Heaven Is So Real - Rev. Ed: Expanded with testimonials
by Choo Thomas
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Author: Choo ThomasEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-03
ISBN: 1591857899
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Charisma House
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Book Review: "The devil, prowls around, seeking someone to devour."
Summary: 1 Stars
I felt very relieved when I finally finished reading all 251 pages of this boring and demonic garbage. In this review, I will only go over a couple things, but if you would like a more in-debt critique, you can shoot me an e-mail, and I'll send it to you. beatz02@hotmail.com.
First, I want you all to know that this is a very dangerous book. If you want to read it, it should be read with heavy discernment, and major skepticism. What Choo is experiencing in her daily life is visit's from the devil, and figments of her imagination.
Choo claims that she has seen the risen Lord, and the Father. She hasn't seen their faces, but she has touched Jesus' scarred hands, and feet. Scripture never explicitly says anyone touched Jesus' scarred hands and feet, only that Thomas was ridiculed for wanted to touch them.
Anyway, having seen the risen Lord, in His glorified state, she claims she too has been transformed into her glorified body. For days and days, supposedly, God removes her spirit from her physical body, and implants it into her glorified body, and then they go on a voyage, first to a beach on earth, then they walk to a mountain, and through a tunnel, that leads to heaven. Her soul remains inside her physical body, and her sleeping physical body, perceives everything that is taking place in her glorified body. However, Choo is writing under the assumption that man is triune, but the doctrine that man is triune is false. The words soul, spirit, mind, heart, etc., all mean the same thing. They are used synonymously/interchangeably. Genesis says that God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life. Therefore, man consist of dirt, and the breath of life. The breath of life is mans spirit/soul/mind/heart, and is the image of God. When a man dies, his soul goes to judgment, and his body decays. Therefore, Choo's belief that her soul remained in her body, while her spirit was implanted into her glorified body, is false.
Notice, I said WALK. And she and this Jesus of hers do plenty of it. As a matter of fact, this Jesus of hers is a play toy, not God. This Jesus of hers is a pre-tribulation, dispensationalist, and he is not very doctrinally sound or knowledgeable of the living word of God. In the Scriptures, Jesus says that His sheep will never perish (John 10:28), Choo's Jesus on the other hand says plenty of Christians/believers go to hell.
A severe contrast between Choo's Jesus, and the Jesus of the Scriptures is easily perceived. I can't believe people are actually buying into this mess. Thousands of foolish individuals are actually buying a bunch of copies of this stupidity and giving them out to people they know. THIS IS WHY GOD GAVE US A BIBLE!!! And it is sufficient, for "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." - 2 Timothy 3:16
Most of the book, Jesus spends all of his time praising and worshiping Choo for her obedient lifestyle. He is very thankful, and appreciative of Choo's obedience. When he appears to Choo, she doesn't immediately drop down as a dead person, and worship (Revelation 1:17). She always shakes violently, and then Jesus takes her by the hand to the beach, for their romantic dates. However, not one person in Scripture ever shakes violently when approached by God or angels.
I know someone else who does a lot of walking... Maybe you've guessed: Job 1:7 - "And the LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come from?" So Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from WALKING back and forth on it."
Satan is not omniscient or omnipresent; he cannot be two places at once. Satan has to do lots of walking, and flying, while God on the other hand, is simply everywhere, and can transport humans in a twinkle of an eye.
This Jesus of Choo Thomas promises to make her rich, and bless her, and wants her to be happy everyday of her life. This is not the Jesus of the bible. Jesus never spoke like this in the Scriptures (Romans 8:17). Christ wants us to have joy, but we also groan with labor pangs as we wait for the redemption of our bodies (Romans 8:22).
This book is goofy, and boring. Choo has made up her own little Jesus pet, just like plenty of other people (Betty Eadie, Dannion Brinkley, Richard Eby, Robert LIARdon (who claims he and Jesus had a splash fight in the river of life), Mary K. Baxter, etc). Jesus of Choo is so nice and cuddly; he doesn't demand perfection because of his infinite holiness (Matthew 5:48). Rather, he's just like a nice human being according to Choo.
She says earth is a prototype of heaven. That is the most boring and lame thing I have ever heard. In heaven, Choo says they have B.B.Q. grills built into the rocks, and Jesus on one of their dates, grabbed a fish from the pond (yes, there is a fish market pond for the kingdom children), killed, and grilled it for Choo. He grilled it well done, and both Jesus and Choo enjoyed their meal in heaven. Mind you, this is right after Jesus had just said he wasn't hungry. I guess his appetite was stirred at the smell of the heavenly dish he was preparing.
I say "dates" because on numerous occasions Jesus plucks a fruit from a tree and gives it to Choo, and she eats it, and while she's eating it, she too plucks a fruit from the same tree and give it to Jesus, and he eats it. Then they both laugh and smile at each other. Subsequently, Choo seems to have a fetish for Jesus. In fact, she said she had a vision of him on the cross; "he was bloody, but looked handsome, and was very muscular."
