SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Paul Keith Davis. Paul, you were telling us about Branham, and when you studied Branham, you were almost under a mandate. But then you studied many other great people besides Branham. Why do you do this?
PAUL: Many of the people that lived in that generation, and even the early part of the century are somewhat controversial, or some think so anyway. And there’s some misunderstanding perhaps about some of their ministries. But one thing is clear: they walked in God’s manifest presence, they walked in power, they delivered people that were oppressed, and they won the lost. And that’s what we’re ultimately after. In many ways it seemed as though some of those people in that generation were born out of season. What I mean by that is, many in their day didn’t understand their ministry, but the Lord said “That’s because they were prototypes of what’s to come.”
SID: So can you see a hundred thousand young people operating like William Branham in the last days, which we’re in now?
PAUL: I believe there’ll be a company of people that will function in that level of anointing with a manifest presence. Because this is what William Branham, I believe, ministered in. It wasn’t just a gift of the word of knowledge, it was Hebrews 4:12, the Living Word, discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart. And we’re all to be anointed with the Living Word. When I say the Living Word, that’s the manifest presence. The Bible, in the Greek, calls it the perusia. That’s the manifest presence of God anointing a body of people to discern the thoughts and intents of peoples’ hearts. Why? Not to impress them, but to let them know surely God is in this place, as it says in the Bible. And to provoke the lost to accept the Lord. If we reveal secrets that they know, that no one knew but them and God, that will get their attention.
SID: Tell me about another person, Marie Ruth Edder. And I love the way he says it, these are prototypes, which means these, and we’ll get into it in a few minutes, these angels that gather are cooperating with us as we cooperate with them to accomplish these end-time destinies. So tell me about Marie Ruth Edder.
PAUL: Marie Ruth Edder lived in the early part of the 20th century, and was probably one of the most powerful people of the early church. She functioned in a way similar to William Branham. Her meetings were known for the glory. The glory of God would come into the tents. She traveled in a covered wagon from different parts of the country. It’s reported that many times people would be slain in the spirit 10 and 15 miles from her tent as they walked the streets of the cities. Now this was reported, not in Christian media, but in secular media.
SID: So you’re saying that like 10 or 15 miles, the presence of God would come on someone and they’d be flattened like a pancake?
PAUL: That has been recorded in secular media. And, many of the miracles were recorded.
SID: You know what you told me when we did a radio interview, which I thought was so fascinating, is how she learned the Bible.
PAUL: She had an experience, she said, as a young lady. She had had a lot of hardship; had buried some of her children. Always wanted to be in ministry, but couldn’t because of the hardship of the age in which she lived. She tells in her journal about one day when she turned around in her little cabin and there stood the Lord Jesus Christ, right there in her midst. He asked her a question. He said “Why aren’t you in My vineyard?” She said “Well Lord, I’m a woman.” I was pretty sure the Lord knew that when He showed up, but apparently He didn’t have a problem with that, so He asked her again, “Why aren’t you in My vineyard?” She said “Lord, I don’t know Your Word.” She said – she wrote in her journal – that the Lord drew her attention to a spot on the wall and she looked, and there, supernaturally imposed on the wall, was an open Bible, and she said the glory of God was emanating from it. And she said the moment her eyes fell on it, she understood it from Genesis to Revelations. So the Lord asked again the third time, “Why aren’t you in My vineyard?” She said “Lord, You give me the power You gave those Galilean fishermen, and I’ll go.” He did, and she did. And so 44 years of miracle ministry without one tainted thing taking place in her whole life.
SID: So there’ll be a company of people that will be moving after the same miraculous ministry that she had.
PAUL: I believe that’s the promise of God.
SID: That’s why you’re studying all these people, because they’re prototypes of what’s available to us. Tell me about that vision you had of the lid coming off of hell.
PAUL: A year and a half ago I had the most impacting, one of the most impacting revelations, where the Lord allowed me to see into the spirit realm, and I saw that a restraining force had been removed, because we’re in the end times. A lid, if you will. It looked like a lead manhole cover was lifted, and I saw evil spirits coming out of it. It was very terrifying. It was one of these experiences that I was actually audibly articulating while it was happening. My wife was listening to me. She didn’t know what was taking place. But I saw these evil beings coming out from hell, if you will, and they began to manifest themselves in the bedrooms of people on the earth. I saw them teaching people how to walk in realms of darkness; realms of evil that perhaps we’ve not seen in our generation.
