Sid: Now I have been a Jewish believer in the Messiah for over 30 years. I tell you what I witnessed last month in the land of Israel historically was the most significant thing I had seen in my entire walk with the Lord, in over 30 years. I saw biblical prophecy fulfilled.
Before I get to that I want to tell you how God has used me over the past 3 decades. It seems as though I find myself right in the forefront of brand new moves of God’s Spirit, and that’s what happened in Israel. I believe I was walking on such holy ground that I was at the spot where a great great move of God’s Spirit is happening.
Let me take you back when I was a brand new believer in the Messiah. I hadn’t even read the Bible; it was at the beginning of the Charismatic movement. There was an article in a major secular newspaper in Washington D.C.; the headline I can see it today it said “White collar Jesus freaks.” My whole testimony… you see you have to remember back then there was not that many Jewish believers in the Messiah, certainly not that many that were outspoken. On the front page of a major newspaper in Washington D.C. they actually sold more editions of that newspaper than any in their entire history was my testimony.
A woman by the name of Katherine Kuhlman, who had one of the greatest miracle ministries of the century, read the article and booked me to do 2 national television shows. So I sort of became a focal point of Jewish people that believe in Jesus over 30 years ago. That was again before I’d even read the entire New Testament. I knew nothing, but I knew the most important thing I knew that Jesus was real.
Then I remember being involved in a group called the Hebrew Christian Alliance. That later was called the Messianic Jewish Alliance and I was president of the local chapter. We started out having meetings of about 10 or 12 people, in a matter of months we started having meetings of hundreds of people. As a result of this we started one of the first Messianic Jewish Synagogues in modern day history. It was called “Beth Messiah” located in Rockville, Maryland.
Again I knew nothing except the most important thing I knew that Jesus rescued me from an impossible situation. I knew that Jesus was real and I wanted to tell everyone everywhere how grateful I was to Him. Every week Jewish people were coming to the Lord. Then we got organized and the more organized we got, we got a professional rabbi; the more organized we got the better we looked, the better we smelled, the better we tasted, but Israel stopped being saved. It was almost as if when you knew nothing and were entirely dependent on God He showed up. The more organized we got the less of God showed up.
Then a friend of mine by the name of Jonathan Bernis, who you probably know from the Jewish Voice Broadcast, I’ve known him for over 20 years. He said “Sid God is burdening me to go to the former Soviet Union and do big music concerts that will reach unsaved Jewish people.” At that time no one had ever done it and all of his friends that he checked with, especially the leaders in the movement discouraged him. He told me I was the only friend that was really, that was a leader in the movement that was pushing him to do this. So he said “Sid you’ve been in evangelism a lot longer than I have will you go with me on my first trip, and we’ll team up? You’ll evangelize one night, and I’ll evangelize the next night.” We didn’t know what to expect, but it was his event and he invited me to attend and be a guest evangelist. Since I had more experience than him he let me speak on the first night. We witnessed something with our eyes that we had never seen before. We witnessed hundreds if not thousands of Jewish people with tears in their eyes running to the altar to get saved. I mean I’d been in Jewish ministry for so long I never had seen anything like this. So God puts me strategically in places where there’s a major outpouring of God’s Spirit.
By the way, people are being healed right now. I see a spine if you will just bend you will bend right over into your healing. I also see a neck and problems in the back if you have neck ache you are healed in Jesus name. If you have a backache you are healed in Jesus name. There’s even muscles, I don’t quite understand this, but muscles and backs are being healed in Jesus name.
So I have found that God’s kind of thrust me in the forefront when He’s ready to pour His Spirit out. I went to Israel last month I went on Shavuot, otherwise known as Pentecost. Of course, the Jewish Shavuot is different in the date as the Christian Pentecost, but I went for the real thing. I decided, I shouldn’t say I decided, I felt that God told me… you see in Israel most of the believers are fearful to be evangelistic. You say “Oh how could they be that way?” Well it could cost you your job in Israel; it could cost you your apartment; it could cost your children being persecuted. You being persecuted? So it’s easy for me to say “Why aren’t you so evangelistic in Israel?” I guess if I was living there it would not be so easy for me to say.
As a matter of fact, just as I went on the air I received an email from Israel in a section of Israel called Arad from a believer that asked for prayer. Let me read you a few excerpts from this. It says “There was a big demonstration of 3 – 400 religious Jews in front of our place this past Shabbat, this past Friday. We had 15 – 20 believers that gathered for a Friday night meal together. After the Shabbat came, in order to avoid the religious…” in other words they gathered during the Shabbat hoping the religious would not disrupt them. “…but we were threatened and they said ‘They will get us out of Arad even in a coffin.’” I mean how would you like to be having a Shabbat dinner and have someone threaten you like that? “My husband and another believer approached the 2 religious that were there, and these 2 men ran towards them and caught my husband by the hands. It became really physical. Then they came into our meeting, they turned tables over, threw books, coffee, and everything else on the floor. This guy went absolutely wild with his hatred and anger. There was nothing for the other believers to do except call for help. The demonstration that they had outside of our place like all other aggressive demonstrations against believers in Arad are authorized by the local police. They shouted at me the week before in a very loud and aggressive demonstration in front of our house that I’m a dirty Jew. That demonstration started at 7:30 pm, the kids were all in pajamas ready to go to bed. They started screaming and shouting in our blinds ‘Christians out!’” So it’s not so easy to be a believer and live in the land of Israel because the same spirit that was on a Jewish rabbi by the name of Saul of Tarsus who later became Paul the Apostle. Unfortunately, those demonic spirits are still alive and well in the land of Israel. That’s the bad news, wait till I tell you the good news.
When I went to Israel I feel like God gave me a strategy to get in under the radar. What was the strategy? I printed up handbills, or flyers, just small ones I have one in front of me right here in Hebrew and in Russian. The bills read “Sid Roth international author, television investigative reporter, expert on miracles will be in the Kryot,” that’s a suburb of Haifa, “to speak on the subject of miracles and teach you how to perform miracles. Many people are miraculously healed at these meetings. You could be next. Sponsored by It’s Supernatural Television.” Well you know when I got to these meetings I didn’t know if anyone would show up. We rented secular buildings and we were going to do exactly what we advertised and lecture on the supernatural. Wait till you hear what happened I’ll pick up right here on tomorrow’s broadcast.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth