A woman who says she experienced the horrors of hell after reaching the point of death on the operating table insists God sent her there intentionally.
Camille Gent, a Christian minister in Oregon, told the Daily Mail how – during a medical emergency in 2013 – she felt herself descending into hell, where demons crawled on her flesh, clawed at her skin and tormented her with false visions of her family.
She describes how she was thrown through multiple worsening realms, each darker than the last, before reaching a fourth level where she confronted Satan himself.
It was there that she believed God had sent her on purpose, so she could survive and share the knowledge of what awaited sinners.
But she recounts that once she had faced the devil, the giant hand of God appeared from above, scattering the demons and lifting her back to Earth.
She then describes being shot upwards like an arrow by two huge angels, and witnessed heaven, covered in glittering grass and swaying daffodils, where God and Jesus laughed joyfully on their thrones.
Gent says there she spent three days being transformed into a perfect, healthy human body.
She saw praise flowing like breath, flowers swaying as angels worshipped and words from God pouring over her like waterfalls of love and energy.
In the throne room, she saw God and Jesus laughing joyfully, which she linked to Psalm 2:4: ‘He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.’
God reviewed the mistakes and trials of her life, conveying to her that it all served to shape her – before He sent her back to Earth with a healed heart, Gent told Daily Mail.
‘He reached down, pointed his huge finger in my face, and said, make no mistake, Camille, I know everyone’s heart.’
She described how God told her she had been saved from hell because she believed that Jesus had sacrificed himself for her sins.
Her family says she never woke during the course of a 13-day coma after going into septic shock, while Camille recalls her ordeal in hell as lasting for days.
She said she had communicated with God telepathically during the coma: ‘I was not even talking to him, but he could hear everything, and it was telepathic, and he said: ‘It’s because of the blood [of Jesus].’
The instant she returned to her hospital bed and finally became conscious, Gent realized the shallow pursuits of fame and fortune were meaningless, which served to affirm her Christian devotion and purpose.
She credits her survival and the miraculous healing that followed her coma to her faith, with the intervention of God.
Gent’s medical ordeal began when her pacemaker became infected with potentially deadly black mold growing in her home, triggering sepsis, strokes, organ failure and three comas.
Doctors could not explain how she survived the cascade of complications, which included Stage 4 heart failure, internal bleeding, blood clots in the lungs, and brain aneurysms.
Remarkably, her heart recovered completely, eliminating the need for a pacemaker, transplant, or quadruple bypass surgery.
Her nurse, Patty Woods, reportedly cried, saying: ‘Camille, your heart is healthier than before you got sick… I don’t know, but something happened.’
Gent spent over three months hospitalized, losing her left leg and right toes to sepsis, yet reports that her cirrhosis, temporary paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis and stroke symptoms vanished after the near-death experience.
‘The head cardiologist of Oregon Health and Science University, Dr Craig Broberg, still teaches [about] me,’ she says.
‘He teaches classes about me, because he can’t imagine how I lived. I’ve always told him I went to Heaven, because afterwards I didn’t even need that pacemaker.’
