silvergs72
04-23-2003, 10:26 AM
(Taken from Dr. Richard Eby's books: Jesus told me
to... Tell Them I am Coming, written in 1977. And, Didnt
You Read My Book? written in 1991.)
Richard Eby and a few others are touring Lazarus's
Tomb when all of a sudden, the lights go out...
the ladies gave muffled screams and my heart skipped a
beat. being two stories underground in pitch-black
isolation was disturbing! i assumed a fuse had blown,
and i heard myself reflexly reassure the women:"please
pray and praise. it's just the fuse."
then the miracle! i did not even have time to join
them in a prayer. instead, i felt instantly alone in
the total darkness. there was not a rustle or a sound
of breathing from the ladies. they were gone as far as
i could determine. i dropped to the ground and groped
for the exit tunnel. i was alone! but only for an
instant. suddenly, beside me stood a man! in my
kneeling posture i sensed, then saw a person pressing
against me on my right side. first, i saw toes
protruding from the flowing robe; then as i panned
upward, the golden sash, beautifully muscled arms,
shoulder-length, light golden hair. the hands were
hidden: one on my left shoulder, the other between the
gown and the cold stone wall. to see his face, i
looked upward; he was six feet tall or more, and
looking downward into my face! portions of his beard
and mustache were missing.(i was not surprised.) his
hair was illuminated.
i knew instantly that he was my lord. without a shadow
of a doubt, i knew also that in his presence i again
had the mind of christ which he had shared with me
five years before this, when he spoke with me in
heaven. though i had never seen my saviours face, he
was telling me directly upon my mind(with which i was
now seeing him) that i was truly with him and in him
there in the tomb.
the royalty of that face! how can i desribe its
sovereignty, its compassion, its overwhelming look of
righteousness? in it i saw the justice of our
intercessor, the joy of our healer, the humility of
his father's faithful servant. i saw a display of
meekness without weakness, of limitless power with
infinite gentleness and those penetrating eyes,
emitting a radiance of indescribably limitless
love!nothing can be compared with the eyes of our god.
they held me spellbound. i actually saw the truth of
his claim that "greater love hath no man." i knew he
was looking at me and through me with the same
forgiveness and love which he showers upon all
doubting thomases.
then i noted in a fraction of a second, and i saw a
slight frown of concern from on his face like a cloud
of sadness. he quickly spoke two words in english: "my
son!" then he continued with the same lightning-fast
language we had used during my time in heaven. "i must
show you hell, but just for two minutes! i have
already shown you heaven. i want you to tell them,
tell them, tell them."
how it must have hurt him to send me into hell, even
for two short minutes! no wonder he frowned at the
thought: he had been there! he had once told his
disciples to ask his father to "deliver us from the
evil one." if it weren't that he had already had the
keys of hell and death in his right hand there in the
tomb, he would not have sent me to satan's home to
experience the horrors of a lost soul. jesus knew he
could bring me back, because he had already broken the
power of satan to bind a child of god!
My Orders
as though in shock, i stood stock-still, wondering
what i should "tell them." he already knew my thoughts
and was answering me at a million words a second. i
will try to summarize his command to me.
"you must tell them that i gave them a will when i
created them. they must make a choice between me or my
adversary, satan. man cannot live without a master;
his soul is made to worship someone. tell them i am a
gentleman; i will never override their free will. i
created them to be free to choose, because i would not
create anyone to be a slave. satan offers them the
security of slavery, but his wages are death. i offer
them freedom and the righteousness of my father in
heaven, where our gift of love and life is eternal."
in seconds, jesus had transmitted to me volumes of
spiritual data, bypassing my ears and brain which
would have been far too sluggish to receive his
instructions. for emphasis he repeated insistently:
"tell them. tell them. tell them. tell them how much i
love them! i left heaven to come and die for them. i
had to destroy the works of the devil so my children
could be freed! i arose to present them blameless
before my father in heaven! tell them they can choose
life with me-all for free. i paid the price. tell them
they will have the unsearchable riches that my father
has prepared for them. they can choose to belong to
the family of god. they can reign with me as kings and
priests through the ages. i will send them my spirit.
i will heal their infirmities. i will forgive their
sins. tell them i took their place on the cross!" at
this he shuddered.
