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The Heavens Opened · Divine Revelations

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My guest by way of telephone is Anna Rountree,
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and her name had come up to me several times.
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And I was up in Moravian Falls,
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North Carolina at a leaders' idea exchange with a friend
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of mine, Rick Joyner, and sitting opposite me was a man by the name of Stephen Strang
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and his wife, Joy, and they're the editors of Charisma magazine.
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And Stephen kept looking at me.
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He walked up.
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He said, Sid, I think you're supposed to meet Anna and Albert Rountree.
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And I said, well, their names come up before I'd like to meet them.
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So they arranged for me to meet Anna and her husband, Albert.
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And, of course, there was an intriguing portion.
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And that intriguing portion is that Anna has had literally hundreds
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of visitations to heaven and has recorded it so accurately.
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In fact, let me read this from her book,
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The Heavens Opened by Anna Rountree.
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And this is by Gwen Shaw, the head of End Time Handmaidens.
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The heavens opened is an amazing and beautiful revelation
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of the place that he has gone to prepare for us
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and where we will spend eternity.
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Of the many recent books written about our future home,
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none reveal so clearly the glory of God that awaits us if we are faithful to him
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during the days of testing that many have already begun to experience.
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You will read it more than once and you will want to share it with all your friends.
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You will not be able to put it down.
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Now, when I went over Anna's home, I found out things about Anna
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and I went there with Stephen and Joy Strang
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and Joy was saying, boy, I didn't know those things.
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Anna, you actually wrote the film
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script for Stephen King's first movie?
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Well, that's exactly right.
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I withdrew after writing it and took my
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name off of it because after I wrote it,
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the Lord told me that I was going to be marrying a minister.
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And I didn't think that that sort of material would
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be right for a minister's wife to have written.
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Believe me, I didn't think it was right.
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Now the circumstances of you marrying a minister were pretty interesting.
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You were being prayed for and being baptized in the Holy Spirit,
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speaking in unknown tongues.
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And what did God tell you?
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Well, he told me that I was going to be marrying the minister of that church.
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Now, how does someone walk up to the minister of that church and say, well, God told me I'm going to marry you?
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Oh, you don't.
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You don't do that.
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In fact, the Lord said not to say anything to him that he was like a man asleep,
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that he was going to say something to him, and he did.
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It took a couple of months, but he did.
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And out of curiosity,
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did God sovereignly tell him or he just was attracted to you?
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No, no, no.
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He and I were not attracted to one another at all.
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We just, you know, in the natural we weren't each other's type.
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Now, you must realize that when I was working
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on the first draft of the screenplay of Carrie,
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I was not saved.
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I'm sure that as a saved person, I never would have done it.
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But I was not saved.
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The Lord brought me into this.
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That is a horrible movie.
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Oh, heavens.
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You know, my generation was traumatized by Psycho.
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And this other generation,
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the time of when Carrie came out in the 70s, was traumatized by Carrie.
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And I mean, it's a ghastly film.
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What I was trying to do in the film was make
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it so real that it would be possible, you see.
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the producers allowed me to they wanted it changed
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from the location of the book which was vermont
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from vermont to a small texas town and i had
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been from texas and i said i haven't lived in
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texas in years if you'll let me go to texas uh and sit in texas in a small texas town then i'll
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write this for you and um therefore i did that's
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when i met my husband he would they were having
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these meetings on Friday night.
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Now, your husband was involved with, he was a pastor out at Church of the Redeemer in,
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was that Houston?
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Yes, he was one of the two clergy of that church.
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Now, that's the place where within a church the charismatic movement really got started.
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Yes, that's true.
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It's very, it's well known is that, in fact,
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like the vineyard up in Toronto and like Brownsville,
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the world came to Houston to take a
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coal from the altar, you might say,
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and take it back and it ignited fires in many places.
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What was the catalyst that started the move of God in that church?
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Do you know?
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Well, I believe it was actually God himself that did this,
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but it wasn't known to anyone.
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What he did is that he gathered together 12 people,
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two of them were clergy, who prayed every single day.
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and one of them had to drive over from Galveston
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to pray every day early in the morning.
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It was a church that had what they call a crypt
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or a small chapel under, in a basement you might say
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in New York, it's down in the basement.
