Summoned!

SUMMONED!

At the Edge of Eternity

A TRUE STORY

SUMMONED!

Charles Odimayo

Copyright © 2013 Charles Odimayo

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Author’s Note

Introduction

The Veil of Heaven

The Road to Physical Heaven

Understanding Death

The Arrival

Welcome to Heaven

Summoned

Standing before the Throne of God

At the Garden of Eden

What Really Happens when We Die

Consciousness beyond the Grave

Where is Heaven?

The Essence of Heaven

Who is God?

Reflection

Conclusion

Thank You for Reading my Book

The Author

About the Book

Reflective Preface to Four Glimpses and Summoned

Endnotes: A Preview of Acts of Angels

Beta Readers’ Comments

Dedication

To God who searched my heart, knows my name and by His mercy made me a witness for Heaven.

And

In memory of my father, Chief Zechariah Odimayo, a man who dedicated his life to his children, the family, and his community and bequeathed upon us the precious gift of a good name. You deposited in us, fun memories of incredible love. Unto you daddy, God has granted His eternal peace. So, Rest upon your creator’s breast!

Acknowledgements

"In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

This book is a gift from God written under the inspirational supervision, and guidance of the Holy Spirit. And for this, I am thankful.

In the process of this book, I felt the loneliness of a writer but I was not alone with the support of wonderful friends and family. Lots of love and a debt of gratitude to my mother and my brothers, your individual contributions to my life at various points helped make me who I am today. And the help which actually propelled my first book Four Glimpses of Heaven to publication. I couldn’t have done it without your collective support – thank you.

Loads of thanks to Efua Richardson for the sacrifice, enthusiasm and unflagging perpetual encouragement on this and all my projects, may your days be filled with success. Many thanks also to my good friends Shannon Harrison, Susan Adams (aka Couch Adams) for their support and to Zachary Wiederhold under whose watchful eyes "Four Glimpses" was written. I pray that all of you will continually meet with the favor and blessings of God in all your endeavors.

My sincere appreciation goes to Sam, the CEO of Alpha Press for providing the facility to actualize the book project and all the staff that worked tirelessly to make the paperback copy a reality. You guys formed the best group in publishing.

Finally, to all my beta readers, and to those of you who read my books and sent me wonderful, encouraging plus some corrective notes, thank you for your valuable inputs. You showed me a lot and helped me improve my writing — you are so precious to me. Thank you!

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Author’s Note

Now that this book "Summoned" is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings, both in style and contents, weigh very heavily upon me. As regards the latter, I can only say that it does not pretend to be a full account of everything I saw and did in Heaven. There are many things connected with my journeys into the afterlife that I would have loved to dwell upon at length, which, as it is now, the book have narrowly alluded to. Amongst these are the details of the elders’ reading of the rules of Heaven that opened the eyes of my soul to the great work ahead, and also about the scene of the documentary displayed inside the garden, or the appearance and nature of the people alongside and around the throne of God. If I could have given way to my impulses I should have wished to go into the differences, some of which are to my inner-mind very suggestive between the groups of elders that interviewed me. Also a few pages might have been given up profitably to the consideration of the dictates of the flesh (my ego). There remains the most interesting subject - of the magnificent system of organization and the observed Spiritual hierarchy in Heaven - that, as it is, has only been touched on incidentally.

And now, all that is left should be for me to offer heart-felt apologies for my take-no-prisoner approach and blunt style of writing. I can’t but say in excuse that I am more accustomed to speak my mind freely as my Spirit directs than tactical writing. Neither should I make any pretense to the grand literary hops and flourishes which I have seen in other books. I suppose eloquence at writing and command of idioms are desirable, and I regret not being able to express them as my critics would have preferred. But at the same time I believe that simple things are always the most impressive. A book may be easier to understand when it is written in plain and uncomplicated words. Though, I might not have the right to set an opinion on writing standards like other literary giants that have a true command of such.

The fact of the matter is, I thought with my family, friends and editors, that the best plan would be to tell my story in a plain, straight-forward way, and leave other matters to be dealt with subsequently in whatever way it ultimately might turn out to be desirable. I hope I will hear good reports from you, the reader and the world beyond my physical reach.

