They were on the corner of Ford Parkway and Cleveland Avenue in St. Paul in the early afternoon of Saturday, December 8, 2007. They made and displayed these signs as a personal project. I was intrigued by their level of interest, and conversed with them briefly. I considered it ironic that they were unaware that the previous day was the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
What does John Lennon have to do with this blog? He's the voice for the big ideas that are the opposite of the big ideas of this blog. There are so many people who are inspired by the John Lennon song "Imagine." I consider it a great pity that Lennon was so eloquent a spokesman for such horrible ideas...
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.
The apostle Paul wrote "If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." (I Corinthians 15:19, NAS). Lennon thought that nations and religions were the cause of wars, but he obviously didn't read James 4, which tells us that wars and strife come from our own divided loyalties between God and the world. The Buddhists say that one should stop saying "This is mine" and "This is not mine," but even in heaven, there will be things one has that no one else has.
Sometime in 2007, I read about seven Columbian youth who experienced dramatic visions of hell. I found it curious that out of the many people in hell described in these visions, only one of them was mentioned by name...
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 also saw homosexuals and drunkards in torment. We saw all of these people shouting in such great torment.
It shocked us to see how their bodies were destroyed. Worms were coming in and out of their empty eye sockets, mouths, and ears; and were penetrating the skin all through their bodies. This fulfills the word of God written in the book of Isaiah 66:24 "They shall go forth; they shall gaze upon the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against Me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; they shall be an abhorrence to all mankind." Also in Mark 9:44, "Where their worm never ceases and the fire is not put out." We were just horrified at what we were watching. We saw flames about 9 to 12 feet high. Within each flame, there was the soul of a person that has died and went to hell.
The Lord allowed us to see a man who was inside of one of the cauldrons. He was upside down and the flesh on his face was falling in pieces. He remained watching the Lord intently; and then started to shout and call on the name of Jesus. He said, "Lord have mercy! Lord give me a chance! Lord take me out of this place!" But the Lord Jesus didn't want to look at him. Jesus simply turned his back on him. When Jesus did this, the man started to curse and blaspheme the Lord. This man was John Lennon, the member of the satanic music group "The Beatles." John Lennon was a man who mocked and made fun of the Lord during his life. He said that the Christianity was going to disappear and Jesus Christ would be forgotten by everyone. However, today this man is in hell and Jesus Christ is alive!! Christianity hasn't disappeared either.
I understand this is a most unpleasant thing to contemplate, but everyone has to, sooner or later, preferably sooner.
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