Sid Roth

SID: You teach that the church’s biblical heritage was robbed. When was it robbed and what was it robbed of?

CURT: Well, during the Constantine period, you know, when the Romans couldn’t control the Jewish church, the true believers, and they had to change its identity by changing its culture and its calendar. If you remove people from your culture, then you’re going to lose your identity and you change their calendar and you’re going to lose your blessings. You know, we know as Jews that in Exodus, just putting your feet under the table of Psalm 23, “The Lord prepare a table for us in the midst of our enemies,” that’s the Passover table. There’s nine blessings of provision and vision, protection, multiplication, and prosperity for your family.

CURT: All that wisdom, knowledge, but most of all identity, and Sid, you know this. Identity is the key to the glory because identity has to do with personal intimacy that turns into a corporate intimacy and then turns into a congregational intimacy where people are being healed. That’s what happened in Togo. The alignment was there, Jew and Gentile, and the Lord literally prepared a table for us, let’s say, in that soccer field and there was multitudes of miracles. It happened many other places.

SID: Now, you had firsthand knowledge of what it’s like to have your identity stolen. Yours was stolen at birth. Tell me briefly what happened.

CURT: I was conceived out of wedlock, Jewish mother, Gentile father. Because of that, both families said no to the marriage. Then they set up for an abortion. Three days before the abortion was going to happen, my father, the Catholic, went to the Catholic priest on the Air Force base and said, “The Jewish woman could go into Los Angeles and have the child born in a hospital there, a Catholic hospital, and put into a Catholic orphanage.” That’s where I was there.

SID: Now, you pay attention to this, what he’s sharing, because this is also what happened to the church. But go ahead.

CURT: Yeah. Then I was six months in the orphanage. I was colicky, I was put in with the bad babies, and then, praise God, Ray and Rita Landry, Catholic man, Jewish woman again, the Lord’s making His point, comes back and they adopt me at six months. You know, I went from being labeled, basically, first labeled as bastard, next one is orphan, next one is adopted, and then the next one is no identity, Jew or Gentile. Then when I was born again at age 36, I spiritually got visited by the Lord when I was involved in a Messianic wedding, but three years after, it’s in my book, three years after I was saved, I miraculously was reconnected with my biological father that told me the story. I found out- Excuse me. I found out that-

SID: By the way, you had no desire to meet them. You loved the parents that adopted you.

CURT: Right, yeah.

SID: Why did you meet him?

CURT: The Lord had me stay home from work and you know me well, I work hard. I’m a type A. I stayed home and I prayed and I had a download from the Holy Spirit. I operate as a prophet and the Lord said, “I want you to find your biological father.” I listened to it and I ignored it. The next day, I was going to go to work and the Lord said, “Stay home that day.” I was on the floor in my office at home and He said, “I want you to find your biological father.” I said, “I don’t want to open that can of worms.” The Lord says, “When I open a can of worms, I take care of all the worms.” Five phone calls later, I miraculously found my father in Palm Beach, Florida, and he said, “I would love to meet you.” At that time, I was in the fruit business. Publix supermarket was one of my accounts. Of course, they have a distribution center in Miami.

CURT: I flew into Miami, drove to Palm Beach, and sat in a little café and I watched my, you know, 25-year-old self walking into that- Literally we looked just alike. He literally was walking in. We have a little different waddly walk. Here he comes walking in and it was just like [me]—it was so healing. That night, as the Lord said, that night I got to share with him my testimony and had the honor and privilege of leading my biological father to the Lord the first night.

SID: When you found out that you are Jewish, that’s good, but how did it change you, Curt? That’s what I want to know.

CURT: You know, it’s a spiritual thing. It has to do with honesty and integrity to the Lord that you’re being true to yourself. You know, people asked me to write books for years. I’d been in ministry a long time. But when Thomas Nelson came and said, “Listen, there’s so much confusion over in the evangelical community and in our community that we sell our books to over the Jewish roots. There’s so much.” They said, “Listen, we know your testimony. Would you share with us? Would you write a book and parallel your 63 years to the church? Because we feel like the Holy Spirit’s bringing the church back to its roots.”

SID: I’ll tell you what, Curt, it is so amazing when you really find out how the identity of the church was stolen, this Emperor Constantine, he literally made it illegal to observe anything Jewish. He denuded the church of its identity. Well, the church is ready to get its identity back. You know who the church is? It’s us. It’s you. It’s people.

CURT: That’s right.

SID: When we come back, I want to find out how to get our identity back.