Sid Roth

SID: Well you go into a lot of detail about the Court of Heaven [VIDEO BEGINS] in here, but in so many other ancient secrets. Speaking of ancient secrets, [VIDEO ENDS] you ‘ve learned how to tap into the portals of God. What – what is a “portal”, and what do you mean?

DAVID: Well a “portal” in Latin, “port” just means “door”; so it’s not something weird.

SID: So a “door”.

DAVID: Yeah.

SID: You know how to open the door.

DAVID: And some Christians say, “I believe in open heavens, but ‘portal’ sounds demonic or something”,

SID: Hm.

DAVID: which is ridiculous, because “portal” [CHUCKLES] just means “door” in Latin, and in –

SID: Huh.

DAVID: in French, or Thai. So open the “doors” or “windows” of Heaven; how do you know, so there’s different ways. Of course there’s praise and worship, there’s repentance, there’s fasting, there’s giving; but then there’s also SEASONAL portals, like being in the right place at the right time, like when I was in Israel during the Feasts, worshipping God. It’s like everything was lined-up because God does promise to visit also at certain SEASONS and times when you show up and praise Him.

SID: He calls them “set appointments”.

DAVID: Yeah! So when He shows up, the glory’s there – the “portal” is there – and He promises to show up at certain times if we show up.

SID: And you have gone to Heaven. Tell me the first time you went to Heaven.

DAVID: First time I went to Heaven I was in Bethel, Israel, and we were there with a tour group. We rented a bullet-proof v bus. Nobody wanted to go; the tour group didn’t want us to go. You know the tour agency.

SID: Um hm.

DAVID: They said it’s –

SID: Right.

DAVID: It’s “meshugganah” at the time; 2003.

SID: “Crazy”.

DAVID: 2003; you have to rent a bullet-proof bus; you have to have a security guard with a machine gun. You ‘ve got to pass Ramallah, go to the checkpoint, and you want to lay down there and try to get – okay, that’s crazy. And I said, “Yeah! I want to do it.” They said, “Well this is going to cost you more money”, and they tried to really discourage me. I said, “Okay, I’ll do it!” I was so desperate, because Genesis 28, this is “the gate of Heaven”, Bethel! I want to go check it out! Didn’t say “it was”; it said it “is the gate”!

SID: You didn’t care whether it was Palestinian or what!

DAVID: No!

SID: You just wanted to go to that doorway.

DAVID: Yeah! Sometimes you ‘ve got to risk your life to get the glory! [CHUCKLES]

SID: Okay.

DAVID: So we went over there; we laid on the ground. Someone played guitar, and I said, “Everyone close your eyes”, find a rock like Jacob did, “and just see what God shows you ! Maybe you ‘ll have a vision; maybe you ‘ll get taken to Heaven! I don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’ll – we’ll have interviews afterward.” [VIDEO BEGINS] So we laid down. I saw Jesus – Yeshua. I was taken up, and I saw the crystal sea. I saw the Messiah, Yeshua; His eyes were flaming like fire. I got closer and closer to Him. He looked at me, and He said, “Thank you for touching Isaac, my people.” He said two things to me: “I want you also to touch Ishmael, and the Muslims, [VIDEO ENDS] because they’re crying out for Me”; and number two, He said, “Please organize a conference for Me in Jerusalem”. So I came out of it, and I thought, “Well, that could have just been my mind; it could have been my imagination.”

SID: I understand. A lot of people get talked out of the supernatural.

DAVID: But then a few days later, a friend calls me and says, “Hey, we want to organize a conference in Jerusalem -“

SID: [CHUCKLES]

DAVID: “and in Bethlehem. We’re going to reach all these Arabs and Palestinians at Bethlehem, but we also or at – they’re actually, at the time, oh, I think they were Palestinian. by that time, but Arab-Israelis, “and we’re going to reach the Jews in Jerusalem. But we want YOU to organize the conference in Jerusalem, because you have more of the Jewish connection.” And I said, “That’s so crazy. I would normally say ‘No’ because I don’t live in Israel, but the L Messiah just asked me those exact words, ‘Could you organize a conference in Jerusalem’!” And then that – and then that week – the following week – all the doors opened to the Arab-Muslim world. I was invited to Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain; within a few months I was in all those countries!  Indonesia opened up, –

SID: So you did not doubt.

DAVID: Abu Dhabi –

SID: You did not doubt that it was God, –

DAVID: I mean you –

SID: and you did not doubt you were in Heaven. You said something interesting to me. You said that once you have your first visitation to Heaven, it like it makes it easier if you want to go to Heaven again.

DAVID: Exactly.

SID: But let me ask you this: Is it do you want to go, or is it only as God so wills? I mean when Paul said he was in “the third heaven”, –

DAVID: Um hm.

SID:  do you think he had something to do with it, or it was just a sovereign – your first time it was really a sovereign thing.

DAVID: Yeah, but it was faith, too, because I really wanted to go to Bethel, because I wanted to see what Jacob experienced.

SID: Right.

DAVID: So I think it’s partly, like it says, “By faith Enoch … was not”, so even that. So I think a lot of it is faith; you have faith and hunger for the supernatural. Some people just get it; they die, and then went to Heaven; and they don’t – they get in a car accident; they weren’t asking for it. But others that don’t have to die; I think you can ask, because it does say you can “come boldly to the throne”, “the veil [has been] rent”; we have access to Him. So I was just hungry for – there’s got to – maybe there is something to this. Well in my case, I asked the Lord. But if you ‘ve been to Heaven – a lot of people will tell me, “I’ve been to Heaven 20 years ago; never been back.”

SID: Hm!