Sample Chapter

In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Ephesians 6:16


CHAPTER 1
Descent Into Hell

In January 2002, I died and went to Hell, and Hell’s address is:

6161 West Charleston Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89146

My dejection at the time compelled me to swallow not one, but two bottles of pills. Two demons dressed in red T-shirts and black pants rolled me on a gurney through the Gates of Hell on West Charleston Boulevard. As we passed through the gates, I heard birds singing. Soon, however, the birds turned into bats, which let out terrible shrieks.

“You want a cigarette?” a black demon asked me. I declined because I don’t smoke. One tall demon, with glasses and white hair, and named Miguel, took my blood pressure, pulse, and temperature.

In Hell, the demons used unseen forces to pull my arms in opposite direction. My right arm stretched like a rubber band to the right and my left arm to the left. With these same unseen forces the Devil’s minions stretched my neck up while stretching my legs down. I was afraid I’d snap like a twig.

“When do I go home?” I asked one of the demons. Hell broke out in raucous laughter from the multitude of demons.

“He thought he was going home!” one of them jeered. Then I realized this was no nightmare. I had truly died and gone to Hell. Depression crept upon me because I could not escape eternal damnation. God had rewarded my faith with immense suffering for all eternity. Yes, the Lord had betrayed me. Attending Sunday Mass every week made no difference. Receiving the other sacraments like reconciliation also made no difference. Just being a good person made no difference. The Almighty doomed me to final damnation.

I sat on a couch, and I knew the Devil was somewhere out there plotting ways to torment me forever and ever. My chin then fused with my neck, and I could not life my head no matter how hard I tried. Satan commenced the eternal series of torture. Everything went black, yet I could hear the demons talking around me. I was gone blind! What else did the Devil have in mind? Then my chin began to dig into my chest. My whole head would dig into my chest. Fear gripped me. The Devil was mutilating me!

I couldn’t even scream because I couldn’t free my jaws nor open my mouth. The struggle lasted for hours. Finally, I could see again. Hell didn’t seem so bad. I was alone in the room where all the demons had been. A television was the only thing in the room. Then a black demon motioned for me to come with him. I followed to a door to a dark room where the bodies of the dead lay on beds. The yellow fires of Hell glowed in the room. The demon had taken me to an oven to burn me for all eternity. The demon pointed to a door to a different oven, the oven where I would burn forever. I laid in one of the two beds and an unseen force nailed me to the bed. I couldn’t move. The yellow fire glowed from a window to the room. Forever, I knew I was burning in Hell.