Sid: I believe that one of the greatest meanings and my guest right now is Paul Keith Davis and he would agree with it is a release of resurrection power, power that would restore limbs, restore dead people to life; power that cancer could not stand against. As a matter of fact, Paul Keith I understand in 1990 you were watching a video about William Branham that really changed your paradigm for things.
Paul Keith: It did you know coming from a background that that was, what little church we had was very conservative, I had never even heard that there was a thing called the latter reign revival. I had never heard of the voice of healing and I had certainly never heard to a man named William Branham, but a video was given to me and I watched this service from the 1950’s, and I saw something that I had never seen before. And while I was watching it the Lord said, “This is your destiny and the destiny of your generation. And I watched this and he stood before people and began to reveal secrets of their hearts that He had no way of knowing.
Sid: I have to tell you, I have seen and I don’t know the video you saw but I’ve been out to Oral Roberts University their library they had a video of Branham and I see those gifts operate, and I say “God we need them now.” I mean I am passionate to what to move in that realm myself or at least someone on planet earth move in those realms.
Paul Keith: And of course the Biblical paradigm that we have from that is from the Lord Jesus Himself met the woman at the well and you know He could have used any method at His disposal to win this woman but he chose to tell her everything she ever did. And I’m of the belief that He didn’t just tell her that she had had five husbands, I believe He started when she was a young girl and walked her through her life bringing her to the very point that she stood at that moment and He wakened in her. That’s the thing that I’m after for our generation is that encounter by weaving His way through all of the shame and discouragement and failure that she’d obviously had experienced He touched a seed of destiny that was imparted to her before the foundation of the world. And I believe what we’re called to do today is exactly the same thing, that there are many out there that are steeped in failure and shame, but as they begin to see this measure of the supernatural demonstrated it’s going to awaken a seed of destiny a DNA that was put in them before the foundation of the world. And we’re going to see some of the most radical born again Spirit filled Warriors that the word has ever seen literally, and that’s what I’m after.
Sid: Now in 1990 when you were watching that video God spoke to you what did He say?
Paul Keith: What He said was, was that this you know I hate to even apply myself because I’m not a shadow of that man of God but He said, “That’s your destiny and that of your generation.”
Sid: Well, when is it coming? I mean I can hardly wait?
Paul Keith: Ha-ha, I’m praying “Now Lord, now is good.”
Sid: Ha-ha.
Paul Keith: Because we’re not going to do it merely by empty words, it’s going to have to be a demonstration.
Sid: For those that never saw Branham minister describe what they might have seen.
Paul Keith: I have talked to numerous people that were in his meetings, dozens and dozens of people and there were two things that characterized those meetings that I believe that we will see in this generation at this very hour. The first thing was that there was a Divine presence that came and there is no substitute for the presence of God. And we can call it the Greek word Parousia, they called it back in the 1950’s and early 60s the pillar of fire, but you could even call it the pillar of cloud. The Bible says Moses and Aaron spoke to the Lord, Samuel spoke to him and the back to them from the pillar of cloud; we find that in Psalm 99, and so that presence was reintroduced on a level that had never been seen in 2000 years of church history since the Apostle Paul and the earlier disciples. Paul met that pillar of fire presence on the road to Damascus. The 120 met the pillar of fire in the upper room, and that’s lacking today. We don’t see that kind of manifest presence demonstrated right now, but we must. And I believe the ten years and more that we’ve been in severe pruning and I believe many people have been in the wilderness through a pruning process that is severe. And I believe that it has been for the purpose of walking in that kind of a presence. I remember T.L. Osborn sharing the testimony of being in a William Branham meeting in 1947 in Portland, Oregon, and he said that night that he had his second vision of the Lord Jesus as he watched that little country bumpkin preacher and I say that with respect because I’m one too. But he’s just a young, a man with an eighth grade education trying to walk his way through a sermon and all of a sudden Jesus showed up and he said, “Miracles began to happen on a level that he had never imagined”, and here is the good news, T.L. Osborn said that when that happened he said, I had my second vision of Jesus step into that man and 10,000 voices boomed from heaven saying “You can do that, you can do that.”