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They would come together in that particular chapel
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and pray and uh they knew that the lord was
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doing something because he had moved within them
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in such a way that compelled them to come
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together to pray he had brought them together
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and uh and he ignited from those prayers this
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uh wonderful uh outbreak of the spirit within
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that church and it just wonderful music
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came from it and my husband said he
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says you know our mouths were just filled with laughter sounds like a psalm
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to me they were like children because
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the grace was so great and the
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outpouring so mighty he said we would
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just ask for anything oh wait that went
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by too fast did you catch that mishpochah they just she just said we would just ask for anything
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and the lord would do it yes yes that's
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right it was an extraordinary period of time
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in everyone's life of course everyone thought
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it would last you know um that it would go on
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and on. Of course, it did spread everywhere.
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It was a mighty move of God. But as with all
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of the moves of God that have happened in the past,
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they get corrupted. They just don't
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last.
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Now, I'm going to jump a little.
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You obviously got married, and a lot of interesting things
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happened with the ministry you and your husband had, but then you met a man by the name of
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Bob Jones who was a friend of mine.
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I've got a funny Bob Jones story.
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He's a prophet, mishpochah, and I called him once on the telephone to interview him
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and at that time, I was living in the Washington, D.C. area.
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I was actually in Gaithersburg, Maryland and I said, “Hi, Bob.
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My name is Sid Roth and I’m from Washington, D.C.” because who’s heard of Gaithersburg,
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maryland and he said i can't talk to you and i said why can't you he said because i'm waiting
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for a call from someone from gaithersburg maryland i said well that's me uh so anyway this bob jones
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has had so many amazing visitations and trips
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to heaven and i understand you met him and you
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decided you wanted to write his life story but
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you had a problem what was that well it's actually
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I think the Lord answered a prayer because of that.
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We had been in Kansas City, and we were interviewing him,
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putting it on tape, his life story on tape.
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His life story is really very interesting.
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And we were taping him and also going out to eat.
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I'm not sure which we were enjoying the most, taping or going out to eat together,
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but we were having a wonderful time together but
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uh i would ask him because he would go to heaven
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and he said well i went to heaven and such and such you know and i'd say well bob um what does
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it look like up there and he would say well you
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know i said well i really don't know believe me
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I don't know.
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I said, are there colors up there?
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Do you see colors?
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I mean, is everybody dressed in white or does anybody have on something that is a different,
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something like that?
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And he said, well, you know.
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And I thought, oh my word.
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So finally, after we finished all of the taping, I really told the Lord, I said,
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Lord, if you want me to write the story of this
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man's life and he's going to heaven all the time
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and I don't know what heaven looks like and you're going to have to take me to heaven.
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I need to see heaven myself if you want me to write this.
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But I just ask one thing.
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I don't want to have to be smashed up in a car or something, you know?
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I understand.
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Could you just do something a little different here?
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Did you think he was going to take you to heaven when you prayed that?
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No.
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I didn't think so.
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No, I did not.
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But do you know, Sid, almost from the beginning of the time that I was saved,
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if anyone with a prophetic ministry saw me, they'd say, well, you'll be seeing into heaven.
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I have on the telephone Anna Rountree.
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I'm speaking to her at her home in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, by way of telephone.
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And I have a copy of her book, which I've just read, The Heavens Opened.
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On yesterday's broadcast,
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we found out that she was writing a book on Bob Jones,
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a prophet who had been to heaven many times.
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And she felt, well, I can't relate to this because I don't know what heaven is really like,
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not realizing that God was listening.
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And since that time, she has had hundreds of visitations to heaven
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and she literally will put a hunger within you to taste heaven.
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And I asked her before we went on the air and I said,
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anyone that pays the price that's a believer in the Messiah, can they go to heaven?
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And what did you say to me, Anna?
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I said absolutely.
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And in fact, more so nowadays because, Sid,
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I really believe that though this book and some others like Rick Joiners and others are forerunners,
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it is, you keep using the word provoke you to jealousy,
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it is to provoke one to jealousy, to seek to go on.
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And I believe that the Lord is bringing
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all of the believers into a place where
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they can communicate directly with him.
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Let me ask you a question.
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We had talked earlier about this off the air,
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but what was known as the charismatic movement that your husband was a pioneer in,
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that's pretty much finished, isn't it?
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Well, you know, it's simply an opinion, but I believe so.
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I believe it was actually finished in 1977.
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And what we call the renewal
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movement at Brownsville and Toronto
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and lots of other places, it's still going on,
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but I don't see the same degree of changes in people like I did at the beginning,
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and it's almost the same as the charismatic movement.
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So we're kind of in between moves of God's spirit,
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but you know what's going on in the heavenlies.
