A Divine Revelation of Hell

A Divine Revelation of Hell

composed of gray, dead flesh, and they were bound together with a rope of bondage, a kind of cord of gray matter that wound around and around and all about the people on the hill. While there was no fire in sight, I knew that this was a part of hell, for dead flesh fell from the bones of the people there and then grew back really fast. Death was everywhere, but the people did not seem to notice—they were deeply engrossed in conversation. Jesus said, "Let's listen to what they're saying." One man said to another, "Did you hear about this man Jesus who came to take away sin?" Another responded, "I know Jesus. He washed my sins away. In fact, I don't know what I'm doing here." "Nor do I," said the first man. Another said, "I tried to witness to my neighbor about Jesus, but he wouldn't even listen. When his wife died, he came to me to borrow the money for her funeral, but I remembered that Jesus had said we should be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. So I turned him away. I knew he would spend the money for something else anyway. We have to be good stewards of our money, you know." The first man who had spoken now spoke again. "Yes, brother," he said, "a boy at our church needed clothes and shoes, but his father drinks, so I refused to buy anything for his son—we really taught that man a lesson." "Well," said another man, as he held the rope of bondage in his hands and twisted it all about him nervously, "we must always teach others to live like

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