Charles Odimayo

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Introduction

There is nothing new under the heavens, including journeys to heaven. At least that is what the Bible says, and I have said it severally that my exposure to the afterlife is not unique. Several others have been and back to give accounts, but the difference and my aha moment is the repeated invitations to Heaven. My step by step exposure to the Spirit of God and angelic encounters are just too numerous to mention in exact details. There were some awesomely notable ones that should be released to the public for humanity to reposition themselves. However, I must warn my readers ahead of time that some of the reports are not for weak minds or spiritual babies. They are strong meat for progressively discerning and spiritually advanced souls. It will also serve as knowledge base for those who desire to walk with God both in life and in the life after life. This is not a statement of arrogance nor is it a claim of superior knowledge. It is the Bible that says, "To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast" (Isaiah 28:8).

I have been a Christian all my life because I was born into it. Christianity was as much a part of me as was my culture because they were interwoven and are hardly separated in our day-to-day activities. At school and in church we learned about Jesus and at home we did our regular morning devotion but we also participated in all traditional activities that couldn’t be classified by any stretch of imagination as Christianity. As a little boy growing up in such strong culture superficially wrapped in Luke-warm Christian faith, my beliefs were as deep as my parents could project theirs. However, I nursed a sincere desire to know the true God who created all things. I was not in doubt of my culture, neither did I reject it. As a matter of fact, I loved and embraced its purity, but sometimes questioned areas where it appeared diluted with the Christian faith. I soon found out that most of the Yoruba mythologies handed down through the ages paralleled some of the ones we read in the bible. The supremacy of God on the other hand is exalted and made clear in both areas. My tradition like the church, recognized God (The Olodumare) that created all things and homage was paid to him during all rituals. The churches talked so much of God that I wanted to see Him. In no uncertain terms, I challenged this invisible God and dared Him to show himself or proof to me that He is real. I lived in the world of black and white because nobody is right when you are a teenager. I wanted to feel His thrust and the movement of His Spirit that the preachers say lives in us. He has to stop hiding behind the pews and pillars of the church building or I will abandon Him like I did the yearly make-believe they dubbed resurrection galilee. I must honestly add that I did not expect to hear from God because I have busted the myth of Jesus’ galilee. I was as good as resolved that it was all a whole bunch of crap invented by a trickster like the character of crafty Abdul I read in one of my primary school books. That nonsense was not going to fly anymore and I was going to dump it unceremoniously as with any unwanted garbage. I believed I have given him a good enough chance to show Himself and was not going to grant Him longer time to personally say to me that He exist.

Well, what happened next totally seized me by surprise. Not long after my challenge that a series of events took take place in my life. At the tender age of eleven, I have had two soul-shaking spiritual encounters that divinely shaped my beliefs till this day. By age fifteen, I had already been taken to Heaven twice, before I even knew enough to appreciate and acknowledge Christ’s gift of salvation and before I accepted the concept of giving my life to Him. I had no understanding of what needed to be done with the information I received in Heaven and my parents had no inclination of the magnitude of the knowledge I gained from the visits. It was certain though that I have an unusual awareness of things that made me an anomaly amongst my peers. I could see and hear things no one else could see or hear. Unfortunately, none of these aspects of spiritually was encouraged or utilized by me and those around me except in the church where I was given the tittle of a prophet. I kept up with my church attendance, but I felt empty and knew something was missing. I didn’t feel like other Christians do, so I immersed myself in more church activities like evangelism, church planting, crusades and jamborees to fill the vacuum. It didn’t work; I needed a deeper and more personal experience. I was interested in how and why many things were done that was done and left unexplained. Faith? - Yes, but reasonable explanation? - No. And deductive reasoning had left a lot of questionable situations to arguable interpretations without indisputable agreement. I questioned the bible stories even more and vigorously sought for credible answers, not for lack of faith but because of it. The need for credible answers prompted a higher desire for me to find God on my own terms. I needed sufficient doses of knowledge that would complement the enlightenment from my exposures to heaven and the spiritual world I had discovered beyond the veil. I took solace in King David’s admonition to his son in 1Chronicles 28:9 where he said,

"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever"

From the outset, God was my absolute focus and who is God? was my only question. Heaven and the expectations of life after death were not on my radar until I was taken up. Then I discovered that there is nothing on earth that could prepare any human for the experience of such divine encounters with the Almighty. The exposure was beyond imagination, control, explanation or thoughts and handling such information has led to so many things in areas I did not envisage. I was so confused at a point and disgusted by what I taught was the misuse of the scriptures by many unqualified for profit pastors that I refused to even pick up my Bible. I stopped attending church services because I felt a lot of the preaching, the doctrine and conducts of some officials contradicted what I witnessed in Heaven.

