Monday, December 10, 2012

THE HARBINGER: MAKING THINGS EVIDENT IN THE LIGHT

Dear David and all who happen to run across David’s site and read this. Perhaps one of the most common sense and level-headed reads I’ve had the pleasure to encounter was that of Tony’s here, and I’ll tell you why. Unlike one who would take either side in this controversy; Tony recommends that one read The Harbinger, do their due diligence of looking up its citations, or as he put it “follow the latter for easy-reading purposes. That’s what a second, third, and fourth, or more reads come in.” – that means homework folks, and lots of it – and then read the book a second or third time, and only after they have done this, to understand what it is trying to say to America. The hour is late, and there is too much at stake to disregard what The Harbinger is warning US to do. As Tony wrote:

“- America, it’s time to humble yourself and pray, seek God’s face, and may He hear from Heaven and have mercy on us all that He turns his wrath away from our nation. Only through prayer and repentance can we expect God to change this nation’s current course.”

I agree with Tony and many others who find The Harbinger somewhat a little difficult to read – some more, others less – The Harbinger is the culmination of a series of topical teachings given by Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn at Beth Israel Worship Center in Lodi, New Jersey and at the Beth Israel Jerusalem Center in Wayne, New Jersey. In these topical series, Rabbi Cahn was teaching on current events and how these tied to Biblical warnings of the times, many of which mirrored the events of those times, and some or many of which were prophetically connected to each other – a type of sensus plenior – where a historical prophetic event has sometimes a dual fulfillment – a literal natural historical fulfillment tied to another historical fulfillment with similar or identical spiritual implications.

The problems with translating topical teachings of current events into a work of fiction and trying to present the same as fact is that much gets lost in the translation, and much is left open for pen of critics who are quick to judge, quick to speak, and quick to condemn without first finding out all of the facts for themselves, as Tony did here. He read the book, read it a second, possibly even a third time, and only then could he understand the import of its message. The problem with David James’ assessment of this work is that – and don’t take this personal David, everybody has made this mistake more than once in their lifetime, some more than others I presume – he was quick to judge, quick to speak, and quick to write something about it that could possibly have implications for him to ride the coattails of The Harbinger’s successful run.

The fact that he was quick to publish a book about it, and quick to follow up with several Internet postings against it based upon his own interpretation of what he believes it says, and afterwards to “go the extra mile” to invest more into this campaign by releasing his book in audio form speaks volumes about what this is all about.

And when the first serious challenge to what he posits in his criticism of The Harbinger is presented to him, he decides not to post over three of challenges to his writings on his web site – believing that the power of censorship on his site will mitigate the facts from coming out about his book and hide the flawed theological approach he has taken pertaining to God’s sovereignty over the nations of the earth, and whether or not He hears the prayers of “the Gentile nations of the world with whom He does not have a covenant relationship with” – as he and other critics of The Harbinger put it – nations such as the United States of America.
This is intellectually dishonest.

You’ve accused me of writing that the Apostle Paul was an Anti-Semite, and when I answered you with the Word of God in the following manner, you ignored it. This is what you wrote and this is how I replied; don’t worry, I will only post what is a direct reply to your accusation. I’ve condensed it for the sake of your readers, and to avoid being repetitive, since there is much about your book that remains to be written, and I must get to it, but only if the Lord wills, and allows me to. But here it what you wrote followed by my reply:
“By your criteria, the Apostle Paul is also an anti-Semite (re: 1 Tim. 1:3-7, particularly v. 4 and Titus 1:13-14).
Also, my entire book shows that I couldn't possibly be even remotely post-modern (do you know what the term means?).
Between just these two silly charges, your credibility is in shambles.”
DJ

David. With all due respect sir, I am fully aware of what I write here, and stand by every word I’ve written. Well, let’s begin by examining the two Scriptural references you cite, when you charge me now of accusing the Apostle Paul of being an Anti-Semite:

As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
(1Timothy 1:3-7, emphasis mine according to the special attention you give to verse 4)

There are differences of opinion as to what the Apostle Paul meant when writing this, but it is unmistakable that he was referring to rabbinical authorities – former colleagues of his within the Party of the Circumcision who did not agree with his faith in Jesus as Messiah and who were politically and religiously allied to the Chief Priestly House of Joseph Caiaphas in Jerusalem for whom Paul once labored before coming to faith in Christ – whom he takes issue with here. There is debate as to whether the Apostle is referring here to Gnostic Teachings concerning endless emanations that extended from God to creation, or extra-biblical stories of the patriarchs that some rabbinic circles used as part of midrashic teachings that formed a good portion of what Paul had learned before he came to faith, but which he realized was worthless with regards to the Gospel and repentance from sin, and sanctification.

