Ron Reagan went to hell and saw his friends there. Sid Roth with Ron Reagan on It’s Supernatural!
In this It’s Supernatural! Classic episode from 1996: Is hell real? Meet Ron Reagan, a violent street fighter who had a near death experience and found himself in hell. Find out what he observed while in hell.
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it’s supernatural
with citron is hell real meet Ron Reagan
a violent street partner who had a
near-death experience and found himself
in hell find out what he observed on
this edition of it’s supernatural
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if it’s not natural consider it’s
supernatural heaven hell are these just
religious terms are are they real what
would you say if an individual that had
never read the Bible was not a
churchgoer at all had an experience and
actually saw some of his friends burning
in hell that’s my guest Ron Reagan I’m
going to take you back to a 12 year old
youngster you’re not Jewish but if you
were I’d say not even Bar Mitzvah Brett
a 12 year old youngster and your father
did something that crush your heart tell
me about that I was raised very poor SID
in the mountains of eastern Tennessee
I walked two miles to catch the school
bus on one of these trips to catch the
school bus walk through a little widow
woman’s yard
she called me aside and said son I want
to give you a gift that gift was a
little lamb which became my friend no I
don’t know much about lambs but could
they similar to a dog or a cat well very
similar goat she this was just a baby
lamb white fluffy just to sleep with the
lamb no no I was just curious yeah now
you know what it did for the catcher
right right but I was the first of three
children in a very abusive home my dad
was a drunkard beetus consistently my
mother as well as the kids but this lamb
was very dear to me it was in fact kind
of security to me no toys no no one to
play with there in the mountains and I
was very close to this land and even
after several months it would wait on me
in the past Rafi
you when I would come home from school
and much like a dog or a cat it was a
very real pet and a friend to me but one
afternoon when I came home the lamb was
missing and I heard my dad cursing as
usual he was working on an automobile
and I didn’t want to get hit or curse
that day so I I tried to walk a wide
berth around the car he was working on
and when I got to the other side I
looked down at the ground and there was
my lamb covered with blood and in a fit
of anger and rage the lamb had come
around wanting to play and my dad had
taken the tar tool and plunged it
through that lambs body it was covered
with blood of course it was dead run
yeah it’s difficult going back a number
of years what did you feel the second
you saw that lamb rage hatred anger I
really believed at that point in my life
I was completely overcome with hatred
and did you want to kill your father yes
I did I wanted to hurt to kill anything
that represented authority in any form
well what did you tell your father did
you run there what you’re so afraid of
him you backed off actually at that
point in life just just ran away ran
away from home ran into the woods the
mountains screaming the first afternoon
and night in the woods I was just
screaming he’s killed the land
he’s killed my land how long were you
away from home then probably from that
point on given a few times the juvenile
authorities would bring me back from
their own until I was married I never
lived at home again
wait a second how does a 12-year old
without money
angry fend for himself you do the best
you can you stay with whoever will have
you many times I slip on the ground
under bushes in cardboard boxes just the
best you can do that’s what you
the curiosity twelve-year-old alone hate
your father lost your best friend the
lamb did you were fearful at all No from
that point onward I never had fear I
think that’s unusual no fear at all
probably so much hatred if there was any
fear there it was completely covered
buried so deep I couldn’t get to it okay
you got married at a young age how old
seventeen seventeen how about your wife
fifteen fifteen well if you’re on your
own at 13 you grew up 12 I mean he grew
up fast yes yeah what was your life a
life of crime exactly I I was in the
reform school off and on many times in
juvenile county jails by the time I was
15 I was in a holding place for a state
prison
I was started doing time for
manslaughter at 15 years old hated
everybody and everything how much time
did you have to do for manslaughter
about a year and three months and before
I made parole
sometimes it’s difficult to talk about
because of the years of pent up hatred
and and emotion I look back on those
days and uh I’m ashamed drugs drugs
crime alcohol alcohol were you addicted
or just a social drinker I was addicted
extremely addicted to speed and alcohol
just if I couldn’t if I didn’t have the
money to purchase them I robbed or bees
or stove whatever I had to do to get the
Drifters you care if you died no no no
Karen Ollie’s and what would have
happened to you if you died did you even
think about it do whatever you want to
him eat you know leave me laying I don’t
care what was the purpose of life I
didn’t know probably
see who’s on top well one day you ended
up cutting yourself and bleeding to
death tell me about that day well I was
25 years old actually when that happened
I was married the father of three
children at that time the life of crime
had escalated many times to the point of
where my wife would have to leave for
her own safety and actually I got to the
point I was just like my father before
me I beat my wife my children were
afraid of me numerous times I would beat
the walls and just utter frustration and
rage and anger and it was at that point
in life that this fight I got into I was
all the time fighting I was in the jail
for for abuse for disorderly conduct for
brawling for attacking police officers
if you wore a badge or wrote a police
car you were my target you know I wanted
I always wanted an altercation or an
incident where I could ventilate my rage
and what happened to well at that point
in life at 25 years old my son was with
