Awhile back the Father spoke to me and said, “There are no cemeteries, there are no hospitals, and there are no prisons in heaven“. Recently I’ve been looking into the prisons through many reality and documentary programs. As I watched the scenes of prisons, one of the scenarios was of young prisoners just of age coming into an adult prison full of murderers and demons, facing the fear, the menace, the threat of violence and rape, AIDS and murder. These people were brought in and walked through the yards amid the hooting and catcalls, the voiced threats and sneering smirks of the inmates full of glee at the prospect of what they would do to these ‘fish’. Horrifying. Like demons in a pen, there is no mercy in the pen. It’s hell with only one difference. In hell you can SEE the demons; here they invisibly roam among the people in the spirit, whispering incitement, using every means possible to lead all scenarios to the final solution for which they are seeking; MURDER, the more violent the better.
I wondered what Jesus thinks as He looks into the abyss of prisons on earth. And for one moment He showed me a view of the unfortunate reality. Those who are vulnerable in prison have committed acts against those vulnerable on the outside. Somehow, through unfortunate and misbegotten darkness in their own lives, they brought themselves to this place where they are now the prey. Among the hardened inmates are many who are willing to join the insane circus presented by those who stalk victims, plot rapes and sexual crimes, in order to strip from them everything they have left. The smiles on the faces of the hardened show the stamp of hell. Their willingness and their actions are sin. Sin, simply put, is self over everything, and where that leads is into the deepest darkness possible.
But in the midst of such despair and hopelessness I also saw this: our Creator knows how to bring justice, because He is justice. And He knows how to bring freedom, for He is freedom. In the prisons, and out of the prisons, humanity suffers its worst fears on a daily basis, but our Father knows how to lead us through. Usually we suffer because of our own doing, and we cause others to suffer through no doing of theirs. If the Father brings us to justice, if prisons and hell are the consequence, it means that once justice is met, freedom comes. He is looking into the heart of darkness, but when the light comes to the darkness, the darkness flees away. On earth there are hospitals for the sickness of the body, but there is hope that comes from the knowledge of eternal healing from sickness. On earth there are cemeteries, for death comes to all. But in death there is hope of freedom from death; everlasting life. And on earth there are prisons, strongholds of every possible evil existing, until the hope of freedom for all prisoners is finally met, and we all walk out of the darkness, led by a cross of wood. The irony is, the world has become a prison for all. I realized that the Father’s statement about no cemeteries, prisons, or hospitals, in heaven is really a promise; a powerful and very real promise. Creator, we need Your perfect promise.
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