Sid: I have a brand new book in my hands “Seven Secrets to Power Praying” by Dr. Jane Glenchur. I have Jane on the telephone right now, and Jane is a dermatologist, a medical doctor, but she… You got saved before you went to medical school? Briefly how did that happen Jane?

Jane: Well I grew up in a denominational church and they did not teach about having a person relationship with the Lord; they didn’t believe in miracles or supernatural occurrences, so I had head knowledge but not heart knowledge of God. It was very easy to walk away from my faith in college and be talked out of my beliefs because it was simply head knowledge. But right before I was applying to medical school God got my attention and I had seen Pat and Shirley Boone talking about his new book called a “New Song” on television. I don’t even what they said I only remember was they was filled with a joy and peace that I didn’t have and I wanted it desperately. So I decided maybe if I read their book I would figure out why they had this joy and peace and how I could have that. And it was in the middle of that book where I heard an inner audible voice of the Lord say “Chose today whom you will serve.” I’m not even sure I understood that I was hearing God’s voice, but I answered and said “I don’t want to choose I want to control my life I don’t want to go to church on Sunday I’ll get religious when I’m older.” And then I went back to reading the book but I couldn’t read the book because that inner quiet voice said “Choose today whom you’ll serve.” And so I put the book down and I said “Well what do I believe? Well I believe that God created the universe it’s obvious from all the details and this couldn’t happen by chance but what do I believe about Jesus?” And that’s where God really convicted me that Jesus died. He rose from the dead, He gave us His Holy Spirit and I came to the conclusion that if I didn’t choose Jesus, I had really chosen by default to serve Satan and to be part of the, you know, Satan’s plan, the kingdom of darkness. I thought I didn’t want that and I do believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose. There’s enough historical evidence for that. So at that point I recommitted my life to Christ just as I was applying to medical school.

Sid: And from what I understand had you not done that whatever tiny bit of faith you had would have been drummed out of you at medical school am I right?

Jane: Yes.

Sid: Okay, then something spectacular in my opinion happened to you God spoke to you and told you after you had become a dermatologist, and obviously a profitable profession. You’re doing well and God tells you to quit work.

Jane: Yeah.

Sid: That must have been a shocker?!

Jane: (Laughing) To say the least.

Sid: I mean look at all you had to do to get to that point, all this education you know.

Jane: Yes. I spent 9 years training to be a dermatologist, and then 8 years practicing my profession and I was in a middle of a malpractice suit.

Sid: Oh wonderful. (Laughing)

Jane: Yes and we were you know planning our dream home at the same time. My mother lived with us I had in-home childcare I only worked part-time so it made no sense why I would have to stay at home to raise a family. In fact, before I even married my husband I said to him very emphatically “Don’t ever expect me to stay home to raise a family. I want to have children, but I have worked since I was 13 years old and I will never stop working so don’t expect me to be a stay at home mom.” So it was a shock when God put this burden on my heart and I began to wrestle with God over a 3 month period because I said “God this is the worst possible time.” My husband was not employed in his field of profession, he couldn’t find a job and he was working a temporary job at minimum wage so we couldn’t live on his income. I was really 90% of the income, I also had the medical and dental insurance. So on every aspect this made no sense whatsoever, but after 3 months of wrestling with God, God made it very clear. I prayed about it, I got wise counsel and I was finally convinced that this was God’s choice for me I said “Yes” and that started an incredible change in my life.

Sid: Well I mean you’re telling it very simple but that had to be… how did your husband go along with it? He’s making minimum wage forget your dream home; you got this big lawsuit going on. You said “God told me to quit work” and you’re the major wage earner. How did he handle that?

Jane: Well because we sought wise counsel and he was in on those conversations he went along with it; he wasn’t happy about it because here I had made this… emphatic statement “I will always work.”

Sid: Hmm.

Jane: And I had the brilliant idea that when I said “Yes” to God and when I quit, that… “Oh I figured this out that God will give my husband a spectacular job like within days or weeks of my quitting.” Well that didn’t happen it was another 18 months before he found work in his professional career. So it was very stressful.

Sid: Why do you now in retrospect why did God tell you to quit your job?

Jane: Well I had 2 young children at home and like I said my mother was caring for them. My daughter is adopted from Romania she had a number of medical and academic issues, learning issues that really needed fulltime attention. I didn’t realize that at the time we were taking her to various speech and language therapies, but I can see now that God had a future plan in my life which was really to teach me about affective ways to pray. I also knew since I was young that I was supposed to write but it never seemed the timing wasn’t right and I didn’t know what I was supposed to write about. So it was during this 16 years of being a stay at home mom that God got me involved in Bible studies, teaching Bible study, leading prayer groups and all of this you know ended up as the book that I wrote.

Sid: Tell me what happened to the lawsuit?

