Sid Roth welcomes Steve Solomon
SID: Hello, Sid Roth, welcome to my world where it is naturally supernatural. Are we going to have a show today. It started with a letter, let me read it to you. Dear Sid, last night I purchased a live CD made at my church, River Walk Fellowship in Ft. Worth, Texas. I brought it home and started listening to it. Out of the blue I plainly heard, “send this to Sid Roth.” I don’t know why but I am sending you this CD. What is really amazing is many times while worshipping I have seen things like trap doors in the ceiling opening up like the pen was pulled with the door falling open and what looked like a ladder of DNA falling out of the ceiling to the floor, and I heard, “You can come up if you want.” So I did. I saw these ladders of DNA falling all over the building; I saw many people, not angels, ascending and descending. I did this myself many times getting revelation about many things but mostly about Jesus. He loves to take our hands and dance with us; he has no worries about anything and just smiles and dances. He set me free with this. This letter goes on Steve Solomon, about people are frozen to the floor; they are having the most amazing visitations. You have a type of music and there is a Hebrew word, pronounce this word shigionath, what does that mean?
STEVE: Well it is from Habakkuk 3:1 and it is a prayer of Habakkuk set to shigionath. And the Hebrew means to “set the loud, enthusiastic, triumphal music” and it has got a dual meaning, “to cry aloud against sin.” Well before we get to some of this music, and this music is so supernatural, this is happening to so many people at his congregation, it is kind of a “in your face” music you know, call I call it that?
STEVE: It’s exactly, that’s what the Lord told me to do eight years ago, get the music in their face.
SID: Tell me about your Jewish background, you grandfather founded a synagogue.
STEVE: Yes, my mother’s father, they were founders of a conservative synagogue in Boston, Mass, and then my parents in the early 19 – well the mid-1950’s started a reform synagogue in Framingham, Massachusetts, Temple Beth Am, and so I was raised, born to a Jewish family, and raised in the Jewish faith, Bar Mitzvahed at age 13.
SID: But when you were very young you had a heavenly visitation, tell me about that.
STEVE: Sid, we lived on 6 Ruth Drive, in Framingham, Mass.
SID: Sounds Jewish to me.
STEVE: It sounds Jewish; it is a real Jewish area, 6 Ruth Drive, and one night I went to bed and I remember I was six years of age, and while I was sleeping I went, and a six-year-old doesn’t know these kind of things, now looking back I figured it out, but I heard first of all a voice calling my name three times, Steven, Steven, Steven. And I was in like a big room with big columns like a mansion, and I would look around and I heard my voice, and I said to myself, that’s not my Dad and a voice would say, “that’s the voice of your Father.” And I said “That’s not my Dad he is in the next room, it doesn’t sound like him.” And the voice said again, “That’s the voice of your Father.” And I didn’t understand what that was but I remembered it all my life until when Jesus appeared to me in 1974 when I was 24 years of age.
SID: Let’s take you back just a little bit; you are married, you are successful, what did you have, did you have your own band?
STEVE: Yeah, we worked in the Disney World area, I graduated University of Central Florida in 1972 with a 4 year degree, but I was making more money working in the bands and we were real successful in the Orlando, Disney area.
SID: So your wife is pregnant, she is expecting and you decided to leave her?
STEVE: Well isn’t that crazy?
SID: Yeah.
STEVE: That’s what she said. It is really crazy. It’s one thing to… People fall out of love, that happens, but to not pay attention to your children, not care about them, something is wrong. And what was wrong was that a guy in the band got invoked in transcendental meditation and I didn’t go to all the courses, id didn’t want to pay all that money so I just bought the books on it so I started, because I was looking for something Sid, something, there was something about life, I was 23, 24 years of age, making a lot of money, successful, we owned our own home, but there was something missing in my life. And I started looking, and I wanted to find what that was. And the more I got into the study of the eastern religion and the occult kind of stuff; I just became a different person. And we decided, Diane was expecting the baby in November of 1974, we decided that summer that when the baby came we would just leave and go our separate ways. She turned to me one day, now Diane was saved when she was four years of age, and was filled with the Spirit of God, and she said to me one day but she was backslidden, she said she had to backslid to meet me, she said get those books out of my house or I am going to burn them and send them back to hell where they came from. Well as a Jew I didn’t –
SID: So did you burn them?
STEVE: No, but I put them in the back of my car, you know I didn’t believe, I put them in the back of my car, I put them in the trunk of my car, I got them out of the house. And I remember that specifically.
SID: You had a very defining moment where you were by yourself and something, just like when you were a little child something very supernatural happened, tell me about this.
STEVE: Here is what happened, the band was playing at the Royal Plaza Hotel, typically after the nine o’clock set I would go into a banquet room and try to meditate, turn the lights out, and I was still trying to meditate and get in touch with God, and nothing ever happened. All the thing I read, I had not one supernatural experience. I was looking for something supernatural, and this one night sitting in the chair in this dark room, no lights on, here is the prayer I prayed, here is what I said. I said, “Is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are you real, are you out there?” And then for some strange reason I went on and I said, “Is Jesus Christ who he says he is?” Suddenly…
SID: Why did you say that?
STEVE: I don’t know.
SID: I mean that is not what a nice Jewish boy does that is ready to leave his wife and almost baby.
STEVE: No, just the sovereign providential God had a plan for my life regardless of what I wanted to do with my life, he was intervening in my life.
SID: Okay, so you asked this question.
STEVE: I asked this question.
SID: And the question again?
STEVE: “Is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, are you real, are you out there?”
SID: Right, a fair question.
STEVE: Yeah that’s a good question. “Is Jesus Christ who he says he is?”
SID: Hold that thought. We are going to be right back after this word.