It was four years ago that I had the privilege of coming to know sister Claire Andoun from Cameroon. Initially I saw a video she produced with a warning for women, so I contacted her to vet her character and see if she was genuine. We spoke together on the phone for the first time on May 21, 2013. In that phone conversation, she shared with me her testimony, which I would like to share with you here.
She spoke about the need to be blameless, according to God's Word (Mt 5:48). The will of God is our sanctification. As the apostle Paul said, "For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality." (1Th 4:3)
He is preparing us. She gave God the glory for her life. She grew up in an environment of fearing God, praying at 5:00 AM. In her household, they believed that Jesus is the only way.
When she was a teenager, one day while she was sleeping after prayer, a bright light appeared to her, heaven opened, and a ladder came down. She saw a man, who had the skin of a white man, dressed as a King, wearing sandals. She knew He was Jesus. She could see the Holy City and words in front of her. He said, “If you read my Word and obey, then I will give you that city.” Afterward the words disappeared and the ladder rolled back up and all became dark.
Later on she began to disobey the Lord. She left home, lived a worldly life, and became stubborn. Although she went to medical school, she actually wanted to be a musician. She sang in nightclubs and pubs. During this time, she forgot all about seeing Jesus in that encounter she had as a teenager.
Her mother told her that when she was in the womb, the doctor told her the child would trouble the world. When she was in prostitution, her mother called her and told her to abandon that practice and give her life to Jesus, but she didn't. Then she began to have children.
In 2009 she saw the testimony of Daniel Ekechukwa from Nigeria. She got convicted by the Holy Spirit, saw her nakedness, and fell on the floor, crying out, “Jesus, have mercy on me!” She repented of her sins. The next day, she found a Bible and looked for a church. It was a Wednesday morning. She found a lady who gave her a Bible, whose husband was a pastor. He talked to her, but ran out of time.
She continued to look for a church that she could understand, and one that preached the Word, but she could not find one. There was no hunger for God in the churches. Then her landlord invited her to his church.
She cried out to God and saw herself praying for a sick woman who got healed. Heaven opened, Jesus came down, and she was afraid. He said, “Peace be with you.” He instructed her and the woman who was healed to keep praising God, so they did so, and He praised with them. He also danced with them.
Then He opened the Bible and said, “I have something to show you. You’re lazy.” She had been previously wondering if laziness was a sin. And He said, “If you’re lazy, you won’t pray or read your Bible.” She asked the Lord if she should go to that church that she was invited to by her landlord. He said there were things He didn’t like about it, but said, “Go there for now.” At that church, she was not allowed to sing in the choir until she dressed properly.
One day as she was crossing the street, a tour bus driver called out to her and wanted to get her phone number. Although she told him that she was a child of God, he didn’t recognize her as one, due to the way she was dressed. In fact, he mocked her when she told him that. She couldn’t understand why he didn’t recognize that she was a child of God.
Afterward a lady, who wasn’t even born again, told her that the way she was dressed was not holy. So she cried out to God. At church the pastor’s wife affirmed that she was not dressed properly. Then she found the testimony of the woman who had been a worker for the devil, and she got rid of the trousers. She stopped bleaching her skin, but mascara was the hardest thing to let go of.
She prayed with a brother, who apparently did not believe in outward holiness and thought that she had some kind of spiritual confusion. He took anointing oil and prayed over her eyes. Then he said, “There! You can put on mascara.” In saying this, he implied that it wouldn’t be a spiritual problem now.
Then one day after that the spirit of death came to her, and she felt as if she was dying. She thought, “The mascara is going to take me to hell.” She got up and threw it in the toilet. After that she could breath freely again.
Afterward she stood firm on her conviction about holiness, without which the Scripture says no man shall see the Lord (Heb 12:14). She didn’t go back to her old ways, and the Lord showed her the real beauty in her. She continued to seek Him in the Word. Then one day during the second day of a three-day fast, the Lord showed her that the Church is dirty. In a deep sleep she saw herself in the Church. The Lord took her out of the church in a vision. She could see that women, men, and children in church were half naked. He said, “My Church is Dirty!” Then He showed her that there is a strange power that has come into the Church, because this unclean spirit has been invited in by the women of God, and the pastors will not preach against it. This strange power is the Queen of the Coast, who leads the sisters in the Church to dress immodestly. That was how the Lord birthed her ministry to transform the world, which she called Virtuous Women in Christ. Her ministry emphasized the need for holiness, not only inwardly, but the kind that can be observed outwardly in one's life
During the course of time, my wife and I became friends with sister Claire and had many other conversations with her. Then recently on May 10, 2017, nearly four years after we came to know her, she went home to be with the Lord, which I have written about in my article, The Home Going of Sister Claire Andoun Solomon. If this message of complete holiness is new to you, then I encourage you to prayerfully investigate it to see if it is really true, because your soul depends on it. This is the will of God, even your sanctification.
Author's note: Please prayerfully listen to this sister's testimony, and use the Testimony Review Process adopted by this blog, as you decide for yourself whether the Lord has spoken to her. For issues and concerns, each person must confirm with the Lord, whether something is valid or not. For more information on our position, please see Disclaimers.
Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus. Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15). He preached that we must repent and believe.
Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.
While many sweethearts are finding romantic ways to show their love for one another on Valentine’s Day, not all couples are doing so at this time of year. A NY Post article pointed out that the number of requests for divorce lawyers spikes dramatically around Valentine’s Day compared to the previous six months. On average, the increase is around 40 percent, according to Mark Britton, founder and CEO of Avvo, a site that offers ratings and profiles for lawyers and medical doctors. This has become a new trend in the past few years.
In fact, even in the church it has become common for people to get divorced, which is so sad. This of course raises the questions about remarriage afterward, so we really need to know what the mind of God is on this matter. For that we turn to the Word of God, because the Scriptures are our source of truth, wisdom and guidance on divorce. One passage of Scripture that addresses divorce is found in Mark’s gospel.
Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife. And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?" They said, "Moses permitted a man TO WRITE A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY." But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. "But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE. "FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. And He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery." (Mar 10:2-12)
Let’s look at this passage verse-by-verse.
Is it lawful to divorce your wife?
The Pharisees wanted to know if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife. Jesus answered with a question. He asked them what Moses commanded, and they replied with a quote from Moses. So they felt that they had established a legal right for this practice.
Hardness of heart
Jesus explained that the only reason Moses wrote this was due to the hardness of men’s hearts. It was not the original plan of God. So when a man or woman files for divorce, it reflects unwillingness on the part of one or both parties to reconcile or resolve the conflicts. Jesus referred to this as hardness of heart.
Incidentally, hardness of heart is not compatible with new life in
Christ. Rather it is associated with rebellion (Heb 3:7,8,15). We are to
be tender hearted, forgiving, and resolve all conflicts with one
another (Lk 17:3-4; Mt 6:14-15; 18:15-17; Eph 5:32). Therefore, no disciple of Christ should claim his own hardness
of heart as an excuse to divorce.
God’s original intention
Jesus went on to explain that what Moses wrote was not a command but rather permission he granted, if they remained hard hearted. Yet God’s original intention for man was that he would leave his parents and become one flesh with his wife. Paul’s statement to the Corinthians makes clear the meaning of "one flesh." He wrote:
"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, 'THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.' " (1Co 6:15-16).
My friend, Jim Garrett, made an excellent point about this when he commented, "Here Paul states that when one has sex, he becomes one flesh with the one with whom he has sex. Thus, a man who is a fornicator is one flesh with a lot of women – what a mess. In such a situation, a man becomes one flesh with a woman and there is no covenant (at least objective intentional covenant) involved."
This reminds me of a medieval practice in England, known as Drawing and Quartering, which was used as a punishment for treason. The person's four limbs were tied to four horses. Then as the horses moved away from the person, the poor soul was torn apart. That's what it's like when you join yourself to multiple sexual partners and there is no covenant to keep you together. The Lord intended to protect us from such a situation with His plan for one man and one woman to become one flesh together, and remain together for life.
Let no man separate
Once you begin to get this picture of what really happens to the people involved when a one flesh relationship is torn apart, you can better understand the heart of God regarding separation. You can look at the Greek all you want and try to get around it, but the Word of God from the mouth of Jesus was “Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.” In this sentence, He affirmed that it’s God Who joined the married couple together, and He further affirms that no man should separate them. That’s pretty cut and dry, plain and simple. It’s not complicated at all, unless you try to make it that way. His main point was that it’s not God’s will for married couples to separate, in spite of the fact that the Law of Moses permitted it.
The apostle Paul later reiterated this when he wrote to the Corinthians, “But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.” (1Co 7:10-11). Again, this is very plain. The wife should not leave her husband and the husband should not divorce his wife.
Marriage after divorce
The disciples further questioned Jesus about this later in the house. His reply was, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.” In another passage, Jesus taught that if you divorce your spouse and they remarry, you are causing them to commit adultery. He said, “but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (Mat 5:32). Notice he said that the one who initiates the divorce makes the other person commit adultery. At the most basic level, it’s clear that there is a problem – a sin committed – when a person divorces his or her spouse and marries someone else. The reason a sin is committed is that man separates what God has put together, and then man joins together with another spouse.
To put it differently, God does not want man separating the married couple, since He has joined them together as one. And when man does this and then marries another, God sees it as adultery. How could it be adultery, if they have a legal certificate of divorce, which proves they are no longer married? It’s adultery because God still sees the original couple as one flesh. How else could it be adultery? Adultery can only occur when a married person enters into a sexual relationship with someone who is not his or her spouse.
There are basically three parties who end up committing adultery following a divorce: the person who initiated the divorce proceeding, the spouse who was subject to the divorce, and the person who marries the one who was divorced. So if God considers remarriage after divorce to be adultery, then it’s not desirable to do it. It should be avoided!
The apostle Paul reiterated this when he wrote to the Corinthians, “A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband." Paul’s teaching agrees with Jesus by instructing us not to get remarried after divorce, but rather be reconciled with our spouse.
There was one instance where Jesus acknowledged the legitimacy of
divorce and that is where there has been unfaithfulness, otherwise known
as unchastity or sexual sin (Greek, porneia). Many people have analyzed this and tried to determine what constitutes unfaithfulness. Obviously if
one spouse commits sexual sin during the marriage, such as adultery,
then that is unfaithfulness, which is grounds for a divorce. It does not
mean that God requires the couple to divorce, because if there is
repentance on the part of the offending spouse, then this can be
forgiven and they can be healed and go on together. That is, provided
the offender does not continue in this sin of adultery afterward. So
when there is unchastity, God allows the two to become divorced.
One situation that Jesus did not address explicitly is desertion. When one spouse deserts the other, he or she suddenly separates from the other, and this can sometimes happen without any prior notice or explanation. The sudden and unexpected disappearance of a spouse can be devastating to the one who remains, especially when the remaining spouse was faithful. And in some cases, the one who departs moves far away to another geographical location. What is the remaining spouse to do in such a situation? Obviously, the first step is to pray and seek reconciliation with the offended party. But what if the offended party refuses all attempts at reconciliation? These are the types of things that are not explicitly addressed, but we know that the Lord commands us to forgive and to love. He teaches us how to resolve conflict. So as we read the Word and pray through such situations, the Lord will give direction.
The apostle Paul describes one such scenario where one spouse is a nonbeliever. He says, “But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace.” (1 Cor 7:15). In this case, if the nonbeliever leaves, the believing person is no longer bound to stay married to the nonbeliever. He or she is free.
There are all kinds of scenarios in life that can happen, and it’s not my intention to analyze each one. It’s best for you to search the Scriptures prayerfully yourself, reading the passages where Jesus and Paul taught on divorce, and ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you clearly through the Word. You have got to hear from the Lord on this matter. Afterward, you may sit with a mature believer who is impartial, such as a Bible-believing pastor or elder, and work through your situation with his counsel.
Forgiveness
I want to stress one very important thing. While divorce leads to adultery, which is a sin, it is not the unforgivable sin. If you have done everything to seek reconciliation with your spouse, and in the end, you find yourself divorced without intending to be, there is still hope. If you can still reconcile with your former spouse, you should do so. You should seek reconciliation very diligently! It may require a long process to work through issues with the help of a third party. It will require great mercy, forgiveness, love and patience from both spouses.
A great movie that portrays this is Fireproof. In this movie, the wife has decided to divorce her husband. But he decides to love her unconditionally through it all. He asks her to forgive him for the ways he has offended her. Then patiently waits for her heart to heal and turn back. She eventually does turn back, forgiving him and being reconciled to him once again.
But there comes a point where that might not be possible, due to the hardness of the other person’s heart. In this case, you should just forgive, seek the Lord for help, and cast yourself upon His mercy. Seek His forgiveness for any part you played in the divorce. And then receive it.
In some cases, people were divorced before they became a believer in Jesus Christ, and they cannot go back and change that situation. Sometimes their former spouse is already remarried. This is also portrayed in the movie Fireproof, in which a Christian man had been divorced before he came to know Christ. He is happily remarried, but he has remorse over the fact that he helped bring about a divorce between himself and his former wife before he knew the Lord. Once he came to know Christ, he wanted to reconcile with his wife, but it was too late. She had already remarried. This is another example of a situation that happens.
I would challenge anyone in
such a situation to search the Scriptures and find the verse that allows
them to be remarried, because God will hold you accountable for it. I
cannot think of any verse that would directly allow for remarriage in
such a situation, as long as the person's former spouse remains alive
(Ro 7:2-3). So let's open a discussion about this in the
comments section. You will have to give an account for every action
before the judgment
seat of Christ (Rom. 14:10; 2Co. 5:10). I suppose some possible
Scriptures a person might possibly rely on in such a situation to indirectly give them hope would be those about God's mercy and
grace. But they must still reckon with Rom 7:2-3. I will cover this in more detail in the next two sections of this
article below, as well as the section on divine revelations.
If you have been divorced and are unable to reconcile with your spouse after all your attempts to do so have failed, the worse thing you can do is go out and try to fill the emptiness by finding a new mate. You need to get healed first. It could take a year, two years or more. You should allow the Lord to do a work inside of you, before you consider ever getting married again. The reason is that your own dysfunctional behavior may have contributed to the divorce. Allow the Lord to search your heart and show you how you may have helped bring about the demise of your own marriage. It’s so important that you identify where you need healing and get it from the Lord before you consider a new relationship.
If you seek the Lord first and seek to be healed, He will fill your being with his love, His joy, and His peace. Find other ways to occupy yourself for the Lord through worship, Bible study, and service in the kingdom. And do this with the attitude that if you must stay single for the rest of your life, then you will do so. If you feel an overwhelming need to be remarried, then cry out to the Lord with that need. Every time it seems to overwhelm you, get on your knees and bring it to the Lord, even with tears if you need to. He will hear and answer.
Restoration and remarriage
I would like to address the matter of restoration and remarriage, but only for those who are in very specific and limited scenarios where that is allowed by God in Scripture. Paul says to those who are unmarried, “Do not look for a wife.” (1 Cor 7:27). That means exactly what it says. Don't look for a wife. And for women, don't look for a husband. You need to lay that on the altar unless the Lord decides to give you another spouse.
In my humble opinion, if the Lord eventually shows you that it’s His will to grant you a second chance in His great mercy, then accept it. But seek godly counsel throughout the whole matter. Don’t enter into any new relationship according to the flesh. You don’t want to make another mistake! The person must belong to the Lord or else you will be unequally yoked together (2 Co 6:14).
Bathe it in prayer, and keep the relationship holy and chaste. Ask God to confirm everything to you and take it slowly. Make sure you know this is God’s will for your life. If you have both received confirmation from Him that He is putting you together in marriage, and other mature disciples agree, who are in a position of oversight and care in your life, then go forward with the Lord’s blessing. You can know that when God forgives, it is complete.
When the Lord chooses to give you a second chance, receive it with gratitude. But be careful not to take it lightly or abuse his grace and mercy.
Remarrying Your First Spouse
The ideal situation is to be reconciled with your first spouse and get remarried to that person. Simply repenting for committing the sin of divorce and not going back to your spouse is not enough. You must make restitution!
However, if your first spouse has already been remarried, I do not see any Scripture that allows you to remarry that person. Even if their second spouse divorces them or dies, the Bible teaches that it is an abomination for your to remarry your first spouse once they have been married to someone else.
"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.” (Deu 24:1-4).
