SID: Most people see you and they think of a prophecy teacher.
PERRY: Right.
SID: A Jewish Roots teacher. And they don’t know the super … For instance, I don’t think many of you know this. Did you know that he has an angel that has followed … He’s a third generational angel that follows him now. What happens when that angel shows up?
PERRY: I can say this really before the Lord, that I don’t sense him all the time, but probably on 10 different occasions, out of absolutely, totally unexpected, not praying for it, not asking for it. When I have been in services, the shifting of the atmosphere is felt by everyone there, even people that are backslid or away from God can sense it. And there’s usually almost a weeping that comes. There’s a real holiness of God that shows up. There’s a real, just awareness of God and awareness of the Holy Spirit that comes. And then what always happens, there either is a shifting in the sermon, totally without notes, without … I’ll lay the bible on the pulpit and just go into a realm of ministry, or there comes a very heavy prophetic word, totally unexpected.
PERRY: The other thing that I’ve noticed is that on one occasion we were in a transition in the ministry, a very heavy transition, and I was so down because more weight was coming to me, more heaviness and weight. I was complaining, and I said Lord, how can I do this? Well, you asked me to do this. I can’t physically do this. And I’m … “Yeah, yes, Lord.” I can’t hardly talk. This is what happens to me when we talk about this. And I was sitting in this big chair at my desk, and I turned this way and I felt the hand come to the chair. When the hand came to my chair, every hair on my body stood up. See, the Holy Spirit’s presence works … let’s say, John 7, from the belly out. An angelic presence is around you. You’ll never feel it “in,” you’ll feel the anointing stir. But you’ll feel it out here.
PERRY: Well, every hair on my body stood up, and all of a sudden a weeping came to me, and the weight … within 10 minutes, the weight that was on me came off of me. From that moment on … and really, I made a mistake. I made a mistake. My daddy always said, “Perry, when you feel this presence, stay in it. Don’t jump out it.” But I got so excited. This sounds crazy. I jumped up and I ran through my office, and I ran to my secretary’s office, beat the door down, knocked on it and said, “You won’t believe what just happened! Oh my God, you ain’t going to believe what just happened!” Well, they’re all excited, and I run to another office.
PERRY: Then I realize, what am I doing? So I go back in there hoping it’s there, and it’s not there now. And I’m like, Perry, what did you do?
SID: Yeah, what did you do?
PERRY: No, what would have happened if I would have stayed there? Now, let me say this, and we’re going to kind of flow this way for the people. One of the mistakes that I see in the contemporary church is we customize services for the benefit of the people.
SID: Isn’t that called seeker sensitive?
PERRY: Yes. But it’s all customized for a time frame. I’ve heard pastors say, we’re going to do a 55 minute service. Everybody knows how long the sermon and the music is going to be. And here’s the disservice we do to people. If we get them at the edge of the holy place, or we get them into the presence of God, we then pull them out prematurely. It’s like a premature birth. When you have a premature birth, you have an undeveloped baby. Something, and it could be the heart, the lungs, or physically. It doesn’t totally develop, and it has to stay in the hospital so long until the full development comes.
PERRY: We pull people close to the presence of God, and I’m not saying everybody does this, but too many do. And then we want them out by 12 because we’re active, the kids got ball in the afternoon, they want to go to the mall, whatever the case is. And I feel so much for this generation because a lot of them have experienced church but not the glory. And so, what we do, we customize the service to adjust it to the, not needs of the people, but we adjust it to the activities of people. And what happens is, you cannot encounter depths with God until you move in the progression of the Spirit of God.
SID: Let’s switch gears for a second.
PERRY: Yeah. Okay.
SID: Because you have revelation that you learned from rabbis, and I’m Jewish and I’ve never heard this revelation before. For instance, supernatural language, tongues. I’ve always been told, well, that didn’t start ’til after –
PERRY: Pentecost.
SID: Yeah, after Pentecost.
PERRY: Right, right.
SID: But you have learned different. Tell me about that.
PERRY: Alright. It was in the 1990s. Rabbi Yehuda Getz was the head rabbi, one of the head rabbis in Jerusalem at the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. We met him at night. We would go in there at 10 or 11:00 at night because he would pray at night from like 11 until three in the morning. That was his prayer time. And he asked me what I believed. I got to tell you this, this is humorous, and there’s a picture of him right there. That’s Rabbi Getz, that’s the young Perry Stone on … people can see that. The younger version.
PERRY: So what he’s doing right there … and I don’t want to get sidetracked. He’s showing me where the Ark of the Covenant was hid in a certain location under the temple mount. I don’t want to get into that, I’ll be sidetracked. So he asked me what I believed, and I said you know what? He’s kind of a mystic, so I’m going to just lay it on him. I said, “I believe in the covenant, so I believe in the redemption.” I said, “I believe in casting out devils.” And he looked at me and he said, “There’s a man at the Western Wall who prays, who thinks he’s Elijah, but he’s not. Could you go cast the devil out of him for me?” It was hilarious. And that kind of bonded us at that point. Then I said this to him—
SID: I’m sure.
PERRY: Yeah. I said this to him, I said, “I also believe in speaking with other tongues, which is the prayer language of the Holy Spirit.” And he looked at me without blinking. He said, “Oh, you mean the language of God.” And I went, “Wait a minute, what do you know about the language of God?” I’m thinking he’s thinking the Hebrew language or something like that. And he said, “Well, we have a Jewish tradition,” and he said, “I believe it, that on the Day of Atonement when the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies, God gave him a tongue to communicate in, a language that he was not familiar with, that only him and God could talk in, and no one could hear it.” And I said, “Well, why would that be?” He said, “So Satan and the spirits could not interfere with what he was saying.”
SID: You thought that was amazing, that they spoke in tongues? Wait ’til you hear about this. This is even more amazing. I just want to mention something about Perry’s father’s uncle. His name was Uncle Rufus. Did you know that Uncle Rufus was … How educated was he?
PERRY: Third grade. Third grade only.
SID: Third grade only. Uncle Rufus could speak in any language of anyone he spoke to.
PERRY: Yes.SID: Third grade education, and preached the gospel. And Perry prophesied, I heard it come out of his mouth a little earlier before we went on the air, that these gifts that were imparted to him, he is going to start imparting them to you. We’ll be right back
