1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,560 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit promised 2 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:21,000 in Joel 2.28, and we equip for the outpouring so that we may engage in the outpouring. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,360 I'm Philip Bus. 4 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:23,640 And I'm Sharon Bus. 5 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,560 Welcome to our podcast today. 6 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:31,320 We have a very special guest today, Siman Tov Al-Aluf from Israel. 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:37,840 And we are going to be hearing some very amazing things that have been his experiences in life 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:51,880 where he's been meeting with the Holy Spirit and having his own personal outpourings. 9 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,520 So we want to welcome our guest, Siman Tov. 10 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,720 Let me just welcome you to the podcast. 11 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:57,720 Shalom. 12 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:58,720 Shalom. 13 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:03,080 You are one of these wonderful, special people. 14 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,000 Everybody on the planet is special, but you're one of these special ones that God has picked 15 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,320 out as his special chosen people. 16 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:15,920 And you told us a story before we got started. 17 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,120 Tell us about how your parents met. 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,320 This is quite a story. 19 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:27,720 My father was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Thessaloniki, Greece. 20 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:34,600 My name, Siman Tov, is my grandfather's name, who used to be the kosher butcher for Thessaloniki 21 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,840 in the 1800s. 22 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:43,800 In the middle 40s, the Nazis invaded Greece and ultimately got to Thessaloniki, where 23 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,280 my father was. 24 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:52,680 And out of that community, there was an estimated 80,000 Jewish people living in that city at 25 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:53,680 the time. 26 00:01:53,680 --> 00:02:02,480 But you know, they ignored a prophetic word that came years earlier from a man named Jabotinsky 27 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:03,480 came there. 28 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:09,240 He actually traveled all over Europe, warning Jewish communities, saying that the Lord is 29 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,360 saying go home to Palestine now. 30 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:13,360 Wow. 31 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,480 He's saying very dangerous is coming. 32 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:22,920 But Thessaloniki was one of the cities that literally, symbolically threw him out and 33 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:25,120 rejected his message. 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:26,360 Oh no. 35 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:33,320 And so when the Nazis actually did come and that word was fulfilled, they were the most 36 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,560 devastated Jewish community in all of Europe. 37 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:44,200 97% of the population were exterminated in Auschwitz. 38 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:52,120 So my father, who was married before the Nazis came in, had two children. 39 00:02:52,120 --> 00:03:00,400 Him and his wife and their family all got on a boxcar, went to Auschwitz. 40 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,600 And it began quite tragically because within two hours of their arrival, the two children 41 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,080 and his wife were dead. 42 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:17,680 And my mother, about a year later from Romania, the Nazis actually came into that region twice. 43 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:23,360 The first time they took many of the Jewish people out into the forest and up into the 44 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:28,960 mountains and either shot them. 45 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:34,200 My mother's case, the first time they took her, they took her up into this mountain in 46 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:41,960 January, it was freezing cold and had them cross over this river saying that anybody 47 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,320 makes it to the other side of the river, you're free to go. 48 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:53,660 So my mother was one of the very few out of thousands that survived going into that ice 49 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:55,680 cold water. 50 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:02,840 And her hands were cramped and bent and distorted her whole life as a result from frostbite, 51 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,320 the same with her feet. 52 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:10,480 But then eventually the Nazis came back again realizing that many of the Jewish people were 53 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:16,360 still there and rounded them all up and put them on boxcars and sent. 54 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,720 That's how she got to Auschwitz. 55 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:25,480 So you know, my father's job was to take the corpses out of the barracks every morning 56 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,880 and pile them up by the garbage. 57 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:36,640 So as a result, it gave him access to the discarded food that the soldiers were eating 58 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:41,880 there and he would take that and barter for cigarettes and cigars. 59 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:48,280 And my mother's job was cleaning the officer's quarters of the SS. 60 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:54,720 So she risked her life stealing these cigarettes and cigars and was exchanging them for the 61 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:01,280 potato skins and whatever that my father got out of, or who became my father, out of the 62 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:02,280 garbage. 63 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:03,280 Oh my. 64 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:04,280 Wow. 65 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:05,840 So they met in Auschwitz. 66 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:06,840 Yes. 67 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,880 At the end they were liberated by the Russians in January of 1945. 68 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,960 You know, my parents didn't get married there, but many of the people that survived, it was 69 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,920 about maybe 8,000 people still alive when the Russians came in. 70 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:32,640 Many of them took rags and bedsheets and made a hoopa and just grabbed a hold of somebody 71 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:36,280 they'd never seen before in their life and got married. 72 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:37,280 Wow. 73 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,920 Primarily for survival. 74 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:47,960 But you know, my mother, before she came there, both my parents came from ultra-orthodox families 75 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:55,680 and my mother had some very unique experiences as a child, even died at the age of nine and 76 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:56,960 went to heaven. 77 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:57,960 Wow. 78 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:03,360 And she said she was so angry when they were praying and praying up a storm and she came 79 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:09,320 back into her body, she was so angry that they brought her back. 80 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:13,120 But she had an encounter with God in heaven there. 81 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,240 And you know, even when in the last days in Auschwitz they were taking the people to the 82 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:24,480 crematorium alive and they would line up and they'd throw them into the crematorium alive. 83 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:30,160 My mother had such confidence that God would rescue her and he did three times. 84 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,160 Wow. 85 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:38,640 And other people thought she was kind of crazy, but she said, no, I know God will rescue me 86 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,560 and she's trying to help them to believe, but many of them were just so filled with 87 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:44,560 fear. 88 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:45,560 Yeah. 89 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:54,720 So yeah, growing up as a child, my mother would talk about God continuously and just 90 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:01,360 and always remind me how he rescued her from, you know, most of the young women that went 91 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,320 to Auschwitz were raped within a matter of days. 92 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,240 My mother was never touched. 93 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:07,520 Glory to God. 94 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,480 And she knows it was God's hand of protection. 95 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,840 So wow, that's kind of the atmosphere I grew up. 96 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,400 My parents were really messed up from the camps. 97 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,840 So we grew up in a very dysfunctional family. 98 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,760 My mother very much trusting God. 99 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:32,640 My father saying if there's a God and he allowed that to happen, I don't want to know him. 100 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:33,880 Oh my. 101 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:39,560 But both of them, my mother came to faith first and then, well actually my sister, then 102 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:45,240 my mother, then me and then four months before my father passed away, he came to faith. 103 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:46,240 Wow. 104 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Praise God. 105 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:48,240 So yeah. 106 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,280 So when you say came to faith, you're talking about came to faith in Yeshua. 107 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,280 In Yeshua, yes. 108 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,280 Jesus. 109 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,360 Well, actually we never even used the word Yeshua back then. 110 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,360 It was Jesus. 111 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,360 Sure. 112 00:07:58,360 --> 00:07:59,480 Oh, okay. 113 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,360 But now Yeshua's living in Israel. 114 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,440 Yes, of course. 115 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,160 But you weren't raised in Israel or were you raised? 116 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,160 In Toronto. 117 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,440 I was a little more than two years old. 118 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,760 My parents left Israel and immigrated to Canada. 119 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,080 You were born in Israel? 120 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:19,080 Yes. 121 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,080 Okay. 122 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:21,200 In Haifa. 123 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:29,760 My mother, when I was born, the British in 1947 or 48 built Rambam Hospital, which is 124 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,000 still in use today in Haifa. 125 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 It's right on the sea. 126 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,880 She thought she got to go to a luxury hotel because in the maternity ward, you look out 127 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,600 the window and the water was right there. 128 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:44,600 Beautiful. 129 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:45,760 Beautiful. 130 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:49,080 So how did you come to faith? 131 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,320 It's a long story. 132 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:59,240 Most of my life, my mother was very bitter about the German people, very angry, used 133 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:04,760 to refer to the German people in very derogatory ways. 134 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,760 Understandably. 135 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:11,880 And, you know, I grew up hearing these stories, especially from my mother, from my father 136 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,640 was not in the picture all the time. 137 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,720 And you know, all of that for almost 40 years. 138 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:25,960 But when I was almost 40 years old, I had gone to visit her in Toronto. 139 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:30,680 And when I was approaching her building, the seniors building, there was a man sitting 140 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:36,800 at bench with her and he was getting up and saying goodbye. 141 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:37,840 I'll see you later. 142 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,960 My mother say yes. 143 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,520 And so when I got to her, I said, who's that guy? 144 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,200 He was already walking quite a few hundred feet away. 145 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,760 She said, my friend. 146 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:55,680 And why was I so curious as he said goodbye in a very distinct German accent? 147 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:59,520 So I said, your friend, what are you talking about? 148 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,920 Are you crazy? 149 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,440 And she said, yes, he's my friend. 150 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:10,400 And to even push it a little further, she says, I love him. 151 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:16,280 And she wasn't referring to a romantic love, but just I said, you've lost your mind. 152 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,920 I started getting quite angry. 153 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:24,840 I said, my whole life, you're telling me about how they destroyed our family and made life 154 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,220 so terrible. 155 00:10:27,220 --> 00:10:29,180 And now you love them? 156 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:31,840 And she started weeping. 157 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,200 I said, what's going on? 158 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,160 And she had just come to faith in Yeshua probably about, I don't know, three or four months 159 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:40,160 before. 160 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,520 I didn't know. 161 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,960 And she started in her weeping. 162 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:52,000 She's saying, how can I not forgive after all of God has forgiven me? 163 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,120 I said, you're nuts. 164 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,360 I actually used some very terrible language. 165 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,960 And she would not back down. 166 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:03,960 I said, you know what? 167 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:04,960 I can't stay here. 168 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,360 I'm not going to listen to this. 169 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,160 And I walked away. 170 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:17,040 I actually almost ran away furious because my whole life she told me how much these people 171 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,960 were to be despised. 172 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,920 And now she's telling me she loves them. 173 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,120 And that she's forgiven them. 174 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:35,560 And that kind of put a little crack in my stony heart because I knew something radical 175 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,160 has happened to my mother. 176 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:43,080 This is not just the result of some kind of a watching a movie or something. 177 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:44,680 Something has changed. 178 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:46,520 But I still was very angry. 179 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:54,600 That was probably the beginning of my eyes to begin to open and come to faith. 180 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,080 And it was a year later. 181 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:01,480 We were actually, my mother had sciatic issues in her legs for years. 182 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,720 And there was one thing that really helped her. 183 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,320 When I was about 16, we drove to Glenwood Springs, Colorado to these hot springs and 184 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,560 it really helped her. 185 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:16,600 So she was in severe pain back in 1988. 186 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,040 I still wasn't a believer. 187 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:19,040 No, I was 89. 188 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,520 I wasn't a believer. 189 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:27,600 And we were sitting in a cottage north of Toronto and I said, let me see if I can arrange 190 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,160 for a trip to Glenwood Springs. 191 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,160 I was out of work at the time. 192 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,240 And it just all fit together. 193 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,720 We found extremely good price. 194 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:45,880 And we drove to Buffalo and then flew to Chicago and then on to Denver, Colorado. 195 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:51,560 And you know, I originally booked it for 12 days and we were at the Buffalo airport. 196 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,140 I was thinking 12 days might not be enough. 197 00:12:54,140 --> 00:12:59,640 So I whispered to the woman, I said, is there any chance of extending that? 198 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:00,960 And she got quite upset. 199 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,520 She said, you got one of the best deals on earth. 200 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,320 She said, you can't make change. 201 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,800 I said, okay, okay, well, I'll just leave it. 202 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:14,640 And about 10 seconds later, she whispers and said, listen, I'll give you one more day. 203 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,640 Is that good? 204 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,560 I said, okay. 205 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:22,720 So we flew to Denver. 206 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,200 At the end of 12 days, my mother said, that's enough. 207 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,840 I can't take another one of those mineral baths. 208 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,200 She said, I've had enough. 209 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,920 And she said, let's go home. 210 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:39,820 I said, if we hadn't have changed anything, we could have flew home today. 211 00:13:39,820 --> 00:13:45,120 So we drove into Denver, hoping that maybe I could switch the flight. 212 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:51,040 And we got there and there was a brand new hotel next to the Stapleton airport. 213 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,880 And this is leading to something. 214 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:58,680 And when we got there, my wife said, why don't we just stay in this hotel tonight instead 215 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:01,420 of going through all of that and trying to get the tickets? 216 00:14:01,420 --> 00:14:06,840 So we did, and we got this beautiful room on the top floor and it looked directly at 217 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,080 the runway. 218 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:14,080 So after we checked in, we're standing on like a balcony and we watched our flight, 219 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:20,000 flight 232 from Denver to Chicago pull up and it took off. 220 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,240 And we went off to, and my mother's sitting there reading the Bible. 221 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,520 I said, throw that thing in the garbage. 222 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,920 Or I will. 223 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,280 And she said, no, no, be careful. 224 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,600 Don't say things like that. 225 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:41,040 And we went out to Kmart just to look around and I didn't know what to do in Denver. 226 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:46,220 And when we walked into Kmart, they had a whole wall covered with televisions. 227 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:52,240 And we walked in, I saw this, what looked like a dramatic scene in an action movie. 228 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:58,240 And we walked up in this big ball of fire and we're standing there and I'm looking 229 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:04,320 at the price tags and I realized it's not a movie, it's a news report. 230 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:10,320 And they're reporting that flight 232 United Airlines, which I flew from Israel to here 231 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:15,760 last week, just crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. 232 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,640 And my mother's saying, say, that's God that saved your life. 233 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:21,640 Wow. 234 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:30,840 I said, I almost wanted to argue, but something was, everybody in row nine where we were supposed 235 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,400 to sit were all killed instantly. 236 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,040 Wow. 237 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,960 And a number of people survived the crash. 238 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,720 Some people were jumping out of the airplane at 200 miles an hour as they're coming in 239 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:42,720 for a landing. 240 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,920 They had lost one of the engines, lost all of their hydraulic, and made a movie out of 241 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:48,920 it. 242 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:49,920 Oh my. 243 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:55,400 But that was another dramatic event that prepared me for salvation. 244 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:59,360 So that's kind of the way it went. 245 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,040 Wow. 246 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,960 So it's quite the story. 247 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:09,680 I'll tell you, after a few of those things, there was no question in my mind, this God 248 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:14,800 really loves me, regardless of how rotten I really am. 249 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:15,800 Wow. 250 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:25,640 So yeah, it was just the fall within, I don't know how many months later I came to faith. 251 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:30,920 My wife was, we were living in Florida and I was in Toronto. 252 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:38,960 You know, I went to see a friend that was involved in some serious fraud with me. 253 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:44,200 And so I went to his house to get the money that he had collected for me. 254 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,000 And he had a radical encounter with the Holy Spirit the night before. 255 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Oh my. 256 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,840 I think you're praying, mama. 257 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,800 His wife was in the kitchen, furious. 258 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:01,720 I had helped, I used to be a union executive for the Canada Post Office. 259 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:07,360 And I had prepared a briefing for him to try and save his job because they had fired him 260 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:12,340 and they were going to issue criminal charges. 261 00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:15,120 And we just wanted to keep him out of jail. 262 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:20,120 They didn't expect anything more than that. 263 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:22,960 But he was in the shower, she said, look at what's on the table. 264 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:23,960 So I read it. 265 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:30,880 They had offered him thousands, like almost $45,000, his job back, his seniority and everything, 266 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:36,560 if he would withdraw that petition for arbitration that they had submitted. 267 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,520 And when he came out, he said, I can't take it, it's dirty money. 268 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,760 I'm looking at it, I said, what the heck are you talking about? 269 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,920 He said, I can't take it. 270 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,760 So his wife was going wild. 271 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,160 She said, if he doesn't take it, I'm going to kill him. 272 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,920 And she was not joking. 273 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:52,920 She was dead. 274 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:59,480 So we went into the basement and he told me, he said, listen, somebody came into my bedroom 275 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:05,960 at about four o'clock in the morning and slapped me in the chest and pulled me into an upright 276 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,760 position. 