Through this powerful CD series, Rick illustrates from the Greek text, providing you with a deeper and richer understanding of the end times so that you can be prepared. You will also learn how you are anointed for such a time as this and how God has provided you with what you need to prevail.
Is there a supernatural
dimension?
a world beyond the one we know?
Is there life after death?
Do angels exist?
Can our dreams contain messages
from Heaven?
Can we tap into ancient secrets
of the supernatural?
Are healing miracles real?
Sid Roth has spent over 35 years
researching the strange world of
the supernatural.
Join Sid for this edition of
It’s Supernatural!
Sid: Hello. Sid Roth here.
Welcome. Welcome
to my world where it’s
naturally supernatural.
My guest says, you do not have
to take it any more from the
devil when you realize, when you
come to your senses that you are
dressed to kill.
Now we Jewish people have a
word.
It’s called meshuga and it means
crazy.
My guest Rick Renner takes three
small sons and a wife and goes
to the former Soviet Union
before it was the former Soviet
Union.
I’ve been there, Rick.
How could you do that?
Rick: You know, it was just, God
invited me to go on a trip.
And when I was there, I stood in
front of this Bible school where
we were speaking, and when I
opened my Bible to speak for the
very first time, I heard the
Spirit of God say, “Welcome to
your new home.”
And the whole rest of the time I
taught that class, I kept
hearing the Holy Spirit saying,
“Welcome to your new home.”
And I understood that God was
calling my family to relocate to
the Soviet Union, and it was
still the Soviet Union at that
time, not the most desirous
place to move your family.
Sid: As we were checking notes,
I went to the former Soviet
Union, involved in an outreach
at about the same as Rick.
And we were in a hotel room, and
in the hotel room the bugs were
so bad in the room that many had
to take their bed and move it
into the hallway.
If you have never seen a Soviet
hotel from back then, you don’t
know what living is.
I can’t imagine your family
going to that place.
Rick: Sid, it was supernatural.
I fell in love with the Soviet
people.
In one week, it’s like they
entered into my heart.
And when I went back to the
United States after that short
trip, everything in me just beat
with the desire to gather my
family together and move back to
the Soviet Union.
And the Lord spoke to me very
clearly, and I said, “Why?
Why are you calling my family to
move to the Soviet Union?”
And he said, “Because there’s
going to be a revival here
that’s going to need great Bible
teachers and you’re going to be
more needed here than you are in
the United States.”
Sid: And you know what, I see
why he did that with Rick,
because you started the first
Christian television station
there.
You have a TV network today.
You have an apostolic network,
over 400 congregations.
You have a brand new church
building in Moscow, what, 3700
members.
And I think you haven’t even
touched what God has you for
there.
Now in 1980, you had a
visitation of an angel.
Rick: Yes I did.
Sid: Now I have seen angels, but
I have, you’re provoking me to
jealousy.
Rick: I was in my apartment and
I had laid down on the couch to
take a nap, and suddenly I felt
a presence, and sat straight up
on that couch.
And it was one of those moments
when you feel someone’s
presence, but you don’t see
anyone.
And in just a few moments, just
about as far as you are from me,
a man materialized, and he began
speaking to me, but he never
opened his mouth.
It was non-verbal communication.
And he said, “I am a man from
the presence of the Lord.”
Sid: It was going from spirit to
spirit.
Rick: Whether it was
spirit-to-spirit or mind to
mind, I really don’t know.
He thought a thought and I
received the thought.
And he began to speak to me
about my ministry, and that my
ministry would be a sojourning
ministry, and that particularly,
I would be sent to a people who
had suffered.
Now at this particular time,
Denise and I were not married.
In fact, Denise was not even in
the picture yet.
And so my life was young and I
certainly had no thoughts of
moving to the Soviet Union.
And suddenly, a map came in
front of me that filled the
whole room, and the whole map
began to violently shake.
And this angel began to
communicate with me that my
ministry would be located in the
part of the world where there
would be violent shaking and
many, many changes, and an
in-time ministry.
And certainly, that is what we
have.
Sid: 1985, another visitation.
Rick: Yes.
Sid: But this time from Jesus.
Rick: Yes.
Sid: What happened?
Rick: I was awakened in the
middle of the night and I went
to the back room of the house,
and began to pray in tongues,
and I began to pray very deeply
in tongues.
And I closed my eyes as I walked
back and forth in that room, and
when I opened my eyes, the room
was gone, and I was standing in
the spirit realm.
Now the spirit realm has
substance.
I was, it was a dark place, but
yet it was not a scary place,
but it was the spirit realm.
And far in the distance, I saw a
light and the light got brighter
and brighter, and brighter until
finally it manifested in front
of me, and it was a throne, it
was a chair.
I can even draw a picture of the
chair.
It’s that real to me.
And seated in that chair was
Jesus, and Jesus began to speak
to me about my ministry.
I was on my knees because I had
already gone to my knees in
prayer.
And the Lord reached out and
took my hands, and he took one
hand at a time, and I say that
he sandwiched my hands.
He put one hand on top, he put
another hand underneath, and he
said, “See today, I give to you
an anointing of love mixed with
hate.”
And I said, “Well what is that?”
And then he did it to the other
hand.
And I said, “Lord, what is love
mixed with hate?”
And he said, “That is an
anointing of compassion.”
When the love of God is so
strong and yet the hate for the
work of the enemy is equally as
strong as they float together,
and when they float together
they create compassion.
And suddenly, I saw myself in
the spirit walking through a
hospital ward of people very
different.
And I know today, it was a
Russian hospital ward.
Sid: But at that time, you just
knew it was a hospital.
Rick: I just knew it was a
hospital and it was different,
and it was dilapidated.
And the Lord began to speak to
me again about the fact that he
was going to send me to a people
who had suffered great lack and
great hardship.
And then the most amazing thing
happened.
The Lord held his hands out to
me like this and he said, “See
today I place before you
finances on a realm that are
already amassing more finances.”
And Sid, it felt like those
finances entered into me,
greatness of finances, and I
understood that God was going to
supernaturally provide for
whatever it was he was calling
us to do on the other side of
the world.
And God has been absolutely
faithful for everything that we
have done.
And now 24 years later, we’re
still there.
Sid: And you know what’s so
amazing?
I mean, God, our God is so
brilliant.
Do you know that?
What is so amazing, Rick is a
world class Bible teacher in a
realm way beyond anything I’m
familiar with.
He’ll take one Greek word,
because he’s a Greek scholar,
and for instance, on the End
Times, he has teaching you’ve
never heard before.
Have you ever read in the Book
of Hebrews, it begins, “In these
last days…” and some skeptics
say, well back then they thought
it was the last days and look,
they don’t, we don’t even know
when the last… But you don’t
even understand from the Greek,
there is a difference between
the last days and the last of
the last days.
But if you don’t know the Greek,
you don’t know it.
I want Rick to teach on that
when we come back.
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Sid: So as I was saying before
we went into the break, there’s
the last days, but Rick, there
is, when did the last days
start?
Rick: The last days started on
the day of Pentecost.
Sid: That’s a long time.
Rick: Yes.
Sid: So where do you get the
last of the last days?
Isn’t that all the same?
Rick: Well first of all, for
people that are skeptics who
say, oh, they’ve been talking
about the last days for 2000
years, they are absolutely
correct, because the last days
began in Acts, Chapter 2,
whenever Peter said that God
would pour his spirit in the
last days.
And that initiated a period
which some people call the
Church Age.
Some people call it the Age of
Grace, but the Bible calls it
the Last Days.
But when you come to Second
Timothy, Chapter 3, Verse 1,
Paul writes, “This know also,
that in the last days, perilous
times shall come.”
And the word “last”, which Paul
uses is the Greek word,
“eschatos”, and it’s where we
get the word for eschatology.
And the word “eschatos”
describes the very, very, very,
very end of a thing.
For example, if you were
describing the last week of the
year, you would use the word
“eschatos”.
You can’t go any further.
You’ve come all the way to the
end.
The word “eschatos” was used to
describe the final port for a
ship.
The ship couldn’t go any further
than that.
Sid: So you say that there were
18 characteristics.
Tell me some of these
characteristics that caused you
to believe we are at the final
port, so to speak.
Rick: Well the first
characteristic is in Verse 1 and
it says, “This know also that in
the last days,” notice it
doesn’t say in the last period,
but “in the last days”, the
Greek word, “humitas” [sp] which
describes really the final
countdown.
It says, “Perilous times shall
come.”
And that word “perilous” is the
Greek word “calipas” [sp], and
the word calipas is only used
one other time in the New
Testament, and it’s found in
Matthew, Chapter 8, Verse 28,
where it used to describe the
two demoniacs of Gadara.
And when you read that verse in
Greek, it says that those two
men were calipas [sp], or they
were exceeding fierce, hard to
bear with.
If you went near those two
demoniacs of Gadara, you were
entering into dangerous
territory.
In fact, the verse says, “So
that no man could pass by that
way.”
So in Second Timothy, Chapter 3,
Verse 1, when Paul says, “This
know also, that in the last
days,” or in the end of days,
“perilous times will come.”
He’s actually saying,
exceedingly fierce times will
come, times hard to deal with.
And in fact, it will be an
impasse, it will be difficult
for people to get passed those
days.
Sid: Could it have, I mean, what
I’m reading in the newspaper of
in Africa, they’re running into
girls’ schools and they’re
kidnapping these girls, and
they’re selling them into sexual
slavery.
I mean, they’re cutting people’s
heads off and making videos of
it.
It couldn’t get much worse than
that.
Rick: Well you know what, when
you continue to read Second
Timothy, Chapter 3, Verses 2 to
5, Paul gives those 18
characteristics of things which
will happen to society in the
last days.
And one of them is brutality.
It’s savageness, which will come
forth in society, a violence.
And in fact, it’s the same word,
“violence”, which was used to
describe the violent games in
the Coliseum, the violence of
entertainment.
And if you think about it, Sid,
people enjoy violence today.
We may not go to an actual
Coliseum where we see bloodshed,
but our computer games and our
movies, our entertainment is
absolutely filled with violence.
Sid: It’s breeding that to be
within the brain of our young
generation.
Rick: And that is one of the
signs of a last days society.
Sid: Well tell me some other
signs.
Rick: Well the very first sign
that is listed is, lovers of own
self.
Sid: You can’t get, I mean,
let’s face it, this is what
America and most of the world is
right now.
Rick: It’s the Greek word
“filatos”[sp] and the word
“fileo” [sp] means to love.
It’s the same word that is used
in John, Chapter 18, when the
Bible says that Judas Iscariot
gave Jesus a kiss.
It’s the Greek word, “fileo”
[sp].
And it’s usually a word that you
would use to describe what you
feel for someone else.
But when you compound it
together with the word “autos”
[sp], which is where you get the
word for autobiography, it
describes self, it is self-love,
and really it is the picture of
self-kissing, people so in love
with themselves that they are
making sacrifices for themselves
that they make for no one else.
It’s misdirected love.
And out of that misdirected love
comes all the other flaws, which
we see in a last days society.
Sid: How much worse can it get?
Rick: Well it’s going to be
pretty dark.
Actually, the Bible says, Paul
speaking to Timothy about this,
says, “Deceivers and sorcerers
are going to wax worse and
worse.”
And the good news is we’re
anointed for this time.
Sid: That was what I was going
to ask you.
I mean, reading this in the
Bible, especially in the Greek,
you can get pretty fearful.
So what would you say to someone
that’s fearful of living in the,
at the last port, the last days?
Rick: I would say these
scriptures were not written to
scare us.
They were written to prepare us.
These verses were written so
that we could insulate ourself
against what is happening in
society.
For example, if we know that
self-love is going to be a
primary characteristic of the
last days, then we need to work
on loving others and loving God.
If we know that greed is going
to be a major sign of society in
the last days, then we need to
work on giving.
We need to flip those verses and
around, and we need to work on
the opposite of those things.
Sid: But you know the most
important thing you said?
He said that we were created to
live at this time.
It’s in our spiritual DNA and
God trusts us with this.
I’m going to tell you one other
thing.
When you find out Rick’s
revelation from the Word about
Paul the Apostle, who spent a
lot of time in prison and
observed the Romans, guards in
their uniforms, and then wrote
in the Book of Ephesians what
they meant, and once you
comprehend all of this, you’re
dressed to kill.
We’ll be right back to
It’s Supernatural!
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It’s Supernatural!
Sid: So I’m here with Rick
Renner.
Rick says we are dressed to
kill.
We’re believers by our love.
What do mean we’re dressed to
kill?
Rick: Well I’m talking about
spiritual armor.
Sid: Explain.
Rick: Spiritual weaponry.
In Ephesians 6, Verse 12, Paul
says, “For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of
the darkness, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.”
And Sid, in that verse, it’s
almost like the Apostle Paul had
a revelation, and suddenly the
spirit realm was parted and he
was able to see into the spirit
realm of how Satan’s kingdom is
aligned militarily.
And he saw at the top of Satan’s
kingdom there were
principalities then there were
powers, then were rulers of the
darkness of this world, and then
there were low-level demons,
which are powers in the
heavenlies, which are dispatched
into our atmosphere.
And the only way that we can
resist those low-level demons,
which are dispatched into our
atmosphere is if we carry and
walk in the full armor of God.
In fact, Paul says, “Therefore
take unto you the whole armor of
God that you may be able to
stand against the wiles of the
devil.”
Sid: Now I’ve heard a lot of
believers take that literally.
And every morning they get up
and I put the helmet of
salvation on, I put on the
breastplate of righteousness,
the shield of faith, and they
say that, but it’s almost become
a religious banter rather than
what you teach.
Rick: Well I think that it’s
very sincere when people do
that.
But if I sat on the edge of my
bed and said, I’m going to put
on my helmet, that is not
putting on my helmet.
The Bible very clearly says,
“This is the whole armor of God”
and “of God” in Greek means it’s
the armor which comes out of
God.
And the only that you’re going
to be able to habitually walk in
the armor of God is if you’re
walking with God, because it
comes out of him.
It’s a result of your
relationship with God.
Sid: When I heard you teach
about the various parts of
armor, when a Roman soldier was
actually prepared to kill and
when we have our armor we’re no
longer defenseless against the
devil.
Tell, take one piece of armor
and tell me what that means and
what it was in the natural, what
it is in the spirit.
Rick: Well we have what’s called
the shield of faith.
And Paul is referring the shield
of a Roman soldier, and there
were two kinds of shields.
There were small, round,
decorative shields, which you
would carry in a parade, but you
would never use that to defend
yourself.
It was just a decorative shield.
But the shield which a Roman
soldier used when he was in
battle is from the Greek word,
“thureon” [sp], which is the
same word for an oblong door.
If I were to pick out any door
in this building, it would be
the word “thureon” [sp] and
that’s the same word for a Roman
shield.
And what happened, Sid, is when
a Roman soldier would come into
the infantry, they would measure
him.
Now this is very important
because Romans, Chapter 12,
Verse 3 says, “God is given to
every man the measure of faith.”
Well what is “the measure”?
Well they measured a Roman
soldier from side to side and
from top to bottom, and they
would make a sword just for his
size so that he was covered from
side to side, and he was covered
from top to bottom.
If you had a shield, you were
completely covered.
Sid: So each one had it tailor
made for their needs.
Rick: Tailor made.
And they were made out of wood
and leather.
And they would take the leather
and they would dip it into the
water, and they would saturate
so that whenever flames would
hit it, it would put out the
fire.
And likewise, our faith has to
be saturated in the Word of God.
And when our faith is saturated
in the Word of God, it becomes a
force that the enemy cannot
penetrate.
Sid: You know Rick, I’d like to
spend the whole time, if we had
it, the whole day, talking about
this armor because, you see,
when you understand, really
understand what Paul was talking
about, you realize how much
protection God has given us.
You realize that you’re
literally dressed to kill.
You said the mind is so
important.
Would you pray for people that
their mind renewed to the Word
of God right now.
Rick: I will because the mind is
where the main attack takes
place.
And so Father, in the name of
Jesus, I pray, Lord, right now
for people whose mind is under
assault, the enemy is trying to
pave a road into their mind and
to bombard them with lies about
their self-image, about their
health, about their marriage.
And Father, I pray that they
would listen to the Word of God
and that every one of those lies
would be uprooted and removed
from their minds in the name of
Jesus.
Amen.
Sid: The devil comes at you like
a roaring lion, like, like a
roaring lion.
But you have that shield of
faith.
You have the sword of the
Spirit.
You are dressed to kill.
You are more than a conqueror.
Sid: Next week on It’s
Supernatural.
My guest went to a spirit-filled
church and he saw such excess.
So he left and he said, “I’m
going to an evangelical church
where everything is biblical.”
And he saw such dryness.
He got burned out.
But then he prayed to God.
He said, “God, there’s got to be
an answer.”
And God spoke to him and he had
a breakthrough.
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