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hello Sid Roth here with Bruce vanat
Bruce when he was 5 years of age Jesus
came to him Jesus hugged him and a hug
from Jesus caused gifts of the Spirit of
the Living God to enter Bruce which
forever changed his life now Bruce you
were going through a hard time you were
being as a 5-year-old you were being
molested tell me what happened yes uh
parents worked out of the house so we
had a babysitter that have to go stay at
their house and while I was at this
family’s house over a period of about a
year they were molesting their two
children and they also were molesting
myself and so that was going on and off
for that year and then my grandparents
took me to church the one time I can
remember being at a church as a child
and I went to Sunday school class and
the Sunday school teacher in this little
small country Church told us that the
story about Jesus hugging the little
children and the story just was that his
his main point was that Jesus loved us
as children and if we’d pray to him he
he would answer our prayers so uh my
parents ended up finding out what
happened and I was listening to that
conversation that night as my mom told
my dad what had happened to me for the
year they were upset that I hadn’t told
um worried about my future worried about
what had happened to me sure and so I
was laying on the bed in the dark and
just uh little little voice of the Holy
Spirit now I know reminded me what the
Sunday school teacher had said 6 months
earlier and said pray to Jesus so I
thought I’d give it a chance and what I
what I prayed for was I think probably
any child of that age would pray for and
I just wanted to be comforted so I
prayed for just a hug that’s all I
prayed for I just said Jesus please come
hug me and so right at that second the
room lit up and and I just felt these
warm arms wrapped physically around me
and so it was a physical and emotional
both I tell people it’s like being
dipped in liquid love I was covered from
head to toe inside and outside by this
this incredible love and it just blocked
out everything else and next thing I
knew I woke up the next morning but you
had something that you didn’t realize
gifts of the holy spirit started
operating even at that young age tell me
about that dream you had uh shortly
after that I had a dream where I was
walking in heaven hand inand with Jesus
and the the the walls were these
beautiful jewels and there was this
shiny shiny walkway road that we were
walking on and and Jesus was just
smiling we didn’t talk he was just
smiling and hold my hand and I just felt
love and so I I uh told my mom about it
my mom knew knew from Revelation The
Book of Revelation about what heaven
looks like I had no knowledge of that
but I described it well I mean a church
one time exact at age five yeah so I I
described and it kind of scared her CU
you thought well what’ you see what do
you remember that you saw you know all I
really remember is this these beautiful
stone walls and you know when we think
of like diamonds we think of little
these were great big Great Big Beautiful
stones that were huge and even to this
day I still have a fascination with uh
Stones I’ve got a stone garden at our
house and stuff I think it stems from
that and and since that point you hear
things by the spirit of God you know
things starting at that point I started
to have a a lot of dreams and visions
and uh just what the Bible calls words
of knowledge and um then then we’re
we’re going to go up a number of years
uh to the accident that you had but you
had almost a premonition before what
kind of truck was this this was a a
Peter belt logging truck about how much
does it weigh well the part that fell on
me weighs about 10,000 to 12,000 lb uh
how would you like 10,000 lbs a truck to
fall on you I don’t think your body
could withstand that but uh you uh God
spoke to you before this event what did
he say well over the period of that it
happened in November and over the period
of that summer there was uh a handful of
times where the Lord came to me and just
asked if I would die for the advancement
of the kingdom and I I called a friend
of mine a close friend of mine and I
told him what was happening
and I said you know it’s it’s bothering
me it’s scaring me and he said well what
did you answer I said I haven’t answered
and he he said Bruce I’m surprised I
know you better than that I know what
your answer would be you’d say yes and
and it kind of I kind of felt
accountable when he said that and the
next time that came I was taken a shower
and uh the Holy Spirit was just we were
having this conversation and he said
okay I’ve given you enough time to think
about it now you have to
answer and uh so I started making
excuses and saying well I’ve got four
small children and my wife and I you
know thinking my way through these
things and and there was no and I so I
started asking questions and I said Lord
why and there was no reply at all I
