Perry: Two generations that’s going to have parallel signs. One generation, let’s say Jesus spoke that around 32 A.D., that’s possible, some say 30. 32 A.D. So Jesus is predicting a generation, in Psalms a generation of unbelief is 40 years. And so let’s say He’s saying okay, there’s going to be about a 40 years timespan when you’re going to see some earthquakes, famines, and pestilence and there’s going to be some weird cosmic signs and then it’s all going to end for Israel, Jerusalem and the Hebrew people. That’s, that happened and that happened in 70 A.D. But what, what, what people wish to do, and it’s wrong, it’s a misinterpretation, is to throw every prophecy into that timeframe and say it was all fulfilled. You need to understand this because this is a big thing going on now. But they don’t understand that in the Last Days everything reverses out. Watch. Israel becomes a nation again, 1948. Jerusalem becomes the capital of Israel again, 1967. The Jews start coming out of the North Country, 1988. So just as there was a progression of Jews fleeing, are you with me, Jews fleeing, Temple being destroyed, Jerusalem being captured, Israel doesn’t exist. It all reverses in a End Time generation and when you see Israel, and Jerusalem and the Jews it becomes the last days again! And guess what happens? God pours out His spirit on all flesh. Because “after-ward,” “it shall come to pass afterward” has to deal with when Israel starts being restored as a nation. So this is why the world is in this great outpouring of the Spirit, this is why all major denominations, it doesn’t matter who they are, have people who are baptized in the Holy Spirit in their denomination, because, we, we— And again, this has to be a foundational teaching. You’ve got, you’ve got to study this part first before you get in to the Book of Revelation because if you get in and if you immediately start saying it’s futuristic you’re going to have all these people bringing up “but wait a minute, Jesus said some would not die and you know John was told he wouldn’t die”— And the point is John did not die. John outlived all the apostles by 20 some years and saw the “Apocalypse,” the “apokalupsis” is the Greek word, the unveiling of something which was hid. And he saw the Book and he wrote an entire Book that we have, it was a scroll in his day, but we have 22 chapters of this particular Book today that tells us about the Kingdom and how the Messiah is going to set up the Kingdom. Now a couple of things I wanted to share with you, there’s so many places that we could go, but a couple of things I want to share with you that I think is going to help you to, to basically understand the Book of Revelation is, is  the following information. One of the things is this. That if you look at the Book and you see Jesus, you know it’s called the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and here’s what’s odd. And when I did my study on the Book of Revelation in [my book] “The Apocalypse Code” that Sid has offered, I, this is one of the first things I noticed. If this is a Revelation of Jesus Christ how comes He shows up in chapter one as Jesus, as a person clothed in a white linen garment. But then He shows up as a Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns. And then from that point on you don’t hardly see Him throughout the whole Book ‘til you get to chapter 19. And I’m thinking this is a Revelation of Jesus? No, this is a Revelation of Judgment! So this was the first thing I had to meditate on many years ago when started really studying the Book.

SID: Now, Loren had abdominal surgery, and he had a visitation from an angel. This’ interesting. To tell me about this Dr. Angel.

LOREN: Yeah. Well, this one was crazy.

SID: …just call it.

LOREN: Yeah. Well, what had happened is I’d had six inches of colon removed, it was a colon resection because of diverticulitis. Doctors will lie to you about how long you’re going to be laid up. They’ll say two weeks, add 50%. Three weeks after that, I’m lying in bed. I’m still in tremendous pain. I think I was about three quarters awake and laying on my bed and I look over to the bedroom door. In the bedroom door suddenly, in multicolored armor instead of the whole white, he came over to my bed and he took a knife and stabbed it into the place where the pain was.

LOREN: I was shot through with this tremendous pain and I sat straight up in the bed, which I haven’t been able to do. And I thought it was a demon and I started rebuking it, I started saying, “Get out of here in the name of Jesus.” And then I realized, oh, there’s no pain. I didn’t have any pain after that. So, this crazy Angel…

SID: Well, I understand that because of the way God has touched you, that sometimes in your home congregation you pray and as many as 70% get healed.

LOREN: I asked my people, because we were talking about healing. I said, “How many of you that are part of this church have experienced a healing while you were here?” And I’m guessing 70% of the people, of my people raised their hands. I was surprised.

SID: Now, I would say there’s a lot of glory in his congregation.

LOREN: I was surprised.

SID: Speaking of glory, you had a vision of the field of oil.

LOREN: Yeah, that one just came on me suddenly. It was a sudden sense of this tremendous heavy, thick love of God. It was a beautiful, sweet anointing. It was like the Lord was pouring over my head and over the head of the church this thick, thick, thick oil. We’re talking an inch thick. It rolled down and when it hit the floor, it began to spread out. This is what I saw. I saw that what God wants to do in this time, and this is available for any believer that gets ready, I saw that God wants to pour such a presence on us. Such a glory, such an anointing for healing and restoration that we so radiate the love of the Father in the presence of God. That when we come in contact with people in the world who’ve been so deluded to think that darkness is light, when people are exposed to the pure light and presence of Jesus, darkness is exposed to be light, and people say, “I want what you have.”