SID: Just out of curiosity, do you think sometimes these demons operate through secular television programs?
PAUL: Clearly. Clearly they do.
SID: As you’re describing that, I can picture them just manipulating the performers on secular TV to say certain things and release that into them.
PAUL: The media is number one. Prince of the power of the air. And certainly, they’re using every form of media to try to present a perverted, distorted point of view that’s keeping this generation from seeing the call that we have placed upon us. The enemy is trying to circumvent the harvest. That’s what he’s trying to do, and he’s using every means possible. And as I saw these beings coming out of this realm of darkness, it seemed as though I couldn’t take anymore. I mean it was so overbearing. And then suddenly I heard a voice, an audible voice, come out of heaven, saying “And the sons of light must respond in like fashion.” And I saw angels coming out of heaven, specially prepared angels, just for the end of the age generation. And I watched the angels as they were manifesting in peoples’ bedrooms, like they did in the Bible, like they did with Paul and as they did with Peter And I watched these heavenly messengers beginning to teach the end-time people how to walk in realms of glory, realms of revelation, realms of power, to begin to bring in the harvest. And so what we’re seeing then is this acceleration that is taking place between light and darkness for this end-time confrontation.
SID: You know, it’s so clear, I think someone that doesn’t know God could see it as clear as someone that knows God. I mean I’ve never seen such a contrast as we have today.
PAUL: And it’s going to only get worse. Only worse. And it’s time. If we don’t respond, if the church doesn’t respond, God’s people doesn’t respond to the needs of the generation, who will?
SID: Tell me about these angels that gather. What do they do, and how can we cooperate with them?
PAUL: The angels that gather are here, I believe, for multiple purposes, and we’re discovering that the harvest is way more than just evangelism, just winning souls, although that’s paramount, that’s very important. There is a preparation that is taking place with a company of people to begin to pick up mantles, if you want to use that term. Pick up commissions. Like Joshua picked up the mantle of Moses. Elisha carried on the work of Elijah. Very much the same thing. So the angels that gather, the Bible says in Matthew 13, are sent, number one, to remove stumbling blocks. Well, our first thought is “Well, there’s stumbling blocks out in front of us”, but we’re discovering most of the stumbling blocks to our destiny are within us.
SID: Right.
PAUL: And so they’re putting their finger, God is putting His finger on issues of our own lives that are preventing us from walking in the highest realm of our calling. And so right now I believe these angels have been released to people…
SID: So they’re going to clean us out. After we’re cleaned out, what are they going to gather to us?
PAUL: The next aspect, if you want to put it that way, will be the anointing, the equipping, of the people. Once we’re clean, then God’s going to put a mantle on us, an anointing of power, an anointing of revelation. Then, they’re going to work with us to bring in the lost. I have seen, we have numerous testimonies of us releasing the angels that gather.
SID: That’s why I have this book that we’re making available, “Angels That Gather.” Tell me briefly that testimony.
PAUL: Happened just last week. One of the most encouraging ones. I was in a meeting in Texas. We released the angels that gather. This young man, he was 30 years old, his mom and dad were in the meeting, and as we prayed to release the angels that gather, their son who I met, was steeped in drug culture, the drug culture, other things that he didn’t need to be in, and was just about to make a move to Las Vegas to completely give himself over to darkness. Two weeks after we prayed the prayer and release the angels that gather, he said out of nowhere his heart just became so provoked and pricked that he came to know the Lord. He’s now walking with the Lord Jesus, training for ministry.
SID: Pray for a release, right now for the seer anointing, to be able to see in the invisible world.
PAUL: I will do it. Outstanding. So Lord Jesus, right now, according to Your Word, You said that You would send the angels that gather to co-labor with us, to prepare us, and then to release us into this age of the harvest, and we do that just now. We release these angels to work with us. Lord, we release them to bring in prodigal sons and daughters, to bring in prodigal husbands and wives, and to release us into this purpose. Grant it, God. And Lord, I ask that the seer anointing be released, in Jesus’ name.
SID: Done!