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But first I want to address a couple things, questions that might be in your
mind. The first question that would be in mine, if I was listening to
me, would be, "How do you know it
wasn't just a dream that you had? A Bad
dream?" A couple points to make, first of all, I had left my
body. I saw my body when I returned, lying on the
floor. So I know for sure it was an out of body
experience. Some Christians have said, "Oh a Christian can't leave his
body." But that's not
true, In 2 Corinthians 12:2 , when Paul was caught up into the third heaven, He said, "whether in the body, or out of
the body I do not know." So if he didn't know that must mean it's
possible. And also he said in verse 1 that it was a vision, so I
believe this comes under the classification of a vision.
In Job 7:14 it says,
"thou scarest me with
dreams and terrifieth me with visions." So
this is definitely what the Lord did, terrified me through a vision. Also in returning from this, it took me
a year to calm down, and become like a normal person again. I was so upset and traumatized from the fear that
it's changed my whole viewpoint on how to witness and how much to appreciate what God saved us
from.
I asked my wife to come up for a minute so that she could just share with you
what happened when she found me in the living room, because I don't remember that part. So I want her to say a few words. Thank
you.
(Bill's wife Annette speaking) It was about 3:23 in the morning when I woke up. I just remember that because I looked at our digital clock, and I noticed Bill was not next
to me, and I heard screaming coming from our living room. I proceeded to
go down the hallway. I found my husband in a way I'd never seen him
before. If anyone gets to know Bill, he's very conservative by nature,
very calm, and a professional man. He's just not the type to get excited
or get real emotional over anything, unless it's God at times. But,
anyway, I saw him there traumatized, literally traumatized holding his skull, holding his head between his hands
and crying out and screaming. He was in a fetal position on our living
room floor. I didn't know what to do. I thought he was having a heart
attack. I just started to pray and he cried out and said,
"Pray that the Lord would take this out
of my mind! The Lord took me to Hell. I feel like my body is dying, I can't handle this." So I proceeded to pray over him, and in about ten to twenty minutes he began to calm
down. He was literally in a traumatized state, like someone who went to
Vietnam and has a reoccurrence, or a horrible car accident where they're reliving it. It was not just someone who had a bad dream and woke up. So I just wanted to testify to that.
(Bill Wiese speaking)
I'm so blessed with a good women. I'm really grateful to God. I've been married for
four years, and have known her for six, and it's been the best six years of my life, I have to say, so praise
God.
I wanted to find out when got back from this experience, if there's any body
in the Bible who has ever experienced Hell. So I began
research. I listen to Chuck Missler a lot. He's a Bible teacher across
the nation, a real scholar and he had said that Jonah had experienced Hell. In Jonah 2:2 it says,
"in Hell he cried
out." And In Jonah 2:6 it says,
"the earth with her bars
was about me forever, yet thou has brought up my life from corruption." So at least there was
somebody in the Bible that experienced Hell, Jonah.
I also wanted to find out, because I was raised in the early days of Calvary
Chapel, that any spiritual experience that you would go through should already be in the Word of
God. So I knew that if what I experienced was true, it would already
be there in the words. So I began to research and I found over 400
scriptures that depicted everything I saw, heard, felt, everything to do with Hell. It's already in the Bible, so whatever I'm telling you it's already
there. I'll make reference to some of the scriptures as we
go. I can't quote all 400, but I will for some of
them. I also found out there were about 14 other people that had
experienced some portion of Hell. Most of them were near death
experiences, people in the hospital dying and were brought back.
So to get right into it, quickly: My wife and I were at the Sunday night
prayer meeting that we always attend with our pastors. And we went
home like any other normal night and went to bed. About 3:00 o'clock
in the morning I was taken. I did not know how I got there until I
returned. Then the Lord explained. But I was just dropped into a prison cell, just like a regular prison cell,
like you imagine, with rough huge stone walls and bars on the door. I
didn't know where I was yet. All I knew was that it was extremely hot, terribly hot. It was so hot, I couldn't believe, that I was alive. I felt like I should have
disintegrated with this heat, but I was still alive. It was light in
the room for a little while, and I believe the Lord's presence was there for me to see the scenery better, but
then it got dark after about a minute.
In Isaiah 24:22 it says: "And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit,
and shall be shut up in the prison...." Proverbs 7:27
"they shall go down to Hell in the chambers of
death"
By "Chambers" it means rooms. So part of Hell has prisons cells, chambers, pits of fire, and big areas of fire, so I was
just in a prison cell at this time.
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