Friday, August 9, 2019

END TIME FANTASY WRITER JONATHAN CAHN'S BOOK THE ORACLE EXPOSED

JONATHAN CAHN preaches like no-one else. He is President of Hope of the World ministries, Senior Pastor and Messianic Rabbi of the Jerusalem Center/Beth Isra. Bible End Times, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, Hope Of The World, Best Selling Novels, Christian Videos, Faith Hope Love, My Bible, Praise The Lords, Mystery

JONATHAN CAHN-  Jewish Mysticism / Extra-Biblical Sources/ Prophetic Fraud/ And Revealer of Bogus Mysteries


PROLOGUE
 
IF YOU GIVE JONATHAN CAHN A TOP HAT WITH A MAGIG WAND, HE WILL TO YOUR AMAZEMENT CREATE AN ANCIENT MYSTERY OUT OF THIN AIR. HE IS AN   ILLUSIONIST WHO HAS PERFECTED HIS CRAFT THROUGH THE 
APPLICATION OF MYSTICAL HERMENUETICS OVER A PERIOD OF MANY YEARS. 

Despite Mr. Cahn's claims of calling himself a Rabbi, he actually in the academic sense is not. Mr. Cahn has a bachelor's degree in History from Purchase University which is affiliated with SUNY in New York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cahn).  He never has claimed attending a Rabbinical College. He never has provided any documentation/degree from any Jewish Theological Seminary as proof that he has successfully completed the Academic Disciplines or requirements to be officially ordained as a Rabbi(SMICHA). Furthermore, he has never provided any evidence that he completed an internship under a licensed Rabbi before being officially ordained as one. The following is the basic academic requirements for becoming a Rabbi: You'll need lots and lots of schooling to become a rabbi. Typically, it takes five years to get a Master's degree in rabbinical studies. You need to be an expert in the Hebrew language, Jewish law, Jewish history, the Bible, the Talmud, liturgy, Jewish teaching methods, counseling, Jewish literature, ethics, Israel, Jewish philosophy, and pretty much all things Jewish. (https://www.shmoop.com/careers/rabbi/qualifications. 

The following is an excerpt taken from David H. Stern's Jewish N.T. commentary and I quote:

" A MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONAL LEADER WHO ACCEPTS THE TITLE "RABBI" WITHOUT HAVING TRAINING ADEQUATE TO QUALIFY HIM AS A RABBI IN A NON-MESSIANIC JEWISH SETTING IS ACCEPTING HONOR WHICH HE HAS NOT EARNED AND TO WHICH HE IS NOT ENTITLED; AND THIS DOES VIOLATE YESHUA'S(JESUS) INJUNCTION UNDER MATHEW 23:8-10. SHOULD A MESSIANIC RABBI HAVE A S' MIKHAH(ORDINATION)? IF SO , SHOULD IT BE MESSIANIC OR NON-MESSIANIC? IF MESSIANIC, WHO IS QUALIFIED TO GRANT IT? MESSIANIC JUDAISM AT PRESENT HAS VERY FEW ORDAINED RABBIS AND NO ACCREDITING AGENCY. AT PRESENT, IN ORDER NOT TO EMBARASS THE MESSIANIC JEWISH MOVEMENT, I URGE LEADERS WITHOUT RABBINIC TRAINING TO RESIST CALLING THEMSELVES RABBIS" pages 68-69 end of quote.

Dear viewer: The next time you hear one of these religious charlatans on their tv talk show address Mr. Cahn as Rabbi, keep in mind it's all a GIMMICK & they are lying right before your face!

https://www.quora.com/How-can-you-tell-if-a-rabbi-is-real-or-fake



DEAR VIEWER:  I AM A FORMER MEMBER OF PASTOR JONATHAN CAHN'S CHURCH BETH ISRAEL. I UNFORTUNATELY DEFECTED FROM HIS CHURCH BECAUSE AFTER MANY YEARS WHILE SITTING UNDER HIS TEACHINGS/SERMONS I REALIZED THERE EXIST SERIOUS ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES REVOLVING AROUND HIS APOLOGETICS.  THE BEST WAY I CAN DEFINE HIS APOLOGETICS STYLE  IS AS FOLLOWS;  MR. CAHN TAKES HISTORICAL OR PROPHETIC EVENTS WHETHER BIBLICAL OR CURRENT, AND BLENDS IT WITH JEWISH MYSTICISM WHILE INTERPRETING IT WITH AN EISEGETICAL APPROACH THAT CORRESPONDS  TO HIS OWN VERSION OF HERMENUETICS.   THROUGH THIS METHOD, MR. CAHN INTERPRETS HIS ANCIENT MYSTERIES ACCORDING TO HIS OWN IDEAS, BIASES OR THE LIKE RATHER THAN WHAT THE ORIGINAL BIBLICAL AUTHORS INTENDED TO CONVEY TO THEIR AUDIENCE.  HIS
BOGUS MYSTERIES ARE BASED ON A FALSE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE. THE END RESULT IS A RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM WHAT THE HOLY SCRIPTURES DEFINES AS BIBLICAL MYSTERIES.

MR. CAHN HAS SEEDED THE CHURCH WITH KABBALISTIC INFLUENCES THROUGH THE ZOHAR AND THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD BY HIS SERMONS AND BOOKS, DESIGNED TO PEAK THE INNATE CURIOSITY OF THE MIND OF HIS HEARERS/FOLLOWERS WITH SUCH TERMS AS ANCIENT MYSTERIES. THESE TERMS ARE CLASSIC NEW AGE EXPRESSIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES BY ALL OCCULT GROUPS OF FREEMASONRY, THEOSOPHY AND NEW AGE RABBINICAL SAGES FROM THE JUDAIC BRANCH OF KABBALAH. CHRISTIAN MEDIA IS BEING INUNDATED WITH TEACHINGS AND BOOKS THAT CONTAIN CODE WORDS IN THEIR TITLES,CHAPTER HEADINGS AND TEXTS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO ATTRACT  GULLIBLE CHRISTIANS TO SEEK SECRET KNOWLEDGE THAT IS LATENT IN THE HUMAN RACE. WORDS SUCH AS MYSTICAL THINGS, PARADIGM, BLUEPRINT, ANCIENT WISDOM, BOOK OF MYSTERIES, DECODING SECRET CODES, UNLOCKING MYSTERIES, HIDDEN KEYS THAT UNLOCK DOORS, YOUR DESTINY, AND HARBINGER; THESE ARE THE BOOKS THAT ARE BECOMING  NY TIMES BESTSELLERS IN TODAY'S CHRISTIAN MARKET. 