Jane: Oh well thankfully I submitted to God on that because I was really upset with God I received the lawsuit 2 weeks before the holidays Christmas holidays and I had prayed every single day “Lord please don’t ever let me get sued it’s a doctors worse nightmare.” When I finally accepted it from Him and said “God whatever it is you need to teach me through this lawsuit I’m going to start thanking You instead of complaining about it and fretting. So I started to say “Thank You God for the lawsuit, thank You for what Your teaching me” because it really drove me to the word. I had to read the word every single day on my knees at 5:30 in the morning before I even went into work or I couldn’t even function. So God had His way of capturing my attention through that lawsuit and that got me into the presence of the Lord so I was spending more time with Him and spending time in the word. And when I reached that point where I started thanking Him for the lawsuit and said “God teach me whatever it is” the lawsuit was dropped.

Sid: Now you use a phrase “You became an apprentice of prayer.”

Jane: Yeah.

Sid: What do you mean by that?

Jane: Well I felt like I was in a way in God’s laboratory of prayer even though at the time that I was learning these principals of how to pray with power, it just seemed like they were occurring as happenstance or serendipity. I would kind of just kind of discover them almost in quotes by accident but it was really in retrospect the Lord leading me to learn these principals. And because I was involved in intercessory prayer groups at my children’s school and at church, just God was capturing my attention and teaching me how to access his wisdom to receive supernatural answers to my prayers.

Sid: Now you are what is known as a prophetic intercessor. You have a seer anointing and many times when you’re praying for people you see what I believe is angelic activity you call it steaks of light. Tell me about, speaking of angels, tell me about the person that called you a friend that was desperate for a miracle.

Jane: Yes I got a phone call one day from a friend and she said “Jane I am desperate I need an answer to prayer within the next 15 minutes I can’t tell you what it’s about” and I knew her well enough to know that this was serious.” To this day I have no idea what it was about but I said “Okay let’s pray on the phone.” So as I am praying for her the Lord speaks to me in an inner quiet voice and says to me “Ask Me to send Michael.” Well I didn’t think that was okay to do that I thought I don’t think we’re supposed to pray that way so I ignored it. And I again heard this inner quiet voice say “Ask Me to send Michael.” I knew this friend well enough to say “I’m getting the most unusual request from God so I’m going to pray this.” I didn’t know if it would offend her or not “God’s telling to ask Michael to come to your aid.” So I said “Lord would you please send Michael and his angels to go to her home and resolve this issue quickly.” Well I saw in my minds eye this large imposing angel leading and army of angels behind him going down her street. So I said “You know I’m actually seeing this happen.” So we finished the prayer and I hung up. Well within 20 minutes she calls me back absolutely stunned and she said “The entire situation was resolved within 15 minutes.”

Sid: Now just out of curiosity when you say you saw a whole stream of angels did you see a vision what did you see?

Jane: Well it would be what we would call a closed vision my eyes are closed and I see a picture. Often when I see pictures they’re almost like movies. So I see them walking down her street, I can visualize her street, I could see this army of white robe angels coming down her street with Michael in the lead.

Sid: And how long did it take till she had the answer?

Jane: Oh, it was within the 15 minutes.

Sid: Look you can pray for me anytime you want! I’m serious but I’m also kidding. Let me ask you a very important lesson that you learned and that is you were shopping one day for carpet cleaner and this changed your prayer life forever.

Jane: Yes my daughter had spilled I assumed juice on our green carpet so I found this orange stain days latter so I didn’t want her to feel bad about it and I didn’t want to be upset so I said “God you know help me get this stain out of the carpet.” I went to a Big Box Store, it was early in the morning it was almost no one in the store. All those stain remover cans around the bottom shelf. So I got on my knees and I’m looking at them I read all the descriptions they all sounded wonderful, but I’m a little bit of a perfectionist. So I said “God which one would be the best?” Now I had never done this before but I had decided to experiment. We said I’m going to ask you about each can would you show me which one is the best. And so I closed my eyes and I put my hand on the first can and I said “God is this the right one?” I’m not even sure what I expected Him to do but nothing happened. And so I put my hand on the second one same thing no response. The third one, when I got to the fourth one I hear an outer audible voice say “That is the best stain remover.” And I’m stunned I almost wished there was a candid camera on my face because I’m thinking “Well it couldn’t be God it was a female voice well you know did I hear an angel?” So I hear it again “That is the best stain remover.” So I turned in the direction of the sound and two elderly white haired woman are walking down the aisle towards me. They never said a word to me directly but when they got behind me one of them said “For the third time that is the best stain remover.” And they went off know down into another aisle and I thought “Well they don’t look like angels but I’m going to buy this stain remover.” And it took the stain out very very quickly so I thought “Maybe I’ve discovered something here” and that really revolutionized my prayer life at that moment.

Sid: You know one of the things when we spoke earlier on the telephone you said something that really attracted my interest. From your medical view training you understand how the brain operates and most of us have heard there’s left brain people, there the real logical type people. And then there’s right brain people, they’re the ones the visionaries and the artist and the musicians but you said the people that learn how to lean on the right side of their brain open themselves up to the supernatural more, explain.

Jane: Well I had taken a class in watercolor and so that’s a creative hobby and I found myself very relaxed when I did something creative. And as I learned to hear God I found that when I was relaxed and not talking inside my head, not analyzing things I would be able to hear God better. And a friend had said to me “Jane you’ve got to stop listening in your head you have to start listening in your heart.” I didn’t really understand what that meant at the time but over time God showed me that if I would quiet myself or look at a picture if I would just quiet the brain talk, what I call brain chatter sometimes I would have to ask God “God would you quiet the left side of my brain and activate the right side of my brain,” by what I call flipping that switch to the right side. I could hear God more easily, I would see pictures more easily.