"tell them," he continued, "my grace is sufficient for
them. it is my gift of love. they cannot earn it by
their works. i finished all the work and waiting on
the cross. all they must do is receive me into their
hearts and accept me as their way of life! then we
will be one!"
he suddenly paused, and i noted a tone of sorrow
(perhaps horror) as he spoke again: "tell them if they
ignore or reject my love, if they turn away from my
father, if they refuse to listen to urgings of the
spirit, there is nothing more we can do for them. they
remain under the control of satan, that liar and
deceiver, for whom i had to create hell when he defied
the almighty god. because jehovah is righteous, we had
to punish satan's wickedness and rebellion. i never
intended a human soul to go to hell; in fact i came
down from heaven and died for mankind to redeem him
from that deceiver. i even went to hell and took the
keys. i sealed satan's fate, and secured victory over
hell and death. tell them, my name is above all names,
but they must choose whom they will serve!"
then his voice changed. like a trumpet it echoed about
the tomb: "THERE IS YET A LITTLE WHILE BUT VERY
LITTLE!"
instantly a near-blinding golden light appeared behind
me. instinctively i turned my head. on the tomb wall,
being written without hand or brush, were appearing
the same words in beautiful english script.
from each letter, drops of glittering gold "paint"
were falling to the floor and exploding into a
transparent gold cloud that filled the tomb! i gasped
as i looked back into jesus' face.
"fear not, my son, "he quickly reassured me, "i want
you to have a visual memory of my promise to return
soon.
i understood! i would scarecly have enough time,
before his return, to go and tell them! i was being
commanded to disclose whatever i would see that day.
he is preparing to return for his earthly rule at
jerusalem, his headquarters. he as much as said, "i
cant wait much longer; world events can no longer be
postponed! these are the last days of which i spoke in
the upper room."
The Pit of Hell
suddenly, i was in hell! i knew i was trapped in the
bowels of the earth. instantly, i was in a stone,
coffinlike cell, four feet wide and six and a half
feet high. the terror was instantaneous and
indescribable. with a sickening thud i felt my feet
hit the rock floor.my lightning-fast mind added to the
horror of this total isolation in stone by telling me
all the answers to my sudden questions. cast as an
unsaved sinner, i was on death row in solitary
confinement by my own choice. satan had invited me,
and i had not refused. i alone was to blame. i had
died without accepting the love of jesus about which i
heard so many times. this is the pit of the first
death, the holding tank of horror. satan's stronghold
for sinners.
i tried to scream, i pounded the walls and the
ceiling.total blackness. total silence. total stench.
it had to be from demons. sure enough. i looked down
and saw clearly with the mind's eye of my fallen
spirit-body many little, spiderlike demons about my
feet. among them were several deformed catlike and
doglike creatures with black matted fur. despite their
constant movement, each one fastened its gaze upon me
as the smaller ones swarmed up the walls beside my
face. Behind each eye were flames. the stench was
nauseating. my mind told me that they were the
"chained demons" of satan, and they agreed, saying "we
are the chained demons, here to haunt and taunt you in
hell! and, buddy we'll do it!" (their actual language
was so foul, it cannot be repeated.)"you could have
accepted god as your father and jesus as saviour. we
read the book. you're trapped with us now, and buddy,
we'll make this your hell. aha. aha. you fool!"
as if signaled by an unseen conductor, this legion of
filthy fallen angels suddenly dropped to the rock
floor and ringed around my feet again. deafening
decibels of heavy-metal voodoo sounds filled the place
competing for loudness with the thousand voices of
frenzied rock-&-roll bodies in epileptoid seizures!
mimicking every imaginable obscene gesture until they
were coupled in a mass of hysterical arachnoids, the
demons taunted me. wild gestures of invitation urged
me to join their screaming "fun." "our pit" echoed
with every debasing word and phrase known to satan's
crowd.
i screamed back at them: you filthy demons. you! who
taught you this musical garbage and obscene writhings?
stop it! right now!"
in unison the motions ceased. in momentary silence
they fixed their hateful fiery eyes upon me, then
sneered "aha's."