NEW AGE TEACHINGS OF FALSE SCIENCE HAVE BEEN MAKING STEADY INROADS INTO THE CHURCH FOR YEARS THROUGH BOOKS LIKE QUANTUM FAITH, QUANTUM SPIRITUALITY, THE PHYSICS OF HEAVEN AND MORE RECENTLY JONATHAN CAHN'S BOOK THE PARADIGM WHICH MR. CAHN CLAIMS TO BE A BLUEPRINT OF MYSTERIES CONNECTING PAST AND PRESENT EVENTS. EVEN THE SO CALLED SCIENCE OF KABBALAH IS SAID TO CONTAIN THE ANCIENT BLUEPRINT THAT REVEALS THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE.  WHAT IS NOT WIDELY UNDERSTOOD BY THE BODY OF CHRIST, IS THAT THE ROOT OF EVERY NEW CONCEPT AND TERMS/EXPRESSIONS CAN BE TRACED BACK TO ANCIENT BABYLONIAN MYSTICISM AND KABBALISTIC WRITINGS, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF OCCULT SCIENCE.  MORE IMPORTANTLY THESE SEED-WORDS ARE THE LANGUAGE AND BUILDING BLOCKS OF SATAN'S COUNTERFEIT KINGDOM  ON EARTH THROUGH THE ANTI-CHRIST AND THE BLUEPRINT FOR THE UNIVERSAL END TIME RELIGION KNOWN AS MYSTERY BABYLON AS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 

THIS BLOG WHICH I CREATED NEARLY 5 YEARS AGO HAS SOUGHT TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. BELOW I AM SHARING THESE ARTICLES, LINKS,VIDEOS, AND SUGGESTED BOOK BY MS. DeANNE LOPER TO READ BECAUSE I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT THESE SO CALLED PROPHECIES/MYSTERIES BY JONATHAN CAHN CONTAINED IN HIS BOOKS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN AN ELABORATE FABRICATION BASED UPON THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED. KEEP IN MIND THAT GOD DOES NOT VALIDATE THE WORK/WORDS OF FALSE PROPHETS.  

PART I

DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY JONATHAN CAHN'S NEW BOOK THE ORACLE MAKES THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT/CLAIMS: 

  • Is there an exact biblical template that foreordained events which will take place in our modern times and gives the exact years and even dates when they will transpire?
  • Could this ancient revelation pinpoint the events of our times down to the year, month, and day of their occurring?
  • Could a mysterious phenomenon be manifesting on the world stage on an exact timetable determined from ancient times?   
CONTINUE READING BELOW FOR THE ANSWER. I GUARANTEE YOU ARE IN FOR A BIG SURPRISE!

IN THE 1ST VIDEO BELOW JONATHAN CAHN MAKES AN APPEARANCE WITH SID ROTH'S TALK SHOW "IT'S SUPERNATURAL" TO DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK THE ORACLE. IT IS MORE THAN AN HOUR LONG BUT WE WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE POINTS I'M TRYING TO MAKE AND CUT THROUGH THE CHASE.

FAST FORWARD TO TIME FRAMES 12 MINUTES AND 12 SECONDS. YOU WILL SEE AND HEAR MR. CAHN DESCRIBE ONE OF THE ORACLES(MARK TWAIN) BY UTILIZING THE TERMINOLOGY/EXPRESSION AS MYSTICAL THINGS OR EVENTS TAKING PLACE AMONG THE JEWS IN JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL AS THEY READ THE PARASHAH WHICH IS A PORTION READ FROM THE TORAH IN THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH, FESTIVAL OR DAYS OF FASTING. ALSO AS YOU ADVANCE TO FRAMES BETWEEN 14-16 MINUTES, JONATHAN CAHN DISCUSSES THE JUBILEAN CODE. HE DISCUSSES THE REBIRTH OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL IN 1948 AND HOW HE APPLIED  A JEWISH NUMERICAL SYSTEM KNOWN AS GEMATRIA  /NUMEROLOGY TO ARRIVE AT THAT PARTICULAR DATE UNDER DISCUSSION. SIMPLY PUT IT IS THE INTERPRETATION OF A HEBREW WORD ACCORDING TO THE NUMERICAL EQUIVALENT OF IT'S LETTERS. IT IS LARGELY USED IN JEWISH TEXTS . THE TERM GEMATRIA AND IT'S PRACTICE FOR INTERPRETING SCRIPTURE DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE HEBREW BIBLE NOR IT'S PRACTICE ENDORSED BY GOD HIMSELF. WHY? BECAUSE IT IS DIVINATION!
 
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History

The Babylonian king Sargon II, in 8th century BC, is believed to have been the first to use gematria when building the wall of Khorsabad exactly 16,283 cubits long, because that was the numerical value of his name.

It is an extra-Biblical means of trying to uncover occult (hidden) things in Scripture by means of assigning numbers to letters. It is used mainly in the BabylonianTalmud which is a record of rabbinical writings and opinions. It is not in the Bible. There is some symbolism to numbers in the Bible-- 3=God, 5=Grace, 6 = man, 7= perfection, 12=government, etc ... but that is a far cry from what those who practice gematria do. In fact gematria is closely connected to the occult practices of the Jewish Mystics of Kabbalah.

Personally, I do not believe there are "codes" in the bible. God made plain that which He wishes us to know, and reserved under wraps that which He didn't. Yes, there are symbolic passages in Scripture which man cannot decipher properly until the events which they symbolize take place. But that just confirms that God had everything planned from the beginning. It was not ever meant to be some spiritual or intellectual exercise in uncovering the secret things of God.


Deuteronomy 18:9-14

"When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead".

"For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you. "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. "For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so".

 God does not call us to search for secret meanings, hidden messages, and codes in the Bible. There is more than enough truth in the words and meanings of Scripture to meet all our needs and make us “complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

BELOW  ARE SAMPLE VIDEOS  OF GEMATRIA



WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW 
TO FIND OUT HOW MR. CAHN
DEVELOPED HIS CONCEPT FOR
CHAPTER 49 "THE TRUMPET MAN"

Before we move on I have one final question: When was the last time the Jews celebrated a Jubilee Year?

According to the Oracle, one of the revelations which Mr. Cahn claims came to him is the Jubilean Mysteries. The Jubilee was the appointed biblical year of restoration, the year of the Jews returning to their long lost ancestral land. According to Mr. Cahn's thesis and MYSTICAL TIMELINE it was to MANIFEST EVERY 50 YEARS. According to this thesis, every 50 years a central prophetic event having to do with Israel manifested throughout the world. Beginning in 1867,1917,1967 and 2017 Mr. Cahn claims that it began with a series of MYSTICAL EVENTS in the land of Israel.  Why doesn't he mention the year 2067 since he boast so much that he is a revealer of Ancient Mysteries?  The answer is simple. Anyone who has been following Mr. Cahn's bogus mysteries long enough will realize that like all of  his previous books,  they are largely backward-looking, giving biblical explanations to current events  after the fact. So what's wrong with this thesis which he presents in The Oracle?

In short, the answer to this question is that the Jubilee year is currently not observed or commemorated. The reasons for this are complex and involve many different opinions on the matter. In the following lines I will attempt to briefly relay the relevant issues.

According to biblical law, the Jubilee is only observed when all twelve tribes of the Jewish nation are living in Israel, as is derived from the verse, “And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live on it,” which implies that the Jubilee is only sanctified when “all who live on it”—meaning, all who are meant to be living there—are in the Land of Israel. Furthermore, the Jubilee is only observed when every tribe is living in the specific part of the land which it was allotted when the Land of Israel was divided. However, some are of the opinion that the Jubilee is observed as long as there is a partial representation of each tribe, even if most of the tribe is not in Israel.

In the 6th century BCE, the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel and sent the majority of its population into exile. Those who were deported are historically known as the Ten Lost Tribes.
We are certain that before that point in time the Jubilee was regularly observed. We also know that, with the destruction of the Second Temple and the disbandment of the Sanhedrin (supreme rabbinical court), the Jews ceased to mark the Jubilee year in any form. The periods about which there is a question are the remaining years between the exile of the Ten Tribes and the destruction of the First Temple, and the Second Temple Era.

