"23 Minutes in Hell" -Bill Wiese

This person Bill Wiese claims that as a non-Christian, he experienced hell and came back, then decided to believe in the Bible.

His book is here online. Pl note this from the pdf file:

Transcribed from the Audio CD, NOT from his book. For the most complete story, please purchase his book! This was from a
convention in Kansas City, KS called “Kansas City for America”. The experience in Hell happened on November 23, 1998.

(I wonder again why we must purchase the book and someone makes the money? Without money can the world come to know Jesus and be saved? If hell is that terrible, why is he worried about money? )

Summary of the file
As he makes a lot of quotes from the Bible in between his narration and adds a lot of other thot, I will summarise his actual experience here in point form to that it won't sound so sensational.

1. He (or his soul, as he was out of his body) was dropped into a prison cell one day, at 3am.
2. He felt very hot , but the Lord was with him. (I thot he was not a Christian yet?)
3. There were 4 horrible looking, 12 feet tall creatures with him in the cell. They were cursing God.
4. One of them picked him up and threw him around, then bit his flesh off.
5. The place smelled very very bad, rotten.
6. The cell became pitch black.
7. He manage to crawl out of the cell.
8. He heard billions of people screaming.
9. He felt fear.
10. He realised that he was naked.
11. He could not find water.
12. One of the demons pulled him back into the cell. Someone (now he says it is the Lord) pulled him back out.
13. He saw people being burned and tormented in the fire.
14. You need sleep in hell but cannot do it.
15. He somehow know that hell is in the centre of the earth, 3700 miles down.
16. He saw many types of demon, including huge rats, spiders, etc.
17. He then began to ascend upwards.
18. The people were begging another chance but got none. (a forgiving Bible-god?)
19. Suddenly Jesus showed up, in the form of a man.
20. He was overwhelmed by the love of Jesus.
21. Jesus asked him to tell the world "I am coming very soon".
22. Then he saw all the demons become small as ants.
23. He left hell with God at this side, up a tunnel, out of earth atmosphere and saw earth from above.
24. He flew back to California and home, saw his body and entered it.


That is the gist of his story. After that he believed in Jesus.
At the end, again he asked the reader to purchase his book!
I wonder why his hell experience did not give him the urgency to reach the world and forget about money? It costs US10.39 at Amazon.com

Questions

1. I wonder also, that if such an experience had happened to someone in China, would that person decide that it was Jesus, and not Buddha?

2. When out-of-body experiences were first publiscised by researchers, they were immediately condemned by Christians as coming from the devil. But today, Christians embrace them just because of people like Bill who said they saw Jesus.

3. Again it happened to one person. No witnesses.

4. Now Bill is famous and making money from his book and sermons.

5. He mentioned on the website that he is also in Real Estate business, but not for the money. Amazing! Not for the money? Then why not go into full-time ministry? I thot Jesus commanded him to tell the world of hell, and he still has time for business!???

Judge for yourself.