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BIZARRE, QUESTIONABLE 'REVELATIONS' ON HELL NONETHELESS REMIND US THAT A
FIRE DOES EXIST
What
about hell? We don't seem to be hearing much about that place of late, not
from the pulpit, not from elsewhere.
It's a puzzling part of near-death episodes:
we get tremendous descriptions of Heaven's splendor -- but few who
describe the netherworld.
It's why we carried a bizarre blog
entry the other day alleging that seven Colombia "born-againers" had been
taken on a collective trip to Heaven and sheol. We asked the question: is
there any truth to it? Was there any truth to the dismal picture they
presented? It was "right on" in descriptions of Heaven (matching
impressively with near-death experiences), but it was extreme in its
depiction of who goes to hell (to say the
least), seemed to have everyone headed there (for what some may see as
lesser infractions), and was in obvious error in dismissing Catholic
notions like purgatory. In asking if there was any truth to the
revelation, it was obvious that we didn't accept the majority of it.
Be careful especially of mystics or anyone who
claims to know who is in hell or purgatory.
Scripture tells us to take from an
alleged mystical experiences what is good and leave the rest (as opposed
to throwing the baby out with the bathwater) and we must say that, if
nothing else. the notion of hell sobers us. Too often, perhaps, we think
all we have to do is smile to get to Heaven -- and no doubt, love and
kindness pave the way. They are the big part of the ticket.
But we must also purify internally.
"We
were in a horn-shaped tunnel, and we started to see shadows, demons and
figures that moved from one place to another," claimed the Colombians. "We
kept going deeper and deeper down. In just a matter of seconds, we felt an
emptiness and a great fear.
"We then arrived at some caverns; at some
horrible doors, like a labyrinth. We didn't want to go inside. We noticed a
terrible smell and a heat that choked us. Once we entered, we saw terrible
things, frightful images. The entire place was engulfed in flames; and in
the middle of these flames, there were bodies of thousands of people. They
were suffering in great torment. The sight was so horrifying, we didn't want
to see what was shown to us.
"The
place was divided into different sections of torment and suffering. One of
the first sections that the Lord allowed us to see was the 'Valley of the
Cauldrons,' as we called it. There were millions of cauldrons. The
cauldrons were inlaid at the level of the ground; each of them was burning
with lava inside. Inside each one was the soul of a person who had died and
gone to hell.
"As soon as those souls saw the Lord, they
started to shout and screamed, 'Lord, have mercy on us! Lord give me a
chance to get out of this place! Lord, take me out and I will tell the
world that this place is real!' But the Lord didn't even look at them.
There were millions of men, women and young people in that place. We saw all of these people
shouting in such great torment."
Tough stuff. Too tough? Was it a fabrication?
Perhaps. We reject notions that are not
Catholic. And we must say,
that hell is rarely recalled in near-death experiences. Some hypothesize
this is because those who encounter hell block it out of their
memories, while others argue it's because there
is no place as is described above. Still others claim that the afterlife
becomes what we expect. St. Teresa of Avila also described hell as like a
muddy cellar with cells or caverns. Others say the fire of purgatory can be
confused with the fires of hell. Less than ten percent of near-death
experiences are negative.
We
believe, of course, that there is Heaven, hell, and purgatory (we
carry the largest selection of books on purgatory on the internet). It can
be good for use to contemplate the negative side of the afterlife. It
certainly makes us take a quick self-evaluation. In our current day, hell is
under-preached. At Medjugorje, the Blessed Mother allegedly said that most
go to purgatory, and a large number go to hell. It is the place for those
who disdain God.
Moreover, hell was glimpsed by the seers at both Fatima and Medjugorje (both
of which involved fire; in the case of Fatima, bodies tossed around in the
flames like charred embers; at Medjugorje, a beautiful woman entering the
fire and coming out as half-human, half-beast, as in classic descriptions of
demons, and as in the episode of near-deather Dr. Howard Storm, who is now a
minister building Catholic churches!).
But it is also clear that God is a God of Mercy -- and that most brushes
with death reveal the incredible extent of that mercy, and a place beyond
that personifies whatever is within us. The vast majority of those who have
near-death experiences report what they glimpsed as incredibly joyous and
delightful -- to be greatly looked forward to.
An aroma of sanctity that heals. A light that
revivifies. Music that ministers to the soul (after that tough trial called
earth).
They realize that Heaven is our true home.
By and large, they no longer fear death -- and
neither do we, when we have Christ, and when we have the special assistance
of the Blessed Mother and the Archangel Michael.
The afterlife will reflect the goodness and love in each of us: radiant
flowers, crystal waters, grass that sways in praise to God.
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