I have made the charge on David James’ site that every charge he makes and every idle word that he has made against The Harbinger and against Rabbi Jonathan Cahn he will have to give an account for, and he may think he gets away with justifying himself with me and others in his retort, but there is One before whom he will not be able to justify himself, just plead the mercy of God through the Lord Jesus our Messiah.
Hello again David. Again thank you once more for allowing me to share my post here with you and your readers. Here is another reason why you must prayerfully as a man of God and servant of Jesus Christ must reconsider what you have written in your book and in this article, as well as all other critics of The Harbinger. I address myself here not just to you, but also to them. Therefore the manner in which I write. I submit to you that you listen carefully and prayerfully reconsider what you claim is correct but is not for more reasons that I cite here and have cited, but which I am, if the Lord wills, cite indepth in a work I am currently writing in response to your book.
The critics of The Harbinger make much to do about nothing, because they believe that one must be in a covenant relationship with God for God to hear them or even to communicate with them and answer their prayers. This argument is flawed and misleading because it does not take into account the fact of God’s grace, a grace so inclusive that its work was established long before God set the foundation of the earth into place.
According to them, neither the United States or the land of north America upon which this nation was founded has had a covenant relationship with God as Israel has, and therefore any argument claiming that we as a nation – that is, the United States – are in covenant relationship with God because of the prayers of dedication and consecration made by those who settled this land centuries before which they made with God; is an invalid claim. I would have believed this claim if not for one fundamentally most important fact which all critics of The Harbinger appear to overlook; the grace of God and the good works that would follow have been established long before creation. This claim by its very nature – cleverly devilish as it is, because at first glance it appears plausible – is at its very root a patent denial of what the Scriptures teach in their totality when it comes to the work of God in human history – that is, the redemption of the crown of His creation; Man, a work which He determined to do and accomplish, and established long before all covenants came into being.
Is this affirmed by what the Scriptures teach? The answer is yes. It is affirmed by the Apostle Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the following manner:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
(Ephesians 1:3-14)
Just on the basis of predestination (Acts 4:28) all arguments which attempt to mitigate the prayers and covenants, and compacts which a people make with Almighty God, be they Jew or Gentile, slave or freeman, pilgrim or colonialist, Puritan, Baptist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, or Non-Charismatic Cessationist; all are laid to rest with the Scriptures when properly understood and applied to each and every generation and taught correctly in light of God’s predestined will and Providence.
But let us supposed that we did not have the foreknowledge and predestined Providence of God to guide our way before us; we can still make the argument from Scripture that the very premise of what The Harbinger’s critics try to make against any claims this nation has with God to be null and void, is both specious and patently inaccurate and Un-Biblical.
The charge of a wrong hermeneutic is then turned on its head against The Harbinger’s critics by the Biblical facts laid before us. Now some may still argue as will be expected, that some are predestined for wrath while others are predestined for redemption, and they are correct in making that claim. (Romans 9:10-18) Quite true, but ALL things have been, are, and will be summed up in Christ, and on that basis alone, everything is judged. But Paul does not end there, but as if to strengthen to what extent this has been, is, and will be accomplished by God; Paul includes all things in the heavens and on earth; all things, everyone. There are no exceptions, and no conditions, but Christ. (Ephesians 1:10)
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