Sid: I mean the way he knew what was wrong with someone, he knew their names, he knew what streets they lived on. I mean it wouldn’t take a whole lot when a total stranger reads your mail like that to believe when he says “And you are going to be healed right now, to be healed.”
Paul Keith: You know it says in 1 Corinthians 14 “When He revealed the secrets of the heart will they not fall down on their faces and say surely God is in this place.” And the interesting thing Sid about that is that I don’t believe what he ministered in was just a word of knowledge, I know that a lot of people said he had a profound word of knowledge. I believe it goes beyond that, I believe what we saw demonstrated in his day, and what we must contend for our day was Hebrews 4:12 where the living Word comes down in a manifested way, manifesting Himself to a body of people discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart. That was what he was doing, because the very next verse, verse 13 of chapter four, it says “For all things are open and laid bare before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” All the secrets, all the details of people’s lives are laid bare, open and you’re able to tap into that, not for the purpose of empty demonstration, but in order to let them know that God knows all about their situation and it takes faith to another level. The people I’ve interviewed that were in those meetings said “That when that presence came the ceiling prevailed that anything was possible, anything was possible.” You wouldn’t have been surprised at anything that happened, if limbs grew out, if dead bodies were raised off of gurneys you would not have been surprised when that level of heavenly atmosphere came into the room.
Sid: Let me take you back to 2003 when spiritual scales literally came off of your eyes and you could see what was going on in the invisible world in Albany, Oregon. You told us on yesterday’s broadcast you saw angels, and you asked the Lord “What kind of angels?” And He said, “Angels that gather.” What is specific purpose of an angel that gathers?
Paul Keith: I think their purpose is twofold primarily, I don’t want to limit them to any two things, but two things that I’ve seen so far; I have to admit when I first saw them I’m thinking okay they’re going to co-labor with us to bring in lost souls. And that certainly is part of the mandate, but if you’ll notice very carefully, look very closely at Matthew 13 and verse 41 we find them identified out of the word of the Lord Jesus Himself, He says “The Son of Man will send forth His angels that gather out of His Kingdom all stumbling blocks and everything offensive.” Well, I have discovered I should say, that I’m thinking “Well, I have a lot of stumbling blocks in front of me that I want removed so that I can move forward in ministry.” But I discovered they started working in me and putting their finger on things that needed to be dealt with in my own life nothing flagrant, you know just little attitudes, or little things that weren’t necessarily consistent perfectly with God. I looked a little closer at the scripture and it said, “I will remove out of My kingdom,” the kingdom of Heaven is within, and I realized that right now they have been working to remove the stumbling blocks within us. And when I saw that revelation the Lord said to me, “If you let me remove the stumbling blocks within you I’ll remove the ones before you.” And I really believe the Lord has been restraining us so that He can do in us what is necessary so that we can have the kind of impact on our generation that he want to do. And so I found out also that there’s a harvesting of promises, harvesting of commissions, it’s not just about bringing in…
Sid: What do you mean by harvesting of promises?
Paul Keith: I believe that there are promises; prophetic promises that go back even to the Old Testament patriarchs, promises of an end time generation. I believe what Abraham saw what we saw described in Hebrews chapter 11 this incredible hall of champions. The Bible says that they saw something prophetic, but they’re still waiting on us to apprehend it so that their made perfect, Hebrew chapter 11 verses 39 and 40. And so they saw something, they saw a righteous generation, David spoke of that in Psalm 24 when he said, “There will be a righteous generation.” And we’ve been contending for that and I believe we’re living in the days when that righteous generation will emerge and Jesus said, that they’re going to be called “Sons of the Kingdom.” He said, “He has sown into this world seeds and that He is intending to come back to harvest sons of the kingdom.” And He is of course that great seed that went into the earth and at the end of the age they’ll be multiplied grains of wheat just like the original seed.
Sid: Did the Lord tell you anything about this book “Angels that Gather?”
Paul Keith: The main thing that I am hearing from the Lord is that it is now, it is now, we can’t continue to put off into the future the revelation of the sons of the Kingdom, that right now there must be an immerge of first fruits.
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