Sid Roth - An End-Time Vision from Last Living Link to Azusa Street
Sid Roth: Holy Spirit, thank You, thank You, thank You for Your presence here right now. This is Your platform, just take over. My guest, Jody Keck, went to Israel with the man known as the last living link to the Azusa Street Revival and heard from Tommy Welchel firsthand the same stories he heard. He even shared never-before-released stories as well as the end-time prophetic words he received in Israel. She also was told he was imparting the Azusa Street glory on her, and she now imparts it to others. Jody, tell us about the Azusa Street Revival.
Jody Keck: Yeah, Sid. Well, the Azusa Street Revival was a sovereign move of God like we've never seen upon this Earth since Pentecost. That revival began in 1906, and to this day, 1 billion people can trace their roots back to Azusa Street.
Sid Roth: Wow.
Jody Keck: So that revival was led by a man by the name of William Seymour. He was only 36 years old, and he was a son to former slaves. He moved into the Los Angeles area, and he preached at another church, and he wanted to preach on the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, and they locked him out of the church.
Sid Roth: Hmm.
Jody Keck: So he moved the revival to a little house on Bonnie Brae Street. That's when the Power of God fell, and it became so big they had to move to 312 Azusa Street, an old mission that had been burned down, almost all the way down, that was burned out, had been a stable. It had been a church, but there they began, and the power of God was so strong. William Seymour would sit with a wooden box on his head, and he would sit there, it wouldn't matter how long, 10 minutes, an hour, and the people would wait and just pray and seek the Lord. When he took the box off of his head, they say that's when the most miraculous, and miracles began taking place. The presence of the Lord would fill that old mission with the Shekinah Glory. There would be a mist, they say, that would sometimes get up to your neck, in this mist of the glory of the presence of God. Miracles just exploded, and night after night for 3 1/2 years.
Sid Roth: And then one day, he took the box off of his head, and what happened?
Jody Keck: They said once he took the box off of his head, the miracles stopped. They no longer had the presence like they had, and they no longer had the glory of God like they had, and the miracles ceased. They still were there for a while after that, but it was never the same.
Sid Roth: It's been speculated that there was no attention drawn to him with a wooden box over his head, but once he said, "Well, the Glory has been here every day through all of these services. I don't need the box anymore," and it's as if the greatest move over the last, what, 100 years, the Holy Spirit just walked right out. Now, I know all these retired people told Tommy these stories, but why did they pick him? Why did they tell him all these stories firsthand of what was observed?
Jody Keck: Tommy was 17 years old when he was taken into this community called Pisgah. There, many of those old saints that had been at the revival lived, and they knew that God had sent Tommy. They banded together. Many people had come through there wanting them to tell the stories, and they told a few here and there, but they knew that God had said to wait for the right person to share these stories with, and then he would be able to share them with the world.
Sid Roth: And you told me that he didn't release these for years.
Jody Keck: Right.
Sid Roth: Well, why didn't he, and how long did he wait to release these miracles, stories?
Jody Keck: So, Sid, he had a vision of Jesus, and in the vision Jesus came to him and said, "Be patient and be obedient". And he said, throughout the years, he would just burn to tell those stories, and every time he would hear the voice of the Lord saying, "Be patient and be obedient". You see, God's perfect timing came 40 years later.
Sid Roth: Forty years?
Jody Keck: Forty years went by. He said he didn't even share those stories with his wife. He shared them with no one, and he woke up one morning, and he heard the Holy Spirit say, "Today is the day". He called his pastor to say, "God has released me to share these stories of all these miracles," and he said, "Tommy, do you know what today is"? And Tommy just hadn't registered, didn't realize. And he said, "Today is the 100th-year anniversary of the very day that the Azusa Street Revival had started".
Sid Roth: And now, you went with Tommy to Israel. I understand that was his first trip to Israel, and he had visions at the various historic sites where Jesus was. No tour group I know of has had the revelation that he was getting at these sites. He actually saw these events taking place, and you put this in your book.
Jody Keck: Yes.
Sid Roth: But tell me perhaps one of the visions.
Jody Keck: Once we were there, God began just speaking to him so supernaturally in ways, showing him these visions. One of the visions, when we were at the Jordan River, as we were standing there, right at the river, he grabbed my arm, and he said, "Jody, I see all these fish, all", because there's a lot of fish in that Jordan River, and he saw all these fish. He said, "Thousands of them are coming up out of the river as people". He said, "Revival is coming to Israel, and not only, what's coming to Israel, not only is it staying there, but it's going to spread throughout the world like we've never seen".
Sid Roth: I'll tell you, I want to, I do have a favorite miracle of the ones I've read in the past. You know that, and that is the little girl that came in with rotten teeth, and they all instantly fell out of her mouth. Tell me about that.
Jody Keck: Yes, so Sister Lucille, she was only 18 years old when she began going to Azusa Street. So she had an anointing and loved praying for people with bad teeth. Some parents brought their little daughter in whose, all of her teeth, her permanent teeth had grown in decayed, and she was having a lot of problems with them. So they brought her into the mission and asked Lucille to pray for her. Lucille told somebody to go get a cup, and she brought the cup to the little girl and had her bend over the cup. As she bent over the cup, every tooth fell out. All the decayed teeth fell out into this cup, and then she began to put her finger in one spot, and a tooth would grow back in, and then she would move to the next spot, and a new tooth, She would wait until that tooth would pop her finger up,
Sid Roth: Now, was it, did it take a long time, or was it almost instant?
Jody Keck: It was instantly, just a couple of minutes because it took her each, she would wait for each tooth, but within just a couple of minutes, every tooth in that young girl's mouth had grown back in.
Sid Roth: I like that better than those commercials that say in one day they'll give you a whole full mouth of brand-new teeth. I'll take it from God the Dentist any day of the week. Tell me one of the miracles that he never publicly shared that's now in the book; the pregnant prostitute.
Jody Keck: So one night this young woman came in, and she was a prostitute, and she was 8 months pregnant, but her baby had died in her womb. So she came in, and she said, "I want my baby to live. I've heard that there are miracles going on here. I'm asking for prayer. I want this baby". Well, Sister Lucille happened to be the one that prayed for her as well, and she asked her. She said, "Maybe it's best for the baby not to live if you're going to be in this profession," and she said, "I don't want to be a prostitute. I want this child". Sister Lucille laid hands on her, and instantly, the baby came alive and began kicking. She said she could feel that baby kicking against her hands. That child was born. He was a boy. He grew up to later become an evangelist who led one of the largest revivals in the Los Angeles area and led thousands of people to the Lord.
Sid Roth: Very briefly because this is coming back like gangbusters, these creative miracles, tell me , was it an ear that was bitten off?
Jody Keck: Yes. One night, a lady came in that she had actually been in a fight. She caught her husband with another woman, and she and the other woman had a fight. Well, the lady bit her ear off, so she immediately went to Azusa. They prayed for her ear, and she said that once she moved the handkerchief, that it was just raw flesh, immediately began praying for the ear. She told her to cover it back up, immediately laid hands on that handkerchief covering her ear, and the entire ear grew out totally healed, totally grown.
Sid Roth: Now, the strongest word Tommy Welchel had for the future of the world was through Prophet Tommy Hicks' vision for this precise moment in history. Be right back.
Sid Roth: Now, many in our audience would not even know the name Tommy Hicks. Who was Tommy Hicks?
Jody Keck: Tommy Hicks was the great evangelist who led the revival in Argentina. He went to Argentina back in the '50s, and the dictator, Juan Peron, was there, and God healed that man instantaneously through Tommy Hicks. He opened up this entire stadium to him and began a revival there. Tommy Hicks led hundreds of thousands of people to the Lord in Argentina. Well, Tommy Hicks would come to Pisgah where Tommy Welchel lived and preach sometimes. So Tommy, you've got to understand, at this point was just 18 years old the first time he met Tommy Hicks, but the second time he met Tommy, Tommy had a word for him, and he told Tommy Welchel, he prophesied over him, "Tommy, the vision that I have," and I'll share that vision, "but the vision in the dream that God gave me about the end times, you will be part of". And Tommy said, "Oh, no". He said he actually got embarrassed. He said, "I was just a young guy, 19 years old. I thought it's going to be all these great leaders". He said, "No, you don't understand. You need to listen to me. None of us will be here. This is coming later, but you will be here to be a part of what God has shown me". The vision that the Lord had given to Tommy Hicks was, he said that it was an end-time harvest, and during this time that it looked as if this giant was coming up out of the river, but what the giant was, was the people of God all forming together to make this huge body of a giant, and during this time the fire of God... There was a liquid fire falling from the sky, and as people would catch the liquid fire, then God would anoint them to do exactly what he was doing, and they would be laying hands on the sick, and they would recover. He said that there would be people all over the world that would experience this end-time harvest, that it would not be like anything that we've seen yet, that it would be, it would make Azusa Street pale in comparison to what God is getting ready to do upon the Earth, and there's not going to be a big I and a little you. God is going to use what Tommy Hicks called the nobodies, the people that no one knows, the people that have been hidden and just been plowing and plowing in the Lord for years, but God is getting ready to use these people in this end-time harvest, and it's going to be greater than anything he's done upon this Earth.
Sid Roth: Tommy Welchel, not Tommy Hicks, Tommy Welchel prophesied over you and imparted this Azusa Street anointing, the same presence of God that was on the original Azusa Street participants. Tell us about that.
Jody Keck: Tommy had prayed for me many times through, and I had the privilege of traveling and ministering with him, and he, but there came a point where he knew that it was time to pass the torch, and he said that God had chosen me to be the one to carry these stories, to continue the legacy of Him, the show people and, to they, for them to experience the glory of God like Azusa Street saints experienced that glory of God, and he said that it was just providential, and God had brought us together. You see, nothing is a coincidence, and God had brought us together for such a time as this, and he prayed over me, and he asked God to impart that into me and over me, so then I would go out and impart it to others.
Sid Roth: I would like you to pray over the people right now. But before you pray, will you read the quote from your book on Frank Bartleman?
Jody Keck: Sure, yes. Frank Bartleman was a gentleman that was part of the Azusa Street Revival. He had set up prayer groups 24-7 for 2 or 3 years before the revival even started, and he was a very eloquent man, and he wrote this, and when I read this in a church in Florida, the presence and the glory of God fell so strongly, and people began to just shake and tremor under the power of God, and it spread throughout the church. So this is the exact quote that I read at that church from Frank Bartleman.
Sid Roth: Before you read that quote, you had about three words of knowledge. Would you speak them right now?
Jody Keck: Yes.
Sid Roth: Look into the camera.
Jody Keck: Yes. The first thing the Holy Spirit showed me, that there is a young child that He has healed of lupus. It was very specific, and He said, "Right now, I am healing a young child with lupus". He then spoke, "There's someone right now being healed with Lyme disease," very specifically Lyme disease, and then the third thing He also showed me was that I see a lady, and you're of Indian descent. You're from India, and I see God is wanting to impart something to you, that this is Him that's speaking. It's Yeshua. It's Jesus, and He is speaking to you today, that you are chosen by Him to walk in the glory and carry the glory.
Sid Roth: Read the quote.
Jody Keck: "After a little time of quiet waiting, a great calm settled down upon us. Then suddenly, without premonition, the Lord Jesus Himself revealed Himself to us. He seemed to stand directly between us, so close, we could have reached out our hand and touched Him. But we did not dare to move. I could not even look. In fact, I seemed all spirit. His presence seemed more real, if possible, than if I could have seen and touched Him naturally. I forgot I had ears or eyes. My spirit recognized Him. A Heaven of divine Love filled and thrilled my soul. Burning fire went through me. In fact, my whole being seemed to flow down before Him like wax before the fire. I lost all consciousness of time or space, being conscious only of His wonderful presence. I worshiped at His feet. It seemed a veritable mount of transfiguration. I was lost in pure Spirit". Amen. Thank You, Jesus.
Sid Roth: Would you to pray for the impartation?
Jody Keck: Yes. "Father, now we come before You, O God. Holy are You. God, we just ask right now for every person to receive that impartation just as Tommy imparted to me the Azusa Street fire impartation. I speak right now that, God, that right now, You impart to others, Lord, that we would melt like wax before You, God, that we are Your burning ones right now. Father, bring Your fire and Your glory upon Your people. O God, use us and send us. We say, Lord, here we are and, O God, right now, for every person watching or listening, right now I pray, and I impart this Azusa Street fire unto you. It's in the mighty and glorious Name of Jesus, Yeshua, we pray. Amen".
Sid Roth: And before we leave, I want you to pray this prayer out loud and mean it, right now, out loud, "Dear God. I'm a sinner. I believe Your Blood washes my sins away. And now that I'm clean. Jesus, come inside of me. Be my Savior and Lord. Amen".