Such midrashic embellishments formed such writings as the Book of Jubilees, written by a Pharisee approximately around the year 125 B.C. There is also indications that a form of the heresy which troubled the Galatian Christians was spreading in the teachings of these itinerant Jewish teachers, where circumcision under the Mosaic Covenant was being required of Gentile converts to the faith of the Way, as well as attributing some spiritual value to having Jewish lineage and some form of pedigree used by these people of which Paul warns about here.
And the second one that you cite:

This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith, not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

(Titus 1:13-14)

Again, here the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is warning his unsuspecting predominantly gentile readers to disregard Jewish aggadot as well as to mitzvot d’Rabbanan; concepts and precepts taught in his day of which he was well versed in, having been a student of them under the tutelage of Rabban Gamaliel I. Here also would be included the myriad number of Halachot imposed by rabbinic authority; the so-called commandments of men, otherwise known in Judaism as the Written Torah versus the Oral Torah. This is what Jesus, His Jewish disciples, and the Apostle Paul who was an observant Jewish Pharisee all of his adult life; taught against; the Oral fence around the written Law, and the scores of stories around it and its origins, such as the ones I cite below directly from Jewish sources
“Jewish tradition holds that "Moses received the Torah from Sinai," yet there is also an ancient tradition that the Torah existed in heaven not only before God revealed it to Moses, but even before the world was created.

“In rabbinic literature, it was taught that the Torah was one of the six or seven things created prior to the creation of the world. According to Eliezer ben Yose the Galilean, for 974 generations before the creation of the world the Torah lay in God's bosom and joined the ministering angels in song. Simeon ben Lakish taught that the Torah preceded the world by 2,000 years and was written in black fire upon white fire. Akiva called the Torah "the precious instrument by which the world was created". Rav said that God created the world by looking into the Torah as an architect builds a palace by looking into blueprints. It was also taught that God took council with the Torah before He created the world.

“Other Jewish sages, however, disregard the literal belief that the Torah existed before all else. Saadiah Gaon rejected this belief on the grounds that it contradicts the principle of creation ex nihilo. Judah Barzillai of Barcelona raised the problem of place. Where could God have kept a preexistent Torah? While allowing that God could conceivably have provided an ante-mundane place for a corporeal Torah, he preferred the interpretation that the Torah preexisted only as a thought in the divine mind. Similarly, the Ibn Ezra raised the problem of time. He wrote that it is impossible for the Torah to have preceded the world by 2,000 years or even by one moment, since time is an accident of motion, and there was no motion before God created the celestial spheres; rather, he concluded, the teaching about the Torah's preexistence must be a metaphoric riddle.

“Judah Halevi attempts to alleviate the argument by explaining that the Torah precedes the world in terms of teleology; God created the world for the purpose of revealing the Torah; therefore, since, as the philosophers say, "the first of thought is the end of the work," the Torah is said to have existed before the world.”

(From the Jewish Virtual Library, article titled The Torah (Written Law): An Overview)
This is what the Apostle Paul warned against as useless and a dangerous waste of time if one truly wishes to delve deeper into God’s Word. If one wishes to understand Judaism and its development, then it is useful, but for doctrine, for sanctification, for edification, or to bring someone to Christ, it is to be avoided according to what the Apostle writes here. It is not Anti-Semitic to write such a thing inasmuch as even some of the rabbinic authorities themselves cited above disagreed with it and found it useless speculations dangerously taught as fact. Moreover, the prophet Isaiah himself berates the Israelites of his day who were already developing a form of halachot for others to follow, when he prophesied:
Then the Lord said,

“Because this people draw near with their words
And honor Me with their lip service,
But they remove their hearts far from Me,
And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,
Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,
And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed.”

