Sayings of the Great Sadhu

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God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

My Dear Friends

The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.

Continue to pray for the Unreached as we step towards the Cross..


Sunday 2 December 2012

Heaven and Hell... Part 1


 


Hi Friends….
                    It is a great necessity and mandatory for every one of us to know that there is Heaven and a Hell existent. There is no doubt about that. But you might be wondering what might be there. We all know that Heaven is a place of joy and Hell a place of agony. We visualize Heaven as a place where God is seated at the throne and we standing before Him.. But my dear friends, remember this is an eternal place and the almighty God would not have designed Heaven for us just to stand and stand and stand. There are lots more to it.. There are houses as He had promised, streams, valleys, mountains, trees with life and the list goes on… On the other side, we visualize Hell as a place of fire. Although fire exists, it is just not fire alone… everyone who are destined for Hell are not directly taken into Hell. They are subjected to torture at different places according to the deeds that they have done on earth and the final destination is the lake of fire… So let us have a broad view of both these places… Many people have gone to Heaven and Hell even while they were on this earth by God himself so that their lives could be transformed once forever and also that they could tell us what they have seen for themselves… Here is a brief experience of Rev. Howard Pittman for you.. 

        On August 3, 1979, Howard Pittman, a Baptist minister for 35 years, died while on the operating table during surgery and had a near death experience. After angels showed him the second and third Heaven, he was taken before the very throne of God where he was given a message to share with the world. Howard Pittman preached "Hell, fire and brimstone" for many years before his experience. During his near death experience, his beliefs in the nature of God and Heaven were put to the test.

The Angels first lifted his spirit out of his body and carried it to the Second Heaven and he finds himself in a entirely different place and contained numerous spirits like the sands in a beach. Rev. Howard believed that the angelic escort with him would take him to the Third Heaven where God was but to his dismay they were traveling in the wrong direction where he learnt many things about demons. As each type of demon was pointed out to him, he quickly discovered a social order or rank among them. The top rankers resemble humans and down the order as half human and half animal.
   
The top most is the warring demon. They were eight feet tall and colored in bronze and all the other demons appeared to be subject to them. They had a human face except that they were giants.
    










      The second group of demons looked to be ordinary people and the chief of them was the demon of greed containing the sins of hate, lust, strife.
 










  The third group of demons as seen by Rev. Howard looked to be in mixed shape and powerful and they were specialized in witchcraft and related areas. 











Down the order, he observed the demons taking all possible shapes and dealing with sadism, brutality, murder. He record nauseating sensations as he observed un imaginable shapes of demons coming down the order.
 He also recalls the demons of the fifth rank as the demon of lust










He was able to make one stunning discovery that " NO LOVE EXISTED AMONG DEMONS".                            --- to be continued
 
                   My dear friends...  Hope these excerpts from his visitation was quite useful to you... His experiences of Heaven on the other side will be brought to you next week... Have a blessed time..

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