Sid Roth - God Spoke Through My UNPLUGGED TV
Sid Roth: Welcome, Holy Spirit. Go and flow. My guest lived a life shrouded in danger, surviving multiple assassination attempts, and running with some of the most dangerous criminals in the world. But when his empire came crashing down, something out of this world happened, something beyond human explanation. Milton, tell me a bit about your background, and then what happened.
Milton Alvarez: Yes. I was brought up in New York, brought up in a Jewish environment. My parents were Jewish, but they shied away from that. But I was surrounded by Jewish people in everything that I did as a youngster. And I just knew that the Jewishness was in there, it was in there…
Sid Roth: Even though they didn’t tell you?
Milton Alvarez: Yes, even though they didn’t tell me.
Sid Roth: Okay. Why did you get into the criminal and gangs, and stuff like that?
Milton Alvarez: I think it was a lack of security. I wanted identification. I wanted to create this, you know. And I think I went the wrong way with that for years. I kind of my marked my identity in that.
Sid Roth: There were suicidal attempts, and there were four assassination attempts. Tell me about one of the assassination attempts.
Milton Alvarez: Well, one of the assassination attempts was, I committed a crime, and I actually got shot by a cop 12 times, 6 times from a .38, about, the camera 20 feet away, And the bullets bounced off me. Supernatural!
Sid Roth: What do you mean, did you have a bullet-proof vest or something?
Milton Alvarez: No. No, just my shirt. I knew that they shirt me.
Sid Roth: That’s some shirt you got!
Milton Alvarez: Yeah. Supernatural. But I saw the bullets hit me. I knew that I was dead, but yet I looked at my shirt, and there was no holes. And then while I was thinking, I think I was thinking too long, he put six more bullets in the gun, shot me again, and then I realized this guy was trying to kill me.
Sid Roth: Did any of the bullets penetrate?
Milton Alvarez: No. No, they just bounced off and fell on the ground.
Sid Roth: That is out of this world!
Milton Alvarez: Supernatural, yeah.
Sid Roth: Okay. Now so you’re in the gangs. One day you just turn on the TV, and you see a guy with a thick accent, his name is Nicky Cruz. And those that don’t know Nicky Cruz, he has more than an accent. He has the presence of God comes out every time he opens his mouth and talks about how God spared his life. So you’re watching. Describe that day.
Milton Alvarez: Yes. I was gonna commit suicide, I was empty. You know, Sid, I used to look in the mirror, my face would disappear, you know, and I was just gone. And then I decided to commit suicide. I always said, I made a mistake, because I tried to get the Cartoon Channel, because I wanted, you know, when I died, they see me in the casket, the pearly whites were shining. He went to hell, but he went happy. Nicky pointed his finger at me. I actually got Trinity Broadcasting Network, points his finger me, he says, «Jesus is calling you». Sid, I’ve been through seven different religions. I was a Hindu, I was a Buddhist, I was a Muslim, Saudi Arabia Mormonism. You know, when the ism comes, the Holy Spirit…
Sid Roth: Why did you try all these different religions?
Milton Alvarez: Because I was empty, and I wanted a higher-up. I thought going through all of these different religions would put me on a higher dimension. So I looked at the TV. He points his finger. I’m losing it, Sid. I’m just said, this kind of, this is the twilight zone. Changed the channel 84 times.
Sid Roth: Eighty-four?
Milton Alvarez: Eighty-four, I had a cable box. Every channel was Nicky Cruz. Nicky Cruz…
Sid Roth: That’s impossible. This is impossible. But not for God.
Milton Alvarez: It’s supernatural.
Sid Roth: It’s not impossible for God. There’s nothing impossible for God. Did you say a prayer with Nicky?
Milton Alvarez: I pulled the plug out of the TV.
Sid Roth: You were really angry.
Milton Alvarez: I was frustrated. I did not want to hear about Jesus. I didn’t believe in Him. I pulled the plug out. As I’m walking out of my house in Fort Lauderdale to commit suicide, the TV comes back on again. Nicky Cruz TV. And he points his finger…
Sid Roth: Wait, did you put it back in the wall?
Milton Alvarez: No! No, there was no electricity.
Sid Roth: Okay. I’m just trying to get this straight. All right. You say your Jewish heritage in God’s destiny was your protection. Tell me what you mean by that.
Milton Alvarez: You know, I always felt a protection, being Jewishness. About 20 years, we did the DNA, found out 85, 90 percent of my heritage was Jewish.
Sid Roth: But there was something you sensed, you had an affinity towards the Jewish side, and knew nothing about it. That’s amazing to me.