According to the opinion that partial representation of each tribe is sufficient to fulfill the scriptural requirement, biblically mandated Jubilees were fully observed throughout the periods in question, because there remained a small representation of each tribe in Israel.
However, according to the first opinion mentioned above, with the exile of the Northern Kingdom the required condition for the Jubilee to be sanctified was lost. Thus, the last time there was a biblical requirement to observe the Jubilee was about 150 years before the destruction of the First Temple.
The question remains, however, whether according to this opinion Jubilee years were designated or observed during this time by rabbinic injunction. This is the subject of debate among rabbinical sages.
As mentioned above, though, today the Jubilee year is neither designated nor observed.

One more commentary to supplement the above discussion:

Someone once said that 2017 was to be the next Jubilee year and that an ancient rabbinical prophecy says the Millennial Kingdom will begin at that time. This idea stems from a prophecy by Rabbi Judah ben Samuel in 1217 that the Messianic Kingdom would begin in 2017. It was apparently based on calculations he had made of the number of Jubilee years that would pass before the Lord’s return.

The problem is that according to Biblical law, the Jubilee is only observed when all twelve tribes of the Jewish nation are living in Israel. This comes from Leviticus 25:10 which states, “And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live on it,” This was interpreted to mean that the Jubilee is only to be observed when every tribe is living in the specific part of the land which was it was allotted when the Land of Israel was divided.
The last time this was literally the case was when the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom in 721BC. It appears that the Jubilee was calculated until the time of the 2nd Temple’s destruction, but it had ceased to be observed long before. Since then it has ceased to be recognized in any form.

Also a difference of interpretation has arisen as to the method of counting. The result of all this is today no one knows for certain when the next Jubilee year could occur even if the conditions for its observance could be met.

Finally, most scholars agree that the Millennial Kingdom could not begin in 2017 since Daniel’s 70th Week, a seven year period of time during which the end times judgments will take place, has not yet begun.

So what is my point? According to the book The Oracle,  Mr. Cahn's thesis of the Jubilean Mysteries is all a hoax because the last time a 50th year Jubilee was officially celebrated in Judea  has been as late as the year 121-122 BCE.  Meaning; in order for Mr. Cahn's so called Jubilean Mysteries to be valid the Jews in Israel must  meet the biblical  criteria for celebrating the Jubilee Year as described above. 

  The Jubilean Mysteries has no correlation whatsoever to End Time Prophecy or Mysteries. It is just a scam designed to lure Christians who are biblically illiterate to purchase this book and believe these bogus mysteries. See the following link for further study and verification:

The lesson

  • The Bible is sufficient. Stop chasing after prophecies, mysteries and prophetic frauds like Jonathan Cahn. Stop buying for yourselves false prophets who are making a living by prophelying. Stop buying books that supposedly “unlock secrets” and “reveal mysteries” and all of that gobbledegook. God doesn’t hide things in the Bible. The Bible is God’s revelation of Himself to man. Hiding things in His revelation kind of defeats the purpose, don’t you think?
  • If someone says they’ve discovered something in the Scriptures that no one else in 2 thousand years has discovered, they’re wrong and trying to sell you something – each and every last and lousy time. Bank on it.
  • Interpreting omens, using gematria/numerology and looking at signs is not Christianity – it is occultic.
  • The only reason evangelicals fell for Cahn’s BOGUS MYSTERIES is because we collectively have the Biblical understanding of second graders

THE  VIDEO BELOW DISCUSSES
THE QUESTIONABLE ORIGINS OF 
MR. CAHN'S CONVERSION



PART II

Kabbalah, Cahn, and Hebrew Mysticism
 Excerpted from The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction?

BY DAVID JAMES
 



Jonathan Cahn has over 1,700 of his messages available through the Hope of the World website. The descriptions of many of these messages are quite revealing about his approach to handling the Word of God-which appears to be mystical at its core:

1. MESSIAH'S CATACLYSM & THE HIDDEN WRITINGS OF 30 A.D. ( The amazing signs contained in the hidden writings of the rabbis that happened c. 30 A.D. . . . )

2. THE COSMIC TSULAV & THE MYSTERY OF PURIM ( The deep mystery at the center of Purim, and the center of the existence itself, the mystery hidden in the Sistine Chapel, Dante's Inferno, Josephus, the Septuagint, and in the ancient Biblical account - the mystery of the Tsulav, the Cross, the Xulon. )

3. THE SWORD OF AMALEK & THE MYSTERY OF PURIM ( From the day of the Red Sea, Pharaoh's chariots and Amalek, to the Third Reich, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and the nuclear sabers of Iran, the amazing mystery of Amalek, the hand of God, and what it has to do with your life. )

4. THE PRODIGAL SON REVELATION! ( The most universal and personal of Messiah's parables also contains a mystery behind the present age, the Jew, the Gentile, Israel, the Church, and the last days. )

5. THE MESSIAH BEARER! ( From the deep and mystery filled Book of Hebrews, the mystery of the Messiah Bearer-what it means for your life. )

6. THE MYSTERY OF THE COSMIC FRINGE ( The Kraspedon Mysteries come to their conclusion-The mystery of Messiah's sacred garment and the mystery of its fringe and a hint: It has everything to do with you. )

7. THE NISAN GOSPEL MYSTERY ( All the events of our salvation happened in one single time period - the Biblical month of Nisan - Discover the mystery of Nisan, of your salvation, & the powers you have for breakthrough. )

8. THE COSMIC KEYCHAIN ( As real as a keychain has many keys to unlock...a house - there is a supernatural keychain with supernatural power to unlock the closed doors of your life. )

9. THE COSMIC KEYCHAIN II ( Messiah has given you a keychain with specific powers of breakthrough - learn how to use the keys & it will change your life. )

10. ENTERING YOUR PROPHETIC DESTINY! ( One of the most important and very awesome principles operating in your life - and how to walk into your prophetic destiny...! )

In the last chapter of [ The Harbinger ], Kaplan explains to Goren how he figured out the meaning of his personal clay seal.... Between the last sentence in the quote below and what can be seen from the titles above, the real mystery of The Harbinger may be that its foundation is actually Jewish mysticism:

[Kaplan] "The writing on the seal was in a language I had never seen before. But I remembered the words of The Prophet that day we first met on the bench, when he took the seal to examine it. He said it was Hebrew, but a different form of Hebrew-Paleo-Hebrew, an older version."

[Goren] "And did you know anybody who could read Paleo-Hebrew?"

[Kaplan] "No. But I knew someone who studied Hebrew from biblical and rabbinical writings. I looked up the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, then transcribed each of the letters into its modern Hebrew equivalent. Then I made a trip to Brooklyn. That's where my friend was, an Orthodox Jewish man who ran a little bookstore, in back of which was a study, a library of all sorts of mystical Hebrew writings. That was his passion-finding meaning in mystical Hebrew literature."

The introduction of Jewish mystical writings into the storyline of The Harbinger is very problematic, and one has to wonder why Cahn would have done this.

Mysticism and mystical experiences have been a part of Judaism since the earliest days. . . . The mystical school of thought came to be known as Kabbalah, from the Hebrew root Qof-Beit-Lamed, meaning "to receive, to accept." The word is usually translated as "tradition."

"Kabbalah" is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as a revelation to the Sages from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few. Kabbalah is considered part of the Jewish Oral Law. It is the traditional mystical understanding of the Torah.... Kabbalah includes the understanding of the spiritual spheres in creation, and the rules and ways by which God administers the existence of the Universe.

