hi welcome to Heaven encounters my guest
today is Brian Melvin he was a
self-professed militant atheist and then
he died and he experienced hell
after his death
but there was an event that was
after that that is also very intriguing
because God gave him a vision of Heaven
as well
but I guess Brian will we'll start with
uh the hell experience and Welcome to
our program well thank you for having me
Randy it's great to be here
it's great to have you and uh let's
start there with with how you died and
and then after that how you entered into
hell
well pretty make a long story short you
know I got about a full five hour
testimony so but anyway I found myself
uh drinking some bad water polluting
water out of a thermos and I contracted
cholera and basically dehydrated and
died that's how it all began and I
recall about three days after I drank
the water taking my last breath and in a
nanosecond I lost all my atheistic World
Views like you said I was a militant
atheist back then what amazed me that
after I died I was still alive I was
more alive thin than I am now I mean it
was like just an Awakening and a new
realm it's just incredible I found
myself floating above my body had no
worries and next thing I knew I went
through the ceiling and entered the
black void and at that time I knew
nothing absolutely nothing about
near-death experiences after death
experience because being an atheist I
wouldn't believe it didn't way you know
you just wouldn't believe anything like
that I knew nothing I was a blank slate
all I knew I was alive my body was
laying there I went through the ceiling
I was interjected into a black void
heading toward a light like a lot of
people have say they do you know I I
never heard any of this stuff before and
I was in this black boy floating toward
this light hearing is a very beautiful
beautiful profound music and
um
it was I heard this beautiful profound
music and it was explaining the
mysteries of God his Nature's character
the mysteries of the universe if you
will most of it was
um
I can't really talk about because
there's just no way to talk about it but
anyway I was floating through there and
it was like I was being confronted with
something and because Snippets of my
life would be flashing before me and I
could see how I was taking advantage of
certain characteristics of God with
myself knowing it as well as not knowing
it I was taking advantage of God's Gift
he gave me life I was actually making
life very ugly and I never realized I
was headed toward a reckoning because I
felt this profound love and joy and
never thought in a million years that
God's love was actually going to be
judging me and that's how it all began
Randy hmm and at that point that you
felt judged
and you encountered at that point uh
Jesus and that's the amazing thing
because you really didn't know
uh about him and and he told you
something in advance of where you were
going what did he say yes that's
floating through this void and I landed
before him and feet first and I stood
before him and I knew who it was you
know it was Jesus and what it was like
was having your what he was showing me
how I gained this system I thought you
know how I uh how do you say it I was
just totally uh a reprobate in my
thinking so to speak I would take
advantage of people
um it's like like my parents my parents
God gave me a gift of Life gave me great
parents Southern Baptist parents and
gave me great home but I took advantage
of all those things I gained the system
so to speak I abused God's love God's
love makes the rain fall on the just and
the unjust and gives you life and I was
taking advantage of it I was using it
for my own ends I betrayed people I Rob
from people at that time one of the
visions that came to me was fast even in
my life where I sold drugs to the church
youth group and they got high during a
skating thing and they all came back
wanting more drugs and I found my I knew
nothing about drugs except what I read
in a book and
and that's how it all began for me I I
did things I should not have done and I
just was taking advantage of God's love
and then God would show me all the
different times he came to me knocked on
my door so to speak trying to get my
attention in like there to be I I don't
by three or four very bad car wrecks
that I miraculously avoided from being
killed as well as those who were with me
being killed as well as people that
would come up to me and witness and
legitimate Christians that is and how I
treat them and stuff and I was like
poking my finger in God's eye that's
basically how I live my life I had a
chip on my shoulder I accused God of
being a big meanie he doesn't want to
you would have any uh fun I learned all
this stuff you know it's from the media
from school Arts entertainment all that
kind of stuff just as a young kid when I
was growing up and you dated me to think
that there was no God or that God owed
man an apology and basically I balance
from agnosticism into full-blown
militant atheism when this happened
wow so you were an atheist at this point
Jesus told you that you cannot enter
into heaven
because of this
and then he said something to you that
you would carry with you to uh to your
experience in hell yeah he he after he
showed me all the experience of from
saving my matters many times from
accidents and stuff and he showed me you
know what I was really like on the
inside and that I don't deserve Heaven
if I was allowed in I'd simply corrupt
it and so what he said to me said you
will see a Land Unknown that's best
forgotten but not to remain left unseen
when you come to a point of overwhelming
say my name in my title and
um I and also he said returning is an
option to be yet decided
that was the kicker because it was like
a um
you know I'm flummoxed I had no idea I
wrote in my book Atlanta and known
hell's Dominion I mean I was flummox I
was just like a deer in the headlight
look yes sir whatever you say sir and
that was basically it and so here I was
um I was picked up by a force after that
and went to a door it rolled this door
rolled up like a scroll and I went into
that door and I was in the tornado
warned text-like place and it was
smelled awful a lot of foul language and
language and different languages coming
at you you hear this it was very hot you
heard all this noise it was like being
inside of a tornado I came to a
yellowish dent and it was a light I came
through it fell through the sky bounced
on the ground and I knew I was headed
for an awful place and what I recall
people talk about hell and stuff as
Devils and pitchforks and flames and
fire well I bounced on the ground and
found myself
um on that hill going I looked down the
valley and there's a house on the other
side and all these people come running
out of the house people who I know who
have died or whatever and they came down
and welcomed me to paradise this wasn't
Paradise because the tree was
dilapidated things looked dead it was
extraordinarily hot and
they came up to me slapping me on my
back and I I said that a couple people
came up to me I said you can't be you
because you ain't dead yet you know or
you can't be in Paradise because I know
what you did and then they would change
and morph into what they another person
and I thought that was strange then
their eyes looked like alligator eyes or
like a yellow reptilian type eyes and
then they turned into what they were
these were these hellish creatures or
the Demonic beings you want to call them
and different shapes and sizes the
taller ones had authority over the
smaller ones and they like they're going
to overwhelm me and tear me to shreds
and that's when I started to say Jesus
Christ Jesus Christ Jesus Christ because
he told me to say his name and his title
and they could not grab a hold of me and
rip me to shreds they can poke me and
they can threaten me but they couldn't
grab me and that means a lot to me at
that time and that's pretty much how it
started this whole thing and this
creature you stood about four foot eight
tall he had breath that was so foul that
it would be like heat waves coming off
the pavement out of his mouth that's how
fall it was I could never see how many
eyes and he kind of looked like a little
dinosaur type thing a rep Fillion type
entity and I I nicknamed him lizard
breath because his his breath was so
fast after I came back that's what I
nicknamed him and so
he ripped he came over and told me come
follow him like off you half the kingdom
it's been granted to you to see this
place he hated my guts I mean I tell you
I tell you you know someone hates you
that much and he walked over and he
stuck his hand in what looked like the
Horizon and ripped it open and he
stepped out of there and I had nothing I
didn't know what to do I just followed
it and stood went through that opening
and stood out and I came I stepped up
out of it onto a wide dusty road and
behind me when I came out of was a cube
or a cell like the Bible says in
um in the Book of Proverbs chambers of
death or Ezekiel chapter 32 talks about
um the graves or Graves roundabout or
sepulchers or dungeon cells like around
in this pit so I found myself in a pit
in this place uh it was like a
bottomless pit so all I can describe was
an open place in the middle these
tornado warned Texas were dropping
people off inside of these cells and
plus these these demonic entities
or escorting people and placing them in
cells at the same time I was overwhelmed
I didn't know what to think about it and
I just sat there and I I looked at it
and this thing was talking to me in a
hellish language and I can understand it
and I and I looked inside the cells and
I could see people inside the cells I
had instant like download of their life