Likewise, the Lord declared through the prophet Jeremiah, "If a husband divorces his wife And she goes from him And belongs to another man, Will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted?" (Jer 3:1)
Therefore, the only scenario in which Scripture allows you to remarry
your first spouse, in my opinion, is when neither of you have been
remarried after divorcing. In fact, if you have been divorced and
neither you nor your spouse have been remarried, you should certainly
repent and remarry your spouse if he or she is willing to do so.
However, there is no biblical basis for remarriage to one's first spouse
after divorce and remarriage has already occurred. Doing so would
violate the Word of God, and teaching people to do so would nullify one
of God's commandments.
Our Lord said, "Do not think
that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to
abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth
pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law
until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these
commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least
in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall
be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you that unless
your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will
not enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mat 5:17-20)
Inevitably there will be someone who will say that my position is
invalid, because it is based on Old Testament passage of Scripture, even though the Lord said He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. However, to those who may do so, I kindly refer you to my articles, The Ways of Life, The Law of Christ and Law of Love in the New Testament.
Other Scriptures About Divorce
Here are some additional Scriptures about divorce to prayerfully consider.
"For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." (Mal 2:16)
"It was said, 'Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce'; but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (Mat 5:31-32)
Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?" And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? "So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." They *said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?" He *said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." (Mat 19:3-9)
"For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man." (Rom 7:2-3)
"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals..." (1Co 6:9)
"Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge." (Heb 13:4)
"But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her." (1Co 7:12)
Thus says the LORD, "Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away. (Isa 50:1)
"And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. (Jer 3:8)
Divine Revelations
I would now like to share some divine revelations on the topic of divorce for you to read and evaluate prayerfully.
Michael Thomas Sambo
As I have written in my article Michael Thomas Sambo's Revelation of Heaven and Hell,
my friend Michael Sambo received a revelation in 2003 from the Lord. He
died and experienced heaven and hell. He told me, "In my encounter with
Jesus. A man came to the gate of heaven having married and divorced his
wife. But was later permitted by his church to remarry. The angel of
the Lord told him in heaven he is known as an adulterer." This is a
serious warning, since no adulterers inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9), so let us take heed.
Samuel Oghenetega (Ogenetega)
Near the end of June 2013, a fourteen-year-old boy in Nigeria, named Samuel “Tega” had a visitation from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy and Righteous One, as I documented in my article, Visitation of Jesus to Samuel Oghenetega. The Lord gave him a revelation with many warnings, one of which was a warning to those who divorce: "People who divorce do not enter my kingdom." (Listen to his video on You Tube for more details).
Emmanuel Samson Jude
A Nigerian teenager named Emmanuel Samson Jude, claims to have had a revelation of hell in August 2014. He states:
I saw a man in hell fire, being in great agony and pain, in great torment, he stretched forth his hand if he could be delivered, but a demon was climbing on his back, cutting his head with an axe. I asked the man the reason why he ended his life there, he told me "I divorced my wife, I chased her out because I didn't have interest in her anymore. I got married to another woman. That is what brought me here. I blame myself. I am very sorry" (1 Cor 7:10-11).
Putting it all Together
The Scripture is clear that it was never God’s intention for married couples to become divorced. From the beginning, God intended the husband and wife to be one and never separate. So those who are married should not divorce. While it may break the legal union in the civil sense, the couple is still one in God’s eyes. That’s why divorce
leads to adultery if the divorced person gets remarried. Those who are
committing divorce need to know that it’s an abomination in the sight of
God. Jesus hates divorce!
We
know that Moses permitted divorce due to the hardness of man’s heart.
So there are cases where divorce may be necessary. But if you leave your
spouse, you must remain unmarried.
The Lord
takes unfaithfulness (unchastity) very seriously. When one spouse is unfaithful and
unwilling to reconcile, then the Lord allows for divorce. And when a
nonbeliever chooses to leave a believer, then the believer is no longer
bound to that person. The believer is free.
But those who are unmarried should not seek a spouse.
They should call upon the Lord in their distress and allow Him to meet
the need. A great deal of healing is needed after divorce, and this must
happen before entering into any new relationship.
I
solemnly caution you with reservations, if you have a second chance to marry,
because yours is one of the scenarios that God allows and says you are
free, and the Lord confirms that He has brought you together with a
believing spouse, then treat it like your last chance. And when you get
married again, make a commitment before the Lord to be together for the
rest of your lives.
If you have never given your life
to Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then you are missing the most
important key to a loving marriage. Without Him in the center of your
life and your marriage, you cannot experience marriage to the fullest
like God intended for you.
DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this article shall be construed as advising
anyone to get a divorce or to remarry after divorce. This article was
written to the best of my ability based on the Word of God with much thought and prayer, as well
as advice from wise and trusted brothers. However, we only know in part,
and prophesy in part, so my humble opinions, where stated, could be wrong or incomplete. Therefore, the Holy
Scriptures must take precedence over anything I have written, where
there appears to be any apparent contradiction.
Author's note: Samuel and Emmanuel are not personally connected with this site. Please prayerfully consider their testimonies, and use the Testimony Review Process
adopted by this blog, as you decide for yourself whether the Lord has
spoken to them. For issues and concerns, each person must confirm with
the Lord, whether something is valid or not. For more information on our position, please see Disclaimers.
Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you
repent and believe in Jesus. Do you know what God's Word, the Bible
says?
“Jesus
came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time
is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in
the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15). He preached that we must repent and
believe.
Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as
well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who
multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of
planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United
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This is a testimony from the grave beyond from a brother who actually died and came back to tell about it. His spirit came out of his body and he went to the place where others have gone and never come back. His pastor is Sam Olakunle, the general overseer of Calvary Outreach Evangelical Ministry in Jos, Nigeria. Before it all happened, the Lord told this pastor He would give him a message.
His pastor had received a CD containing some testimonies of people who had seen heaven and hell. When he took it to a church and played it, the people repented and their lives were changed. He himself already believed in heaven and hell from the Bible, and he knew the Lord. But he saw the life-changing power of such testimonies. Yet he wanted to have such a testimony from his own church, so he prayed and asked God to give them one. His desire was that when it would happen, then everyone would hear that what he preaches is a genuine message, not borrowed.
First, a lady in his church had a dream, in which she discovered most of the things that he was preaching. But that dream did not carry the weight of what he was looking for. So he kept praying. He said, “God, if truly those testimonies we hear on the outside are real -- I’m serving a living God that answers prayer—you will answer me.”
The wife of James Agboola visited the home of this pastor, and they discussed where James was working and a lot of calamities that were facing him. Since he had come to know Christ, he had gone astray and was no longer walking on the straight and narrow path. He had left the Lord’s presence, backslidden, and gone out to seek for the world to enjoy the foolishness of the world. His wife was crying to the pastor about this. So the pastor said, “From today we will pray him back, and he will become a child of God.” And that day that they came to the house, the pastor spoke to him personally and said, “From today, I will move you to God, and you cannot leave Him.” And that day, they left the pastor’s house. With that word, as the pastor promised, he kept praying for him. He never knew this is what God would do at the end.
As the pastor was praying for him to come back to the knowledge of the truth, the Lord told him, “This brother is going to die.” And he never knew the kind of death that he was going to die and come back. He never knew. The Lord told him that he should give him Psalm 51, and that he should pray and keep asking God for mercy. It had been very hard for the pastor to reach him. When he would call James, he wouldn’t answer the phone. The pastor suffered a lot with him, as a shepherd suffers with the sheep. He felt the pain of the wife that was crying, saying she knew something was going on, but she didn’t understand. The pastor understood because he’s a man. That very first morning after the pastor heard from God, he called James around 4:30 AM, and amazingly, he answered. When he picked up, the pastor told him, “Wherever you are, stretch forward, pick up the Bible, read Psalm 51 and begin to pray for mercy from God. Don’t ask Him for anything!” That was the last thing he gave to him, and he hung up the phone.
Testimony of James Agboola
My name is Agboola James, but originally Agboola Waseem in Islam. God
invited me and my parents from Islam to Christianity some few years
back. And the Christians in Jos back then showed us love. They would
come to our house with the Word of God. They preached to us. We used to
look at them and think, “Ah! What kind of religion are these people?
