Sid:  Speaking about blowing the grandest shofar, the grandest trumpet, my guest Rabbi Michael Zeitler … when he teaches about Israel the presence of God just literally flows like a river and then when he blows the shofar people are healed of so many conditions and he moves in words of knowledge.  …it is so important to understand where we are in the last days in the end times to understand the teaching that Michael brings forth in his book.  Actually Michael, you were giving a talk for a group of Christian millionaires that when they got a hold of this message you can finally put together where we are in end times.  …There is a connection between Israel and miracles and when you share them the miracles explode.  Tell me one more time about a time you spoken in the last three months and you blew the shofar and what happened. (Interview was between June/July ‘2010) 

Michael:  It was amazing Sid, absolutely amazing.  I’d blow the shofar and the Lord said, “To tell the people that their hearing had opened as they heard the blast of the shofar.”  And I asked, and the people are pretty much afraid to give testimony here in South America, I don’t know why but they are and ten people came forward and gave testimony that there hearing was opened when they heard the shofar blown.

Sid:  Oh, it’s not just hearing, what other types of miracles are coming forth?

Michael:  People are giving testimony that they felt tremendous; and I didn’t prompt them and tell them that they are going to feel fire or electricity or whatever I didn’t say any of that stuff and they’re telling me as they are giving testimony that they felt either fire or electricity or cold as their pain in their liver was gone, pain in the kidney’s gone, pain in the feet gone.  That they couldn’t walk properly and now they could walk.  They couldn’t turn their necks and now they can turn them perfectly and they were showing me how they could turn them around; and then bending over and their backs were healed, shoulders and people waving their arms and showing how their arms and shoulders were healed.  Arthritic conditions disappearing; tumors disappearing as the people checked the tumor was gone.

Sid:  Tell me about the angelic choir.

Michael:  Oh, it was so awesome!  We were in this church and I didn’t have to do a thing, I taught on the urgency of the hour.  I taught about Israel, I taught about Israel being the fig tree as Yeshua said in Matthew that it’s going to be the sign that you look to the season.  And then all of a sudden we hear angelic voices singing.  Three angelic voices and people testifying that they felt actual physical presence of someone touching their bodies and they were being miraculously healed; they were twenty-five people that came up to give testimony that they were miraculously healed.  No one touched them, no one said anything, all I did was just tell them what God told me He was doing and narrating the whole thing as He just performed this wonderful blessing of this service that He did in this church.

Sid:  Now, did many people hear this angelic choir?  

Michael:  Everyone.

Sid:  Everyone?

Michael:  Including the pastor, yes.

Sid:  Now, you teach about that we are literally in the last days, explain.

Michael:  We are in the last days, La Dorr Akron is the Hebrew for last days and that’s where we are.  Why?  Because in 1948 in May Israel became a nation as it was prophesied in Isaiah “Can a country be born in one day?”  And she was and today we are closer than we have ever been before to the returning of Messiah.  Meshach is coming soon Sid, and everybody must realize this that not just me, but greater things shall they do because Jesus, Yeshua has gone to be with the Father.  There is no reason for anyone not to be working and moving in miracles because God said that signs and wonders will follow them that believe.  And so they must go out and believe that this will happen too; and that’s the reason why it says in Joel that in the last days, which we are in God is going to pour out on all flesh, and this is what He’s doing.

Sid:  Why do you believe we are in the last days?

Michael:  Look at what’s happening, earthquakes, even here where I am in Peru right now talking to you we’ve had earthquakes in Chile; we’ve had earthquakes in Guatemala, we’ve had earthquake in Peru a little further north of where I am.  God said that in the last days that there would be problems in the economy, there would be problems in the weather, there would be problems in earthquakes.  The kinds of things that have been happening in the weather, I mean look at the amount of snow that you even got down there in Georgia for the first time.  It’s just all the signs of the times of what God is showing us and the nation of Israel is the key and we see everything happening.  It even says in the last days Jerusalem would become a stumbling block to the nations.  And what’s happened today?  ‘That’s exactly what’s going on.

Sid:  Tell me about some of the miracles of the various wars, I mean Israel should not be in existence today, but talk about the miracles.

