A Michigan priest has posted a series of TikTok videos detailing his experiences in Hell. Gerald Johnson stated that he had a heart attack in February 2016 and had died briefly. “My spirit left my physical body, and I thought I was on my way up [to Heaven]. I thought I did so much good during my life and that I helped so many people, but even so, I went down [to Hell],” he said. “I entered the very center of the Earth. The things I saw there are indescribable. It brings up so many difficult feelings when I talk about it.” Despite being the lead pastor of Faith Culture Church, the pastor stated what caused him to be in Hell was his own unforgiveness. After being resuscitated, Johnson said he was angry with God for sending him to Hell after living a life that he felt had been spent in service to Him. Then God spoke to Him. “He said, ‘You have been secretly upset with the people who have hurt you. You had been hoping that I would punish the people that hurt you…’” Johnson recalled. “‘I only want you to focus on the assignment I am giving you.’ Although I did good, the thing I had in my heart was the unforgiveness to the people who wronged me. A person that can’t forgive is a person that has forgotten how much they have been forgiven of,” he added.

In recalling what he saw in Hell, Johnson said, “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.” He described a demon holding a man with chains on his neck like a dog as he was being burned from head to toe. Johnson described having a “telepathic communication” that enabled him to understand that the demon had tormented the man from childhood to “ride him from his childhood to his death.” He added, “It’s like you’re a slave on earth to the things of the devil, and then in Hell, you are a ‘tormented-dog’ slave.”

One of the strangest areas Johnson saw was an area where demons played popular secular music to influence humans. “It was the same music that we hear on the Earth, but as opposed to entertainers singing it, the music, demons were singing it. It was some of the same lyrics we hear here,” he said. “Here, music is to get over a breakup. ‘Don’t worry, be happy,’ ‘I bust the windows out your car,’ or, ‘under my umbrella,’ whatever. Every lyric to every song is to torment you as to the fact that you didn’t worship God through music when you were on the Earth,” he said. “You had a chance to worship him in church and at home and through music, but you chose to worship Satan by repeating the lyrics that he inspired to come into the earth,” Johnson claimed that the experience showed the danger of popular music, claiming the lyrics come from demons and are used to control people. After his experience, Johnson emphasized his belief that God does not send people to Hell and that “people send themselves to Hell.”