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What, in your opinion, will be the next move of God's spirit?
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Well, I think it's going to be so entirely supernatural.
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Of course, it's always supernatural,
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but I don't think it's going to be as tied to a church or something of this sort.
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I really believe that the Lord wants to call people directly to himself,
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what I call calling people to the garden.
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I think that we're trying to aim for the wrong thing, Sid.
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I think we're aiming for the early church.
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Well, you and I have discussed this.
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As you know, Mishpochah, I'm a Messianic Jew, a Jewish believer in Jesus.
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And Anna and I were talking about this.
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And Anna said, you Messianic Jews don't go back far enough.
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And I said, well, what do you mean?
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And we go back to Moses and the Torah and the biblical festivals.
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And then she said what she just said to me.
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We don't go back far enough.
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How far should we go, Anna?
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All the way to the garden.
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That's when there was no division.
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Well, that's true.
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That's right.
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There is no division there.
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You mean before the fall, of course.
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Well, really, yeah, before the fall.
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But even just the Lord walking
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with Adam and Eve in the garden.
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It sounds so pure and so wonderful.
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He wants that kind of intimacy.
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And he wants us, as it says, set your mind on things above.
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And we have become so earthly-minded here
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that we don't understand that what we actually need to do, Sid,
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is that we need to live above and commute to work on earth.
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But we have gotten very centered, earth-centered,
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which Paul warns us not to do,
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but to look above because it shifts onto,
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it throws everything onto the Lord then.
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When you live above,
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you know absolutely that things must shift to him
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and your flesh starts getting out of it.
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But, Anna, it's easy to preach it.
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Now you and your husband are living this.
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You're out in a beautiful, because I was in your home,
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I almost got snowed in as a matter of fact,
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in Moravian Falls, which is a story all unto itself.
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But the average person, the pull, well, let's just be candid,
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The pull of the world, the pull of the flesh,
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the pull of this life, without some supernatural help,
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how do you shift out of that pull to just be so single-minded?
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How does someone do this?
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Well, during the time that these things began with me,
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Sid, my husband took an interim pastorship in
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a Presbyterian church in the panhandle of Florida.
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We were down in Florida.
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And it was a small church, and in a small church,
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it actually keeps you busier than a big church
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because you must do everything,
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all the things with the children.
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And besides, you know, going to getting to know everyone,
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helping with corning season,
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which is, you know, shucking corn and snapping green beans
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and things like that when you're out in the country.
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And so we were incredibly, incredibly busy.
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We really were.
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And these visions, I was having these visions anyway.
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what you must do is that you must want god
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more than anything you must say to yourself
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as i believe you have said there has got to be
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something more and that's very much what we said
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to ourselves after we left working with the pastors in kansas city there has got to be more
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We have seen revival.
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We've been in three revivals, in fact.
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We have seen the pastors coming together in unity and love.
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And as glorious as that is, there has got to be something more.
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And so we left to go find the something more.
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We wanted to know what the more was.
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And once you get in a heart pursuit of God,
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he will raise up to meet you on the path.
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He will say, this person is seeking me and they are desirous of me,
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not desirous of supernatural squiggly things that are going to
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make you feel wonderful and excited and disappear like Chinese food.
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No, the person is seeking me.
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They want me.
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When you seek God, then the other comes with that.
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But it's in the pursuit of God himself.
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It's a catch-22.
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Is God waiting on us or are we waiting on God?
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Well, I believe that he waits to see if you're going to do it.
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I mean, he gives everyone so much already.
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And we certainly aren't grateful.
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I mean, we're still too titillated by knowing
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this little mystery or that little mystery.
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Speaking of mysteries, I asked you a question.
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Do you ask the Lord questions?
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Do you ask him all of these mysteries?
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And I'm amazed that, yes, you've asked a few questions,
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but you're really not interested in that when you go to heaven, are you?
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I'm really not.
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What are you interested in when you go to heaven?
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I mean, I've got all sorts of questions about healing and times.
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I mean, I would sit down with my little notebook like a reporter.
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Amazing just being there.
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Even though this is more mind-blowing than anything,
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one becomes accustomed to it because you have been there many times, you know.
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And so it doesn't just rattle you every time you go.
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It's like home.
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That's like home, and here is almost like a foreign land, you know?
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But here is where you are sent to work and serve the Lord, but up there is home.
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Now, you wouldn't do my television show.
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Why wouldn't you do my television show, Anna?
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Well, I know it sounds strange.