"you'll get used to it you fool! you'll never get out
of here. our boss, satan bound us here just to keep
you here and make it hell for you. he taught us
rock-sex-music to use around the world to destroy the
kids. it works. we have deceived the minds of almost
all children already.they think smut is the best fun.
they think that lust and sex are signs of growing
wise. we have them believing that anything goes as
long as it defies the notion of a living god. they
prefer devil-worship; they think it is more exciting.
we deceived them, and they dont know it yet. just
wait!" they were rollicking with raucous laughter at
the mere thought.
"why do you unclean spirits remain in this stinking
hole when you could spend time in the sunshine and
fresh air?" i demanded.
a cloud of hatred seemed to chill their reply.
"you idiot! dont you know? you could read! we are the
first creatures in the universe to be deceived by
satan! he fooled us angels. he said he was the real
god. we followed him instead of jehovah. now we are
chained, as it were, in this hell-hole. we are not
allowed to leave because we are assigned to get you
here, and we must keep you here. we hate satan but we
cannot be saved because satan cannot save anybody. you
human beings have a choice of a leader on earth,
either jesus christ of nazareth or satan the deceiver.
you fool: you could be in heaven right now if you
hadnt refused jesus' offer of life!
suddenly their invisible "conductor" seemingly tapped
his baton. the deafening heavy-rock beat began as the
spider-chorus resumed it eipleptoid convulsions of
sexual writhings to obscene demonic language and
laughter.
My Judge
in total despair i started to slide to the floor.
already there was no hope. but worse yet, i was
suddenly snatched away and found myself standing
before a gorgeous throne on which sat god, an
indescribable personage. i knew him by his radiance!
he was rapidly thumbing through a large book in his
right hand. i could see through its pages to the title
on the cover: THE BOOK OF LIFE. i felt
naked-physically, emotionally, spiritually, i knew i
was being judged, and i had no lawyer to plead my
case.
i heard my voice stammer:"what are you looking for,
god? my name must be there!"
"i am looking for your name in our family album, but i
do not find it here," he replied with a shake of his
head.
"but it must be there, god! i lived a good life. i was
never arrested or imprisoned. i obeyed the rules. i
did good works. look some more! what do you mean, im
not in your family?"
"you rejected my son's offer to be born again, to be
washed clean in his blood. remember? you were told
many times! there is nothing more i can do. you are
not one of my children. you belong to satan's family."
he stretched forth his arm and pointed to a distant
lake of fire.
i shall never forget what i saw: the second death. he
explained, "it was prepared for satan and his angels.
depart from me into everlasting punishment with your
father, the devil."
in a split second i was back in the pit, and i slid
like ooze among the little demons on the floor. then i
was snatched upward and found myself standing in
lazarus's tomb with the light on! my two minutes in
hell without jesus had ended! the guard was shouting
to the three of us to come forth.
"no the fuse did not blow," he answered me. "perhaps
something else? who knows? the light failed here." the
children voices filtered down: get your postcards fo'
a dollah."
i remember nothing of the other events of that day.
for months i could not overcome the horror of hell
enough to report its terror without sobbing. the
message of those two minutes was so clear: jesus loves
us so much that he voluntarily died to insulate us
from satan and save us from hell! on the other hand,
satan hates us so much he wants us in hell where he
can destroy us.
We're Given the Choice
how can jesus say it any more clearly than he did to
me? "tell them. tell them. tell them. they have a
choice. "there is yet a little time, but very little."
jesus says, "come forth. shed your graveclothes. join
god's family." jesus loves you, whatever your
condition. he says, "come as you are."
jesus has made it utterly clear through his word that
god sees two kinds of people-rebellious souls and
penitent souls. rebellious souls are those who choose
satan. they work for him and are paid in "wages,"
redeemable in death at the time of their judgement.
"and as it is appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgement" (hebrews 9:27). penitent
souls are those who choose jesus, the christ. they can
work with him and are given "gifts" redeemable in
eternal life at the moment they are received. "...but
the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ
our lord" (romans 6:23)
how exciting to know that today is the day the lord
has made for us to make our choice! we will rejoice
and be glad therein if we choose Him.
to... Tell Them I am Coming, written in 1977. And, Didnt
You Read My Book? written in 1991.)