Who cares like this? Who shows love like this? Who uses so much of their
time to come to our house and have time with us? From then, our zeal,
our love, began to join together with them. It began to join until such a
day they invited us to the church and we went to the church. And
gradually, gradually, that is how the Lord arrested our souls. And I
gave my life to Christ. Though as we have heard, we face a lot of
persecutions from families—mostly our father’s families, our mother’s
families are Muslims. They forget about us. We become like outcasts,
until today. But the Lord is there for us. As I speak to you today, all
the families’ members from A to Z, they bow before us. Praise the Lord!
Now when I become a Christian, as a Muslim, the testimony I want to share with you, there are many of them, but I want to talk on one—three major important ones. One is about the Kingdom of God. The second one is the international conference of the kingdom of darkness, presided by the devil himself, and what are his purposes and plans for the Christians. The third one is the life after death.
The Kingdom of God
As a Christian by name who was converted from another religion, I believed in going to church. I believed in whatsoever Christians are doing. But I never believed this Bible. I just looked at this Bible like a storybook, as if they just put it off as something that has passed. And so other Christians can read it and others can read it, too (inaudible at 17:37). We are going to church, and doing everything as a Christian as normal, until such a time as the pastor in the church I’m attending by then offended me. And what did I do? A sister had a problem. She came to the pastor. She said, “Pastor, pray for me.” But he never had time to pray for this sister. He never felt concern for this sister; just like a message that my father in the Lord gave us, that there are shepherds and there are hirelings in the house of God. So this sister came to me that, “Oh, brother James. Can you be assisting me and joining me in prayer? These are my problems.” I said, “Ok. We shall pray. We shall not go anywhere. Everyday we are at church service, let us go (inaudible).” I said, “Let us go. As soon as they finish with grace, let us step before the altar and pour out our mind to God.”
And before this, I went to the pastor. I said, “Daddy, this is what this sister said. I should support her in prayer.” He said, “Ok. No problem.” And we began to pray. Before I know it, this pastor writes a petition against me, forwarding it to the headquarters of the church that I’m not the pastor. I’m doing his own work. Why is he alive? How can I be sitting in the church, praying for members? What is his work that is not even with his consent, not with his notice? And the church leaders…
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That is the spirit of Islam. And at this point, I now look at, I said, “Oh.” I felt so disappointed. I felt so dejected. I said, “If this is what Christianity is all about…they are preaching love, they are preaching love.” I said, “If this is the way I’m preaching Christianity, I’d better go back to my Islam.” I carried the Bible. I dropped it somewhere. I said, “I’m not doing anymore.” I said, “If this is what it’s all about, I’m going back to Islam.
I just had a revelation. And I heard a very loud trumpet. The trumpet sounded very loud and clear! And before I know it, I saw people from the four winds of the earth just going (he motions repeatedly upward with his hand). Before I look around, I saw myself something just pick me (up) too. Voom! We begin to meet ourselves on the sky. And the moment that it caught you up, whatever dressing you were putting on, it changed immediately. It becomes pure white. Pure white! Not a single sin. And that is how we are ascending to heaven. And I can see that we are singing a song as we are moving on the air, going towards heaven. We are singing…I’ve never heard (such) a very sweet and melodious song like that in my entire life. And we are all speaking in one language, in one language. People from everywhere, we are all speaking in one language. We all became one. There is no different…no…we all became one. Like what we just heard now. Everybody for himself. And that is how we moved into heaven.
And when we got there, I saw a very big gate. Very big, white, golden gate. It was written, “Welcome to the Kingdom of God.” Everybody was so anxious. We all assembled as people who assemble before a church, both young and old, both man and woman. The place was so quiet. Every man for himself. And there are booths. This is where I was able to confirm that everything that was written in the Bible—it is not a storybook. It is the prophecy and the Word of God. I began to see in reality what we have been hearing, what we have been reading in the Bible. I saw books. I saw files. Everyone on earth, from the day you are born, your files are written in heaven. Whatsoever you are doing, be it good or bad, the angels are busy, jotting and writing, jotting and writing. So we all gathered. They began to call the names of the files, one after another. It was there that I found out that in heaven, God doesn’t call people by the titles they have in the world -- Reverend, bishop. No, they call you by your name. Period. They began to call names. As they call the names, they go through your file. They open the gate, they ask you to go in. Everybody was shaking because that file, after you’ve been raptured, your work must be tested. Your work has to be examined. Your life has to be examined before you proceed. So, some were still disqualified from there. Some were given ask them to pass. When they called my name, “James Agboola!” I quickly jumped forward. They look at my file. They look at my face. They look at the file. They look at my face. I said, “What’s happening?” I begin to plead and beg. They said, “Ok, enter.” So they opened the gate, and I entered, Praise the Lord.
What a beauty! The road and the street were made of pure gold. Pure gold! I’ve never seen a street, I’ve never seen a road like that on earth. Pure gold! No wonder Jesus Christ said, “I go to my Father’s House to prepare a place for you.” I saw the beauties. The beauties, you know, as if God said, “Let the beauty come out here.” And the beauty just (he squats down and stands up to animate his point). Gold windows, doors, everything. Pure gold. So beautiful. I began to walk in the streets of gold. I was looking left and right, beholding the beauty there. I saw flowers of diverse colors, left and right, waving. I could hear the sound of instruments, such that I’ve never heard in my life. Sounds of big instruments, the sound of praising God. The flowers there, you will see them going left and right, singing praises to God. You could see trees moving, (inaudible 26:11). You could see trees moving. There I don’t understand that. There is nothing dead in the Kingdom of God. Everything in the Kingdom of God are living things. There’s nothing dead. Everything you will see there are moving. If you see a mountain, it can move. It can talk, it can praise God. Anything there. I was just lost in the beauty of what I’m seeing left and right. I was going.
As soon as I got to one point, I saw an angel come out from one corner. He said, “Young man, stop!” And I stopped. He now walked close to me. He looked at me and said, “From where are you coming?” Brethren, at the time I had this revelation, I was close to forty years old. Now I’m over forty. He now asked me, “Where are you coming from?” I stood before him for one hour, trying to remember where I am coming from. “Where am I coming from? Where am I coming from? Where am I coming from? Where am I coming from?” I stood. After more than one hour that I couldn’t give an answer, he now gave me a clue. He said, “You just are coming from the earth now. You are just coming from the world now. What can you tell us about the world? Tell us something about the world.” I stood for another one hour. “World…world…I am coming from the world…world, what is world? Where is world?” I said, “Sir, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if truly I am coming from the world, as you say, I just passed there briefly.”
You cannot tell. It’s just like somebody coming from Bauj and going to Abuja and just pass there. Can he tell you something about there? I said, “I cannot tell, because I just passed there briefly.” As soon as I said that, he said, “Ok. Proceed.” Then I proceed. I was just lost, looking left and right, beholding all the beauty I never expected to see in my life. As I proceed, then in my church, in the church I’ve attended by then, the son of the elder at our church I was attending by then, the man is, the man is to us trying very well. In every church activity, you will see him there. He carries the burden of the church on his head. He carried all the less privileged of the church at home. This man is a simple servant. On Saturday he doesn’t go to work. There are times when he will go to market and buy a bag of rice and put in the back of his car. And he will now be going to member’s house, and he goes there because he knows they are less privileged. As soon as he knocked, after he entered and prayed with you, he will ask your children to bring the bowl and get some measures of rice and give to them and pray with them. There are times in the church when there is something needed by the choir, when the pastor announces they need a microphone or anything that’s not working well. Before the preacher would announce it, this man would jump up and said, “Please, leave this request alone. I know what I can do. These jobs that you are talking, leave it to me. I promise that before the next Sunday, you will see another one here.” And so you will come and see it. This is how the man has been faithful to God. The man just sat for a while. [video skips part of the story at this point].