Michael:    Oh, so many so many different miracles, I’ve you know to relate just give you an example; a lot of times during the wars the solders, the commanders would turn to the Bible. So in one particular example in the War of Independence they needed to get the city of Leyte which is where the air port is today, the Ben Gurion airport, they needed to get it free.  And so they looked to the Bible, they saw what Gideon did with his men and sixteen brave Commandos went in dressed as Arabs, made so much noise at night that 7,000 Arabs started shooting at each other and all ran off in different directions and the city of Leyte was taken over.  Just absolutely miraculous things that God does in all these wars that the Israeli’s is outnumbered and then later on there’s testimonies that are given by Arab soldiers, by Arab commanders of seeing angelic tanks on the Golan Heights and because there was only three tanks that were Israel’s, but yet the Syrian Commanders saw hundreds of Israeli tanks and they surrendered because of it.  So many different testimonies of the hand of God.  So even one example there was a commander that was told to go on the Golan Heights to go back behind enemy lines with his commandos and take out the headquarters where the generals are and everything.  And when he went in there and he was throwing hand grenades and he was shooting, his name was Effie and all of a sudden out of nowhere in the smoke, a white dove appears and flies and lands on his shoulder on his left shoulder.  And for two weeks he is fighting the most serious fights that he has fought in his military career with his commandos and the whole time, Sid the dove is sitting on his shoulder and not one of his men in his unit ever were injured.  Here is another one Sid, the kibbutz of Degania, one of the first kibbutz is being attacked by a column of Syrian armored division, tanks and armored trucks; they’re coming down from Syria and two weeks prior the British had remover all the weapons from Israel.  And Lt. Colonel Moshe Dianne has an antique cannon and antique artillery piece from the Franc oppression war of 1870.  He quickly has the mean put it together; they fire upon the lead Syrian tank and take it out and all of that 200 column turn around and go back to Syria because they’re afraid that maybe Israel has a secret weapon.  Then another example, awe this is wild, their up on a bluff, there’s a unit of Israeli soldiers and their fighting against maybe 10,000 Arabs that are below them.  They’ve run out of ammunition; in desperation they take their oil drums and pour gasoline over them, these are empty oil drums and they roll them down the mountain toward the Arab force.  A thunder storm rolls in at the same time and the Arabs see the flaming barrels, hear the sound of them hitting the rocks and the thunderstorm and they think that Israel has a secret weapon and they ran off in fear.  And then another one, they look again to the Bible and they see in the Bible that there is an ancient road that they didn’t know about and at night the bulldozers move the rocks and an Israeli unit, goes, a convoy a military convoy goes on that road surprises a garrison, an Egyptian garrison and is able because of it to end the war.

Sid:  Were out of time right now, but as Michael teaches the miracle of ancient Israel, things that very few Christians understand, why it’s so important to God at this moment in history, miracles are released as he teaches.

Sid:  Have you read, there is such a difference in the Bible between twenty-first century American Christianity and what the Bible says it’s suppose to be like.  And one of the biggest problems is discipleship and one of the biggest problems in discipleship is the early church understood things that have been lost.  For instance, in the area of deliverance; the early church understood how to literally dismantle the anchors of demons so that they have no legal rights so it’s simple to cast these spirits out.  And my guest Mark Virkler has been instructed by the Lord to put together a series called “Prayers that Heal the Heart.”…Mark I am really overwhelmed at how complete your course is…

Mark:  …everyone needs these prayers and when I first went through them with Kaye Cox my first question was, I think I’ll find out from the prayer counselee which of these seven prayers they need.  And then after I prayed with a half dozen people I came to the realization everybody needs all seven and so I stopped asking the question which one you need and I said, guess what, you need all seven.  And if by any chance you didn’t need one of them, that means you wasted five minutes in prayer you didn’t have to waste, but it’s better to cover all your bases rather to have something hanging around.

Sid:  Well, let’s go to the third supernatural prayer for replacing negative beliefs and renouncing intervows, what is that?

Mark:  Well, it’s a couple of prayers that actually go hand and hand.  A negative belief would be an unbiblical belief; a belief that does not line up with scripture; like for example I believe that “I’m probably going to fail.”  Okay, that’s surely doesn’t line up with scripture and if I believe that I might make a promise to myself;  I might promise and say, “You know what I’m not even going to try, because I’m pretty sure I’m going to fail.”  So with every belief comes a vow, you might not be aware of the vow, but the vow in this case would be, “I’m not going to try, because if I try I’m just going to suffer I’m just going to fail again and again and I can’t handle the emotional pressure so I’m not going to try.”  And people say well I don’t think I made a vow and if I did make a vow I have no idea of what my vow would have been.  I say, “Well look at your action, because you believe you’re going to fail what action do you take?”  And they say, “Well, the action I take is I don’t try anymore.”  I say, “Okay then your vow was “I’m not going to try,” because it’s a root fruit relationship.”  You look at the fruit in your life, trace it back to the root and say what is the root that’s producing this fruit?  And so we need to replace ungodly beliefs and inner vows with godly beliefs and godly purposes.  Not another godly vow, because we don’t really want to make a new vow; we want to say, “I purpose by the power of the Holy Spirit to do this.

Sid:   Well, I’ve heard of people that have made vows literally, “ I make a vow to do something and it was an ungodly thing,” it was before they were even a believer and then I’ve heard of them saying, “Well, I break that vow in Jesus Name, but nothing changes.”

Mark:  Well, you know just last week in a seminar I did the lady I was praying with she had battled with rejection and inferiority;  feeling she wasn’t worth anything and she said she went to a seminar recently and got prayed for and they prayed through a specific prayer which happened to be one of these seven prayers.  She said that she felt a level of relief but it wasn’t totally healed.  And I said, “You know what, you prayed one of the seven prayers, let’s pray the other six because you know there’s power when one can put a thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand.  So I don’t suggest anyone pray one prayer, I suggest they bundle them up, pray all seven and if they do they are going to find an intensity of release instead of just a partial release and a partial healing.  They are going to find a complete release and a complete healing.  So in this case here, you know you got to believe I am going to probably fail, so I’m not going to try.  Well if you journal that and say, “Lord what do you want to say to me about my belief I’m going to fail.”  He is going to come back and say, “I will make, I have made your way prosperous.”  And so that’s a godly belief; that’s a railroad track to run on, because belief’s are railroad tracks that govern my life so now I’m going to say fine, my confession is “God has made my way prosperous and therefore my new purpose in the Holy Spirit is I’m going to step out in faith believing that God is with me and believing He is prospering my way.”  So an ungodly belief and an inner vow repented of, “Lord I repent for believing I will fail, I repent for the vow of not trying and instead I replace this with a godly belief that You have made my way prosperous and I choose to step out in faith believing that you are with me.

Sid: You know Mark; I love your section on replacing negative beliefs and renouncing inner vows.  What about in the area of money – finances.  Have you had any testimonies in that arena?

Mark:  Well, probably all of us have our own personal testimony; one ungodly belief would be I’m not going to have financial freedom in my life.  I’m always going to be in want, there will never be enough to make it through.

Sid:  You know someone might not even verbalize that, but there life pattern is they’re always in trouble financially.

Mark:  Exactly, again you look at your fruit and if the life problem, life says I’m in trouble, then there is a root belief behind that.  And in this case the belief is probably “I believe money is secular, I believe money is evil, I believe I can not earn enough,” and so I have to vow something so how about if I just vow that “I’m going to equate poverty and godliness together, that it’s spiritual to be poor and God doesn’t care about money.”  And now I got a rail road track , I’m running my life on an ungodly belief  and so I need to come to God and say, “God what do you believe about money?”  What do you want me to say and believe about money?”  And I might journal; I might write down the question, “Lord, what do you want me to say?” And then I fix my eyes on Jesus, tuned to flow and write down what He says back.  He may give me a scripture verse or He may give me something else.  Here’s one of the things that He’s given me; He said, Mark I have given you the power to make wealth in order that I might confirm the covenant with you.  Now that’s a scripture verse from the Old Testament.  And so I say, “Wow the proof that you are in covenant with me is that You have given me, You have given your children the power to create wealth.”  Well then I am going to have a new purpose in the Holy Spirit.  I’m going to purpose to believe God for the power to make wealth, I am going to believe God for financial prosperity and financial blessing that is what I purpose and I will not give up until that is the reality in my life and that is what I see.  I lend and I do not borrow, and now I have a new railroad track, a track of faith, a godly belief that replaced an ungodly track which was a track of a negative belief.

Sid:  You know, I’ve said this before, but what a difference it would make in someone’s walk with the Lord if they had just known these seven areas of prayer and gotten set free of all these familiar spirits and spirits of infirmity and spirits of addiction and look at all the nonsense they would have avoided in their walk with the Lord.

