Saved From the Horrors of Hell

An Amazing Fact: A Fresno familyvacationing in Lahaina, Hawaii, escaped the island’s largest wildfire ever. Itwas like a scene from a Hollywood movie. The father, mother, and five childrenwere trapped in traffic. When flames began to overtake their car, they got outand ran into the sea, clinging to debris for hours. The August 2023 wildfireskilled 102 people and caused $6 billion in damages.

Joe held his screaming five-year-old son close. His ownheart raced when he thought about the horrific teachings of his church abouthellfire. The distorted doctrine that sinners will burn forever in thefires of hell frightens many sincere souls. It’s a cruel theory—and a flat-outlie straight from the devil!

But you can extinguish this twisted teaching when you arepart of Amazing Facts’ TV evangelism. Do you have terrified friends and familywho are running for their lives away from God? Do they believeHe is a sadist who delights in torturing sinners in an ever-burning fire? Manypeople have never read this Bible verse: “‘As I live,’ says theLord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked’” (Ezekiel33:11).

When you work together with heaven’s agencies, you can bringpeace to troubled souls around the world. Through evangelistic broadcasts, youcan calm hearts by sharing the plain truth about hell. Let me tell you how youdid this for Joe …

The Awful Fear of Hell

As his little boy yelled in terror, Joe cradled him in hisarms. “Daddy’s here. You’ll be okay.” But while the soothing words slipped offJoe’s tongue, his heart felt like it was ripping open. He knew all about hisson’s terror. The thought of burning in hell forever for his sins oftenmade him panic too.

Joe had no idea how to help his boy. He himself was the sonof a long line of Baptist ministers. None of the explanations about death andhellfire they gave him made sense. How could a God of love torturepeople forever in hell for a short lifetime of sin?

You can bring freedom to worried hearts by sharing thesimple Bible truth. You can help people understand that “the wages ofsin is death” (Romans 6:23). It’s not eternal life roasting in fireand brimstone. The Scriptures make God’s character clear!

A 60-Second Turning Point

Over the years, Joe had learned to manage his fears ofhellfire, but the terror never went away. He and his wife, Wendy, regularlyattended a Baptist church with their four children.

Joe says that when his church screened a film about theflames of hell, “It reopened all my fears. I began praying that God wouldanswer my questions so that I could help my kids. We were at the point ofleaving the church if we couldn’t find answers.”

Not long after, Joe fell into bed one night after workingfor 20 hours straight at his two jobs. He instantly fell asleep. But an hourlater, he woke up to a television preacher he had never heard before. The baldpreacher was offering a free booklet on the truth about hellfire!

Sixty seconds later, the program ended, but Joe couldn’t goback to sleep. Just watching the last 60 seconds of our Amazing Factswith Doug Batchelor program, Joe realized there was urgent truth aboutthis subject that he needed to know. He mulled over the hint of the biblicalexplanation he had seen—a hint you brought to him by broadcasting life-changingtruth about God on TV.

A Treasure Trove of Answers

Joe soon realized that Amazing Facts was just down thestreet from his father’s workplace. He had often driven past it and wonderedabout the ministry inside. Eager to know the truth about hell, he decided to goin person and picked up the booklet.

He shares, “At first, I couldn’t finish reading it because Iwas crying so hard. It was such a relief to finally get the answers.”

Joe quickly returned to our office and bought $300 worth ofbooks and DVDs about many Bible topics. He devoted every spare moment tostudying those materials. Wendy eagerly listened as he shared what he hadlearned, and her life changed too.

Planting Seeds of Truth

It didn’t take long for Joe to start sharing those sametruths with his Sunday school class. That caught the attention of the pastorsin his family. Joe’s new convictions about the Sabbath especially disturbed hisfather. “They called a family meeting with my Baptist theologian uncle,” Joerecalls. “The first thing he said was, ‘Joe is absolutely right about theSabbath.’ I explained that I wasn’t following the Sabbath to leave the family,but I also needed to be honest with what I was learning in God’s Word.”

Today, Joe says, “Our lives are blessed because of thatfirst minute of explanation I saw about hellfire. Our kids are all followingthe Lord. The clarity of God’s Word calmed their fears.” Joe and his family arealso faithful partners in Amazing Facts’ evangelism work.

More TV Stations, More Truth

Friend, our media team at Amazing Facts is always lookingfor more TV stations to broadcast the truth on. Your generous support thismonth will help secure popular time slots on new stations—including WTOK inMississippi, KSWO in Oklahoma, and WXIN in Indianapolis. And, Lord willing, Godwill open doors for us to air on KCOP in Los Angeles.

Will you join me in spreading the lifesaving Bible truththrough TV evangelism? Your gift of $200 will provide 174 Bible resources to TVviewers calling in for answers. Your generous gift of $100 will help 1,667seekers watch life-changing sermons on TV. And a tranquility-producing gift of$1,000 will broadcast calming truth to 8,333 anxious hearts.

Whatever size gift you send this month, I’m grateful thatyou trust Amazing Facts to make a difference through television and all ourother evangelism programs.

Joe is grateful to you and is helping others know Bibletruth through Amazing Facts programs and other resources. His family nowexperiences peace knowing the truth about hell. Will you help many more fearfulhearts find the same rest in Christ? Will you help save others from the horrorsof twisted truths?

Preaching peace to the perishing,

Pastor Doug Batchelor

President, Amazing Facts International