Sid Roth
SID: A key to understanding the move of God’s spirit is found in the Book of Corinthians, in which God says, “First the natural and then the spiritual.” Watch what God does in the natural. It always has a repercussion on the spiritual. Let me give you some examples. All these major revivals that I’m about ready to tell you about, the biggest the world has ever known, all connected with Israel. For instance, 1897 was the first Zionist Congress. A Zionist believes the Jewish people are entitled to the physical Land of Israel unconditionally, forever. The first Zionist, let’s get it straight, was God, not Theodore Herzl. Right after that came Azusa Street and the Pentecostal revival. 1948, Israel became a nation. You know what happened in ’48? Men and women were touched by the Spirit of God and had tents all over America. Oral Roberts. T.L. Osborn, Kenneth Hagen, all of these people, just raised up instantly. 1967, Jerusalem in Jewish possession. You know what happened? You know what that triggered? Nothing short of the charismatic revival. Isaiah 43:19, and I feel this so strongly, “For I’m about to do something new. See, I’ve already begun. Do you not see it?” What has he begun? The one new man. Let me explain this to you. John 17:21: “And they,” that’s Jew and gentile, “all may be one.” Some people say “they” is Catholics and Baptists, except for one thing. When Jesus said that, they didn’t exist. There were only two people groups: Jews and gentiles. So Jesus said, “I pray that they,” Jews and gentiles, “may be one.” What’s the repercussion? That the world may believe. Somehow it’s a catalyst when these two people groups get together. Their spiritual DNA merges. I’m getting a little ahead of myself because I’m getting excited. You know what happens when these two spiritual DNAs merge? John 17:21, I just read to you. John 17:22, it tells you what happens. Jesus says, “The same glory that is on you will be on them.” You want to see that same glory on you? I want to see that same glory. Ephesians, Chapter 2, Verse 14 and 15, and 22: “For he himself is our peace who has made both Jew and gentile one and is broken down the middle wall of separation.” You see, there was a separation between Jews and gentiles. So here it is in Ephesians 2. I just read 14, 15. Here’s Verse 22: “In whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” And in Verse 15 it says, “And so as to create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace.” The Hebrew word for “peace” is completeness. So it’s saying when that occurs, we’re going to make a complete dwelling place of God for God by His spirit. You see the repercussions of what I’m saying about? Now Psalm 122:6, you can understand a major promise. It’s the only city in all of Scripture God commands us to pray for with a special blessing if you’ll do that. He says, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” What’s the Hebrew word for peace? Shalom. What does shalom mean? Completeness. What is completeness? Jew and gentile being one in the Messiah. “Pray for the completeness of Jerusalem.” And it makes a promise, as if we need a promise for this. But God says, “May they,” who’s they, “Jew and gentle prosper.” And in the Hebrew prosper means “heart peace”. How would you like this day and age we’re living in, how would you like heart peace? God says, if you pray for these two people to become one you’re going to have heart peace. That’s His promise to you. Ezekiel 47:9 says in the Amplified, and it’s talking about the River of God, and it says, “Wherever the double river shall go every living creature shall live.” What’s the double river? Jew and gentile. One in Messiah. One in Yeshua. Wherever that double river goes people are going to live. Romans 11:15 says, “If their being castaway is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead.” I believe we’re about on the cutting edge of the greatest move of God’s spirit to cause Jewish people to come to know him, to form the one new man for the release of the greatest miracles the world has ever seen, life from the dead miracles, resurrection life miracles, limbs being restored. That’s what we’re about ready to see. Are you ready to see that? I’m ready to see that. I’m ready to see. Jesus said, “You are going to do the same works that I have done and even greater.” This is the greater. You ready? I’m ready.