(I was just walking in) the streets of heaven and the golden streets. I now heard this man calling my name, the name he used to call me when I was on earth. He used to call me, “James, my son. James, my son, James, my son.” So I was going, I just heard, “James, my son. James, my son.” Immediately I heard that name, I realized he was behind. Before I look back, I knew who was coming from behind me, who it was. Then I saw. Then I look at my right hand. I saw another department of heaven. The word, “Paradise.” That is where the souls of the faithful departed have been kept. The man just walked to me from that paradise, wearing a pure, shiny, white, bright coat. And when he came, “James, you are here? How are you? James, look at me! Look at me!” (James demonstrates how the man lifted his arms and turned around and around to show his white garment.) “Look to see, I’m comforted. I’m comforted here.” This is how he was just showing himself to me. (James continues to demonstrate how the man lifted his arms and turned around and around to show his white garment.), turning around that, “James, look at me. I’m beautiful! There is peace here. There is no sadness here. There is no sickness here. Can’t you see me?” I said, “I see you, Baba.” That’s the way I used to answer him on earth. (James demonstrates how he bowed in front of him as he said this to the man.) “I see you, Baba. I see you, Baba.” Then he said, “James, look at me. James, I want you to send a message. Promise me you will deliver the message.” I said, “Baba, I will deliver your message.” He said, “Please, James, when you go back to the world, please go to my house. You will see my children and my wife. Please tell them that you saw me. That you saw how comforted and peaceful I am. That you saw how pleasing and beautiful this place is. Tell them to hold onto Jesus Christ. Tell them not to backslide. Tell them not to think of anything. I know they are suffering. They’re passing through hard times. But tell them to hold on, because I’m expecting to see them, here where I am one day.” [There is a break in the video at this point.] He went back again to paradise.
Then I proceed. As I proceeded, I was going, I was going. I reached a section. An angel now came and said, “Sir.” I now stopped. He said, “That place you are going, you cannot go there now. It’s not yet time for you to cross over to that place. You have to go back.” I said, “No.” I sat down by the River of Life. I began to beg, “Please! Please don’t let me go back! This place is so beautiful. This place is so nice. It’s so peaceful.” The brightness there is more than the brightness of the sun we have here. It’s not hot to the body. Very cool, very cool! Just everything as the Bible said it. That was how it was. That is how it was. He said I have to go back. I began to beg and plead that I don’t want to go back.
At that point, he now showed me some things. He now stretched forth his hand like this. The minute he stretched forth his hand like this, I saw a very large screen. Then I saw the world. I saw somebody carried something very big, very big and rounded! (James demonstrates the man holding this large object over his head and teetering, tottering back and forth as if he were about to drop it). He was just looking as if that thing will fall… as if that thing will fall. After I looked at it for a while, he now tapped me. As he tapped me, then I came back. I still saw myself before him. I didn’t understand. He said that thing I saw is the world. That the world is about to reach a point of collapse. He said, “That person that is carrying that thing is an angel that is carrying it. And he’s tired of carrying it because of the sin of the world. As soon as that thing drops from his head, the end comes. Before that thing will drop from his head, He, God, will have to come and remove His own from the earth by means of Rapture. Before the end now comes.” I said, “Ok.” But I’m still thinking, “I don’t want to go back. Let me remain here. Let me remain here.” He said, “No.” He stretched forth his hand again (James demonstrates the Man waving his hand in front of Him). The screen appeared again. I saw the world again, just as the world is now. I saw the world in total darkness, complete darkness. Serious darkness! But the people in the world didn’t know. They didn’t know it was in darkness. They were still going about their normal business, just as it’s happening today. Everybody is going to his work place. The married are marrying. They’re doing all sorts of things. I now saw in that darkness arrows flying from the four winds of the earth. You don’t know where arrows are coming from. And as those arrows are coming, if any one of those arrows would hit, that person would just fall down and die. The arrows keep falling as rain, as if rain is falling. Nobody notices an arrow. But the arrows keep falling like rain. And anybody the arrow just touches, instantly falls down and dies.
Then I now saw, in the midst of the people, there are some people in that darkness that have a little star on their head. Even they themselves didn’t know. Wherever they are going, the star is on their head, going with them. When they turn the star turns. When they’re going, the star is right on their head. Wherever they go, the star is going. But they didn’t know it. But to those few who have those stars, those arrows don’t touch them. When the arrow’s coming from the back, once they saw that star, they divert. If the arrow is coming from the left and saw that star on their head, it would divert. And they didn’t know. After I saw it for a while, the angel now tapped me. When I came back, I said, “I don’t understand.” He said that place I’m seeing in total darkness is the world. The world is full of darkness. Darkness has taken over. He said the arrows I’m seeing flying from left and right every corner is the spirit of death that is taking people away in their thousands and in their millions. He said, “There you noticed there is some few people who have stars on their head. I said, “Yes, yes.” He said, “Those who have stars on their heads are the children of God. They are the sons and daughters of God.” He said those stars I’m seeing on their heads are the seal of protection that God is beginning to put upon His own children -- upon His own elect, so that all the evil that is befalling the earth will not come close to them or curse them. As he explained this, “I said, “Ok.” I said, “But still, God, I don’t want to go back. I want to remain here. I’m still standing here.”
He stretched forth His hand again. I now saw myself in the world with a lot of people. And we were now running a race. And the road we are running is so rough, very, very rough. It’s not smooth at all. Both men and woman, both young and old, we are running, running to get to that place. And as we are running, many will fall by the road and will sit down and be complaining. Many will sit themselves on a rock, they will sit down and keep complaining. Right there we are keeping on running, running, running, keep running. After a while, he tapped me again. He said, “You see the reason why you must go now? You have not completed your race. You must go back.” He called my name. He said, “James! I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No any other way that can lead anyone to this Kingdom. No any other way. No any other religion. It’s only Me. And by you going away from My way, you see what you’re going to lose? And your name will be removed from the Book of Life, if you go. So you must go back. Go back to Jos, continue your race. And at the end of the race, if you make it, this is where you’re coming back.” After He said this, I wept. I hold onto His feet. I was shouting, weeping, crying that, “No! I don’t want to go back I don’t want to go back! Let me stay here. I love this place. I want to stay here.” As I was crying and pleading, so He tapped me. And that was how I went back. And I came back to life. Praise the Lord. And that’s what God revealed to me about the Kingdom of God.
And then from that moment, I believed the Bible. Whatsoever you read in the Bible, it’s just as it is -- there is no additional, nothing different, just the truth. Everything in the Bible is just as it is. Just read it and believe it. And it shall be (well) with your (soul) in Jesus’ Name.
The International Conference of the Kingdom of Darkness
Secondly, after a while, the Lord said, “I want to show you what’s going on in the kingdom of darkness. Prepare yourself.” I don’t know. So after some time in the night, I just slept. And it’s like a wild wind, very strong, just came in and picked me (up). As He picked me, He took me up and took me to air flying on the air. He took me to a far land, on a far journey across the desert, across big oceans. And at the point that He brought me down, in the deep forest, I saw in a very big gate: “Welcome to the conference of the demons.” I don’t know how I managed. The wind just took me in there. Veep! And kept me in a corner. I sat down. As I sat down, I began to see demons coming in from the four corners of the earth. They were flying in and they were in different shapes in different sizes. They were flying in from every angle. As they fly in, they take their seats. As they’re flying in, they take their seat. As they’re flying in, they take their seat.
The place was completely in darkness. But in the midst of darkness, God gave me eyes and I could see everything that is going on in there. But none of them noticed my presence there. I saw seats of pastors, pastors that are getting powers from the kingdom of darkness. They’re all flying, each different. As they’re coming, they’re taking their position, many of them with their collar around their neck, with their big hat that they used to wear, with their series of mode of dressing, they all took their seat. The place was in total silence. After a while, the devil himself now came down (James motions with his hand to indicate the devil descended into the room). As he comes down, I’ve never seen somebody so furious who is so angry, who is so annoyed, like the devil. He came with serious anger. There was a big seat prepared for him, but he couldn’t sit. He was just going up and down (James paces quickly back and forth with his head down). “What are you people doing?!” He was addressing the congregations of the devils and the pastors. “What are you people doing?! What are you doing?! Are you doing anything? I don’t see the products of what you are doing!”
After a while, one of the devils stood up (James demonstrates the demon standing up and speaking while hunched over with his head down). He said, “Master, we are trying our best. Master, we are possessing the Church. Master, we are taking (inaudible). Master, we are taking over the youth activities. We deliver them. We give them new systems. We give them new fashions. We make them to go out of the (inaudible) and the way of God. Master…”
After that one speaks, another one would get up. “Master, we have possessed the gospel musicians of the earth. Their musics no longer having meaning in the spiritual realms. We have possessed their gospel music so that it becomes worldly music. They will think they are singing gospel music, but it is worldly. We are giving them some tunes, some pieces, some dancing steps which is not of God, which is of the demons to convince them. They will be sang inside the congregations, and they will dance to them. [video skips a portion of the testimony at this point].
