Testimony of Howard Pittman - #19

YouTube Channel: “Howard Pittman’s Near Death Experience”

     “It was August 3, 1979.

     I was involved at that time in a political campaign.

     I was running for sheriff.

     Criminal sheriff.

     And, there was about seven of us in the race.

     The primary election was gonna be held on August 7, 1979.

     And, on the first day of August, we took a little unofficial poll.

     And, according to that poll, I was one of the leading candidates that was gonna be involved in that.

     And, there was one particular bank in the community that was very important in politics.

     And, I had a niece that worked in that bank and she made an appointment for me with the president and some of the members of the board of directors tryin’ to solicit their support for my campaign.

     And, I went down that mornin’. 

     I got up.

     I wasn’t sick.

     Wasn’t different from any other mornin’.

     I was slightly nauseated because of sinus problems.

     I had sinus problems for years and this is ‘Sinus Country.’

     Here is what they call the Pine Belt.

     And, the doctors said there’s no allergy like Pine Allergy.

     So, anyway, I skipped breakfast and went to town to keep my appointment.

     And, when I arrived at the bank, my niece, who worked in the bank, looked out through the plate glass window. She saw me comin’.

     I got out of my car and went across the street and she got up from her desk and came to the door to greet me.

     With one hand, she opened the door and the other reached out to greet me.

     As I stepped in the door, I dropped to my knees.

     And, she grabbed me, ‘What’s the matter?’

     I said, ‘I don’t know.’

     All of a sudden I just lost my strength.

     Something’s wrong with me.

     I cancelled my appointment; I’m goin’ back home.

     I turned around, went back to my car and sat down.

     That’s when the pain hit me.

     Like a mule had kicked me in the mid section and consumed my entire body.

     So, all I could think of was ‘Go home, go home.’

     I was within a mile of the hospital, but I didn’t go the hospital.

     Instead, I started up my car and I started home.

     About half way, I live eleven miles from the bank, then.

     About half way home, I suddenly stopped breathing.

     I felt as though my clothes were literally smothering me to death.

     I brake my car, right in the stop in the middle of a busy highway.

     And, I felt that my clothes was smothering me.

     And, I started to try to tear out of it.

     And, somehow, I don’t know how, but somehow, I realized I had panicked. 

     And, when I forcefully calmed myself down, I could breathe, with difficulty, but I could breathe.

     And, I knew I was goin’ weaker because I was hemorrhaging massively.

     I was able to start my car and I made it the rest of the way home.

     When I got there, no one was home.

     Wife was gone somewhere, the kids was all goin’ to school.

     But, I struggled to get out of the car.

     Everything’s kind of hazy about how long it took me to get out of the car.

     But, anyhow, I made it in the house and fell on the floor right inside.

     I hadn’t been there very long until she came in. My wife came in.

     One look, she recognized the dangerous situation.

     She got me up, back out into the car and rushed me into the town to the very town I just came from, right up to the family clinic.

     And, just as she parked, one of the doctors pulled in and parked right in front of us.

     Well, she ran around, opened the door and tried to pull me out of the car.

     By that time, I was so weak, I couldn’t even lift my hand.

     I had lost so much blood.

     And, when she pulled on me, I literally fell out of the car on my face.

     The doctor stepped out of his car.

     He saw this; he rushed over to give aid.

     One look, he knew I was already in shock.

     Now, they didn’t know what had happened to me, because I was in shock.

     But, he knew that I was in shock.

     Later on, they told me what had happened.

     There is a main artery that runs across the back of the stomach.

     An ulcer had formed on that artery.

     He called it silent because it gave me no symptoms.

     It had slowly eaten away the wall of that artery until it ballooned out.

     They call it aneurysm.

     It just kept on ballooning out until it reached a place that the wall was so thin the day I stepped into the bank door, it had reached a place the wall was so thin it couldn’t withstand it, the pressure of the heart beat.

     It just popped, like, you popped a balloon.

     And, that was the massive hemorrhage.

