SID: Hello. Sid Roth here and welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. What a setting for the supernatural to occur. Feast of Tabernacles and getting Israel in the desert, and on the Feast of Tabernacles, we Jewish people pray for rain, because without rain, we can’t survive. Five thousand people, grateful that they know God, show up in the desert with Paul Wilbur and the sound system goes down. What happened, Paul, with 5000 people from a hundred nations?
PAUL: Sid, we had planned this for four years. We have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars. Five thousand people from a hundred nations gathered there for this evening of worship. Five minutes before we begin the little piece of equipment that runs everything burned up. It was 112 degrees. It had a good excuse to burn up. But without it we have no recording, we have no band, we have no sound system. It was disaster time.
SID: So what were you planning on doing, a dance routine?
PAUL: Well it’s not pretty. I wouldn’t go there. So actually what we did was one of our worshippers came out the platform and told the people we need a miracle. “We need a miracle. Something has happened but we need God’s presence.” And that’s what we were there for anyway. So she began to pray and she asked people to pray for rain. She said, “Do this.” Five thousand people doing this. [clapping]
SID: What is this?
PAUL: Well when you have 5000 people doing, it sounded like rain began to fall. And then three fingers, and then four, and then clap. It sounded like a thunderstorm in the desert. As she did that someone came forward with a pair of wire cutters, stripped the wires, I mean, cut the wires off the back of the equipment and put them together, plugged 220 volts directly into all this equipment. And I’m telling you, Sid, the sound equipment guys were absolutely stunned. It was a miracle. There wasn’t another piece to replace it in all of the land. The whole thing went on, prophecy, music. It was supernatural.
SID: Okay. Now what we do is we pray for rain to come. What happened from your prayers? Now wait a second. You have to understand this is the desert. I mean, I believe in miracles, but this is stretching in the desert. What happened?
PAUL: Yeah. I actually went online to see how often it rains in Ein Gedi. And from April through October, you know the number of days per month that it rains?
SID: No.
PAUL: Zero.
SID: That’s quite a prayer you got to pray.
PAUL: As we were packing up after the whole evening, angels showed up, miracles of healings happened, and as we were leaving, God blessed it. Rain began to fall on our buses. The next day in Jerusalem, the skies opened up. I saw Muslims, orthodox Jews, regular Israelis standing out in the rain with their hands lifted up towards heaven. It was rain out of season. It was supernatural, which is what we’re supposed to be. We’re supposed to be rain out of season wherever we go, the refreshing–
SID: What did you feel in that bus going back to Jerusalem when the rain came down? You and there must have been electricity in that bus.
PAUL: Everyone was so excited because reports began to come in of angelic activity in the group. And I’ve talked to some of the people.
SID: Tell me one. Tell me one.
PAUL: Just one. I know of a woman. I’ve known her for years. She is not used to, she wasn’t raised Pentecostal or charismatic, or whatever term you want to use, very pretty much plain evangelical, sat there. She’s had a brain tumor for years, got all the pictures from the doctors and all of that stuff. As she was sitting there worshiping with us an angelic person, an angelic host came, stood next to her and she described the whole thing in “glowing robes with a sash”, put their hand on her head and said, “God is now healing you” and then disappeared. She went back to her doctors in Columbus, Ohio, and they said it’s gone. The deafness in the ear was gone. She was healed that night. And there’s testimony after testimony.
SID: There’s something so powerful about these Jewish feasts. Can you imagine 5000 people grateful to God, worshiping God in the desert and rain comes down? What is it in Zachariah, it says in the millennium, the thousand-year rule of the Messiah that is going to occur, “If you don’t go to Jerusalem, there’ll be no rain on your nations.” I believe that as you hear Paul worship the living God there is going to be rain that is going to fall on you. And I’m not talking about natural rain, although Paul, I have had supernatural rain fall on me. I was out at the Western Wall several months ago in Jerusalem and I literally thought someone next to me was pouring water on me. And I looked, “what are you doing?” The rain came down. Tell me about this first song you’re going sing. It’s from The Book of Revelation, and this takes place and it actually shows what is going on, the worship that’s going on in Heaven. Tell me about this.
PAUL: Very few times, Sid, the scriptures are open to us and we get a glimpse of heavenly worship. Revelation 15 is one of those places. And it says, “They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God,” the Jewish people if you will, “and the song of the Lamb,” the redeemed, those who have received the blood of Messiah.
SID: So the two in heaven are coming together.
PAUL: Isn’t it amazing?
SID: Yeah.
PAUL: It’s the one new man revealed right there in heavenly worship, and that’s what this song is. “Behold the Lord is my salvation and hear the sound of Moses, the song of the Lamb, thunderous praises of one new man, Jew and gentile worshiping together.”
SID: I love that line. It comes from Isaiah and from Revelation. “Behold the Lord is my salvation.” You know why I love that so much? Because the Hebrew word in Isaiah for salvation is “Yeshua”. That’s the Hebrew word for Jesus. And I remember my orthodox Jewish father said, “Show me.” He wasn’t from Missouri. But he said, “Show me Jesus in the Jewish scriptures.” Everywhere the Jewish scriptures say “salvation” it’s “Yeshua”. And this is what our prophets said. The Lord has become our Yeshua. Paul, will you get to the music set. And I can’t wait for this because I go back many years with Paul Wilbur. But what an anointing. At the Feast of Tabernacles the rain comes down, 5000 people worshiping God, and this is the song that he sang: “Behold the Lord.”
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Paul [singing]: … saw your works O Lord Almighty. True and righteous are all of your ways, King of the angels. Who will not hear O Lord. Glorify your name. Behold the Lord. God is my salvation. In Him I trust. In Him I trust and will not be afraid. I will give thanks. Sing among the nations forever. Behold the Lord, behold the Lord, behold the Lord. So rejoice and be glad in this. Our God is with us. Messiah Emanuel, … Lift up your voice and be blessed the glory of our God. Behold the Lord. God is my salvation. In Him we trust and will not be afraid. We will give thanks. Sing among the nations forever. Behold the Lord, behold the Lord. Behold the Lord. God is my salvation. Glory to Him the lamb upon the throne. Father we pray to Him who reigns forever and ever. Behold the Lord, behold the Lord, behold the Lord.