277 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:12,520 I'm looking at it and periodically he'd stop saying, I think I'm losing my mind. 278 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,200 I'm sitting there thinking, I think you're losing your mind. 279 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,360 He said, when I opened my eyes, there was nobody in the room. 280 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:27,280 And he ultimately came down the stairs into the basement after searching the upstairs 281 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:33,600 of the house, thinking the only places whoever had broken into the house could be is down 282 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:34,600 there. 283 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:42,840 And when he got to the final step, he's telling me how he froze in such fear for what he felt 284 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,960 like was ours, but it was only a matter of seconds. 285 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:52,240 And he said, all of a sudden somebody started to pour like a bucket of warm honey all over 286 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:53,240 him. 287 00:18:53,240 --> 00:19:00,680 And he said, he felt love like he'd never experienced in all his life. 288 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,640 And he said, whoever you are, back off, you're going to kill me. 289 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:10,080 And I'm sitting there thinking, how can love kill somebody? 290 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,200 And it was in that situation. 291 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:14,720 We had never seen a Bible. 292 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,680 We had never heard the gospel. 293 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:17,680 Wow. 294 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,640 And the two of us came to faith there. 295 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:21,640 Look at that. 296 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,640 Yes. 297 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:23,920 You'd never seen a Bible. 298 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,840 You'd never heard the gospel. 299 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,520 No. 300 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:34,760 Seems to me God pours out his Spirit on people, even without our help as evangelists, you 301 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:35,760 know? 302 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:36,760 Yes. 303 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,320 But I'm sure that it's a result of prayer. 304 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:40,320 Somebody was praying. 305 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:46,400 My sister, my mother, my sister was already in the faith at least 10 years, was praying. 306 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:53,360 So yeah, I remember going back home, back to Florida a week later. 307 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:58,080 And when I walked in the house, my wife looked at me and said, what the heck have you been 308 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,080 doing? 309 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,440 I said, what do you mean? 310 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,000 She says, you're not the same. 311 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Wow. 312 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,400 I said, I don't know for sure. 313 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,040 But I said, something happened. 314 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,480 It's got something to do with God. 315 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,480 We didn't know what had happened. 316 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:11,480 Wow. 317 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,840 And she said, get out of the house. 318 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,320 You're not going to bring that in. 319 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:16,320 It was crazy. 320 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:17,320 Oh my. 321 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,360 It's not the reaction I was expecting. 322 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:21,160 Now, was she Jewish too? 323 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:22,160 No. 324 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:23,160 Okay. 325 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,760 She actually left, but came back before it got dark. 326 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,800 And for four years, it was a pretty rough ride. 327 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:32,800 Wow. 328 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,320 She got saved four years later. 329 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:35,320 Oh my. 330 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,320 In the Toronto revival. 331 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Oh my. 332 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,320 Oh, I love it. 333 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,320 I love it. 334 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,320 Praise the Lord. 335 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:41,320 Wow. 336 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:42,320 Wow. 337 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:52,200 And then the Lord moved on you at what point to make Aliyah, to become a citizen of Israel? 338 00:20:52,200 --> 00:21:01,000 That's a bit of a journey, but just the thought, you know, in 1990, after I got saved, we came, 339 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,080 we went to Israel for a visit. 340 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,920 The kids and my brother-in-law, we all went. 341 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,480 We went to Greece first and visited my father. 342 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,600 And from there we went to Israel. 343 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:20,760 And my brother-in-law, who was with us two times, he had an open vision of Yeshua walking. 344 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:27,720 So we were in Nazareth in this, I remember we were in this hotel or motel and we had 345 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:33,720 just killed this great big bug that was crawling up the drapes. 346 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,400 And there was a whole bunch of commotion. 347 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,720 The kids were up on the beds screaming. 348 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,880 So we killed this thing and thing calmed down. 349 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,880 And I went into the next, it was like a suite with two rooms. 350 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,880 And I was in with my wife and all of a sudden I could hear my brother-in-law weeping. 351 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,400 I came out and I said, what's going on? 352 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,240 He said, look, he pointed out the window. 353 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,240 He says, there's Jesus. 354 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,240 Wow. 355 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,240 I looked, I didn't see him. 356 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:00,240 He's not seeing him now. 357 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,240 But he was seeing him. 358 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:03,240 Wow. 359 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:12,280 And then three, four days later we went to the Galilee and we were at Capernaum. 360 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,840 And he, again, I find him weeping. 361 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,440 I said, what's going on? 362 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,240 I said, he said, and he pointed into that ancient synagogue there. 363 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,240 He said, he's there. 364 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,240 Wow. 365 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,720 So he had a couple of radical encounters. 366 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:31,200 And my kids and I got baptized there in the Jordan River. 367 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,200 Wow. 368 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:38,800 My wife was furious because that was the journey. 369 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,760 And something started stirring. 370 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,560 I said to my wife, I said, I think the Lord might be saying it's time to move back to 371 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:47,560 Israel. 372 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:54,360 She said, when hell freezes over, I'm not going to live here. 373 00:22:54,360 --> 00:23:02,040 And in 1997, that church in Toronto that I was a part of, the pastor called for a 40-day 374 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,040 fast. 375 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,720 I had never done one in my life, never thought I could. 376 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,240 And we started this fast in about halfway through the 40 days. 377 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,960 I felt God ask me, would you like to go to Israel? 378 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,640 I said, yeah, I'd like to. 379 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:19,640 We were broke. 380 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,120 I was about to get laid off. 381 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:28,360 And I wanted to see how are you going to pull this one off? 382 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:30,680 And I said, yes, like a little kid. 383 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:37,560 If somebody, I was back in this trailer down into an icy pit, it was very cold though. 384 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,520 And I outlawed and said, yes, I'll go to Israel. 385 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,940 And the next day I called a travel agent. 386 00:23:45,940 --> 00:23:46,940 She said, when do you want to go? 387 00:23:46,940 --> 00:23:49,040 I said, whatever's the cheapest. 388 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,380 That's when I'll go. 389 00:23:51,380 --> 00:23:53,280 And she called back a couple of days later. 390 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,240 She said, listen, if you go on this day or this day, the day before, day after, it's 391 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,240 going to cost significantly more. 392 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:04,240 But if you go on this day, which just happened to be the 40th day of the fast. 393 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,580 Oh, wow. 394 00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:09,400 So I broke the fast in Jerusalem. 395 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,960 So when I started, who even imagined? 396 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:17,480 So we went, the last 10 days we were sleeping in a garage. 397 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,920 It was cold, man. 398 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,840 We were sleeping in the garage every morning. 399 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:27,880 The next garage, the guy started his car and filled it up and we're choking on the exhaustion. 400 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,120 But there was a presence of God that was so tangible. 401 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:39,040 I'd wake up every morning shivering, but just in the glory, in his presence. 402 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:43,440 And I'd say, Lord, I'll live in this garage for the rest of my life if you'll stay here 403 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,440 with us. 404 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,440 Wow. 405 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,920 And I remember we got out of bed that morning really quick and put on our clothes. 406 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,560 I was sleeping with my clothes on and we came outside. 407 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,800 It was right next door to the YMCA. 408 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,840 And my wife turned to me and said, I don't know what's going on, but she says we're home. 409 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:02,840 Wow. 410 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,400 Now was she a believer by then? 411 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,400 Yes. 412 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,400 Okay. 413 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,160 She was a believer by then, a couple of years at that point. 414 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,920 And the grace of God just flowed over her, filled her up. 415 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:22,200 So yeah, that's the following year we moved back to Israel. 416 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,880 It wasn't such a, it was the hardest year, the next few years, the hardest time of our 417 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:28,880 life. 418 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,680 You know, sometimes people think that when God leads you into something that it's always 419 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:34,680 like paradise. 420 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:41,640 It's like Paul, you know, come over, you saw in the vision, come over to Macedonia and 421 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,640 help us. 422 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:43,640 Yeah. 423 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,640 And he ends up in jail. 424 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,240 So she spent two years crying. 425 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,520 But now it's, it's home. 426 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,520 Wow. 427 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:53,520 It's home. 428 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,160 Glory to God. 429 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:03,760 So now the Lord has spoken to you to come here now. 430 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,760 What's going on in the Holy Spirit? 431 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,840 What's the Holy Spirit saying? 432 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,800 You know, 2010, I'll try and make it really short. 433 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,000 Take whatever time you need. 434 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:20,820 I just, I heard about this call for prayer from a guy named Dutch Sheets and felt that 435 00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:29,240 America was on a slide downward spiritually and it was time for the body of Christ to 436 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:36,440 gather and to pray corporately and call out and plead with God that he would move and 437 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:37,920 turn things around. 438 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,960 And when I read it, I sent it to some friends in Mississippi because I really felt it was, 439 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,120 it was from God. 440 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:51,240 And the next day they wrote back said, we prayed and we're convinced God's saying go. 441 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,740 But while we were praying, we felt God saying you should come as well. 442 00:26:55,740 --> 00:27:05,400 And we were broke, which is in Israel, that's quite common for. 443 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:10,840 And I went to, I don't know, a few days saying, God, how are we going to do? 444 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,480 Is it you? 445 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:19,200 And then he confirmed in a very profound way using Facebook, but I won't get into all that 446 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:24,220 but I was convinced, convinced he was saying go. 447 00:27:24,220 --> 00:27:31,840 And we booked a flight to go and we got to the US, we flew to Memphis and then he met 448 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,560 us and then a couple of days later we drove up to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. 449 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,440 That's where the, but I missed one thing. 450 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:45,720 Before we left, they actually canceled the event and I struggled with God. 451 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,480 I said, God, where are we going? 452 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:52,280 The reason though, prayer meeting, they canceled it because he didn't have enough money or 453 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,960 something and I really felt God was saying, who asked you to go there, man or me? 454 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,880 He said, go. 455 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,960 So we did. 456 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,360 And the other people that we went with, Ron, that's actually who we're staying with up 457 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:11,840 until this morning in Missouri because he now lives in Missouri. 458 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:17,680 We drove up in a motor home and his wife and my wife were in the car behind and so we were 459 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,400 just busy talking. 460 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:26,040 I didn't realize where we were geographically, but when I crossed, when he crossed over the 461 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:33,080 Mississippi into Missouri, the spirit of God came all over me and I began to prophesy to 462 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:43,280 Missouri that there was a move of God unequaled in history that mankind has never seen before. 463 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:50,280 And I just went on and on for about five, 10 minutes and then finally I calmed and we're 464 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:56,160 looking at each other with our eyes wide open wondering what just happened. 465 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:05,240 And we went to this prayer meeting which was out in the ranch, 105, 107 degrees from like 466 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,520 eight o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night. 467 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,720 I didn't think I'd survive. 