20/05/2026
A lady once claimed that she died, went to hell, received messages from the underworld, and then returned to life to deliver prophetic warnings to the Church. I was minding my business when the Lord said to me, “Can you respond to this lady?” and I obeyed. I had to go into the Old Testament and explain, through the Hebrew understanding of Sheol—the realm of departed spirits, which later became ‘Hades’ in the New Testament.
I then had to carefully teach the doctrine of the underworld: that before Jesus came, those who died descended into the lower regions, and that realm had two compartments. The first compartment was ‘Gehenna’—what many refer to as ’Hell’—and the second was Abraham’s Bosom, which many call ’Paradise.’ Paradise was not upward at that time; it was downward, and I can prove this with at least thirteen scriptures.
So Hades is the full underworld which has two compartments; Hell and Paradise. The whole thing about the underworld is called ‘Hades.’ Both Hell and Paradise are temporary locations where you'll be receiving gradual treatments to prepare you for your eternal destiny.
So when Lazarus died, he went to Paradise. Do you still remember when Jesus was on the cross and spoke to the thief beside Him, saying, “Today, you will be with Me in Paradise?” Jesus Himself descended there. You also remember the rich man who lived lavishly and fed sumptuously; because of the life and decisions he made, he found himself in Gehenna.
Do you also remember that while in Gehenna, the rich man pleaded that Lazarus should be sent back to his brothers on earth to warn them about the kind of life they were living? And do you remember Abraham’s response to him? “They have Moses and the Prophets; if they will not hear them, neither will they be persuaded even if one rises from the dead.” From there, I established that God does not send people from Hades back to earth to prophesy to us. That was how I gained many enemies.
Meanwhile, the people who claimed to have come from the underworld were selling books, pamphlets, and tapes, telling stories about how their sister or church member received messages from hell for the Church. I rose up against those claims with this teaching, and suddenly the tapes, books, and pamphlets stopped selling. In fact, people began calling our office just to curse us. You know why? Simply because I was sent to confront that business.
At the time, I never knew it would attract so many attacks, but I had already been prepared for it. It was in the process of faithfully using Scripture to critique the falsehood rising within the Body of Christ that the apostolic oil came upon me. That was when I became established as a missionary—one sent to carry the Kingdom of God into territories and nations and establish the purposes of God there.
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Sermon by Apostle Arome Osayi
Transcribed by Kingdom Channel ✍️
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