     Well, they called the ambulance.

     They rushed me from the local clinic to the local hospital.

     They kept me there overnight.

     The next morning, three times during the night they brought me out of shock.

     The next morning, my doctor come in and said we got to move you. We got to have more equipment. We got to have more skilled technicians. We got to have them in a hurry. So, we’re gonna send you to the Regional Medical Center in Macon, Mississippi.

     They put me in an ambulance, hooked me up to all that machinery, allowed my wife to go with us, assigned the paramedics to attend to me and we took off post haste.

     Nineteen miles before we reached that hospital, I lost consciousness.

     I passed into a world of darkness.

     I mean, it was so dark that there’s no words in the human language.

     To describe ‘Crossing The Veil.’ 

     But, I passed out in this darkness.

     I felt.

     I really felt abandoned.

     All alone.

     First time I ever experienced that kind of darkness.

     There’s no light.

     And, then, all of a sudden, I saw somethin’ that come right out of the top of that darkness.

     And, it was like a tape that was just twirling around like this as it come down.

     You ever seen those confetti parades in New   York where they throw that confetti out the window? It just twirls down?

     That’s what this thing looked like, a single one.

     And, I watched it.

     It came all the way down, right in front of me.

     Now, I can’t tell you how I saw it.

     Because, I saw it with no light.

     No light at all.

     It’s total darkness, but I saw this thing.

     Just like this tape.

     It comes right in front of my eyes and turns just like that, three times.

     And, every time it turned, I’m reading it.

     It’s a verse of Scripture, Hebrews 9:27.

     ‘It is appointed unto all men once to die, after this the judgment.’

     It is appointed unto all men once to die, after the judgment.

     Three times that thing turned and three times I read it.

     When I realized, this was God’s way of supernaturally revealing to me that I had met my appointed time to die.

     We all know we got to die.

     But, you know.

     Being human, we dealt with that.

     We dealt with it in our subconscious.

     Actually, in reality, we look at death, physical death, as something that happens to others.

     It don’t happen to us.

     We just put it out of our mind.

     And, keep goin’.

     If we didn’t, it’d drive us crazy.

     We just put it out of our mind.

     And, keep goin’.

     But, when you come to the realization that it’s not us.

     It’s you.

     It takes on a whole new perspective, then.

     I didn’t want to die.

     I left home to win an election.

     Not to die.

     To die would be total defeat.

     So, I prayed a very short and pointed prayer.

     I asked God to extend my life.

     I was familiar with the fact that He had precedent in His Word.

     For an extended life.

     Because, He extended Hezakiah’s life for fifteen years.

     And, I knew that.

     So, I asked Him to extend my physical life.

     And, then, that’s when I had the first ever supernatural encounter.

     Out of that vast darkness, come the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard in my life. 

     There’s no music created that would in any way mimic the beauty of that sounding of that voice.

     As the voice spoke to me, the voice said to me, ‘Stop. No more pain. Peace. Rest. Security. All that you ever wanted. Just don’t breathe.’

     I’m breathing by will power at that point.

     Every breath, it took all the strength I could get in. 

     And, when I got the air in, it took all the strength I had to get it out.

     I’m breathing by will power.

     And, he’s telling me, ‘Stop. Don’t breathe.’

     And, my spirit was saying to me, 'Listen, God’s speaking, God’s speaking.' Says, ‘Don’t breathe.’

     And, then, I got to try to shut it down, what I’m doin’.

     And, then, the realization hit me.

     I screamed as loud as I could in my spirit.

     No. What am I doing?

     I just asked God to extend my life.

     Don’t breathe, I’m gonna die.

     You’re not God.

     With that exclamation, Satan fled from me.

     But, look what he said.

     Just what he said was what tells what I’d been taught all my life.

     Security.

     Security.

     That’s what Baptist’s teach.

     Once you’re saved, you’re saved forever, no matter what.

     That’s what they teach.

     Security.

     And, he used that on me right away.

     First thing he used.

     Security.

