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>> Hi, I'm David Herzog,
and I want to talk to you today
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about an experience
I had in Israel
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where I went to the third Heaven
and it was pretty amazing.
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I had never experienced
that before,
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I had been in prayer,
had seen visions,
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have had dreams and, but never
had like an open vision,
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or never saw Jesus
like, directly.
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And we were in Bethel
because I read Genesis 20:8.
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I was reading it while living on
the mission field and it said,
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And this is the gate of heaven,
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the story of Jacob
where the ladder comes,
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and he sees angels ascending
and descending and ends it with,
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and this is the gate
of Heaven. Gate
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is a portal or a doorway.
And I said,
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Oh my gosh, that, it doesn't say
it was at that time.
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It said,
This is the gate of heaven.
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So I realized this is, this
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one of the geographical
locations on the Earth
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where there's
literally an open
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Heaven, a geographical portal on
the Earth that leads to heaven.
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And I realized later,
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because it was one of the
covenant cities in the Bible.
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There's like four key cities
that are covenant
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that God made with Israel.
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So I thought, Man,
I want to go there,
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so we go to Israel like we do,
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and we led a tour
and an outreach.
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And I told the tour company,
Hey, I want to go to Bethel now.
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At the time,
there was the intifada,
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the war and there was bomb,
you know, suicide bombings.
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That was very dangerous time,
like 2004,
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I think it was, around that time
or maybe 2003, 2004.
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And they said,
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Oh, you can't really, you can
go there, but it's dangerous.
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You gotta pass Ramallah.
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You have to ride
a bulletproof bus
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if you go, you have to have
a soldier with a machine gun
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if you go,
and it will cost more money.
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He's trying to discourage me,
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and the more he talked,
the more excited I got.
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OK, let's do it.
Yes. And he goes, Sir,
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I'm trying to discourage
you from going.
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Your tour guy doesn't
want to go, I said,
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But we want to go, please,
I'll pay for it,
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whatever, I want to go.
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So we go, we rent the bus.
I stand up on the bus.
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Hey, everybody,
we're going to Bethel today
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and right away,
the tour guy says, sit down.
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I go, why?
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He goes, because the windows
are only bulletproof halfway.
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You're standing up.
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So if you were to get shot by a
sniper, you'd still get killed.
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Oh, OK. So I sat down,
grabbed the mic on the bus
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and did, you know,
explained what was going on.
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We're going to Bethel.
We're going to do this.
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So basically we risk our life
to get an experience with God
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because we're so hungry.
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We go past the checkpoints.
We get to the settlements.
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So Bethel is like
an Israeli town
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where Israelis have settled
there and it's a contested area.
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So, you know, some people
don't want them there, some do.
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But it's a biblical area
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where God gave to Jacob
and his people,
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This is your land.
I'll give it to you.
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So we're there.
We don't know where we're going.
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We're just in, somewhere
in Bethel.
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There's homes and some hills,
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and no one knows,
the tour guide doesn't know,
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because tourists
don't go there generally.
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Only now, maybe. Tour guide
didn't know,
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and Israeli soldier did know.
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So we're just driving
around aimlessly.
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And then we see this big water
tower and the bus driver goes,
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I'm going to park next
to that water tower.
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You guys just, just
do your thing here.
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We don't know what
we're looking for here.
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OK. So we park.
And then there's a dirt road
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that goes like towards the end
of a camp, like a mountain.
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And we go down this hill and
then you can oversee the valley.
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You can see the other places.
Beautiful view.
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And there's this flat,
flat surface.
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And we go, though this is
perfect, found out later,
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that actually was probably
where it happened
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because archeologists have
discovered something there.
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And when we left that day,
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there was actually a sign in
Hebrew with the Jacob's Ladder,
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and we asked a local resident
there to say,
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Yeah, this is where
they believe it happened.
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So very interesting
that God led us there.
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We laid down and I said,
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Well, it says he laid down.
He had a vision.
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So I told the group,
I don't know what to expect,
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but we have
a guitar player here.
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So we're going to play
some guitar
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and just, you guys
close your eyes,
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lay down, find a rock,
just lay down
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and close your eyes
and just see what God shows you.
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I told them,
I've never had this happen.
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I don't know
what's going to happen,
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but maybe you have a vision,
maybe God'll show you
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Heaven, whatever.
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I don't know, but I'm just,
know there's a portal here.
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Let's see what God does.
So we were really experimenting,
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pioneering,
which is kind of my spirit.
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I just want to see
what people don't see,
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but what's in the Bible.
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And so we laid out there
and we worshipped the Lord and,
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and I had an experience, others
did too, we found out later.
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Others had many experiences,
other saw each other in Heaven,
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and we confirmed the stories
separately,
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apart from the people.
It was amazing.
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Jesus told them the same things.
So I'm laying down there
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and I see myself going up,
up, up and boom up,
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I'm in heaven.
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And the first thing I see
is the sea of glass.
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The Bible says
it's like a sea of glass.
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Now when you're experiencing
this, you're like,
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What is it, my mind
just making this up
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because I want it to happen?
Or is this actually happening?
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So, but I went with it
and look what happened.
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I'm there, sea of glass.
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Oh, this is nice, and I'm
zooming along the sea of glass
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almost like a drone.
At the end of the sea of glass
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is Jesus standing there
at the edge of the sea on land,
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and I get closer
and closer to him and
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I'm like,
Oh my gosh, that's Jesus.
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And he just looks at me
and like fire in his eyes.
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He got, the hair's white,
like bright.
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He's all glowing, like white,
like the whitest white.
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And, but there's love,
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but there's also like,
like authority.
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It's like, whoa. And he goes,
Thank you for touching Isaac,
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my people,
which are the Jewish people,
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because we have been
reaching out to them,
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helping them, praying for them,
feeding them,
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miracles, ministering to them,
and I go, Oh, you're welcome,
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Lord, I mean,
yeah, of course, you know.
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And he said to me,
Thank you for touching Isaac.
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And would you also
touch Ishmael?
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And I was shocked
because Ishmael is the Arabs
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and the Muslims
and the, you know, I was like -
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But when you're in
that heavenly experience
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and you're looking at Jesus,
you don't go, Oh
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Jesus, thank you for that word.
Let me pray to Jesus about it.
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If it's Jesus,
if Jesus is telling you
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you don't need to pray to
Jesus if it's from Jesus.
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And I said, OK, yes, Lord,
here I am. Use me.
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Whatever, OK, I'll do it.
And then he says, second thing,
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would you organize a conference
for me in Jerusalem?
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Now again, I'm thinking,
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Is this my brain
thinking this or?
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But I go with it.
OK, yes, Lord.
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What am I going to say,
if I'm in the presence of Jesus,
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never had this happen, the glory
was so strong.
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I said,
Yes, I'll do whatever you -
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I love you, Lord.
And then I come out of it.
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Two days later, a friend
calls me, I'm at the Dead Sea.
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A friend from the states
calls me and says,
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Hey, we're going to do
an outreach
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in another town in Israel,
where there's mostly Arabs.
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We're going to do
a conference there.
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We're going to reach the Arabs.
And then I want you to organize
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another one in Jerusalem
a few days later,
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and we reach more
of the Jewish community.
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And he says the exact words
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Would you organize for me,
a conference in Jerusalem?
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I said, normally I'd say,
no, because I don't live there.
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Who am I to organize
a conference there?
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But Jesus spoke
those exact words to me
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in the open vision
three days ago.
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So that was amazing.
And we did it.
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We did this conference
and we did both sides,
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and it was amazing.
And then a few days later,
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the Muslim world
opened up to me.
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Suddenly, the first time
I ever preached in
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a Muslim country,
I got to preach in Kuwait.