(Isaiah 29:13)

Centuries later, the Lord Jesus quotes precisely this Scripture from Isaiah in rebuke of the religious leaders of His day who imposed their Halachah; the Oral Law or Torah Sheba’alpeh over and above the written Law, or Torah Shebichtav. And this is in light of the express warning God had given Israel after He had given them His Law at Mount Horeb, and gave them the choice between life and blessing and the disobedience of sin and curse at Gerizim. (Deuteronomy 28) There is nothing Anti-Semitic in all of this, and neither do I call any of it Anti-Semitic.
Your entire theology dictates that it is not only improbable that God heard the prayers of the Puritans or any of the others who settled this land (America) for the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or that He heard the prayers given to God at Saint Paul’s Chapel in New York City on the day of George Washington’s Inaugural, where it is reported Washington led our nation’s first leaders to pray for two hours.

Indeed, your assessment denies what Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God wrote:
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

(1Timothy 2:1-8)

And also what Peter also writes under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God, saying:
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit.

(1Peter 3:18)

Absolute and unmistakable unlimited atonement. As a theologian you are aware of what I mean by this phrase, and I stand by it, in fact, it forms what is an unmistakable fact and truth – God hears the prayers of people and nations who repent and come to Him for forgiveness, otherwise, no one but Israel, and no one but a High Priest of Aaron’s Order, presiding at the temple in Jerusalem, with Levites under service to God, under the Mosaic Covenant which erected a wall of separation between God’s people Israel and all of the other nations of the earth almost five hundred years later

In the chapter of your book, The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction?, in the chapter titled America: A New Israel, you make the following observation:
“In Genesis 12, Moses records that God personally called one man, Abraham (his name was Abram), to leave his home in the region that is modern-day Iraq and go to the region of modern-day Israel. Through him God would bring forth an entirely new nation and a new people – His chosen people. This new nation would be established on the foundation of a unique covenant with Abraham and his descendants through his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. Within two generations, this new nation would be known as ‘Israel’ (as a result of God changing Jacob’s name).

“Abraham entered into this covenant by faith, forever establishing Israel as a unique nation in a unique relationship with God that would be enjoyed by no other nation. The Abrahamic Covenant is eternal, unconditional, and unilateral – meaning that its fulfillment ultimately depends only upon the faithfulness of God.”
(Dr. David James, The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction? page 57, first paragraph, The Berean Call, Bend, Oregon, 2012)

Further on in this chapter, you write the following:
“The Scriptures clearly mitigate against the idea that America or any other nation besides Israel would or could be in a covenant relationship with God. It was God, not Abraham, who initiated the unique, everlasting, and unconditional Abrahamic Covenant with Israel. There is no scriptural indication that any Gentile nation can initiate a covenant with God. (Cahn acknowledged this in the April 4 discussion)”

(Dr. David James, The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction?, page 49 bottom, The Berean Call, Bend, Oregon, 2012)
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his is nothing but Dispensational Theology, and it places a bilateral covenant established by God as one that He made with only one nation (the Mosaic Covenant) and confuses its conditions (works) with the Abrahamic Covenant (faith) – a unilateral covenant that God established with one man through whom all nations would be eventually included by faith in Christ in the New Covenant which sets aside the Mosaic Covenant with its conditional requirements, and replaces its sacerdotal and sacrificial order with one of complete faith the grace of God and the complete vicarious sacrifice of the Son of God for the entire human race.

On the basis of what you’ve written above you have set the conditions as one that states that the Abrahamic Covenant was one which man did not initiate, but God initiated, and therefore no nation or man can approach God and initiate first contact with Him; therefore, under such conditions it is impossible to meet God because He must be the first to initiate first contact between Himself and the other party, and according to what you state in your book, He has only done that with one person (Abraham) and one nation (Israel).

