>> Hi, I'm David Herzog, and I want to talk to you today
about an experience I had in Israel
where I went to the third Heaven and it was pretty amazing.
I had never experienced that before,
I had been in prayer, had seen visions,
have had dreams and, but never had like an open vision,
or never saw Jesus like, directly.
And we were in Bethel because I read Genesis 20:8.
I was reading it while living on the mission field and it said,
And this is the gate of heaven,
the story of Jacob where the ladder comes,
and he sees angels ascending and descending and ends it with,
and this is the gate of Heaven. Gate
is a portal or a doorway. And I said,
Oh my gosh, that, it doesn't say it was at that time.
It said, This is the gate of heaven.
So I realized this is, this
one of the geographical locations on the Earth
where there's literally an open
Heaven, a geographical portal on the Earth that leads to heaven.
And I realized later,
because it was one of the covenant cities in the Bible.
There's like four key cities that are covenant
that God made with Israel.
So I thought, Man, I want to go there,
so we go to Israel like we do,
and we led a tour and an outreach.
And I told the tour company, Hey, I want to go to Bethel now.
At the time, there was the intifada,
the war and there was bomb, you know, suicide bombings.
That was very dangerous time, like 2004,
I think it was, around that time or maybe 2003, 2004.
And they said,
Oh, you can't really, you can go there, but it's dangerous.
You gotta pass Ramallah.
You have to ride a bulletproof bus
if you go, you have to have a soldier with a machine gun
if you go, and it will cost more money.
He's trying to discourage me,
and the more he talked, the more excited I got.
OK, let's do it. Yes. And he goes, Sir,
I'm trying to discourage you from going.
Your tour guy doesn't want to go, I said,
But we want to go, please, I'll pay for it,
whatever, I want to go.
So we go, we rent the bus. I stand up on the bus.
Hey, everybody, we're going to Bethel today
and right away, the tour guy says, sit down.
I go, why?
He goes, because the windows are only bulletproof halfway.
You're standing up.
So if you were to get shot by a sniper, you'd still get killed.
Oh, OK. So I sat down, grabbed the mic on the bus
and did, you know, explained what was going on.
We're going to Bethel. We're going to do this.
So basically we risk our life to get an experience with God
because we're so hungry.
We go past the checkpoints. We get to the settlements.
So Bethel is like an Israeli town
where Israelis have settled there and it's a contested area.
So, you know, some people don't want them there, some do.
But it's a biblical area
where God gave to Jacob and his people,
This is your land. I'll give it to you.
So we're there. We don't know where we're going.
We're just in, somewhere in Bethel.
There's homes and some hills,
and no one knows, the tour guide doesn't know,
because tourists don't go there generally.
Only now, maybe. Tour guide didn't know,
and Israeli soldier did know.
So we're just driving around aimlessly.
And then we see this big water tower and the bus driver goes,
I'm going to park next to that water tower.
You guys just, just do your thing here.
We don't know what we're looking for here.
OK. So we park. And then there's a dirt road
that goes like towards the end of a camp, like a mountain.
And we go down this hill and then you can oversee the valley.
You can see the other places. Beautiful view.
And there's this flat, flat surface.
And we go, though this is perfect, found out later,
that actually was probably where it happened
because archeologists have discovered something there.
And when we left that day,
there was actually a sign in Hebrew with the Jacob's Ladder,
and we asked a local resident there to say,
Yeah, this is where they believe it happened.
So very interesting that God led us there.
We laid down and I said,
Well, it says he laid down. He had a vision.
So I told the group, I don't know what to expect,
but we have a guitar player here.
So we're going to play some guitar
and just, you guys close your eyes,
lay down, find a rock, just lay down
and close your eyes and just see what God shows you.
I told them, I've never had this happen.
I don't know what's going to happen,
but maybe you have a vision, maybe God'll show you
Heaven, whatever.
I don't know, but I'm just, know there's a portal here.
Let's see what God does. So we were really experimenting,
pioneering, which is kind of my spirit.
I just want to see what people don't see,
but what's in the Bible.
And so we laid out there and we worshipped the Lord and,
and I had an experience, others did too, we found out later.
Others had many experiences, other saw each other in Heaven,
and we confirmed the stories separately,
apart from the people. It was amazing.
Jesus told them the same things. So I'm laying down there
and I see myself going up, up, up and boom up,
I'm in heaven.
And the first thing I see is the sea of glass.
The Bible says it's like a sea of glass.
Now when you're experiencing this, you're like,
What is it, my mind just making this up
because I want it to happen? Or is this actually happening?
So, but I went with it and look what happened.
I'm there, sea of glass.
