Sid: My guest, will get you red hot for the Messiah, she’s from South Africa. Her name is Retha McPherson. On June 19th 2004 a car was almost hidden from them and it wasn’t moving and they were about ready to crash into this car and her husband pulled off the road and the two sons went flying out of the car. One son was okay, one of the reasons he was okay is later Retha found out that Jesus literally caught Him. He said, her youngest son Joshua said that he was literally caught in the air. But, the older son was so injured he was on the other side of the road. Retha it was dark and he wasn’t crying out. How did you find your second son?
Retha: He was already in a coma at that stage when I found him. I was standing where the vehicle was and I was crying out to the Lord. I said, Lord help me and I was just praying the blood of Jesus. And then the Holy Spirit just guide me and I just went and my husband said he would never be that far. So, I ran opposite the highway to the other side and I found him just right there. So, this is how faithful God is.
Sid: Okay, now on yesterday’s broadcast you’re in the hospital. You’re son’s a coma; they say he’ll never be normal. He had brain injury and did they say he would come out of the coma? What was the exact prognosis?
Retha: You know they gave the brain injury, they say how bad it is and for the extreme bad they say this is extreme brain injury. And then you know that this is bad. It is just a question of time. And they will always tell you you cannot say with a brain injury so you can never know with a brain injury. So we were just waiting for that time.
Sid: Okay, but they prepared you for him to be in a vegetative state.
Retha: Oh yes, to tell you the truth; actually prepared us so that he could die at any moment. So it was not only the vegetarian state it was death, we were not sure he was going to make it.
Sid: You were desperate, you didn’t even want to leave the hospital because you were afraid he would die and you wouldn’t be there. And so you take your coat and you put it over your head and you do a very Jewish thing, we believe it was a tallit or prayer shawl when Jesus said go into your closet and pray. So you pulled the coat over your head so that you have privacy to pray and you had a vision. Out of curiosity, had you ever had a vision before?
Retha: Oh, never. This was the first time so today I know that it’s not for elderly ladies at eighty-six; I know that it’s for everybody.
Sid: So you have this vision, but it’s on the blood of Jesus. And on yesterday’s broadcast, you actually saw the crucifixion you saw the veil being rent in the temple. Everything and you didn’t even understand these things because although you were a church goer you were into your career. You were Mrs. South Africa. You had that title and you had a successful business and then God starts speaking to you about the Blood of Jesus.
Retha: Yes, He first took me into the outer court and then He spoke to me about my works. Because me and charity we had a good walk in life and I thought charity was the way. But, Jesus is the way you see. Works can’t get you there. And He explained to me that all our works will one day come in front of Him and some build on the foundation which is Jesus with gold and emerald stones. But some with grass and hay. And he says to me, all these things are going to come through the fire and then we’ll see what’s left. You can just go to Daniel 7, you can see what’s His throne like. You can go to Revelation see His eyes as fire. You know He is fire and I know today, God is a Holy Fire. And then after that He took me into the Holy Place and in the Holy Place I saw a huge bath. I didn’t know it then but I know it today. The young Jewish bride, when she would go to marry she had to go to the miveh.
Sid: That’s where we get baptism from by the way. The miveh.
Retha: Oh, alright. So what ever happened to her before hand, if she went through the miveh she is clean and holy. And there God spoke to me and said, you need the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus, you need to be washed by the blood of Jesus daily and He said to me. He said the blood of Jesus is the only thing that can ever set you free. You need my blood. Now I went into the blood and as a butterfly I came out and all the rest stayed in the blood and the scripture from Hebrews came to me. My blood blots out all your iniquities your sins and iniquities. And I was free, I tell you I was like an eagle and there I realized that this is why Christians are still in bondage because they don’t understand the blood.
Sid: And the thing that was so amazing is would you say the church you went to was a church who taught how to be born again?
Retha: Absolutely. You know there wasn’t another church to go because this is the best you can get I mean. This is charismatic and everything but there’s a difference you see. I was in the church but I had logos knowledge and logos knowledge just gives works. But if you have Rhema word, which is Spirit that gives you an intimate love relationship with the King.
Sid: So you’re in your prayer closet, you have this vision; tell me about a woman that came to you shortly in the hospital that identified herself as a prophetess. What did she say to you?