Most forms of Kabbalah teach that every letter, word, number, and accent of scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings.

That Cahn would include this reference to Jewish mysticism in the book is not necessarily an anomaly. Cahn gave a message at his church that also included detailed references to mystical writings, titled "Gulgatah: The Cosmic Skull: The Rabbinic Mysteries V."

A segment from near the end of this message was uploaded to YouTube on February 25, 2010, titled "The Zohar Speaks." The following description accompanies the video: "Something never before revealed , to the glory of Messiah! The Cosmic Skull, the mercy of God, and the hidden and mystical writings of the Rabbis that point to Messiah." The description coincides exactly with the overall trajectory of Cahn's messages, and that of The Harbinger , which is to reveal to the world mysteries that have been hidden until he discovers and proclaims them.

The Judaism 101 website notes the following:

In the middle ages, many of these mystical teachings were committed to writing in books like the Zohar. Many of these writings were asserted to be secret ancient writings or compilations of secret ancient writings.

Even though he introduces the Zohar as a "hostile witness," the way Cahn describes its teachings gives the impression that he views the Zohar as being a credible source of truth:

Incredible thing. Blew me away. I found it in the mystical Jewish writings of the Zohar. Something I never heard mentioned anywhere, ever. . . . The Zohar speaks, the rabbis are writing of the redemption of the world with Messiah's coming. They speak of life from the dead. They speak of resurrection, the redemption of the world. . . .They say it all will come, the power of all this, the miracle of all this will come from a sacred thing, a sacred place. And this place, this thing, is where all the mercy of God is stored. All the mercy of God pours

"God just puts it in." In other words, God inspired the rabbis to write about redemption coming from a skull , yet they had no idea what it meant. So, in this message Cahn presents concepts that are reflected in The Harbinger . The first is that Isaiah:9:10 contains a mystery that no one has seen before-Cahn has discovered it for the very first time-just as he has discovered this inspired message in the ancient rabbinic writings. The second is that Tom Daschle was inspired by God to proclaim America's defiance and thus set up the nation for judgment-even though he didn't know what he was doing-just as is true of the ancient rabbis.

As Cahn continues his exposition of the Zohar, the mystical nature of his thinking becomes even more clear. And once again he notes that perhaps no one has ever said the words he has just uttered:

What stuff? Ancient mystical writings . Even more telling, Cahn confidently elevates the rabbis to the level of Moses and Daniel:

The death of Messiah-all pinpointed in time and space. Moses zeroed in on the day. Passover. He dies on the day that the lamb is killed. The prophets-Daniel zeroes in on the time period, mathematically, before 70 A.D. Daniel-those seventy sevens. The rabbis in the book of Moed, unwittingly, and another thing we shared this [ sic ], zeroed in on the year by saying that the cosmic change all took place in the year 30 A.D. . . . And now the very hill, the very place, here in, of all places, the rabbinical writings, the Zohar. . . . you want mercy, you go there. Listen to the rabbis on this point. . . .

How can a pastor instruct his congregation to "listen to the rabbis" who produced the Zohar and tell them these rabbis were inspired by God? The Zohar is not simply an innocuous source of information-it is an extrabiblical guide to "higher spirituality." It is mystical. It is occultic.

The Zohar cannot be understood and felt directly, but requires preconception of spirituality, before one approaches the book. The greatest Kabbalist of our time-Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam)-wrote introductions to The Zohar precisely to guide one's approach to this profound book....

Such articles cultivate one's spiritual qualities to perceive the Higher reality. Additionally, these texts provide knowledge of how to approach certain terms, phrases, and concepts in The Zohar, to maximize its use as a guide for spiritual attainment, avoiding being lost in materialized depictions that the human mind is prone to form.

Cahn [has since] tried to justify his practice by noting that the Apostle Paul also referred to the teaching of pagan philosophers in his address to the Athenians (Acts:17:22-31

). He went on to suggest that Paul would have been "crucified" by discernment ministries for using a hymn to Zeus, and because of his associations.

That is a red herring.... Paul's approach is nothing like Cahn's. Cahn refers to the mystical rabbinical writings positively , saying that because God had inspired them his church should "listen to the rabbis." He presents the Zohar as something that can be studied and its depths plumbed for hidden mysteries like he has just revealed.

In stark contrast, Paul immediately tells his audience that what they have been taught by their poets about the unknown god...is completely wrong . He does not suggest that their sayings contain hidden mysteries that were inspired by God.... Paul never implies that the Athenians should listen to these men. Rather he refers to a single point of agreement (we all come from God) to denounce their idols. From Romans we understand that the knowledge of that truth is not a hidden mystery, but has rather been made plain to everyone through both the conscience and the Creation (Romans:1:18-2:16).

Unfortunately, this treatment of the rabbinic material is consistent with Cahn's frequent practice of "discovering and revealing" hidden mysteries-be it in the Bible or in extrabiblical Jewish writings like the Talmud or even in kabbalistic writings like the Zohar.

Have untold numbers of Christians unwittingly accepted mystical Jewish thought? And after having done so, how many pastors, teachers, and other ministry leaders have preached messages connected to the claims of The Harbinger and have publicly endorsed, promoted, and defended the book and Jonathan Cahn? How many have shared this book and the documentary with unbelieving family and friends? How many millions of dollars have gone into keeping The Harbinger on so many best-seller lists?


PART III
The True Biblical meaning of Mystery as defined in the Bible
 
Scripture frequently describes God as one who knows all things, even that which the human mind could never know or finds incomprehensible. Thus he sees the secret intentions of human hearts ( Psalms 139:1-4 Psalms 139:23 ; Matt 6:4-6 ; Rom 2:16 ; 1 Cor 4:5 ; 14:25 ; Heb 4:13 ), comprehends the seemingly unfathomable mysteries of the universe ( Job 38:1-39:30 ), and, most important, understands the meaning of human history. 

God understands human history because the events that comprise it correspond with his own intentions: he wills all that happens, and does so to accomplish his own purpose ( Dan 2:37 ; 5:21 ; Rom 11:25-36 ). People, on the other hand, both because of their sin and because of their human limitations, remain ignorant of God's purpose when left to their own reckoning ( Daniel 2:27 Daniel 2:30 ; Mark 4:10-12 ; Luke 19:41-44 ). God graciously responds to this human inadequacy by revealing his purpose to his people. When God's purpose is revealed in this way, the Bible frequently refers to it as a "mystery."

The content of the divine mystery is painted in broad strokes in the Old Testament, takes on greater detail in the Gospels, and receives its finishing touches in Paul's letters. In Daniel, where the term first appears (raz in Aramaic, always translated with mysterion [musthvrion] in the LXX), it refers to God's understanding of the symbols in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, symbols that stand for the rise and fall of human empires and to the eventual establishment of God's own, eternal kingdom ( 2:44 ; cf. Rev 1:20 ; Revelation 17:5 Revelation 17:7 ). The details of these events, however, and the nature of God's kingdom, once established, remain sketchy in Daniel. The mystery of God's purposes gains greater specificity in the Gospels, where Jesus, particularly in his parables, reveals the "mystery of the kingdom of God" ( Mark 4:11 ; cf. Matt 13:11 ; Luke 8:10 ). Paul also identifies the divine mystery with the revelation of God in Christ ( Col 2:2 ; 4:3 ) but gives the concept even greater clarity in three ways. 

