4. The Key of Hades

From the Sermon on July 9, 2000

Christianity is a religion that deals strongly with spiritual issues. Of course our living world is important, but it is more important to know about the spiritual world after death because it is eternal.

No one knows about full extent of the spiritual world before their death. As a servant of God, I have had experiences of this spiritual world several times. I have seen what will happen to us after we die, in visions from God. I have also witnessed the scene of someone’s journey after his death. I saw the man, who was very well known in Korea during his lifetime, receiving judgment from God.

I told you that two guides approach people when they die.

Some people consider that these guides take souls to the underworld. But this is not accurate. They come from Satan’s world, Hades, which is beyond the universe, not from this so-called underworld. Why do Satan’s messengers come? Because, spirits belong to Satan. Jesus said to Israelites: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire” (John 8:44).

One evil spirit showed Jesus in an instant all the kingdoms of the world and said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to” (Luke 4:6). The evil received them from Satan. Therefore, we can know that Satan rules us and takes us to his world after death. God takes only the spirits that belong to him. They are only prophets and martyrs.

If someone dies, their spirits leave their body. They know that their physical form is the one that ceased to exist. They understand that while their 70-year-old body may lay lifeless, they continue to exist in the spiritual form.

When a larva becomes a cicada after living under ground, its shape changes to something completely different. Our