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> NOTE:  A few years ago we published the account of a Nigerian pastor who
> had been raised from the dead - after visiting Hell. Little did I know
> that our own David Kirkwood had done a thorough investigation into what
> occurred. (-He ministers in Nigeria often). Below is David's compelling
> report on the incident:
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>
> "The RESURRECTION of DANIEL EKECHUKWU"
> -by David Kirkwood.
>
> Soon after it occurred in December of 2001, I heard the report of
> Nigerian pastor Daniel Ekechukwu's resurrection. Reinhard Bonnke
> had been preaching at the  church where Ekechukwu was resurrected
> a short time before it occurred.  I also watched the video documentary
> of that miracle. I wanted to learn more. Since I was scheduled to
> spend the first two weeks of September, 2002 in Nigeria, I told [my
> friend] David Aboderin that if it would be possible, I would like to
> meet pastor Ekechukwu, and I prayed that the Lord would make it
> possible.
>
> We eventually learned that pastor Ekechukwu was temporarily
> staying at a hotel just five minutes from where I would be lodging
> during my final three days in Nigeria. So in a country of 130 million
> people, and in a city of 12 million, the man I wanted to meet was
> lodging just five minutes away from me! I was given the favor of
> personally meeting with Daniel Ekechukwu twice during those three
> days and also talking with several people on his ministry staff who
> were very familiar with his story.
>
> The following report has been compiled from several sources: (1) from
> pastor Daniel Ekechukwu himself by means of personal discussions
> I had with him from September 12-14, 2002, (2) from his personal written
> testimony contained in his own self-published booklet which
> he gave me, titled Miracle of the 21st Century, (3) from listening to
> his public testimony on September 13th at The Chapel of Glory,
> Lagos, Nigeria, (4) from the documentary video produced and sold
> by the ministry of Christ for all Nations, which includes the testi-
> monies of pastor Daniel, the doctor who pronounced him dead,
> Daniel's wife, Daniel's father, the mortician who embalmed Daniel,
> and several pastors who were present at his resurrection, and
> (5) from a personal discussion with Ede Samuel, a long-time friend
> and personal assistant to Daniel, who also was an eye-witness of
> many of the events surrounding Daniel's death and resurrection.
> The events described in the following report are factual to the best
> of my knowledge and memory.
>
> I am persuaded that due to complications from an automobile
> accident, Nigerian pastor Daniel Ekechukwu physically died in the
> late evening of Friday, November 30th, 2001, was dead for at least
> 42 hours, visited heaven and hell during the time of his physical
> death, and was raised from the dead between 3:50pm and 5:15pm
> on Sunday, Dec 2, 2001 in the basement of the Grace of God
> Mission, located in Onitsha, Nigeria. Pastor Ekechukwu's resur- rection
> is the greatest modern miracle of which I've heard.
>
> The Account:
> On Thursday, November 29th, 2001, pastor Daniel Ekechukwu
> and his wife, Nneka, had a misunderstanding that degenerated into
> an argument that ended in her slapping him. He was very offended
> by this incident, to the point of not even acknowledging her attempt
> to reconcile the next morning. Pastor Daniel admitted that through- out
> the day of November 30th, he angrily thought about how he
> would put his wife in her place when he returned home. He would
> not, however, make it home that Friday.
>
> As he was driving home that evening, the brakes on his 20-year old
> Mercedes 230E failed as he was heading down a steep hill, and his
> car crashed into a concrete pillar that was built to prevent cars from
> going over a steep embankment. He was not wearing a seat belt
> (few Nigerians did in 2001, but that changed in 2003, when wearing
> a seat-belt become a national law), and his chest hit very forcibly
> against the steering wheel and its knob, apparently doing damage
> to his internal organs, as he was soon vomiting up blood and having
> difficulty breathing (not to mention that he soon lost all signs of
> life). Daniel was not able to remove himself from his car, but frantic
> on-
> lookers pulled him out. One bystander volunteered her car while
> another offered to drive him to St. Charles Borromeo Hospital, not
> far away on the outskirts of Onitsha.