     Peace, rest, all you’ve ever wanted.

     Just stop breathing.

     There, in the Valley of Death, at the door, he lied to me.

     He told me he was God.

     He couldn’t kill me.

     He had to get me to kill myself.

     You better know the spirit that speaks to you.

     We’re all gonna come to that same place.

     I call it the veil.

     The veil is not in this world.

     And, it’s not in the other world.

     It’s the door between the two.

     We all gotta go that way.

     Christian’s refer to it as ‘Crossin’ Jordan.’

     It’s when we pass from this life to the life to come.

     Once you cross that veil.

     Flesh and blood can’t cross it.

     It can’t cross it.

     So, that’s when the angels took my spirit out of my body.

     And, we went from darkness to light.

     Just like that.

     Out of darkness into light.

     I crossed the veil.

     I was on the other side.

     The first thing they brought me to see was a verse of Scripture.

     Being acted out like a stage play.

     Ephesians 6:12.

     'For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

     Against principalities (word, plural).

     Powers (word, plural).

     Rulers of the darkness of the world.'

     The menagerie of our enemy.

     There was, looked like a long table with all these beings sittin’ around.

     The devil, himself, sits at the end.

     And, all these spirits are princes that operate the principalities of the dark world.

     That’s where the warfare plans for spiritual war is actually designed and planned.

     Satan does nothing without a plan.

     He plans everything.

     Everything is planned.

     It’s right down to the, say, let me show you how it works.

     Every one of those spirits sitting at that table had a principality.

     He has divided the world into principalities, territories.

     Over these territories, he puts a prince.

     Each prince is given as many demon spirits as he needs to carry out his plan for that principality.

     You take some continents.

Might be one principality, because there might be no threats to the Kingdom of Darkness.

     Where there is no threat, no basic threat to the Kingdom of Darkness, one prince could handle it – the whole continent, let’s say.

     But, America.

     Is many principalities.

     There’s many threats.

     Even down to an individual could be a principality, depending on what the threat is.

     But, this is how that thing works.

     As I watched it, they let me see part of a plan that really shook me up because, I knew about the plan.

     I call it the skeleton.

     It was just an outline.

     And, it was the same, identical outline that John was able to see.

     And, he wrote about it in Revelation.

     Chapter 13.

     Beginning with verse 7 through 9.

     And, this really shook me up.

     Revelation, let me get to it.

     I want to read that.

     And, it was given unto him to make war with the saints.

     And, to overcome them.

     And, power was given him over all kindreds, tongues and nations.

     And, all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him.

     Whose names are not written in the Book of the Life of the Lamb.

     Slain from the foundation of the world.

     If any man have an ear, let him hear.

     Revelation 13:7-9.

     The master plan to capture the world, capture the church.

     That’s why we’ve got ‘cotton candy’ religion today.

     What is ‘cotton candy’ religion?

     Hot air.

     Doctrines of demons.

     Doctrines of demons are being are being expounded from the pulpits of so many churches today.

     He’s captured the church.

     It’s what he said he was gonna do.

     He’s done it.

     He’s already got it.

     When they brought me.

     First.

     They let me see this.

     Ya, that’s the first thing I saw was this outline.

     They let me see that.

     So, John wrote about it.

     Because, I was very weak on spiritual warfare.

     I was Southern Baptist.

     You know, we didn’t have too much teaching in that area.

     Then, in fact, I haven’t heard but, one sermon in my entire life that ever mentioned the devil.

     And, that was when I was twelve years old, and it scared the devil out of me.

     So, that’s when I first came to the church, you see.

     And, then.

     No more.

     Even in the seminary.

     He was never mentioned.

     Didn’t mention the devil.

     Didn’t mention the demons or anything.

     It was the ministry of the children that first opened my eyes as we brought these children into our home.

     Most of them had been used, misused, abused.

     For instance.

     The last child they brought into our home.

     State rescued her that day.

     She was locked up in a cage with a cat.

     She’s only eighteen months old, this little girl.

