DISCERNIT CONTINUES PAINTING HERESY WITH A BROAD BRUSH

In its June 5^th, 2013 article titled The Nephilim Eschatology for her website, DiscernIt, blogger Kim Olsen once again demonstrated her propensity for generalizations and connecting theological dots that don’t exist by perpetuating the error of the Sola Sisters’ unfounded charge that The Harbinger is anything like The Shack and other works of fiction being called “Christian.”

In her article titled Back to Genesis: Laying a False Foundation, quoting Christine Pack’s false assumption and connection of The Harbinger with The Shack, Ms. Olsen posits the following:

“This strange mixing of fiction and nonfiction is becoming a familiar trend in evangelical authors. It appears to be a highly effective and emotive method of promoting themes that are opposed to the Word of God. Fiction characteristically engages the reader by its imagery and fantasy that provoke feelings and emotions. Researcher Christine Pack picked up on this trend in her recent review of The Harbinger:

“Much like William P. Young's troublesome book The Shack , The Harbinger also has a fictional character who is teaching things that are contrary to Scripture, but which the author wants to claim as truth. Of course, when pressed on the biblical problems with the teachings, both Young and [Jonathan] Cahn have resorted to saying, But it's only a fictional character! The problem with this is that Young and Cahn both personally believe what they have written, and are seeking to teach a wide audience of readers what they believe to be true, while hiding behind the label ‘Fiction’."

Ms. Olsen has presented this lie previously on her website, and not only this one but several others regarding The Harbinger, and it is not surprising that she would repeat the mistake of again posting a falsehood about the New York Times bestseller on the patently false and completely erroneous word of another blogger who thinks that Jonathan Cahn is an Occult Mystic who is enthralled with and promotes Gnosticism.

It has been easier for Ms. Olsen to perpetuate the lies against The Harbinger and pillory it author by repeating the lies said against it by other bloggers, all taking their cue from David James, who one who began this controversy when he first wrote what he read into it in a book he released last year at this time.  A book, I have read that is so riddled with false information, innuendo, incorrect assumptions and suppositions, all built by theologically sounding argumentation; that after reading The Harbinger and afterwards reading David James’ book, I questioned whether he and I read the same book!

Scarce few if any of these armchair bloggers have read The Harbinger for themselves, but have perpetuated the lies against it by building on what the previous blogger said.  They all go back to David James, and the writings of others who followed in his stead with article of their own, who posted them without having first read the book for themselves, and who share David James theological persuasion as an avowed Cessationist.

Every one of these armchair bloggers have are predisposed to Cessationism because of early encounters with false revivals among the Pentecostals and Charismatics, and without knowing, have foresworn one of the most important attributes of the God of the Bible, especially in these last days, and the office and work of the Holy Spirit following Christ’s return to the Godhead, and the Holy Spirit’s advent and perpetual work until Christ’s return.  This is one of the prime reasons why people experience conviction of sins and are led to repentance; experience the New Birth, the sanctification that only comes through the Holy Spirit; the fruits of the Holy Spirit; the various gifts of the Holy Spirit imparted for service in the church according to each one’s calling; etc…  through which Christ is very much at work in the lives of each one of His children, and will be until His return.

But these, following the error of the first critics of The Harbinger, continue in their error, and have as I say above; helped to develop it from a simple disagreement over phrases and what they may or may not mean to much more than those differences, to connecting them to heresies that Jonathan Cahn himself preaches against and does not believe.  This is done by these people because the first critic of The Harbinger – David James – himself attached meanings to words used in The Harbinger that Jonathan Cahn does not.  And since these other critics are only going on Mr. James’ false narrative, they repeat the false mantra and some, like the Sola Sisters, Berit Kjos, Jeremy James, and Ms. Olsen, have developed new angles to the oft-repeated canards about The Harbinger and its author.

I have written David James about this, and have requested that as the one who first wrote against The Harbinger, it would be a good thing for him to not to promote these false reports by linking to them on his website, as Brannon Howse, T.A. McMahon, and Jimmy DeYoung do to theirs.  In the interest of keeping this discussion as free as possible from personal innuendos it would do him good to clarify that while he has fundamental disagreements with The Harbinger – based primarily on his reading into its narrative – he should write a disclaimer that disavows any connections to the writings of the people I have just cited.  The problem is that he has not, does not, and is likely will not, because he recently cited the names of some of these in his claim that he was not the only Evangelical to disagree with The Harbinger.  What he keeps to himself is that the people he names almost all – if not – all have based their opinion on The Harbinger almost entirely on what he has written about it.  So their presumptions about the book are as bad as his, being based on his.

This is an unfortunate turn of events, because it shows that regardless of what these people say is the concerning state of Evangelical Christianity in America today – the biblical illiteracy, the heresy, etc.., they too have succumbed to the easy way out of having to write about something that they really no nothing about.  So we see people who have not read a book, or have read perhaps exclusively the review someone else has written, and have based their opinion no that review, without doing their homework by reading the book for themselves first to ascertain whether what that review says is correct.  This is what has happened.

The end result has been unfortunate write-ups like this one by Ms. Olsen, Christine Pack, Jeremy James, Berit Kjos, Chris Rosbrough, Thomas Ice, Gary Gilley, Jimmy DeYoung, Brannon Howse, and others within this camp, who all write the same repeated errors that were first posited by David James when he first wrote against The Harbinger.  The false accusations, innuendos, guilt by associations, complete fabrications, absolute lies and inventions, and false witness have developed over time and can be found in the summary writings of the people cited here.  Ms. Olsen is not exclusive in this, but she is complicit, and as one who serves Christ and is perhaps a mature leader in his own house of worship; should know better than to act as a theological ambulance chaser and report every so-called heresy before she has looked thoroughly into it.  I have been down this road with Ms. Olsen more than once before, and I have sternly charged her in the Lord not to repeat this mistake. 

It appears that for a while she took what I said to heart, but has since taken up again to her old ways to slander and libel another servant of Christ whom she knows absolutely nothing about, whom I have known and served under for years, and whose teachings I am well acquainted with, whom before God in Christ, On my word of honor before the Lord God in the Presence of Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit of God, let me make it abundantly clear to anyone who might believe otherwise because of the mischaracterizations these people have perpetuated and others have promoted on their websites by linking to them; Jonathan Cahn is no heretic, he is no Gnostic, no Mystic Occultist, no Free Mason, and no Kabbalist.  He teachings are mainline Evangelical with a full understanding of the uniquely Jewish aspects of our faith as from one personally knowledgeable of them as a born again Jewish believer raised as a Jew.  The people who write these lies do not know him personally, have never been taught by him, and have no personal knowledge of the man as I do. 

And I challenge anyone who can prove to me that this man whom I’ve known personally for over ten years that he is any of those things, when I personally know and have known that he is a Spirit-filled born again servant of the Most High God through the Lord Jesus the Messiah, who King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to whom every idle word both written and spoken will be accountable to on the day we stand before Him to receive our rewards for our service rendered in this life.  STOP THE NONSENSE!!! AND STOP SLANDERING YOUR BROTHER!!!  CHRIST IS NOT GLORIFIED IN THIS, NOR IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD SERVED.  REMEMBER, OUR WARFARE IS NOT AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, BUT AGAINST THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN.  STOP DOING HIS BIDDING BY PUBLICLY RAISING A REPROACH AGAINST YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST – AGAINST JONATHAN CAHN!!!!!!