Richard Eby and a few others are touring Lazarus's
Tomb when all of a sudden, the lights go out...
the ladies gave muffled screams and my heart skipped a
beat. being two stories underground in pitch-black
isolation was disturbing! i assumed a fuse had blown,
and i heard myself reflexly reassure the women:"please
pray and praise. it's just the fuse."
then the miracle! i did not even have time to join
them in a prayer. instead, i felt instantly alone in
the total darkness. there was not a rustle or a sound
of breathing from the ladies. they were gone as far as
i could determine. i dropped to the ground and groped
for the exit tunnel. i was alone! but only for an
instant. suddenly, beside me stood a man! in my
kneeling posture i sensed, then saw a person pressing
against me on my right side. first, i saw toes
protruding from the flowing robe; then as i panned
upward, the golden sash, beautifully muscled arms,
shoulder-length, light golden hair. the hands were
hidden: one on my left shoulder, the other between the
gown and the cold stone wall. to see his face, i
looked upward; he was six feet tall or more, and
looking downward into my face! portions of his beard
and mustache were missing.(i was not surprised.) his
hair was illuminated.
i knew instantly that he was my lord. without a shadow
of a doubt, i knew also that in his presence i again
had the mind of christ which he had shared with me
five years before this, when he spoke with me in
heaven. though i had never seen my saviours face, he
was telling me directly upon my mind(with which i was
now seeing him) that i was truly with him and in him
there in the tomb.
the royalty of that face! how can i desribe its
sovereignty, its compassion, its overwhelming look of
righteousness? in it i saw the justice of our
intercessor, the joy of our healer, the humility of
his father's faithful servant. i saw a display of
meekness without weakness, of limitless power with
infinite gentleness and those penetrating eyes,
emitting a radiance of indescribably limitless
love!nothing can be compared with the eyes of our god.
they held me spellbound. i actually saw the truth of
his claim that "greater love hath no man." i knew he
was looking at me and through me with the same
forgiveness and love which he showers upon all
doubting thomases.
then i noted in a fraction of a second, and i saw a
slight frown of concern from on his face like a cloud
of sadness. he quickly spoke two words in english: "my
son!" then he continued with the same lightning-fast
language we had used during my time in heaven. "i must
show you hell, but just for two minutes! i have
already shown you heaven. i want you to tell them,
tell them, tell them."
how it must have hurt him to send me into hell, even
for two short minutes! no wonder he frowned at the
thought: he had been there! he had once told his
disciples to ask his father to "deliver us from the
evil one." if it weren't that he had already had the
keys of hell and death in his right hand there in the
tomb, he would not have sent me to satan's home to
experience the horrors of a lost soul. jesus knew he
could bring me back, because he had already broken the
power of satan to bind a child of god!
My Orders
as though in shock, i stood stock-still, wondering
what i should "tell them." he already knew my thoughts
and was answering me at a million words a second. i
will try to summarize his command to me.
"you must tell them that i gave them a will when i
created them. they must make a choice between me or my
adversary, satan. man cannot live without a master;
his soul is made to worship someone. tell them i am a
gentleman; i will never override their free will. i
created them to be free to choose, because i would not
create anyone to be a slave. satan offers them the
security of slavery, but his wages are death. i offer
them freedom and the righteousness of my father in
heaven, where our gift of love and life is eternal."
in seconds, jesus had transmitted to me volumes of
spiritual data, bypassing my ears and brain which
would have been far too sluggish to receive his
instructions. for emphasis he repeated insistently:
"tell them. tell them. tell them. tell them how much i
love them! i left heaven to come and die for them. i
had to destroy the works of the devil so my children
could be freed! i arose to present them blameless
before my father in heaven! tell them they can choose
life with me-all for free. i paid the price. tell them
they will have the unsearchable riches that my father
has prepared for them. they can choose to belong to
the family of god. they can reign with me as kings and
priests through the ages. i will send them my spirit.
i will heal their infirmities. i will forgive their
sins. tell them i took their place on the cross!" at
this he shuddered.