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I know it, but the Lord asked us to be hidden.
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And when you see a face,
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then you start getting this personality along with it.
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These books are absolutely his books.
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They are not ours at all.
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I had no idea I was going to write a book at all.
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See, all I did was record the visions.
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No one was more astounded than me when the Lord said, I want this in a book.
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And I thought, I said, but who would read this?
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Who will believe me, Lord?
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That's the better question, not who would read it, who would believe it.
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Who will believe that this is true?
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But all I did was find out what he wanted
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and lift right straight from my journal what
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had been recorded and put it into the book.
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All I did was just join them together, you know?
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Of course, a lot of them weren't in there because there's just too many of them.
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But that's all I did.
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But this book's going all over the world now, and you're not even promoting it.
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Well, that's right.
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Anna Rountree, I'm talking to her in her home, which I've had the privilege of being
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in with her husband in Moravian Falls,
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North Carolina, and it was when I was there, the
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snow was coming down, and it was just the trees were there, and the air was clean, and
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It was just so enjoyable.
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Anna's been blessed to go to heaven hundreds of times,
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and she's recorded it in a book, The Heavens Opened.
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Now, Anna, I promised on yesterday's broadcast that I have so many questions.
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You know, anyone that's been to heaven hundreds of times, I've got lots of questions for.
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But one thing that I have heard from others that have had visitations to heaven, and it kind of intrigues me.
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And that's the parts room.
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Did you actually see this?
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Yes, I did.
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Tell me about it.
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Well, it was very bright in it, and there were different parts of bodies there.
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You would think that it would be gruesome, but it wasn't.
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It was like a place of holding it, like a distribution center.
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I guess you might call it something like that, a distribution center.
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And they were preparing to make these parts available to people.
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And you also told me that you saw angels in school, so to speak,
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for the next move of God's Spirit of the Miraculous.
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Tell me about that.
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Yes, yes, they were training to accompany believers on
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earth for the next move of God in a healing revival.
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And they said that there would be two angels this time
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with each person who would be receiving this gift.
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And there were hundreds, maybe thousands, I would say, of angels that were training.
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And that was only one training that I saw.
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I'm sure that there were other trainings going on or there had
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been those who had already graduated and were with the people then.
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You say in your book that the Lord was really sad over, say,
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the last healing revival because the people that had this gifting didn't
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disciple others and just kind of used it for their own benefit.
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Yes, yes. The angels were,
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some of those angels that were with those particular
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ministries told about that, that they were sad.
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For this reason the Lord was going to give two angels with
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each person this time and there were going to be many more
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Because there were not that many in the last move of the Spirit for healing.
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I mean, a great move of God, not just...
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Let's face it, even today,
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there are not that many that move from the miraculous in the United States.
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Well, that's right.
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Because it really takes the Lord initiating.
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and we can have people who move in power here and there
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and some healing when they're under the anointing
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and they're here and there.
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But for a great move of God, only God can do it.
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I'm reminded, I had the privilege of knowing Catherine Coleman
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and she used to tell the story of, she said,
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I won't be here but a day is coming
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in which Christians will go into a hospital and clear the whole hospital out.
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Do you see that?
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Yes, I do.
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I think that things are going to be
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completely so extraordinarily miraculous.
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But we must prepare now to be containers
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to hold that glory, you might say,
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because everyone just sort of waits and hops like
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bunnies or something from one move of God to the next,
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but they are unwilling to go through the cleansing and the
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maturing that the Lord needs to truly hold the greater anointing.
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Okay, Anna, I consider myself a great cheerleader for God
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and an encourager.
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And I want people to know how to get from step A to step B.
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One of my big problems in life is I have a very logical type of mind,
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and that's in faith that sometimes is a problem.
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But kind of be a coach right now.
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Tell me how to get to that next point.
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And we'll let our mishpochah eavesdrop.
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How do I prepare?
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What should I be doing, Hannah?
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Well, I think a lot of people ask that, Sid,
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when the answer is just seek God and be obedient.
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It's do what he says in the word and
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desire him more than life itself.
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Well, let me ask you a personal thing.
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I didn't happen to notice.
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I wasn't looking for it, but do you and your husband watch much television?
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No.
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Is someone that, say, gets home at night and is a form of unwinding,
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watches sports or listens to nothing bad, news,
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and spends a few hours every night just relaxing before the television,
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Is that something that God might want us to put down?
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Well, you know, each person is in an individual place before God.
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We actually got digital and we thought,
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oh, this is wonderful.
