Our Guest Anna Rountree
Sid: My guest by way of telephone I’m speaking to her at her home in Moravian Falls, North Carolina is Anna Rountree. And most people have not heard of her but she’s had 100’s of visitations to heaven and God instructed her to write it in a book. Although they haven’t met her her books are getting around literally around the book. And what the do is they increase your hunger to know God intimately, increase your hunger to not miss what God has for you in this life. And one of the things Anna that kind of well overwhelms me is with all of your visitations to heaven and with being a writer, which you are, and God’s used your gift for His purposes. I’m just amazed that you don’t have your pen and pencil and are asking 1000’s of questions instead you just want to be with Him. What is it like to be with the Lord.
Anna: Oh! Oh it’s the most wonderful thing in the world and to be with the Father also it is I mean such pure love it’s very healing love.
Sid: Had you ever experienced that type of love this side of heaven?
Anna: Oh absolutely not! No, no nothing like it believe me. Truly we come from a background that didn’t believe that you could know the Father. You know it says “He lives in unapproachable light.” He certainly does live in unapproachable light, but I believe that not knowing Him had to do with His face. I believe the Jewish people understood that “You cannot see My face” seeing the face is knowing more about the person. But you certainly can because many people in the Bible saw the Father on the throne. Saw His hands and His feet and the clothing. So other people have seen these parts of it but not His face.
Sid: Now is there a difference in the love that you actually from a feeling viewpoint an experiential viewpoint that you feel when you’re with God the Father verses God the Son?
Anna: Well in a way no but in a way yes because He is the Son and He is our eternal Husband we are betrothed to Him now and it is possible that we can also go into a formal betrothal with Him. And the Father is very Fatherly you see and He acts like a Father and reacts like a Father. The Son acts and talks in a different way, they have different personalities, but as far as the essence no because the Lord emptied Himself it says in order to receive everything from the Father and let that pass through Him to others. So His expression is only what the Father shows Him only what the Father gives Him to give does He give. He laid that down before the foundation of the world in order that love the Father and all of the Father had might pass through Him.
Sid: I’ve got a question in your teaching on the betrothal, which is very very important.
Anna: Yes.
Sid: You actually talk about things that are in a traditional Jewish betrothal not the wedding but the betrothal itself like a Tallit, and you talk about what’s the Chupa in the wedding. And did you see these things in heaven before you found out that they are part of traditional Judaism?
Anna: Oh goodness yes, yes! (Excitedly)
Sid: Did you actually see a Tallit a prayer shawl in heaven and the chupa?
Anna: Yes, well the Father made that canopy over us with His hands so He was the canopy and it was the joining of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit at the same time in this deeper commitment. So the three were there as three in one and one in three were there, right at the same time right at the same place. So I only see when this happened to me Sid I mean it was the most extraordinary thing and I only shared it with my husband because I had never heard anything like this in my entire life, but it didn’t make any difference it was a very private thing that I put into my journals you know
Sid: not realizing that the whole world would eventually be able to read it.
Anna: No idea that the Lord was going to say after the first book “I want you to write this second book.
Sid: Anna I’m going to get some people upset and you don’t want that you’ve got to tell me about your first experience of going to heaven.
Anna: Oh, oh my first experience.
Sid: That was with Albert.
Anna: Yes he was sitting we were praying we had…you had mentioned Bob Jones and we…Bob Jones had given us a year before a prophetic word. Now we had known Bob Jones all these years but he really doesn’t prophesy to us we’re just friends of his you know. But at this right before we left Kansas City he was at a party a dinner party and he gave us a prophetic word that during…well he didn’t say what it was going to be. What he did he said that we were going to have a visitation and we would be in a cabin. He had a young person come over and kneel down right beside him and said “Now you look at them and tell me when they’ll have this visitation?” And the person said “I see 2 headlights kind of things” and he said “And what else” he said I see kind of a tree with lights on it. And he said “When will they have the visitation?” And of course none of us we were just dense as we could be and he said “Chanukah a Feast of Lights.” Well he did not know that we had booked a cabin in Arkansas and we were going to be in it at Chanukah, but it didn’t happen it was the second Chanukah like the 2 lights for 2 years.
Sid: Well you must have been very disappointed when it didn’t happen. (Laughing)
Anna: (Laughing) We were you know Sid we were sitting in these straight back chairs facing the front door because we didn’t know what a visitation looked like.
Sid: (Laughing)
Anna: I mean we just didn’t know we just sat there doing Chanukah facing the door and we you know well this is about the way it is with us we don’t ever have anything unusual happen to us. (Laughing) And the next year we were Albert were in Kansas City to teach for the pastors up there and someone at that party said “Are you ready for Chanukah? And we said “Well we didn’t have a visitation.” They said “No this Chanukah two lights remember the two lights.” And we were in a cabin in Texas then (Laughing). When Chanukah rolled around we were just sitting there praying and I must say we were not in any great belief that anything would happen and we prayed like we prayed every day, and suddenly as we were praying I saw this angel standing before me. And the angel was standing in front of very very tall light blue curtain from that had light behind it. And the angel said “Come forward.” And I got up in my spirit I’d never done that before, I got up in my spirit and followed that angel and the two other angels parted the curtain and we walked through that curtain there was another curtain beyond that. And after we went through the first curtain I began having an internal argument with myself. I said “This can’t be (you know) this can’t be a visitation, a visitation is when Jesus comes to see you and this can’t be a visitation!” And the angel said “Stop.” Putting up his hand like this stop! So I was arguing with myself and I said “Wow even though this isn’t what is a visitation it’s not something that I’ve done I think I’m just going to go on and do it.” You know and the angel said “Come forward.” Because he read my thought you see. The next set of curtains were parted and greater light was behind that and then the third set opened and there was nothing but blazing white light. And I knew though I saw nothing that first time that I was in the presence of God the Father and a voice came from all of that light and said “What would you have?” Well I didn’t know what to do but continue praying what we had been praying every single day Sid. I mean that’s what we’d prayed every day and let me tell you we haven’t prayed since because I would pray a few things and He would say “Done, proceed and I would just go on and tell Him those other things and He would say “Done.” And I thought “My word I am standing before someone who can say they can actually do what I am asking here.” But I wasn’t like proclaiming it but I was actually talking to my Father. Well I’d really like this you know and that.
Sid: Well when He said done we’re they actually done?
Anna: What it meant was that in the spiritual realm it is done it is He is bringing it about you know He is bringing these things about.
Sid: Okay could you give me an example of one thing?
Anna: Well we asked for more of the gifts of the Spirit is one thing and He’s bringing that about. We wanted more of Christ and that’s not done in a day you know.
Sid: Oops we’re out of time.
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