I spoke
to a priest who was a condemned to Hell by Jesus Christ for all eternity
By Bro. Michael Dimond
A few months ago I was able to speak a few
times to a Fr. Steven Scheier. Many
years ago Fr. Scheier was attempting to pass another car with his Ford
Thunderbird and ran head-on into a pickup truck. The violent collision snapped his neck and
tore half his scalp away. Fr. Scheier
was immediately airlifted by helicopter to a hospital, while the paramedics
worked desperately to save his life. Barely
alive, he slipped into the stillness of death. What occurred next would forever
change Fr. Scheier.
Suddenly, he found himself alone, in
another dimension. Something he described
as a vast spiritual void.
Fr. Scheier: “I was before the Judgment Seat of Almighty God…
Our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord [whom I
could hear but not see] went through all my unconfessed, unforgiven mortal
sins. There was much said in regards to
my life. The only thing that I did when
I heard about particular instances was internally say, ‘Yes, Yes, that’s true.’
There was no rebuttal. At the end of
his speaking, God said, ‘The sentence that you will have for all eternity is
Hell.’
“I thought internally, ‘I know this is what I
deserve.’ It was if I had pronounced the sentence myself. I had chosen my destiny, he was just
honoring that decision.
“The next voice I heard was that of a female. I didn’t see her either, but she said, ‘Son,
would you please spare his life and his eternal soul.’
“The male voice said, ‘Mother, he has been a priest for twelve years
for himself, and not for me. Let him
reap the punishment he deserves.’
“There was a short pause and the female voice said, ‘But Son, if we
give to him special graces and strengths, and come to him in ways that he is
not familiar with, we can see if he bears fruit… If he does not, then Your will
be done’.
“Then there was a very short pause and the male voice said ‘Mother,
he’s yours.’”
Despite only a 15% chance of surviving,
and injuries that should have left him paralyzed for life, Fr. Scheier defied
all odds and made an unexplainable recovery.
Fr. Scheier recalls that he indeed
deserved to go to Hell, for he had not fulfilled his duty as a priest: “I could
not stand peer pressure. In other words,
I wanted to be one of the guys. Now the
priests at this time seemed to find a need to be just one of the guys, too, a
lay person. And that was shown more from
the pulpit than any place else in my dealings with priests and laity – because
priests would get up and talk about peace, love and joy, not morality, dogma,
and what the Church is all about – because this made one unpopular and God help
us if a priest was unpopular – because that would mean that the money didn’t
come in. So to keep the money coming in
you had to tell the people what they wanted to hear.”
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