heard absolutely nothing the
conversation just there was nothing
coming back and so finally I broke down
I got on my hands and knees in the in
the shower and I was started weeping and
I said yes Lord I will
die for the advancement of your
kingdom and as soon as I did I asked the
question again why and he said well
because for the advance of my kingdom
and then you know so then it was
reassuring and I said okay I’m Lord and
you know I know we’re not supposed to
make deals with God but I said God
promise me one thing that you’ll give
Lori a husband that will love her more
than I do and my children a father that
would love them more than I do right now
and he said done and as soon as he said
done I really started crying because I
knew it was I understand now take me to
that day that the truck fell on
you well uh
I was I’m a mechanic by trade I go
around I’ve got a repair truck that I do
on-site repair at different locations
and this was just a place where I was
doing a three-day job i’ finished the
job worked 12 probably 12h hour day that
day I just finished it up did an engine
repair and so I wanted to run the engine
to make sure there were no leaks on what
I had done I was working with another
mechanic and he was doing some other
repairs on the truck also and he had
taken the front right wheel off and he
had placed a 20ton bottle jack and
jacked up the front axle and as I was
wiping my tools off and putting them
back in my truck he asked me before you
go can you just take a look I’ve got a
leak somewhere at this truck and I’ve
been looking for it for 6 months and if
you could just diagnose it I’ll fix it
myself he said and I thought to myself
well that’ll just take me a couple
minutes his creeper was laying there his
light was there I had never been
underneath the truck once in this job
and I crawled up underneath the truck
and feet first towards the back of the
truck and the front axle of the truck is
about about that wide and it’s kind of
rounded and it’s about that deep and the
that 10 12,000 lb is on the weight to
those two front wheels well one wheel is
off I crawled underneath it the axle was
about this much over my midsection so it
was coming across me like this the truck
um engine was still running the truck
rocked and it ended up falling off the
Jack so the this rounded axle fell
across me and crushed me like a blunt
guillotin is what it did it it didn’t
cut me it just crushed me down to the
thickness of my spine there was two
vertebrae broken my spine and my lumbar
uh couple ribs but all my internal stuff
in here in my intestines mainly and you
know spleen pancreas liver all took a
hit and and you were crushed almost like
a pancake from what I looked in fact you
thought that you were cut in half don’t
go away we’ll be right back after this
word we’ll be right back to It’s
Supernatural we now return to It’s
Supernatural hello Sid Roth here with
Bruce van and Bruce had a 10,000 000b
truck fall on him literally he thought
his body had been like guillotined in
half uh what happened is he was crushed
I mean you you were crushed almost like
a pancake uh um what happened next well
after I was crushed I looked at myself
and I could see from my point of view it
did look like I was cut in half cuz I
couldn’t see the other half of my body
through the axle and I could see here
where the axle was laying on the cement
so I just called out God help me twice
and the mechanic I was working with was
quick and he uh called 911 they got the
the truck jacked up um I remember
wanting to get out from underneath the
truck really bad and because I I didn’t
like the way it was jacked up again I
was afraid it was going to fall me again
so I reached back and grabbed the front
bumper big chrome front bumper was right
behind my head I grabbed it pulled
myself out to the point of where my head
was sticking out from underneath the
front bumper of this large Peter belt
and that’s when I went unconscious and
uh next thing I know I’m up in the
ceiling of this garage look looking down
out the body experience and I assume
there was no feeling uh you had no
feeling when you’re looking down at
yourself yeah no it was just like
watching a movie did you know it was you
you know I I can’t honestly say I knew
it was me not at first it was like just
like watching a movie and I saw there
was now there was more people the
volunteer fire department had gotten
there and I was listening to the
conversations people were having but you
know this aot experience was incredible
but the most incredible thing was I’m
looking down at myself I can see my head
sticking out from underneath the front
front bumper my eyes were closed my head
was turned to the right side and there’s
a picture just burned in my memory of
like that and on each side of me is a
angel and uh the man that I’ve been
working with was on his knees above me
and he’s about 6’1 6’2 and he was
running this I was watching him run his
fingers through my hair and and he was
crying and patting me on the head and
