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Today’s churches do not always touch on the subject of hell. God does not want anyone to go to hell, but if they do not put Him first in their life and do His works, one might not end up where they think they are going.

Pastor Seung Woo Byun explores specific and powerful promises of God that point to heaven and hell. Readers are guided through biblical End-Time prophecies, with special focus on the impending rapture of the true church—the bride of Christ. Many questions are answered by an overview of the Rapture, the Second Resurrection, the Antichrist, the role of the Jewish people, and what one must do to be prepared.

This “must-read” book will not only reveal where you do not want to go (and why), but where you do want to go and how to get there through Christ Jesus. You will not want to miss the truth about the two worlds that await you when you die.
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    Christians Going to Hell - Seung-woo Byun

    Christians Going to Hell

    Copyright ⓒ 2006 by Seung-woo Byun

    Published by HolyPearl Publications

    27-22, Wiryeseong-daero 22-gil Songpa-gu Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Original Korean edition published in Korea by HolyPearl Publications.

    First published in Korea under the title of 지옥에 가는 크리스천들

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

    Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

    Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

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    THE ENDORSEMENTS

    FROM THE WORLD-RENOWNED MEN OF GOD

    · BOB JONES, The father of the prophets of this age

    "Pastor Byun, you have been drawing a line in the sand by preaching the message in Christians Going to Hell so far. You have no other choice. You have to hold fast to the call that God has called you to.

    If you learn to love, you will speak the truth. Everywhere you go, you will make those who have the spirit of religion feel uncomfortable. The more you take hold of the truth, the more people will feel disturbed. However, our hope is in the truth. Only the truth will set us free. That change begins from men and women who start declaring the truth. 

    The church is not familiar with people who proclaim the truth. The church has so far been eating candies too much. It cannot take solid food. However, you have to keep feeding them. For the church cannot grow by eating candies only. The church can grow when it eats solid food. This is exactly what you, Pastor Byun, are doing. I prayed for you. I always pray for people, pray if there are any doctrinal errors with them. However, when I prayed for you, I didn’t see any doctrinal errors. So, I believe that there are no doctrinal errors with you."

    · SURPRISE SITHOLE, International Director of Pastors for IRIS Ministries, overseeing 7,000 churches

    "After reading the English edition of Pastor Byun’s book, Christians Going to Hell, I experienced a change in my life, and I wanted to read more of Pastor Byun’s books. There are a few Koreans who make my heart excited just by being together with. For they have been with the Lord. Pastor Byun is one of them. Among them, Pastor Byun is outstanding. He has simplicity, power and humility that can only be found from people who bear the image of the Lord.

    I read Christians Going to Hell and learned that it is filled with the truth that most Christians don’t speak about. Pastor Byun is thinking more than what many Christians think. Every leader I met acknowledged, after reading this book, Christians Going to Hell, that it is a book really needed for churches in the west, South America, Asia and Africa. The messages I preached through the books and sermons were also upon seeing this reality of the church. The Lord wants to reverse this situation."

    · LOU ENGLE, Founder of TheCall, President of Lou Engle Ministries

    "When I heard about Christians Going to Hell, the book you, Pastor Byun, wrote, it was Charles Finney that came up in my mind. I thought you were Finney of Korea. When Finney ministered, America was also in a very religious state. Finney’s message was about the false comfort that a religion of mere confession had. These religious people called upon Christ, but Finney exposed the false comfort that was in them. We must not comfort Christians going to hell.

    On Jan. 11, a prayer meeting, TheCall was held in Ohio. It is where Finney was buried. His tombstone at Oberlin, Ohio reads as follows. ‘The Lord our God be with us as He was with our fathers!’  

    Father, use Pastor Byun as Finney of Korea. Stir up the heart of Finney. I think it is not a coincidence that it was immediately brought to my mind that Pastor Byun is a man like Finney for Korea."

    · STEVE THOMPSON, The former Associate Director of MorningStar Fellowship Church

    Usually the gifts and books benefit their own churches but not the kingdom of God. However, I felt in the spirit that Christians Going to Hell is a book profitable not just to an individual church but to the kingdom of God. There will be a great harvest in the future and this great harvest will take place not just in the world but also within churches. In this respect, the role of this book is really important.

    · CHOO THOMAS, Author of the bestselling book Heaven is So Real!

    "The Lord told me that He had caused Pastor Byun to write the book Christians Going to Hell for people who are confused about hell and for Christians who do not know what they must do to go to heaven. Every Christian must read Christians Going to Hell, a book filled with God’s truth.

    The Lord told me that He is not pleased at all that some pastors never mention hell. The Lord spoke of hell so many times while He was on the earth because He does not want anyone to go there.

    I thank God that He chose Pastor Byun to write this book, because some Christians never hear about hell from sermons or from Bible studies. They truly do not realize what a terrifying place hell is. Furthermore, some Christians have no idea what will happen after they die. How sad it is! Our bodies will die, but our souls and spirits never die. We will feel pain, joy, sadness, and all the emotions we felt while we were living on Earth. Whether we go to hell or heaven, we will live eternally.

    I was led by the Holy Spirit as I wrote this introduction. The Lord told me to write this. He also told me that this book is the voice that wakens the souls before His second coming. I realize how important this book is for all Christians everywhere. Before the coming of Jesus Christ, I want to recommend this book to everyone. This book is very important to the Lord. He wants all of His people to go to heaven. Heavenly Father, thank You so much for loving us! I give all the glory to God. Praise the Lord!"

    · SHAWN BOLZ, Director of Bolz Ministries

    "Once I went to one place in heaven and it was the library room of heaven. There were three sections: past, present, and future. Numerous books existing on this earth today are not in the library room of heaven.

    Nevertheless, they are recognized for the fruits they bear on earth. However, they don’t have eternal value. Many of the books there were not heard of from this earth. However, the Lord calls them very precious books. 

    In heaven are many books of Pastor Byun. I saw a section like shelves in the library room of heaven for your books. Not just one or two or three but really many books were placed in it. I saw Christians Going to Hell also in the library of heaven. In the future, your book will be translated into many different languages besides Korean and to many nations and they will be going into the whole world."

    · JILL AUSTIN, World-renowned charismatic minister

    "Christians Going to Hell is a book really needed since today many people mistakenly believe that they are saved although they aren’t. I am also preaching such a message and now is the time to awake souls. This is a book that I’d like to put in my arms and kiss. I can tell in the spirit that this book is an important book.

    Pastor Byun, you have powerful leadership. You are powerfully gifted in teaching. I see angels surrounding you. The holy angels are next to you to help you write books by bringing revelations and messages down from heaven. I see the library room of heaven and I can see your books there and a separate section for your books. You are a man with a very pure and clean spirit. You are pure and clean."

    CONTENTS

    The Endorsements from the World-renowned Men of God

    Preface

    1. Do Not Go to Hell!

    2. The Repentance That Leads to Salvation

    3. Faith More Precious than Gold

    4. Faith and Obedience

    5. Rebirth I

    6. Rebirth II

    7. There Is No Such Thing as Shameful Salvation!

    8. The Kingdom that Only the Victorious Can Enter

    9. Je-e-sus!

    10. Up to Seventy Times Seven

    11. Saint Chunhyang

    Afterword

    Endnote

    PREFACE

    My heart sincerely wishes that all would believe in Jesus, receive the assurance of salvation, and not go to hell.

    Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 7:21)

    These words are truth and will be fulfilled. Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, George Whitfield, Charles Finney, Richard Baxter, Thomas Watson, and Joseph Alleine very clearly proclaimed this truth. Charles Hodge, Dwight Moody, Aiden W. Tozer, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and John Stott followed the same truth. However, most of the modern church has lost this truth. As a result, many souls are being deceived and face the danger of destruction.

    At such a time, I think it is very fortunate that Heaven Is So Real!, written by Mrs. Choo Thomas and translated by Pastor Yonggi Cho, has come out. This book was long overdue, testifying and re-emphasizing the fact that those whose hearts are impure and who are disobedient will definitely not enter heaven.

    Heaven Is So Real! is a testimony of Mrs. Thomas’s experience of going to heaven seventeen times. In the book, the Lord sighed over the fact that only about 20 percent of churches are putting Me first; the rest of them are worrying about what people say and how much money they will have.¹ Also He said, Only about 20 percent of Christians are actually pleasing Him.² In the book, the following shocking information is recorded:

    The Lord touched my head, and took my hand, leading me down a dark tunnel, and we emerged on another rough road that ran very far and to the edge of the pit. This mountain road led through tall trees and huge rocks. When we got to the top, I looked out over a brown and lifeless valley. Everywhere there was brown. The whole region seemed to be filled with dead grass.

    I noticed multitudes of people who were wearing sand-colored robes roaming aimlessly in the vicinity of the pit’s yawning mouth. Their heads were hanging low, and they looked very dejected and hopeless.

    Who are these people, Lord? I asked.

    They are disobedient ‘Christians.’

    How long will they have to stay in this barren, lifeless place?

    Forever, My daughter. The only ones who will enter My kingdom are the pure of heart—my obedient children.

    He went on to explain: Many who call themselves ‘Christians’ do not live by My Word, and some of them think that going to church once a week is enough. They never read My words, and they pursue worldly things. Some who even know My words never have their hearts with Me.

    The whole plan and purpose of God was beginning to clarify in my thinking. I remembered how Jesus had warned that it is hard to enter His kingdom, and now I had an inkling of what that meant.

    My daughter, My Word says that it is hard to enter the kingdom of heaven, but so few really believe this and understand its importance. I am revealing this to you so you can warn them, He explained.³

    In another part of the book, Jesus solemnly warned that those who barely come to Sunday worship, those who are stingy and do not tithe, those with lukewarm faith, and those who love the world more than the Lord cannot enter heaven even though they are Christians. Further, the Lord warned that many pastors will go into the valley… [of the shadow of death], then their congregations will follow.

    I must ask you a question: Do you truly understand the words that Jesus said to Choo Thomas? In other words, are you convinced that these words are the truth from Scripture?

    By the mercy and grace of God, I had known this truth for twenty years and had proclaimed it solitarily. Now, I believe that it is time for me to share the biblical doctrine of salvation, which the Holy Spirit taught me. That is why I wrote this book.

    While Mrs. Choo Thomas’s book is an experiential book on the doctrine of salvation, my book is one that supports biblical, revelatory messages about the doctrine of salvation. So I urge you, do not hesitate to buy and read this book. I hope you will believe in Jesus and avoid hell. Furthermore, I hope you will believe in Jesus in a proper way and go to heaven.

    PASTOR SEUNG-wOO BYUN

    MARCH 4, 2004

    FROM BELOVED CHURCH, ULSAN, KOREA

    1

    DO NOT GO TO HELL!

    There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

      The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.

      But Abraham replied, Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.

      He answered, Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father’s house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.

      Abraham replied, They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.

      No, father Abraham, he said, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.

      He said to him, If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.

    -Luke 16:19-31 

    We call this passage the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Many insist that this is a true story, not just a parable.

    For instance, John Wesley wrote about this passage:

    But is the … account merely a parable, or a real history? It has been believed by many, and roundly asserted, to be a mere parable, because of one or two circumstances therein, which are not easy to be accounted for. In particular, it is hard to conceive, how a person in hell could hold conversation with one in paradise. But, admitting we cannot account for this, will it overbalance an express assertion of our Lord: There was, says our Lord, a certain rich man.—Was there not? Did such a man never exist? And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus.—Was there, or was there not? Is it not bold enough, positively to deny what our blessed Lord positively affirms? Therefore, we cannot reasonably doubt, but the whole narration, with all its circumstances, is exactly true. And Theophylact (one of the ancient commentators on the Scriptures) observes upon the text, that, according to the tradition of the Jews, Lazarus lived at Jerusalem.¹

    The legend also says that the rich man’s name was either Nineve or Phinees.² Therefore, it is probable that the story was an actual event.

    Even if it is only a figurative story, this does not present a problem for us, because Jesus was the One who told the story, and He knows about afterlife more than anyone else. Moreover, it can be an advantage for us if it turns out that the story did not actually occur, because a factual story only shows a partial aspect of afterlife, while a parable reveals a general truth. 

    1. Death Is Not the End, but the Beginning of Eternity

    Many people believe that death is the end, so they live irresponsible lives, even committing suicide. However, death is not the end of existence. After we die, there will be judgment (see Hebrews 9:27), and we will be assigned eternally to heaven or hell. That is the basic truth revealed in this passage.

    The Seventh-day Adventist church does not believe in the immortality of souls. They insist on the mortality of souls. Since they believe that upon death one’s soul will be destroyed, they deny hell as the Jehovah’s Witnesses do. They deny that the story of a rich man and Lazarus is an actual event, and they believe that it is one of the Egyptian folk tales, which Jesus quoted.

    Whether or not the passage is a real event or a parable, it is a fact. Besides this passage, all the scriptural passages about heaven and hell are real truth. This truth is found not only in Scripture, but it also has been proven in modern medical science.

    Many years ago, Dr. Maurice Rawlings wrote several books on the topic of death. He had been a personal physician to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he is currently a specialist in cardiovascular disease and an international expert on CPR. He became the author of the best-seller Beyond Death’s Door and is a wealthy owner of a personal jet and a lakefront house.

    Maurice Rawlings has been a lifelong doctor who witnessed death almost every day. He never seriously thought about death, though. He believed that afterlife was either a dream or a fantasy.

    One day, a forty-eight-year-old postman named Charles McKaine was admitted to the hospital. While Dr. Pam Charlesward was conducting an ECG test on Charles, he suddenly experienced heart failure. To the two doctors’ surprise, he did not realize that his heart had stopped, and he kept on talking. After four or five seconds, he looked confused—as though he wanted to ask a question—when his eyes rolled backward and he fell into unconsciousness. A nurse ran to conduct mouth-to-mouth CPR, called a kiss of life, while another nurse prepared an intravenous injection. Dr. Rawlings used a heart controller to make Charles’s heart beat regularly again.

