: The core message of Angelica Zambrano's testimony—repentance, faith in Christ, and the reality of judgment—aligns with biblical teaching. However, Angelica Zambrano’s stories mix truth with error.
Angelica Zambrano, a young Ecuadorian, claims to have visited heaven and hell multiple times, each time receiving revelations from God. Her first experience was when she was a teenager. She claims she was dead for 23 hours, during which time she met Jesus Christ and was led through hell and heaven and sent back to warn people about the realities of the next life. Her extra-biblical testimony of visions should not be regarded as divine revelation. The Bible is the only sufficient and authoritative source for spiritual truth. The Bible teaches that Jesus is the only way to salvation (John 14:6), and that eternal destinies are determined by faith in Christ, not by specific sins or works. Zambrano's visions distort truth by combining faith with works as the way for salvation.
Several aspects of Angelica's revelations are clearly unbiblical. In her first vision, she met someone in hell who failed to forgive. On her second visit to hell she claims that she met a former Christian leader who was there because he did not tithe. In her third vision, she saw people in hell for committing suicide and for playing secular music styles in church. She teaches that many people in hell were once saved but lost their salvation by sinning. This denies the doctrine of believer's security in Christ (John 10:27-30).
Bible-believing Christians should be wary of those who claim to have a new message or revelation from God. It is a sign of a false teacher. Nobody would be led from hell to heaven and back to earth in any literal way, for this would contradict Scripture. Luke 16:26 indicates that those who go to heaven or hell remain there, with no possibility of returning. Angelica's experiences are likely subjective visions or dreams rather than literal journeys.