‘Hawking believes in God now.’
and this you know how, exactly...?
Hawking rejected Him. Now, sadly and awfully for Hawking, he knows all too well that there is an afterlife, and that God is very real. But Hawkings eternal destiny is in Hell, apart from God.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.