Sid: Did you see a difference when you did these things?

Jane: Oh yeah.

Sid: I’ll tell you what I have that particular problem myself and I want to hear a little bit more about it when we come back after the break….

Sid: Let me tell you something by the time you finish this week interview that I’m having between me and the Holy Spirit and you, you’re going to be red hot for the Messiah. I was just recently in Israel, I was at Samuel’s mountain. The prophet Samuel… let me tell you a story behind the Messianic Jewish sabra, native born Israeli, owns this property. You know how he got it, his father was one of the wealthiest men in Israel and he got disinherited when he became a believer in the Messiah. His father said “I have an idea if I give him this holy property maybe he’ll come back to the faith.” So he gave it to him and of course the intimacy of God was so strong there he became even a stronger Messianic Jew because on that mountain Samuel would train his prophets. He had what was called “The school of the prophets.” And he had a cave there and in this cave there’s a stream that is running and they asked if I wanted to go under the waters of mikvah in this stream. And something inside of me said “Yes.” So I put on bathing suit and I went under the water. And this is kind of a funny story. First of all let me tell you something, that water was coooold! And so I just gritted my teeth and when I came up they said “You have to do it again.” I said what?” You have to do it again, your hands, one of your hands didn’t go under the water. I’m using my hand to steady myself on the rocks you know it’s not like they do it in a nice swimming pool somewhere or baptismal where someone helps you. I was doing it myself. And so they made me go into the water again and I put my hand under, I stayed under just a little extra just to make up and I’ll tell you what I believe something spiritually transacted. Then he has olive trees on that land and he squeezed the olives and makes olive oil which I believe could had been on that land at the time Samuel was there. And he was going to anoint me with oil and I said “No don’t anoint me with oil this is my friend that owns the land, no don’t anoint me with oil pour the oil on me.” And he said “Well, people don’t ask for that but you’re going to get more than you bargained for Sid. So he poured that oil on me and then afterwards we went outside and we could see the whole landscape of Jerusalem from there. And he said “Here, why don’t you eat something and he pulls some figs from a fig tree and says “Here have some fresh ones.” And he gives me some figs to eat. And then he says “How about some grapes and he pulls some grapes from the grapevine.” And then “How about some tea” and he pulls some herbs out and he makes some tea. And it was so spiritually and physically, and mentally invigorating. I was just feeling so good.

Then I had my first outreach. It was in the Tiberias area. A couple had opened their house up to me and they said that they were going to invite some of their unsaved Jewish friends and some of their believing friends and before they knew it they didn’t have the 30 people they thought and that’s all their house could hold they had about 100 people. And so they had the meeting in their backyard. The yard was filled, I wish you could have been there with me it was at night the stars were out and I looked up at the stars and it was so clear and so beautiful. I could see the lights of Haifa from the distance and it was all open and the people were there. And I thought, “This must have been the way Yeshua did it” and I just go so… I wasn’t thinking about the people I was just thinking about Yeshua proclaiming the word to the multitudes of the starving Jewish people. And I was feeling the presence like I’m feeling now the presence of God. And all of a sudden the presence of God got so strong I knew that God wanted to heal people. And I said “Do not miss this moment of your visitation, God is here and God is healing people now try to do something you couldn’t do before and if you’ve been healed I want you to come forward.” Well, I got the shock of my life remember, there were about 100 in this back yard, 25 people come forward, I mean 25% of the people come forward. I never had a meeting like that in the United States so I was sure they missed understood because I was being translated into Hebrew. So I said “No, no I don’t want you to come forward if you want to be healed (That’s normally 25% of the people want to be healed) I said only if you know that you’ve been healed you’ve received your healing otherwise go back I’ll pray for your later.” No one went back they were all healed.

One man stands up and says “Twenty years ago I was in an automobile accident I’ve been in chronic pain every day since, I’m free” one person after another. And then this one Israeli that she was obviously unsaved you could tell just by looking at her and she said “I’m healed, I’m healed.” When I gave the altar call guess who was the first one that ran forward this Israeli. Then there was a beautiful Arab girl at this meeting. I talked with her later and we were talking about the land of Israel and I said “What is your position?” She said “My position is God’s position, I believe the Jewish people are entitled to this land.” And she said “But I have to tell you that was a very tough thing for me to come to” she lives in Bethlehem you know and she said “I wrestled, I really wrestled with God over this issue but it is in the word of God.” And then God spoke to me and God said “Would you rather be an Arab, or a Jew, or a daughter of God?” Let me tell you something you should have seen the smile on her face. “I’m so grateful to be a daughter of God.” You see a daughter of God and a son of God is obedient to the word of God and this beautiful young Arab girl was obedient.