Oh, this is nice, and I'm zooming along the sea of glass
almost like a drone. At the end of the sea of glass
is Jesus standing there at the edge of the sea on land,
and I get closer and closer to him and
I'm like, Oh my gosh, that's Jesus.
And he just looks at me and like fire in his eyes.
He got, the hair's white, like bright.
He's all glowing, like white, like the whitest white.
And, but there's love,
but there's also like, like authority.
It's like, whoa. And he goes, Thank you for touching Isaac,
my people, which are the Jewish people,
because we have been reaching out to them,
helping them, praying for them, feeding them,
miracles, ministering to them, and I go, Oh, you're welcome,
Lord, I mean, yeah, of course, you know.
And he said to me, Thank you for touching Isaac.
And would you also touch Ishmael?
And I was shocked because Ishmael is the Arabs
and the Muslims and the, you know, I was like -
But when you're in that heavenly experience
and you're looking at Jesus, you don't go, Oh
Jesus, thank you for that word. Let me pray to Jesus about it.
If it's Jesus, if Jesus is telling you
you don't need to pray to Jesus if it's from Jesus.
And I said, OK, yes, Lord, here I am. Use me.
Whatever, OK, I'll do it. And then he says, second thing,
would you organize a conference for me in Jerusalem?
Now again, I'm thinking,
Is this my brain thinking this or?
But I go with it. OK, yes, Lord.
What am I going to say, if I'm in the presence of Jesus,
never had this happen, the glory was so strong.
I said, Yes, I'll do whatever you -
I love you, Lord. And then I come out of it.
Two days later, a friend calls me, I'm at the Dead Sea.
A friend from the states calls me and says,
Hey, we're going to do an outreach
in another town in Israel, where there's mostly Arabs.
We're going to do a conference there.
We're going to reach the Arabs. And then I want you to organize
another one in Jerusalem a few days later,
and we reach more of the Jewish community.
And he says the exact words
Would you organize for me, a conference in Jerusalem?
I said, normally I'd say, no, because I don't live there.
Who am I to organize a conference there?
But Jesus spoke those exact words to me
in the open vision three days ago.
So that was amazing. And we did it.
We did this conference and we did both sides,
and it was amazing. And then a few days later,
the Muslim world opened up to me.
Suddenly, the first time I ever preached in
a Muslim country, I got to preach in Kuwait.
I got open door to Kuwait. And it was powerful.
Muslims were getting saved. Miracles are happening.
Egyptian businessmen were getting touched.
His little daughter was radically healed.
Signs and wonders were happening.
People were getting gold teeth and weight loss
and cancers healed and it was awesome.
And then from that, God opened Dubai
and then Bahrain and then, been to many
now, Jordan, Indonesia and I
go to another one very soon here next month.
So what happens is, you get a vision from Heaven.
You wait on the Lord and God shows you things.
So I know it's from the Lord because it happened
within days of the experience of Jesus,
but you can create a portal wherever you're at, you,
maybe you say, Well, I can't go to Israel,
but you can have an experience in your home.
You can seek the Lord.
You can say Lord, I want like Jacob had.
I want you to create a portal in my house.
Let this be a gate of Heaven.
Let my car be an ark of the covenant on wheels.
Wherever I go, the heavens are open
and you can create a place of open Heaven
by your commitment to the Lord,
by worshiping him, by seeking his face.
And that's what Jacob did, Jacob says.
OK, God, oh my gosh,
this is none other than, than the House of God.
This is the gate of Heaven.
And he said, Lord, if you stay with me like this
and help me get back home safely and get me food
and on my journey, I will worship you.
And he goes, I will start to give you a tenth of all I have.
He started tithing there, he goes,
I want to give you like a covenant with you.
It was like Covenant was, he was talking about.
So you can make a covenant with God in your house
where you pray, Lord. In Sedona, we go to this mountain and pray.
It was this one area, wilderness area, nobody knew about.
A few people would find it, very few.
It was just me and God there, and I would have this open
Heaven portal place with God. Now I'm back in the Phoenix area.
I have a place there where I pray.
And so that's my portal.
That's, when I go there to pray, it's on my patio.
Actually, when I go there to pray the heavens are open,
I'm looking at the cactus. There's a mountain behind me,
but I'm just in the presence of God.
And I had to break it in
because the first time you went, it's like,
Oh, it's not open, like my other place.
So I pray. I seek God. I pray, I fast. I, I do whatever.
And eventually that becomes more and more a thin place.
The more you pray in a place, it gets thinner and thinner
and it becomes an open Heaven
and you can have an open Heaven place.
