TV host Sid Roth discusses his spring trip to Israel and his recent acquisition of Middle East Television.
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Well, Rosh Hashanah
is the Jewish new year.
And the current here is 5777.
Well, the founder of
Messianic Vision, Sid Roth,
says the three sevens
are a sign from God.
Take a look.
NARRATOR: Sid Roth is the
talk show host of "It;s
Supernatural" and the
founder of Messianic Vision.
For the past 40 years,
Sid has devoted his life
to helping Jews discover
that Jesus is the Messiah.
When he speaks around the
world to Jewish people,
he tells them about the
power and promises of Jesus.
SID ROTH: All these people
stood up like God Himself,
just had a magnet pulling
them up to receive Jesus.
NARRATOR: This
year, Sid acquired
Middle East Television,
which broadcasts
in Arabic and English.
It was founded by CBN in 1982.
Well, we welcome back
our dear friend, Sid Roth.
Sid, what is this 5777?
What's the significance?
Well, Israel has a
different calendar
than the rest of the world.
OK,
And this is the year 5777.
I can just tell you a couple
of things that I know.
All right.
Since I've been a
young Jewish believer,
the number 777 always appears
before good things are going
to happen for me personally.
For instance, I have dual
citizenship in Israel.
If you look at my
passport, it says 777.
Come on!
That's--
Now, we know from
a Biblical viewpoint
that God rested on
the seventh day.
Right.
And so it's like a completion
of a former event coming
in to the new.
And when I think
of the 5 from 5777,
I think of the five
offices in the church.
I believe that, just as I
became a brand new believer
at the beginning of the
charismatic movement.
Right.
I remember.
And a lot of Jewish people
that are actually leaders today
as believers came
to know the Lord
in this move of God's
spirit along with a lot
of other people.
Sure.
Well, there's coming a
new move of God's spirit.
And I believe that
it's a prophetic sign
that, as Oral used to
say, something good is
going to happen to you.
So you see-- you've been
seeing extraordinary miracles
among Jewish people.
There is something-- I
watch you on television,
and I see you move in not
just words of knowledge,
but very specific.
I mean, sometimes I see
you or your co-hosts
get so specific where
you describe someone.
That's right.
And what I have found
is I have friends
that have invested their life
in reaching Jewish people.
And they are sold out to God.
And they love the Jew in Israel.
And they may reach one or
two Jews in a lifetime.
I have found that if
you go back to the Book
and you look at
the pattern, what
is the pattern of new
covenant Christianity?
You demonstrate the
Kingdom and earn the right
to present the King.
It's so simple, you need
help to get confused.
That's great.
And so what I have
found is when I can--
God has given me amazing
supernatural ways
of gathering Jewish people
that do not know the Messiah.
And the way is-- actually
Corinthians tells us the clue.
It says the Jew requires a sign.
And what I have found is-- you
know, in Romans, Paul talks
about the spiritual scales?
The minute a Jewish person sees
a miracle, the scale comes off.
I'll give you an example.
I start speaking, and I have
a flow of words knowledge.
In their seat, a
1,000-- my last meeting,
there were 1,040
unsaved Jewish people.
And this, by the
way, was in Israel.
And just about everyone, after
they-- there were so many
miracles.
I'm going to guess,
as we didn't count it.
But there probably had
be at least 100 people
stood up, unsaved Jewish
people, I've just been healed.
And when that occurs, it's like
the spiritual scales come off.
And people will reason.
And one someone will reason,
once prejudice comes down,
it's easy to show.
Sure.
I mean, who would not
want to know pure love?
And that's who God is,
pure, 100%, undefiled.
Most people have
never experienced
the purity of God's love.
I have, and I want the world to.
Well, in Israel-- and that's
sweeping like wildfire then,
isn't it?
It's the most amazing thing.
And by the way, the
year 5777, I believe
that many of the
Jewish people that I'm
leading to the Lord-- we've led,
in the last two years, not just
Israel, in other
places-- I believe
it's 5,000 Jewish people have
made professions of faith.
This is un-- you
know, this hasn't
happened since book of Acts.
Right.
Exactly.
It's beautiful.
It's a new move.
