Fake priest’s vision of hell: Dogs, Demons, and Rhianna songs

A Michigan Protestant pastor, giving himself the title of “priest”, claims to have died and gone to hell. His near-death experience, regardless if you believe it, gives us a warning that we can all take heed to in our life. It leaves us with a challenge to make a change. It is true we are not told everything in the Bible regarding. For that matter, we are not told everything about purgatory and heaven. It is true that we do not know for certain if his allegations and claim is real. It is true that we have heard from Catholics throughout the generations who have been given visions of hell and many of those visions differ from each other. We do not know everything hell consists of for certain. We do, on the other hand, know it is a place we do not want to spend eternity.

Gerald Johnson, pastor of Faith Culture Christian Church, says he had a near-death experience that took him to the depths of hell in 2016 and he has a warning for everyone on earth. He urges people to forgive others and let go of resentment or the desire for retaliation. His story, regardless of whether you believe him or not, reminds us that hell is indeed real. It exists and the devil and his demons are real.

“I saw the real hell. I was there,” claims Johnson. “I wouldn’t wish that upon my worst enemy.” He says that his spirit left his physical body during a heart attack in 2016. When the spirit left his body, he believed he was going upward to heaven, but the opposite happened. He said he went down to the center of the Earth. Johnson claims that is the location of hell.

“I thought I had done so much good in this lifetime, helped so many people, and made so many decisions that were godly decisions but as opposed to me going up, I went down,” claims Johnson. “I went literally into the center of the Earth. That’s where hell is, and Jesus even says that in Scripture.”

Johnson says he saw things like a man acting like a dog, demons holding chains attached to people, and hearing Rhianna songs that were being sung by the demons. He states that the man he saw acting like a dog was on his hands and feet with a chain around his neck. He said it reflected that the man had been a slave to the demons and Satan during his life on earth and now was a slave in hell to the demon.

“He was burned from the top of his head to the soles of his feet and his eyes were bulging out. What was worse than that is that he had a chain around his neck,” Johnson says. The pastor claims to have understood, although not audibly explained to him, that the demon was constantly present in the man’s earthly life and now has him bound for eternity.

He says it was not the torment that surprised him, since Sacred Scripture warns us of hell being a place of torment. However, he claims there was music in heaven, and it was familiar music that we hear on earth. He said the music was used to torture people and that songs were being sung such as Rhianna’s Umbrella song and the popular “Don’t worry be happy.”

“There was a section in hell where music was playing. As opposed to entertainers singing it, demons were singing it. It was some of the same lyrics we hear here,” claims Johnson. He said it is his understanding that it is a warning of the music we listen to here is, many times, inspired by demons and meant for our destruction and to pull us away from godly lives. He said the lyrics are a tool of demons for controlling people and influencing their life to prevent them from being obedient to God.

Johnson said he knows that, despite his good deeds on earth, it was because he had unforgiveness in his heart that caused him to go to hell. He asserts after his trip to hell that he returned to earth and had an encounter with Jesus. He said Jesus told him that “you have been secretly upset with the people that hurt you and you have been hoping that I would punish the people that hurt you. He says these are not your people, these are my people.”

The reality is that whether you are to believe the pastor had a near-death experience and went to hell or if you do not believe him, we cannot ignore the existence of hell. We cannot dismiss the working of demons in our life here on earth as well as eternity in hell. We cannot pretend that everyone goes to heaven or purgatory, and no one is in hell. We cannot fool ourselves into believing a false reality.

Hell is real. Satan is real. We will all face eternity one day. The question truly becomes where will we spend that eternity?

“Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” (I Peter 5:8)

“A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)