My Journey To Hell

[Blain DeCastro]

So this starts off with me being in a pure white place and I saw a door and I knew I was supposed to go through the door and so I did. As soon as I did I was in hell the heat was so bad my shirt was glued to my skin from sweat and the thirst I had was so intense unlike anything I ever experienced before.

To my right I saw people who were forced to walk on the hot ground searing their feet in chains and not allowed to rest at all to my left I saw the lake of fire and above it a cage where people were at random times dropped into the lake of fire then pulled back up and at a random time dropped again.

Up ahead I saw Jesus waiting for me in a chair and i went up to sit on his lap, I was very thirsty but for some reason instead I asked him for bread. He pulled out some bread for me and I ate it. No sooner had I done this did a demon appear and saw me. He became insanely angry and lunged at me but Jesus protected me from it.

Then I was suddenly seeing how the people were all crying out to Jesus to save them from this Hell but with a very sad look He shook his head no, for it was too late for them. Then I was whisked away from Him by some unseen hand and placed in the cage that was above the Lake of Fire and it began to drop into the lake but I said to myself, "I trust Jesus" and then suddenly I was no longer in the cage but instead Jesus and I were walking in a pure black place, and I saw His beard was for some reason made out of guns. We were walking and saw three men talking and I went to them saying, "Look, Look. It is Jesus," and they scoffed and said “Yeah right whatever,” and Jesus walked to them with open arms saying my brothers have you lost your faith? And then suddenly they transformed into three evil spirits and tried to take me but Jesus became very angry and said “Let him go.”

The next part of the dream I will post in another post here

 

[Blain DeCastro]

This next part I was suddenly in an elevator with what appeared to be Death, who looked like a grim reaper and two other men. Death was cold and had no emotion and the two men I was with seemed to be excited or something, but the elevator stopped and opened into a pure dark place and Death had a desk he went to, while me and the two men went to his desk as well. But the two men changed. One on my left became very old and malnourished, weak and very skinny. The other man became very agonized and his misery and agony came from him, like black smoke and small demons were feeding off it. I looked to Death and asked when can I go to Heaven and he said “You cannot. You have to stay here forever. “ I thought to myself that is strange, I thought for sure I was on the right path and I said to him I think this is a test. He stopped what he was doing and asked what kind of test do you think this is? I responded a test of my heart and my faith and I slammed my hand on his desk and cried out I choose to trust in Jesus Christ! Then suddenly I was atop a massive pillar that was extremely high, and there was below me a pool of living water and I heard a voice say, "It is time to take a leap of faith." And so I jumped and as I went into the water I became naked and saw that there were other pillars and other pools of water, but no one was there and this is where the dream ends.

 

[Hidden In Him]

This next part I was suddenly in an elevator with what appeared to be Death, who looked like a grim reaper and two other men. Death was cold and had no emotion and the two men I was with seemed to be excited or something, but the elevator stopped and opened into a pure dark place and Death had a desk he went to, while me and the two men went to his desk as well. But the two men changed. One on my left became very old and malnourished, weak and very skinny. The other man became very agonized and his misery and agony came from him, like black smoke and small demons were feeding off it. I looked to Death and asked when can I go to Heaven and he said “You cannot. You have to stay here forever. “ I thought to myself that is strange, I thought for sure I was on the right path and I said to him I think this is a test. He stopped what he was doing and asked what kind of test do you think this is? I responded a test of my heart and my faith and I slammed my hand on his desk and cried out I choose to trust in Jesus Christ! Then suddenly I was atop a massive pillar that was extremely high, and there was below me a pool of living water and I heard a voice say, "It is time to take a leap of faith." And so I jumped and as I went into the water I became naked and saw that there were other pillars and other pools of water, but no one was there and this is where the dream ends.

This extended dream is about the Hell we subject ourselves to by giving into our fears, and if we refuse to die to ourselves we can potentially end up in the real Hell when we die. But "Death" to self is here personified as something we either embrace by "taking a leap of faith" or not, as it is scary not knowing what will become of us. But self is something we all set on a pedestal, hence the pillar you are transported to that you have to jump off of into the unknown.