>
> Within minutes of their arrival at the hospital, a doctor began admin-
> istering emergency treatment, but Daniel knew his body was not
> responding to it. He began praying the prayer of a man who knows
> he is going to die, asking God to forgive him of all his sins so that
> he would be ready to stand before the Lord. He also sent for his wife,
> Nneka, with whom he had refused to speak when he left his home
> earlier that day. She fainted upon hearing the news of her husband's
> accident and condition, but when revived was taken by a Christian
> neighbor to the hospital. Daniel's friend, Ede Samuel (whom I
> interviewed at length) was with her and essentially witnessed
> everything that transpired over the next three days.
>
> When she arrived at St. Charles hospital, Daniel's wife burst into
> tears, begging her husband not to die and leave her. The doctor
> admitted that there was nothing he could do to save Daniel's life
> (keep in mind this was a Third World hospital), and so Daniel requested
> that he be transferred by ambulance to Umezuruike
> Hospital, 80 km away. It was on the way to Umezuruike that Daniel died.
>
> Daniel was lying in the back of the ambulance while his wife was in
> the front passenger seat. He began to feel that he was not going to
> survive, so he called for his wife to come to him. He began to say
> goodbye, give her instructions about certain church and personal
> documents, and admonished her to take care of their sons and his
> church. She began sobbing greatly and amidst her tears strongly
> rebuked him for such negative statements. He was a man of God
> and should have faith, and not be speaking of dying!
>
> As she was speaking, Daniel saw two large angels (they were so
> large that he later wondered how they fit inside the ambulance - one
> was as big as the ambulance) who were completely white (even the
> pupils of their eyes). Daniel tried to speak to the angels, but one
> held his finger to his lips, motioning for his silence. The angels
> lifted
> him on either side, and Daniel realized that there were now two of
> himself. The angels were holding him under each arm of his spirit
> man (which was perfectly whole), while his broken body was lying
> below. Once they left the ambulance, Daniel became oblivious to
> the natural world.
>
> When the ambulance arrived at Umezuruike Hospital with Daniel's
> body, it was now late at night (Friday, November 30th), and Daniel's
> doctor was not there. A member of the medical staff, however,
> examined his body and sadly told Nneka that her husband was dead
> and there was nothing that could be done. Nneka refused to believe
> the bad report.
>
> So they drove to the Federal Medical Center in Owerri, but found no
> doctor there either. Finally they drove to the Eunice Clinic, and there
> Daniel was confirmed to be dead by Doctor Jossy Anuebunwa. There
> was no breathing, no heartbeat or pulse, and Daniel's pupils were
> dilated and fixed. The doctor said that there was nothing he could
> do. A death certificate was issued at 11:30 P.M., Nov 30, 2001.
>
> They then drove Daniel's corpse to his father's house in a nearby
> village, and naturally Daniel's father and other family members were
> heartbroken at the sight of Daniel's dead body, weeping profusely.
> Daniel's father instructed them to take his body to Ikeduru General
> Hospital Mortuary not far away.  They arrived there around 1:00 am on
> Saturday morning. The resident mortician, Mr. Darlington Manu,
> received the corpse and the family members departed.
>
> The primitive Nigerian mortuary where Daniel's body was taken had
> no cold storage facilities, and so the mortician injected embalming
> chemicals into Daniel's fingers and into his feet. He then prepared
> to fully embalm Daniel's body by cutting Daniel's inner thigh in order
> to insert a tube by which he could inject more embalming fluid. As
> he did this, he experienced a shock that pushed him away from the
> corpse. This did not surprise him, as he had experienced similar
> forces before and attributed them to occult powers. (Such things
> are widely practiced in Africa and highly respected by all African
> pastors whom I know. Africans never understand the skepticism of
> Americans regarding the reality of occult power.) After a second
> attempt and a second shock that somewhat paralyzed his right
> arm, he concluded that Daniel must have been a member of a
> powerful secret society. He assumed, however, that after some
> occult sacrifices and incantations the powers in the corpse would
> subside, and he could then complete his work. (This mortician, of
> course, was not a Christian, but converted after Daniel's resurrection.)