As a matter of fact there was another Arab man there Pastor and he did something that was highly unusual he invited me to speak at his all Arab congregation in an Arab section of Haifa. And I accepted and so I went the next night to speak there and he said “Don’t get political” but he said “I want to see results like you had (He seen all of those miracles that’s why he invited me.) He said “I want to see those miracles so you do whatever God tells you to do so I had my freedom and I began talking and I felt like God gave me a revelation. And God said “He has seen the suffering of the Palestinian people and God hurts just like you hurt but God has a plan to bless the Palestinian people and His plan is found in Genesis 12:3. “God says He will bless (And see I didn’t realize that there were 20 unsaved Arabs in this particular meeting I found this out later.) And as I began talking about the blessings on the Jewish people and then the blessing the Arabs will receive by sharing the gospel with Jewish people I thought it was a brilliant message by God. Well one Arab guy get up and he runs out of building and he starts screaming at the top of his lungs that there’s a Mussad agent there, that there’s a Zionist in this place fortunately I couldn’t understand Arabic so I couldn’t get too afraid but you know in retrospect after the meeting I began thinking here I am in an Arab section surrounded with unsaved Arabs and I’m telling them to bless the Jewish people you got to be nuts Sid. But the Holy Spirit did it and the Holy Spirit protected me. And it came time for repentance I asked them to repent for cursing the Jewish people and you know what better than 80% of the people stood up and repented. And I had them say a prayer of salvation so with those unsaved 20 of which one ran out screaming so I’ll say 19 (Laughing) about 80% of them said a prayer of salvation. So I got really excited about that.

Then the next night I had a meeting in the Haifa area just outside of Haifa and a door opened it was so wonderful and so supernatural. This is what happened I found out about a Russian language radio show, radio station. We contacted them and they said that I could buy 30 minutes of time and say anything I wanted to say and it would be translated into Russian and it covers that entire area and it’s secular it’s not a Christian station. So I went there and we negotiated on price and he said “We can’t fit it in this weekend and I said “Wait a second we have two meetings this weekend I’m not going to so it unless you fit it in this weekend.” And so he thought for a minute and said “Okay I’ll do it.” But I didn’t realize how difficult this was because they had already… first of all they had no time open, second of all they put everything in the computer at another location so they would have to go to this other location pull a program out and then put my program in. So we did this program and let me tell you the anointing of God was so strong I shared my testimony and I invited these people to the miracle meetings that we were going to have in the Haifa area. And I told them about the miracles that happened in the Tiberias area, started sharing these testimonies almost finished the broadcast and the woman that was interviewing me for the broadcast start crying. And I thought “Maybe her heart is touched with what I’m saying.” And all of a sudden I hear the owner of the station on a loud speaker who’s been monitoring everything and he starts yelling at the person interviewing me because she was putting in her own interpretation of what was going on. Here’s what I found out later her job was to teach those Jewish people coming to Israel that didn’t understand Judaism, Judaism. And she said “Oh, I’m in trouble with the Rabbis for having interviewed you, having even been on this show.” But the owner of the station that was an unsaved Russian Jew stopped her from editorializing. And I have to tell you she asked me one difficult question because you see my grandfather’s father was a Cantor a leader in the synagogue of worship in Minsk, Russia. And she said “What would your grandfather the cantor said if you were so bold for Jesus as the Messiah? And I said “I can’t answer for him but I can tell you what my own Orthodox Jewish father would have said he received the Messiah.” And she was shocked anyway we’re out of time…

SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I knew Dr. Kenneth Hagan and he walked in extraordinary miracles. He found two prayers in the Book of Ephesians and he prayed them for himself over a thousand times, and then do you remember a few years ago there was a big thing from the Bible, the Prayer of Jabez. Do you remember that? Well my guest went on a search and study of the Bible to find the most supernatural prayers in the Bible and if it worked in The Prayer of Jabez, if it worked with the prayers of Ephesians, it’s going to work for you. Would you like to know these prayers? I would. You know, Mike Shreve told me something before we went on the air. He told me about what God has put in his heart about expectancy for this show. What is that?

MIKE: I felt this phenomenal anticipation that there’s going to be an excessive amount of miraculous manifestations globally when this program is shown. And I felt this for weeks. It’s been upon me when I prayed. It has gripped me with a season of fasting. And so I’m looking for incredible things to happen tonight.

SID: Me, too. Now you spent two years researching and studying the prayers of the Bible. What was the catalyst to get you to do this?

MIKE: Well back around the turn of the millennium, there was such a megatrend in the body of Christ of interest in The Prayer of Jabez, which is only 32 words long, one sentence.

SID: Right.

MIKE: It takes about 10 seconds to quote it, five phrases, five requests. All it says is, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, that you would enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain.” And I think the thing that resonated with people was how immediate the response from Heaven was. It just says, “And God gave him what he requested.” We’re never told what kind of supernatural things may or may not have taken place, just that God gave him what he requested. So what gripped my heart was this, that if that prayer should resonate with the body of Christ so profoundly, how much more the prayers that got a very intense response from Heaven. And so for two years I searched through the Word.

SID: But let me ask you this. On this Prayer of Jabez, I heard the most supernatural, amazing testimonies. So I think what you’re telling me, there are prayers with even greater responses that are available to us that we’ve never even thought about.

