Sid: My guest Ruth Fazal is a violinist and there is something about the violin if the person playing the violin is a strong believer and has been under the anointing of God for years it comes out. But a lot of other things are happening when people hear your music. There are things happening to you, tell me about the time you were translated to Jerusalem.
Ruth: Well, there was one time that I was away on tour and I was in my hotel room and I suddenly found myself praying, but I was praying against the wall of the hotel room and I couldn’t get myself away from it. And I just kind of had my head glued to the wall, but I realized, but I’m not at the wall of my hotel room I’m in Jerusalem. At this point I hadn’t ever been there and so it was such, it was such a strong sense and I couldn’t leave I couldn’t come away from it and it was such a connection. So I mean that was was an amazing time.
Sid: How about when you were translated to Hebron, that’s the place that Abraham was buried.
Ruth: Yeah, oh gosh that was actually one of these Glory nights at my home, and there was something that kind of opened up in the room. Well, I knew well enough now that okay, something opens up I go as a child and I do it. And I started walking and it was like down a pathway. And now, I’ve never been to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, but I know that that’s where Abraham and Sarah and that’s where Isaac is buried. And you know I, something burning very much on my heart in these days is the Father Heart of God for the healing between the brothers Ishmael and Isaac. And it’s really, it’s really strong in me and I know that that’s the next thing that God is doing in me and that He’s going to come. Something is going to come out of this. But any way on this occasion I’m walking down this path in the Spirit and I see the Father at the far end of the path and I see these two men walking towards him. And I know that one is Isaac and one is Ishmael. And I see them walking together, well their not walking together, but their walking toward the Father. And at the point where they reach Him He embraces them and I don’t know if your familiar with that beautiful painting of Rembrandt of the prodigal son, it’s that sort or the sense of the Father embracing, but he’s embracing the two of them together. It was so powerful and I knew at that time the Lord was saying, “One day you are going there to the Tomb of the Patriarchs and you are going to play that. It’s almost like a playing it into being; and I don’t know when the Lord going to open up, I’m hoping it’s going to be really soon.
Sid: Well, you literally prophesy when you play your violin, do you realize that?
Ruth: Yes, yes I know that.
Sid: You’re prophesying over people, just as if you were to speak in unknown supernatural languages, you don’t know what you’re doing, but you’re prophesying in tongues with the violin. That’s what I believe.
Ruth: Yeah, I believe that too, and I also realize that, I mean I’ve played also in places like I’ve stood on the tracks in Auschwitz and I’ve played. And I know that there is a sense in which God, you know that he transcends time and so it’s like I’ve often thought of the image of like you know like a tree trunk, when you cut a tree trunk you see all the rings of the tree?
Sid: Right.
Ruth: And it’s like the Lord can come and He can put His finger on one of those rings and He can bring healing; it is like in our lives. And so I think it is the same for a nation. It’s the same for a people and so you know I feel at sometimes when the Lord takes me with the violin He says, okay I want you to stand on this ring right here and play.
Sid: Let’s do that right now from your “Songs from the River CD,” let’s hear “Dawn.” CD Excerpt. That was from “Songs of the River” by Ruth Fazal. And Ruth, I’m doing people a disservice because sitting under that music changes you. It makes you more, I call it, “Heavenly Music” it makes you more Heavenly minded…I wish everyone would sit under this music. Now you have an amazing burden for the Jew in Israel, obviously came from God. Tell me about how that happened.
Ruth: Well, I think what happened was, my prayer has always been, “God, give me your heart.” You know, I wrote a song about it so I shouldn’t be surprised when God answers the cry of my heart when I say, “Give me your heart, Lord.” And so what happened was somebody gave me a book of poetry from the Holocaust and from the concentration Camp of Terezin. And He asked me to take some of the poems of the children that had died in the Holocaust and put them together with portions of the Hebrew Scriptures and just portray His heart in the midst of the suffering. I hadn’t a clue what He was asking, this turned out to be huge it turned out to be life changing. I didn’t, I’ve never turned back, but I found it at the end of two and a half years of writing this piece and going so deep into it that the Lord had literally, I don’t know how else to describe it, but that he had inserted the people into my heart.
Sid: Now, you call your piece, Oratorical Terezin which you have literally had concerts in Israel and in Europe and even in Carnegie Hall. What reaction do you get?
Ruth: Well, always a jumping to their feet at the end. The piece ends on an incredible note of hope and that’s I think what people are responding to. Everywhere we’ve done it we’ve always given tickets, free tickets to Holocaust Survivors. And like for instance the premier performance in Tel Aviv was on Yom Hashoah and the Lord planned that one.
Sid: The Day of Remembrance.
Ruth: Yeah, yeah and there were probably about 6 or 700 survivors of the Holocaust amongst the 3,000 people in the audience. And it was just amazing because you know it’s like hope begins to rise in their hearts.
Sid: Now so many Holocaust survivors gave up on God because of what they went through. Do you see any change in their heart when they listen to your music?
Ruth: Yeah, I think so. I mean the thing that I feel with the Oratorio is that it’s a question to them that says, will you reconsider the goodness of God? And certainly those that have been there, those that I have met, I remember one woman coming to me after the first performance in Toronto. Actually a survivor of Terezin at the end of Auschwitz and she just came up to me and she said, “How did you know.” And I just looked at her and I said, “Well, I don’t, I don’t know, but God does.” And it was just, I mean I knew all the time that I was writing this that there was no way, I had no background in this, I really had no right to even address the subject. But I knew that I had to go into God’s heart. And so I think hope is the word that just comes and the willingness to even just consider again that God did not abandon his people.
Sid: Now, how did God change you when you went into His heart concerning the Jew in Israel?
Ruth: I don’t know, all I know is that it’s so undeniably strong that it’s like these people are my people.
Sid: Listen, I believe the dividing line of the true church and the phony church will be a proper understanding of the Jew in Israel in these last days.