Mark:  Well, I agree Sid and in my own life God has corrected me and several ungodly beliefs.  I use to say I have a B level brain because when I was in college and high school I got straight B’s all the way through.  So my belief and my confession and my vow was I have a B level brain.  And when I prayed about it God said, Mark don’t ever say that again.  He said now that you have the mind of Christ you have a triple A brain, you are brilliant and you confess that.  Say in the anointing of the Holy Spirit I am brilliant and He said get yourself out of the prison and box of unbiblical beliefs and come and believe what I believe about you.

Sid:  How can two walk together unless they be agreed?  It’s good to agree with God.

Mark:  Amen, amen.

Sid:  Alright Mark let’s go to another area and that has to do with breaking negative words and word curses.

Mark:  Word curses, yeah.  You know a lot of times the Bible says life and death is in the power of the tongue and God spoke things into existence and we speak things into existence and if someone speaks a negative word it can crush our spirits and crush us and we can speak a negative word I just gave you an example.  I spoke a negative word, that I have a B level brain and it crushed my ability to move forward and be all that God wanted for me.  Sometimes people will say, you can’t take that job because that job can’t provide an income for you so even though you’re an artist or musician I think that you should to and take some other job.  Well, that’s a word curse and if you believe it and you let it soak into your spirit and you agree and say yes, I cannot support myself as a musician now this word curse controls you and rips from you your destiny in God.  And that has to be broken in prayer.  Say “I break the power of this word curse in the name of Jesus, it has no authority over me, I command it to fall to the ground and become powerless and I confess the truth that God has spoken to me,” and then you go in prayer and say, “God what is the truth you want me to confess,” and you let Him give you the new truth and then you speak that.

Sid:  And I know that from previous times we’ve had you on the show, is that you find that the discipline of believing God will say something to you and write it down shocks people.  People that have never heard from God all of a sudden start hearing from God.

Mark:  Well, exactly you know when you’re in prayer just quiet yourself down and fix your eyes on Jesus picture Him right there with you.  And say, “Jesus what do you want to say about this belief or this thing.” and then you tune to His voice and we define as spontaneous thoughts that light up on your mind.  And you begin to write that flow of spontaneous thoughts and you’ll end up with a paragraph of God talking to you.  And you bounce it off your spiritual advisors and make sure it’s God and then you run with it. 

Sid:  Now one thing is for sure, everyone unless the Messiah returns quickly, everyone is going to most likely exit their earth suit and goes to Heaven or Hell when they die.  And if we can get some insight into Heaven from a Biblical perspective and experimental perspective that lines up with the Bible there’s a lot of things that will make more sense on this earth.  And my guest, Dean Braxton on May 4^th 2006 went into the hospital and he actually had prolonged cardiac arrest for an hour and forty-five minutes.  He had what the medical term is prolonged cardiac arrest and what is the first thing Dean Braxton that you remember happened to you while this seven days of you literally being out and not knowing what was going on while your wife was interceding and friends for you to live, what ‘s your first memory?

Dean:  Oh, the first memory I had you know is telling somebody right after they took the breathing tube out of my mouth that I’d seen Jesus three times and He told me to go back each one of those times.  As I was telling them, you know that was you know the conversation with this person was so real to me still in the sense that I just felt the power of God all over me still and I remember being at the feet of Jesus.  And just being in His presence, so those were the first things that were going through my mind and no one could tell me, no one could convince me, no one could say that Jesus was not real.  I had believed He was real before, I had that conviction, but there was something else that just happened to me like I know that Jesus is real.  There is no way that you can tell me anything different.

Sid:  Now, could you remember anything beyond what you just said to me at that moment?

Dean:  Oh yes, I can remember in the sense of looking at Jesus and a lot of times when I first came back, I’ll be honest with you  I was telling people that I went to be where the Father and Jesus is.  And people said, “Well you went to Heaven.”  And I said, “You know if that’s Heaven, that’s great but I was where the Father and Jesus is.”  I wasn’t so much looking at so much that it was Heaven, I was where Jesus, my Lord was and so I wanted to be in His presence and I would tell people, “If Heaven doesn’t have Jesus or the Father, you don’t want to be there; you want to be where Jesus and the Father is.”  Matter of a matter of fact I came to understand that inside of us we are longing to really be with Jesus and the Father.  Sometimes we say that we want to go to Heaven were really wanting to be in the presence of Jesus and the Father, that’s what we want.  And so I came to really understand…

Sid:  So, you’re home you’re real home if I were to put it in my words, is not this earth, it’s in the presence of God.