But, you are so inclined to debunk The Harbinger with this Dispensational statement that you forget one fundamental fact which God’s inerrant Word teaches as fact; both the Abrahamic Covenant and the New Covenant were established and initiated by God, not man; and both covenants converge in Christ, where it says that God would bless all of the nations of earth through Abraham’s seed, that is Christ. Just as the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit writes in correction of what you’ve written above, and in correction of the entire premise of your book:

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(Romans 5:6-21)

And how can anyone forget what Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself said in regards to this?
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

(John 3:16)

In your race to condemn this man (Jonathan Cahn) and what he has written (The Harbinger), and wishing to appear superior in your ideas above his; you have forgotten the most fundamental universality of the Gospel of peace to the nations. You have forgotten the most fundamental teachings of Christianity which you claim to profess for which you credit for your own salvation as a Gentile believer. Without realizing the ramifications of what you’ve written in your book (The Harbinger: Fact of Fiction?), you have closed the door of grace upon our nation and upon any possibility of approaching God on the basis of your Dispensational Theology.

The only thing that you’ve accomplished has been to confuse a lot of people who really do not understand the grace of God, and unsettle others, with your erroneous theological contentions. You’ve forgotten that long before God established all of the covenants He has initiated in history, in Pre-History, or Pre-Time, before He laid the foundation of the earth, He had already set in His heart this marvelous redemption we now enjoy.

I disagree wholeheartedly with you and with every critic of The Harbinger who believes that the God of Israel does not hear either the prayers of the leaders of the nations of the earth, and or its people, when in fact, if you study the Word of God without bias, you will make some startling discoveries which may lay to rest any questions about this land – America and the nation founded upon it – the United States – not having any kind of significance with God or in His plans, or not having even the remotest relationship, because it did not exist when God made His covenant with Abraham – goes against the very Word of God, where it says of the nations and the Lord the following:

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.

“Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”

Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised; and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them, and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.

For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb; yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness. Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him, but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

(Romans Chapter 4)

And did God not say to Abraham when He made His covenant with him that He would make him the father of a multitude of nations as the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit write? How then, can you and the others say that God has no covenant with America like He has with Israel through Abraham? If indeed God had not said to Abraham “I will make you a father of many nations,” then you could say that no covenant existed, but God has made it clear that He would make Abraham a father of many nations, indeed He promised that kings and rulers would come from him (Genesis 17:6), for He has said:

“I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you. I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.”

Moreover, the Apostle Paul in the Holy Spirit calls him “heir of the world.” (Romans 4:13), and no less a person than Melchizedek King of Salem called Abraham “Possessor of heaven and earth,” (Genesis 14:19) the meaning of which signifies one who is owner not just of the land, but of the promise made to him by God that he and his descendants – Jew and Gentile – would be inheritors of eternal life in God’s abode of heaven itself. For what other meaning could this phrase have, but for God to declare through His High Priest the words of a promise made before he sealed the covenant, even before there was a nation or before any of the nations that exist today were established? Therefore the Apostle Paul in the Holy Spirit of God calls Abraham – the father of the circumcised and the uncircumcised – of the Jew and of the Gentile – both of whom come to God by faith as he through the cross of Jesus Christ, through whom has been extended this marvelous covenant and promise.

Our Lord who never uttered an idle word in His life, did not declare for nothing, “Blessed are the gentle for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5) How can they inherit what does not belong to them? And how can they be a part of a nation not of Abraham’s stock? But both of these things have been accomplished by God in Christ and through Christ the Gentiles and the Jews have one access through One Shepherd and One Lord, and One faith (Ephesians 4:4-6), One Mediator between God and men; the Man Christ Jesus, Our Lord. (1Timothy 2:5) It is through this physical descendant of Abraham, through Isaac, through Israel, through Judah, through David; right down to the Second Temple Era of which both Isaiah (Isaiah 8:21-22, 9:1-7) and Daniel (Daniel 9:24-27) prophesied would be troublesome times for Israel, times of great political uncertainty; Messiah came and through faith in Him and His complete work of redemption Jews and Gentiles from all nations have been joined into One New Man. This is the blessing that has ushered in God’s grace to the human race, and we are its recipients by election.
In reference to this promise, Dr. Michael Rydelnik makes the following observation:
“God renews His covenant promises to Abraham and his ‘offspring’ (literally ‘seed’), assuring him that ‘kings will come from you’ (Genesis 17:6-7). The same promise is also made to Sarah (Gen 17:16) and Jacob (Genesis 35:11). Ultimately, in a messianic prediction, the promise is narrowed to Judah, whose descendant will be the royal Messiah, to whom all peoples will offer obedience (Gen 49:9-10). This is significant because it shows that the future descendant predicted in Gen 3:15 will come from a royal dynasty.

