ZION TRAIN: 23 Minutes In Hell

23 Minutes In Hell

By Bill Wiese

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. 

I found myself in the cell, and these 4 creatures were in the cell with me.  I didn't know they were demons at the time, because I went there as an unsaved person.  God took it out of my mind that I was a Christian.  I didn't understand why, but He explained it to me on the way back.  These creatures, I didn't realize that they were demons, but they were enormous.  They were about 12 or 13 feet tall. This one had scales all over its body, giant jaws with huge teeth, and claws sticking out, along with sunken eyes.  They were just enormous.  And the other one didn't look like this at all, but it had razor sharp fins all over with one long arm and out of proportion feet.  Everything was deformed and twisted and out of proportion, out of symmetry, no symmetry, one arm longer and one shorter and just odd looking creatures, horrible, horrible looking things. 

And they were blaspheming God. The whole time they were cursing God.   I wondered, "Why are they cursing God? Why are they hating God so much?"  And then they turned their attention to me, and I felt the same hatred they had for God, they had for me also, and again I thought: "Why do they hate me?  I haven't done anything to them."  But they hated me with a hatred that I have never experienced on earth; way beyond what man has the ability to hate with.  They absolutely hated me, and I knew they were assigned to torture me.

There were things that I am going to say, that I don't know how I knew.  In Hell your senses are keener, you are just aware of more than our physical bodies are.  I was aware of distances, I was aware of time, and so forth, much more than you are here.  I knew these things were assigned to me, to torture me forever in this place.

I was lying on the floor in this cell and I had absolutely no strength in my body.  I wondered, "Why can I hardly move, what is wrong with me?"  I was just aware of no strength, and I was helplessly lying there.  One Demon just grabbed me and picked me up, and threw me into the wall like a glass.  He just picked me up like a glass. That was how light I was, or how strong he was.  And threw me into the wall, and every bone in my body just broke.  And I felt pain!  I just began to lie on the floor there, crying out for mercy, but these creatures don't have any mercy at all, absolutely no mercy. 

The one picked me up, and the other one, with his razor-sharp claws; he just shredded my flesh right off.  He just tore it off, and had absolutely no care what so ever for this body that God so wonderfully made.  It had a hatred that was so intense against me.  I wondered, "Why am I alive, why am I living through this?  I don't understand why am I not dead."  My flesh just hung there in ribbons,  just flesh hanging.

I understood these demons had about 1000 times the strength of a man.  So even if I had my natural strength, I could not have fought them off anyway.  So I was absolutely at their mercy, of which they don't have any.  The Demons run your life in Hell. 

The smell of these demons and the smell in Hell were so atrocious; I can't even describe it to you.  There was a smell of burning flesh, of sulfur.   The smell of these demons was like an open sewer, putrid, rotten meat, bad eggs, sour milk and everything you can imagine.  Take it in, times 1000, and put it up to your nose.   And you just breathe it in.  It was so toxic, that it would kill you, if you were here in this body, you would die.  And I wondered, "Why am I living through this smell, it is so horrendous?"  But again you don't die, you have to endure it.

God has made mankind the highest form of creation, and these demons are the lowest form of creation.   As men we work hard to get ahead in life, we better ourselves, we study.  But in Hell, your life is run by demons.  These creatures have a zero IQ, absolute ignorant creatures.  All they know is hatred for God, hatred for you and torture.  And they run your life (until their own judgment is set in the eternal lake of fire), and you can't do anything about it. 

 (The darkness and screaming in Hell)
I was lying in the cell and it went dark, pitch, pitch black.  I mean a darkness I have never ever felt before.  And I have been down in caves, way down in iron mines in Arizona.  There was a blackness that you couldn't even imagine.  I managed to crawl out, somehow I was able to crawl and they let me apparently.  I remembered where the door was so I crawled towards it and I felt my way, and I got outside the cell.  I looked one direction, all black, and all I heard was screams, billions of people screaming in this place.  I knew there were billions, and it was so loud.  If you have ever heard someone scream before, it is so annoying.  Well if you hear billions of people screaming, you can't imagine how it affects your mind.  You just can't stand it. You hold your ears because it is so loud and penetrating.  You can't get away from the screams.

And the fear that overcomes you is unbelievable.  Everything is dominated by fear.  There is no presence of God in this place, so you have to endure the fear and the torment and the blackness.   You can't see anything, unless God allows you to. You can't even see what is coming up against you.  Scripture talks about this darkness in Psalms 88:6:

“You have laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the depths.”

You can feel this darkness. 

