Walton Gray is not affiliated with Taylor, is not one of his followers and is not a member of his ministry, according to her spokesman Tony Weaver.

Dreams and prophecies

Taylor claims in videos and writings that he was a gangster and drug user growing up in Memphis, Tenn., when Jesus visited him for the first time. Sometimes he says he was 17, other times 19, when that happened.

He said it was the first of many visits. One included a trip to heaven.

“Jesus in 2000 took my spirit out of my body and he took me to heaven,” he said in a video published on his website. “I had a trip to heaven, y’all. I saw heaven. I don’t have time to go through the details, but when I went to heaven, one of the main things Jesus said (was) I brought you here so you could go back to Earth and tell the people what happens in the miracle crusades I told you to hold.”

During the tour of heaven, Jesus “allowed a screen to come down” and explained, presumably in a video of his own, that he would attend some of Taylor’s events and perform miracles.

In other videos, Taylor claims he predicted the Sept. 11 attacks and knew to leave New York before the planes hit.