>
> So he instructed an assistant to lay Daniel's body in the rear of the
> mortuary where many other corpses were already laid. (Incidentally,
> Daniel said that people could smell the embalming chemicals coming out
> of his body for two weeks after his resurrection. They
> would hug him and hold their noses.)
>
> Around 2:00 A.M. Saturday morning, the mortician, who lived very
> close to the mortuary, was disturbed by songs of worship coming
> from inside his mortuary, which stopped as soon as approached
> the mortuary doorway. This occurred twice. Upon searching for the
> music's source, he noticed some kind of light emanating from the
> face of Daniel's corpse. This completely unnerved him.
>
> The mortician was so disturbed over what was happing that he
> located Daniel's father on Saturday morning to inform him of what
> had been happening and to request that he remove Daniel's corpse
> from his mortuary. Then, on Saturday night, while she was sleeping,
> Daniel's wife experienced a dream in which she saw the face of her
> husband, and he was asking her why they had left him in the mortuary. He
> stated that he was not dead and that she should take
> him to Onitsha where German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke was
> preaching. She determined to do so, even though her family thought
> she was out of her mind. Daniel had been dead for more than 28
> hours. The family finally yielded, but purchased a casket and brought
> funeral clothing for the mortician to dress Daniel. Rigor mortis had
> fully set in by this time. An ambulance was hired on Sunday morning,
> December 2nd, and the casket that contained Daniel's body was
> taken to Grace of God Mission (a large church) in Onitsha, about one
> and half hours away, where evangelist Reinhard Bonnke was preach- ing at
> an afternoon service. They arrived at the church around 1:00pm.
>
> The church grounds were being protected by swarms of federal, state
> and local security guards for the sake of Reinhard Bonnke, who has
> received many death threats, and who is hated by Muslims all over
> Africa. (Not to mention the fact that the World Trade Center had
> been destroyed by Muslim hijackers just weeks before.) For this
> reason, the security guards would not allow the casket to be brought
> onto church grounds, thinking it might actually contain explosives.
> Daniel's wife loudly pleaded with them, and opened the casket to
> show them her dead husband, which resulted in their mocking and
> even flogging her because of her persistence to gain entrance. She
> caused such a disturbance that the senior pastor was notified, and
> his son instructed that Daniel's wife be permitted to bring his body
> to the church without the casket, and that it be placed in the base-
> ment. Daniel's body was laid there on two tables pushed together
> in a Sunday School room.
>
> Some believers gathered around Daniel's body and prayed while
> Reinhard Bonnke, who knew nothing of the dead body in the base- ment,
> preached and prayed. Eventually, it was noticed that Daniel's
> corpse twitched, and then irregular breathing started. (By this time,
> Reinhard Bonnke had left the premises entirely.) The attendant
> believers began praying fervently, and because his body was stiff
> and cold, they began massaging his neck, arms and legs. When
> those in the sanctuary got word that a dead man below was coming
> back to life, the basement room was soon jammed with people.
> Suddenly Daniel sneezed and arose with a jump. It was somewhere
> between 3:50 and 5:15 PM on Sunday afternoon. Daniel had died
> Friday night around 10:00 PM. He slowly became fully coherent over the
> next few hours.
>
> Do you doubt this account? A report on the web site of Christ for all
> Nations declares: Here are some hard facts that won't go away. For
> two days Daniel did not breathe, his heart had stopped beating. It
> was in a hot climate, not suspended animation in an ice chamber.
> He had been injected with a harsh chemical to keep back mortifi- cation.
> As a corpse he was carted around for hours, pulled about,
> and lay in an airless narrow coffin for hours. He should have had severe
> brain damage, but he is alive now without any ill effects.
