{"id":12634,"date":"2017-01-07T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=12634"},"modified":"2018-01-08T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:35:56","slug":"i-died-and-found-myself-between-heaven-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/i-died-and-found-myself-between-heaven-and-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Various And Sundry Oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12594\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/logoinside.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"45\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some anomalous matters, of late, from the news:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In Nigeria, reports\u00a0<em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2018\/01\/06\/angel-reportedly-appears-tb-joshuas-synagogue-church-video\/\">the Daily Post<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;there was shock recently outside the gates of T.B. Joshua\u2019s Lagos-based Synagogue Church of All Nations after an image said to be an angel was sighted around the church.&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A video uploaded on Youtube, it pointed out, shows what the local paper calls &#8220;a flashy figure in white&#8230; seen mysteriously crossing the road and entering inside the Church premises.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cI have watched the video twenty times,\u201d wrote a commentator known on YouTube who described himself as a professional graphics editor.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThis is not a reflection of any sort, neither is it editing; it\u2019s a pure angel,\u201d he concluded, citing the height of the sheetlike &#8220;being&#8221; and the speed of movement, not to mention going through traffic. (<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;ll let you decide whether or not it is staged, a clever edit insertion, or supernormal. A blowing sheet? A reflection in the glass? You may need to &#8220;refresh&#8221; the video page to ignore the thumbnails for other unrelated videos):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVrFKtu_3mM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> Now, at the other end of the spectrum &#8212; the not-so-bright end &#8212; comes eldritch news that an actress, Julia Roberts (she of\u00a0<em>Pretty Woman<\/em> renown), felt haunted during a recent visit to a graveyard &#8212; t<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">his was in the line of duty while filming a new movie,\u00a0<em>Ben Is Back,<\/em>\u00a0in New York. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">According to <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/home.nzcity.co.nz\/news\/article.aspx?id=261959&amp;ref=rss\">a tabloid<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;As Julia regrouped for another take near the tombstones, she suddenly felt someone or something shove her. She quickly turned, but there wasn&#8217;t a soul around! Julia hopes it was just a crew prankster having a laugh.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Cemeteries can be tricky territory.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">So can what goes beyond the grave.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">For instance:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Below<\/em> is a video snippet of a man named Jim Woodford who &#8220;died&#8221; and, as it says on the screen, found himself between hell and Heaven. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Go to 11:45 of the video (a bit less than halfway through; the beginning is intro and advertisements).\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The issue here:<\/span> Did Jim, a pilot in Canada at the time, experience both angels and a demon in a tug of war over his spiritually-ambivalent soul? <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/59491a5a9de4bb9fe5559c90\/t\/594aa989db29d61fe43b6b65\/1498065322442\/Jim-Woodford_Author-Photo.jpg?format=300w\" alt=\"Jim-Woodford_Author-Photo.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We post. You discern. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His experience, Woodford told a television interviewer, Sid Roth, was<\/span><\/span>\u00a0like encountering two movie screens next to each other &#8212; Heaven on one, hell on the other. And yes: a gray area in-between. It&#8217;s like he saw various stages or levels of the hereafter: from great to okay to not so great to horrible, in a sequence.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Start with Heaven.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;If we have a spectrum of colors on earth, Heaven has ten thousand times ten thousand more,&#8221; said Woodford, contrasting it with what was on the other side of a dividing line.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;To the right there was this beautiful mist-colored field, a mist &#8212; we pilots call it ground effect &#8212; with beautiful flowers showing through it, but then on the left of that line it was so different, be<\/span>cause that beautiful green grass went from green, to brown, to scorched, to black, and dropped off into a crevasse. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;And I stepped back and I looked down into this cold blackness and then I saw something like a dim light at the bottom, like a light of fire, red fire. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;And then I heard the most incredible sound,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">like two massive iron doors opening and screeching on hinges that had not been used in a long time. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;And suddenly emerging from those doors was the most hideous creature you could ever imagine.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Noted the pilot, who was clinically &#8220;dead&#8221; for hours, &#8220;Hollywood could never duplicate what I saw.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12982 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screenshot-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"173\" \/>&#8220;Suddenly I&#8217;m assailed by this horrific smell that comes out of that pit. An odor of death and decay and of things long dead, things that should never see the light of day. It gazed up at me and with its fiery eyes looked up at me and started to make its way up the wall of that pit. But its body was formed of like a rolling mass of dark cloud with a face on it. And I heard the most horrific things, something screaming within the body of this creature. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;And then what absolutely horrified me<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>was that I heard my name<\/em> &#8212; my name being called. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;This creature knew me and was coming for me and I was terrified. And it reared out of that pit over me and the most hideous face imaginable, massive in size, snarled at me and there was this feeling of anticipation of glee, that it couldn&#8217;t wait to get its claws on me. I was so horrified I turned from the darkness toward the light.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/736x\/12\/8b\/4c\/128b4c5576156d0798d9894a86190d29--god-jesus-jesus-christ.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for divine mercy\" width=\"203\" height=\"365\" \/>&#8220;A<\/em>nd when I did, I sensed this creature &#8212; its breath &#8212; on the back of my neck, the stench of its breath, and I felt a sharp claw move down my back. I could hear its saliva hitting the ground.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;And it was at that point<\/span> I said, <em>&#8216;Jesus, forgive me.&#8217;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">By his own depiction, Woodford was a man who had never given much if any thought to God. Irreligious.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">But now he turned to the creature and &#8212; desperate &#8212; cried out, <em>&#8220;God help me!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">And so the Lord, in His goodness, did. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Suddenly, three stars arrived like comets and turned into angels, their light instantly striking the creature and forcing it back into the pit. Close call.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Talk about Divine Mercy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">And the point: being focused on God paves the way to Heaven &#8212; to those colors, to the radiance beyond the grave, to angels &#8212; while being lukewarm, on the other hand, can cause <em>issues<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; bigger ones than many imagine &#8212; on the other side. (Show this to lukewarm friends and relatives!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s a choice we all make betwixt the two &#8220;screens&#8221; (or the grayness that separates them).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hb5MEN3o3j4\" width=\"776\" height=\"436\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.spiritdaily.com\/category-s\/1824.htm\"><em>[resources: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">afterlife books]\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Michael H. Brown retreat:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/news\/michael-h-brown-retreat-florida\">Florida<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/uncategorized\/retreat-baton-rouge\">Louisiana<\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> [Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>+++<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2018\/01\/06\/angel-reportedly-appears-tb-joshuas-synagogue-church-video\/\">For Full Story<\/a><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> [Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"afterlife\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1483801275\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Various And Sundry Oddities\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some anomalous matters, of late, from the news:\u00a0 In Nigeria, reports\u00a0the Daily Post, &#8220;there was shock recently outside the gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[557,594,794,1399],"class_list":{"0":"post-12634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-afterlife","7":"tag-heaven","8":"tag-hell","9":"tag-near-death","10":"tag-woolford","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}