Jesus had to press a button to get the grill started, and he also had to press a button to start the boat, for the boat ride he and Choo went on during there trip in heaven. Why would God have to press a button? Can't He just make it go?
Choo claims to have met Abraham, and the archangel Michael. Michael, she claims, is 7 foot, 300lbs. Shaq and Yao Ming are bigger than that! She also saw all the apostles, including Paul; they had notebooks in their hands, but she never tells us what they were doing. Abraham says a couple things to her; he grabs her shoulders and says, "Daughter." Then a couple days later, he does it again, but this time he says, "Jesus has showed you a lot of the kingdom." Abraham is tall, with long white hair, white beard, and looks old.
This book is very obscure about a lot of things, and it is very redundant. Why would people in heaven need to write down notes in notebooks? I would hope our minds will have increased in mental storage capacity. And it seems to me that writing things down due to the forgetfulness and frailty of the humans mind, is a result of our sin natures, which will be eradicated in heaven.
The same thing happens everyday; her body starts shaking violently, Jesus shows up and takes her to the beach, they walk to heaven, both her and Jesus change there clothes before they go exploring mansions, and castles, then they go to Jesus' favorite place, the pond, where Choo dances for Jesus, and he sit with his legs crossed with a big smile on his face. Kinda reminds you of the burger king man. And note, she has never seen Jesus' face, she can only perceive that he's smiling. Then she cries (this book is filled with a lot of crying, dancing, and emotions), and goes home. Same thing, everyday. She should have named this book, "Heaven Is So Boring!"
In this book, Jesus implements some new commands for the church. And if you are one of the gullible people here that think this book is true, then you are obligated to adhere to everything it says, since it claims to be the divinely inspired words of the Holy Spirit Himself.
One of the new commands, that Jesus and all the apostles forgot to mention, is that all Christians must pay a %10 tithe of there gross income every two weeks. Not the money after taxes, you have to tithe off the money before taxes. Jesus is very displeased with people who do not do this, and says that people who do not obey this command, are going to hell.
Her and Jesus' Scripture reference is Malachi 3, which is actually talking about the animals needed for the temple, which were kept in a storehouse, and used by Levite priest for atonement. It has absolutely nothing to do with money. In fact, God never even commanded the Hebrews to give money. Christians are to give as God has prospered them. Now that Jesus came, this ceremonial aspect of the law is void. Jesus is our lamb slain, and Christians are to be cheerful givers, not legalistic, law burdened Pharisees. I guess the Jesus of Choo forgot that he came and fulfilled the ceremonial law.
There is plenty more stupidity I could mention, but I can't include everything in this review, just send me an e-mail, and I'll send you the full critique.
Okay, just one more thing. Jesus dresses up in a special birthday suit on his birthday, December 25. Every year, he dresses in his birthday attire, which consists of a gold robe, and gold crown, and he goes to Choo's house to celebrate. I guess he doesn't know that December 25 is not his actual birthday.
The one and true eternally blessed God obviously did not want us to know too much about heaven. That's why its vaguely mentioned in the scriptures. This is not something God forgot to tell the prophets, Jesus, and the apostles, but suddenly (according to Choo, and numerous other delirious individuals) now wants everyone to know about its contents and atmosphere. The bad thing about this is, heaven according to these frivolous people, is just earth, a thousand times better. How ridiculous..
All of these people come back with a different story; Mary K. Baxter said that there are two 25 foot angels standing in front of the gates of heaven. Choo fails to mention them. However, Choo says that hell is right outside the gates of heaven (Which may be the only thing true in this book. That is, it may be true that heaven is visible from hell; cf. Luke 16:23), just a few steps around the corner, while Mary says you enter hell through portals in outer space. On the other hand, Choo and Jesus simply climbed up a mountain, and looked down into the pits of hell.
Christian's serve an infinite God, who in His Triune character, cannot be fully comprehended. The same goes for heaven. If someone has been to heaven, the way you can know if they really went is if there testimony is simply, "it's beyond our imagination, I can't describe it." But when someone comes back exclaiming how big the king size beds are, and how much heaven is the same as earth, dismiss such a foolish person.
My advice, don't read this book, and any other book of someone claiming to have went to heaven. I'm about sick and tired of all these heaven and hell jumpers. God has revealed what He wants us to know, in the Scriptures. Anything not in the Scriptures, that is supposedly from God is a false claim and should be dismissed. The canon of Scripture is closed. The 66 books of the bible are God's final authority.
Stop with your itching ears and curiosity about heaven and hell; you will learn about them when you die (I read this book because my sister went out and bought 20 copies, claiming that God wants everyone to read it). As for the Parousia; whether you believe in a rapture, then some sort of tribulation, and a 1000 year millennium, has nothing to do with your salvation. Salvation is by faith alone. But according to this book, salvation is by works, and obedience. No! Salvation is by faith alone, and your faith will result in good works.
Jesus is God.
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