(The fear in Hell)
The fear, I got to tell you, was so powerful.  It grips you.  If you have ever seen some scary movie, where the fear jumps up in your throat, if you can take that  and multiply it by at least a thousand, and hold it there, that is how you stay all the time!  And I know something about fear.  When I was young, I use to surf.  When I was really young we were in Coco Florida surfing and there was a school (group) of sharks coming around me.  And a 9 foot Tiger shark came up and bit my board right in half.  And it grabbed me by the leg and pulled me down.  So my leg was in the mouth of this giant shark.  I wasn't a Christian then; it was before I was even saved.  And all of a sudden, it let me go.  I know God opened that shark's mouth.  But for a few moments, the fear that comes into you is absolutely overwhelming.  If anybody ever saw JAWS, that fear was NOTHING compared to actually going through it.  The fear was terrifying.  The guy next to me was just a couple of feet away, and a shark ripped his leg right off!  And they dragged him up on the beach, with blood everywhere.  He was screaming and had no leg.  So I understand fear, but that fear was nothing, absolute nothing compared to the fear I felt in Hell, no comparison at all.  I think the fear I felt from the shark attack was one of the greatest fears we could experience on earth. The devil, in hell, is the King of terrors. 

(Desolate in Hell)
I was now outside the cell and as I looked at a direction, I could see there were flames of fire, about 10 miles all the way from me.  I knew it was 10 miles.  And a pit of fire, about 3 miles across, had flames that lit up the skyline enough to see the landscape of Hell just a little bit.

The darkness was so heavy; it just eats up any light.  But there was enough to just see some of the skyline.  It was all brown and desolate!  I mean absolutely not one green leaf, not anything of life of any kind, just stone, dirt and black sky, and smog in the skylight.  The flames were really high, so I could see it. 

There is no life whatsoever in Hell.  It is so strange to be in a world where there is no life.  Here we enjoy trees and fresh air, but there it is absolutely all dead.

(Heat)
The heat was so intense, you can’t even describe it. 

Psalm 11:6:

“Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.” 

That's what is going on in Hell, it is so hot.  All these things should kill you, but you don't die!  You had to keep enduring all these things.  I wanted peace of mind, to get away from the screams and to get out of there.  It's like when you want to go home at night, when you had a rough day, you just want peace of mind.  But there you endured all the screaming and all the torment.  And you never ever get away from it, ever. 

You are also naked in Hell.  It is just another thing to have to endure.  Shame! 

That means God can see into Hell, so it is observable to Him.  But also you are naked in Hell, just another thing you have to go through.

(Dry)
There is no water in Hell, at all, no water.  There's no humidity in the air and no water of any kind.  It is so dry; you are desperate for a drop of water, just one.  Just like the scripture says in Luke 16:23-24,

“And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.  “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.”

Abraham said, "Son remember", and then he went on to talk about his brothers.  He wanted him to just dip the tip of his finger in water, just to get one drop.  That would have been precious, one drop, but you never, ever get a drop.  It's hard to imaging how dry your mouth is.  If you can imagine doing a marathon run through Death Valley and having cotton in your mouth and staying there for days, and it just continues like that, just dry, absolute, desperate for a drop of water. 

Another thing this scripture revealed to me was we knew there was a great gulf fixed between them, in Hell; between Paradise and Hades.  And the rich man saw Abraham far off.  In the natural, how could he recognize Lazarus and Abraham?  First of all he never met Abraham and then to see someone that far away, you wouldn't really know who they were.  But there are just certain things you know in Hell.  You understand, like I was saying, the depths, how far away and so forth.

Then one of the demons grabbed me, and dragged me back into the cell and began all these torments again, which I really hate to talk about, because I don't like to have to re-live the torment.  They began to crush my skull.  One demon grabbed me and tried to crush my head.  I was screaming and begging for mercy, but no mercy!  About this time they each grabbed an arm and a leg and were about to tear off my legs and my arms.  I thought, "I can't endure this, I can't endure this!" 

(Next to the Pit)
And all of a sudden, something grabbed me and pulled me out of this cell.  I know it was the Lord, but then I didn't know that.  I was there as an unsaved person, so I didn't know these things.  I just went there as if I had never accepted the Lord.  I was placed over next to the fire that I had seen.  I was standing along side that pit.  I was beneath a cavern, like a giant cave, with a tunnel going up. 

Along side the fire I could see through the flames, just enough to see bodies, people in the fire screaming, screaming for mercy, burning in this place!  And I knew I didn't want to go in there.  The pain I'd endured already was bad enough, but the heat from that flame I knew was worse.  These people were begging to get out.