“Not only will that future descendant rule all people; Abraham is also promised that his seed will bless the nations (Gen 22:17-18). It might be thought that the use of ‘seed’ in Gen 22:17-18 requires a collective sense because it promises that Abraham’s seed would be numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore.’ But Alexander has shown that this is yet again one of the cases where the word ‘seed’ oscillates from the corporate to the individual. Beginning with the collective sense, the word ‘seed’ indeed refers to the numerous descendants Abraham would have. However, a new thought begins in the middle of v. 17, promising Abraham that ‘your offspring will possess the gates of his enemies.’ Following the same Hebrew syntax as found in Gen 3:15, the author uses the third person singular pronoun and verb, indicating that this use of seed has a particular individual in view. Thus Abraham is promised numerous descendants and also a particular descendant who will bless all nations of the earth.”

(Dr. Michael Rydelnik, The Messianic Hope: Is the Hebrew Bible Really Messianic?, page 142-143, B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee 2010)

Therefore any argument against a covenantal relationship between America and God is mitigated by the fact that God has extended His covenantal blessing which He imparted to Abraham through His ‘seed,’ which is His descendant – Christ – to all of the nations of the earth in those who believe and place their faith in Him.

This is the concept of One Nation under God; for the Scriptures teach that Abraham has two offspring – one natural and one spiritual, and both are one in Messiah. Both are the One People of God to whom they offer up their prayers and worship. One does NOT replace the other, but both are part of Abraham’s family. One, is the stock of Abraham’s physical seed, and is re-grafted by faith to the Olive Tree of God; the other who is not of the stock of Abraham’s physical seed is grafted as a wild olive to the same Olive Tree of God through faith. Both are joined together as one in Christ, One God, one Lord and Savior,
The question then remains, how has God extended His blessing to America? Let us explore this question and see what we will uncover.

The question then remains of what significance is the promise God has made to one man – Abraham through whom He has promised to bless all the nations of the earth, because He has made this promise to Abraham from whom many nations and kings will emerge; and yet as Dr. Rydelnik has said above, it is through this One Descendant – that is, Christ – that God is going to bless ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, as we have seen above. Therefore, through Christ every person enters into covenant relationship with God, and as God heard the prayers of men and women long before He established these covenants, He hears the prayers of men and nations now and will do so, as we throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

There is much, much more about this topic that I am writing about, but this is a very small sample of what it will cover. I do not believe that you fully thought and prayerfully considered what you were doing when you committed yourself to write your book. From cover to cover, it is replete with false doctrines and flights of assumptions and presumptions about what you believe others say, and guilt by association, and more. Every classic trait that the religious leaders of Jesus’ days displayed and every argument they used against Him, you have employed fully in your book.

In conclusion, Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn has never taught or believed, nor does he now or does he in his book, The Harbinger; the Anglo-American Israelism, or British Israelism or any other type of Supersessionism (Replacement Theology), or any other you claim he does in your book. I know Jonathan Cahn, you don’t. I know what he believes and I know what he teaches. You don’t. In fact, I know how The Harbinger came to be, and you think you know, but your book makes it quite evident that you do not. Instead of trying to seek the truth about this book, you rushed to condemn it, and now are so deep into your own personal inquisition against this man and his ministry, that you fail to understand or see just how far off the rails you’ve gone. I leave you with this warning, and you can take it any way you want. It is from God’s Word.

“Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.”

(Mark 4:24)

Now let’s see if you will continue censoring my posts or post this one instead. Jesus Christ is Lord and His servants will be vindicated. I will not rest until every false charge against this man is retracted and laid to rest.

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