SID: I have a longtime friend, Paul Wilbur, that most of you are familiar with, and my new friend, Pastor Stovall Weems. Stovall, about, what was it, three months before Paul gave a special presentation on Passover, and I think it was also Good Friday, at your church three months before—what did God tell you?
STOVALL: We had a prophetic word for the year that God was going to restore in three months what had been held up for three years. That was kind of the prophetic word that we had for our church as we entered into a season of prayer and fasting in January.
SID: Paul, you invited Pastor Weems to come up and you handed him a piece of matzo. What did you observe?
PAUL: First of all, it was such a privilege to be asked to speak on that platform. Because it was Good Friday and the first night of Passover, the obvious message is, “We’re going to celebrate communion tonight, but I’m going to show you where it came from and how Jesus institutes the new covenant.” I determined that at the point where we come to the piece of bread and the third cup, the cup of redemption, that I would call Pastor Stovall to come forward and help me serve the people now that we understood what we were doing in a better way. Either I handed his piece to Pastor Stovall or he took it from the table, and as I began to speak the Hebrew blessing over it, “Blessed are you, O Lord, our God, King of the Universe who brings forth bread from the Earth”-
SID: Chant that just for a second.
PAUL: (chanting in Hebrew) As I did that, something very unexpected happened.
SID: You pick it up from there.
STOVALL: Paul, he would read the Scripture, and when he was reading the part about the bread in Hebrew, right after the first word or even within the first word I head another Hebrew voice. It was like a voice going from mono to stereo. It was loud, alive, surround sound. That’s when I was like, “That’s another voice.” I’m trying to process what’s going on here.
SID: Paul, you just recorded a brand new CD out of Israel. I’m going to tell you, Paul, you outdid yourself. God was with you on that project. It’s called “Roar from Zion.” Would you go to the music set? I want you to sing the theme song, “Roar from Zion.”
PAUL: Sure, happy to.
SID: Pastor, this is quite an unusual situation that happened to you. Have you ever had anything close to that before?
STOVALL: No, no, nothing like that. I mean, I’ve had experiences in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit was heavy in that service. To be honest, I wasn’t really in a spiritual mood. I was kind of tired. But when I heard that Hebrew voice, and as I’m processing that voice, “What is that? That’s not Paul’s voice,” that’s when– The best way I like to describe it is I felt the personality of Jesus, not just the presence of the Holy Spirit was His, it was His personality. I knew it. Jesus is here. This is Jesus. Jesus is here. I looked to the left. I was kind of afraid to look in one sense, but I looked to the left and then that’s when I saw the Lord. He was standing on the platform. You know, you don’t have a schema. You don’t have a place to–
SID: You never walked that road before and no one else, maybe. Well, yeah, Paul said, “I don’t know if I was in the body or out of the body.” [inaudible 00:06:37] had an experience. Where were you?
STOVALL: Well, at that point, I’m on the stage trying to put, “Is this really happening? Is that Jesus?” That’s when, it’s like the best I like to say it is, the heavens were opened. They were opened. It was like a veil. It was like I was in the heavenlies. But it was an entirely different setting. I’m saying these things because now I’ve had, you know, 10 months to process them out with Hebrew scholars and describe where I was and go to the Scriptures and read Hebrews 12. I’m saying these things now with a lot of processing and a whole lot of scholarship and all that kind of stuff. Where I now believe that I was is right there in Hebrews 12. I was in the heavenly Zion and the church of the firstborn, the heavenly host, it was the Lord Jesus Himself as the high priest and He was ministering. There was the table and He was ministering to the heavenly congregation.
SID: He used to love to teach on covenant before this experience, but after his heavenly visitation, communion has gone to a whole new level. That’s where the miracles break out. Get your communion elements ready at home for later in the program. Now here’s Paul with music from his brand new album, “Roar from Zion.”
PAUL: “I will thunder from Jerusalem,” say the Lord, “and I will roar from Zion.” Hallelujah. Lion of Judah, roar. (singing)
