She had died in a car accident at the beginning of 2005. I was shocked
to see that woman in Hell because we all knew her as a God-fearing and
God-loving person. The Lord told me that that woman loved Him and
He also loved her; she had served Him when she was on Earth; she had led many
people to the Lord and she knew the Word very well. She was kind to the poor
and needy; she gave to them, and helped them in many ways. She was a good
servant of the Lord in most ways.
Those words of the Lord shocked me even more and I asked Him why He
would let someone who had served Him so well end up in Hell. The Lord looked at
me and said that this lady had believed the deception of the Devil. Although
she knew the Scriptures well, she believed the lie of the Devil that there are
big sins and small sins. She thought that a ‘small’ sin would not lead her to
Hell because, after all, she was a Christian.
The Lord continued, “I went to her many times and told
her to stop what she was doing but many times she would reason that what she
was doing was too small and she attributed my warning to her own feelings of
guilt. There was a time when she stopped for a while but then she convinced
herself again that the warning was not from Me but her own voice because that sin
was too insignificant to grieve the Holy Spirit.”
I asked the Lord again to tell me what the sin was that this woman has
committed and He answered me thus, “This woman had a friend who is a nurse at Oshakati Hospital. Whenever
this woman was sick, she would not go to hospital and pay for her hospital card
as normal practice; she would just pick up the telephone and tell her friend to
organise medicine for her from the Hospital Dispensary. Her friend would always
oblige and tell her to pick up the medicine at a particular time. Firstly, she
decided to accept the lie of the Devil about small and big sin and rejected my
truth; she caused somebody else to sin and steal on her behalf but, worst of
all, she grieved the Holy Spirit.
This is what caused her to be in Hell. It does not matter whether you bring
millions of souls to the Lord; it is still possible to go to Hell for grieving
the Holy Spirit. You must not only care about the salvation of others but you
must be careful not to forget about your own soul. Be sensitive to the Holy
Spirit at all times.” After the Lord said those words He said that we
should go back.
Many Christians who have heard this story do find it problematic. They
would always ask me, “What about justification, mercy and grace?” and “Is it
possible to lose your Salvation after you have received it?” “Is that not a bit too harsh?” “Can God be so
cruel?”
Well, as I have said elsewhere in this book, I am not presenting any
theology here. I am just telling you what the Lord has shown and taught me -
and what He has allowed me to experience. Please refer to your Bible for
answers. Look at the following verses and make your own judgment.
“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I
preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” (1Corinthians 9:27)
“What shall we say then? Shall we
continue to sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to
sin live any longer in it?
(Romans 6:1-2)
“Do not let sin reign in your
mortal body, that you should obey it in its lust.” (Romans 6:12)
“For if we sin willfully after we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which
will devour the adversaries.”
(Hebrews 10:26 –27)
Can I go to Hell after having served the Lord and led many to Christ?
You be the judge!
Disobedience
On Monday
6 March 2006, I was woken by my alarm clock at 05H30. I started to
pray and realised that there was a heavy anointing on me. My body was very weak
and I was trembling; waves of electricity were going through my body.
In the afternoon, as I was lying on my bed, I saw a brilliant
light filling the room. I saw tiny, white, round beads, the size of a pin-head.
The beads were falling like rain and would sink into my skin on contact. In
addition, I saw a cloud of something like white mist coming from above; it also
filled the room and sank into my skin on contact. Thereafter, I saw Jesus
walking towards me in the midst of a cloud of mist. He sat down on His chair
next to my bed. I have no idea where this chair comes from; it usually appears
as soon as He is ready to sit. It is a beautiful chair made of solid gold; the
shape looks similar to most chairs but with back support. On each leg is a
silver star; a similar but larger star is also on the back support. There are
round wheels on each leg.
Jesus greeted me and stretched out His hand
to me and told me to get up because time was fast running out. He pulled me up
by my hand and I sat down on my bed.
Then he said to me, “Victoria, let us
pray.” He prayed in a language that I did not understand; I
understood only the word ‘Amen’. Then He continued by asking me what I was seeing and I told Him that I was
seeing groups of people going to their work and others arriving at their work
places. I was also seeing those similar tiny white beads falling on those who
arrived first at their work places. After the first group, another group also
arrived later. By that time the rain of tiny beads had stopped falling.
I also saw different groups of people, arriving at
different churches on a Sunday morning. The rain of white beads would begin to
fall as soon as the early comers enter the churchyard. It continued to fall for
some time and then it stopped. The latecomers would not find anything.
Jesus asked me whether I understood what
those visions meant and I told
Him that I did not understand. Then He explained to me: “These visions mean
that every place where you are supposed to be at a specified time and you know
what time you should be there, there are always angels distributing blessings
for that specified time. If you arrive on time, you will receive your blessings
but if you are late, you will miss your blessings for that day because the
angels distribute the blessings only for that specific time. Victoria, I want
to warn you because you go late for work and you go especially late to church
services. You must know that at those times you have been late without any
valid reason; you have forever missed out on your blessings for those days;
they will never return to you again. Victoria you must stop this thing and do
not ever do it again, unless you have a valid reason for being late.”
When the Lord said those words I really wished I could
disappear or give Him some acceptable excuses for my indiscipline. I told Him
that sometimes I oversleep but He looked me straight in the eye and said that I
was lying and that I had a bad tendency of going back to bed after I have woken
up, to succumb to a desire to sleep for a ‘few more minutes’.
After Jesus had warned me, He said, “Stand up. Let us go. Time is fast running out and there are things we
must do.”
This time the Lord took me to a place where I have
never been before; it was also the first time we took the road we walked on
that day. We arrived in a garden filled with beautiful flowers and beautiful
green trees: nothing on Earth can compare to this beauty. The flowers were in
all kinds of beautiful, bright colours. We sat down on a beautiful garden
bench, which was made from solid gold with small brightly-shining silver stars.
When we sat down, He pointed in front of us and said, “Victoria, look, can you see that city?” When I looked, I saw a very large, brightly
lit city. It was beautiful beyond description. The city has a brightly shining
golden gate and at this gate was a man, seated, who was of great age. He had a
long, white beard and white hair. I had seen this man earlier and, when I asked
Jesus who this man was, he told me that it
was Abraham, the father of faith.
I saw many roads in that city, which are also paved
with gold. There are high-rise buildings and they were also shining like gold.
The shine and the glitter in the city is indescribable
Jesus turned to me and asked, “What do you think about that city?”
I answered that it was beautiful and I wanted to go
there. Jesus said: “I will take you there if you
continue to be obedient because that is also where your house will be. Stay
obedient - because if you are disobedient, Victoria, crows will fly in your
house. Your house will be a dwelling place of owls and a playground of ghosts.
However, do not fear, because I am with you. Just obey. For everyone who is
disobedient, his house will have crows flying there; it will be a dwelling
place of owls and a playground of ghosts.”
Jesus
Christ is real and He loves us with a love that cannot be described, His
greatest desire is for us to choose life and spend eternity with Him. His heart
is aching for all those people who are dying and going to Hell because they
chose to reject the Salvation He offered them and they chose death instead.
Whether
you are a born-again Christian or not, please always remember this one thing: Time is fast running out.