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…
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth