

I still had no idea where I was, and I felt utterly panicked. Those creatures were an intensely concentrated manifestation of those two forces. I recognized that they were entirely evil, and they were gazing at me with pure, unrestrained hatred, which completely paralyzed me with fear. But these creatures were not of this natural world. It is one thing to be threatened by someone much taller than you. These towering beasts were far, far beyond intimidating. These creatures were approximately ten to thirteen feet tall. I saw two enormous beasts, unlike anything I had ever seen before. Immediately I realized that I was not alone in this cell. I noticed that I had a body, one that appeared just as it is now. Proverbs 7:27 refers to "chambers" of death in hell.Īs I lay there on the floor of that cell, I felt extremely weak.

Isaiah 24:22 says, "And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison" (KJV). With its walls of rough stone and rigid bars on the door, I felt as though I was in a temporary holding area, a place where a prisoner would await his final hours before meeting a far more terrifying destiny. My point of arrival was a cell that was approximately fifteen feet high by ten feet wide with a fifteen-foot depth. I was catapulted out of my bed into the very pit of hell. This excerpt reprinted with permission of Charisma House. Wiese believes that after 23 minutes of torment, Jesus came to rescue him from hell and returned him to earth, where he landed, shaking, on his living room floor. Wiese claims that he was lying in bed at 3 a.m. when he was plunged into hell-not in a dream, but in actuality not because he had died and was being punished, but because God wanted him to experience hell and warn others. In his book "23 Minutes in Hell," California realtor Bill Wiese describes his personal experience of November 22, 1998.