First, he equates the divine mystery with the gospel of Christ's atoning death on the cross ( 1 Cor 2:1 ); second, he describes it as God's plan, through Christ's atoning death ( Eph 2:13-16 ), to include the Gentiles among his chosen people; and third, he defines it as the reconciliation of all things to God ( Eph 1:9-10 ). Thus, Daniel described the divine mystery in general terms as the eventual establishment of God's eternal kingdom; Jesus defined it more specifically as his proclamation of God's kingdom; and Paul described it more specifically still as the constitution of a new people, from among both Jews and Gentiles, through the atoning death of Christ on the cross.
This understanding of divine mystery illustrates three aspects of God's character. First, it emphasizes God's omniscience. After God revealed the "mystery" of the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream to Daniel, Daniel thanked God in prayer for his wisdom and power ( 2:23 ; cf. 2:20 ) and described him as a God who "knows what lies in darkness" ( 2:22 ). Paul, similarly, after revealing the mystery of God's plan to include the Gentiles among his chosen people breaks into praise of the "depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God" ( Rom 11:33 ).

Second, the biblical concept of divine mystery emphasizes God's sovereignty. The mystery revealed to Daniel and communicated to the king demonstrates not only that God knows the beginning of history from its end but that the rise and fall of human empires and the establishment of God's own kingdom happen according to his decree ( 2:36 ). Similarly, Paul says that the mystery of God's intention to unite both Jews and Gentiles in the body of Christ has been in place from ages past ( Eph 3:9-11 ; Col 1:26-27 ; cf. Eph 1:9-10 ; 3:5 ).

Third, and most important, the biblical understanding of divine mystery emphasizes God's grace. This can be seen immediately in the stark contrast between the biblical use of the term "mystery" and its use as a technical term in ancient Hellenistic mystery religions. In these cults the term was used to signify the esoteric knowledge that initiates were instructed, with threats of severe punishment, not to reveal to the uninitiated. The Bible, however, emphasizes God's gracious willingness to reveal the mystery of his purposes to his servants the prophets and through them to other people ( Rev 10:7 ; cf. Amos 3:7 ). The biblical emphasis is well illustrated in Daniel. There God graciously reveals his mysteries to Daniel to save him from the king's cruel sentence of death upon the royal wise men for their inability to interpret the king's dream ( 2:16-19 ). Because Daniel recognizes the graciousness of God's response, he is quick to acknowledge before the king that the dream's interpretation has come from God, not from Daniel's abilities as a counselor ( Daniel 2:27 Daniel 2:30 ). Similarly, Jesus graciously explains the parable of the sower to his disciples with the comment that, although the parables baffle those on the outside, the mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to them ( Matt 11:25-26 ).

In Paul's letters this aspect of the mystery of God comes to a climax. Paul points his readers again and again to the unique position they occupy as those who have experienced the fulfillment of the mystery of God's purposes. Although predicted in the Scriptures, the mystery was kept silent for long ages ( Rom 16:25-26 ), hidden for generations past ( Col 1:26 ; cf. Ephesians 3:5 Ephesians 3:9 Ephesians 3:11 ) that it might be revealed to apostles and prophets such as Paul himself and through them to believers ( Eph 3:1-12 ; cf. 1 Peter 1:10-12 ). Paul describes his calling to reveal the mystery of God to the Gentiles as "the grace of God given to me for you" ( Eph 3:2 ), and a few verses later, in a magnificent piling up of the language of grace, he identifies it as "the gift of the grace which God gave to me according to his effective power" (v. 7).
The biblical idea of mystery, then, reminds Christians that God holds the course of human events in his hands and has so shaped them that they work for the salvation of his people. It also demonstrates the graciousness of God in revealing his redemptive purposes to prophets and apostles and, through them, to all who are willing to hear.

Conclusion:
According to the Sacred Text, the usage of MYSTERY is not a puzzle or a secret knowledge or wisdom that leaves a person in ignorance, but a truth that God reveals to man. It usually refers to something that man would not normally know, but that God in his grace makes known to him cf: Ephesians 3:4-5, Col 1:26, Rev 17:17.
They are secret counsels which govern God in dealing with the righteous, which are hidden from ungodly and wicked men but plain to the godly.


Frank Thielman
See also Paul the Apostle
Bibliography. G. Bornkamm, TDNT, 4:802-28; R. E. Brown, The Semitic Background of the Term "Mystery" in the New Testament; A. E. Harvey, JTS31 (1980):320-36; J. A. Robinson, St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians



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RELATED LINKS
 
Jonathan Cahn's Harbinger Book 2 The Return Exposed

Kabbalah Secrets Christians Need to Know

Oracles and Mysteries Spoken from the Zohar

both links above by DeAnne Loper www.kabbalahsecretschristiansneedtoknow.com


 THE MYSTICAL NUMBERS OF PROPHETIC FRAUD JONATHAN CAHN...

Jonathan Cahn's Extra Biblical Sources Exposed

 The real reason why Jesus Christ censored the Babylonian Talmud

JONATHAN CAHN'S FALSE PROPHETIC WORD TO PRESIDENT TRUMP

 Jonathan Cahn's Judeo Masonic Hand Sign

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn EXPOSED - Harbinger FALSE 

 JONATHAN CAHN'S BOGUS SHEMITAH MYSTERIES EXPOSED 

  ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT ESOTERIC MYSTERIES 

 The Paradigm by Prophetic Fraud Jonathan Cahn

Jonathan Cahn's Buddy  Jim Baker see link below:  

Televangelist Jim Bakker sued for selling fake coronavirus cure


 How Often Have People Misapplied Prophecy?  

EXEGESIS VS EISEGESIS

How To Discern, Test & Judge Rightly False Teachers and Prophets     

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Kabbalah Secrets Christians Need to Know: 

An In Depth Study of the Kosher Pig 

and the Gods of Jewish Mysticism 

A top selling book in Christianity and Ministry on Amazon!   

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We live in a time when false teachings are infiltrating Christian Theology at a rapid rate. This important book exposes one of the greatest threats to pure Biblical Christianity. Deanne Loper uncovers the deception by giving a detailed description of what Kabbalah is and equips believers to recognize it in its morphed form of Christianity. The evidence shows that the god of today’s Babylonian and kabbalistic Judaism is NOT the God of the Bible and that the current convergence of Christians coming under rabbinic authority will bring them, not to the one true God of the Bible, but to the subservience of the god of Kabbalah – Ein Sof – and to its hierarchy of gods. 
Growing within the Church is a wide body of rabbis who impress audiences with their extensive knowledge of ancient mysteries that are supposedly hidden in scripture. What is not easily discerned is that these mysteries are rooted in the traditions of Babylonian and Kabbalistic doctrines which arose out of EYGPTIAN and CHALDEAN OCCULTISM. It stands to reason, therefore, that these same teachers illuminated in esoteric Judaism, must also understand the dark sentences of the craft of Kabbalah.



Monday, July 22, 2019

Shocking whirlwind appears after prayer during church service

Dear viewer: I am posting this article and videos below because for centuries there have been many Christians from mainline Protestant Denominations that have been peddling a man made doctrine known as cessasionism. This was a doctrine that was created by John Calvin during the Reformation Age. Simply put, many of these Christians believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit together with signs, wonders, and miracles ceased to operate when the last Apostle John died and the Sacred Text(Bible) was finally canonized. For more details go to the following link: 

THE ORIGINS OF CESSATIONISM

Below I am sharing actual 21st century video footage as well as scriptural evidence refuting this false heretical doctrine. 

REMEMBER: THAT YAHWEH THE SELF EXISTING ONE IS THE LORD GOD THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE. AND HE IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER AMEN AND GLORY BE TO HIS  HOLY MAJESTIC NAME!

 

What is the Shekinah glory of God?






by Matt Slick
2/13/2017 



Shekinah means "dwelling," or "one who dwells."  So, the Shekinah glory of God would refer to the personal presence of God. The word Shekinah does not occur in the Old or New Testaments in the original languages. However, it entered Christian theology as a term via the targums and rabbinic literature after the Old Testament was completed and before the New Testament period began.  It was used to describe the very presence of God.  Therefore, it was used by rabbis in reference to the Lord's presence among his people (Exodus 19:16-18; 25:8; 40:34-38; 1 Kings 6:13). The rabbis used the term in reference to the glory of God filling the temple (2 Chronicles 7:1), his presence at the cloud (Exodus 14:19; 1 Kings 8:10–13), and his dwelling in the mountain ( Psalm 68:16-18; 74:2; Isaiah 8:18; Joel 3:17).  Another way of describing it would be to use the term "glory of God" since the phrase is used to describe his presence (Psalm 19:1; Ezekiel 43:2; Luke 2:9; Acts 7:55).
Phrases used in the Bible that fall under the Shekinah are

In the Old Testament, various people would see God  (Genesis 17:1; 18:1; Exodus 6:2-3; 24:9-11; Numbers 12:6-8). They would be in his presence. However, we know from the New Testament that they were not seeing the person of God the Father (John 6:446; 1 Timothy 6:16). They were seeing the pre-incarnate Christ. Of course, God would manifest himself in different forms in the Old Testament such as wind, a cloud,
In the New Testament, the manifestation of God, the manifestation of his presence, occurs in the person of Jesus. Jesus is the Word who became flesh (John 1:1, 14). In him, all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form (Colossians 2:9). He is called "the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature," (Hebrews 1:3). Therefore, to see Jesus was in effect, to see God (John 14:9).  Jesus is the Shekinah presence of God.
Quotes

  • Shekinah, "A circum-locution used in rabbinic literature to signify God’s presence." 1
  • "Transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning “the one who dwells” or “that which dwells.” The term enters Christian theology from its use in the Targums and rabbinic literature to describe the immanent presence in the world of the transcendent Deity."2
  • "The Shekinah (Heb. Å¡eḵinâ), the radiance, glory or presence of God dwelling in the midst of his people, is used by Targumist and Rabbi to signify God himself..." 3




Sunday, July 21, 2019

DOOMSDAY PROPHET JONATHAN CAHN




DEAR VIEWER:  I AM A FORMER MEMBER OF PASTOR CAHN'S CHURCH BETH ISRAEL. I UNFORTUNATELY DEFECTED FROM HIS CHURCH BECAUSE AFTER MANY YEARS WHILE SITTING UNDER HIS TEACHINGS, I REALIZED THERE EXIST SERIOUS ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES REVOLVING AROUND HIS APOLOGETICS. THIS BLOG WHICH I CREATED NEARLY 5 YEARS AGO HAS SOUGHT TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. 

BELOW I AM SHARING THESE ARTICLES AND VIDEOS BECAUSE I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT THIS SO CALLED PROPHECY BY JONATHAN CAHN IS FALSE BASED UPON THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED.  MR. CAHN IN THIS VIDEO CLAIMS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A MODERN DAY KING CYRUS  OF PERSIA  REFERRED TO AS GOD'S ANOINTED  IN ISAIAH 44:28-45:1. HOWEVER THOSE CLAIMS CANNOT BE VERIFIED THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD. MR. CAHN  ALSO LIKENS PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THE BIBLICAL WARRIOR/KING JEHU  OF SAMARIA. BUT WHAT HE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT JEHU DEPARTED FROM THE LORD AND CONTINUED IN HIS SINS UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH 2 KINGS 10:29-36.

PART I
Preface: Now, a new star has risen, a quite unlikely one at that. The crowds are also thronging to hear him, and his followers are convinced that this man, their man, Donald Trump, will single-handedly make America great again. The political system is corrupt, say his loyal supporters, and America has become a shell of what she used to be, both nationally and internationally.
Donald Trump will save the day. Donald Trump knows how to get it done. Donald Trump will not back down. Donald Trump is the alpha male we need. Some even claim that God Himself has raised up Donald Trump for such a time as this (AS JONATHAN CAHN  SO BOLDY CLAIMS IN THE ABOVE VIDEO)!

 
Mr. Cahn brings his BOGUS MYSTERIES fully into the social-media age: many of his fans first saw him on Facebook; hundreds of posts and reposts of his sermons are uploaded on YouTube, slipped into the corners of the web where esoteric religion and conspiracy theories overlap.
Into this mix came Mr. Cahn’s latest book, “The Paradigm,” which could be his most polarizing, tying his bogus prophetic work to the election of Donald Trump.

The book, published in the months after Trump’s win, again likens America to the ancient nation of Israel — two peoples, Mr. Cahn says, who have a unique relationship with God. He then argues that all sorts of figures in contemporary politics have biblical counterparts. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, for example, are the modern-day analogues to wicked Ahab and Jezebel. Trump is the warrior-king Jehu, who took control of the nation and cast idols out of the capital. “Jehu also sought to drain the swamp,” Mr. Cahn said.
Trump, “like his ancient predecessor,” Mr. Cahn writes in his book, was a “flawed vessel” being used by God. “The unlikely and controversial warrior was destined to become the new ruler of the land,” Mr. Cahn goes on. According to Mr. Cahn: “The template would ordain that Donald Trump would become the next president.”

Unfortunately Mr. Cahn didn’t stop with a paradigm which shows how human actions which separate themselves from the laws of God lead naturally down a path which has common threads among all human beings. In what appears to be a well-meaning effort to buttress this paradigm Mr. Cahn takes the ancient Biblical types and attempts to show how specific actions and dates are paralleled in their modern American political anti-types. This takes the subject from type and anti-type into the realm of prophetic  speculation. Most of the paradigms are based on no specific cross  scriptural reference to other passages of the Holy Text. They serve only to define whatever point Cahn wishes to make about future events, corresponding to past events and usually can be readily matched to the future person. You can read the rest of his thesis by going to the following link: https://christinprophecyblog.org/2018/11/a-biblical-blueprint-for-america-jehu-as-trumps-paradigm/.

These absurd claims by Mr. Cahn is nothing more than  prophetic speculation. He accomplishes this by applying an EISEGETICAL method for interpreting Holy Scriptures. This  EISEGETICAL METHOD IS EVIDENT IN ALL OF THE BOOKS HE HAS WRITTEN. Refer to the 2 links below: 

1)EXEGESIS VS EISEGESIS
2)How Often Have People Misapplied Prophecy? 

To reiterate his latest book mentioned above  was released only after Trump had taken the White House and is largely backward-looking, giving biblical explanations to current events only after the fact.
He also declined to weigh in on Trump’s 2020 chances for re-election. “The Bible doesn’t say one or two terms,” Mr. Cahn demurred.