Dean:  It is in the presence of God, it’s a great way of putting it.  My real home is in the presence of God.  Now I can tell you right now, because of experiencing that when I go on praying, I always tell people now I’m going home because I’m in the presence of God.

Sid:  But, wait a second now, you pray, you were born again, you were Spirit Filled, you prayed for the sick you saw them recover, you had words of knowledge, you knew about the presence of God, what’s the difference now?

Dean:  I started looking at it from a Heavenly point of view instead of from an earthly point of view.  A lot of times we are describing things or we’re experiencing things from an earthly point of view and yet each and every one of us have the Holy Spirit inside of us to be able to really experience God from a Heavenly point of view.

Sid:  Do more people, do some people have more of the Holy Spirit than others?

Dean:  For me, I came to understand that we have the fullness of God in us in His fullness.  We don’t have a part of Him, or some of Him, we have a fullness of Him.  You know probably before this happened I would have said that some people have more some people you got to do this you got to do that to get more of God.

Sid:  You have to pray more in tongues, you have to read the Bible more you know those sort of things?

Dean:  Yeah, those sort of things.  But when I was before Jesus and He looked at me, saw himself inside of me, as I tell people I was in.  There was nothing else I had to do, His fullness was in me now I understand how much of Him is in me so when I am ministering and I’m going out there to talk to others, even talking to you right now, I know that Jesus is in me working, I know it. 

Sid:  Okay, well tell me some of your experiences.

Dean:  Well, some of the experiences, you mean in being in Heaven?

Sid:  Yes.

Dean:  Okay, some of the experience of being in Heaven was really experiencing the love of Jesus to the fullness.  I tell people I looked at His feet, His feet loved me, what I mean by that is if all I saw of Jesus was His feet, nothing else but His feet and they looked just like John talks about them, being that goldish brass and just talking about the glory that’s coming off of it but what got me was His feet loved me and if I didn’t see another part of Jesus but just His feet I experienced the fullness of His love for me through His feet.  Now there is a word that I’m using and it’s called experience and I like using that because it wasn’t so much a feeling it was experience I experience everything there. 

Sid:  So when the Bible says God is love, you comprehended what it meant. 

Dean:  Yes.  I comprehended what it meant to its fullness, I looked at His hands and they do have the nail prints I tell people, but if I just saw His hands, his hands love me.  Every part of His being, when I looked at Him He love me, not only did He love me but it was like I was the only one He loved.  Knowing that He loved all of God’s creation you know, but coming to the understanding of how much He loves me so much that it is not taking from anybody else that the love He has for me is directed at me and His fullness and it’s not taking it from anyone else.

Sid:  What about His eyes?

Dean:  When I looked into His eyes they are just like John describes them, that flaming fire but again, I got lost in His eyes, even talking to you I have to hold back because I can stop and look into His eyes even now and get lost in them because the love…

Sid:  You’re provoking me to jealousy!  How can I do that?

Dean:  Well…

Sid:  And by the way the job of the gentile believer in Jesus is to provoke the Jew to jealousy so you’re just living up to your job description, but go ahead.

Dean:  Well, I really believe that we all have the Holy Spirit and He show us how to do that and I believe that there are times when you are praying that literally you are experiencing what I experienced and it may not be in the length that I experienced it but it’s still you’re experiencing it.  When I looked into His eyes and I saw that love that he has for me, just for me it was like no one else in this entire universe existed in the sense of that moment He was looking at me.  And I knew that He loved others, but I knew that the love that He was showing for me was that He had for me; it was like it was created just for me.

Sid:  And yet as you just said, He has that same quantity of love for everyone listening to us.

 Dean:  Correct, correct everyone that’s listening.  You know that’s what’s changed part of my prayer life more than anything else about praying for people.  I go places and I take a list of names and people probably don’t know this and I’ll share it with you.  I’ve got over 16,000 names that I have on a piece of paper that I spend time and praying.  I don’t pray for everyone every day I split them up into different areas and I pray for them as the week goes through.  But I believe that when I’m praying for these people, because of the love that I experienced from God and seeing the love of the Father and seeing the love of Jesus toward me and when I communicated with Jesus and communication there was just a thought going back and forth.  I just tell people that it was like a computer downloading; He communicated to me and I communicated back to Him.  And I remember looking in to His eyes and after I thought about myself I would think about someone else and I would think about the love for them.  I would think about someone else and I would see the love for them, and it was like He only loved them.  That changed my prayer life so that when I pray for people I know how much the Lord loves them, He loves them more than I could even imagine or they can think.  It goes on and on and on.