What the two men change into is what we will become if we do not, however. One is weak and malnourished, meaning his physical health will suffer. The other experiences misery and agony, meaning his emotional health will suffer due to anxieties and fears, and the demons feed off of these for as scripture says "fear has torment." The word of God says "He has not given us a Spirit of fear, but of Love, Power, and a Sound Mind," so the exhortation here is to set aside all self-fear because it is not of God.

The pool of water represents water baptism in the sense of dying to self and being born anew into a new man. All the other pillars with pools of water are for others who will have to make the same choice. Each of us has a decision to make on if we will die to self or not, but it is the only way to true Life in Christ.

Maybe I can cover segments of the first section later.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Then I was suddenly seeing how the people were all crying out to Jesus to save them from this Hell but with a very sad look He shook his head no, for it was too late for them. Then I was whisked away from Him by some unseen hand and placed in the cage that was above the Lake of Fire and it began to drop into the lake but I said to myself, "I trust Jesus" and then suddenly I was no longer in the cage but instead Jesus and I were walking in a pure black place, and I saw His beard was for some reason made out of guns. We were walking and saw three men talking and I went to them saying, "Look, Look. It is Jesus," and they scoffed and said “Yeah right whatever,” and Jesus walked to them with open arms saying my brothers have you lost your faith? And then suddenly they transformed into three evil spirits and tried to take me but Jesus became very angry and said “Let him go.”

This passage becomes extremely interesting in light of the previous. The primary reason we need to die to ourselves is because the Lord knows we have spiritual enemies who will exploit others in every way they can to oppose us, bring us pain, cause us sufferings and anxieties, and even threaten our lives and spiritual, mental and emotional welfare. In short, we have to be prepared to walk with Him in dark places, where men will scoff at our testimony and even at the God who loves us. Because we are walking with Him and bearing witness, evil spirits will assume influence over others around us - even family and friends - and they will "try to take us" from Him, and from our walk with Him.

The good news is that in dying to self the Lord is free to command such evil spirits without our hindrance, and rebuke them for the things they are attempting to do in our lives.

This vision reminded me of another one in some ways. You might like reading this one as well. There are others that have been given to the body of Christ on this theme, but this is one I already had in print so it was just a matter of copy and paste.

Blessings, and thank you for posting.
- H

Thread 'The Gates Of Surrender'

Monday at 1:37 PM

The Gates Of Surrender, By Susan Cummings



In a vision, I see a scene that spreads out before me. It is a scene of an ancient town or village. There are stone walls surrounding this village and the walls are thick and high. The stones are old and there are plants growing within some of the cracks in the stone walls.

The scene is around the days end, and it is late. I see some people sitting around near the town's walls. Some are camped outside the walls sitting by a fire, and a few are walking around the walls to go to another side. I do not see what is on the...

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[Blain DeCastro]

Wow this is intense. Very interesting for sure.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Wow this is intense very interesting for sure

I forgot to mention it, but Death being "cold and showing no emotion" is part of dying to self. It's not that we become emotionless, but when it comes to misery and agony and all the emotions that accompany those feelings, there has to be a willingness to let it go. We get into habits, to where we want to feel sorry for ourselves, we want to be anxiety-ridden and concentrate all day on what will become of poor old us. These are habits many of us have taken a lifetime to develop, and old habits die hard. But die they must if we would enter into the joy of the Lord and set aside the fearful thoughts of the enemy. It's when we know we are broken.

 

[Blain DeCastro]

I forgot to mention it, but Death being "cold and showing no emotion" is part of dying to self. It's not that we become emotionless, but when it comes to misery and agony and all the emotions that accompany those feelings, there has to be a willingness to let it go. We get into habits, to where we want to feel sorry for ourselves, we want to be anxiety-ridden and concentrate all day on what will become of poor old us. These are habits many of us have taken a lifetime to develop, and old habits die hard. But die they must if we would enter into the joy of the Lord and set aside the fearful thoughts of the enemy. It's when we know we are broken.

Yeah this makes sense. Dying to self is very important. I appreciate the interpretation. I never would have thought of this.