Sid: Hello, Sid Roth here with Gary and Kathy Oates, and Gary and Kathy just want to see what the Bible says, they go to Brazil, he takes his shoes off in a meeting because the Spirit of God told him to do it, it’s dirty, he is resisting, had he not done that then the next thing wouldn’t have happened, he literally finds himself out of his body, he sees angels, he see Jesus, he comes back into his body and what happened next?
Gary: Well
Sid: Oh you told me your hand started burning.
Gary: Yes, my hands were burning, it was like my left hand was on fire and I didn’t feel like I could take it any longer and it was right then that Jesus let go of my hands and my spirit came back into my body. Now because my spirit had been in the presence of the Lord like that when my spirit came back into my body my body was like it exploded.
Sid: Now Kathy, what did he say to you after that?
Kathy: He couldn’t talk.
Sid: What do you mean he couldn’t talk; he could do a good job of speaking.
Gary: Listen, I was completely wasted, I couldn’t I was laying on the floor, it was like I was nailed to the floor, I couldn’t, I could hardly move, I was crying and I was saying, “God, I don’t understand all this stuff, I just want more of you.” I felt so little and so insignificant in the presence of Almighty God that it was the most incredible, awesome experience I had ever, I had ever had.
Sid: Okay, next day, fast forward, what happened?
Gary: Next day I got to the meeting early, the power of God hit me, I was on the front row, I hat the floor and again, I could not move and I was thinking what is going on, because I had difficulty speaking that whole day, I mean I couldn’t even get words out of my mouth, the presence of God was on me continuously during that time, I was weeping. Well I was on the floor and I saw the worship team as they began to worship and all of a sudden everything changed and God took me to a place, I saw a gold path, gold steps, a gold platform.
Sid: Now you have to understand he ahs never had experiences like this before, this is more like the Bible than what goes on with most religious Christians, so who do you want to choose, do you want to choose what a phenomena that occurs that is similar to the Bible or would you like to take a look at religion? Me, I like the Bible, go ahead.
Gary: Well I saw the gold platform, gold steps, on top of this top platform I saw a very large throne, I didn’t see anybody sitting on the throne, but to the right of the throne I saw Jesus standing there, he was wearing different clothes this time, and he had a scepter in his hand, and from his waist up the brilliance of light coming from him was overwhelming, I could barely look at it, and honestly Sid, I thought I was going to die. In fact, I thought you know, maybe I had died and gone to heaven because it was that real. Right then I came back into my body and I was writhing in agony on the floor, I had a look of terror on my face, I was screaming but no sound was coming out of my mouth. And Kathy saw me in that condition.
Kathy: Right.
Gary: And she was hollering you know, do something, do something, to the other guys around me.
Kathy: Right, it scared me.
Gary: And they said turn.
Sid: Did you think he was having a heart attack?
Kathy: I didn’t know what was happening, you have to understand you know, coming into a foreign country and then all of a sudden, Gary, I had never, never known him to be afraid about anything, not one thing in his life, he has always been positive, courageous, and to see the terror on his face, it was petrifying to me.
Sid: Okay, what happened next?
Gary: Well I was, they didn’t realize what was happening to me, the reason I had the look of terror on my face and was screaming in agony was because I was so acutely aware of my sinfulness in the presence of a holy God that it just brought terror to me and I was crying out, “God for give me, God forgive me.” And I felt just the cleansing of God coming over my life, it was just like, it was just like being thrown under a waterfall and totally cleansed, not just outwardly but inwardly, and on the inside again I was
Sid: We don’t realize who far removed we are from where God created us to be, we don’t realize, I mean this is a word you don’t hear often, sinful, we don’t realize how sinful we are unless God puts a spotlight on us.
Gary: That’s exactly right. Well my heart of repentance was met with total forgiveness from the Father, and I was on the floor this time for two hours, I couldn’t get up, I couldn’t move. I was weeping, when I tried to get up I couldn’t walk out, a couple of the people had to help me, I ended up in the very back of the church on the pack row sitting there and Kathy was asking me you know, what happened, what happened, and I couldn’t even tell her because I wanted to process all of this and I said, “I’ll tell you later, I’m okay.” But I was shaking and vibrating so much in the chair I could hardly sit in the chair.
Sid: So they bring you up on the platform and what type of miracles were released when you were there?
Gary: Well I mean it was amazing,they had to carry me up on the platform in a chair; I couldn’t walk up there myself.
Kathy: He couldn’t talk.
Gary: I couldn’t talk, and I was with Randy Clark, and Randy, he came over to ask me what had been happening. I couldn’t speak, he had Kathy come up, Kathy told what I had told her and the place came unglued. It was like a tornado just swept through the place, people were falling, they were crying out, people were being sovereignly healed, there was such a strong manifest presence of God in the place.
Sid: Were many people healed?
Gary: All over the place, right after that, once I was finally able to talk, this was a little later on, people came up for prayer, I was able to stand up because only by the grace of God, and I began to pray for people, there was a long line, every person I prayed for was instantly healed, it was like there was a whole different dynamic.
Sid: Listen Gary and Kathy, there is a glory, that same glory is in this studio right now, did you hear what he just said, every single person he prayed for was healed.