>
> This is no unsupported claim of bringing someone to life privately,
> as in a house. Here was a public event, an open demonstration of
> revival from death. If anyone has to be named, it is Nneka. Her
> incurable faith alone prevented Daniel's burial simply to bring him
> where she was convinced God could bring him back to life. She
> regarded Reinhard Bonnke as a man of God and that in the atmo- sphere of
> faith where he ministered this miracle was possible.
> The faith of Nneka dictated the whole event and her faith was
> honored. By whom? Who honored her faith? If not God, who else?
>
> I would add to this defense that if the incident was a hoax, I doubt
> that pastor Ekechukwu would have invented the story of what
> happened to him when he was escorted to hell, which I will relate
> next. Pastor Daniel's message is now one of repentance to the
> church, to prepare the church to stand before Jesus, and many have
> indeed repented after hearing his testimony. If his story is all a hoax,
>
> the result of this hoax is real holiness. Finally, the ministry of
> Reinhard Bonnke certainly needs no promotional hoax, as his
> Nigerian crusades are already attended by millions. He in fact
> states that he had nothing to do with the miracle, and wasn't aware
> of the dead body in the basement of the church where he was preaching.
>
> As amazing as the story of his death and resurrection is, what
> Daniel experienced after his death is even more amazing. To him,
> what he experienced between his death and resurrection could have
> taken only fifteen minutes, even though he was physically dead for
> almost two days. After he was lifted from his body by the two angels
> in the ambulance, he soon found himself momentarily alone, but was
> soon joined by a different angel. Daniel stated that if he was confused
> about something that he saw or experienced, or if he had a question
> in his mind, this angel immediately gave him the answer. This angel
> first told him that they were going to Paradise. There was no time
> expended in getting anywhere the angel took him. As soon as the
> angel said they were going to Paradise, they were there.
>
> Daniel stood with the angel and watched a multitude of worshipping
> people who were dressed in sparkling white garments. He immed- iately
> thought they were angels, but the escorting angel told him
> that they were human beings who, "while they lived on earth, served
> God and had their faith focused on Christ Jesus and lived righteously."
> None appeared to be young or middle-aged or elderly, and none had
> any racial distinctives in their appearance. All were focused on a
> very bright light above them, and all worshipped in perfect unison.
> They would all lift their hands at once and bow at once.
>
> Daniel did notice one man who looked elderly among the multitude,
> and the thought occurred to him that perhaps that man was God,
> but the escorting angel immediately corrected him. The man was
> father Abraham. (Read Luke 16:19-31 for a story Jesus told that
> speaks of Abraham in the afterlife.) Daniel longed to join the worship-
> pers, but the angel told him that there were other things Daniel needed
> to see. He told Daniel they would next go to see Jesus'
> promise to His followers, the mansion He had prepared for those
> whom "He would find righteous on the last day." Immediately they
> were there. Daniel said there is no earthly way to describe what he
> saw. The mansion had no apparent end to its height or width. It
> continually moved, and each room also revolved in some manner.
> It was made of something that was transparent like glass, and the
> floors appear to be made of light. Daniel didn't see anybody in the
> great mansion, but heard beautiful singing. The angel told Daniel,
> "The mansion is ready but the saints of God are not. Jesus is
> being delayed because Christians in the church are not ready yet."
>
> Next, the angel took Daniel to hell, and they stood at the gate.
> When the angel lifted his hand and let it fall again, the gate opened,
> and Daniel could immediately hear the awful sounds of people
> screaming and weeping, but everything in hell was in total blackness.
> Then a bright light shone from the angel, and Daniel could see many
> groups of people in anguish. He told me of several specific groups
> that went through endless cycles of torment, held captive to the
> same sins they practiced on earth. One group consisted of people who
> would eat their own flesh and then vomit it out onto the ground,
> at which time the vomit would fly back onto their bodies and turn
> back into flesh that they would eat again. The angel told Daniel these
> people were those who had eaten human flesh as an occult practice.