(The devil) addressed them. He charged the pastors, the so-called pastors where they are seated. He gave them power to work wonders and miracles. He gave them various power and various ways with conditions. They can preach anything they like in their church. They can do any program they like in their church, but they must not talk about salvation. They must not talk about heaven. They must not talk anything about rapture. But preach anything. “Do your altar call. You can do your altar call, call them forward, pray for them, bless them, let them go. But don’t go into details about the Kingdom of God. Don’t go into details of the salvation of their soul. Any pastor who goes against this will be severely dealt with… severely dealt with.”
None of the pastors would stand up to say they won’t (inaudible). They only take orders. They only take authority. They cannot contribute anything there. It’s only the devils that speaks where the devil is standing.
Now, as they were saying all these things where I was seated, I was not happy at all. One demon said something that gave me a little joy. He said, “Master, we are having some problems in the world.” The devil said, “What is it?” The demon said, “Master, we have discovered there are some end-time evangelists and they are just appearing.” He said there are some end-time evangelists and they are just appearing, and they are clothed with clothes of fire. He said, “Master, these end-time evangelists, we find it difficult to talk to them.”
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When he said this, I now had some relief. Where I was sitting, I now had some joy. Still yet, the devil has yet to see me there.
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The devil said, “Yes, yes…some devils, too… I will clothe them with a garment of fire, so that I will be able to contend. They will be able to stand and fight those end-time evangelists.” Which I know is a failure from the beginning. And they will continue to fail.
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The Drum of Covenants
...As fire under it. It keeps burning twenty-four hours. I now saw devils, bringing blood from the four corners of the earth into that drum that is on the fire. The blood keeps coming into it every second. The devil is now telling them that that drum is the drum of covenants, that whatsoever blood came into that drum, is from the blood of covenants. And from that drum they fetched and gave to manufacturers, those who manufacturer all these earrings, necklace, body perfumes, all these body (inaudible). The devil said he has no time, that the time is so short, so short, so they must be up and going, they have no time to rest. They have no time to rest -- no time to give any chance. They must follow the Christians bumper to bumper.
The devil does not believe that there is somebody he cannot catch (inaudible). No matter how holy and perfect you are, he still watches you that, “I’ll get you. I will get you. If you don’t fight, I will get you.” Until the King – God – picks you up (James moves his hand in an upward motion like someone’s going up.) they will not say, “I lose this one.” He still believes that there is nobody he will not get. He says, “So possess all these material things that they love – All these worldly things.” Brethren, it has come a time in this world that even if you buy ordinary Vaseline, you need to sanctify it. You don’t know what, where, or who manufactured it. Maybe it’s a demon. He said, “Possess all those things, so that the oil they are spraying on their body -- the oil they are spraying as perfumes -- it’s taking away the glory of God in them. And the spirit of lust will begin to dominate them. They will not have time for God again.” It was then I now know that the devil he said he has different departments. He sent the musical department to go to the world. “Pretend you are singing Gospel. Sing Gospel (inaudible) that at the end of the day is taking them out of the will of God. (inaudible) Don’t let them have time to read (and he pats his Bible) The Book. He never calls this Bible, “Bible.” Whenever he wants to call it by a name, he says The Book. (inaudible) he said The Book. He said, “Don’t let them have time to read The Book. Let there be interesting and very good programs on the TV twenty-four hours, so that that will occupy their time. So that they’ll have no time to read the Bible, they’ll have no time to go to church activities. By then, we are getting them. We are getting them.” He was saying all these things stage by stage.
At the end of the day, for me to cut it short, the devil now said something that touches my heart. I wept right there where I was sitting. This is what he was telling them. He said, “Don’t you know that it was recorded in this book that when God destroyed the earth with flood, after He had destroyed them, that it pains God to his heart. It pains him because He had destroyed this world, His own handiwork, by Himself. He said, “Now! If me the devil can be able to pack at least, not less than ninety-five percent of God’s people to hell, he knows that’s going to pain God in His heart, and that is our chief end.” (inaudible). He said that is his goal! If he cannot get all, if he can succeed to pack ninety-five percent of God’s creation to hell, that it is still going to pain God in His heart, that God will weep. And his happiness is to see tears in the face of God. That is his chief end (inaudible).
So from this lesson, they must all pick up their efforts. They must be restless. They must “Go! Follow the Christians, enter the Church, follow them bumper-to-bumper. Don’t give them any breathing space. Anyone that… (inaudible). The moment you thought you will lose them, cut them off! Kill them! Just pick him off! Don’t wait until they get beyond the gate. Just take them off. At the slightest chance, get them.” These are all the things he was saying.
So Christians, we must be careful. We must watch the type of church we go, the type of pastor or minister of God. Ones they are not preaching the true Word of God, once any pastor is not preaching repentance, is not preaching the kingdom of God, is not preaching salvation, the salvation of your soul, you must watch. And God will help us in Jesus’ Name.
As he was saying this, he now backed up by saying they should go. He will increase their power. He will do something about the end-time evangelists that are clothed with fire. He will do something about it. There will be pastors who should go, gather much congregations, gather much (inaudible), do whatever you want to do, get their money, get anything you want to do, but don’t dare preach salvation. Don’t dare talk about repentance. Don’t dare tell them there is any future or hope for them somewhere.
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...(The meeting was getting near) the end. I didn’t know how one of the demons noticed me where I was sitting down. He said, “Look! Somebody is here!” The moment he said so, I ran out of the gate. And I begin to run, but before I could run, I cannot outrun the devil. Before I take a step, they are taking one thousand steps. Then I shouted, “Lord! Help me!” Then He broke the heaven open. I saw a very mighty wind, just came down, and picked me up. As it picked me up, it took me far away to a sierra land and landed me on the rock. As soon as he landed on the rock, the wind now turned itself and now become an old man. I now look at Him. I said, “But who are you?” He said, “I am the Holy Spirit.” And He took a step. As He took a step, so He vanished and went up again.
And that is how, since then, I will tell it to you wherever I go, watch out. Christians, we have to be extra careful. We have to mind what we wear, what we use. Whatever we buy in the market at this time, we pray over it even if it is clothes, we sanctify it and we cover it in the Blood of Jesus. And the protections of God will continue to be upon us in Jesus’ Name.
Life After Death
Lastly, life after death. As my father in the Lord has earlier said, this happened to me on the first of this month, the first of this November. Last month, precisely it was the end of last month, October, I just discovered that something keep talking to me, that, “James, you will die. James, you will die.” He would call my name. If I’m walking on the sidewalk, “James, you will die.” If I’m walking on the street, “James, you will die.” If I’m stopping. If I’m even in a taxi, “James, James, do you know you will die?” (I thought), “What kind of joke is this? I thought it was a joke. After some time, that the thing keep coming, I begin to pray. I begin to work from Bible verses that I know that “Ah! I shall not die. The Lord said I would not die but live.” But before then, praise God, (inaudible around 58:39), after I left Jos, when my business was not going fine in Jos, I decided to relocate to Abuja. But my families are here, my wife and my children. So I alone I went to Abuja. My first time I got there, I was still intact with the Lord, I was still praying, because when I get there I don’t know anybody. (inaudible around 59:01-03). Things still look still difficult. I was still on fire, even if I am walking on the street, “Holy Ghost, you must locate me. You must do something, you must find me out (inaudible around 59:07-11). You must locate me, you must do something, you must find me out.” And with the grace of God, God began to connect me. God began to bless me. And gradually, before you know it, I didn’t know I’m already backsliding (inaudible around 59:25-26). Because that is why, even if you have been saved, you have to keep running. You have to hold it fast. I was capitalizing that “God had taken me to heaven, so if Jesus Christ comes today (if I should die today), I’m going to heaven straight.” Praise God. That was all just like God has taken me to heaven. He had shown me heaven. And He told me that my name is in the Book of Life. So that name is there.
So I began to the extent that me I cannot do without attending church (verify 1:00:09). I now get to Abuja (inaudible 1:00:10-13) that for good six months, three months, I would not touch the Bible. When I’d pick up the Bible, dust. This is the Bible here. Dust was have covered it all around. Now look here.