It's a new season.
And these Jewish people
that are coming to the Lord
will be the five-fold ministers,
prophet, evangelist, teacher,
pastor, because
we're going to have--
people need to be discipled.
They need to learn about
the invisible world.
Sure.
And I have found miracles are
the easy way to evangelize, not
just Jewish people, but Muslims.
I mean, so many Muslims
in the Middle East,
they're coming to know Jesus
now through dreams and visions.
That's supernatural.
Surely, it is.
Well, let me ask
you of something
that we were involved in some
years ago called Middle East
Television.
We built that up.
And it was on the
border of Lebanon.
Then we had to
move it to Cyprus.
And you have just acquired it.
What do you do with it?
Well, to be candid
with you, it is
one of the most
unbelievable things that
have ever happened in my life.
It started with
a prophetic word.
A prophet called me and said,
Sid, I just had a dream.
And this prophet, by the
way, is 100% on his dreams.
And he said, and I
within your life,
you've had a lot of
prophetic things.
Oh, absolutely.
That have caused
you to do things.
He said, I saw METV.
And I saw you.
I don't know what METV is.
[LAUGHTER]
And I said, I know what it is.
And then the people
that you sold it to,
LeSEA broadcasting--
unfortunately,
the son of Lester
Sumrall, suddenly died.
And I called.
And I said, maybe I
can buy a block of time
on Middle East TV.
I mean, this is-- literally,
I want you to understand this.
Every home that has a
television set in Israel
must carry this
broadcast, must carry.
And 25 nations of
Muslim nations get it.
I mean, God really used you
in the hard time, by the way.
That was-- you had
it in the hard times.
There were tough times.
We got blown up.
They were attacked, Oh, I
know about it-- absolutely.
So we have this network.
And what I want to
do on television
is what I've been
doing in person, Pat.
All right.
What I want to do
on television is
I want to platform
the supernatural.
Now, a lot of people say,
Sid, why are you so meshugge?
That's the Hebrew
word for crazy.
Why are so meshugge
for the supernatural?
Because I am meshugge
for everyone to know God,
for everyone to know
the Messiah of God.
And I'll do anything
possible to make Him known.
And I have found there's a
hard way and the easy way.
All of us have done things
the hard way and the easy way.
There is an easy way--
move in signs and wonders.
And when 50, 100 people
stand up and they're not
faking anything.
These are unsaved
Jewish people, Pat.
Sure
And they're saying,
I've just been healed.
And then I say, sit down.
And we're going to have
some more miracles.
They hang on you'
word that I just say.
And if someone's closed,
it doesn't matter
how supernatural you are.
But once someone is open
and you share the gospel,
I get anywhere from
90% to 100% stand up
and make professions of faith.
And it's not that
I'm so special.
It's the gospel is especially
if you're listening.
And I know how to get a Muslim,
a Hindu, a Jewish person,
atheist, to listen.
One miracle settles
the argument.
Well, if they're
doing that, they'll
be fixed to that television
broadcast, you meshugge.
And they'll be there.
Well, Sid, I want
to pray for you.
We did that.
And Sid wants us to
pray for him as he,
with the anointing of God,
as he takes over this very
important ministry.
But they have a must-carry.
Israel ordained that
this thing would
be carried on all the TV
across the [INAUDIBLE].
And you hadn't been
faithful, I could not
be walking into your leg--
and it is your legacy.
I could not be walking
into your legacy right now.
Let's pray.
Lord, I pray for
my dear brother.
And I ask for all the
people in this audience
that the anointing
of the Holy Spirit
might come upon him in power.
Lord, give him wisdom
and the anointing
and understanding and
might as he undertakes
this tremendous ministry.
And make it flower
beyond anything any of us
dare to believe possible.
Touch Israel.
Touch your people, Lord.
Touch the Jewish people that
they might see their Messiah
and there might be
a day of deliverance
for your people of Israel.
And Lord, bless Sid and
his associates in this.
May your anointing rest upon
him, in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
And amen.
God bless you.
Wow.
You're powerful man of God, Pat.
[LAUGHTER]
God bless you, man.
God bless you.
Sid Roth, ladies and gentlemen.