history and in this instant and this
thing was going to show me this place
and I don't know why he was showing me
because at the time I wanted to wake up
because this was this was this was
terrifying and even when I was getting
ready for this I had to take a break and
and calm down a little bit because
sometimes the memories can be a little
intense and so I just remember in that
part coming out looking at all these
entities bringing these people in
watching these tornado War Texas in uh
dropping people off in these cubes and
this thing saying come follow it and
that's what I did and that's what
happened that's how I got to this place
it was the pit of Hill
um
and Ryan you saw people there you knew
their station in life before they had
died you account for a
former Pastor I think I don't know what
I've forgotten what of what era who was
uh had you know slept with many women
and then you saw one
person in particular
and I've got to ask you I will let you
say who that is but his he is probably
the most despised man in all of history
recent history certainly yeah I saw so
many people there and you see their life
history and stuff and so we were walking
along
um this wide dusty road looking inside
these cells and I was granted the
ability to just who know who they were
and then in some instances we were able
to go in between the cubes uh like keems
were like a bricklayer and when since
around they kind of open up in little
v-shaped formations in the rooms and it
goes lines back behind there so we've
squeezed through the the sides of it and
go in the back so we kind of wind back
around down and around I can't explain
how it all is in a short amount of time
we have here but I ended up in a place
where some of the worst of the worst of
the worst people were and the individual
that I saw that I I mentioned also in a
docu drama that was done in me was Adolf
Hitler he was inside at that time this
was 1980 when this happened he was
inside of a what I would call a fiery
furnace like where he like Auschwitz
where they put the bodies and they were
burning them and he was going through
what every single victim went through
from their arrest from their arrival
from their strip down to where they were
gassed every single one and felt every
single thing man woman and child and
that's what I saw and he wasn't being
reformed he was getting crazier that's
all I gotta say his real nature was
really coming forth it seemed like Ryan
that the sins that they had committed
and some of them just vile sins
obviously
that they were being replayed over and
over in their life in this place
is that what it was like yeah it was it
was very much
um like that like I looked into a cell
and I saw a man from he died days gone
by and he was attending this costume
party he was in a kind of elitist snob
that's all I can say and he appeared to
be enjoying himself because he likes
charades and and putting on these these
funny masks but it was like suddenly it
shifted and he was in Nightmare stage
when the attendees began to ridicule and
mock him like he would do everybody else
and he felt the pain of the ridicule so
what the Bible says what you sow is that
is what you reap I saw so many people in
there I saw this lecturist old-time
Revival preacher who wasn't really a
preacher at all he wasn't never saved
but he liked to exploit his position to
have his way with the ladies and he was
there reaping what he'd sown and I real
quickly I saw one particular person her
name was deer pudding and she arrived
she died in a car wreck she died and she
landed in front of me in this um in the
tornado Vortex and he knocked on this
door and opened as the cube herself like
her grandparents Farm she went in
thought she saw all her dead relatives
welcoming her to paradise and she really
thought she was there and maybe if she
was resuscitated to soon maybe she would
be on Oprah Winfrey in all those shows
and but anyway she went in there and she
found out that she wasn't in a nice
place and it transpired that she was
um
like she reap what she sowed and then
finished these big creatures I saw there
looked like trees and so for what
appeared to be her grandmother which was
a demonstromonic being said go rest
under the shade of the trees I'll bake
you your favorite cookies and uh you're
down at your this new Farm here and it's
your favorite place so she went over
there and there there's no water in hell
but she she thought there was water so
she sat on this rock picked up a bunch
of sand and she realized this wasn't a
nice place because she heard the noise
and felt the Heat and these two
tree-like things were like uh tentacle
like
um squid-like beings looking to her like
trees and they engulfed her and
she um she was very mean to her kids she
was a control freak she beat her
children with a hairbrush because she
wanted them to be in this family you're
