Interesting short post you've placed on the Internet, but your claim that David James has written a book that has refuted The Harbinger is not true.
David James has written a book - The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction? But it does not refute The Harbinger. It makes an attempt using clever verbal gymnastics and Cessationist Theology to attribute meanings to words Rabbi Cahn uses in his novel that the book never claimed.
What's more, he tries to split hairs over elements within the book that are not there; for example, Rabbi Cahn's use of the word "sign" Mr. James attaches some other-worldly connotation that the author never intended. A sign is nothing more than a signpost or guidepost presented to give a traveler or visitor a means by which to navigate, hot some supernatural paranormal activity, as Mr. James claims in his book.
The book dismisses the dual meaning and use of sensus plenior that is often employed in prophetic exegesis, and largely employed by the Evangalists in their Gospel Narratives.
There are many others fallacies in Mr. James' claims throughout his book that cannot be cited here, but I am working on a single volume work that will as the Lord wills it, explode the entire controversy wide open for what it is.
Discernment Ministries such as the ones now attacking The Harbinger and its author, Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn once had a noble role and responsibility in the Body of Christ - that of defenders of the Christian faith against the error of the cults and their fulminations against correct Christian Dogma and the doctrines of the faith.
But in recent years, we have been seeing a moving away from this, and these same well-trusted ministries that earned the Christian public's trust, respect, admiration, approval, and support; have now begun to veer away from their noble work, and have targeted other Mainline Evangelicals; their incessant attacks against a Mainline Evangelicals such as Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn is the most famous of these and its most horrendous.
There is a method in which to employ in Christian Apologetics between Evangelicals and Cults; there is another between believers and non-believers; and there is still another between believers and other believers with whom there are differences of opinion on doctrinal matters or with regards to hermeneutics - none have been or are being used by any of these critics of The Harbinger.
They are known to these critics, but they have decided for their own reasons to disregard the proper Biblical mandate to instead employ methods of their own while citing various misapplied Scripture to justify their actions and their claims against those Christians whom they've targeted.
These are not the acts and works that Christian Apologetics once was used for to glorify God by affirming His sacred time honored truths as preserved for us in His Word.
When some Christian Apologists trumpet their fellow Christians out into the public to speak of him as a false prophet, denigrate his preaching of Christ because of certain eschatological differences they have in regards to interpretation of these; and hurl on attack after another in the name of Jesus Christ, it is most evident that we are witnessing what history has repeatedly seen happen in every age - the religious opposition to a servant and messenger that Christ has sent to that generation to call it to repentance, renewal, and revival.
It began with Cain and Abel, it continued in the days of Noah, the era of Job, with the prophets of Israel, in the Second Temple Era of Christ and His apostles, during the period of the Church Fathers, during the rise of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation right down to this age. We are witnessing it today, right now, and very clear to those who have eyes to see it clearly as the Holy Spirit of God gives them the understanding the current critics lack.
In every age, the religious opposition comprised of religious men of letters and learned doctors of theology opposed either a movement of God, or a prophet or messenger of God sent to warn the nation of impending judgment, or the preachers of righteousness like Martin Luther, and many others too numerous to cite here; sent to bring the Gospel of God’s salvation in Christ by faith. As it was then, and has been throughout history, so it is at this very hour. We are witnesses to that reality.
It was not Jonathan Cahn who initiated the attacks that drove a wedge through modern Evangelical America, but these modern avatars who’ve laid claim to Christian Orthodoxy. It was not Jonathan Cahn who wrote against them in public, but they through numerous articles, have subjected this brother in Christ and servant of the Most High God to the most contemptible treatment of one brother in Christ by those who claim to be servants of Christ themselves while an incredulous world watches and sees no reason to join its ranks if this is what they perceive Christianity to be. We have all been very poor ambassadors of Christ to a fallen world as we have now turned our sights to blow one another out of the waters of theological pursuits in God’s service.
Yes, there is no end to the knowledge that the current critics of this age - the skeptics among God's people - not the unbelievers, but the disbelievers among us in the Body of Christ who are here to sow discord and doubt, confusion, and destructive heresies such as Cessationism - to test and forge the faith of those who have not placed their faith in idols (men and their intellect, books and the tyranny of the letter versus the meaning, etc.), but in God.
Thank you for according me the opportunity to express my acute displeasure.
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