Milton Alvarez: Yeah. And I found out that’s where the protection came, that my love for Israel, I always had that in me. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t get to go to Israel until after I accepted the Lord in 1986, it just changed my whole life around.
Sid Roth: Tell me about the time that you heard a voice speak to you.
Milton Alvarez: When I went out the door to commit suicide, I challenged God, I say, «Jesus, I don’t know You, I don’t care about You. I don’t even know if You’re real. If You are the God that Nicky says you are, change my life around». Sid, it was no tsunami, no hurricane, nothing. Earthquake, it was just a still, small voice of God, telling me, «Boy», because I’m from New York, I can understand that, he said, «Boy, you are in My hands right now». And I started crying. I looked at the sky, it was so blue. The greenery, I cried like a baby because I was five minutes away from going to hell. It would have been 39 years now, that God be the glory, He is so good.
Sid Roth: Now, Milton’s story doesn’t end here. In Israel, he had a three-hour vision where God revealed a divine plan for his life. Now, get ready for your divine plan to unfold right before your very eyes. Be right back.
Sid Roth: Milton had a life-altering experience in Israel. I mean life-altering. What happened?
Milton Alvarez: Well, I was leaving Israel the next day…
Sid Roth: Why were you in Israel?
Milton Alvarez: I was just visiting.
Sid Roth: Okay.
Milton Alvarez: That’s the first time I was there. I just got off a ship, I was a merchant marine, got off a ship in Greece. I was supposed to go straight home. But the Lord put it in my heart to go to Israel. And I said, «I can’t go, because they’re not going to let me go, they’re going to fly me straight to New York». And all of a sudden, they changed everything, gave me the money to go to Israel. Had no idea, because I challenged God, I said, «God, you don’t like me anymore. I’ve been to 60 nations, but You didn’t let me go to Israel». And the doors opened up to go to Israel that month. And that was in April.
Sid Roth: Okay. So you went to Israel. But on the last day, something amazing happened. Tell me about that.
Milton Alvarez: It was amazing. I had done all the religious stuff, never read the Bible. I didn’t know what the Bible was. And I would look at Via Dolorosa, walk up and down, you know, Jerusalem. And then on the last day in my hotel, I was leaving. And somebody came up and said, «Look, I want you to go to a meeting. We’re having this evangelical meeting». I said, «What’s evangelical»? They said, «No, you’ve got to be there». I said, «No, I’ve got to leave in the morning. I’ve got to get ready to go». And all of a sudden, the Lord spoke to me to go back and go with the person to the meeting that had invited, I heard the audible voice of God. And I turned around, and he should have been gone. And he was waiting outside for me. And he says, «What do you think»? I said, «I’m going to the meeting with you. I don’t know what it’s about, but take me to the meeting». So I went, and a few hours later, went to the meeting. And it was Ruth Heflin, «Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem».
Sid Roth: Many people don’t know Ruth, she’s now in heaven, but she was a friend of mine. And wow, did she move in the supernatural. What did you think when you saw her ministering? Was she playing the piano and singing when you were there?
Milton Alvarez: Yes, in the meeting, yes. And that was amazing, because she laid hands on me. I didn’t even know what laying hands was. I fell out, taken to heaven for three hours. They thought I was dead. I thought I was dead. Just the Spirit of God took me over, revealed things to me. One of the things that she had prophesied that, «You’re going to be a worldwide traveler evangelist,» and that, «Your parents are going to come to the Lord,» because my parents were still steeped in voodoo and all that. You know, the…
Sid Roth: Voodoo?
Milton Alvarez: Yeah.
Sid Roth: Nice Jewish parents? What do you…
Milton Alvarez: No! They got off on the wrong foot, you know? And you know what was beautiful, they ended up coming to Jesus. It was amazing. Amazing. Amazing.
Sid Roth: Okay. By the way, one of the signs that Ruth Heflin had is, gold dust was all over people. I mean, there was no explanation. I had it happen to me. I was just sitting in my seat and I get up, and I look all over my seat, and it’s sparkling with gold dust. I knew that I didn’t do anything. I knew no one else did anything. I was sitting myself in this whole row. No one did anything.
Milton Alvarez: Wow.
Sid Roth: Just, did you see that gold dust?
Milton Alvarez: Yes, we did. In fact, I just got back from Malaysia and Nepal, and in the meetings that we were in, the gold dust was there. People could not believe this, they said, «What is this, the fleckles»? Not a large amount, but it was enough that you could see it was the Golden Glory.