MIKE: Oh I believe The Prayer of Jabez was powerful and it’s something we should implement. But it never states that there was a supernatural response. So if that was important to study, it’s more important to study the prayers where there was a tremendous supernatural response. And when I began to go through those prayers, I noticed what I call power points, certain statements that were made, certain methods of approaching God that seemed to have a greater ability to capture the heart of God and bring a response. It changed my prayer life. I began praying according to those patterns, not in a methodical kind of way where I don’t believe formulas capture God’s heart. This is relational and you can’t get some kind of word formula that you quote and then manipulate God into responding to you. But there are certain kinds of prayers that God historically has responded to, so we need to learn from that.

SID: Okay. Let’s have an example. How about prayers from a famous rabbi, Rabbi Moshe Rabbeinu. Moses.

MIKE: I’m glad it’s Moses, because I wasn’t sure where you were going with that.

SID: That’s okay.

MIKE: I don’t think I studied with that one. But hey, yes, you shocked me, Sid, you shocked me. This was actually a point in Moses’ life where I believe he was crushed, he was disappointed, he was grief stricken, he was tired of people because he had done everything he could to usher them into the presence of God. And given a few weeks’ absence when he’s up in Mount Sinai receiving the extension of the Torah, they give themselves over to idolatry. And he comes down shocked to see them dancing naked around this idol that they’ve created. And so after he dealt with that, he went back to God. And now his focus, I believe, is more on God than on the people. And he says, “God, if I have found grace in your sight, show me your way that I might know you and that I might find grace in your sight.” And at first I thought, well that’s redundant, that’s repetitive. He starts out saying, “If I have found grace in your sight, show me your way that I might know you, that I might find grace in your sight.” And then I realize that he was saying, I need an extra application of grace. I need more grace, more anointing, more glory. I’ve got this responsibility. These people are depending on me. Show me your way, Lord. Show me exactly what you want me to do and I’ll know you, because where I find your work, I find your personality revealed. He says, “If I know your way I’ll know you.” And I believe that’s what we discover the character of God, in the works that we perform in his name. He demonstrates his character to others. But I learned that lesson of the Moses prayer when I was unsaved. I found out that you can ask God what Moses asked. Next he said, “Show me your glory, show me your glory.” And God responded to him and said, “I’ll make all my goodness pass before you and I’ll make the name of the Lord proclaimed before you.” And strangely, Moses says, “Show me your glory.” God said, “I’ll show you my goodness.” Back when I was unsaved, I didn’t know how to pray the prayer of Moses. But I got a letter from an old friend. At the time, I was a teacher of yoga and meditation in four universities. I was very deeply involved in far eastern mysticism. I had 400 students who thought I was their guru. I was spending 12 hours a day in solitude, chanting, doing meditation, doing yoga trying to find this elusive thing they call God consciousness. And then an old friend of mine wrote me a letter saying that you’ll never find God through what you’re doing. He said, you need to be born again and you need to accept Jesus as Lord of your life. So that letter initially, I rejected. I said, I cannot confine my belief system to one religion. It’s not logical. It’s more loving and wise to embrace all religions of the world. That’s what I thought. But that letter weighed on my mind until finally I said, I’m going to dedicate an entire day to Jesus and I’m going to ask him to reveal himself supernaturally. Now I might not have said, show me your glory, but in essence, I was saying, show me your glory. Because for 12 hours that day, all I did was read the Bible and say, “Jesus, this is your day. If you’re real manifest yourself supernaturally to me.” And that afternoon, I was on my way to teach a yoga class at University of South Florida and there happened to be a prayer group in town that was praying for me, 24-hour prayer chain. Somebody was praying for me every hour. Well one of the members of that prayer group was walking in the Laundromat two miles away from where I stepped out hitchhiking to go teach a class. And he said, the Holy Spirit spoke to him and said, “Get back in your van and start driving.” He didn’t know that the person he had been praying for, for over a month was standing there saying, “Jesus, if you’re the answer, give me a sign today.”

SID: Mike really got his sign.

MIKE: I got it.

SID: That guy must be one of the happiest believers on Earth. But I love that prayer of Moses. God, show us your glory. When we come back, oh God, show us your glory.

Sid: You know Mishpocha I’ve been speaking all this week about the brand new Zechariah Prophecy Calendar. It’s a 16 month calendar, a Jewish calendar. The artwork is by a Russian artist is all done in Israel from the book of Zechariah. For myself I always want to know when the Biblical festivals are because God talks about special blessings in these festivals. I have the man that put this calendar together Eric Morey on the telephone. I’m speaking to him at his home in Tiberias, Israel. I have a question for you Eric something that never made any sense to me before. I want to see your spin on this. We know as a fact before Jesus came there was a requirement to observe all the Biblical festivals and traditional Jews did it then and still do this today. We know that the first church was all Jewish and they all, according to the best book we have on the first church, the New Testament, they all observed the Biblical festivals initially. Then for some reason the Biblical festivals were replaced with a mixture of paganism and great events in the life of the Messiah. All the Biblical festivals were kind of stopped, however, when I read about the millennium we know that these Biblical festivals will be reactivated. So my question is, if the first church observed these Biblical festivals, if we’ll be observing the Biblical festivals in the millennium, why did we put it on instant pause now?