There were these big creatures lined all around the edge of this Pit, and as the people crawled up trying to get out, they would be shoved back in to the fire and not allowed out.  I thought, "Oh, this place is so horrible, so horrible and horrendous." 

All this is going on at the same time.  You're thirsty, you're hungry, and you're exhausted.  You don't get to sleep in Hell either.  You need sleep just as you do now.  Your body needs sleep.  Rev 14:11 says,

“And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night...”

I knew that Hell's location is in the center of the earth.  That's were it's at, in the center of the earth.  I understood that I was about 3700 miles deep in the earth.  We know that the earth's diameter is 8000 miles.  Half way would be about 4000.  I was about 3700 miles down.  In Ephesians 4:9 it says that Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth. 

That's were Hell is right now.  Later Hell and Death will be cast into the Lake of Fire and then cast into Outer Darkness.  That's after Judgment Day, but right now it is in the center of the earth; paradise haven been separated from it and relocated to heaven at the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. 

(Demons)
I was along side this pit of fire and I saw all these demons all lined up along the walls, all sizes and shapes of every kind, deformed, ugly creatures, you can imagine.  They were twisted, deformed creatures, huge ones, small ones.  There were giant spiders, huge spiders this big. (5 feet tall)  Rats, snakes and worms, because the Bible talks about worms that cover (Isaiah 14:11).  There are all kinds of abominable creatures everywhere and they seemed to be chained to the walls. 

I was glad about that because I sure didn't want them to get to me.  They all hated me with a passion!  That was another thing I didn't understand, they weren't just creatures, they had hatred towards mankind.  So I was glad they were chained to the walls.

I began to ascend up this pit in this tunnel, and to leave the flames.  Soon it got darker, but I could see all these demons along the walls and they had such awesome power.  I thought, "Who could fight off these creatures.  No one could fight these things."  The fear was so overwhelming

(No Hope)
The worse thing in Hell, worse than all the torments, I was made to understand was that, first of all, there was no understanding of life in Hell in the minds of those on the earth.  And that people up here, most people, had no idea that this world even existed down there!  They don't even know this is a real world, and that down here, there are billions of people suffering and begging for just one chance. But they never get a chance to get out, and forever being mad at themselves for not taking the opportunity to have received Jesus, that they are stuck there forever. 

Then secondly, there was absolutely no hope of ever getting out.  I understood that.  I grasped eternity.  I could understand eternity.  Here on earth, we can't quite, can't get a hold of it.  But there I understood it.  I knew I would be there forever and ever, and have no hope of getting out.  I thought about my wife.  I could never get to my wife!  I've always told her that if we were ever separated by any kind of earthquake or something horrible, I said "I'll get to you.  I will find you.  I'll get to you if we're ever apart."  But here I couldn't get to her.  I could never see her again.  She would never have any idea were I was, and I just could never ever talk to her again.  That thought just absolutely bothered me terribly!  To not be able to talk to her, get to her, and for her not to know where I was, and have no hope to ever get out!  You soon understand that you never get out of here, ever!  See on earth there's always hope.  Even people in concentration camps have a hope of getting out, or dying at least, to get out of it.  But we've never experienced a totally hopeless situation.

(Jesus appears)
About this time, I'm going up this tunnel, and I'm just in absolute fear, hopelessly lost, and fearing these demons.  All of a sudden, Jesus showed up!  "I Praise you Lord!" This bright light lit up the place.  I only saw His outline, the outline of a man.  I couldn't see His face, it was so bright.  I just looked into this light and saw His outline.  And I just fell on my knees and collapsed.  I couldn't do anything but worship Him.  I was so grateful.  One second ago I was lost forever, and now all of a sudden I'm out of this place, because I had already known Jesus.  Those people can't get out, but I could because I was already saved and living right by His grace.  I knew and understood that there was no way out of this place, only by Jesus.  He is the only way to keep from going to this place. 

In Rev 1:6, John says about Jesus, that His countenance was as the sun shining in its strength.  And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet as a dead man.  That's just what happened to me.  I fell at His feet like a dead man.  Now you would think that I had a million questions to ask him, but when you're there in His presence, all you can do is worship Him and praise His Holy Name, and thank Him for what He saved us from. 

When I got my composure, at least enough to start forming thoughts, I thought about saying to the Lord, I don't even think I asked Him out loud, I just thought it and He answered me.  I said, "Lord why did You send me to this place?  Why did You send me here?"  He said to me "Because people do not believe that this place exists."  He said "Even some of my own people do not believe this place is real."  I was shocked at that statement.  I thought every Christian has got to believe in Hell.  But not everyone believes in a literal burning Hell.  I said Lord "Why did you pick me?"  But He didn't answer me on that question.