Sid Roth: What is Golden Glory? Break those words. What does that mean to you?
Milton Alvarez: For me, it’s the essence of heaven coming down. It’s the goodness of God. It’s that when we repent and remit our sins, He opens up the gold from heaven and shows us its greatness.
Sid Roth: You say the Golden Glory signifies a new era for miracles. What do you mean?
Milton Alvarez: Exactly. And that’s what’s happening today. I think today, even with this audience, we’re seeing this year the Golden Glory of God, the opening of the heavens that we’ve never seen before. And we’re just seeing that now.
Sid Roth: Now, I’m a little curious. When you took your DNA test, and by the way, now it’s scientific, we don’t have to guess or speculate, when you took your DNA test, were you a little nervous until it came and you opened it up? I’m just curios what was going on inside you?
Milton Alvarez: I was very inquisitive, but you know, I knew that I was going to be a full Jew. And when I looked at the DNA, it was 85 to 90 percent Sephardic Jew, Portuguese, Spanish descent. And kind of brought me back to the Inquisition, you know, how the Jews were, and my heart was so heavy. But I knew that I was Jewish, complete Jewish. It was just an answer to my prayer.
Sid Roth: Were people, if they didn’t deny their belief, they would be killed in the Inquisition.
Milton Alvarez: Exactly. Exactly. And that’s why the names changed, the Z, the names that were ending in CNS, all Jewish, you know. We’re seeing how they hid from their Jewishness. But it was there.
Sid Roth: Okay. You say miracles are a normal part of your life after being a believer. There’s one I have to really ask you about.
Milton Alvarez: You like that?
Sid Roth: You’ve been involved in raising the dead!
Milton Alvarez: Exactly.
Sid Roth: That is a miracle! Tell me about one.
Milton Alvarez: Well, the miracle was, that I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
Sid Roth: I believe you!
Milton Alvarez: Yeah. We were working a rehab in Puerto Rico, and one of the inmates overdosed. He was a chef. And they took him to the hospital. They called me out, they said, «Anthony just overdosed, he’s been 45 minutes dead». So I said, «We need to go pray for him». «Oh, you can’t pray for him, because he’s dead already». I said, «Well, let me go see him». We went in a room, prayed for him, Sid, and he came back to life. Sat up in his chair.
Sid Roth: I have to ask you this. Did the doctors come and done this?
Milton Alvarez: Let me tell you, Sid. The doctors puts… I’m a doctor. I used to be a doctor. They put so much curses on him that I was getting angry, because they tell me, «Oh, he took all these pills, now he’s going to be a colostomy». Then we had to go back and pray that the colostomy is broken in the Name of Jesus. And he sits up in his chair, the doctor said, «Well, now he’s got brain damage, because he’s been 45 minutes without any oxygen». I said, «How many curses you going to be put on this guy»? So we told them to go outside, pray again. He got up completely lucid. The doctors, had about 20 doctors there, they couldn’t figure it out. They’re trying to figure out if they’re going to get a malpractice suit, and the guy’s totally made whole, by the Glory of God.
Sid Roth: Tell me a few, I mean, these miracles are really miracles. You were in a market in Jerusalem, and you saw miracles.
Milton Alvarez: Yes. We were in Yehuda Machane market, and we went to the coffee roster there, he’s got the Israeli coffee company. And he was so hurting with his back, and my heart was breaking. I said, «Listen, let me pray for you». And he said, «Why do you want to pray»? I said, «You can’t even walk». He was a young man about 30 years old. So I said, «Let me just pray». And we prayed, and his back was instantly healed. He started running up and down. For about a year, he’s been having this persistent pain, totally healed.
Sid Roth: They said ask you about the rollercoaster you saw.
Milton Alvarez: I saw Sid on a rollercoaster, and you were having the time of your life. Your knuckles were white, and you were screaming and laughing. And it was like, «God said I’m stopping». And he said, «No. No no, don’t stop this, it’s too good, going up and down». But it just showed me your just, your growth that God was taking you to. He’s going to places you never thought you would go, and see people that you never thought you would leave, because every time the coaster would go up, you don’t know where you’re going. And you were just having the thrill life there. It was the joy of your life. And in fact, when I came back to the office yesterday, I saw the same thing. The joy of the Lord.
Sid Roth: I have to ask you this. There are many people, our studio audience, there are many people in our television, many people in our social media audiences that are watching right now. They say, «I would like to step into that Golden Glory». What advice have you got?
