Sid: My guest by way of telephone is Anna Rountree and her name had come up to me several times. I was up in Moravian Falls, North Carolina at a Leaders Idea Exchange with a friend of mine Rick Joyner. And sitting opposite me was a man by the name of Steven Strange and his wife Joy and they’re the Editors of Charisma Magazine. And Steven kept looking at me and he walked up and said “Sid I think you’re supposed to meet Anna and Albert Rountree.” And I said well their names come up before I’d like to meet them and so they arranged for me to meet Anna and her husband Albert. Of course there wasn’t an intriguing portion and that intriguing portion is that Anna has literally 100’s of visitations to heaven and has recorded it so accurately in fact let me read this from her book “The Heaven’s Opened” by Anna Rountree.
This is by Gwen Shaw the Head of End Time Hand Maidens:
“The Heaven’s Opened” is an amazing and beautiful revelation of the place that He has gone to prepare a place for us and where we will spend eternity. Of the many recent books written about our future home none reveals so clearly the glory of God that awaits us if we are faithful to Him during the days of testing that many have already begun to experience. You will read it more than once and you will want to share it with all of your friends you will not be able to put it down.
Sid: Now I found out things about Anna that I went there with Steven and Joy Strange and Joy was saying “Boy I didn’t know those things.” Anna you actually wrote the film script for Steven King’s first movie?
Anna: Well that’s exactly right I withdrew after writing it and took my name off of it because after I wrote it the Lord told me that I was going to be marrying a minister and I didn’t think that that sort of material would be right for a minister’s wife. (Laughing) to have written believe me I didn’t think it was right.
Sid: Now the circumstances of you marrying a minister were pretty interesting. You were being prayed for and being baptized in the Holy Spirit speaking in unknown tongues and what did God tell you?
Anna: Well, He told me I’d be marring the minister of that church.
Sid: Now how does someone walk up to the minister of the church and say God told me I’m going to marry you?
Anna: (Laughing) Well you don’t.
Sid: (Laughing)
Anna: Believe me you don’t do that. In fact the Lord said “Not to say anything to him that he was like a man asleep that He was going to say something to him.” And He did it took a couple of months but He did.
Sid: But then out of curiosity did he…Did God sovereignly tell him or was he attracted to you?
Anna: No, no, no, no he and I were not attracted to one another at all we just you know in the natural we weren’t each other’s type. Now you must realize that when I was working on the first draft of the screen play of “Carrie” I was not saved. I’m sure as a saved person I never would have done it, but I was not saved the Lord brought me into the…
Sid: That was a horrible movie.
Anna: Oh heavens my generation was traumatized by “Psycho” and this other generation of the time when “Carrie” came out in the 70’s was traumatized by “Carrie.” And I mean it’s a ghastly film. What I was trying to do in the film was make it so real that it would be possible, you see. The producers allowed me to they wanted it changed from the location of the book from Vermont to a small Texas town. And I had been from Texas and said “I haven’t lived in Texas in years if you’ll let me go to go to Texas and sit in Texas in a small Texas town then I’ll write this for you.” And therefore I did and that’s when I met my husband they were having these meetings on a Friday night…
Sid: Now your husband was involved he was a Pastor in a church was it Church of the Redeemer was that Houston?
Anna: Yes he was one of the two clergy of that…
Sid: Now that’s the place where within a church the Charismatic movement really got started.
Anna: Yes true it’s very well known of that. In fact like the Vineyard up in Toronto and like Brownsville the world came to Houston to take a coal from the altar you might say and take it back and it ignited fires many places.
Sid: What was the catalyst that started the move of God in that Church do you know?
Anna: Well I believe that it was actually God Himself that did this but it wasn’t known to anyone. What He did is that He gathered together 12 people, two of them were clergy who prayed every single day. One of them had to drive over from Galveston to pray every day early in the morning. It was a church that had what they call a crypt, or a small chapel under… in a basement you might say, in New York, it’s down in the basement. But they would come together in that that particular chapel and pray and they knew that the Lord was doing something because He had moved within them in such a way that compelled them to come together to pray. He had brought them together. And He ignited from those prayers this wonderful outbreak of the Spirit within that church and wonderful music came from it. And my husband he says “Our mouths were just filled with laughter.” (Laughing)
Sid: Sounds like a Psalm to me. (Laughing)
Anna: (Laughing) They were like children because the grace was so great and the outpouring so mighty. He said that we would just ask for anything group for anything and we knew that the Lord would do it.
Sid: Wait that went by to fast “Did you catch that Mishpochah they just…she just said “We would just ask for anything and the Lord would do it.”
Anna: Yes yes it was an extraordinary period of time in everyone’s life. Of course everyone thought that it would last you know that it would go on and on and of course it did spread everywhere. It was a mighty move of God but as with all of the moves of God that have happened in the past they get corrupted they just don’t last.
Sid: Now I’m going to jump a little you got obviously got married and a lot of interesting things happened with the ministry that you and your husband had. But then you met a man by the name of Bob Jones who is a friend of mine. I’ve got a funny Bob Jones story He’s a prophet Mishpochah. And I called him once on the telephone to interview him and at that time I was in the Washington, DC area, I was actually in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I said “Hi Bob my name is Sid Roth an I’m from Washington, DC because who’s heard of Gaithersburg, Maryland. And he said “I can’t talk to you.” And He said “I can’t talk to you.” And I said “Why can’t you?” He said “Because I’m waiting for a call from someone from Gaithersburg, Maryland.’ And I said “Well, that’s me!” And so any way this Bob Jones has had so many amazing visitations and trips to heaven. And I understand that you met him and you decided you wanted to write his life story but you had a problem, what was that?
Anna: (Laughing) Well it’s actually the Lord answered the prayer because of that. We had been in Kansas City and we were interviewing him we were putting it on tape his life story on tape. His life story is really very interesting and we were taping him and also going out to eat I’m not sure which we were enjoying the most. (Laughing) taping or going out to eat together but we were having a wonderful time together. But I would ask him because he would go to heaven and he said “Well I went to heaven and such and such.” And I’d say “Well Bob what does it look like that up there? And he’d say “Well you know.” And I said “Well I really don’t know believe me I don’t know are there colors up there, is everybody dressed in white, does anybody have something that is a different color or something like that?” And he said “Well you know.” And I thought “Oh my word.” (Laughing)
Sid: (Laughing)
Anna: Finally after we finished all of the taping I really told the Lord “If You want me to write the story of this man’s life and he’s going to heaven all of the time and I don’t know what heaven looks like.” And I said “You’re going to have to take me heaven and I need to see heaven myself if You want me to write this, but I just ask one thing I don’t want to have to be smashed up in a car or something you know.”
Sid: I understand.
Anna: Could You just do something a little different here (Laughing) you know? So…
Sid: Did you think He was going to take you to heaven when you prayed that?
Anna: No.
Sid: I didn’t think so.
Anna: No I did not but you know Sid almost from the beginning from the time that I was saved anyone with a prophetic ministry saw me they would say “Well you’ll be seeing into heaven.”
Sid: Stop for a moment we’re out of time Mishpochah.