Eric: (Laughing) That’s a good question Sid and I don’t have a good answer. You know I think the church went off base around as you said earlier around the time of Constantine. All kinds of elements were introduced and Christmas was chosen partly because of the Misraich religion at that time was very prominent and they celebrated the winter solstice, the rebirth of the… the shortest day of the year when the days begin to get longer which they miscalculated as December 25^th it is really December 21^st. So they decided to celebrate the birth of Messiah on the day that the Mithras celebrated to kind of steal the glory from them…

Sid: How were they able to do that because of my understanding of the New Covenant the shepherds were out in the field and in December in Israel they can’t be out in the field which means the Messiah wasn’t even born in December.

Eric: I’m sure he wasn’t.

Sid: (Laughing)

Eric: More than likely He was born in September, but nobody knows for sure. My feeling about is, well you know we’ve got to celebrate it sometime and… we don’t have to actually we are not commanded to at all, but if we do chose to celebrate it then I guess December 25^th is okay. When you look at the roots of it you realize that it comes from a pagan celebration concerning the sun god, then you have to really question it.

Sid: You know what I believe is it is not so much a legalistic letter of the law requirement, a matter off salvation, a matter of righteousness… No! No! No! It really and truly as I read Isaiah about the great blessings of worshiping God on the Sabbath. As I read Zechariah that in the millennium if the Gentile nations do not celebrate the Feasts of Tabernacles they’ll literally not have any rain come on them and they’ll be hit with plagues. There’s such a blessing and celebration connected with these festivals. That’s why I want to get this Zechariah Prophecy Calendar into as many hands as possible that the wind of the Spirit is saying “I want your roots, your Hebraic Biblical roots restored not as a mandatory thing but as an appointment with God.” I really believe this calendar is a good first step because… well tell us a little bit about some of the things in the calendar.

Eric: Well Sid you’re right it’s an excellent tool for that for connecting Christians and Messianic believers with Israel and with the Jewish people and with the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Because in any nationality, any culture the calendar and the holidays that are celebrated and the way that time is measured is extremely important. The Jews have got a unique calendar unique within. They invented, well God invented the Sabbath but He gave it to the Jews. The whole world celebrates a 7 day week today. So these Jewish traditions that are incorporated into their calendar and many of them are scriptural of course are a window into the soul and the history of the Jewish people and of the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Our calendar everyday of every month of the year, its 16 months on this calendar, you can see what day it is on the Latin calendar, of course you can also see what day it is on the Jewish calendar, you can see what day of the week it is called in the Hebrew on the Jewish calendar. You can see what month it is on the Jewish calendar. You can see what year it is on the Jewish calendar and they have their own cycle of years. So you’re keeping track of their way of Biblical based method of time keeping. Every Sabbath, a very interesting fact the Jews read through the first 5 books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, they call it the Torah, the first 5 books of Moses it’s called sometimes. These are very very important to the Jews and they read through every year the whole Pentateuch, the whole Torah, in a cycle and every Jewish community in the world, every synagogue all over the world reads the same scripture portions on the same Saturdays all over the world. It’s like a clock that’s ticking in the heart and the mind of every Jewish person in the world. You can read on our calendar what passage of scripture they’re reading that week. You can line yourself up, you can tune… this is scripture. Tune yourself with the heartbeat of the Jewish people through these scripture portions, through the holidays. The holidays are extremely important and as you said “Christianity has gone off.” What’s Easter? Easter was named after Astarte. Astarte was a pagan goddess is condemned by name repeatedly in the Bible and yet this holiday was named after her. We have the Easter eggs and the Easter bunny, and all this fertility stuff, it’s an abomination.

Sid: The goddess was the fertility goddess that’s where we… I never knew where the Easter egg and the bunny came from, but that’s literally where it came from the fertility goddess Ishtar.

Eric: That’s where it came from. So this is what we celebrate as a resurrection of our Lord? Hello!

Sid: (Laughing)

Eric: You know its Passover. The Last Supper was the Seder supper that’s Passover. He resurrected from the dead on Sunday on the middle of the Passover week, the first day of the week during Passover. That’s when it ought to be celebrated.

Sid: Tell me a bit about the descriptions you have of each of the Biblical festivals in the calendar itself.

Eric: Well we think it’s important that people understand where these holidays came from. They all came out of scripture. The only one that didn’t actually come out of scripture is Chanukah because Chanukah celebrates an event that took place after… between the 2 testaments, between the close of the Old Testament and the opening of the New Testament. But it’s mentioned in… Jesus celebrated it, it’s mentioned in the New Testament it is called the Feast of Dedication. So all these feasts have a Biblical base and then we say how they were celebrated in New Testament times. Most of these holidays were mentioned in the New Testament and celebrated by the New Testament believers and by Yeshua Himself. Then there’s the modern celebration of these festivals which in some cases align with the Biblical and in some cases do not. For example, the Passover Seder today is quite different from what God commanded the Jews to do in the beginning in the Passover, quite different. It’s more of a traditional thing but it goes back probably to the time of Yeshua, actually. So we talk about kind of a perspective on what these holidays mean to a New Testament believer today, a spiritual perspective on it. See how for all that… for each of these holidays. As you go through you come to the Feast of Pentecost, or as it’s called in Hebrew Shavuot. You go back to the opening pages of the calendar, you flip back and you say “What is the Biblical origin of this feast? How is it celebrated in the New Testament times?” Very famous holiday in New Testament times in the book of Acts. “How is it celebrated today in the modern Jewish world? What is the significance of it for the New Testament believers?” Every one of these holidays you have this.