     And, the only thing that they said that she had to eat for that solid week was the droppings of that cat.

     And, that demon possessed individual that had that little girl, got his jollies off by putting his lighted cigarettes out on the bottom of her feet.

     You ought to have seen her feet.

     You see, this is not human.

     Something beyond humanity had to do that.

     This is not human.

     And, it was those children.

     How they had been abused, misused, neglected.

     And, all of ‘em was cryin’ for help.

     And, they came to my house, expecting me to help ‘em, and I was the least prepared person in the world.

     I had no training in spiritual war at all.

     I didn’t even know.

     But, as I looked at them, I knew there was a force out there far greater than I knew about.

     And, that’s the first thing God took me to see.

     He educated me quickly.

     He showed me how this is done by design.

     How spiritual war is done.

     And, how they operate on two emotions that were hate and fear.

     They hate all humans and they fear their boss.

     There’s no love at all.

     And, that’s why he has an enforcer, enforcing the rules of the Satanic World.

     It is a world without love.

     There’s no love at all there.

     It is operated by fear and hate.

     They hate all humans and they fear their boss.

     They fear him.

     Now, people don’t pay any attention to this.

     But, Satan.

     To show you how devious he is.

     Took one third of the angels of Heaven with him in his rebellion.

     What did that tell you?

     When you think about this.

     There’s no dummy’s in the Angel Corp.

     And, yet, he deceived one third of the angels.

     How did he do it?

     This tells about his ability.

     2 Corinthians 4:4 says, he’s the god of this world.

     That word god is not a name.

     It’s title.

     It’s translated in the Greek word, theos, which we get our word theology.

     The definition in English is ‘divine, ruling magistrate, high potentate.’

     Think about that.

     That’s his title.

     Divine means set apart, put above.

     Ruling magistrate.

     Who is a ruling magistrate?

     One that has authority, by law, to control the conduct of those under his jurisdiction.

     That’s why Satan.

     Says, 2 Timothy 2:25, 26.

     He can take any lost person at will.

     He’s a divine, ruling magistrate.

     Not long ago, I had a lawyer call me from New York.

     He says, I have a man up here charged with murder.

     He’s got a copy of your book, Demons An Eyewitness Account.

     He says the devil can make people do what he wants.

     He wants you to come up here and testify that the devil made him do it.

     I said, well, I, if you send me a subpoena, I’ll come up and testify what the Bible says.

     Just what I wrote.

     What it said.

     He says, ‘Okay. I’ll get the subpoena.’

     Two weeks later, he called me back.

     He says, ‘The judge said, get out of here. I ain’t openin’ that can of worms in this court.’

     But, He let me see the god of this world at work.

     And, he is a god.

     All them people out there servin’ him.

     They don’t know it.

     They don’t know it.

     The strongest one are his princes.

     They’re at the top

     They’re from the Giant Warring Order of Demons.

     They were actually angels who feel with him.

     And, they got some angels who look like animals.

     Some that look like birds.

     They’re all described in the Bible.

     The guardian angel looks just like a human being.

     And, this is why Hebrews says, when you deal with strangers, be careful.

     Many times you deal with angels, unaware.

     When I stood before Him to plead my case.

     See, the angels brought me there to plead my case.

     Because, all the time I kept asking, is He gonna let me live?

     I knew that my spirit had crossed the veil.

     Flesh and blood can’t go there.

     And, I knew that the only way I could come back, God would have to permit it.

     And, I kept asking the angels every time.

     No matter what I saw.

     I was still was in love with this old piece of clay.

     And, so, they brought me there and let me plead.

     Brought me to the gate.

     They wouldn’t let me go in.

     I didn’t go in.

     I came to the gates of the Third Heaven.

     And, they told me.

     I watched 50 saints being permitted to enter the gates of Heaven.

     But, they didn’t let me go in.

     The angel stopped me there, when I got to the gate.

     And he says, ‘If you go in, you can’t come out. You got to stay ‘til He brings you back.’

