Now the question is : If Jesus is the only way to the kingdom of God, what happens to those who did hear about him or those who did receive his Spirit ?
Here is an excerpt from the book "The Maharishi of Mount Kailaash". Maharishi was granted by the Lord Jesus, the grace of out of body traveling in the spirit to support his mission as an intercessor for humans as a prayer warrior.
Maharishi mentions how departed spirits who did not receive Christ Jesus are classified into 4 groups who'll need to be instructed about the Lord, before receiving the judgement of the righteous or unrighteous spirits in the Lord.
Here is what his spirit witnessed in the realm of the spirit :
"The nature of Maharishi’s special calling and ministry allows him to witness many scenes of dying.
At the moment of death, the Maharishi reveals, a person hardly notices any change in himself for a few minutes. Only when the angels inform him that he has died and is now a spirit does he discover to his surprise the reality of his new existence. Although his spirit form still looks exactly like his natural body, he is confronted with the fact that his spirit no longer has a physical, palpable body. This is the first state after death.
It is the eye of the soul and spirit being darkened through sin and unrepentance that is unable to see even the faintest light of glory in heaven. The reader must know and understand that the composition of light in heaven is different from the composition of light in nature, at least in its present state of corruption. Created light is inferior and more tolerable than uncreated pure light that is in heaven.
Only the soul and spirit washed by the blood of the Lord Jesus, thereby bestowing the incorruptible eye, would be able to see and bask in the light of celestial glory. Such a soul and spirit is attracted to the tunnel or pathway or portal of light because the immortal and undefiled eye can see pure light and withstand its intensity.
In the third state, departed spirits are told their future. The good spirits are escorted to heaven, housed in their mansions, given crowns, and told of their privileges.
The bad spirits are initially shocked to discover many filthy and leprous-like sores on their spiritual bodies. These sores are the result of the sins they committed in their earthly bodies.
As during their lifetime they had chosen the ways of darkness, now too in their spiritual state they once again choose to run towards darkness. Of these the scriptures say: “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (Jn 3:19-20).
They are then told that after the Judgment Day they will be cast into Hell. Till then they are at liberty to roam anywhere on the earth as it pleases them.
Just as angels come to receive good spirits at the time of death, so do evil spirits come to receive the bad spirits at such a moment.
The righteous rejoice when they see angels come to receive them. The unrighteous, on the other hand, curdle in fear and tremble at the sight of hideous spirits and dreadful satanic angels who congregate at their death bed.
The fate of the righteous spirits is quite the opposite.
Whatever shortcomings they had in their life on earth—for after all man’s nature is sinful—are immediately washed away by the blood of the Lamb of God as they enter the life beyond. They are made spotless in God’s eyes.
There is a popular misconception in Christendom that once a person enters heaven he has no work to do but only to rest and play the harp for eternity. According to the Maharishi, this is not so. Besides praying, worshipping, and praising God, a spirit in heaven has other duties to perform.
One such duty is to encourage the servants of God and the living saints on earth to continue in their good works and service to the Lord (cp. Lk 9:30-31).
Four Classes of Spirits:
Almost all spirits enjoy perfect liberty to visit any part of heaven or earth. The good spirits rarely visit earth because the very contact with sin is repulsive to their now pure and perfected nature.
Besides the good and bad spirits there exists a third category of spirits. These spirits are not allowed any freedom to roam either in heaven or earth. Instead, they are kept in a certain place in heaven where they are taught about the Lord Jesus Christ. These spirits are not allowed to leave this “restricted” place until they have passed the stage of instruction.
There are four kinds of spirits of people in this category.
1. Infants and Babies
These are those who died before being able to understand the mysteries of heaven or earth.
2. The Lunatics and the Ignorant
These are those who do not have the power of understanding even if they had heard about the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. The Blind, the Deaf, and the Dumb
These are those who are physically unfit to know and understand the things of God.
4. The Unknowing and the Unreached
These are those who never heard the Name of Jesus during their life time and those who were born before the time of the birth of the Lord Jesus on earth. One such person is found in the Gospel of Luke, where he hung as a thief on the cross beside the Lord Jesus. “Lord,” he pled, “remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” The Lord Jesus did not say to him: “Today you will be with Me in heaven.”
Instead, He said: “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Lk 23:42-43).
Paradise is the place where souls are kept for instruction to grow in the knowledge of God. This place is also known as Abraham’s Bosom (Lk 16:22). It is believed that this is like a “holding station” for souls awaiting the coming of the Messiah. It was to this place that the Lord Jesus went to after His death to preach to the “spirits in prison” (Ps 68:18; 1 Pe 3:18-22).
The spirits in this place have been waiting for ages for the revelation of the Messiah. It was these spirits that were set free when the Lord Jesus died on the cross:
“Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many” (Matt 27:51-53).
After the great White Throne Judgment, all evil spirits will be condemned to the flames of Hell’s lake of fire (Rev 20:11-14). The good spirits, however, will reign with the Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, forever and ever in eternal joy and happiness".
- Sadhu Sunder Selvaraj in "The Maharishi of Mount Kailaash" book
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