"tell them," he continued, "my grace is sufficient for
them. it is my gift of love. they cannot earn it by
their works. i finished all the work and waiting on
the cross. all they must do is receive me into their
hearts and accept me as their way of life! then we
will be one!"
he suddenly paused, and i noted a tone of sorrow
(perhaps horror) as he spoke again: "tell them if they
ignore or reject my love, if they turn away from my
father, if they refuse to listen to urgings of the
spirit, there is nothing more we can do for them. they
remain under the control of satan, that liar and
deceiver, for whom i had to create hell when he defied
the almighty god. because jehovah is righteous, we had
to punish satan's wickedness and rebellion. i never
intended a human soul to go to hell; in fact i came
down from heaven and died for mankind to redeem him
from that deceiver. i even went to hell and took the
keys. i sealed satan's fate, and secured victory over
hell and death. tell them, my name is above all names,
but they must choose whom they will serve!"
then his voice changed. like a trumpet it echoed about
the tomb: "THERE IS YET A LITTLE WHILE BUT VERY
LITTLE!"
instantly a near-blinding golden light appeared behind
me. instinctively i turned my head. on the tomb wall,
being written without hand or brush, were appearing
the same words in beautiful english script.
from each letter, drops of glittering gold "paint"
were falling to the floor and exploding into a
transparent gold cloud that filled the tomb! i gasped
as i looked back into jesus' face.
"fear not, my son, "he quickly reassured me, "i want
you to have a visual memory of my promise to return
soon.
i understood! i would scarecly have enough time,
before his return, to go and tell them! i was being
commanded to disclose whatever i would see that day.
he is preparing to return for his earthly rule at
jerusalem, his headquarters. he as much as said, "i
cant wait much longer; world events can no longer be
postponed! these are the last days of which i spoke in
the upper room."
The Pit of Hell
suddenly, i was in hell! i knew i was trapped in the
bowels of the earth. instantly, i was in a stone,
coffinlike cell, four feet wide and six and a half
feet high. the terror was instantaneous and
indescribable. with a sickening thud i felt my feet
hit the rock floor.my lightning-fast mind added to the
horror of this total isolation in stone by telling me
all the answers to my sudden questions. cast as an
unsaved sinner, i was on death row in solitary
confinement by my own choice. satan had invited me,
and i had not refused. i alone was to blame. i had
died without accepting the love of jesus about which i
heard so many times. this is the pit of the first
death, the holding tank of horror. satan's stronghold
for sinners.
i tried to scream, i pounded the walls and the
ceiling.total blackness. total silence. total stench.
it had to be from demons. sure enough. i looked down
and saw clearly with the mind's eye of my fallen
spirit-body many little, spiderlike demons about my
feet. among them were several deformed catlike and
doglike creatures with black matted fur. despite their
constant movement, each one fastened its gaze upon me
as the smaller ones swarmed up the walls beside my
face. Behind each eye were flames. the stench was
nauseating. my mind told me that they were the
"chained demons" of satan, and they agreed, saying "we
are the chained demons, here to haunt and taunt you in
hell! and, buddy we'll do it!" (their actual language
was so foul, it cannot be repeated.)"you could have
accepted god as your father and jesus as saviour. we
read the book. you're trapped with us now, and buddy,
we'll make this your hell. aha. aha. you fool!"
as if signaled by an unseen conductor, this legion of
filthy fallen angels suddenly dropped to the rock
floor and ringed around my feet again. deafening
decibels of heavy-metal voodoo sounds filled the place
competing for loudness with the thousand voices of
frenzied rock-&-roll bodies in epileptoid seizures!
mimicking every imaginable obscene gesture until they
were coupled in a mass of hysterical arachnoids, the
demons taunted me. wild gestures of invitation urged
me to join their screaming "fun." "our pit" echoed
with every debasing word and phrase known to satan's
crowd.
i screamed back at them: you filthy demons. you! who
taught you this musical garbage and obscene writhings?
stop it! right now!"
in unison the motions ceased. in momentary silence
they fixed their hateful fiery eyes upon me, then
sneered "aha's."