     I said, ‘If I can’t come out, then that means my physical life is over and you told me I could ask Him.’

     Angel said, ‘You can ask Him, but you stand outside this gate and ask Him.’

     And, so, I did.

     I came and I was allowed to plead my case.

     I was pleading to a God I couldn’t see.

     But, I knew.

     It was total silence while I plead my case.

     I was tellin’ Him all, I reminded Him of all my good works.

     I told Him about all things that I’d done.

     All the things.

     That’s what I was basin’ on, my good works.

     I told Him about all that.

     He never said a word ‘til I finished.

     When I finished, then, He answered me in a voice that sound like thunder.

     Wasn’t anythin’ like the voice that Satan used on me.

     He says.

     He started.

     I’m gonna try to quote verbatim exactly what He said.

     ‘Your faith is dead.

     Your works are in vain.

     The life that you lived and offered to Me as a life of Christian service is an abomination that I rejected in the Pharisee.

     What made you think I would accept it from a Laodicean type Christian.

     In fact, untold millions are living the same kind of life that you lived and they stand in danger of My everlasting wrath.’ 

     Unquote, the Living God.

     I couldn’t believe He was talkin’ to me.

     I’m a preacher.

     I’m a teacher.

     I just told Him about all my good works.

     What I done.

     And, ‘No, Lord. Wait. You don’t understand.’

     He said, ‘You didn’t do those works for Me. You did ‘em for a false god.

     I said, ‘Lord, I work for You.

     I called You, Lord, every day.

     Yes, you did, but you never made me Lord.

     What a difference.

     To call Him, Lord, gives Him title.

     To make Him, Lord, promotes Him to Ruler of Life.

     Who is your Lord?

     But, Lord, I was servin’ You.

     No, you wasn’t.

     You served a false god.

     Then, He named him.

     Satan’s number one selling false god.

     S-E-L-F

     Instantly, I knew everything He said was true.

     Had he reached down and picked me up and dropped me in Hell.

     I would’ve said, ‘Amen.’

     But, I couldn’t move.

     I’m laying on my face.

     In the spirit.

     I couldn’t move.

     I couldn’t move.

     Angels came and took me away.

     They took me out and let me regain my composure.

     And, brought me back and let me plead the second time.

     Second time, I never opened my mouth.

     Then, He began to talk to me in a compassionate tone.

     As He said to me.

     Suddenly, I realized, this is my Father.

     And, I hurt Him.

     He was hurtin’ for me.

     The God that created all of this was hurtin’ for me.

     The smallest, insignificant piece of flesh that He had.

     He was hurtin’ for me.

     Nothing mattered now.

     I didn’t ask Him for my life.

     I didn’t ask Him for anything else.

     But, when this life meant nothin’.

     He gave it back.

     He sent me back to do what I done.

     Gave me a 5-Point Message to the church.

     And, placed two restrictions on it.

     Restriction One was that I was not to ask anybody to hear this, because He    was sending me to His church.

     I didn’t know what was His church, but He knew which one was His church.

     He was sending me to His church.

     All I had to do was go wherever I’m asked.

     When I get an invitation, put it down.

     Get to it when I can.

     And, if I’m not supposed to go there, He’d close the door.

     But, if He opened the door, no man would close it.

     And, that’s the way it’s been, ever since.

     The 5-Point Message He gave me.

     Point Number One.

     This is the Laodicean Church Age in which we live today.

     This is the Laodicean Church Age.

     Where the overwhelming majority of ‘so called’ Christians.

     And, just that, ‘so called’.

     Their mouth professes and their heart possesses.

     And, unless they wake up, He’s gonna spew them out of His mouth.

     He promised to do that. 

     You see.

     But, He gave them a chance.

     In His Word.

     He gave them a chance.

     Said, ‘Wake up.’

     If they wake up.

     Point Number Two.

     Your adversary is a personal and powerful adversary.

     Satan, the devil.

     He is anointed.

     Point Number Three.

