These are testimonies so ambiguous that one cannot know whether to believe them or not. When heard, they sound marvelous and somewhat convincing, yet when measured against the Word of Scripture, they appear doubtful. Still, because they are testimonies presented under the authority of churches and pastors, many accept them without question. But are such testimonies truly genuine? Surely, everyone has at some point felt a shadow of doubt.
Yet today’s churches and pastors do not teach believers to discern right from wrong and to distinguish true testimony from false testimony according to the standard of Scripture. Instead, they demand that believers accept only what they themselves teach. As a result, believers are compelled to unconditionally accept the words of pastors as truth, abandoning the standard of Scripture. The outcome of this dangerous faith is that countless lies give birth to more lies, and heresies breed more heresies, producing a lamentable state of ruin.
By failing to teach believers to discern truth and falsehood by the Word of God, pastors have instead replaced everything already recorded in Scripture—God’s Spirit, gifts, prayers, tongues, prophecies, wisdom, salvation, forgiveness of sins, repentance, rebirth, and all of God’s purposes and values—with false values, forced interpretations, and profane distortions. Layer upon layer of corruption and deception, they have transformed the truth into falsehoods.
Thus, by the teaching of an abominable spirit and a false anointing, devoid even of the power of faith as small as a mustard seed, the church has made detestable prophecies, unclean tongues, corrupt gifts, cunning doctrines of salvation, deceptive forgiveness of sins, and profane revelations into dogma—sanctioned, institutionalized, and treated as if they were the Word itself. What true, scripture-based standard remains in such churches, pastors, and believers who, on the contrary, commit nothing but corruption, decay, lawlessness, falsehood, and wickedness, only storing up wrath for the Day of Judgment?
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.(Luke 16 : 22~26)
The above words are those that Jesus Christ Himself spoke directly to His disciples. The content of this teaching is that a certain rich man, who had once been the master of Lazarus, now in hell, was pleading with Abraham for even a single drop of water. Yet Abraham answered that there is a great gulf fixed between hell and heaven, so that none can cross over from here to there, nor from there to here. In this way, Christ was explaining to His disciples about hell. Then what are we to make of those who claim that they have gone freely back and forth between heaven and hell? Who do they imagine themselves to be, that they overturn the words of Christ, who declared that even Abraham, the father of all nations, could not cross from hell? Are they not in effect claiming to be greater than Christ’s word itself? And since all the words of Scripture are God, does this not mean that they are claiming to be higher than God Himself?
Any fruit or testimony that has no example in Scripture is entirely false, one hundred percent heresy, and antichrist. Among all the prophets recorded in the Bible and all the apostles of Christ, not a single one ever went back and forth between heaven and hell. In other words, the testimonies of those today who claim to have experienced heaven and hell through dreams and visions are nothing but the arrogant distortions and forced interpretations of people who have absolutized and deified their own thoughts, judgments, and subjectivity as though they were God Himself. Nowhere in the Word can such an example be found; these are absurd testimonies.
Those who claim to have gone to heaven and hell—are they then greater than Abraham? Greater than Christ? Do they claim to be higher than God Himself? Every testimony of supposedly going back and forth between heaven and hell, regardless of who gives it, is one hundred percent false, for it denies the recorded Word of Christ, who taught through Abraham’s words that there is a great gulf fixed between heaven and hell, so that none can cross over from one to the other.
Even the places described in the conversations of Ezekiel, Amos, Isaiah, and the Book of Revelation are not heaven itself, but rather the throne of heaven, the holy mountain of God, where He rules and governs all creation. It is not heaven. Therefore, depart quickly from the churches and pastors who teach testimonies about heaven and hell as though they were God’s holy testimonies. Such teachers do not know heaven themselves, nor can they lead others there. They prove by their own blindness that they are blind guides, teaching lies with false testimonies of heaven and hell—blind leading the blind.
What they speak of as heaven and hell is, in most cases, utterly inconsistent with the content of Scripture. Therefore, a steadfast faith, armed with the Word of God that clearly discerns all things, begins with refusing to believe in the fabrications, lies, and nonsense that are not found in Scripture. True testimony and witness of Christ are found only in the inner value that springs from praise, prophecy, power, and gifts united with the love of the cross and resembling the love of God. It is never found in the signs or wonders that merely stir human curiosity, clothed in hypocrisy and pretense with outward and superficial value. This is the way of Satan’s workings. For this reason, many believers today are like children, without discernment, unable to distinguish between the power of God and the sorceries of Satan. They have been taught as though they had received the Holy Spirit, and thus they are becoming slaves to pastors driven by self-interest, drifting ever farther from the Word of God.
Can a testimony, a miracle, or a gift of God truly be of the Holy Spirit when it lacks discernment and bears no true evidence? Do those who claim to have received the Spirit—who is all-knowing and for whom nothing is impossible—fail to discern even one genuine gift of God? Be deceived by wordplay no longer! Depart quickly from those who teach a false spirit!
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.(Proverbs 12 : 17~18)
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.(Proverbs 14 : 5)
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.(Proverbs 14 : 25)