Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames
I had a dream in 2022 about the gates of heaven. This was the most beautiful gate. Unscalable, its height was colossal. You couldn’t get over it, its beauty was beyond belief. It was awesome. I couldn’t take my eyes off it. I knew it was the entrance to heaven. Even in the dream I knew it was Christophany, it was Jesus. I lay in front of the gate and looked up at it, taking in the beauty of this gate.
I can’t explain the feelings I have in my heart to explain the dream to you other than being awestruck at its magnificence and glory. In 2020 I almost died, being this close has had a major effect on my life. I believe I almost went through the gate. I was not afraid at all. If the gate was that glorious, how could it get better. I’m alive today to tell you heaven will reflect the beauty of Christ; nothing is better than Jesus!
Our earthly life is crowded by the cares of this life. Our earthly life drowns out the beauty of our heavenly vision. Are you drawn toward heaven? (Please pay attention.) I pray you are drawn towards Jesus; I pray you are drawn to heaven, drawn by God’s glory.
In 2018 I had an out-of-body experience. I am not sure if it was a dream or vision, or if I was near passing away. But in my heart the door to heaven opened and I couldn’t help myself. I was being pulled in! I was looking down on my body, my wife was shaking me trying to awaken me. I was crying so hard. I was telling her I didn’t mean to be stingy, but I wanted to go. I have never seen heaven, but rather I felt it. The glory of God was so rich. When I was a kid, Blytheville had a bakery where you could smell the cinnamon rolls for miles. It was one of the smells that would feed the senses! It will draw you. Likewise, Heaven will pull you in because it is made for us, you will find your place because you belong there!
During this experience, I could see my wife interceding before the Lord over my life! In an instant I came back into my body. I cried so much because the door had shut, and I was back to my conscious life.
It’s like I was walking with Jesus, and he had to go where I couldn’t go. I had to be torn from his conscious presence!
I SEE Jesus setting down and as he sets down, 5000 people set down with him! Not only do the people sit down with him, but the angels sit with him! The Word made flesh is lecturing from earth, the angels hear his voice, they have never heard the voice of the Word before, so Jesus is teaching man and angels! Truly heaven had come to earth.
Matthew 5:1-12 (NKJV)
The Beatitudes
1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
For they shall inherit the [a]earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
For they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
For they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
My prayer this morning that heaven will break into this place, I pray the atmosphere will be like heaven, smell like heaven. Jesus is in this room right now!
When my mother was alive, I had another dream, a horrendous dream. I was carried into the atmosphere, right before you reach space. I sensed these great tunnels that were invisible to the eye. They went down into the depths of the earth.
I knew it was the entrance to hell. There are many entrances to hell! I began to plead with Jesus. “Please don’t let me go into this entrance”, I cried. I shook, I never once felt I was going to hell, but I knew he was showing me the entrance to hell. In the walls there were demons impregnated in the walls. They would manifest, then disappear.
This was one of the gates of hell! I shook because of the darkness of this place, the emptiness I felt. There is no light, there is no hope! It is a place where you are separated from God, a place where the love of Jesus has been abandoned. Those in hell rejected Jesus in this life. Now they have abandoned his love completely. Why carry an empty canteen when there is no water? Those who have passed from this life and never received Jesus are like an empty canteen where there is no water! Hell is a place of no hope!
Hear the words of the rich man!…
Luke 16:24
“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.’
Listen to what the rich man said next to Jesus …
Luke 16:27-31
27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”
When you draw your last breath, you will stand before God. Will he say, “Well done my faithful servant, enter into the joys the Lord!”? Or will he say, “Depart from me ye worker of iniquities.”?
I cannot wish you into heaven, neither can I condemn you to hell. All I’m asking is, “What are you drawn to right now?”
If you aren’t living for Jesus, please start right now. As the days before I prayed about this, I heard a person say, “I will not go to church with the hypocrites!” Immediately I heard the words, “but you will go to hell with them.”
There are a lot of people in hell that at one time lived for Jesus. They preached the word of God just to find themselves rejecting Jesus. In Hell, satan tortures the worship leaders! “Sing my praises not Gods.” Prophets that at one time heard the words spoken from the throne room. The gift was real, but their hearts were far from God.
The practitioners of witchcraft, those who practice rebellion, are in such a place as hell.
For those who practice the lust of the flesh, it’s horrible when you hate what you have become. Hell is a place for the heart of abomination and the abominable.
Kick your pride to the side, give your life to Jesus and become his disciple. Become a student of the Word.
When the Lord saved me, the church was such a beautiful place for me! It’s the one place where the sheep and shepherd met; met a spiritual need in my life, and it still does. The church meets a spiritual need in your life. There is fresh bread in the house.