LOREN: When people come in contact with my 46-year marriage, your 53-year marriage, and they see the glory that God has put on us and they look at their own lives, then they begin to say, “How did you get there?” And then they feel the love flowing off of us. When Peter walked through a crowd and his shadow fell and people, they got healed. Just from his shadow. I don’t believe that was only for Peter. I believe that’s where God wants us to walk. And I believe that it will receive it, those kinds of things will happen. That that oil will flow off of us.

SID: You talk about essential things in preparation. One thing you talked about that really hit me, that need for hunger for God. Comment on that.

LOREN: Yeah, I will comment on that. When things get easy, like right now, and it’s in a season of favor, it’s really easy for us to fall asleep. We get lulled. Sometimes I think that prosperity is a poison to the body of Christ. But right now, this season of prosperity is a time to prepare. It’s a time to get out of debt, it’s a time to seek after God, it’s a time to cultivate our hunger for God. I am going to seek after God. That is a decision of my will because I need him. That’s the beginning. I’m not going to ignore my hunger for God. I don’t care what I’m feeling, I’m seeking after God. That’s a covenant. There are certain covenants I will not renegotiate in my life. One of them is my covenant with my wife. I will never renegotiate that. The other is my covenant with God. No matter what comes against me, I will not renegotiate that covenant.

LOREN:  The second thing. There are three parts that I think, and they’re so simple. Three parts. The second thing is we’ve got to start hungering after the word. The two least attended meetings in any church are prayer and Bible study. I came through the Jesus Movement, and I remember everything back then was the word, the word, the word, the word. You never went anywhere without your sword. Now, Bible study? No, everybody wants an experience. And so we have a whole generation of biblically illiterate Christians who’ll buy anything that is said to them because they don’t know the word. The word is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit. You put that word into you, and it works. It begins to change you.

SID: Going back to what you said, if I don’t feel like reading the Bible, so what? It’s living, it’s alive, it’s coming into me. If the word is Jesus, why would I reject Jesus?

LOREN: Exactly.

SID: My mother didn’t raise a dummy.

LOREN: Yeah, and on the other hand, I don’t care if you’re reading it and you don’t understand. The words go in there and your Spirit works on them, and eventually the understanding comes out.

SID: There are people are watching us right now, and you are like many of my friends, you would like to know God, but you don’t. You’d like to hear God, but you don’t. You’d like to experience God, but you don’t. Say this prayer with me and mean it to the best of your ability. And I tell you, you have given that permission for God to live inside of you and have intimacy with the living God. Repeat out loud. Dear God.

Audience: Dear God.

SID: I’ve made many mistakes.

Audience: I’ve made many mistakes.

SID: And I’m so sorry.

Audience: And I’m so sorry.

SID: I believe.

Audience: I believe.

SID: The blood of Jesus.

Audience: The blood of Jesus.

SID: Washes away all my sins.

Audience: Washes away all my sins.

SID: And I’m clean.

Audience: And I’m clean.

SID: And now that I’m clean.

Audience: And now that I’m clean.

SID: Jesus, come inside of me.

Audience: Jesus, come inside of me.

SID: Be my Lord.

Audience: Be my Lord.

SID: You promise to never leave me or forsake me.

Audience: You promise to never leave me or forsake me.

SID: And give me the grace.

Audience: And give me the grace.

SID: To not walk away from you.

Audience: To not walk away from you.

SID: I want to have such a hunger for you got such a hunger for you, God.

Audience: I want to have such a hunger for you got such a hunger for you, God.

SID: And I am going to willfully.

Audience: And I am going to willfully.

SID: Seek you with all of my heart.

Audience: Seek you with all of my heart.

SID: Amen.

Audience: Amen.

SID: You know what that means? It means so be it.

SID: Okay. What did you think when Bob calls you and said your scripture is Song of Solomon? What did you think?

MIKE: It was five years later after my first time I met Bob, so now we’re good friends. I’m in my office, I’m pastoring now, and I’m reading a wedding invitation and in it, it says, “Song of Solomon 8:6.” I didn’t know it. It says, “God will set a seal of fire of love on the human heart.” And I read this first and instantly, by the Holy Spirit, I mean, it just came out of my mouth, I never thought these words, I prayed, “Jesus set a seal of fire on my heart that I would love you.” And I’m instantly weeping like a second or two. I never had that happen before and I’m weeping and the power of God is on me. I go, what is happening. So this goes on for a few minutes. I grab my telephone, call my receptionist at the church office. I said, “No matter who comes by, don’t let anyone interrupt me, please. Something strange has happened.” So I’m weeping, Song of Solomon 8:6, kneeling on the ground going, “Lord, seal my heart with fire.” The phone rings five minutes, ten minutes later.

