THE HARBINGER'S CRITICS: THOSE WHO PAWN CONTROVERSY AND MAKE THEIR LIVING FROM IT

A WORD TO MY READERS AND OTHERS ABOUT THIS POST AND THE ONE WHICH FOLLOWS. AFTER MUCH SOUL SEARCHING, PRAYER TO GOD FOR GUIDANCE, THE READING OF THE SCRIPTURES, AND SOME GOOD COUNSEL FROM SOME GOOD PEOPLE WHO KEEP ME ACCOUNTABLE ABOUT WHAT I INCLUDE IN THESE POSTS, I HAVE REMOVED WHAT COULD BE CONSTRUED BY OTHER PARTIES AS OFFENSIVE TO THEM, WHILE KEEPING THE WARNING TO THE BODY OF BELIEVERS ABOUT GETTING CARRIED AWAY WITH CRITICISMS ABOUT OTHERS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST.

I HAVE DONE THIS BECAUSE IN THE POST WHICH FOLLOWS, I HAD INCLUDED IN IT OFFENSIVE AND UNNECESSARY MATERIAL WHICH WAS COMPRISED OF A PERSONAL OBSERVATION OF MINE AND OPINION ABOUT SOMEONE AND SOME PEOPLE, THAT WAS INAPPROPRIATE FOR ME TO INCLUDE IN OUR DISCUSSION OVER RABBI JONATHAN CAHN'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK, THE HARBINGER. I HAVE SINCE REMOVED THE OFFENSIVE COMMENTS I MADE ABOUT THIS OTHER PERSON, AND OTHER PERSONS AS WELL, WHILE WORKING TO PRESERVE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE TOPIC AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE TO THE SUBJECT. I HAVE MADE MY APOLOGIES TO THE OFFENDED PARTIES, I HAVE COME BEFORE THE LORD TO ASK HIS FORGIVENESS FOR HAVING HAD A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF JUDGMENT - I HAD REMOVED THE POST WITHIN THE HOUR THAT I HAD MADE IT - BECAUSE I SOON REALIZED THAT WHAT I HAD WRITTEN WAS BOTH INCONSIDERATE AND UNAPPROPRIATE AND UNNECESSARY TO OUR DISCUSSION. FROM HERE ON IN, I WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. WE CAN DISAGREE WITHOUT BEING DISAGREEBLE. BEING DISAGREEABLE DOES NOT ADD CREDIBILITY TO ONE'S CAUSE, AND IN CASES SUCH AS THESE, DAMAGE IT. HOW CAN I CONVINCE ANYONE THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING SOMETHING THAT I THEN DO MYSELF?

WHAT I HAD POSTED PREVIOUSLY HERE WAS A GENERAL APPLICATION AND DOES NOT FINGER ANYONE, BUT ONLY THOSE WHOM HAVE ENGAGED IN A LONG PROCTRACTED PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE HARBINGER AND ITS AUTHOR, PASTOR AND MESSIANIC RABBI JONATHAN CAHN. THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL ACCUSATION, THIS IS A MATTER OF FACT, AND IT IS MEANT TO BRING INTO SHARP FOCUS NOTHING MORE THAN A PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN THAT HAS LASTED FOR MORE THAN A YEAR AND A HALF HAS BEEN MOUNTED AGAINST THE HARBINGER AND ITS AUTHOR. I DISAGREE WITH THIS METHOD, BECAUSE THE SCRIPTURES PROVIDE SO MANY OTHERS THAT COULD HAVE AVOIDED THE CONTROVERSY THAT HAS SURROUNDED THIS BOOK SINCE THE PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN WAS LAUNCHED AGAINST IT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. AT THIS TIME, THIS IS ALL I AM GOING TO SAY ABOUT THIS SO AS TO AVOID SOUNDING PERSONAL. I AM JUST STATING A FACT OF WHAT HAS OCCURRED FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN EIGHTEEN MONTHS. I DONN'T SOUND LIKE I'M REPEATING MYSELF HERE, BUT I DO THIS IN ORDER TO UNDERSCORE WHAT I AM TRYING TO CONVEY TO EVERYONE WHO READS THIS SO THAT THEY MAY NOT CONSTRUE THAT I AM GETTING PERSONAL.

I AM WRITING ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND CONTINUES TO HAPPEN IN THIS REGARD, WHICH I FIND OBJECTIONABLE BECAUSE THERE ARE BIBLICAL METHODS FOR CHRISTIANS TO DISAGREE WITHOUT MAKING OUR DISAGREEMENTS PUBLIC. IN PUBLICIZING OUR DISAGREEMENTS, WE GIVE THE ENEMIES OF OUR FAITH AMUNITION TO USE AGAINST US, AND WE RUN THE RISK OF SOWING THE SEEDS OF DISCORD AMONG OURSELVES WHICH WE ARE TO AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

HAVING SAID THIS, I WISH TO CONVEY TO EVERYONE WHO READS THIS, BUT ESPECIALLY TO THE FORMERLY OFFENDED PARTIES, THAT I WILL STRIVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO KEEP OUR ONGOING DISCUSSIONS AS FREE FROM PERSONAL INNUENDO AS POSSIBLE, AND STICK ONLY TO THE FACTS AND ELEMENTS OF OUR DISCUSSION. THANK YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU.