~I just bought a book: “Heaven Is So Real”. It’s an epitome of what a Korean-American woman has experienced meeting our Lord Jesus & visiting His kingdom in heaven. I was so determined to buy a book coz I love reading a lot especially when I like the subject matter of the story. I am not pious (neither secular! Guess I’m a little of both) in fact I have no interest in religion and anything of that particular kind (but I do read the Bible). It wasn’t the title that got my attention neither did the style of the cover page. I dunno. I just saw it, read the preface flipped through the pages and then whoom decided to buy it. I thought, this got to be good or else… or else hmm just nothing. I don’t want to regret buying it. So I started reading the book last Saturday. I didn’t review for my final exams coz hm I just don’t feel like it. Hehe. Let’s go back to the book. Lord Jesus has chosen Choo Nam
(author) to write a book addressing the populace that he shall be coming very soon… “Sooner than you think”- as Jesus said. He also assumed that He has all ready prepared a kingdom from heaven for his children yet the people seem to be too attached from the earthly pleasures of the earth.
I thought about what I had seen and heard from the T.V. years ago, when I was just a tyke. The Old men & women were hysteric, wailing and saying that the world will end soon enough so the wicked should almost immediately repent for their sins. Hmm.. in my innate mind, since I do not have a fictitious mentality, I thought that those people were lunatics and should be put up in a mental institution where they could be free from saying na “Guguho na ang Mundo!!!” waaah. But now, as I grow older, as I witness to see the continuous incidence of calamities; either natural or not. As I spectate the endless sufferings of millions of people, I begin to have doubts, & countless worries if it is sane to think that it could be all possible!. Jesus told his disciples:
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things will come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines (extreme food scarcity), pestilences (epidemic of disease) and earthquake in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then they will deliver up to the tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up & deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of may will grow old. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the END will come…
- Matthew 24: 6-14
In the book, Jesus would often say only those who are pure at heart and obedient would enter His kingdom. I cannot deny I am not good at all. I do a lot of sins, I am not obedient. I am unlawful. I steal. (the ball pens of others). I do not honor my parents. I harbor hatred. I possess all seven deadly sins. And yes I am bad and neither am I good enough but I do not deserve to go to the Pit!. Nevertheless Jesus has ordered Choo Nam
to write a book not only to narrate her amazing experiences through her visits in heaven but also to warn us, people, all sinners like you and me, from what life we will get if we won’t draw ourselves close to the Lord and not be penitent with our sins…
The Pit of Hell
(Choo Nam
)…When we reached the summit and I looked over the crest of the mountain, I could see fumes and dark smoke rising from a deep pit. It was like the crater of a volcano, and inside I could see flames scorching a multitude of people who were screaming and crying in the mind of agony that only the severely burned truly know.
The people were naked, without hair, and standing close to one another, moving like worms, and the flames were scorching their bodies. There was no escape for those who were captured in the pit—its walls were too deep for them to climb, and hot coals of fire were all around the edges.
“The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire”--- (Rev. 20:13-15)
The flames would leap out unexpectedly from all directions. People would move away, and then as soon as they think that they were safe, another fire would burst forth. There was no rest for these unfortunate victims of sin; they were doomed to spend all eternity being scorched and burned as they endeavored to escape the flames of hell.
---excerpt from "Heaven Is So Real"