I pick it up, “Hello?” And the receptionist says, “Bob Jones is on the phone. He’s heard the audible voice of God for you right now.” I said, “Okay.” And he says, “I’m kneeling, reading Song of Solomon 8:6.” He goes, “Mike, I heard an audible, Song of Solomon 8:6, the Lord is going to visit you with this passage and he wants you to know two things. He wants you to know he’s going to anoint the body of Christ to walk in this across the earth. And really it’s the first commandment, loving God with all their heart, our strength by the fire of the Holy Spirit.” He goes, “There’s going to be an anointing that’s going to be in the great End Time revival, there’s going to be an anointing to love God with all their strength, all their mind, not just moving power outwardly, that for sure, but experience power inwardly, so it’s the both/and.” And he says, “He’s going to do this worldwide. And second thing he wants you to know,” he goes, “whatever this passage is you’re to focus on it the rest of your ministry.” And I’m thinking, “Oh my goodness.” It’s 45-second conversation. I just said, “Hello.” He said, “This is Bob. I heard Song of Solomon 8:6 audibly, dah, dah, dah, dah.” I didn’t even say yes or no. I just groaned and he hung up.

I didn’t even tell him for another week or two what happened. I was so overwhelmed. And then I called my wife, and I said, “Sweetheart, Song of Solomon 8:6, Bob Jones, wow, wow.” And so then I read Song of Solomon, like for the first time, I read it seriously. And then it says, “Eighth Chapter, Love Song of King Solomon: To the Shulammite My Maiden.” It’s a natural love song that extolls the beauty of married love, that’s what it’s about. But the Holy Spirit uses it spiritually for King Jesus wooing his entire church. Well and so it is a natural song, but it’s not only that, it’s a spiritual application of how God’s heart feels towards his people, awakening them to love him with all their heart and strength, and mind, and soul, etc. So I read the book that day. I’m horrified because I never really read it. I read Chapter 1, 2, 3, body parts, gardens, flowers. Next one, flowers, embrace, body parts. I went, no, no.

SID: Song of Solomon.

MIKE: Song of Solomon, eight chapters. I go, “Lord, I can’t do this, no, no.” I’ll do first commandment. I’ll do Chapter 8, Verse 6, but I’m not touching that book. That’s not me at all because my father was an international champion as a boxer. He boxed in the Olympics. He was an amateur and a professional. I was raised in a boxing home. I was trained to be a boxer and I told the Lord, “My father is an international champion boxer. I’m the son of a boxer. I can’t do Song of Solomon. I can’t!” And I joke, the Lord whispered back at me, he says, “Yeah, but I’m a world champion wrestler and I’m going to pin you to the mat. You will do this. And it will surprise you how much you love this because it’s a revelation of God’s emotions. Because God wants us to love him with all of our heart and our strength, and our mind, because he loves us with all of his heart, all of his strength, all of his mind. That’s the power of the End Time church. The revelation that he’s in it with all of his heart towards us and all of his mind. Can you imagine God loving you with all of his mind?

SID: It’s hard to believe.

MIKE: That’s what the message of Song of Solomon is about and that’s the first commandment of which Jesus called the first commandment in Matthew 22, “Love me with all your strength, your heart, your mind.” He goes, “This is the first commandment to God and this is the great one to God.”

SID: You know where that first commandment comes in, we read that and we say, well I don’t know if I can, but I’m going to give it a try. But we never think of the reverse, which you just brought out. That’s the way God feels about us.

MIKE: Yes, right. The reason he says, “Love me with all your strength” is because I love you with all my strength, first. And I’m going to waken it in you when you see that in me. So I tell people it’s the first commandment, it’s the first priority to the Spirit, it’s the first prophetic word for the church, it’s the first mandate over anyone’s life and ministry. I mean, I call that verse, “Loving God with all your heart,” God’s mission statement for the human race.

SID: What happens, because you’ve trained thousands in this, and you really have revelations, word by word, from the Holy Spirit, what is the repercussion on people?

MIKE: It gives people confidence, confident that God loves them and confident that their love for God is real, because you know, some people think that our love is only real when it’s strong. Did you know our weak love is still real love? It’s not only real when it’s more mature than Paul, it’s real even when it’s weak and small, it’s still real.

SID: Listen, everything that comes out of your mouth is such revelation, yet so simple. We have so much more that we want to talk about with Mike. For instance, there are prophecies that were told directly to him by Bob Jones. I mean, these are blockbusters that have never been publicized. Many are about to happen now. So after the show, go to SidRoth.org for this exclusive interview, at the end of the show. And when we come back, I’ve got to hear you pray with every fiber of your being that we get our first love back. Do you want to get your first love for God back? I want that. Be right back.