     If you ever, ever expect to have any of God’s power manifested in your life, you’re gonna have to live the life.

     Not talk it.

     You got to walk it.

     And, Point Number Four.

     As it was in the Days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man.

     What He’s saying there.

     Keep your eye on the Eastern sky.

     Because, your redemption draweth nigh.

     Because, we have reached the Days of Noah, once again.

     And, we look in history.

     And, in the Bible, to see how it was in the Days of Noah.

     And, we see that mankind had but two priorities.

     Wealth and pleasure.

     Wealth and pleasure.

     Wealth and pleasure.

     Everything else is secondary.

     That’s the way it was in the Days of Noah.

     And, He said that it was gonna be that way again.

     And, we have reached that state.

     Point Number Five.

     Now, this is one that really, the main one.

     The one He sent me back for.

     And, a lot of people can’t comprehend this.

     What He said was.

     Matthew quoting John the Baptist when he said this.

     Chapter 3:11,12.

     He said, ‘I am He that baptizes you with water unto repentance.

     But, He that cometh after me, is mightier than I.

     Whose shoes I am not worthy to bathe.

     He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

     Whose fan is in His hand.

     And, He will thoroughly purge His floor.

     And, gather His wheat into the garner.

     But, He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.'

     The baptism of the Holy Ghost.

     So to speak.

     Is going to come with fire.

     He’s going to burn up the chaff.

     So, a lot of people think that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is evidence is speaking in tongues.

     Well, it might be.

     But, by the same token, real evidence is the fire burning the chaff out of the individual.

     And, that’s gonna take tribulation.

     True baptism of the Holy Spirit.

     We got some people that come to church talkin’ in tongues all day and go to the Honky Tonk first thing Monday mornin’.

     You know who they are.

     You know who they are.

     But, the fire is comin’.

     The true baptism of the Holy Spirit gonna bring fire to the chaff of the life of the individual.

     That’s your 5-Points for the church.

     I didn’t know what the church was.

     Because, everything that calls itself a church, is not a church.

     97% didn’t make it.

     They showed me His harvest for fifteen minute span of time.

     Fifteen minute span of time.

     It occurred, August 3, 1979.

     From when the Paramedics judged my body to be dead, until it arrived at the hospital.

     In that fifteen minutes, I was allowed to see 50 saints that go into Heaven.

     That was the sum total of His harvest on planet earth for fifteen minutes span of time.

     And, in that same fifteen minutes, 1,950 more people died.

     Only 50 out of 2,000 made it.

     2 ½%.

     That dovetails with just exactly what he said in Matthew 7.

     For many will say to Me in that day.

     But, Lord, Lord, have we not preached in Your name.

     Have we not done many marvelous works in Your name.

     In Your name have we done all this.

     And, He will say, depart from Me.

     I never knew you.

     You worker of iniquity.

     I never knew you.

     You were never saved.

     Not that you were saved one day and turned your back.

     I never knew you.

     You were never mine.

     2 ½%.

     Now, they let me see that because, August 3, 1979, that was the condition of the planet earth.

     Had that been the day the trumpet would have blown, so loud that it would awaken the dead.

     He would have got 2 ½% of the population of the world.

     2 ½%.

     He allowed me to tour the second Heaven, which is Satan’s Kingdom.

     He allowed me to tour the whole kingdom and see the different spirits that it had.

     And, that was the first thing, because I was weak.

     I as weak in that training.

     You know.

     Sometimes, I remember in the seminary, we had professors come and tell us.

     One time, teachin’ how to go to Heaven was like climbin’ a mountain.

     Got somebody come up the right side.

     Somebody up this side.

     Somebody up that side.

     But, when they get there, they’re always at the top.

     Well, right now, that’s a doctrine that’s very popular in the Christian Church.

     You know, you’re a good ol’ boy.

     You’re gonna make it and all that stuff.

     God loves ya.

     Don’t worry about it.

     And, we got the devil under his feet.

     And, he’s laughing all the way to the bank.”