He insists he has always included disclaimers on his work and never sets exact dates.   Mr. Cahn: “I always say You can’t put God in a box.” He is absolutely right. Because God does not speak with a forked tongue! Only false prophets do that. Still, he appears to have learned from the brouhaha, growing even more cautious about making prognostications that could fall through.

Deuteronomy 13:1-5

Worshiping Other Gods


13 [a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

"But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:20-22)

The warning in the above scriptural passages is urgently needed for today. Some of God's people are so enamored by the supernatural that they are ready to receive anyone who demonstrates supernatural power or divine revelation knowledge as necessarily being a true servant of God. But the passages quoted above indicates that this attitude is UN SCRIPTURAL & DANGEROUS.

To get the full picture we need to combine the above two passages( Deuteronomy 13:1-5 &  Deuteronomy 18: 20-22)  that clearly show us how to identify a false prophet like Jonathan Cahn.  

The first passage warns us  against a prophet who gives us a supernatural sign that is fulfilled, but at the same time teaches disobedience or disloyalty towards God. The second passage warns that a prophet who makes some supernatural prediction  that is not fulfilled is a false prophet. 


PART II

Why evangelicals are calling Trump a “modern-day Cyrus.”

 

It’s a typical morning segment on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, late in 2016. The controversial Access Hollywood tapes, on which then-candidate Donald Trump can be heard boasting about grabbing women by the genitals, have just been released.

Standing on a sunny street, reporter Chris Mitchell says, “Christians are divided about what to do on Donald Trump.”

Some want to abandon him, he says. Others want to stand with him. But others, he says, are wondering: Does Trump have a “biblical mandate” to become president?

Mitchell runs swiftly through the first two options, citing both a condemnation of Trump and an endorsement by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson. But it’s the third option — that God himself has chosen Trump to be president — that Mitchell focuses on.

Evangelical thinker Lance Wallnau then gives Mitchell his take: Trump is a “modern-day Cyrus,” an ancient Persian king chosen by God to “navigate in chaos.”

Mitchell notes that some evangelicals disagree but does not name or cite them. Instead, he cites the growing threat of China, Russia, and Iran, before Wallnau concludes, “America’s going to have a challenge either way. With Trump, I believe we have a Cyrus to navigate through the storm.”

The comparison comes up frequently in the evangelical world. Many evangelical speakers and media outlets compare Trump to Cyrus, a historical Persian king who, in the sixth century BCE, conquered Babylon and ended the Babylonian captivity, a period during which Israelites had been forcibly resettled in exile. This allowed Jews to return to the area now known as Israel and build a temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus is referenced most prominently in the Old Testament book of Isaiah, in which he appears as a figure of deliverance.

That comparison has become more and more explicit in the wake of Trump’s presidency. Last week, an Israeli organization, the Mikdash Educational Center, minted a commemorative “Temple Coin” depicting Trump and Cyrus side by side, in honor of Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. It was among the most brazen, public links between Trump and Cyrus; one that takes the years of subtext running through outlets like Christian Broadcasting Network and, quite literally, sealed the comparison.

Monday, however, an even higher-profile figure linked Trump and Cyrus. During his visit to Washington, DC, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu heavily implied Trump was Cyrus’s spiritual heir. Thanking Trump for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, Netanyahu said, “We remember the proclamation of the great King Cyrus the Great — Persian King. Twenty-five hundred years ago, he proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in Jerusalem...And we remember how a few weeks ago, President Donald J. Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Mr. President, this will be remembered by our people throughout the ages.”

While Cyrus is not Jewish and does not worship the God of Israel, he is nevertheless portrayed in Isaiah as an instrument of God — an unwitting conduit through which God effects his divine plan for history. Cyrus is, therefore, the archetype of the unlikely “vessel”: someone God has chosen for an important historical purpose, despite not looking like — or having the religious character of — an obvious man of God.

For believers who subscribe to this account, Cyrus is a perfect historical antecedent to explain Trump’s presidency: a nonbeliever who nevertheless served as a vessel for divine interest.

For these leaders, the biblical account of Cyrus allows them to develop a “vessel theology” around Donald Trump, one that allows them to reconcile his personal history of womanizing and alleged sexual assault with what they see as his divinely ordained purpose to restore a Christian America.

“I think in some ways this is a kind of baptism of Donald Trump,” says John Fea, a professor of evangelical history at Messiah College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “It’s the theopolitical version of money laundering, taking Scripture to … clean [up] your candidate.”

This framing allows for the creation of Trump as a viable evangelical candidate regardless of his personal beliefs or actions. It allows evangelical leaders, and to a lesser extent ordinary evangelicals, to provide a compelling narrative for their support for him that transcends the mere pragmatic fact that he is a Republican. Instead of having to justify their views of Trump’s controversial past, including reports of sexual misconduct and adultery, the evangelical establishment can say Trump’s presidency was arranged by God, and thus legitimize their support for him — a support that has begun to divide ordinary evangelicals and create a kind of “schism.”

Trump has capitalized on this idea of “vessel theology”


Numerous evangelical leaders have used the Trump-as-Cyrus comparison to explain how a leader who, while not (originally) religious, might nevertheless figure into a divine historical plan.

In December, Christian evangelical leader Mike Evans made the comparison while praising Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, another act with deep theological connotations. Before seeing Trump right after the announcement, Evans said, “the first word I'm going to say to him, 'Cyrus, you're Cyrus.’” He explained that Cyrus “was used as an instrument of God for deliverance in the Bible, and God has used this imperfect vessel, this flawed human being like you or I, this imperfect vessel, and he's using him in an incredible, amazing way to fulfill his plans and purposes.”

Likewise, last year, Creation Museum founder Ken Ham used the same rhetoric to explain how God had, in his view, brought Trump to power: “God is in total control,” Ham told the Deseret Daily News early last year. “He makes that very clear in the Bible where he tells us that he raises up kings and destroys kingdoms. He even calls a pagan king, Cyrus, his anointed, or his servant to do the things that he wants him to do.”

Trump himself seemed to bolster this particular comparison. He referenced a (fake) quote from Cyrus in March 2017 as part of a speech commemorating Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

Adhering the Cyrus motif to an American president — and particularly using it to justify evangelical support of the Trump presidency — is unique.

Anbara Khalidi, a former research associate at University of Oxford’s Wadham College and an expert on American evangelical apocalyptic narratives, says she has not come across the Cyrus narrative in her previous study of evangelicals and politics. “I actually have personally never heard any of the Christian evangelicals I've researched refer to any politician as Cyrus,” she said in an email.

Often, she said, the end-times-conscious evangelical communities she researched in the pre-Trump era were far more reticent to make specific associations between biblical figures and present-day ones.

Khalidi said most evangelicals tend to be “pretty cautious” about associating individuals in history with biblical figures or prophecies. Rather, she says, many evangelicals traditionally speak more generally about “signs of the times” or indicators that the end, more broadly, may be at hand, without speaking specifically about linking modern politicians to given biblical prophecies or parallels.

However, Khalidi said, the Trump-Cyrus association has gained traction in recent years, especially among those “who have recognized its political expediency.” Furthermore, Trump seems to have been encouraged to publicly embrace these associations.

Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem late last year, for example, might have been seen as one such curated response, evoking the historical association between Cyrus and the liberation of the Jewish people as a kind of dog whistle to evangelical voters that he’s on their side.