Retha: Yes, she came to me and said she was Prophetess Theresa and I didn’t understand anything about prophets. The first thing I said was I’m absolutely fine but I was so drawn to her by the love of Jesus that came out of her that when I found myself when I was next to her she starts prophesying things about my life that I didn’t to repent. And I knew then she was so correct and you see this is why Jesus wants us all to daily die in our self. That’s why Paul says that you need to daily die in your self is daily go through the blood daily dying self. And I had to repent; like the Lord says repent the Kingdom of God is at hand. The Kingdom of Heaven is a repent and the repent thing. The other day I was in a church and God said to me before you start let them repent; because the Holy Spirit cannot flow when people don’t repent.
Sid: Now what did she say to you about do you really believe your son will be healed? Explain that.
Retha: She just said to me, do you believe Christ can raise up your child from dead? I said no I tell you the truth, the doctor says he’s like, there is no hope. She says yes, I know that’s what the doctor says but do you believe in Jesus Christ. And what I released that day is I did not know God. I did not know His character. You know when Moses had to trust Him God said to him one word; He said to him I’m a God of mercy. I’ve heard about that God but I did not know Him. And that’s why people have to go back to the character of God. And yea, I did not know Him. So she took me back and…
Sid: Are you telling me that you could have gone to a Billy Graham rally, said a prayer with Billy and still not known God?
Retha: Oh yeah, many people can do that.
Sid: Now Retha, this prophetess asked you a question about your son, what was that?
Retha: She asked me if I truly believe that Jesus can heal my son and he will be alive again. And I really didn’t believe it because I did not know Jesus. You cannot believe someone if you don’t know him. And I said no and she was asking me, have you heard about the man that was raised from the dead? And this was a man from Nigeria. I haven’t heard about that. I said to her if this is true why haven’t the whole world heard about this man? And she said, but this is true.
Sid: This guy actually was in a mortuary and they embalmed him and he still came back to life. Now that’s pretty wild but go ahead.
Retha: And I also released I don’t understand what faith is about. But the reason why I did not understand faith was because I did not understand Christ’s love for me. And to take that fact you don’t understand the blood. You don’t understand Calvary cause that is how much He loved us. And if you understand His love for you you can believe in Him. And that’s why you can give your whole life to Him; ever thing you have. And then as she walked this road to me I just grasped something and then after this visitation that God gave me of Himself and Christ, I really truly believed how much He loved me. To tell you the truth though, I realized that day it doesn’t matter if my son was dead or alive, it wasn’t about that. It’s all about the Lord, it’s all about God, it’s all about Yeshua. And I knew He wants me to know how much He loved us. You see He didn’t need to save my son’s life to show me how much he loved me. He did that all ready on Calvary. This is the best.
Sid: Retha why did you write this book “A Message from God?”
Retha: My son went to Heaven and he came back with a message. And the message was every day the same; Mommy, you have to go tell the world that Jesus is alive. Go and do that until I can do that myself. And all the writings everyday was about Jesus and what he saw in Heaven and the message of what God has for all of us. And the message is to tell you the truth, is that Jesus is alive and he wants your life.
Sid: What was the first message your son gave you because he started writing these messages from God. What was the first one?
Retha: I can’t really think the first one but I remember he says that he saw children in Heaven and he gave us the addresses of the two children he saw and I really, this was really one too much for me. I didn’t understand this, and he gave the addresses and the words he says is his parents, your children do not want to come back. They are so happy in Heaven with Jesus but they want you to give your life to Him because you are not ready.
Sid: He also said to you in the book you talk about this, He said He would not have returned if you didn’t give Him to God. How did He know that you gave Him to God after the accident?
Retha: Yeah, I asked him how do you know that I surrendered him to God, and he said when I asked him that, he said remember the accident, when you was laying over my body, Jesus came and he picked me up and took me to Heaven and there you were with Jesus all the time and this is where the messages came from. He was writing a letter to his friends, saying thank you that you prayed for me, he said Jesus showed me how much you trust Him and I want to tell you He is so proud of you of your faith.
Sid: Let me tell you Mishpochah, chills will go up and down. There is such an anointing on this book it really is a message from God.