Hi Eggi
Great post!
....You ask me "Was he (Bill) really in hell, or did "an evil spirit from the Lord come and trouble him"?
What I can share I have learnt here at Bible Truths so all credit and thanks to God through RAY.....
As far as I know...there is NO Pagan Hell....but there is a Lake of Fire that is not eternal....You will find this revelation in the extraordinary Lake of Fire Series that Ray has been guided by Gods love and grace to reveal to us...
Now as for Bill....I
accept that Bill experienced what he experienced but that is the END OF IT. I do NOT accept BILL's interpretation or his understanding of HIS OWN experience and neither do I agree that he should be building his house upon his understanding or on his experience, interpretation of his experience or understanding of it because there is NO Scripture to back up what he is preaching....I think he is building his house on sand!....
Those who are doing the opposite are as described:
Eph 2:20 You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus Himself the chief Cornerstone
1 Tim 6:19 In this way laying up for themselves the riches that endure forever as a good foundation for the future, so that they may grasp that which is life indeed.
2 Tim 2:19 But the firm foundation of God stands, sure and unshaken, bearing this seal; The Lord knows those who are His, and, Let everyone who names himself by the name of the Lord, give up all iniquity and stand aloof from it....
Matt 12 : 34
...Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks...So for me personally Eggi....if they are preaching Hell then they are full of it!..... I stand separate......not of my own works, understanding, intelligence or wisdom... but by Gods grace mercy and unmeritted favor! HE has edified me...least I should boast!
So I do not for a minute deny that we can have VISIONS of Hell like torture chambers but just because we can have visions, it does not mean these images are NOT visions or that they are real live places where sinners are destined to end up because of a hateful God that the Church of Mystery Babylon will not give up teaching!.....
Matt 17: 3,9...And behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him....9 And as they came down from the mountain Jesus charged them saying,
Tell the VISION, to no man.... This point is covered by Ray through his LOF Series. In Rays Lazarus and the Rich Man, Ray points out that Jesus said in John 3:13
NO MAN has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven....I enjoy Col 2:18...Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize, insisting on self-abasement and worship ofangels, taking his sand on VISIONS....(on WHAT?...VISIONS)...he claims he has seen, vainly puffed up by his sensuous notions and inflated by his unspiritual thoughts and fleshly conceit."
It is amaizing that this subject has been posted. Just last week I was invited to go and hear out a person who had been in a coma for 40 days and was teaching and preaching about the so called reality of Hell.. He had given up his job to promote his book on the subject!....I gave that meeting a miss
.....Next time I may attend and that sure will open the gates of persecution!.....I am getting ready and not looking for persecution... but I know it will come sooner or later....For now I am studying, studying, studying by Gods grace!...and in HIS TIME! I am not looking to test MY SKILLS or proove MYSELF... MAY GOD FORBID!...God's Spirit alone tests the reigns of my heart....
Hope this has blessed you.....
Arcturus
.... in training