Sid:  You said that you were kind of surprised at who made Heaven and who missed Heaven of people you knew that had died.

Dean:  Well, and that was a surprise to me because there was certain people that I thought would make it and didn’t make it and there are certain people that I didn’t think would make it and made it.  What I mean by that is that God knows the heart.  He takes it out of our hands.

Sid:  So the heart is more important than the façade, what we see on the outside.

Dean:  Correct, I say that to you because I tell people that about Aunt Barbara was a lady in my life my Dad’s sister and loved her dearly and I would have probably told people over and over that Aunt Barbara did not make it to Heaven, but she was there when I got there, she was there.

Sid:  Who was the first person that greeted you?

Dean:  The first person that besides Jesus, I went to the feet of Jesus was my Grandmother Mary and I tell people a lot of times that the reason I believe my Grandmother Mary greeted me was because she was the only one when I was growing up that I knew that loved Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and she spent a lot of time praying for me and my brothers and my mother and my Dad and I really believe I came into the kingdom because of her prayers.  Well right after I accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior my Grandmother died.  So I never really got to communicate with her or talk to her about the faith that I had or the belief that I had.  So when I got there Grandmother Mary she was shiny she had a tear of joy and she had a big smile on her face and she was there to greet me.

Sid:  And she really wanted you to do something when you got back to earth.  We’ll pick up there on tomorrow’s broadcast.

Sid:  My guest is red hot for the Messiah, you know Mike when you encounter the reality of the demonic and then you’re rescued from that demonic by Jesus, it’s said to whom much is forgiven they love much.  I don’t have any other option, but to be madly in love with Jesus and red hot for the Messiah, how about you Mike Shreve?

Mike:  I feel the same way, I am overwhelmed, I searched so hard for God, I spent month, month after month after month alone isolated from 3:30 in the morning until 5:30 at night trying to find God.  When I found Him I was so overwhelmed with gratitude and all I wanted to do was to spend the rest of my life helping others find the truth.

 Sid:  And that’s why we have this brand new book, literally just right off the press called “Truth Seekers” ten amazing people who found it and its ten people in different areas of the New Age that found Jesus.  And this book is, I mean there are so many areas where Christians have mixture and they’re involved a little in New Age and a little of God and they don’t know the difference.  And then there are so many people in the New Age that are what the title of the book is, they are genuine, sincere, loving, truth seekers but they’re not looking in the right direction and so since my background was New Age and Mike’s was New Age we teamed up to come out with this book which is so mandatory understanding for the end times.  You won’t understand the counterfeit, you won’t understand the authentic until you read this book; and then for that friend of yours that’s involved in the New Age that God himself is going to have cross your path, this book has been written for such a time as this.  For those that don’t know my back ground, I was involved in traditional Judaism and I remember as a young kid, Mike I don’t know if you dealt with this subject to the degree I did, but I was so concerned about what happens after I die.  Did you have that interest or you believed in reincarnation?

Mike:  Well, no that’s what motivated me to drop out of college and begin studying under a guru named Yogi Busian.  I had experienced a drug over dose where I really thought I was going to lose my life, I almost died and when I came out of the experience I was shaken to the core of my being; and I knew I needed to find and answer what goes on in this transition from this world to the next, where we are going?

 Sid:  Well, you see coming from a Jewish background Judaism is L’chaim to life, we talk about life, we talk about life we don’t talk about death; now Judaism, traditional Judaism believes in life after death but my parents never discussed it.  And one day I was home alone and the question popped in my mind; I was only six years old, what happens when you die?  And just as a child I tried to speculate in my mind what would life be like if I ceased to exist because since I didn’t know anything about Heaven I figured when you die you cease to exist. And it became so objectionable that I blocked it from my mind until many years later I got involved in the New Age and I remember the particular branch I was into was called Silva Mind Control.  Where you are taught mental exercise to almost lower the speed of your brain waves until you get to a hypnotic state and then you invite what they called a counselor into your head; what the Bible calls a familiar spirit and this counselor began to tell me things I had no way of knowing.  And I got very excited about it because I thought I could make a lot of money and Hollywood had taught me I could make a lot of money if I made a lot of money and one day a Christians said to me, said to me “Sid, according to your own Jewish scriptures you are involved in spiritual adultery.”  And that was shocking to me and he turned to Deuteronomy the 18^th chapter and he read it to me.  Now I came from a good Jewish background, but did I know this?  No and most of my Jewish friends and most of my Christian friends were involved in these New Age meditation courses.  But this is what God’s word says in Deuteronomy 18 verse 9 to 12.  “You shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations, there shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire.”  You know Mike what I believe that is, that’s just what’s called abortion today is the practice that they had back then, they sacrificed children.  That is what abortion is, “Sacrificing children or one who practices witchcraft or a soothsayer or one who interprets omens or sorcerer or one who condors spells or medium or spiritists or one who calls up the dead.  For all who do these things are abomination,” and you know I didn’t even believe the Bible came from God at that time but just in case what he was saying to me was true I went into neutral gear and I started reading the Bible that he had given me and I got the shock of my life.  A friend of mine who had a counselor that told him the most wonderful things about what would happen in the future, I said.  “What do you see me doing in the future?”  And this counselor started cursing him and he said Sid, that had never happened before and then I got into something called astral-projection and I was afraid to go to asleep at night for fear my spirit would leave my body and go somewhere else and I would be, you know Rod Sterling had nothing on what my imagination was of the horrible fate that was in store for me.  I saw myself being buried alive and I through a series of events that was explained in the book I came to the conclusion there was a demon inside of me and I want it out, but I didn’t know how to get rid of it.  If I went to a rabbi he couldn’t help me I’m Jewish so I wouldn’t go to a pastor or a priest.  A physiatrist, he couldn’t help me; I found that there was no where I could go and so on the worse day of my life,  remember as a young kid I was afraid of death, I was so afraid I didn’t even want to think about it.  I had so much fear Mike that death looked better to me than life and I remember crying out to God and saying, Jesus help!  Because at that time I had been reading the Bible and I had heard that there was stronger power in the Name of Jesus than in this power that was making me not want to live and when I cried out Jesus help.  I went to sleep through sheer exhaustion and when I woke up the greatest peace I had never experienced this peace in the New Age; I had never experienced I had never been on drugs, I had never been an alcoholic so I don’t know what that’s like, but no drug, no alcoholic, No new Age could compare.  When people tell me what is the difference between the peace that people have in the New Age and the peace that God has is the difference between day and night.  It was so tangible, it was so wonderful that if I wanted to worry, if I wanted to fear; that peace overcame worry, that peace overcame fear.  And I then decided I’d really research on who Jesus was and I was 100% convinced that He was the Messiah.  And you know that there are several Jewish people in this book that we’ve just came out with truth seekers.  One is Rafi Cohen; tell me a couple of things that interested you about Rafi Mike.

Mike:  Well, Rafi’s story is experience is amazing, your story is amazing.  I found your chapter one of the most intriguing chapters in the book.  But Rafi from an early age as a child had encounters with spirit beings that would be termed by New Agers as spirit guides.  And while you were testifying I thought to myself that how subtle that counterfeit is because one of the main things the Holy Spirit comes into our life to do is to guide us.  Jesus said that He will lead you and guide you into all truth.  Well there’s something inside of every human being that lets us know that we need a guide through life.  We need a supernatural, supernaturally inspired guidance that will lead us in this world to the next.  And so New Agers reach out through various means to try and find these favorable friendly spirit beings or spirit guides that will help them navigate through the spiritual world.  But that’s forbidden like the scripture you just read in Deuteronomy 18; that is forbidden in scripture.  Why?  Is God denying the legitimate experiences and just preventing us from having an experience of the supernatural because He wants to control us?  No, He is trying to keep us from spiritual deception and I find Rafi Cohen’s story to be absolutely amazing to me.

 Sid:  Well, what I think is so amazing to me, the highlight to me on Rafi’s interview and I know him, he’s a friend of mine now, is that he was headed out with a whole group of New Agers that he was their guru, he was their teacher in a bus and he was looking for Edgar Casey because he thought that Edgar Casey was a Christian; because he had heard the term Christ conciseness which is the opposite of Christianity and he ended up in the parking lot of the 700 Club.  I mean God is so good, he was headed wrong and God rearranged his steps and he became a believer in the Messiah.  Our time has slipped away, but these are some of the most fascinating stories you’ll ever read in your life.  You’ll begin to understand the difference between the authentic supernatural and the counterfeit supernatural.  And for the person God has had cross your path that’s in the New Age, you’ll be able to give them this book and they won’t be able to put it down…