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And we got it and, you know,
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had it connected here because we were interested in it for the news.
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and as we look at that
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even the news
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it was the visual part of it
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you see
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that visual
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we used to hear radio a lot
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especially those of our age
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when we were growing up
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and it did not
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as the visual
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and the audio can
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it can consume you
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And we disconnected it
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We didn't have it even a month
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And that was for the news
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But that's us
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That's where the Lord has us
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We don't feel, Sid
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That we've got time for that
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We're down here
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Not for ourselves
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But for Him
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But wait a second
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You're not running all over the country
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Speaking at conventions
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You're not doing television
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I think it's miraculous
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that I even have you on radio.
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So what are you doing with your time?
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If you're not watching television,
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you're out in the woods with this,
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you were snowed in for a week,
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what are you and your husband doing with your time?
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Oh my gosh, we barely have enough time.
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We must be with the Lord
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and we have to pray.
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Many people want us to pray for them
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and we do.
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We don't just say,
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I'll pray for you and walk off
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you know at the supermarket we actually put that
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down and we listen for god and we study the word
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my gosh there's almost not enough time to do what
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we're doing now we we don't know we we say to
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ourselves how did we have the time to pastor that last church i mean we're just blown away that we
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had the time um when when you go to heaven uh
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is it a dream is it a vision is it uh you just
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in prayer i mean explain to me the last time you went to heaven what you were doing and and and how
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in the circumstances well it's all so different
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but um i would say uh i believe it was john that
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says i was there you know or and paul said it i
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was there you are there and i mean are you just
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close you just close your eyes and you're there is that what you're saying no no no i i wait for
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the lord to uh to let me know that he wants me to come up all right the lord let's all right
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I pray and worship him, and if he wants me to come up,
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then he will tell me to come up,
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and he provides the way.
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And there are many ways of going up.
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One of them is through a tunnel, and sometimes he just lifts you up,
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and sometimes you go in different ways, you know, stairways and things of this sort.
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I have a theory, and it was certainly not told to me by the Lord,
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but there are 15 ascents in the Bible.
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And I think there are probably 15 main ways of going to heaven.
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I think that they were really,
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what was given there in the Psalms was much more supernatural
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and with a greater knowledge
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of the Lord than we have.
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When you go to heaven, how long might this take?
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Well, you mean just traveling there?
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No, not the time to travel, but the visitation.
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Sometimes they last five hours.
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Is your husband ever in the room when you go to heaven?
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Well, he was the first time.
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Now not, because I set aside the time to do this.
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But he was actually there the first time I was taken up into heaven.
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On tomorrow's broadcast, I want you to tell me a bit about the first time you were taken up into heaven.
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Was it scary?
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no no it's just that i was i was uh not sure
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that it was uh what i thought it was i just
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it was very different uh i had seen angels down
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here intermittently i wasn't seeing angels all
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the time you know and uh i didn't address them
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they didn't address me and i just see them but
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And this was an angel who addressed me
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and required me to do something, you know.
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What did he require you to do?
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He said, come forward.
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And there were these curtains that were,
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I could only see the first one,
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an angel standing beside the opening.
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And the curtains were very thin, and there was light coming through them.
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They were blue.
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My guest, by way of telephone, I'm speaking to her at her home in Moravian Falls,
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North Carolina, is Anna Rountree.
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And most people have not heard of her, but she's had hundreds of visitations to heaven,
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and God instructed her to write it in a book.
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And although they haven't met her, her books are getting around literally around the world.
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And what they do is they increase
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your hunger to know God intimately,
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increase your hunger to not miss what God has for you in this life.
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And one of the things, Anna, that kind of overwhelms me
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is with all of your visitations to heaven and with being a writer,
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which you are and god's used your gift for his
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purposes i'm just amazed that you don't have
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your pen and pencil and and are asking thousands of questions instead you say you don't want to
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ask him any question you just want to be with
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him what is it like to be with the lord oh it's
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It's the most wonderful thing in the world.
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And to be with the Father also, it is, I mean, such pure love.
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It's very healing love.
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Had you ever experienced that type of love this side of heaven?
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Oh, absolutely not.
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No, no, nothing like it.
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Believe me.
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And truly, we come from a background that
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didn't believe that you could know the Father.
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You know, it says he lives in unapproachable light.
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And he certainly does live in unapproachable light.
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But I believe that not knowing him had to do with his faith.
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I believe the Jewish people understood that.
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You cannot see my face.
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Seeing the face is really knowing more about the person.