Sid: Mishpocha I can hear some you screaming. Eric you didn’t finish that very important teaching you were doing from Zechariah 14 about the Lord returning of which you have the most beautiful artwork in this calendar. Would you quickly summarize that and finish that.

Eric: We have a painting of Yeshua coming on the clouds of heaven with power and glory. It triggers from Isaiah 14:5 which says “The Lord my God shall come and all the holy ones with thee.” But the same scene is described in Matthew 24, Revelation 19, and Isaiah 63. We took elements for this painting from all those passages of scripture. In Revelation it says that He has a sword in His mouth, and so we were contemplating this and we were thinking “Surely this doesn’t mean a physical metal sword it means the word.” As the word of God is compared to a sword and called a sword in many places in scripture and it comes out of the mouth, so it’s a word coming out of His mouth. What word would Yeshua be speaking at this incredibly significant moment of Him coming on the clouds with power and glory? Coming back the second coming of Yeshua! What would He be saying? We didn’t have to make it up because in Isaiah 63 there’s a dialogue recorded where the narrator says “Who is this coming out of Bozrah and Edom with His robes dyed in red?” This is Yeshua and you can in this painting His robes are dyed in red just like it describes also in Revelation. Then the horseman Himself, Yeshua Himself, answers the question in Isaiah 63 and what does He say? He says “It is I who speak in righteousness mighty to save.”

Sid: Mishpocha this is such a wonderful family calendar to talk and to teach your children and that’s what the scriptures say that we’re supposed to do. When it’s opened up it’s 13.5 x 26 inches. The paintings are literally suitable if you’d like to frame them they’re so beautiful. The calendar is big enough so that you can write your various appointments and various social functions, or something the Lord did for you on that day. They are 16 months long and they start with the Jewish New Year, so that’s why they start with the month of September. It has the Jewish year and the year that we celebrate here in America. It’s in Hebrew, it’s in English.

Sid: We want everyone everywhere to live and not die and declare the works of the Lord that’s what God wants. How can two walk together unless they be agreed. My guest Robert Inguanzo I’m speaking to him at his home in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. And Robert came from a drug addiction background instantly set free from the power of God; married to a pastors daughter the happiest man on earth; one child, second child on the way finds out he’s HIV Positive 99.9% chance his wife and children will be positive and will have AIDS. But praise God his children and wife were okay, but he’s dying literally dying from AIDS. And on yesterday’s broadcast you said you picked up a disease in which parasites were eating away from your brain, you got a virus in your eye what effect did this have?

Robert: Well the virus in my eye was called “CMV Retinitis” and they said that there was no cure for that disease and that I would eventually go blind. And Sid it got to a point where I really didn’t care anymore I mean so many things happened I was having everything at once.

Sid: There was no cure for this blindness?

Robert: No the only thing they could do was give me… I would have to go to the hospital every day and get these drips, medical drips, you know injections. That would only hold the virus so I wouldn’t go blind but I never got to that point. What happened was one day I’m laying in my bed and I really couldn’t take it anymore they were telling me I was going to go blind, I had to do this I had to do that…

Sid: Did they tell you how long you might live; what was your prognosis?

Robert: Right well the doctor had already sent me home they said that they told my pastor’s wife in fact they wouldn’t even tell me that I had about 4 months to live for her to prepare my family and everything for what was coming. And but she said “No she didn’t believe that that we had a God that could heal” and that because God had used her prophetically many times that he was going to use me and she just knew in her spirit that all of this was… God was going to take care of everything. And so I remember one day I’m laying in my bed and it got to the point where I just didn’t want to live anymore I said “Lord I don’t want my daughters and my wife to remember me in this condition I’m better off dying; the only thing Lord that I repent of is that I never did your will.” Because when I got saved at first and then the 10 years my wife would receive a word of knowledge that God was going to use me, my pastor’s wife prophesied to me that God was going to use me. And I always pushed that aside and yeah okay “I want to make money first be comfortable and then I’ll serve God.” And it’s so important Sid like you know that when God gives you a calling you have to respond when He wants not when we want. So when I told Him this, when I told the Lord this what happened was I was laying in bed my wife was downstairs and my kids went in school and there was like a lightning that started coming down; I would see it was like a lightning of fire and as I’m laying in my bed I couldn’t move, I couldn’t talk I just had a seizure so you know. I’m looking at this like lightning and when it touches my chest right in the center of my chest I feel like this big explosion, it’s like you got a big rock and you threw it in the swimming pool how it splashes, that’s how it felt. But it felt like fire fell it felt like my whole body from my feet to head it was a complete fire.

Sid: Now when you were set free from drugs you had a deliverance was there any thing remotely close to this fire at any time of your life?