going to be a doctor you're going to be
a lawyer you're not going to be a lowly
truck driver you know you're you're not
going to be an astronaut you're going to
be a doctor and and that's the way she
raised her kids and but everybody else
thought that she was so nice but she was
reaping what she has sown right then and
there all that when that trees and those
creatures reached and grabbed her that's
exactly what
went into her mind she saw that
how she treated people really treated
people
wow and all this time
the demon that you called Lizard breath
he was speaking out to you uh you know
vile things
and then it goes back to what Jesus had
told you at the very beginning before
going to This Land Unknown
and that is the crowd his name
and that prevented you from being drawn
in or
you know kept in that place
well he gave me permission I didn't
understand all this at the time
but I'm looking back at hindsight now
and so from hindsight he told me his
name I knew nothing about the power of
His name I knew I I you know I did not
know anything about this stuff but I
learned quickly there's power in the
name of Jesus they can't grab a hold of
you and they can't pull you down and
you're ministering now you're obviously
not an an atheist anymore you are born
Anew in in Jesus and uh you are
preaching uh or teaching from his word
but you did return and you were still
an atheist at that time or when did you
become a Believer well after I well my
neighbor found me and I was taken to the
hospital where I recovered well they
they didn't my blood was viscous at the
time and I didn't understand all the
stuff but they diagnosed with cholera
they diagnosed me with cholera and then
next thing I knew I was on my I don't
know how long I was in the hospital but
I came home and my roommates and I
rented rooms to in this duplex
um had to go to work that next morning
or whatever morning I don't recall what
day it was whatever but I couldn't go to
work so I sat in a bean bag chair
in in my um in my duplex apartment and
and I just didn't know what to think I
didn't know what to tell anybody and so
I just sat in the bean bag chair and I
said uh Lord Jesus uh I never want to go
back to that awful Place take me I'm
yours that was my my salvation prayer
and then it and at that moment uh I'm
not kidding a cool breeze came in that
duplex apartment with the swamp cooler
it was 94 degrees inside but it felt
like air conditioning went inside me and
I haven't been the same since
Ah that's how I got saved
well uh I guess you got the the hell
scared out of you literally really did
yes and speaking of that Brian
uh you suffered uh from this it was it
was almost worse than going into to
Warfare because you were in the pit of
Hell
and uh you suffered from what is uh
called uh post-traumatic stress disorder
PTSD and uh you suffered from that for a
period of time
um but God did something in your life
to heal you of that suffering what what
happened oh yes um at the time you know
I didn't know I couldn't come to terms
with it I was a Christian you Christian
and I was
um
and I I suffered sight sounds smells PSD
I didn't know PS I didn't know what PSD
was back then and so that was having
nightmares
um things would triggered the memory and
all that but what the Lord did for me
was simply
um allowed me to see heaven
and some people say oh you people don't
go to heaven well God can do what he
wants he changes not a like an old
Pastor argued with me he says you know
it's a point that wants to men to die
and um I just don't believe that this
happened I said well as Jesus did today
is Jesus the same yesterday today and
forever and he goes yeah and then I ask
him what changed he raised Lazarus from
the dead and he wants to give somebody a
vision of heaven then he most certainly
can right oh yeah so and that's what he
did for me so an open Vision or
translated there
um or as Paul would write in the body or
out of the body of no Paul by any
stretch but it's just um
that's what happened and so one night
when I was in a very bad mood he wasn't
looking for this to happen
and he allowed me to see heaven
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he just called me up there
he he gave you open whether you were
transported or she said with Paul in the
body out of the body but you were you
had this Vision now
of heaven and in diametrical opposition
to hell what did what did God show you
in heaven when he shown me in heaven was
um it was more for me to be healed by it
was because at the time I was I didn't I
never wanted to go to hell again so I
was always trying to work and keep
myself saved or whatever that's what I
was doing and uh I was involved in so
much Ministry work at the time had
intercessor of the Church of studying in
the ministry studying this studying that
and so uh next thing I knew I was in
heaven and he showed me this tour of
