What Catholics Don’t Want You to Know About Purgatory

What Catholics Don’t Want You to Know About Purgatory

Mark Hart, the Executive Vice President of Life Teen, a Catholic youth outreach program, wrote this statement on his website:

"… Catholics still very much believe in Purgatory (Catholics who follow the Church, that is and not “their own” set of beliefs). Purgatory is a temporary state of purification where imperfect saints have the effects of their sin purged.”   [End quote] (Hart).

Scott P. Richert, a Catholic author and editor, wrote:

“Through penitential practices, prayer, works of charity, and the patient endurance of suffering, we can work through the temporal punishment for our sins in this life. But if any temporal punishment has been left unsatisfied at the end of our life, we must endure that punishment in Purgatory before entering Heaven.” [End quote] (Richert). (Posted on Sept. 6, 2018).

The above quotes are verbatim. Catholics believe in Purgatory, which is said to take place after a Catholic dies. According to Catholic teaching, purgatory is a place of torment and suffering. Augustine of Hippo, one of the founders of Catholicism, said:

"That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire." [End quote]. ("Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Charity" c. 421 A.D.) (The quote was taken from: "Purgatory: What …”).

 According to Catholic “church fathers,” purgatory is a place of suffering which supposedly cleanses deceased Catholics of the “stains” of their sins which they did on earth.

To support their belief in purgatory, Catholic websites refer to extra-Biblical writings, such as the Second Book of Maccabees and the writings of “church fathers.” They also take a few random verses from the Bible, here and there (out of context). But, take a look at what Colossians chapter 2 says.

What the New Testament Says

The Apostle Paul wrote:

[Colossians 2:8-15]

"8. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

10. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11. In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

13. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." [End quote].

In Acts chapter 20, the Apostle Paul wrote:

The Testimony of Richmond Gyimah: His Encounter with Heaven and Hell (Out of Body Experience) (Vision of Hell) (Vision of Heaven)

(Above: A YouTube video about Richmond's testimony.)
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The Testimony of Richmond Gyimah: His Encounter with Heaven and Hell (Out of Body Experience)

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Richmond Gyimah was sick. A persistent, very rare, intestinal problem he had since a child was only getting worse. In 2008, he went to have it checked out, but the doctors said there was nothing wrong with him. A year later, his intestinal pain was getting almost unbearable, and in 2009, at the age of 23, Richmond was admitted to Korle Bu Hospital, a prominent hospital in Ghana (in Western Africa). There, at the Korle Bu Hospital, his condition worsened. 

The surgery had to be delayed. On March 9, 2009, when he finally could have surgery, a doctor told him that everyone his age who got that surgery did not survive. He wanted to get the surgery anyway because he was in extreme pain. During the operation, his spirit left his body and was taken to Heaven. What Richmond experiences there will open your eyes. 


This is based on the video series posted up on YouTube by Kay Boachie on Dec. 15, 2011. This series is in English, translated from its original language. (Click here to watch it on YouTube.) Kay translated (into English) Richmond’s original testimony which was posted on YouTube by “kobina ofosu” on June 19, 2011. I have tried my best to be as accurate as possible to Kay’s translation, but I am not perfect (see Works Cited at the end). Thank you for reading.

(Click here. You can read the full version which includes his time prior to surgery.)

The Testimony of Richmond Gyimah: His Encounter with Heaven and Hell

(1) The Surgery

Intense pain pierced through his chest, most intense at his heart, and Richmond screamed. He had been through three hours of surgery (at the Korle Bu Hospital) after being given anesthetics, but pain had suddenly shot through his heart. The words of the surgeon just prior to the surgery echoed through his mind: “…no one with this kind of condition at your age has ever survived this kind of surgery.”

Richmond felt he had no choice. The pain in his abdomen had only been getting worse and while he was at the hospital, it grew in intensity. He knew he could very well die, but he was willing to take that risk because the pain from a rare intestinal condition had been with him since his early twenties. Besides this, Richmond told the doctor that he is a Christian and said he has his faith and hope in God, not in statistics.

Now, three hours into the surgery, Richmond screamed in pain. The pain in his heart was like a sharp sword and he could not hold on any longer. Suddenly, he blacked out. The last thing he remembered on Earth was screaming in pain.  

HELL IS REAL - TESTIMONIES OF HELL - HEAVEN AND HELL ARE REAL

HELL IS REAL - TESTIMONIES OF HELL

Bill Wiese had a powerful vision of Hell in the year 1998. He was given a commission by God to warn the world about the reality of Hell and how horrible it really is. His experience is not the only one of Hell. Many other people have seen Hell in near-death experiences. 

Mary K. Baxter was given visions of Hell in 1976. In Hell, Jesus appeared to her and revealed to her various things about the people in Hell and about the layout of Hell. 

Hell is a real place that all those who have rejected Jesus will go to. God does not want anyone to go to Hell. That is why He sent Jesus Christ to die on a cross to pay for our sins. And, most of all, God the Father wants us to know His love for us and to know Him as our God and Abba Father. Hell was created for the devil and his angels. But, because of sin passing down to mankind from Adam and Eve, we all have a sin nature and this sin nature makes it impossible for us to be good enough to go to Heaven. No sin can enter Heaven because sin would corrupt Heaven, and a sinner in Heaven would not enjoy the fact that all of Heaven is filled with God's glory because sin and God's glory are opposite. 

The Nuclear Missile Threat in Hawaii Was a Warning from God (End Times) (Harbingers)

The Nuclear Missile Threat in Hawaii Was a Warning from God (End Times) (Harbinger)

In the early morning of January 13, 2018 cellphones in Hawaii got this warning message from the Emergency Alert System: "Ballistic Missile Threat Inbound To Hawaii. Seek Immediate Shelter. This Is Not A Drill." (See Works Cited: Dorell). Thousands of people abandoned their cars (Dorell), rushed to find some kind of shelter, or hunkered down in their homes. Terror seized them because none of them had any way of knowing that the warning wasn't for an immediate threat. 

(Nuclear missile threat warning. Click for source.)

What made the warning all the more terrifying is the recent escalation in the tension between the United States and North Korea. Experts believe that North Korea is very close to perfecting a nuclear weapon that can reach the continental U.S. (Ward).

Many people do not seem to be taking North Korea's nuclear threat seriously. People think that it is just a poor country with a weak military, but I believe that North Korea's threats and missile tests are harbingers for the U.S. Remember Jonathan Cahn's book The Harbinger? If you have not read it, you should. Cahn detailed the strange appearances of events during and after 9/11 (including strange statements by powerful politicians) which matched perfectly with ancient prophecies from the book of Isaiah. We will look at this later in this article. First, let's go back to the events surrounding the accidental nuclear missile alert in Hawaii.