From Sunday to Sunday, I didn’t know anything about church. To the extent that I began to make friends there. I begin to have romance with girls. But yet it never occurred to me that I’m already going out of the track. It never occurred to me that I’m already going out of the way. But at such a time, I now discovered that my wife, I now thank God for the wife God gave me. Each time I call her, she say, “My husband, don’t forget God. Don’t forget how you started. Don’t be an outcast. Don’t let the devil rejoice over you, that you of all people, that God had taken you to heaven, He has shown you, you’ve seen some things, and at the end of the day, you now fall in the hand of the devil.”
And I thank my father in the Lord. He would always call me to order (inaudible 101:31), though I was not good at calling. I don’t used to call him. I can be there for months. I don’t call him. He’s the one that would call me sometimes and say, “I just want to hear your voice. I just want to pray with you.” He would call me and pray with me and bless me. And sometimes even when he would come to Jos, he want to see me. I said, “How of a life is that? (around 11:42) I’m still a young man. And by the way, I’m not sick! I’m really not sick.” I would say, “Maybe this sickness would lead to death, but I’m not sick. And I’m not traveling.” You know, I’m taking this in my own human wisdom, that “As long as this thought is coming, even if I want to travel, I will cancel it because I don’t want to die. How can I die now? I love my wife. She’s so beautiful. My children—they are so beautiful. I love them, too. How can I die and leave them? No, I can’t die.”
This is how, but yet the death keeps telling me, “You’re going to die. You’re going to die.” And something that happened, that while this thing keep coming, I was so scared to share it with anybody. It’s like something just arrest my mind. Nothing, it didn’t occur to me for a minute to even call somebody, or to even call my father in the Lord, or to even call my wife who I always tell my secret to, and say pray with me, to see what is happening. I just keep it -- because I just don’t believe it – that I’m going to die. “Will I just die just like that that?” So it was.
So, before there some days before the end of last October, very early in the morning around…I always off my phone when I’m about to sleep, cause I don’t want disturbance. I don’t want anything to disturb my sleep. Most time I off my phone, except if I forgot. And even if I forgot, anytime after ten or eleven (if someone) wants to call, once the phone starts ringing, I’ll just stretch forth my hand -- I know where the off button is—I’ll just off it right away.
But this particular day, I just went to work on the first of November, this November. I went to work. Before that, my daddy just called me early in the morning around after four or five. At that time that sleep used to be very sweet. He just called me. Immediately before, it was ringing, ringing, ringing -- God’s so kind -- I didn’t off it. I just took it to see, “Who is the person calling.” I saw Pastor Sam Olakunle. I now put it, “Ah!” I pick it. “Hello?” As usual, whenever he called me, he didn’t even say, “Good morning.” He didn’t even say, “How are you?” He said to me, “James! Carry your Bible. Carry your Bible. Carry your Bible. Open to Psalm 51. Begin to pray. Read it and begin to pray for mercy. Continue to ask God for mercy. Continue to ask God for mercy.”
Immediately he said so, I picked the Bible, I picked it and opened to Psalm 51. I read it about three times. I begin to get the feeling that something is telling me that I’m going to die. Maybe God has revealed it to the man of God. So I didn’t joke with that instruction he gave to me. I begin to read and pray for mercy.
So on the first, I went to work and came back at night. When I came back, I ate my dinner and I went to bed. As soon as I went to bed, it’s like as if something just touched me. I just discovered that my body just get up, came out of my body. I now stand separate. I now saw my body on the floor, lifeless. The minute I saw it, I couldn’t look at it twice. I turn my face against it. I don’t want to look at it.
As I turned my face, immediately a road appeared at my back. I entered the road. Immediately as my spirit got out of the body, number one is that I never remember anything about this world again. Whether I have wife or I don’t have, whether I have children or I don’t have, whether I’m suffering on earth or I’m enjoying it, I don’t remember anything on earth again. So I proceed on the road that appeared before me. I began to go. As I was going, the only thing I’m remembering – clear -- the only thing that is coming to my memory, is the Word of God -- every word that is in the Bible, everything we have heard from the Bible, everything we have heard from the preacher, is what is coming to me as a witness. As I was going the word then came “Thou shall remember the Lord your God. Thou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your substance. Be ye holy, for I am holy. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not commit fornication.” Every word of God is what keep coming to me fresh.
As I was going, I met a lot of people, a lot, a crowd of people. We were all marching in one direction, both man and woman, both young and old. We were just going. We were coming from every direction, but we were going in one -- we are facing the same direction. And we are going, every one, every man for himself. As we have heard, individual with no man can stand for you here. Nobody can stand for you. Nobody can speak on your behalf. You are on your own.
We keep going. The place was totally silence. Everybody keep moving, keep moving, keep moving. I like what my father just said earlier. He said, "Judgment of separation." Judgment of separation. We are proceeding! And I could look far off. I now saw a junction where the road splitted into two. Initially the road was one. All of us were going in multitude. But at that point, the road splitted into two. We were going. The Word of God keep coming – the verses!
As we reach the junction, before we approach the junction, I saw one has a very narrow gate, and the road inside was narrow. I saw the other one by the left. It had a very big gate. The road was so broad and wide. Immediately I was knowing it, the word of God came to me that narrow is the way, that leads to the Kingdom of God. Broad and wide is the way that leads to hell and destruction. So from that moment, I took the vision, to mean that, yes, I’m a Christian now before I died. So where I’m supposed to go is the narrow gate, because my Bible has told me that narrow is the way that leads to the Kingdom of God. So I should enter by the narrow gate, for that is where I belong. So we were going.
It was at that point I now discovered that I have no control over my two legs again. From the beginning, I didn’t know I wasn’t the one controlling my legs. But at that junction, I purposed in my mind that I want to go to the narrow gate. But my legs keep going through the other gate. And nobody opened his mouth to speak there. You just be reasoning in your mind, “I want to go this way now.” But my legs keep going to the broad road. I couldn’t depart it. I couldn’t stop it. I don’t have any control at all in that leg. And that is how my leg dragged me to the broad road, and I entered the gate. I followed them. And yet when I entered, my eyes was still looking at the narrow road, because I at the beginning, we can see these other (both gates). My eyes were still on the narrow road. I just discovered that the narrow road—how many people you see passing there? Once in a while, you just one person goes through. That is how we are rushing in thousands, in multitude. We were just going by the broad road. Everyone, both young and old, man and woman, white and black, everybody. But still the narrow road…once in a while, like one hour, two hour before you would see one person just pass. After that person pass, then wait to round about two hour, even three hours before another person just come again. But after a while, the roads were separating that we couldn’t see the other road again.
But as we are going, I now discovered that the broad road we are going, the more we are proceeding, the more it’s getting darker. By the way, gradually later I would not see the front again. But still yet, our legs cannot stop. The legs keep going faster. In my front, I begin to hear the cry of people ahead of me. As if when we are here, there are people crying by the roadside, series of wailing, crying of torment, pleading for forgiveness. Some were saying, “Looooooooooooooooooooooooooord!!!!!! Have mercy upon meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! I will change, I will change, I will change, I will change, I will change.” Some were saying, “Jesuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!!!! Forgive meeeeeeeeee!!!! Now I believe! Give me another chance! I will change, I will change, I will change, I will change.” Many of them, I could hear the sound, both young and old, crying, repenting, in great torment, begging Jesus Christ for a second chance, that now they have believed that truly hell exists. Now they have believed that truly, all the things God hates is true. Now they have believed. They are ready to make a change. Just for a second, for them to go back and change. But God said it’s too late. I was hearing their cries seriously.
The more we proceed, the louder their crying is coming, which means they are very close to the pit of hell. As I was hearing their crying, my body was shaking. But yet my legs—I look, I can’t stop it. We keep going, we keep going, everybody. Multitudes! Keep going.