their heads the the heads of these
angels stuck up at least this much
higher than his they were also
underneath but they had their arms in
underneath the truck towards my body so
these angels had their hands on me so
they I could see they were really
keeping you alive oh definitely
definitely keeping me alive well what
happened next well I just that that
scene has burned in my mind and then
they pulled me out from underneath the
truck the angel stayed uh I watched from
the back corner a red-haired EMT worker
I’ve met her now Shannon she came in she
got down between those angels she moved
this man out of the way and she started
slapping me in the face and saying open
your eyes open your eyes and and I was
watching and watching from above
listening to her watching and next thing
I knew I was back in my body looking at
her eye to eye well when the medical
team came what did they decide to do oh
they called medflight right away because
they it was such a bad injury so I was
uh Med flighted to the largest Trauma
Center in our state in Wisconsin now you
told me that you should have bled to
death what what do you mean uh the
doctors told me because of my injuries
off your heart your mesenteric artery
and your mesenteric vein Superior mes
artery Superior mesic vein come down
feed the your lower half of your body
and it was completely severed not
pinched not torn but completely severed
both of those in multiple places plus
other veins and so they said with my
injury I should have bled to death in 8
minutes 10 minutes top in fact we’re
told by several doctors now that they
can find no other cases anywhere ever
ever of anybody ever living from those
injuries because they always come in on
dead and rival because it’s like having
a you know arteries like size of garden
holes cut you told me they were amazed
you even lived oh completely because it
was an hour and 40 minutes from the
point of the accident until they got me
to the hospital I was in trauma for an
hour before I lost all blood pressure
and and uh they rushed me into the OR
which I should have lost all blood
pressure right away at that 8 minutes in
fact they put in my my doctor records my
medical records they put in 18 units of
blood which is about 8 L the body holds
about 5 L 5 to 6 l so they put in more
that just tells you as they were putting
in it was just coming out leaking into
my my cavity my stomach cavity so it’s a
large miracle that I ever even made it
to the hospital and uh uh they had to
actually what what what happened with
your small
intestine that’s Miracle number two um
my small intestine was damaged so badly
they ended up with a 25 cm or 10in chunk
of the ilum a part of the small
intestine that they were able to save
they found another piece they cut out
three sections they found another piece
of small intestine that was 75 cm and so
between those two pieces I had roughly
40 in of small intestine left or about 3
ft and you have you any adult has about
22 21 22 fet and I only had 3 ft left
and so I started losing weight as I was
in the hospital I went through five
different operations uh the fourth
operation another chunk of small
intestine that had been damage died of
that 75 cm died so now it’s I’m
underneath 100 cm and I just keep losing
wait and they we well if you’re under
100 cm um is that lifethreatening yes
what eventually what we googled this and
what we found out from the doctors that
eventually if you have small ball
syndrome if it gets down to a certain
point you starve to death and I was fed
intravenously also but they just can’t
mimic with the intravenously long-term
what God does with your stomach we feed
so you were in process of dying slowly
gradually losing weight losing weight
and uh this this one particular morning
I was on my fourth operation I just come
out of the operation a man in New York
named Bruce Carlson the Lord woke him up
this one morning and told him to fly out
from New York to me in Wisconsin and
pray over me I had met him one time he’s
a friend of a friend I’d met him one
time on vacation but he was obedient to
the Lord came out and uh at the hospital
room that day he came with a a gentleman
from my friend from my church drove him
down there and one stood on each side of
the bed and he just prayed over me and
he put his palm on my forehead and he
started praying he said Lord I ask that
all the prayers for all the people that
have been praying for Bruce be answered
right now today and I was on prayer
chains all over well well Bruce hold
that thought okay we’ll be back in just
a moment because an instant I mean
instant Miracle took place be right
back we’ll be right back to It’s
Supernatural we now return to It’s
Supernatural hello Sid Roth here with
Bruce vanat and uh Bruce uh you you
almost were guillan in half when a truck
smashed over you um and uh you really
shouldn’t have lived you should have
bled to death medically speaking uh and
they had to cut your small intestine
eventually it got down to under 100 cm