    Suddenly Charles screamed, Don’t stop! I’m in hell! I’m in hell!

    Dr. Rawlings thought Charles was seeing an illusion, so he replied, You wrestle with hell. I am busy trying to save your life!

    This was a very rare case. Most patients would complain to the doctor, Stop jabbing my ribs! You are going to break my ribs! The chest compressions cause very severe pain, even breaking the ribs of some patients, but the man wanted to come back desperately.

    Thinking that his response was unusual, Dr. Rawlings knocked on Charles’s chest and asked, Why don’t you want me to stop?

    Charles cried out, I am in hell!

    Dr. Rawlings replied, You mean, you are afraid to go to hell.

    Upon hearing the doctor’s words, Charles yelled, No, I am in hell. Don’t let me go. Please, don’t let me go. Don’t you understand? I’m in hell. Whenever you stop the CPR, I am in hell again. Please, don’t let me go to hell again!

    Until then, Dr. Rawlings had disregarded the complaints of patients, but this patient was very serious. First of all, he was surprised at the look on his patient’s face. He had not seen such a terrified look on anyone’s face in the past twentyfive years. Charles’s face was livid with fear, and it was clear that he was in the most frightening time of his life.

    Dr. Rawlings continued to try to save his patient’s life. Suddenly, Charles yelled with a panicked voice, How can I escape from hell?

    Dr. Rawlings replied, How about praying to God?

    Charles asked him to pray for him.

    Startled, Dr. Rawlings grumbled, I am not a pastor, but the sharp looks from the nurses prompted him to reluctantly come up with a prayer: Follow after me, Jesus Son of God! Save me from hell. If I live again, I will live for you.

    The patient repeated his prayer desperately, then a miracle took place. He became peaceful and soon returned to a normal state.

    The next day, when Dr. Rawlings went to Charles’s room, he was reading the Bible.³

    This is a true story. It shocked Maurice Rawlings, and he became interested in death not as a doctor, but as a human being. It also caused him to study death with a whole-hearted devotion, using two methods.

    First, he talked with people who had had near-death experiences, then he analyzed and compared their stories.

    As a result, he discovered that these experiences had strong commonalities. He had generally believed that only a few people could have similar illusions. However, he came to conclude that it was impossible for so many patients to have essentially the same and continual illusions. Furthermore, these patients were normal, discerning people who could judge reality correctly and believed their experiences to be real and not fantasies.

    Second, he began a comparative study of world religions. He compared and analyzed the religious theories from holy books including the laws and Talmud of Judaism, the Quran of Islam, Vedas of the Indian Upanishad, Brahman of Hinduism, the Zoroastrian holy book, the sayings and analects of Confucius, the Agama of Jainism, Buddhist holy books, the Japanese Shinto Kojiki, and Lao Tzu’s Taoism. Subsequently, he realized that only one book most accurately described the near-death experiences of his patients: the Christian Bible.

    Through his study, he became convinced that Christianity was the only true religion. He was not a believer before his study, but he became a faithful Christian afterward. Heaven and hell are not fiction, but reality.

    I once read about a man who was an atheist and a gambler. After he died, the inscription on his gravestone was written as follows: Here lies a dicer; long in doubt if death could kill the soul, or not: Here ends his doubtfulness; at last convinced;. but, ah! the die is cast!

    Tryon Edwards said, Hell is a reality seen too late.duty neglected in its season.⁵ It is a place where one regrets that one had disregarded what one ought to have done.

    The rich man in the passage realized too late that heaven and hell really do exist and therefore could not avoid going to hell. Be careful that you also do not realize this truth too late. As you read this, believe in the existence of afterlife, of heaven and hell. I wish that you would avoid hell and receive heaven as your inheritance.

    2. Please Be Anywhere but in Hell!

    The Bible speaks about hell much more than heaven. It is probably because more people will end up in hell than in heaven. In the Bible, the person who mentions the most about hell is Jesus. Obviously, Jesus knew about hell more than any other person.

    In 1747, John Wesley wrote the following words: I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between these two boundless oceans; and I verily think the daily consideration of both highly becomes all men of reason and religion.

    Nowadays many preachers commit the sin of being silent about hell. They do not preach about hell because people do not like to hear those sermons. Jonathan Edwards wrote of the necessity of preaching about hell. 

    Another thing that some ministers have been greatly blamed for, and I think unjustly, is speaking terror to them who are already under great terrors, instead of comforting them. Indeed if ministers in such a case go about to terrify persons with that which is not true, or to affright them by representing their case worse than it is, or in any respect otherwise than it is, they are to be condemned; but if they terrify them only by still holding forth more light to them, and giving them to understand more of the truth of their case, they are altogether to be justified. When consciences are greatly awakened by the Spirit of God, it is but light imparted, enabling men to see their case,

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