At a point, I now heard somebody call my name. He said, “James! Stop!” I now heard, “Stop!” It now seemed as if a man had just came from ground and put, and now hold my leg there. I now stop. I fold my hands. I bend my head, as somebody who was standing before the judge to be. And the voice now begin to speak to me in great pain. Jesus Christ speak to me in sadness. He was not happy. He speak to me with a sorrowful heart. He said, “James, you think that you cannot die, or you think you are too young to die. Look at you, but now you are dead. You are not on the planet earth again. You are dead. And where you belong is hellfire. If I should take you now, your place is hellfire because you have backslided from My Way. You have turned your back from My Way. And hell is where you belong. And that is hell that you are going.” He said, “James, do you hear the cry of people in hell?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “Many of them are those who called themselves so-called ‘Christians’ like you. While on earth they claimed holiness and righteousness. But because of ‘little, little, little, little things, small, small, small things’, ‘it doesn’t matter.’” We have heard it here now: “It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter.” He said, “That is why many of them are in hell. And I hear them crying that now, they believe. They want to change. But it’s too late. It is too late.” He said, “James, when I created man, I created man in my own image. And my glory was upon him.” He said, “But my enemy, the devil, now added a lot of packaging, packaging of the glory I gave man, packaging of earring, necklace, attachments, all of them. God says, “My eye cannot behold it once anything artificial, artificial...” He said, “James, when I created women, did I put hole in their ear?” I said, “No.” He said, “How come I now saw them with hole in their ears?” He said, “James, when I created man, every part of their body that is supposed to have hole, did I not put hole there?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “How come they now begin to put hole by themselves?” He said, “And once anything artificial has been added, no matter what it is, my face cannot look at them. My face cannot behold them.”
“In my mercy, I will give you a second chance for you to go. Watch your way, and walk before me, and be thou perfect.” At that point, He now said I should turn back and start going back. At that moment, the same thing that hold my leg now turned my leg again back to where I was coming from. I now began the way back. I begin to go back. I begin to go back. I went back on until I reached where my body was in lying down, lifeless. I saw it there. The minute I saw it, I turned my face again. I don’t want to look at it. And the Voice said again. He said, “James, that is your body. Enter into it.” I said, “No! No! I won’t enter that body! I won’t enter body! I hate that body!” because at that moment, once you die, there is nothing like witches or wizards or any other enemy. There is only one thing that will appear to you as your greatest enemy on the earth. There is only one thing that will appear to you as your worst enemy on earth, and that is your body -- this body. I now saw this body as my enemy. I said, “No! How can you ask me to enter this body? It caused me to do all the bad things I did on earth. It misled me. How can you ask me to enter the body? I won’t enter!”
Then the Lord said to me, He said, “James, you have died. You are not on the planet earth again. And you are putting on a new body. And this body you are putting on is immortal body, everlasting body that will either take you to hellfire or Kingdom of God.” He said, “In this body that you are standing, you cannot receive forgiveness. It is too late for you to receive forgiveness in this body. For you to receive my forgiveness and my mercy, you have to enter that body again." Still yet after (He said) that hell is where I am going, I still refuse. I said, “No! I will not enter! I hate that body! I don’t want to look at it! I don’t want to see it!”
And the body is just there, lifeless, dirty! I have a very good example of what that body looked to me. You know these mechanic’s work shirt, mechanic’s uniform that they are using to work for over two years without washing. It is soaked of different type of engine oil…they use it to roll on the ground. They now have torn. They have now condemned it. They now throw it inside gutter (open sewage drainage). Rain beat inside that gutter. Someone now come and said, “Be that clothes and wear it.” That was how that body just looked to me. That was why I was refusing.
I said, “No! I will not enter this body. Don’t push me into any body. (inaudible at 31:52-54 ). Don’t push me. It’s a corruptible body. I won’t enter. I won’t enter.” That was when He now said to me, “James, I’m giving you a chance, a second chance, I’m giving you a second chance, for you to go and watch your way and walk before me and be perfect.” He said, “If you turn your back from here now, where you are going is hellfire. Where you are going is hellfire, because this body you are standing with cannot receive forgiveness. It is too late.”
Then a thought now come to me in my mind as I was standing that “What about those wailing and crying in hell there? Won’t you have pity on them?” He now answered me (not knowing that He could even hear my thought). He said, “James, do you know when these people in hell will be set free? Do you know when they will be set free? On the day, on any day that I will cease to be God. That is the day they will be set free from hell. So, on the day I will cease to be God, that was the day they will be set free from hell.” He said, “So, James, go! I’m sending you as a witness to my world. Tell the people, tell my servants, tell whosoever comes your way, that My coming is not soon anymore. I’m coming now. I’ve waited for so long. I’m coming now. Tell them to prepare for My coming. Without holiness, holiness, holiness, no one, no one will enter My Kingdom no matter what they do. Tell them to walk before Me and be perfect.”
After saying all these things, He now said, “James! I command you--enter your body!” At that one command, as if you force somebody to do what he don’t want to do, I now look at that body on the floor, useless thing. I now went so slowly stoop, so slowly stoop. I look at the body. I now drop close to the body. I now bend down. I bend down and enter the body. As soon as I enter the body, I came back to life. As I came back to life, sweat -- hot sweat – come out of my body. My body was soaked with sweat. I couldn’t have any strength in me at all again. For completely a week, I couldn’t do anything, because I don’t even have strength at all. If I sat up too long, you would see my body shaking, shaking. If I didn’t even eat in time, you would see my body shaking. Until after a week, before I now begin to gather my strength. It was then, I now call my father in the Lord. I said, “Papa, I died, and I came back to life.” I wept seriously that I was still given a second chance, and yet I’m refusing to enter the body. That fire, if I am not allowed, I am going back to hellfire forever and ever. The Lord is so merciful! So please, heaven is real. Hell is real. People are dying in their thousands and going…
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When I come back, I feel as if I should have the power to turn the whole world to the Lord again so they will all go to heaven. Because I can’t even wish my worst enemy on earth—my worst enemy on earth—to go to that place where they are weeping, crying, waiting for another chance to repent, and it was too late. And I thank God for my daddy in the Lord. He has not left the narrow road. God will continue to see him through and walk with him in Jesus’ Name.
He now turned and asked to me another question that will continue to sound in my mind. He said, “Number one: When I died, I because of I wanted to better the life of my wife and children, that was why I went to Abuja, so that when I died, did I remember them?” I said, “No, I never would remember anything about this world. And because of struggling to keep them, I would have gone to hell. And they would have made heaven, life would still continue.”
“Number 2: He is giving you a second chance. There is something He has not told you. He has not told you the time He gave you for that second chance, whether it is one week, whether it is two weeks, whether it is one month, whether it is one year -- I don’t know."
So I have resolved in principle to live my life today as if there is no tomorrow. And I have told God I surrender all. Since then, in my prayer, I don’t even ask God for anything, for money or any worldly things. Will a dead man ask God for money? Will a dead man ask for car? God says if I surrender all to Him completely, I should not watch if He will not care for me, that He care for us. He knows what we need, not wanting me to run helter-skelter (inaudible at 38:26-29). So God loves us. God care for us. I’ve never seen a love like this. So let us hold fast our faith. Let us hold fast that which God--it’s because so many of us many Christians will not believe Bible again -- that is why God is bringing all these revelations, so that we can believe. And I pray that God will see us through. In His Kingdom we will not miss out, in Jesus’ Name.
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End of testimony.
Scripture Meditation
Our Lord Jesus said, "For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” (Mk 4:22-25).
Many hidden things have been disclosed in this revelation. Things that were concealed have been brought out into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. Consider carefully what you hear. Whoever has understanding of such things will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. If understanding of such things is taken away from you, then you will be unable to receive the truth presented in this testimony. Therefore, if you struggle with this message, pray for understanding and discernment. I also suggest you read A Warning to the Nay Sayers and Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Lessons Learned
There are many lessons learned from this testimony, which I have summarized in my related articles, The Kingdom of God, The Kingdom of Darkness, and Life After Death. I believe that these will help you remember the key points if this important message.
Author's note: Neither James nor HOREMOW are personally connected with this site. Please prayerfully listen to this brother's testimony, and use the Testimony Review Process
adopted by this blog, as you decide for yourself whether the Lord has
spoken to him. For issues and concerns, each person must confirm with
the Lord, whether something is valid or not. For more information on our position, please see Disclaimers.
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repent and believe in Jesus. Do you know what God's Word, the Bible
says?
“Jesus
came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time
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the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15). He preached that we must repent and
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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International.
He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as
well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who
multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of
planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United
States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.