Heaven to calm me down about seeing hell
and he and he showed me some Mysteries
some stuff that was in heaven that I'm
writing a new book on hopefully I can
get it done soon and just share some of
these things it wasn't like some new
revelation or anything it was like
substantiating what's in the Bible in a
different in a degree of intensity
um that's what he showed me he showed me
things in heaven about uh
I call it a field of reunion where great
reunions were were made people enter
into heaven through the Pearly gate so
to speak and they stand there and every
single issue in their life you know
maybe they lost a loved one or what what
really shocked me was people who lost
their little kids even through abortion
and they're Christians now they come
through there and there's their child
there and they grow up before their eyes
like a little baby crawling up and one
woman had an abortion she felt so guilty
about it and the baby crawled up to her
and said hi Mom
as a young man and we got all eternity
together mom stop crying I think of this
and that's exactly what it was was like
there's this reconciliation that's why I
call it a field of reunion and
Reconciliation and all every Tears Dry
There's No More Tears it's just it's
just a phenomenal thing and the love
there is so profound I can't even
describe it and um
I kind of long for it especially in
these days and times Randy
I want to get back there damn God's time
yeah amen
amen and that experience in heaven and
you were saying a contrast of redemption
in heaven versus condemnation and hell
you actually
you actually lived through that
diametrical opposition of of those two
places
but you were a Believer and Jesus
obviously you were allowed to go into
heaven at that point
um when you return from that uh Vision
or being transported to heaven
and uh you came too there's some things
that happened to you
subsequent to that experience tell us
about that yeah I was healed of PSD I
came back and I didn't worry about my
salvation because I learned that
um John 10 talks about it no one's able
to snatch you out of his hand if you're
truly born again if you're truly saved
there's no way you're going to lose your
salvation I know people arguing with me
on that but I'm talking about truly
born-again people there's true converts
and false converts that's one of the
things that that was drilled into me
from up there there are false Believers
false Brethren who think they're saved
and there's True Believers if you're a
True Believer you go through a process
he's what he showed me he's going to
heal your broken heart he's going to set
you free from certain things he's going
to whatever bondage you are and you're
going to release you from that in due
process of time called sanctification
and you'll be getting rid of the junk in
your trunk so to speak and that's what
happened to me and that's that's what I
like to share with people and I I pray
for people for that as well to help them
come out of these problem areas in their
life that they have because that's what
Jesus came to do that's what I learned
and came back from heaven and that's
what I've been implementing since I came
back I have a sense of knowing who I am
in Christ as a Believer I know my
authority I know that I have no
righteousness of my own ability I am a
wretch inside but it was through what
God declared to me and to all believers
like in the Book of Romans says he
declared us righteous
blameless in in his sight because of
what Jesus Christ did on the cross I can
rest in his word because that word will
come to pass in my life and it will also
reveal what's inside that needs to be
changed and he's great at changing us he
certainly is Brian I'm going to ask you
uh one final question and that is
why do you think that you had this
opportunity this second chance
that's the thing that's troubled me it's
one of the things I I struggle with pts
the most was why was I allowed to come
back and no one else did and that kind
of weighs on you and some people call it
survivor's guilt but it's like
um I really honestly do not know all I
said is take me I'm yours Lord do with
me as I dispense and like he told me he
says in an appointed hour tell them you
know of This Land Unknown that's best
forgotten but will not remain left
unseen
and so only thing I can say is maybe to
share this message preach the gospel
talk about heaven and get as many people
into the kingdom of God as possible
well I I wish we had time to to preach
more because there's a lot more isn't
there and
I mean the great news is that um if you
know Jesus as your Messiah
then you are destined for heaven and
thank you so much Brian for joining us
today
and the great news is if you are in
Christ Jesus give good cheer because
heaven is in your future until next time
take care and God bless
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