As I grew much older and after my education in New Jersey, multiple angels visited me for one thing or the other as it was in my younger days and I was drawn back once again into the spirit world. One of them prompted me to read numerous scripture passages. And I wondered, Why haven’t I seen or paid attention to such details before? He said, It’s all in God’s timing; you just were not ripe for it yet. He gave me few useful clues that spiritual life is in stages.

That period was when I truly discovered the eminent presence of God in my life. The aftermath was my third invitation to heaven. A few days later, I was taken in the company of an angel to the Church in Heaven (details in Four Glimpses of Heaven). It was my third visit to heaven. This encounter messed me up the more because, neither preacher, nor any approach to Bible study in any form opened my eyes to God better than the acts of the angels and the direct Word spoken to me while in heaven. I reasoned that the more I spoke with God, the more I would learn about creation, yet I had serious concerns that I wouldn’t grow into the person God wanted me to be without much training. I didn’t know what self-denial really meant. There had been no need for such in my life. To that end, I looked to the church for qualified teachers, but to add to my countless disappointments, I couldn’t find people who knew enough or those that had been in the same situation to lean on. But what saddened me the most, even more than the need for learning was the disappointment that I couldn’t find people of like minds to celebrate God the way I knew Him. Sadly, the exposure and the knowledge I had gathered both in heaven and on earth sat dormant in my spirit for many years, waiting to be shared with anyone who cared to listen.

Enchained by my own sorrow, I put the experience of Heaven behind me and went about my mundane daily life. As it turned out, God has a planned way of achieving His purpose. While on grocery shopping with a friend named Ruth, she asked a question and floods of answers beset us. Then she said these are insights God gave you to share with the world, why are you hoarding it? Suddenly, I discovered a purpose for my exposure. A reason for Four Glimpses of Heaven the book on my first three visits to heaven and my first encounter with angels. Shortly after that, came demands to follow it up with details of my fourth call to heaven. The response the demands is this book, titled "SUMMONED A sequel to which I felt the need to write another book titled The Acts of Angels" letting my readers in on my encounters with various angels on assignment. They came with miracles from God as they stopped by my house from the age of eleven till today. At last, my true calling and the purpose of my visits to Heaven slowly began to emerge.

I love God. I loved being in Heaven, but most of all, I love to share the experience with others. In the past, I had tried to study the Book of Revelations step by step but my spirit was always restless. I entertained the opinion that it is probably the most difficult book to decode in the Bible. But I found myself drawn back to it and to the Book of Genesis again and again, because they both gave credence to my experience. Specifically, my visits to the Garden, the throne of God, the church gathering and the passages addressed several questions that crossed my mind. Questions like, who were the twenty-one elders I spoke with? Who were the seven entities that sat on the living chairs? Were those the planned prelude to the reading of the book of life? - I could only imagine. Who was the scary angel by the throne of God that no one dared look at his face? Why was I allowed inside the Chrystal River? And why did the angel blocked my path to the tree that caught my interest in the garden? These were some of the questions the Bible had not explicitly answered for me without creative or progressive thinking. I often wondered if the elders interviewed me to determine my stay-eligibility in Heaven. But the second group session was more of a discussion rather than question and answer.

It is my sincere desire that some of you will have several light-bulb moments as you read this book and cross-referenced it with Four Glimpses of Heaven. It is not sufficient that you take my word for it. Check the Scriptures, on what is written against what I say. Should you think I missed it in some areas, please let me know, I’d love to hear from you. But keep an open mind if you don’t have a Bible by your side. I have no doubt that some things I say in this book will disturb some of you because they might conflict with what you have been taught about God. Be assured that it is by the grace of God and the guidance of His Spirit that I dare discus some topics. I did my best to make everything plain except for those subjects I’m absolutely forbidden to discus. Subsequently, the information you find in this book might either leave you soliloquizing, or drop your jaw in disbelief (like it did my father many years ago) or set your heart racing with excitement. I truly hope it is the latter. You might even think it’s sacrilegious and this might provoke you to carry out some inductive search of the scriptures for answers of your own. Sincerely, I also hoped for the latter as this will serve God’s purpose better.

So join me now let’s walk through Heaven one more time and see if you can discover the reason(s) I was Summoned. And