SID: Hello. Sid Roth here with Tony Kemp. And Tony, I have to tell you, when I interviewed you on the radio I felt such love coming out of you. I felt such a peace of God coming out of you. It provoked me to jealousy. It literally did. And I want to walk in that and I want you to be walking in that kind of love. Because when you’re walking in that kind of love you’re walking in God. And when you’re walking with God you’ve got it all. And when you’re not walking in God you don’t have anything. Tony, you said something happened to you in 1989. Tell me about that.
TONY: Four o’clock in the morning in the month of December 1989, I had an angel come to me. And immediately Sid, my spirit left my body and we went up through the heavens. One thing I should add, Sid, is that there were a number of other souls who had departed from their bodies. But their destination was obviously not Heaven. But the angel took me into Heaven.
SID: Just out of curiosity, how did you know their destination wasn’t Heaven?
TONY: There was a port, an opening, a tunnel that they went into. And when you’re out of your body all your senses are, how should say this, you have the ability to see further, hear more, feel more, and I could see that they were going to the lake of fire.
SID: Could you see their reactions?
TONY: No, because they were, I could see their departure into the tunnel toward the lake of fire.
SID: Okay. So in the meantime, you’re going up, they’re going into the tunnel. What’s happening to you?
TONY: The angel and I are speeding through the heavens very, very quickly, so fast that I really couldn’t see the planets or the stars. And then we landed in Heaven. I do want to say this to people because I think this is very important. People need to really give themselves to Messiah Jesus and go to Heaven. And here’s the first reason why. There’s such joy there. The apostle Peter said, “It is joy unspeakable and full of glory.” My experience, I would say it this way. It’s joy indescribable and full of glory. And the minute I landed in Heaven, Sid, this joy exploded on the inside of me. Yes, there’s joy. If I could say this, the Lord is full of joy Himself, okay. And the people are full of joy. But this joy exploded on the inside of me and it was completely overwhelming. And so when the Hebrew writer says, “The joy of the Lord is your strength”, it’s really true. I mean, there’s a life in Heaven. And so this joy is what people are looking for on the earth. And the key to this joy is giving yourself to the Messiah Jesus and developing a relationship with him. So that’s the first thing I want to say to people. The next thing I want to say to people is I was taken to the heavenly tabernacle, the heavenly temple. And there was a door that was, and the only way I know how to describe this, Sid, is to say it was open and closed at the same time. It was only open by appointment only. And the angel stood before me and he walked through the door, and I just knew I’m supposed to follow this angel. When I follow this angel into this heavenly tabernacle, this heavenly temple, I’m in a courtroom. And there is God Almighty sitting in the seat of the judge, the thrown of God. And I could not see God Almighty clearly. I saw this brilliant white light, this being of light and this glory cloud that surrounded Him and I knew that I was in the presence of God Almighty. The next thing I did, Sid, is I looked to my right because I just felt, it’s an interesting thing about when you’re in Heaven, sometimes you just know things. You just know what you’re supposed to do. And I looked to my right and there I saw the Messiah Jesus as my heavenly attorney, as my heavenly representative, as my great high priest, and as my intercessor. And Jesus is the loveliest person I’ve ever seen.
SID: So you were like in a heavenly courtroom.
TONY: A heavenly courtroom.
SID: And you were given insight into what we’re going to be judged on here on Earth.
TONY: What God said to me was this. He said, “Take notes and learn.” He said, “Now the time has come for judgment to begin at the House of God.” And instantly I understood that what God meant was that He was measuring people. Now it’s very important for me to say this, Sid. God was not mad. God was not upset. God was not angry. God, His heart was full of love. But yet I had this incredible sense of His absolute holiness and righteousness and He wanted me to understand His standard, as it were, of judgment. And it had to do with love. And that’s what began to change on the inside of me. And so this love really was vertical and it was horizontal. When I say vertical, I mean how we worship God through the Messiah Jesus, and it’s horizontal in terms of our relationships. And so the Messiah Jesus said this: “You should love the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, your mind and in your strength, and in the very same way I’ve loved you, the very same way I’ve loved you, love each other.” And so what the Father stressed to me is He was very concerned about people, about His sons and daughters that we got our worship right and our relationships right.
SID: Now when we have our worship and our relationship right, and what Tony just said was the Sh’mah: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and love your neighbors, yourself, worshiping God and relationships and love with one another. It creates an atmosphere for miracles. Tell me one miracle that has occurred when you’ve been ministering. Just one that comes to mind.
TONY: Oh my. There are so many. I will give you this example. There was a young man from California. He was not a believer in the Messiah Jesus. He was just a typical person, a sinner. Did not know God. He attended a church service and God was healing people. And so he was born deaf. And so–
SID: By the way, that’s a Messianic miracle. That’s why they were so amazed that Yeshua, the king of the Jews prayed for people that were born deaf and they got their hearing back.
SID: And so I called him forward and I said, “If God gives you your hearing will you surrender your life to the Messiah Jesus?” And he said, “Yes.” I said, “Do you really mean that?” He said, “Yes.” And so he told me, “I don’t believe anything is gonna happen.” So I prayed for him in the name of the Messiah Jesus. And then when I tested, of course I tested his hearing to make sure he was deaf beforehand, and when I tested his hearing after the prayer, he literally leaped backward and his eyes opened up ‘cause he could hear out of a deformed deaf ear and instantly he gives his life to the Messiah Jesus. And so we see miracles like this all the time.
SID: I want to hear about the person that lost 260 pounds supernaturally. Don’t go away we’ll be right back after this word.