which medically speaking means he would
starve to death and so he was he was a
dead man but a
man heard God’s voice and flew to Bruce
and prayed for him then what happened
well as he was praying and saying Lord I
I pray that you answer all those prayers
today I started feeling electricity what
I can describe as electricity come out
of his palm into my forehead and then he
as Jesus said he spoke to the mountain
and he said small intestine in the name
of Jesus I command you to grow
supernaturally in length and as soon as
he said that it felt like a a snake came
un coil inside my stomach and I turned
to the man that he was with the guy from
my chur church and I turned to him on my
left side of the bed I said man it just
felt like a snake just came uncoiled
inside my inside my stomach and how did
they find out well in preparation for
operation number five a few months later
I have to go into the radiologist
department and I have upper GI and they
make me drink this nasty stuff and
they’re measuring it from the bottom of
my esophagus checking my small intestine
and the guy gets done with it I hear him
he’s going hm and I they said the
procedure is going to take a certain
amount of time and that time and he he
Le he comes back with a supervisor they
redo the test they start back over and I
hear him whispering and saying mistake
and I’m thinking you know that’s the
last thing you want to hear a doctor
says there’s mistake and so finally I I
asked and he said well no it’s good he
said in your records it shows you have
less than 100 centimet of small intestin
he said but we’ve just done the test
twice and you have way over 200 CM you
have over 6 feet well how’d they explain
that was it a bad doctor well
considering the doctor is the head of
our the whole entire biggest Trauma
Center in our state and he a chief
resident surgeon I don’t think he a bad
doctor now you you have those records
inside there I mean this there’s what
could a skeptic say is it possible for
the small intestine to grow that much it
does not grow once you’re an adult your
small intestine does not grow and we’ve
got Dr proof before and after
lyx you know what excites me so much
remember the gifts of the Spirit that
God has given Bruce they are
transferable everyone that knows the
Messiah has these gifts and Bruce put
together his entire documented story
plus almost a workbook on the most
important thing next to being born from
above and that is hearing God’s voice so
that you can be obedient so you can fill
your fulfill your destiny in life and uh
you told me that you had uh was it a
vision of your new book called Saved By
Angels and what was what was happening
in that Vision it was actually right
before the book came out my contact at
the publisher we were talking one day on
the phone and uh she was she was telling
me about actually about your show and
she said Sid Roth what started this all
was she said uh as we’re talking the
phone she said I was asking ways to
market the book you know get this
message out because I think it’s a
really important message that people get
to have a relationship with Jesus not
religion but relationship and just how
different that is and so we’re talking
about that and I’m I’m
just excited and want to get this
message in as many people’s hands as I
can and she said well I think a great
place would be uh Sid Roth Minister well
I hadn’t heard of your name so I wrote
it down and she she continues and she
says you know then it goes into a word
and she gives me a word of the phone she
says God is saying that he’s going to
take care of it because I said well how
do I get a hold of him what do I do to
get on his show and she ends by saying
well I think God is just saying he’s
going to take care of this fast forward
a couple months and this man calls me to
have some air conditioning work down his
vehicle I hadn’t talked to him since
before my accident and he uh I said I
don’t I don’t do that work anymore cuz
I’ve gone to full-time Ministry now I
don’t do that any work anymore and he
said oh you know what he said I just
remembered a couple weeks ago he said at
my home Church he’s from another town at
my home Church some old friends family
friends of my wife and I Chuck and Mary
BM came to visit and he said I was
telling them your story telling about
the angels and how you’re the only
person that’s ever lived from this
injury and Chuck said oh that’s exactly
what our ministry specializes in and he
said it’s it’s Sid Roth Ministry he had
never heard of it either cuz we’re kind
of isolated up there in the Midwest and
so he says to me I’ll get you his number
so he hangs up calls back gives me
Chuck’s number who he got me through to
Joyce and that’s how I got on the show
so God gave me a word giv from this
contact to get on the show so after I
call her back we have this great and I
tell her look this is what happened get
off the phone I’m praying I’m praising
the Lord I’m saying Thank You Lord now