me with just five started into a little
7/11 convenient type store met a man in
the doorway he pushed on the door I
pushed on the door that’s all it took to
ignite to me and I just hit him I just
busted his head just knocked him down in
the floor and I’ll tell you what we’re
going to take a break right now and I
want you to find out what happened when
the blood drained out and he saw help
don’t go away
coming up find out what Ron saw in
another world that caused him to
experience fear for the first time ever
so Ron Reagan was in a convenience store
he was pushing on what the door one way
another man was pushing the other way
you found out how volatile Ron was so
Ron who won well probably he did I’m not
I knocked the man down he fell in a
Bob is awesome down by just pushing over
no I’ve cracked inside the head with my
fist oh my goodness just knocked him
down he fell in a stack of bottles glass
went all over the store people screaming
running but he got up with a broken a
large quart bottle broken bottle and
started stabbing started stabbing me how
badly actually the first stab was for my
face and I lifted my left arm just to
stop the globe the first stab wound
severed the biceps muscle the artery the
ligaments and the tendons and my left
arm completely all the way to the bone
blood was gushing out with every beat of
the heart just like squirting out of a
hose and but I was so enraged and full
of anger that that didn’t mean anything
to me
I just kept striking out at him with my
other arm and he kept stabbing you know
cut me several times and he meant to
kill me I didn’t know what at the time
had just gotten out of prison himself
for for cutting someone so how did this
altercation and that’s a minor way to
describe it end up well in the in a few
moments the the manager of that store
came over and just literally screamed
and said the young man if you don’t get
to a hospital you’re going to die right
here in the store and that kind of got
my attention and I’ll you know blood was
all over the floor and just pumping out
of my body my little son was hysterical
jumping up down screaming people were
you know panicking that sounds worse
than seeing that dead lamb your son
watching right that’s that’s very
difficult for me to even remember sand
but the man offered to drive me to the
hospital the nearest hospital which he
did he I got in the passenger side of my
own car he got under the wheel
my little son was in the back and drove
two miles to the nearest hospital
I had no tourniquet wasn’t really trying
to stop the bleeding of than just
placing my hand on it by the time we
came to the emergency room
I was near so near death I couldn’t even
open my eyes the floorboard was filled
with blood everything was just going
around and around
I remembered the the emergency room team
I could hear them I could not even see
them but they were saying we can’t help
him he’s lost too much blood
the arm will probably have to be
amputated we need to prep him and try to
ship him to another hospital and
everything was in pandemonium someone
had called my wife who was nearby she
had made it to the emergency room joined
there and got my son were you aware of
what was going on or a Jew almost passed
out I was just in a semi-conscious state
I could hear the voices but I you know
wasn’t really aware of what was going on
what did they take you then and an
ambulance to the other hospital they did
they they begin to give me IVs and blood
and you know put me in an ambulance at
that point and and ship me to Baptist
Hospital in Knoxville Tennessee some 18
miles away my wife was in the ambulance
with me got right on into ambulance with
me and the ambulance took off Alliance
siren and a young man the paramedic in
that ambulance leaned over me and said
something to me I didn’t quite
understand what even meant he said sir
you’re in serious trouble he said you
need to call on the Lord but wait a
second I thought they weren’t allowed to
do things like that evidently that’s my
understanding
evidently this young man must have been
the prompted to do that or or just risk
his job to do that well how did you
respond to that question I Kirsty you
know I just lashed out at him I cursed
even if I had the strength I’d have
probably hit him really what race yeah
anything I didn’t understand I lashed
out at it I was very paranoid very
intimidated if I didn’t understand it I
just hit it I struck out at it but again
this young man said to me sir the Lord
will help you and and eventually he used
the name Jesus I didn’t understand what
that meant and I cursed him and curse to
Jesus and and with just a lunatic I was
just a raving lunatic at that point but
as he kept trying to talk to me said
something happened in that ambulance all
of a sudden I thought the ambulance
exploded yeah it filled with smoke with
flames I didn’t understand it I
literally thought it explode you afraid
at that point well you know I was
excited I didn’t know what was happening
I thought you hear him you know bleeding
to death and now the ambulances are low
this is not your day no all right what
happened next well immediately as soon
as the the smoke and the flames came I
had the sensation of just floating up
out of that ambulance I’m I’m moving
like through the through the smoke
through the cloud accelerating speed I
was feeling pain at all not at that
point no you so he sort of floated out
of your body on yeah then what happened
yeah it was black it was dark all around
it was like I was going through the the
darkness of the smoke and I became aware
of voices a multitude of voices I
couldn’t see them at that point but I
could hear screams in the agonizing
groans and and it was getting louder and
louder and then I came out of the smoke
and I was looking down looking downward
into what appeared to be the mouth of an
active volcano well that wasn’t the
mouth of an active volcano but we’ll
find out what that was we’ll be back
right after this
stay tuned as Ron tells of the horror of
seeing faces he knew in hell but first
this with Ron Rankin we found out he was
dying and Hawwa sudden it was like an
explosion and flames and the ambulance
the blood had been drained out of him he
found himself out of his body and he