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I got open door to Kuwait.
And it was powerful.
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Muslims were getting saved.
Miracles are happening.
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Egyptian businessmen
were getting touched.
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His little daughter
was radically healed.
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Signs and wonders
were happening.
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People were getting gold teeth
and weight loss
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and cancers healed
and it was awesome.
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And then from that,
God opened Dubai
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and then Bahrain
and then, been to many
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now, Jordan, Indonesia and I
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go to another one very soon here
next month.
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So what happens is, you get
a vision from Heaven.
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You wait on the Lord and God
shows you things.
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So I know it's from the Lord
because it happened
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within days
of the experience of Jesus,
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but you can create a portal
wherever you're at, you,
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maybe you say,
Well, I can't go to Israel,
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but you can have an experience
in your home.
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You can seek the Lord.
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You can say Lord,
I want like Jacob had.
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I want you to create
a portal in my house.
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Let this be a gate of Heaven.
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Let my car be an ark
of the covenant on wheels.
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Wherever I go,
the heavens are open
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and you can create
a place of open Heaven
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by your commitment to the Lord,
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by worshiping him,
by seeking his face.
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And that's what Jacob did,
Jacob says.
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OK, God, oh my gosh,
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this is none other
than, than the House of God.
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This is the gate of Heaven.
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And he said, Lord,
if you stay with me like this
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and help me get back home safely
and get me food
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and on my journey,
I will worship you.
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And he goes, I will start to
give you a tenth of all I have.
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He started tithing there,
he goes,
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I want to give you
like a covenant with you.
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It was like Covenant
was, he was talking about.
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So you can make a covenant
with God in your house
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where you pray, Lord. In Sedona,
we go to this mountain and pray.
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It was this one area, wilderness
area, nobody knew about.
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A few people
would find it, very few.
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It was just me and God there,
and I would have this open
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Heaven portal place with God.
Now I'm back in the Phoenix
area.
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I have a place there
where I pray.
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And so that's my portal.
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That's, when I go there to pray,
it's on my patio.
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Actually, when I go there
to pray the heavens are open,
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I'm looking at the cactus.
There's a mountain behind me,
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but I'm just in
the presence of God.
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And I had to break it in
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because the first time you went,
it's like,
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Oh, it's not open,
like my other place.
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So I pray. I seek God.
I pray, I fast. I, I do
whatever.
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And eventually that becomes
more and more a thin place.
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The more you pray in a place,
it gets thinner and thinner
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and it becomes an open Heaven
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and you can have an open
Heaven place.
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You know, some of you during
the pandemic got locked down
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and that was your, you created
an open
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Heaven because you had
a lot more time to pray.
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But do you know
what this key is?
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Desperateness, hunger.
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I was just so hungry
for more of God.
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I was seeing God move greatly,
and it's like the more I see
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God move,
the hungrier I am for even more.
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And I think it's never going
to stop till I get to heaven
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because there's so much more,
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no matter how much experience
on this Earth.
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Of course,
when you get to heaven,
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it's going to be the full glory
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because you'll be literally in
the presence of the Father,
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Jesus.
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And we are in his presence
in a sense,
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but even more so face to face.
But that was the first time
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I had a face to face encounter
with Jesus, where I believe
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I literally saw Jesus.
He talked to me. He spoke to me.
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I've had dreams
when I was a little kid or
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Jesus appeared, but never,
you know, I was a little kid.
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But this is more real.
It was more like,
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I'm an adult now,
and I understood things.
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And so I get hunger.
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It's like desperateness
and hunger
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create an atmosphere. If there's
a cloud over your city
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and you need rain?
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well, let's say
30 percent chance of rain.
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50 percent chance of rain.
How do you increase
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the chances that
something like this happens?
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These kind of experiences?
Here's how you do it.
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Atmospheric pressure determines
if it's going to rain.
