Conduct a unified After Life Campaign where people read the book, hear sermons, and study the After Life in their small group. For details, see http://www.pulpit-press.com/after-life/

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What are we to think of Near Death Experiences?

Bill Wise wrote about his Near Death Experience in 23 Minutes in Hell. “You desperately long for even a few moments of rest, but you never, ever get that privilege. Imagine for a moment how terrible you feel after forty eight hours of no sleep. In Hell you never sleep, rest or find a quiet moment. No rest from the torments, the screams, the fear, the thirst, the lack of breath, the stench, the heat, the hopelessness. You are isolated from contact with any other people.”

Hell experiences further complicate matters for religious believers, because they have no discernable relation to what kind of life a person has lived. In other words, being a good person who goes to church is no guarantee that you won’t get into a terrible car accident and suddenly find yourself experiencing what feels, in a very real sense, like Hell. As Nancy Evans Bush has seen, “What we think people deserve has nothing to do with whether they have a glorious experience or a terrible one.”

Carl Knighton knows what Hell is like because he says he went there after he accidentally overdosed on a drug called Valium. 

He says, “Hell is definitely real.  Real.  Very much real.  Like the Bible says, you are in torment.”

Carl grew up in a Christian home where he had been taught that Heaven and Hell were real places.  Even as a child, he was sensitive to the things of God, but would admit that he had no relationship with Him. After high school, Carl joined the army and married, yet both his marriage and his military career were short lived.

“A platoon leader and squad leader would come to me and say, you’re not doing your job and you should be doing better than this.  You are not going to make the next rank.  So I got really frustrated.”

Carl decided it was time to get out of the Army by going AWOL.  He hitchhiked to Ohio to see an old friend.  He then went on a two-week drug binge.  One night Carl went to a crack house in the worst part of Columbus, Ohio. 

“You could smell the stench of the crack cocaine, smell the stench of the marijuana.  People was high, laying all across the floors.”

Carl smoked some crack and started drinking alcohol and using other drugs.  But he says he believes it was the last pill he took that sent him on a journey to Hell.

“I took that Valium and before I knew it, I fell off the couch onto the floor.  It was pitch black, dark.  I began to quiver, I began to have the shakes, and I began to go down and down and down like a deep pit and I saw and smelled the stench of Hell.  It’s the most rottenness thing that you can ever smell in your life.  In fact, you can’t even imagine it.  I began to feel a tugging, a pulling like the Bible said demons tug and nag at you.  They were calling my name.  ‘You belong to us now.’  I saw souls, lost souls that were in torment in the lake of fire.  They were crying and calling on God...”

Carl said that when he came back to his body “I was shaking and trembling and I turned my head to the right and they said I was dead and they said I was dead for 30 to 35 minutes.”

Three days later Carl returned to Fort Eustis, Virginia to face the consequences of going AWOL.  He was demoted and confined to the barracks for one month.  During that time alone, he completely surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. 

Carl said, “He loved me so much that he gives me a second chance and I’m here to tell the story…don’t throw your life away.  Accept Jesus as your Savior.”