> (Such things occur in Africa all the time.) Another group, who had
> stolen land from others while on earth, endlessly dug rock-hard
> ground with their bare hands.
>
> As I heard Daniel relate this scene, I couldn't help but thinking of
> how many times Scripture declares that God will repay every person
> according to his or her deeds, and also promises that everyone will
> reap precisely what they have sown. I remembered the story Jesus
> told of Lazarus and the rich man. In the afterlife, their roles were
> exactly reversed. The rich man longed for a drip of water from
> Lazarus just as Lazarus had previously longed for a crumb from the rich
> man's table.
>
> Pastor Daniel also saw the former military dictator of Nigeria. He
> saw a Christian who had dabbled in occult practices and fallen away
> from the Lord, and a pastor who had embezzled money from his
> own church and also lied about it. The former pastor pleaded that
> he would return the money if Daniel could help him escape hell.
> Although there were different kinds of tortures, all of the people in
> hell writhed in agony under an unseen force that would wrench
> them repeatedly. All of them were shouting, wailing and gnashing
> their teeth. Daniel told me that if every Christian could see what he
> saw, there would be no need to preach the gospel, as every
> Christian would become the gospel.
>
> The most surprising thing is what happened next. The escorting
> angel told pastor Daniel, "If your record is to be called here, you
> will in no doubt be thrown into hell." Pastor Daniel immediately
> defended himself saying, "I am a man of God! I serve Him with all
> my heart!" But a Bible appeared in the angel's hand, and it was
> opened to Matthew 5 where Jesus warned that if one calls his brother a
> fool he is guilty enough to go into the hell of fire. Daniel
> knew he was guilty for the angry words he had spoken to his wife.
> The angel also reminded him that Jesus promised that God will
> not forgive our sins if we do not forgive others (Matt. 6:14-15),
> because we will reap what we have sown. Only those who are
> merciful will obtain mercy (Matt 5:7). The angel told Daniel that
> the prayers he prayed as he was dying in the hospital were of no
> effect, because he refused to forgive his wife even when she attempted
> to reconcile on the morning of his fatal accident.
>
> Pastor Daniel wept at this revelation, but the angel told him not to
> cry, because God was going to send him back to the earth to
> grant the rich man's request (see Luke 16:27-30). A man would
> come back from the dead and warn people of hell. The angel said
> that Daniel's resurrection would serve as a sign and be the last
> warning for this generation.
>
> Finally, pastor Daniel was led to the top of a mountain, at which
> there was a large hole full of darkness. There the escorting angel
> handed Daniel to a man standing there whom he did not recognize
> at first, but soon realized it was German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke.
> The angel told Daniel that man would help him spread the gospel of
> salvation.
>
> Both Daniel and Rev. Bonnke fell into the hole, and that is when
> Daniel jumped up from the table where he lay at the Grace of God
> mission. He was back in his body after having been dead for at least
> 42 hours, almost two full days.
>
> As you may imagine, pastor Daniel greatly emphasizes in his
> preaching the need to forgive those who have wronged us, lest any- one
> suffer the fate he almost suffered. How important it is that we
> obey Jesus' commandments regarding forgiveness and walking in
> love toward each other, as well as all the rest of His commandments.
> It is indeed time for the church to repent and "pursue peace with all
> men, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord"
> (Heb 12:14). Do not listen to false teachers who say that holiness
> is not essential to ultimately gain eternal life. Jesus warned that
> only those who do the will of His Father will enter the kingdom of
> heaven (Matt. 7:21). Do not listen to teachers who say that if you
> are once saved you are guaranteed that you will always be saved.
> Jesus warned His closest disciples of the possibility of their not
> being ready when He returned and being cast into hell (Matt 24-25).
>
> If we expect God to forgive us, we must forgive others. That is
> what Jesus solemnly promised. Are you ready to stand before
> Jesus, sincere and blameless?
> ----------------------------------------------
> -By David Kirkwood.
> [For more on this incident, see
> http://www.shepherdserve.org/special_reports/daniel2.htm ]
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