the the book is in printing it’s
actually at the printer and as I’m
praying I’m praising the Lord I see a
vision and what the vision was the books
are coming off the printing process and
as they’re coming off the printing press
they’re being touched every book is
being touched by the Holy Spirit and
physically anointed you know I have to
tell you when I read this book I felt
the presence of God that’s what got me
so excited about meeting you and
interviewing you so in this tell me this
Vision again what was Jesus doing as
each it was the Holy Spirit in my vision
as each book was coming off the printing
press it was being touched and there was
a physical anointing being put on the
book so that when people got in their
hands they wouldn’t want to put it down
and many people have said you know once
I pick up the book I don’t want to quit
reading it it’s just it just gets me and
I just get into it and people said they
they go to at a night on a work night
and they end up spend it up staying up
the night just so they can finish
reading the book before the next day you
know why BEC because someone can learn
how God speaks and most people God
speaks to everyone amen but we miss it
so much tell me about words of knowledge
we’ve got Angels and Demons around us
word of knowledge is listening to the
right voice it’s listening to the holy
Spirit speak from inside you and uh an
example the day I flew here yesterday in
the morning I got a phone call from a
man at a hospital had been in hospital
for a month and he wanted some prayer
and the Lord as I’m on the phone with
him the Lord said tell him you’ll call
him back in 15 minutes get his phone
number so I got his phone I hung up and
I said okay now what Lord I just started
praying going before him he led me to uh
some verses now I didn’t I’ll did not
have these verses memorized didn’t even
know they were there the Lord led me to
Psalm uh I believe it was psalm 41 or
Psalm 42 and at the beginning it says
that he who has regard for the weak um
will be taken care of or along those
lines on paraphrasing because I don’t
know the exact words and then it goes on
to say that he will
be uh let’s see sustained on his sick
bed and recovered from his from his
illness and so the Lord tells me call
him back and ask him if he has regard
for the weak and the Lord told me he
does but just ask him the question to
build his faith and so I call the man
back and he gets on the phone and I said
you know you know the Lord is asking do
you have regard for the week and he says
oh he said in my Ministry he said if
somebody needs a couch I’ll give them my
couch out of my house I’ve given my
frigerator away I’ve given cars away
I’ve given money away till I have
nothing I’ve given my own food away I
said so you think you have regard for
the weak he said oh yes and he starts to
weep I said the Lord said you do open
your Bible to such and such so he opens
up the Bible and so we get to the point
now he’s been in the hospital for a
month and the Lord says I said the Lord
is telling you he’s going to sustain you
and then he’s going to restore you so
not only is he going to sustain you
through this this long-term Illness but
he’s going to restore your health and
you know you had a series of Dreams in
which your wife was being unfaithful to
you and there were how many dreams did
you have like that it was over 10 years
so I don’t know the exact number but
probably over 300 okay and he has these
dreams and he even he knows his wife’s
faithful but he they’re so real uh he
doesn’t know what to do with it and
because of time God gave you an
interpretation of the dream dream very
quickly what was it the last dream I had
uh I repeat to my wife in this dream as
I wake up she’s laying there sleeping
next to me in bed and I repeat to her
why don’t you understand how much I love
you which was the last thing I said in
my dream and the Lord speaks to me and
says why don’t you understand how much I
love you and I said I don’t understand
what do you mean Lord we went back and
forth a couple times and he again I say
it he says it so then ends up he said
Bruce every time you do drugs drink um
anything that you do go after money
motorcycle racing anything that I was
involved in to get peace Joy um
security fulfill the whole that’s in my
heart he said anytime you do any of that
stuff you’re cheating on me and not only
are you cheating on me but you’re doing
it in full sight of me because ever
since I was little since I was hugged
God has been as real to me as my hands
and so I knew God every time I did this
stuff God didn’t want me to do it and I
was for a long time in my life I was
walking one foot in the world and one
foot in God’s world God still loves you
but let me tell you God is too good stop
the drugs stop the pornography stop the
adultery stop anything that is filling
that void and fill it with God fill it
with Jesus he’s real he loves you he’s
calling you he wants to hug
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