468 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:11,720 That's hot. 469 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:12,720 Yeah. 470 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:19,000 And a guy, a man named Dick Rubin is the one that took up the leadership part of it and 471 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,000 he was teaching. 472 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,520 I had never met him before. 473 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,840 So how other people showed up too? 474 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,000 Yes, like 1300 people showed up to a canceled event. 475 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,480 I love it. 476 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:37,520 So from 37 states and I think it was six or seven nations were represented there. 477 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:45,080 And so it was a very unique time of prayer and at the end of it all, we were looking 478 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:50,840 at, I became part of their leadership team there because I even spoke there, which was 479 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,600 totally unplanned and especially by me. 480 00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:01,600 But God was up to something and they invited us to come back and we did another little 481 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,200 five day thing at their conference center there. 482 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:10,740 But when I came back into Missouri again from a different direction, I was driving, no, 483 00:30:10,740 --> 00:30:12,760 my wife was driving. 484 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,600 We crossed the Mississippi River. 485 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,960 I'm not consciously thinking about where we are and what's cooking, but as soon as we 486 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:26,180 crossed back into Missouri again, the Holy Spirit came in great power and I just began 487 00:30:26,180 --> 00:30:31,600 to speak to the state of Missouri and the heartland of the United States. 488 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,920 And I felt God was saying, America, I've not forgotten you. 489 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,920 I'm going to visit you and move once again like you've never seen before. 490 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,680 I can't remember the words. 491 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:53,120 I was in tears and in so many different ways over the next three or four years, God has 492 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,440 spoken to me directly and to some of the other people. 493 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:03,840 Lila Trujune was in Dick Rubin and actually Dick ended up coming and living on that ranch, 494 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:10,160 did meetings there regularly for several months, maybe even a couple of years. 495 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:16,200 So there's this expectation that's been growing and I've been, last year I was just asking 496 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,400 the Lord, when are you going to move in Missouri? 497 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,160 Will I get a chance to see or anything? 498 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,040 Quite often when I ask why questions, God doesn't answer. 499 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:38,080 But in July last year, we were driving from the Gaulead down to Jerusalem and God's Spirit 500 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,680 just came into the car in a very tangible way. 501 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,880 And I felt He was saying, go. 502 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:50,560 He showed me this man that we went to Missouri with the first time and who now has moved 503 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:57,840 out of Mississippi and lives in Missouri, not far from where the prayer meeting was. 504 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,360 I said, God, what are we doing there? 505 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:07,640 And I just completely understood that it has to do with what's about to come. 506 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,640 When? 507 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:09,920 How? 508 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,720 I don't know. 509 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:17,080 But it was a very powerful encounter with the Spirit of God. 510 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:22,240 When we got home, I bought a ticket to go to Canada and we went there and we were there 511 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:27,920 for six weeks and God's fingerprints were all over it. 512 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:35,440 But then I allowed my own questioning and I was just starting to think, it doesn't make 513 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,440 sense. 514 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:37,440 What am I going to do there? 515 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,400 I was sitting in a trailer there and God, what are we going to do in a trailer in the 516 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,960 middle of nowhere? 517 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,200 And all this human reasoning and we didn't go. 518 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,280 I disobeyed and we went back to Israel. 519 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:58,000 And that's why the Holy Spirit began to challenge me about a month ago that obedience has nothing 520 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:07,880 to do with our understanding, our approval, will it fit into my plans? 521 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:15,680 And I spent some days just apologizing and repenting and I really felt, and God confirmed 522 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,880 it to a friend in Greece and here we are. 523 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,260 And people, before we even got here, said, yeah, we're ready, let's go. 524 00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:25,800 God pour out your Spirit. 525 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,040 Let the fire fall. 526 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,800 I said, I don't know. 527 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:35,680 I said, this isn't going to be a work of a man and this isn't going to be orchestrated 528 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,240 or arranged by a man. 529 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,960 God's got a plan and he does. 530 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:47,320 I could spend the next 20 minutes, if not more, just telling you about ways that God 531 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,320 has confirmed. 532 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:54,880 You know, we have some good friends in Israel that were there for almost 35 years. 533 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:02,160 They had radio station, they pastored both Arabic and Hebrew speaking congregations and 534 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,160 then opened up another radio station. 535 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:12,360 But about less than a year ago, January of this year, they felt led to move to Missouri 536 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,280 and they're moving and they're living in the Ozarks. 537 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,480 I forget the name of the little town they're close to. 538 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:24,840 And just before we left to come last week, their daughter, who runs a Christian bookstore 539 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:33,200 in East Jerusalem, an outreach to the Muslim people there, she called me. 540 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,680 I've seen her before but never talked to her. 541 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:41,480 And she said, we would like you to come over and pray with us and talk because we want 542 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,320 to know why you're going to Missouri. 543 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,200 And when we got there, we talked for a bit and she said, listen, we have got a strong 544 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,600 draw to go to Missouri. 545 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:58,720 And we know several different couples that God has spoken to them get going to Missouri. 546 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,920 Into the Ozarks in particular. 547 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:09,320 And so just over and over, there are people that are being drawn into the region. 548 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,320 God's getting ready. 549 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,000 I don't know when God's ready, who knows the time in the hour. 550 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,840 But it's definitely, we're getting close. 551 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,880 Some people are saying America's done and God's written it off. 552 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:23,880 I don't believe that. 553 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:24,880 No, we don't even. 554 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,880 No, we don't. 555 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:31,480 And it's definitely, it's not because we're really good guys and he's going to reward 556 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:36,200 that but now it's just the love of God that's in his son. 557 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,320 He's not finished here. 558 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:43,480 I think there's going to be some real stormy times for America in the days ahead. 