"you'll get used to it you fool! you'll never get out
of here. our boss, satan bound us here just to keep
you here and make it hell for you. he taught us
rock-sex-music to use around the world to destroy the
kids. it works. we have deceived the minds of almost
all children already.they think smut is the best fun.
they think that lust and sex are signs of growing
wise. we have them believing that anything goes as
long as it defies the notion of a living god. they
prefer devil-worship; they think it is more exciting.
we deceived them, and they dont know it yet. just
wait!" they were rollicking with raucous laughter at
the mere thought.
"why do you unclean spirits remain in this stinking
hole when you could spend time in the sunshine and
fresh air?" i demanded.
a cloud of hatred seemed to chill their reply.
"you idiot! dont you know? you could read! we are the
first creatures in the universe to be deceived by
satan! he fooled us angels. he said he was the real
god. we followed him instead of jehovah. now we are
chained, as it were, in this hell-hole. we are not
allowed to leave because we are assigned to get you
here, and we must keep you here. we hate satan but we
cannot be saved because satan cannot save anybody. you
human beings have a choice of a leader on earth,
either jesus christ of nazareth or satan the deceiver.
you fool: you could be in heaven right now if you
hadnt refused jesus' offer of life!
suddenly their invisible "conductor" seemingly tapped
his baton. the deafening heavy-rock beat began as the
spider-chorus resumed it eipleptoid convulsions of
sexual writhings to obscene demonic language and
laughter.
My Judge
in total despair i started to slide to the floor.
already there was no hope. but worse yet, i was
suddenly snatched away and found myself standing
before a gorgeous throne on which sat god, an
indescribable personage. i knew him by his radiance!
he was rapidly thumbing through a large book in his
right hand. i could see through its pages to the title
on the cover: THE BOOK OF LIFE. i felt
naked-physically, emotionally, spiritually, i knew i
was being judged, and i had no lawyer to plead my
case.
i heard my voice stammer:"what are you looking for,
god? my name must be there!"
"i am looking for your name in our family album, but i
do not find it here," he replied with a shake of his
head.
"but it must be there, god! i lived a good life. i was
never arrested or imprisoned. i obeyed the rules. i
did good works. look some more! what do you mean, im
not in your family?"
"you rejected my son's offer to be born again, to be
washed clean in his blood. remember? you were told
many times! there is nothing more i can do. you are
not one of my children. you belong to satan's family."
he stretched forth his arm and pointed to a distant
lake of fire.
i shall never forget what i saw: the second death. he
explained, "it was prepared for satan and his angels.
depart from me into everlasting punishment with your
father, the devil."
in a split second i was back in the pit, and i slid
like ooze among the little demons on the floor. then i
was snatched upward and found myself standing in
lazarus's tomb with the light on! my two minutes in
hell without jesus had ended! the guard was shouting
to the three of us to come forth.
"no the fuse did not blow," he answered me. "perhaps
something else? who knows? the light failed here." the
children voices filtered down: get your postcards fo'
a dollah."
i remember nothing of the other events of that day.
for months i could not overcome the horror of hell
enough to report its terror without sobbing. the
message of those two minutes was so clear: jesus loves
us so much that he voluntarily died to insulate us
from satan and save us from hell! on the other hand,
satan hates us so much he wants us in hell where he
can destroy us.
We're Given the Choice
how can jesus say it any more clearly than he did to
me? "tell them. tell them. tell them. they have a
choice. "there is yet a little time, but very little."
jesus says, "come forth. shed your graveclothes. join
god's family." jesus loves you, whatever your
condition. he says, "come as you are."
jesus has made it utterly clear through his word that
god sees two kinds of people-rebellious souls and
penitent souls. rebellious souls are those who choose
satan. they work for him and are paid in "wages,"
redeemable in death at the time of their judgement.
"and as it is appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgement" (hebrews 9:27). penitent
souls are those who choose jesus, the christ. they can
work with him and are given "gifts" redeemable in
eternal life at the moment they are received. "...but
the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ
our lord" (romans 6:23)
how exciting to know that today is the day the lord
has made for us to make our choice! we will rejoice
and be glad therein if we choose Him.