{"id":5535,"date":"2023-01-31T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2023-05-26T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:35:26","slug":"i-wouldnt-wish-it-on-my-worst-enemy-priest-describes-how-he-went-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/01\/i-wouldnt-wish-it-on-my-worst-enemy-priest-describes-how-he-went-to-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy.\u201d Priest Describes How He Went to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Michigan priest has posted a\u00a0<\/span>series of TikTok videos<\/span><\/a>\u00a0detailing his experiences in Hell. Gerald Johnson stated that he had a heart attack in February 2016 and had died briefly. \u201cMy spirit left my physical body, and I thought I was on my way up [to Heaven]. I thought I did so much good during my life and that I helped so many people, but even so, I went down [to Hell],\u201d he said. \u201cI entered the very center of the Earth. The things I saw there are indescribable. It brings up so many difficult feelings when I talk about it.\u201d Despite being the lead pastor of\u00a0<\/span>Faith Culture Church<\/span><\/a>, the pastor stated what caused him to be in Hell was his own unforgiveness. After being resuscitated, Johnson said he was angry with God for sending him to Hell after living a life that he felt had been spent in service to Him. Then God spoke to Him. \u201cHe said, \u2018You have been secretly upset with the people who have hurt you. You had been hoping that I would punish the people that hurt you\u2026\u2019\u201d Johnson\u00a0<\/span>recalled<\/span><\/a>. \u201c\u2018I only want you to focus on the assignment I am giving you.\u2019 Although I did good, the thing I had in my heart was the unforgiveness to the people who wronged me. A person that can\u2019t forgive is a person that has forgotten how much they have been forgiven of,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recalling what he saw in Hell, Johnson said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy.\u201d He described a demon holding a man with chains on his neck like a dog as he was being burned from head to toe. Johnson described having a \u201ctelepathic communication\u201d that enabled him to understand that the demon had tormented the man from childhood to \u201cride him from his childhood to his death.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re a slave on earth to the things of the devil, and then in Hell, you are a \u2018tormented-dog\u2019 slave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the strangest areas Johnson saw was an area where demons played popular secular music to influence humans. \u201cIt was the same music that we hear on the Earth, but as opposed to entertainers singing it, the music, demons were singing it. It was some of the same lyrics we hear here,\u201d he said. \u201cHere, music is to get over a breakup. \u2018Don\u2019t worry, be happy,\u2019 \u2018I bust the windows out your car,\u2019 or, \u2018under my umbrella,\u2019 whatever. Every lyric to every song is to torment you as to the fact that you didn\u2019t worship God through music when you were on the Earth,\u201d he <\/span>said<\/span><\/a>. \u201cYou had a chance to worship him in church and at home and through music, but you chose to worship Satan by repeating the lyrics that he inspired to come into the earth,\u201d Johnson claimed that the experience showed the danger of popular music, claiming the lyrics come from demons and are used to control people. After his experience, Johnson emphasized his belief that God does not send people to Hell and that \u201cpeople send themselves to Hell.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Michigan priest has posted a\u00a0series of TikTok videos\u00a0detailing his experiences in Hell. Gerald Johnson stated that he had a heart attack in February 2016 and had died briefly. \u201cMy spirit left my physical body, and I thought I was on my way up [to Heaven]. 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