Robert: No, no it was definitely different, it was definitely very very different. I remember after I was like drunk for a week. A little more than a week I was drunk I would be laughing, and I would be crying, and I would be…

Sid: And you wouldn’t be drinking anything.

Robert: No no of course not! (Laughing) it was better than drinking you know it was much better. I remember when that happened the next day when I woke up my skin was completely clear there was no nothing, no nothing no scars no nothing. It was…

Sid: But wait a second you had an infection on your skin that there was no cure for.

Robert: Right it was Yosophilic Folliculitis and there was no cure for that. And I have scars all over from scratching. I remember one time we even went to the beach and I couldn’t go in the water with my kids my kid’s would say “Come in – come in and daddy come in.” And I couldn’t go in because I was full of scars and that’s how it was. And I remember the next day all of my headaches went way and little by little it was like that. I remember I had to go to the eye specialist when I went to the eye specialist when he’s putting all of these machines you know how they do to check the eyes?

Sid: Yes.

Robert: And put drops in so that your eyes get you know so they can see inside. And I remember while he’s looking I hear him go like this “Humph.” And I’m surprised I go I asked “What’s wrong, what’s wrong?” And the guy goes Robert I don’t see the CMV Retinitis no more you don’t have it any more what happened?” And I tried to tell him what happened you know (Laughing)?

Sid: (Laughing) Did you know that you were in process of being completely healed?

Robert: Well yeah I did I did because when the fire first hit me I heard audibly the voice of God and He told me “Robert first shall come spiritual healing and then shall come physical healing.” And Sid at that time I didn’t know much about what spiritual healing meant but I did know what of course physical healing meant and that was the best part.   Remember I’m trying to get out of bed and being that I had seizures a little while before I really didn’t have to much control of being able to walk or anything like that. So I’m trying to go downstairs and call my wife but I couldn’t talk. So I’m taking step by step and I don’t know how long it took it took a long time to finally go downstairs in the kitchen and when I walk into the kitchen she looks at me and she gets scared because she doesn’t know what’s happening she’s watching me crying and crying and I can’t talk to tell her what’s happening. I’m saying to Lord “Please help me to tell her what’s happening look at her she’s so afraid of what’s happening to me.” And I hear the voice of God and He says “Robert if you get out of the way I’ll tell her.” And when He told me that I go “Lord of course do whatever you want.” How He told her was He took control of my mouth, my tongue and everything and He started talking through me it was like a prophecy but with a very deep voice and He would tell her exactly what He told me “First shall come spiritual healing, then shall come physical healing.” And He kept repeating and repeating it. Then He would tell us about the future and our ministry what we would do, what we had to do, where we had to go…

Sid: What was the best thing that He told you through prophecy about your future?

Robert: Well I remember one time a little before this there was 7 of us in my house in my living room and we were all praying, praying standing up praying. And I remember seeing like the smoke, the smoke started getting thicker and thicker like a cloud and it got thicker and thicker and thicker and thicker. It got to a point that I could not see anybody that was praying I could hear them but I couldn’t see them.

Sid: Had this ever happened to you previously?

Robert: Oh no never, never, never. It got the cloud got thicker and thicker. They could see me but I could not see them but I could hear them and I remember all of the fun and I start sensing and feeling the sweetness, it was such a sweetness that it was really I never felt anything like that. Even with all of the drugs I used I could never compare to anything of what I was feeling then. Not only the sweetness but a peace, it was a peace Sid it was a sweet peace, it was a beautiful peace. And I remember somebody saying to me “Robert, Robert what’s happening, what’s happening?” And all I could say, all that could come out of my mouth would be “Sugar.” Because I was trying to explain the experience I was having I was in the presence of the Holy Spirit. It was so sweet, it was so sweet. Then all of a sudden I see right in the cloud I see Jesus I saw Jesus with my eyes open and as I’m looking at Him I’m trying to probe something Jesus, Jesus and then I look at His chest and when I look at His chest I could see inside literally I could see inside His chest and I could see His heart. And when I look at His heart I could see drops of blood coming out of His heart, out of His heart. Then all of a sudden I start feeling this pain in my chest but I’m still in the presence with the sweetness and the peace and all of that but I feel this pain in my heart and it was the pain that Jesus was feeling. When I feel all of that I’m saying “Jesus what’s happening? What’s happened to you?” And He goes “Robert look” and when He said to “look” I could look all around and in the cloud you know it’s like the clouds disappeared and I could see 100’s and 1000’s of people and maybe even millions all around me, all around me and I go “Lord, Lord what are all of these people?” And the Lord said to me “Robert that’s my church.” I go “Lord all of these people, all of these are Christian’s wow, wow!” And He goes “Robert but look again.” And when I look again I can see inside those people and I saw the church, the condition of the church. Sid it was so sad that’s why the Lord felt that pain because of the condition of the church was so… it was like Christians only went once a week, Christian’s that didn’t hardly didn’t pray and I remember the Holy Spirit…

Sid: Robert we’re out of time we’ll pick up here…Mishpochah you’re going to hear about such a great  miracle of what God did with his AIDS condition and other miracles happening…