found himself going Ron you said into a
canyon it appeared to be later or an
active volcano like looking into the
mouth of an active volcano going
downward downward then the most
horrifying part of this to me I begin to
see with close-up vision the faces of
individuals that I had known through the
years people that I had robbed with that
I had parted with that I had fought with
each of them had died and in a tragic
accident or had been shot to death or
died of an overdose of drugs but you
knew that these people had died yeah
then you saw them I know them you know
they all died violent death every one of
them that I saw and recognized had died
a violent tragic death what were these
people doing in hell they were screaming
they were burning they were in like a
lake of fire they were burning but they
weren’t being consumed multitudes of
them and but the most horrible pain of
all was perhaps the the atmosphere of
depression and oppression and loneliness
and helplessness and no to wait a second
you have never read the Bible no you’ve
been to church maybe once or twice on
your you didn’t know anything about Hell
no how did you see this it to me I
thought this is a I’ve never been afraid
I’d been beaten shocked
abused fear was a small thing in my life
this was something I definitely didn’t
understand and it really made me think
there’s more going on than I know about
where I realized did they communicate
with you they did what they say screamed
my name these people that knew me they
screamed at me and said Ronnie don’t
come here there’s no way out
there’s no escape
don’t come here there’s no hope go away
don’t come here and I listened to this
and I looked into their faces there’s
Richard that had died in a robbery
attempt his heart was blown out of his
body in front of me on a sidewalk in
Atlanta Georgia
another friend Freddie was drowned
underneath his automobile in a river we
couldn’t get the car off of him
he died drunk on and on it tears me up
to even talk about it now but I saw them
screaming and and saying don’t come here
there’s no hope go go back go back and
then I don’t know how long this went on
but I could smell the most horrible
smell I could see what if it’s knowing
sulfur
like an electric welder the horrible
smells that I couldn’t even describe I
could feel the heat I could hear the
screams I could smell the smell then
people were suffering yes they were in
horrible agonizing torment said I I’ve
held people in my arms as they died I’ve
held him in my arms on the street I’ve
looked at him as we burned him to death
behind bars in the prison covered them
with lighter fluid ignited their body
burn them up this was something beyond
beyond what I had ever known in the
natural this was something I did not
understand and they were screaming to me
go back don’t come here there’s no
escape if you come here and and then
immediately bang I don’t know how long
this went on but I woke up in a hospital
room in Baptist Hospital in Knoxville
Tennessee
my wife was standing there she said you
made it they they left the arm they
wanted to amputate it but decided to
leave it but I was looking at her and I
was hearing her but my mind was
remembering what I had just seen I
didn’t really able as the days went by
to forget that experience
no never never from that point on I
didn’t want to be in a dark room I guess
I love years old you were macho man no
fear of anything not even death and
you’re telling me what you saw was
fearful it
fear in me that I knew nothing about or
let me tell you now to a church did your
wife took you to you finally went to
this Turkish and something struck a
nerve what happened on November the 2nd
1972 15 minutes to 12:00 my wife had
been converted she had accepted Messiah
I went with her on her invitation to a
church didn’t know what the pew was what
the Bible was the minister got up to
speak I wouldn’t have known one
scripture from another but he chose to
read John 1:29 which says behold the
lamb of God which takes away the sin of
the world when he said the lamb of God
he had my attention seeing I could
remember my lamb I didn’t understand
what he was saying in the blood
squirting yells oh yes
yes it’s a little child and and this man
said the Lamb of God is Jesus Christ
he’s the sacrifice he’s the Redeemer
he’s the savior for all of man’s ills
and sins and wickedness he gave he gave
an opportunity to pray I tried to leave
Ron Reagan I know that you prayed I must
know this
drugs alcohol cursing crime that was
your way of life what happened with
those things I was delivered
instantaneously no withdrawal my nature
was changed I was changed from violence
and hatred to love and are you married
to the same woman today exactly what do
you do for a living
I’m a pastor full-time senior how many
churches have you started started four
churches you have a college education
went back and earned a master’s degree
after I was 40 years old is God good
he’s wonderful he’s one I tell you that
God is good if God can take a Ron Reagan
a man that didn’t care if he killed
someone a man so filled with hate look
at the mercy of God
he showed Ron hell a man that didn’t
believe in Hell a man that knew nothing
of
hell but it sounded just like the
description in the Bible and look at the
transformation in his life the Jewish
scriptures say the prophet Daniel
those who are buried in the dust some
shall rise to everlasting life sounds
good to me and some to everlasting
condemnation sounds like just what Ron
Reagan described everlasting means no
chance of return that’s it
finish if you don’t make the right
decision in this life your decision is
made for you when you die
I’m reminded of a famous prophet who
said why will you die o house of Israel
choose life lehayim
the way you choose life is to choose God
the way you choose God is the Lamb who
died for you and his blood was shed and
by belief in that blood God says and he
says listen the Jewish Scriptures in
Daniel and Jeremiah I God will remember
your sins no more it’s wonderful and
then he says you will know him like Ron
knows and like I know him and I believe
like you are going to know him I believe
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