Above is the face of a former criminal after deliverance. Below is an excerpt (and then complete video) of an interview by the podcast “God Encounters” with the former prison inmate whose name is Kenneth McDonald and who was clinically “dead” for twenty minutes when, after twenty years of incarceration, and a history of familial witchcraft, he had a eternal crossover during which, allegedly  (and quite believably), he experienced hell.

We’ll note this much: McDonald is powerful in speaking about the Holy Spirit, which transmogrified his very visage.

In  a previous video it was explained that he had been interred at a prison called Southern Desert Correctional Center in Nevada, Unit 3, A-wing, cell 25.

“Yeah, so let me start off from the beginning. A little background about me. I was raised by a single mother who was, who still is to this day, an Egyptian Wiccan. I was surrounded with paganism my whole life, never had any type of Christian influence, we’ll say. There was never a Bible in our house, never went to church, nothing like that. Ran away young, went to prison. And while in prison, all I did basically was get in trouble, you know, and run around, this and that.

Asked by the interviewer. ” What did you see then when you were dead?” McDonald replied:

“It’s all bad, man. It’s all bad. The first thing I saw is I was in like a valley. And I perceived myself to still be in this body, but it felt like I was kind of like in the air. I couldn’t move or I but I didn’t think about moving.

“It’s not like I thought about like I’m gonna run out of here or something. I didn’t want to move, but I didn’t really feel like I could move. And there was nothing there, man. It’s just rubble. Like, there’s no nothing man-made. There’s no streets, sidewalks, cars, light poles, concrete, buildings, road signs. None of that was there. Nothing man-made. There was nothing growing either, though. There were no plants, no nothing. It was just like a barren kind of wasteland.

“And yet off in the distance, I saw a man. And it wasn’t the man in the golden suit [he had previously encountered]. He was wearing like a drab type color of clothing. And he was far away, but yet I felt like he was right here. You know, he was off in the distance, but he was just staring at me.

“And he was staring at me the same way your dad used to stare at you when you did something real stupid—that look of just like disappointment and all that. And I didn’t want to look at him. I was like, ‘Oh gosh.’ You know, like he just knew. He knew everything. But I didn’t, you know, I wasn’t computing. I wasn’t understanding what was going on. And he didn’t talk to me. He didn’t wave. He didn’t kick dirt at me. He didn’t do nothing. He just stood there staring at me.

“I used to wear glasses. I used to be nearsighted. And so as all this is going on, I see like I think my glasses are dirty. So I look over them. I try to look underneath them, you know, see if they’re actually dirty or not. But as I look over them, I still see what I thought was on the lenses of my glasses. And it looked like, you know if you burn like rubber or plastic, that black soot that comes off.

“Okay. It was similar to that but a little lighter in color. It was a grayish color and that’s what I thought was on my glasses but it was wisping up and I’m like, man, what is going on? What is this? And I looked down and I could see it was coming off of me.

“And once I saw it coming off of me, that’s when it just became more and more and more and more until it was like darkness. And it just, you know, I’d never read the Bible at the time, but now I’ve read the Bible. And it makes so much sense because you’re in darkness. And like I said, I kind of felt like I was floating. So you can’t feel nothing. There’s nothing to anchor you down. There’s nothing to grab onto. And so as soon as it went black, that’s when it began. And it was horrible.

“I started to relive all the bad, wicked, evil, foul things that I ever did to another. Anytime I stole from somebody, I relived it. But I experienced the pain that it brought them. And like I said, I [once] shot somebody and you experienced the pain that you brought them and the pain that their family felt by watching them hurt. And I’ve been shot. I’ve been stabbed. I’ve been beat down. I mean, you name it. And nothing on this planet will ever ever compare to the torments that await a non-believer.

“And I, you know, and so I’m reliving all these horrible things that I did to people, man. And I was crying. I mean, I was crying, but yet at the same time, my mouth burned so bad, beyond belief. I mean, man, my mouth, it just was like a furnace. Like my tongue was like a coal.

“And I didn’t want and it’s like I was forced to open my mouth again to every lie, half-truth, hurtful thing, any nasty, foul, wicked, evil thing that I ever said out of my mouth to someone, I said it again. But yet, I experienced how my comments made somebody else feel. So, I experienced me saying it and then having their feelings like the hurt that I caused them. I never knew that I’d hurt so many people. I never knew that my words could have such an impact on people in such a way.

“I didn’t think that any of the things that I had done in my past would be brought back up in the future.

“And I cried. I cried so much. The pain was so overwhelming and I just cried and cried. And there was a point, there was a point there I was just like, man, just smoke me, man. Just kill me. I’m done with this. And you know, death’s not coming. There is no stopping of the torment. You know it’s going to happen forever. So you don’t have that thought I just want to die again because that’s not going to happen. The torment is eternal. So you just, it’s like you already know. So you just stop even thinking about that. And it’s almost like the Lord does this because you know, you’re not going to concentrate on anything else but your sin and how it affected others.

“And it is the most horrible thing I ever went through in my life. So, as I’m going through this and it seemed like it went on for an eternity. I could have filled a swimming pool up ten times over with my tears, man. And then what seems like it went on forever, all of a sudden there was a question asked and it was just out of nowhere. It says, ‘Do you want to live or die?’ That was it.

Interviewer: “Was it that same man, Kenneth, that you were seeing? Did he ask you that question?”

“Well, you just heard it. I can’t say that because I didn’t see anybody else. All I saw is me being stupid to other people, being sinful, we’ll say, and experiencing their hurts and pains. I didn’t see a guy come up and say, ‘Hey, you want to live or die?’ Or, ‘Let’s make a deal.’ Or, no, it was just a voice out of nowhere. Do you want to live or die?

“And I had a 70-year prison sentence. While I was in prison, I didn’t program. I didn’t try to better myself. If I did have a job, it was so that I could compromise whatever position I was in. You know, I never tried to better myself. I thought that I would die in prison. And I said, ‘I want to live because I would rather be back in that foul, dirty, nasty cell than spend one more second up in this.’ And so I said, ‘I want to live.’

“And all that black smoke that was around me, it lessened just the smallest of amounts. I mean, just so small that you wouldn’t even notice it.

“But it turned down in the tiniest of bits. And my tears, my tears: And what’s wild is when you’re there, you’re crying the whole time, but your tears will never make it to your mouth to cool off your tongue.

“And you know, it kind of reminds me of Luke 16, the rich man and Lazarus. One’s taken by angels, the other one is buried. In that parable that Jesus tells us about, he says, ‘Man, you know that the rich man, his mouth burned,’ but it never says why it burned. Remember, he was like, ‘Father Abraham, send Lazarus over so he could just dip his finger and put it on this tongue because this thing’s on fire.’ And Abraham’s like, ‘Not going to happen. Not going to happen.’ You know, there’s a great gulf here in this. And I mean the way it’s described in the Bible, like when I read it for the first time, I was like, that’s it? Oh my gosh!

“So I said, I want to live. And the smoke turned down in the smallest ways, but I felt it. I could, I noticed it had turned down. And my tears of pain. For the first time in my life, I knew what it was like to be grateful because instead of crying tears of pain, I was crying tears of gratitude.” [For the complete interview, see below]

[resources: afterlife books]