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But you certainly can because many people in the Bible saw the Father on the throne,
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saw his hands, his feet, the clothing.
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So other people have seen these parts of him but not his face.
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Now, is there a difference in the love that you actually from a feeling viewpoint or experiential
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viewpoint that you feel when you're with God the Father versus God the Son?
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Well, in a way, no.
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But in a way, yes.
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Because he is the Son and he is our eternal husband.
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We are betrothed to him now.
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and it is possible that we can also
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go into a formal betrothal with him.
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And the father is very fatherly, you see,
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and he acts like a father and reacts like a father.
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And the son acts and talks in a different way.
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They have different personalities,
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But as far as the essence, no, because the Lord emptied himself,
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it says, in order to receive everything from
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the Father and let that pass through him to others.
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So his expression is only what the Father shows him,
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only what the Father gives him to give does he give.
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He laid that down before the foundation of the world in order that that
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love of the Father and all that the Father had might pass through him.
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I've got a question.
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In your teaching on the betrothal, which is very, very important,
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you actually talk about things that are in a traditional Jewish betrothal.
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Not the wedding, but the betrothal itself, like a tallit.
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And you talk about what's known as the chuppah in the wedding.
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Did you see these things in heaven before you found out they were part of traditional Judaism?
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Oh, goodness, yes.
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Yes.
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Did you actually see a tallit, a prayer shawl in heaven and the chuppah?
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Yes.
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Well, the Father made that
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canopy over us with his hands.
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So he was the canopy, and it was the joining of the Father and the Son
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and the Holy Spirit at the same time in this deeper commitment.
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So the three were there.
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Three and one and one and three were there.
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uh during this period of time right at the same
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place and uh so but i i only you see when this
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happened to me said uh i mean it was the most
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extraordinary thing um and i only shared it with
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my husband because i had never heard of anything
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like this in my entire life and uh but it didn't
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make any difference it was a very private thing
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that i put into my journals you know not realizing
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that the whole world would eventually be able to read it i had no idea that the lord was going to
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say after the first book i want you to you know
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write this uh and second book you know i'm going
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to get some people upset and you don't want that oh you've got to tell me about your first experience
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of going to heaven oh oh my first experience
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well that was with albert yes you were sitting
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we were praying um we had you know you mentioned
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bob jones and uh we bob jones had given us a year
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before a prophetic word now we have known bob jones all these years but he really doesn't
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prophesy to us we're just friends of his you know
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uh but at this right before we left kansas city he
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was at a at a party um a dinner party and he gave
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us a prophetic word that during well he didn't say
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when it was going to be what what he did is that
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uh he said that we were going to have a visitation
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and we would be in a cabin.
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And then he had a young person come over
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and kneel down right beside him
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and said, now you look at them
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and tell me when they'll have this visitation.
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And the person said,
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I see two headlights kind of thing.
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He said, yes, and what else?
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He said, I see it like a tree with lights on it.
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And he said, so when will they have the visitation?
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And, of course, none of us, we were just as dense as we could be.
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And he said, Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights.
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Well, he did not know that we had booked a
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cabin and we were going to be in it as Hanukkah.
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But it didn't happen.
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It was the second Hanukkah, like the two lights for two years.
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Well, you must have been very disappointed when it didn't happen.
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Well, we were, you know, I mean, Sid, we were sitting in these straight back
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chairs facing the front door because we didn't know what a visitation looked like.
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I mean, we just didn't know.
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We just sat there during Hanukkah facing the door and we, you know,
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we said, well, this is about the way it is with us, you know.
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We don't ever have anything unusual happen to us.
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and the next year we were,
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Albert was in Kansas City to teach for the pastors up there
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and someone who was at that party said, are you ready for Hanukkah?
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And we said, well, we didn't have a visitation.
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They said, no, this Hanukkah, two lights, remember the two lights
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and we were in a cabin in Texas then
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and uh when Hanukkah rolled around we were just
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sitting there praying I must say we weren't in
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any great uh belief that anything was going
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to happen we prayed like we prayed every day
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and uh suddenly as we were praying I saw this angel standing before me
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and and the angel was standing in front of very
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very tall light blue curtain from that had light
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behind it and uh the angel said come forward and
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i got up in my spirit i'd never done that before
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i got up in my spirit and followed that angel and the two other angels parted the curtain
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And we walked through that curtain, and there was another curtain beyond that.
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And after we went through the first curtain,
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I began having an internal argument with myself.