You know, some of you during the pandemic got locked down
and that was your, you created an open
Heaven because you had a lot more time to pray.
But do you know what this key is?
Desperateness, hunger.
I was just so hungry for more of God.
I was seeing God move greatly, and it's like the more I see
God move, the hungrier I am for even more.
And I think it's never going to stop till I get to heaven
because there's so much more,
no matter how much experience on this Earth.
Of course, when you get to heaven,
it's going to be the full glory
because you'll be literally in the presence of the Father,
Jesus.
And we are in his presence in a sense,
but even more so face to face. But that was the first time
I had a face to face encounter with Jesus, where I believe
I literally saw Jesus. He talked to me. He spoke to me.
I've had dreams when I was a little kid or
Jesus appeared, but never, you know, I was a little kid.
But this is more real. It was more like,
I'm an adult now, and I understood things.
And so I get hunger.
It's like desperateness and hunger
create an atmosphere. If there's a cloud over your city
and you need rain?
well, let's say 30 percent chance of rain.
50 percent chance of rain. How do you increase
the chances that something like this happens?
These kind of experiences? Here's how you do it.
Atmospheric pressure determines if it's going to rain.
The more atmospheric pressure on the cloud,
the higher the chance of rain.
So if there's an 80-90 percent chance of rain,
that, that's way more atmospheric pressure.
So how do you get atmospheric pressure
on your desires from the Lord to be visited by God?
To see Heaven to see things?
Hunger, thirst, faith, desperateness.
Sometimes that desperateness manifests as fasting
and praying for hours and, and just waiting on him.
And that increases the likelihood of that.
Even dreams and prophecies over your life
that, that thing you've been seeking God
for will start to happen, of course,
is going to be God's will.
If you want something that God's not, in his will for you,
obviously, that's not going to happen.
But something that you know is God's will for you -
You know, the Holy Spirit is for you.
You know, heaven is for you.
You know we are seated in heavenly places.
You can access the throne.
The Bible says, come boldly to the throne of grace
so that heaven is our home and we can, you know,
Paul visited Heaven, you know, round trip.
I mean, we're all going to visit Heaven at some point.
Paul got a round trip, you know, Paul said,
I went and saw things now. He, he said, I know a man,
but most believe it was himself talking about this man.
He didn't want to say it was himself,
and then saw things he couldn't even write, couldn't utter.
Daniel saw things. He went to the heavenly realm.
Some things he wrote, some things he had to seal up
and he couldn't talk about.
John on the island of Patmos saw the future and Heaven.
So, you know, Ezekiel,
the cherubim and living creatures.
I mean, this is awesome. We can experience Heaven.
Heaven is for us. Not everyone does.
But I think those who have a hunger for it
and a thirst for it,
there's maybe more of a likelihood that you'll have -
Sure, some just see Heaven and they never asked for it,
but others like me, I was just hungry for that realm
of, I just want to be closer to God, really.
I'm not trying to get a manifestation
for reputation sake. I just want to be where God is
and just want to be as close as possible.
And if there's a doorway or a place
where I can get in that realm easier, I want that.
So if that's your desire, just seek the Lord right now.
Say Lord, I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. I want more of you.
I don't have to see an angel or a vision
but whatever it looks like,
just bring your glory, your presence.
Draw me closer to you.
And as I draw closer to you, Lord, draw closer to me.
Just pray that right now in a prayer for you, Lord,
I pray for hunger and thirst to increase on your people.
That would, you know, it will be desperate,
not just even hungry, but desperate.
When they say, I have to have, to have a visitation with God,
I'm so hungry, so needy.
Increase that hunger, increase that thirst.
And as that thirst and that hunger comes, Lord.
Give them revelations, visions, experiences with you,
Jesus, revelation in the word of God
just when they're reading the word,
heavenly encounters, Lord God, like Paul
had, in the name of Jesus. Bring it to your people.
Bring a new realm of heaven, a new realm of glory
that they've never experienced before.
I pray even, I could feel it all over my body right now,
as I'm talking about this,
something is shifting in the atmosphere right now.
There's an, Heaven is opening over your home,
over your car, on your cell phone,
wherever you're watching this, in your computer, on your TV,
the presence of God is invading your home,
and he wants to make Heaven real, right where you're at home.
You even are going to notice your body's healed,
we didn't even pray for healing but suddenly your body's healed
because Heaven showed up.
So, I love you guys and, be hungry and desperate.
That's the biggest key I can give you.
Desperate, not curious. Oh, I'm curious.
No. Hunger, desperateness.
Where you spend time with God until he shows up.
I'm David Herzog.
I approve this message and I will see you next time.