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The more atmospheric pressure
on the cloud,
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the higher the chance of rain.
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So if there's
an 80-90 percent chance of rain,
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that, that's way
more atmospheric pressure.
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So how do you
get atmospheric pressure
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on your desires from the Lord
to be visited by God?
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To see Heaven to see things?
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Hunger,
thirst, faith, desperateness.
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Sometimes that desperateness
manifests as fasting
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and praying for hours
and, and just waiting on him.
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And that increases
the likelihood of that.
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Even dreams and prophecies
over your life
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that, that thing you've been
seeking God
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for will start to happen,
of course,
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is going to be God's will.
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If you want something that
God's not, in his will for you,
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obviously,
that's not going to happen.
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But something that you know
is God's will for you -
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You know, the Holy Spirit
is for you.
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You know, heaven is for you.
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You know we are seated
in heavenly places.
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You can access the throne.
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The Bible says, come boldly
to the throne of grace
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so that heaven is our home
and we can, you know,
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Paul visited Heaven,
you know, round trip.
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I mean, we're all going to visit
Heaven at some point.
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Paul got a round trip, you know,
Paul said,
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I went and saw things now.
He, he said, I know a man,
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but most believe it was himself
talking about this man.
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He didn't want to say
it was himself,
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and then saw things he couldn't
even write, couldn't utter.
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Daniel saw things.
He went to the heavenly realm.
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Some things he wrote,
some things he had to seal up
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and he couldn't talk about.
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John on the island of Patmos
saw the future and Heaven.
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So, you know, Ezekiel,
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the cherubim
and living creatures.
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I mean, this is awesome.
We can experience Heaven.
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Heaven is for us.
Not everyone does.
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But I think those
who have a hunger for it
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and a thirst for it,
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there's maybe more of
a likelihood that you'll have -
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Sure, some just see Heaven
and they never asked for it,
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but others like me,
I was just hungry for that realm
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of, I just want to be closer
to God, really.
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I'm not trying to get
a manifestation
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for reputation sake.
I just want to be where God is
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and just want to be
as close as possible.
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And if there's a doorway
or a place
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where I can get in
that realm easier, I want that.
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So if that's your desire,
just seek the Lord right now.
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Say Lord, I'm hungry.
I'm thirsty. I want more of you.
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I don't have to see an angel
or a vision
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but whatever it looks like,
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just bring your glory,
your presence.
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Draw me closer to you.
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And as I draw closer to you,
Lord, draw closer to me.
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Just pray that right now
in a prayer for you, Lord,
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I pray for hunger and thirst
to increase on your people.
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That would, you know,
it will be desperate,
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not just even hungry,
but desperate.
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When they say, I have to have,
to have a visitation with God,
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I'm so hungry, so needy.
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Increase that hunger, increase
that thirst.
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And as that thirst and
that hunger comes, Lord.
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Give them revelations, visions,
experiences with you,
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Jesus, revelation in the word of
God
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just when they're
reading the word,
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heavenly encounters, Lord God,
like Paul
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had, in the name of Jesus.
Bring it to your people.
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Bring a new realm of heaven,
a new realm of glory
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that they've never
experienced before.
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I pray even, I could feel it
all over my body right now,
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as I'm talking about this,
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something is shifting in
the atmosphere right now.
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There's an, Heaven is opening
over your home,
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over your car,
on your cell phone,
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wherever you're watching this,
in your computer, on your TV,
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the presence of God
is invading your home,
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and he wants to make Heaven
real, right where you're at
home.
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You even are going
to notice your body's healed,
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we didn't even pray for healing
but suddenly your body's healed
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because Heaven showed up.
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So, I love you guys
and, be hungry and desperate.
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That's the biggest key
I can give you.
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Desperate, not curious.
Oh, I'm curious.
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No. Hunger, desperateness.
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Where you spend time with God
until he shows up.
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I'm David Herzog.
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I approve this message
and I will see you next time.
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