Milton Alvarez: Well, I would just, you know, tell them to seek the Lord in that area, repent of any sins if there’s anything holding you back. And just ask for that Golden Glory to come down, because that’s what we did. We used to have our meetings at home in Vancouver, Washington. We would meet every Friday, 5:00 p.m. We couldn’t get rid of the people 5:00 in the morning, they would just stay, and the gold would be all over the place. Just amazing. And not just the gold, the healings. And then taking people up to the next dimension, where He’s doing this right now for each and every one of us.
Sid Roth: When you say «taking people up to the next dimension,» what do you mean by that?
Milton Alvarez: Well, I think supernatural, we’re enheightened to see things that we never saw before. I’m stepping into places, like right now, the Middle East, Africa, Asia. And God is revealing what’s going on there with the revival. And He’s also giving us the emergency bells, lights, and whistles when danger’s near. And this is so heightened in me. I get to meet people, and I start shaking. And it’s like God’s telling me, «Be careful. Start praying. Mind those little suckers. Get 'em out and bring the Glory in». And we’re seeing that, you know? It’s just another dimension of seeing. And God says, if you get good with the little, He gives you a lot. And I think that’s what God is doing in this year, He’s taking us up to things we’ve never seen before. Jeremiah 33:3, «Call out,» superficial. Just calling out. Clamor. That’s the deepness of God. That’s like the woman with the issue of blood, she said, «I’m not going to let go of the hem of Jesus until I’m healed,» and Jacob wrestling with the angel, which was the Lord. He said, «I’m not going to let You go until You bless me». And we’re seeing that. We’re seeing that, just the heavens coming down, it’s just amazing.
Sid Roth: You know, I’m reminded as I’m hearing you speak, you’re sitting there, a gangster, you don’t know anything about anything, you’ve never read the Bible. And this guy with an accent points in the TV and says, «You need to have your own experiential knowledge of God through Jesus». I’ve got to have you pray for that. It’s good that I have this, it’s good that Milton does. But you, God’s called you to have this experiential knowledge.
Milton Alvarez: Amen.
Sid Roth: I want you to repeat this prayer, believe it to the best of your knowledge, out loud, now. Repeat these words after me. «Dear God, I’ve made many mistakes in my life. And I’m so sorry. I believe the Blood of Jesus washes away my mistakes. I’m clean. This is the first day of the rest of my life. It’s a new beginning. Jesus, live inside of me. Be my Lord. Amen».
Milton Alvarez: Amen.
Sid Roth: Milton, pray for miracles right now. Look into the camera and pray.
Milton Alvarez: Yes. Right now, you that are watching, I feel that there’s people that are going to commit suicide. They’re going through heavy depression, Alzheimer’s. You know, just brain matter’s neuronic. We just pray for a miracle for each and every one of you. So I pray right now that as you call on the Name of the Lord, the simplistic prayer is all you’ve got to say. «Jesus, I don’t know You, I repent of my sins, but I challenge You to change my whole life». If you did it with Milton, you did it with Nicky, you can do it with me in a greater way. So call on the Name of Jesus. I speak miracles, blessings, healings. Right now I’m seeing people with back problems, with eye problems, we break those curses right now, and we declare the healing of the Almighty God. And in Jesus' Name we pray. I just wanted to mention something to you, I forget to mention, that if you go to the TBN archives, Trinity Broadcasting, they actually found a program where Nicky Cruz leads me to the Lord, a three-minute program. If you look up Captain Milton Alvarez, I was a captain at the time, Captain Milton Alvarez, my story, you’ll see the whole archive where I’m changing the channels 84 times, Nicky is speaking to me. And I turned the TV off.
Sid Roth: I need you to pray, a very strong prayer right now, to release the Golden Glory over everyone that is viewing in their homes, just like I remember the whole row had gold all over it. I know you have that anointing. I want you to release it right now.
Milton Alvarez: Praise God. Well, we thank You, God, because only You can do this. We’re nothing, we’re just vessels and servants. I just ask You right now, that as You deposited the Golden Glory in me and my family, and in Sid, that Lord, that now You permeate this around the world. That Lord, to even the persecuted churches, the ones that don’t know You, that You show them through signs and wonders, just as we were now in Dubai, we were in Malaysia, Nepal, and they started seeing the gold, and saying, «Wow, this is amazing! The divinity of God, You’re showing Your greatness». And they’re saying this is the year of the Golden Glory. So I speak for a proclaimed decree, and establish that the Golden Glory will come down to take us to the next dimension. And when we identify the dimension, we go from dimension to dimension, glory to glory in You, in Yeshua Hamashiach, amen.
Sid Roth: Amen. So be it!