559 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:50,280 But in the midst of it, somehow, and I think we'd be foolish to try and describe what it's 560 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,840 going to look like or when it's going to begin. 561 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,720 But it's close. 562 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,720 Very close. 563 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,720 It is. 564 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,320 And yeah, I just, I love the presence of God. 565 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,320 Yes. 566 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,640 It changes everything. 567 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:13,160 Many a time when we were in all kinds of situations, both emotionally and financially and you name 568 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,800 it and then God shows up and everything changes. 569 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,680 And so that's why I just want to be where he's at. 570 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:21,680 Yes. 571 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:22,680 Amen. 572 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:23,680 Exactly. 573 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:30,600 So we're here and then I realized that Mary, Lois and Gene were here because of the situation 574 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,720 in Israel and not being able to come in. 575 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:37,800 So I wrote to them and he said, yeah, he said, if you come in the area, come on over. 576 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,680 We've got a bed for you to lay down. 577 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:40,680 So here we are. 578 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,240 We're glad you're here. 579 00:36:42,240 --> 00:36:43,240 Amen. 580 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:49,520 And just that's why, you know, just a day, two days before I left, I met this man and 581 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,720 he asked me why we were going. 582 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:52,720 I said, I'm not sure. 583 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,320 I told him a little bit of what I just said to you. 584 00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:01,600 He talked about Cory Ten Boom's prophecy, which I had never heard about seeing all these 585 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:12,920 angels from horizon to horizon over the Ozarks and how this is going to be a region of refuge. 586 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:18,240 And other people have added, I don't know if it was actually from her or if they've 587 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:24,760 just led to, but they actually believe it not only will be a place of refuge, but it'll 588 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,640 be a place of restoration in the spirit. 589 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:28,640 Amen. 590 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,640 That's why we're here. 591 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,640 Beautiful. 592 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:32,640 Beautiful. 593 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:33,640 Well, hallelujah. 594 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:40,720 We can hear in your stories how, how there's been a contending for the faith, contending 595 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:46,880 to, to get people saved, get you saved, get you into the family of God, which was God's 596 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,000 plan to begin with and how he's been equipping you as you followed him. 597 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,500 You didn't know anything. 598 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:59,000 You started out with just, you were a blank sheet and God has been pouring into you and 599 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,960 pouring into you and pouring into you, pouring into you so that he can pour through you in 600 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,960 the days to come. 601 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,680 I mean, I'm sure he's already been pouring through you. 602 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,400 He's put you in a glorious place. 603 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:15,440 I know it's not an easy place to live in Israel, but it's, it's a tremendous place that, that 604 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,800 is on his map. 605 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,400 It's right in the back of the Bible. 606 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,440 There's maps of Israel. 607 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,920 That's where it, it's where everything has happened. 608 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,520 You know, it's the center of the earth. 609 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:35,320 It's the center of God's heart, you know, his, his heart and, and the pupil of his eye, 610 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:41,240 you know, it's, this is this, don't stick your finger in God's eye for goodness sakes, 611 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,920 but it's exciting to hear how, how God has been working in your life and how he's taking 612 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,640 you into this next thing where he's going to be pouring out his spirit, whether, whether 613 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:57,200 you're going into that region for the purpose of contending or equipping or actually engaging 614 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:04,560 in the outpouring at this time, God's going to show us as, as time goes on, but it's exciting 615 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,080 that you're engaged, that you're, that you're obeying. 616 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,960 You've heard the Lord and you're obeying. 617 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:16,840 One of the reasons, one of the understandings, at least in a very partial, simple way that 618 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:23,960 I have, why, why is it necessary for someone from Israel to come and participate in what 619 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,360 God is doing and what he's going to do? 620 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:34,600 And you know, Dick Rubin, he, one of the things he was known for is he draws out of scripture 621 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:40,720 God's patterns and, and he was saying, if you'll do things according to the pattern 622 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:44,600 of God, the glory will fall. 623 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:50,600 Many churches, many pastors didn't comprehend or understand what he was getting at, but 624 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:56,760 you know, he spoke to Moses, he said, Moses, get the people together. 625 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:04,600 I want you to build a tabernacle in the wilderness and build it exactly according to the pattern 626 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,920 that I give you. 627 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:12,160 Don't deviate and I'll anoint each one of the people that's involved that are going 628 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:17,040 to produce the curtains and the, and the implements that will be in the tabernacle. 629 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:22,560 But he said, if you'll build it according to the pattern which I've given you, I will 630 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,280 come and dwell in your midst. 631 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,100 And Moses did. 632 00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:33,560 And for many years it was a meeting place for the house of Israel and the God of Israel 633 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,420 out in the wilderness. 634 00:40:35,420 --> 00:40:42,440 And many years later, after Israel came into the land, David said to the Lord, said, I 635 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,080 want to build you a temple. 636 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:49,360 I want to build a place for you to come and dwell here in Jerusalem. 637 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:55,000 And I'm abbreviating, but in essence, God was saying, okay, but not you, you've got 638 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,240 too much blood on your hands, but your son, Solomon. 639 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:05,740 And he gave David a pattern by which to build that temple. 