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I said, this can't be a visitation.
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A visitation is when Jesus comes to see you, and this can't be a visitation.
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And the angel said, stop putting up his hand like that. Stop.
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And so I was arguing with myself, and I said,
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well, you know, even though this isn't what
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I think is a visitation, it's not something that I've done.
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I think I'm just going to go on and do it, you know?
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And the angel said, come forward, because he read my thoughts, you see.
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The next set of curtains were parted, and I walked through that, and greater light was
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behind that and then the third set opened
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and there was nothing but blazing white light
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and i knew though i saw nothing that first time
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that i was in the presence of god the father
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and a voice came from all that light and he said what would you have
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well i didn't know what to do but to continue
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praying what we had been praying every single
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day said i mean that's what we were praying every day and let me tell you we haven't prayed that
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since because i would pray a few things and he
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would say done uh proceed and i would just go on
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and pray those other things and he'd say done and
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i thought my word i am standing before someone
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who can say they can actually do what I am asking here.
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But I wasn't, like, proclaiming it.
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I was simply talking to my Father.
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Well, I'd really like this, you know, and that.
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When he said done, were they actually done?
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What it meant was that in the spiritual realm, it is done.
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He is bringing it about, you know.
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He is, you know, bringing these things about.
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Could you give me an example of one thing?
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Well, we ask for the gifts of the Spirit, you know.
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There's one thing.
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He's bringing that about.
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We wanted more of Christ, and that's not done in a day.
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My guest, by way of telephone, no doubt, is Red Hot for the Messiah.
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Her name is Anna Rountree.
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I'm speaking to her by phone at her home in Moravian Falls, North Carolina.
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Anna has literally had hundreds of visitations to heaven.
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And I can tell you that some very, very well-known spiritual people
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have become friends of hers and just say the most wonderful things here.
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I have a quote from Suzanne Hinn about her book, The Heavens Opened.
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That's Benny Hinn's wife.
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In this exciting book, Anna Rountree will help to take you beyond the veil into a realm where holiness,
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obedience and unconditional surrender are
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the qualifications that will take you into the very presence of the Lord.
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She shares the importance of living a life of worship that
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has caused the heavens to be opened in her own personal life,
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bringing fresh understanding of the angelic realm that has taken her into the very throne of God.
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Anna, you were explaining on yesterday's broadcast the first time you went to heaven an angel showed up.
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It was on Hanukkah.
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You were in a cabin.
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It was actually prophesied this would happen.
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and he escorted you up to
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heaven and take me from there.
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As I was telling you,
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the Lord was saying after I would ask him something,
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he would say, done, and then proceed or continue or something of that sort.
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And I just kept going on until I got through all those
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prayers that we prayed every single day together, you know.
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So I was praying them out loud because my husband could hear me praying these out loud,
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but he said he could tell that my voice changed, that I wasn't talking sort of pontificating.
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I was talking like I was talking to somebody.
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and of course I was
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and at the end
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of these prayers
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of all I could think of
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the father said step forward
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and I did
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and he laid his hands on me
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and he said
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I mean these hands of light
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came out from all of these blazing lights
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and he said receive
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and that was it
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and the angel started
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taking me backwards
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And I thought, oh, now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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You know, you don't think you can dig your heels in in heaven, but that's what I was doing.
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I was kind of being drug out, but I was digging my heels in because
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I had heard that people that died only got one shot at this.
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I said, oh, no, you only get one shot.
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What if I'd forgotten to ask for something?
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And I've just got to ask for something.
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And the father said, the way is open between us now.
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And if you have forgotten to ask something, you can ask me anytime.
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He knew what you were thinking.
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That's right.
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And then I went out with the angels and we went back through those curtains.
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Instead of the angels being very businesslike, as they had been before,
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they were smiling and very warm then.
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And the angels have been very warm since that first encounter.
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They were rather, I guess it was an
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official thing that they were doing.
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And so they were being official.
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What is it like to go in your spirit to heaven?
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I mean, I guess it's a weightless feeling, almost like an astronaut in space.
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Yes and no.
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It's such a natural thing that you really don't think of it like that,
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like going, you know, like that.
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It isn't like that.
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You have a spiritual body that is like your natural body,
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except that it's the age of your spiritual self.
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So that when I went to heaven, I was older than 20,
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but I was only 20 years old in my spirit, and I went as a 20-year-old.
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Oh, so in other words, each person, is it the number of years that you've been a believer
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when you say age in the spirit or how you've matured?
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I don't know.