I have no idea why He picked me to go there.  I'm the least likely to go to this place.  My wife and I hate evil movies.  We hate anything bad.  I don't even like the summer time, much less heat.   It's filthy.  There's no order.  It's all chaos and disorder and disgusting.  And I love everything orderly and excellent.  He didn't answer me on that question.  He said to me, "Go tell them that I hate this place, that it's not My desire for one of My creation to go to this place, not one!  I never made this for man.  This was made for the devil and his angels.  You have to go and tell them!  I've given you a mouth, you go and tell them." 

I thought to myself, "But Lord, they're not going to believe me.  They're going to think I'm crazy or had a bad dream."  I mean wouldn't you think that?  As I thought this, the Lord answered me and He said, "It's not your job to convince them.  It's the Holy Spirit’s job!  You just go and tell them!"  "Yes Sir!  Absolutely, I have to go and tell them."  We shouldn’t worry and fear what man is going to think of us, we just have to go and do it and let God do the rest.  And I said, "Lord, why did they hate me so much?"  "Why did these creatures hate me?"  He said, "Because you're made in My image, and they hate Me."  You know the devil can't do anything against God.  He can't hurt God, per say, but he can hurt His creation.  That's why the devil hates mankind, and deceives him into taking him into Hell.  And he inflicts diseases upon him, anything he can do to hurt God's creation.

(The Peace of God)
And then God flooded me with His thoughts.  He let me touch a piece of His heart, of how much He loves mankind.  Unbelievable, I couldn't even take it.  It was so overbearing.  The love He has for man, you can't take it in this body.  You know how much we love our wives and our children?  Well the love we have can't even be compared to the love God has for us.  His love is infinitely greater than our love and our ability to love.  It's just the same as it says in Eph 3:19: “…to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge…” You can’t even grasp it. I couldn’t believe how much He loved mankind that He would die for just one person to not go to this place. And it hurts Him so much to see one of His creations going to this place. It pains the Lord, and He weeps to see one person going there. I felt so bad for the Lord. I felt His heart. And I thought, "I've got to go out and witness and take every last breath I have and go tell the world about Jesus, and how good He is."  I mean, we have the gospel.  It's good news! And the world doesn't know.  They have to be told!  You know, we have to share this knowledge.  People just have a lack of knowledge in this area.  God wants us to share with them how good He is, and how He hates this place.

He said to me also, "Tell them I am coming very, very soon."  And He said it again, "Tell them I'm coming very, very soon."  Now I think, why didn't I say to him, "What do you mean Lord?  What's 'soon' to you?"  That's how we think.  But I didn't ask.  You just don't think to ask those things then.  You just want to worship Him so much.  The peace of God that comes over you being next to Him is unexplainable.  I've been in anointed services, but there is no comparison to the love and the peace of God you feel being next to Him. 

And then I looked up and I saw those demons on the wall, which were so ferocious, now they looked like ants on the wall!  They just looked like ants!  They were still big, but with the power of God next to you, all of God's creative power, they looked like ants on the wall.  I couldn't get over it.  I thought, "Lord they're just ants!"  And He said, "You just have to bind them and cast them out in My name."  I thought, "Boy, the power He's given the church!"  These things are really ferocious, and we are no match for a devil without Jesus, none.  They're ferocious, but with Him, they are nothing!   A boldness rose up in me right then, when I saw these creatures, and I felt like saying, "You creatures were the ones torturing me, tearing me apart?  Come on!  Come on now!"  Maybe a little bit of my flesh rose up or something, you know, I thought, “Jesus, get 'em." 

(Leaving Hell)
As we left, we went up above the earth’s surface.  We went up, because we were still in a tunnel.  Soon I couldn't see it any more. It was like a whirlwind, a giant whirlwind we were in.  We kept going up.  We had to go up, to get out of it apparently.  When we got to the top of it, I looked down at the earth and it was about this high (using his thumb and fore finger to measure it).  The curve of the earth was like that.  It's awesome to look back at the earth!  I know God allowed that for me.  He could have left that tunnel any which way He wanted.  He knew in my heart, as a kid I always wanted to see what the earth looked like from space.  Maybe I watched too much Star Trek or something, you know?  I just thought it would be really neat to see the earth, and to see it hung on nothing, like the Bible says in Job 26:7:

“He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.”

As you look, you think, "What's holding this thing up?  What's making it turn so perfectly?"  God is in such control.  The knowledge of the awesome power of God that flooded my understanding was great.  He has so much power!  Every single thing is in His control.  Not a hair on your head falls to the ground that He doesn't know about.  Not a bird hits the ground that He doesn't know about.  I was flooded with these thoughts.  God has so much power.  It overwhelmed me.  There's a scripture in Isaiah 40:22 that says the Lord sits upon the circle of the earth.  There I was upon the circle of the earth.  I even thought, "Lord, how come, before Christopher Columbus they could have read that scripture and known the earth was round."  You know?  People wondered, they thought it was flat? 

Anyway, as we came back down we passed through the shields; I knew we were passing through the heat shield that was around the earth.  I just knew it.  I even thought stupid thought, here I am with God, and I thought, "I wonder how He's going to go through that shield?"   You know how in space they have to penetrate it at just the perfect angle.  We went through it with no problem what so ever.  I'm sure the Lord must have rolled His eyes and said “I sure can handle that one.”  There is a scripture in Psalm 47:9 that says,

“...For the shields of the earth belong to God...”

He is in control of everything, everything.  I just didn't want Him to leave.  I just wanted to be in His presence.  We were coming down fast on California.  Just coming real fast, we were moving so quick, and came down to our house.  And I looked and I could see right through the roof of our house.  And I could see myself lying on the floor.  This really hit me strong, right here (pointing to his heart), because I saw my body lying there and I thought, "That can't be me, I'm here, this is me!"  You know, you've never seen two of yourself.  Here I was up there and I thought, "That's not really me down there."  And that scripture that Paul says, we are just in a tent (2 Corinthians 5:1), that hit me so strong.  I thought, "That's just a tent, that's nothing.  That's temporary.  This is the real me."  This is what eternity is all about. That life, that we are so concerned about, is really nothing. It also hit me that we're a vapor, that life is just a vapor as in James 4:14, it talks about how short this life is.  It's short.  A hundred years if you live, it's nothing!  It goes up like a vapor.  And I thought, "We’ve got to live for God."  What we do now, here, counts for eternity.  We've got to witness.  We've got to get out there and save the lost.  We can't worry about all these little petty things that we all get so tied up in and hung up on.  We need to really get out there and preach the gospel and the good news, because this is soon over real quick.

But I saw my body lying there and I thought it was just as if you got out of your car and looked back at your car.  That's not you, it's your car.  It just gets you around.  That's how it looked to me.  It just gets me around here on the earth, but this is the real me.  And I thought, "Lord don't leave, don't leave".  I just want to stay with You for a while. But He left.  I came up to my body, and something pulled me back into my body, like I was sucked back into my nose or my mouth. 

Let me tell you, that place, just the heat alone would be horrible to endure.  Those people that we saw jump out of the New York towers.  They held hands and jumped.  How horrible that must have been.  You know if you've ever been up high and looked down, to jump would be unthinkable.  But they had to face that heat.  And that was only for about five seconds, it would have incinerated them and that was about two thousand degrees.  Scientists say that the temperature in the center of the earth is about twelve thousand degrees.  So you have to endure that for eternity.  If you're willing to go through that, that would be awfully foolish.  Now is the time....

 * I would like you to pray this prayer right away, if you want Jesus to come into your heart:

 Heavenly Father, I come to You admitting that I am a sinner (Romans 3:23). Right now I choose to turn away from sin, and I ask you to cleanse me, by Your blood, of all unrighteousness. I believe that Your Son, Jesus, died on the cross to take away all my sins.

 I also believe that He rose again from the dead so that I may be justified and made righteous through faith in Him (Romans 6:23). I call upon the name of Jesus Christ, to be the Savior and Lord of my life (Acts 2:21). Dear Lord, I choose to follow You, and I ask that you fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:3).

 I hereby renounce the power of Satan and sin over my life, declaring that I am now a born-again child of God (Romans 10:9-10). I am free from sin and full of the righteousness of God, in Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

If you just prayed this prayer by faith, the Word of God has promised that you are now BORN AGAIN! (II Corinthians 5:17). Welcome to the Kingdom of God! Now you have brothers and sisters all around the world. This is the most important decision that you have ever made. Take full advantage of it. Don't go back into the world. The world leads to death, but the fear of God leads to eternal life. At each moment you need to live like it is the last day, and the last time of your life.

Four steps will help you to grow in faith and grace:

1. Read the Bible (I Peter 2:2)

2. Pray (Romans 12:12)

3. Attend Church (Hebrews 10: 25)

4. Share Christ with others (II Corinthians 5:18-20)