640 00:41:05,740 --> 00:41:12,120 And when he went to Solomon before his death, he said, here is the plan and the pattern 641 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:19,960 by which God said this temple is to be constructed, do it exactly in accordance to this. 642 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:20,960 And he did. 643 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:26,720 And the presence of God came, filled the temple, says to the point where none of the priests 644 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:30,800 could stand, they all fell on their face. 645 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:39,720 One more time in Ephesians, in the New Testament, God talks about a dwelling place and there's 646 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:43,160 a pattern to it. 647 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:53,680 Ephesians 2.11-22, Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus to Gentiles, but he's describing 648 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:59,280 to them what we now today refer to as the one new man. 649 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:09,560 And he said, you who were in times past, depending on the translation or before or historically, 650 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,560 Gentiles. 651 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:16,560 So, there's a change, there's a transformation that takes place when you come to Christ, 652 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,040 when you come to Yeshua. 653 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:26,600 You actually lose your identity as a Gentile because it says in verse 19, before that he 654 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:33,080 says that you were foreigners outside of the promises and covenants of God without hope 655 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,960 and without God in the world. 656 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:41,040 But he says now because of the blood of Yeshua, you are no longer foreigners, but you are 657 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:49,320 fellow citizens of the commonwealth of Israel and partakers of those promises and covenants. 658 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:56,480 And he says, I'm building you together, I'm paraphrasing, both Jew and Gentile, assembling 659 00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:05,200 you together as living stones to create a dwelling place where I may come and dwell. 660 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:10,640 The church for too long has been satisfied with visitations. 661 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,760 God says, I want to come and live with you. 662 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:13,760 Yes, habitation. 663 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:14,760 Yes. 664 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:15,760 Habitation. 665 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,760 Yes. 666 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:24,560 And so, if you want to break it down into like, into a physical picture kind of thing, 667 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:30,760 here when you're mixing concrete to build, to lay the foundation of a house, if you put 668 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:36,620 too much stone in or not enough concrete or too much sand or not enough sand, the strength 669 00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:41,640 of that foundation will be compromised. 670 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:49,240 So when you mix both the Jew and the Gentile, that's when you have this place, this dwelling 671 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,240 place. 672 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:53,040 That's the pattern that God has given us in Ephesians. 673 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,960 Yeah, we're all one in Christ Jesus. 674 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:56,960 Yes. 675 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,640 So why did we come? 676 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:06,560 If anything at all, we're part of that ingredient that's going to be put into this mixer that's 677 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:11,560 going to create the dwelling place for him right here on earth. 678 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:12,560 Just obey God. 679 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,560 Hallelujah. 680 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,560 That's right. 681 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:15,560 Just obey God. 682 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,000 Well, thank you so much for being with us today. 683 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,140 We are really looking forward to hearing the reports of what God is going to do in the 684 00:44:23,140 --> 00:44:24,520 days to come. 685 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:29,040 In the meantime, would you just, would you pray over the people that are listening to 686 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,440 this and just let the Holy Spirit pray through you? 687 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,920 Father, where else can we go? 688 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,320 Lord, if we search the heavens, you're there. 689 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,680 If we go to the depths, you're there. 690 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,920 And Lord, just as the apostles once said, where else can we go? 691 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,440 You alone have the words of eternal life. 692 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,920 Father, I just pray for each and every one that's listening right now. 693 00:44:54,920 --> 00:45:01,320 Lord, some that may be struggling with whatever their issues are, whether they're physical, 694 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,680 emotional, whether there's an illness, if it's financial. 695 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:12,960 Father, I just pray because where you are, there's a lack of nothing. 696 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:18,320 Lord, I just invite you to come and be exactly where each one of your children that are listening 697 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,320 right now. 698 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:24,820 Lord, that you would come and just take up space with them there. 699 00:45:24,820 --> 00:45:27,680 Give them that assurance no matter what they're facing. 700 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,720 Lord, you're the answer. 701 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:30,720 Yes. 702 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:31,720 Thank you, Father. 703 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:34,160 It's not that you have an answer, you are the answer. 704 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:35,160 That's right. 705 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,160 Yes. 706 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:37,160 Amen. 707 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,160 So Lord, we give you praise. 708 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:43,920 Lord, I just speak a word of encouragement to each and every one saying that greater 709 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,200 and brighter and more beautiful days lie ahead. 710 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,200 Yes. 711 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:54,040 So Lord, I just pray that you would come and fill your people. 712 00:45:54,040 --> 00:46:00,080 Your word says that we are to be filled and continuously filled with your Holy Spirit. 713 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,080 Yes. 714 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:05,720 Lord, make us vessels that are overflowing with who you are. 715 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:10,920 And Lord, let that overflow just go into the streets and touch those who are without hope 716 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,440 and trapped in sin in this world. 717 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,600 God, you're not finished. 718 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,280 You're not finished in America and you're not finished with each one of your children. 719 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:24,920 And we just declare that today in the name of your son, Yeshua. 720 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:25,920 Amen. 721 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:26,920 Amen. 722 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:27,920 Amen. 723 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,920 God bless you. 724 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:33,920 Thanks so much. 725 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:39,880 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts 726 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,480 or wherever you listen to podcasts. 727 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,960 Your review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who 728 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,360 are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. 729 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:55,840 Check out our website at globaloutpouring.org to find out more information, read our blogs, 730 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,720 connect with us, and donate. 731 00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:02,000 You can also browse our web store for life-changing anointed books. 732 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,720 Until next time, this is Sharon Buss. 733 00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:06,240 And I'm Philip Buss. 734 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:33,240 God bless you with this overwhelming, 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