Book Hits #1 on Barnes & Noble: Vassula Ryden, Christian Mystic, Shares Warnings from God in Spiritual Biography

Author Vassula Ryden reveals supernatural battle between good and evil in new bestseller, ?Heaven is Real, But So is Hell?

LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 4, 2013 ? In just three weeks, the new book ?Heaven is Real But So is Hell? has shot up to NUMBER ONE on the BarnesAndNoble.com Top 100 list, and the book isn?t even in stores yet. Moreover, not a single advertisement has been run.

Author Vassula Ryden, a Greek Orthodox Christian, has built over 1,000,000 fans on Facebook.com/JesusIsReturning and Twitter.com/VassulaRyden. Thousands of supporters nationwide believe she has critical prophetic messages for our modern day. Among other things, Ryden prophesied the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11, exactly 10 years to the day before the event. Her visions and supernatural experiences have given her insights into long-asked questions like:

• Is there a Heaven, a hell and anything in-between?
• Are we living in the last days?
• If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
• What is in store for our world?

?If you met me on the street, you would never suspect this,? admits Ryden. ?I look and act much like everyone else. I?m not a nun or a recluse or a gypsy fortune teller. I?m just like you, yet I see a world ? a dimension ? far beyond you and me.?

In the book, ?Heaven is Real But So is Hell,? Ryden shares her encounters with God, and the many incredible miracles that have accompanied the ?locutions? (interior messages) she?s received, particularly highlighting God?s warnings to our modern world, and his call for us to turn back to him.

Ryden, who is based in Greece, has spoken to millions of people in 79 countries. ?Heaven is Real But So is Hell? is her first book to be released in America.

For more information visit http://www.HeavenIsRealBook.com

Vassula reads from True Life in God



About Vassula Ryden:

Vassula Ryden, author of ?Heaven is Real But So is Hell: An Eyewitness Account of What is to Come,? is a Greek Orthodox Christian author with a worldwide following. Born of Greek parents, Ryden grew up in Egypt, until her family moved to Switzerland when she was a teenager. Then in 1985, while she was living in Bangladesh, she had a spiritual encounter that changed her life, as well as many others. Ryden was working on a grocery list when she felt the presence of an angel. ?My hand was taken as if by an invisible hand, and I let it go because I felt he wanted me to write something,? she says.

At the time of the encounter, she had no relationship with God and hadn?t received any religious training. Soon after that encounter, God allowed Ryden to experience a painful purification process. After experiencing this dark and lonely time when she did not hear from God, she made the decision to fully surrender to Him and put God first in her life.

Since then, she has had thousands of similar experiences, transcribing ?messages? from God in a different style than her normal handwriting. The messages have been compiled in books, videos and other materials, which are promoted and distributed under the title, 'True Life in God' after Vassula was told by God in 1987, I have chosen you as a blank canvas to fill it up only with My Work which I will name: "True Life in God.?

Ryden also has what she calls ?interior visions? of heaven and the future and has foreseen three important events, which came to fruition:

The destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001;

The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004; and The fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union.

But such ?doomsday? prophecies are not the focus of her ministry. God?s messages to Ryden emphasize His love and desire that all people have an intimate relationship with Him. They also stress the need for unity among Christian denominations.

Although she is Greek Orthodox, Ryden has a large Catholic following. She has cordial relations with many Vatican officials and presented a copy of ?True Life in God? to Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.

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