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All I know is that I was a 20-year-old.
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And the maturity between the first and second book
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has to do that I'm older in the spirit, you know.
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Now, when you went to heaven, did you see anyone you knew?
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Yes, yes.
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I saw my father, and I mentioned that in the second book.
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I do not speak to him, but I saw him.
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Now, why didn't you speak to him?
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He was in a crowd.
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But did he know you were there?
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He saw me, and I saw him.
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Did he smile at you?
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Did he wave at you?
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No, he didn't wave.
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The circumstance was too formal for waving.
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But I saw him, you know,
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and it was very satisfying to see my father there.
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But I don't speak to the humans.
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I haven't been given to speak to humans.
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The Lord has me speaking and telling about heaven
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And how people are trained by angels
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And by the Holy Spirit, by the Son
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And by the Father himself
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Speaking of training
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Tell me about this next move
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Where you said there will be two angels
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With specific men or women
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Will this be thousands of men and women?
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that'll move in the miraculous of healing?
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Yes, I believe it will be very general.
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It will be very, very general.
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And how far off are we?
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I don't know.
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Oh, I wish I did know.
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It would be wonderful if it was tomorrow, wouldn't it?
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Well, I happen to believe it's closer rather than further away,
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which means we've got to be making up for some lost time.
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Yes, that's true. But, you know,
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like a buildup of water in a pipe, because we have been between so long,
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I think that the buildup is going to,
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that when he comes, he is going to step down and crack more
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than sideboards as he did in the Welsh revival.
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He's going to crack our hearts and things are going to be very different.
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Whether we will hold that,
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I just pray that we will hold it.
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Now what about the average person that's listening to me right now
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that's not in ministry?
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Can they be part of this next move?
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Can they have the intimacy you have?
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Can they go to heaven?
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Oh my gosh, yes.
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And I don't really think of myself in ministry.
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I was a minister's wife,
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but that's the way I spent most of my married life with my husband.
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I was simply a minister's wife.
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You know, I would teach the children,
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but I was not the leader or the –
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I wasn't what I would say in ministry.
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I'm very surprised that the Lord would use me at all.
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I honestly feel that I'm really sort of like the least.
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In fact, when we went to Arkansas and
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were in that cabin that I told you about
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in the mountains over there,
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I said to my husband something that,
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I said, I wish I had an anointing.
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And he said, well, Ann, who are you to have an anointing?
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Now, if he could say that to me, you know.
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I understand.
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Right.
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Now, when the miraculous anointing hits us,
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and it will soon, very soon, I believe.
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I believe that it'll be so strong that people won't
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have to meditate on healing scriptures for 20 years
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and confess it and do a checklist, have I done this, have I done that?
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It's just anyone in the presence of that anointing is going to get healed.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely. When the anointing comes from the Lord, and especially in a great outpouring,
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it is so entirely supernatural, you don't have to hold your mouth right.
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Have you ever been in that type of an anointing where
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everything that you ask happens, everyone is healed?
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um i wouldn't know if everyone were healed but
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i write about that in the in the first book
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i just allude to it you know that uh that we
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had stepped into that kind of an anointing
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and it was entirely supernatural and uh and it lasted for a period of time
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and
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people were healed of everything
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they were healed of all sorts
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of things I wouldn't know if it was
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everything because these people were on
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a prayer board
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they didn't even have hands laid on them
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we were simply praying
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boy I'm looking for that day
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yeah we were just praying
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for people that were on a prayer
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board but the Lord
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unity is
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so important
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well it is
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But there is a great misconception concerning unity,
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and there are different circles, you might say, of unity.
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And I think we're to be tolerant and loving of everyone.
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But when the Lord intends to do something,
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he will bring the two or three together.
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Or as it was in the Redeemer for a major move of God, he will bring 12.
1:00:07
Something like that.
1:00:08
But it's very hard for that many people to be in absolute unity,
1:00:13
their lives in complete unity.
1:00:16
um but the two or three uh he can do that with
1:00:21
two or three and those when those are in unity
1:00:26
when he's brought them and they are in unity and they are obedient to pray he will do miraculous
1:00:33
things but um and it benefits everyone you see it
1:00:37
benefits everyone it isn't like an exclusive thing
1:00:42
They may be the match that the Lord uses, strikes the match, you might say.
1:00:49
He might use those prayers of those individuals.
1:00:54
But for everyone to be in that kind of unity,
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I would say it's impossible, you know.
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We do have some very sort of childish ideas.