Fea pointed out that among a certain subset of evangelicals, even innocuous details seem to be evidence of prophecy. The most famous biblical verse about Cyrus as God’s “anointed” is found in Isaiah 45 — and Trump is the 45th president. Wallnau made this connection explicit, telling the Christian Broadcasting Network that God spoke to him directly to tell him, "Isaiah 45 will be the 45th president ... Isaiah 45 is Cyrus.”

Andrew Whitehead, an assistant professor of sociology at Clemson University who focuses on the rise of Christian nationalism, agreed with Fea. “Christian nationalist rhetoric, defending America’s Christian heritage” — all these, he said, were common tropes throughout American history. “But what makes Trump interesting, a test as to the power of this Christian nationalist rhetoric, is that regardless of personal piety … his use of that rhetoric still resonated, and people still voted for him.” Trump managed to capture the evangelical imagination without being particularly evangelical — or, indeed, personally religious — himself.

The Cyrus narrative allows evangelicals to thread a difficult rhetorical needle. It allows them to see Trump as “their” candidate — a candidate who will effect God’s will that America become a truly Christian nation — without requiring Trump himself to manifest any Christian virtues. He is, like Cyrus, anointed by God and thus has divine legitimacy (Trump’s spiritual advisers, including evangelical figures Robert Jeffress and Paula White, have repeatedly hammered this point), but he has no obligation to live out Christian principles in his personal life.

According to Fea, this narrative works because it allows evangelicals to capitalize on Trump’s “strongman” persona — in practical terms, his ability to get votes — while allowing them to justify their support theologically and preserve their sense of Trump as a God-backed candidate.

Someone like Ted Cruz, Fea says, may initially have been a “purer candidate” as far as evangelicals were concerned. But when it became clear that Trump was performing better in the Republican primary, they shifted tactics. “They have to have some kind of biblical or theological or Christian reason ... for their support,” he says. But they also have to back a winner.

Fea describes evangelicals’ pivot as somewhat pragmatic. Major evangelical figures like the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and Focus on the Family’s James Dobson endorsed Cruz before finally endorsing Trump once his nomination became an inevitability.

Trump’s rhetoric ties into and significantly expands on a robust historical tradition of language and thought about God, and a kind of “vessel theology,” in American political history.

Whitehead says the idea that God plays a divine role in politics is nothing new. When it comes to the presidency, narratives of divine intervention have been woven into American cultural discourse from the beginning of what Whitehead calls America's “civil religion,” which he describes as a fusion of political and religious imagery.

For example, after George Washington died, Whitehead said, “stories cropped up about his religiosity, about what a great man he was.”

“Great leaders [have been historically] identified with how God was using them, or that God placed them there for a purpose,” he said. For America, a relatively new nation, this Christian mythos became a foundational element of creating a national identity. “Colonials had closer ties to Britain than they had to each other. Christianity became a part of that.”

Fea concurs. Throughout the early history of America, he notes, American exceptionalism and a particular blend of Christian nationalism — seeing America as a kind of new chosen land for God’s intervention on a parallel with the Israel of the Old Testament — went hand in hand. He references the ideal of the “city on a hill,” an image from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, used by Puritan settler John Winthrop to describe how the new American colonies would serve as a model for Christian living.

Fea references, too, the work of early American revivalist preachers like Jonathan Edwards, who believed the second coming of Christ was imminent in Boston during the 18th century. Fea says the idealistic nature of America’s founding — as a country that believes in “liberty and freedom” — has lent itself to appropriation by Christian narratives. “It’s sort of taking these Enlightenment ideas [of freedom and liberty],” he added. “Since day one, they have been kind of ‘baptized' by evangelicals who say in a very unthoughtful way, ‘America is for freedom. God is for freedom. Therefore, God must privilege the US.

This sense that God has “chosen” America as a special people, or that he acts directly in American affairs, has, Fea argues, given us quintessentially American historical phenomena such as Manifest Destiny, the imperialist expansion of the United States across North America.

Therefore, at the very least, the idea that God intervenes directly in American political affairs, and uses American political figures as vessels to effect divine will, is deeply rooted in centuries of Christian nationalism.

Trump’s whole team furthers the Cyrus narrative


The continued prevalence of the Cyrus narrative throughout the campaign and the first year of Trump’s presidency speaks to its longevity and power. But it speaks, too, to the degree to which those around Trump — from his unofficial evangelical advisory council to Christian supporters on CBN — are able to signal to supporters that the evangelical agenda is receiving attention in the White House regardless of Trump’s actions, or even regardless of whether Trump is aware of what’s going on.

After all, Trump himself has mentioned Cyrus just once (and made up a quote in the process). But every time those around Trump mention Cyrus, they’re signaling to their listeners that because Trump is nothing but a vessel for God’s will, he’s also somewhat irrelevant in the scheme of things.

Pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain, they imply. The real work is being done by his evangelical influencers behind the scenes.

But Trump, too, is doing his share of influencing, dog-whistling to evangelical rhetoric of an unexpected or incongruous “divine plan.”

Within that paradigm, his somewhat incongruous anecdote during the State of the Union address about the New Mexico couple that adopted a homeless, heroin-addicted woman’s baby makes far more sense.

Trump says of Ryan Holets, the New Mexico police officer who adopted the baby, that “Ryan said he felt God speak to him: ‘You will do it — because you can.’”

Within the context of a presidential address, the anecdote felt jarring, out of place. But as a theological nod, the anecdote made perfect sense. The image of an unlikely individual chosen unexpectedly by God to shoulder a difficult and divinely ordained burden is a popular narrative within Christian, and more specifically evangelical, discourse.

And it’s a narrative that Trump will continue to capitalize on to keep his evangelical voters close.

PART III

America's False Prophet Jonathan Cahn, To Sell Yet Another End Time Prophecy Book







By this point, you would think the mathematical odds of Jonathan Cahn accurately prophesying something would be in his favor. Surely throwing out random guesses about the near future would result in greater accuracy than that which has been produced by this fake rabbi and false prophet, but Cahn has yet to provide an oracle that has ever come true, not even by blind luck. 

Cahn predicted that the Shemitah year would bring a financial “great shaking” in 2015 (it didn’t). Cahn predicted lots of various “harbingers” of impending doom from the Bible, in the years immediately following 9-11 (nothing happened). Cahn has given a whole host of prophecies on Jim Bakker’s doomsday prophecy show and survival supplies infomercial, but so far, nothing has come to pass. Cahn doesn’t like it when you point out that not a single one of his explicit prophecies have come true, and even sent us a (fake) cease and desist letter once, which we promptly made fun of and then threw in the trash. Even the New York Times has had its attention caught by Cahn’s fakery (and cited us in their article exposing him).

The Bible is very clear as to what we should do to/with false prophets.

2when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him (Deuteronomy 18:22)

Fans of the Cahn-man will claim that he isn’t a prophet, but that he only “interprets” Biblical prophecy. Of course, Cahn takes a good many Scriptures that aren’t prophetic and wrongly applies them to modern events, thus making them prophetic. Cahn’s horrible track record at prophecy interpretation seems not to bother his biggest fans, who are eager to buy his next book. 

Cahn’s latest book is The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Revealed. Once again, Cahn claims to have found super-secret mysteries locked away in the Bible, and only he has the extra-fancy decoder ring that can unlock the codes. Never mind that this is the same schtick he’s been trying since 2011 and hasn’t yet hit a single nail on its head.
Cahn’s book pitch includes…

“Could an ancient prophecy and a mysterious ordinance given in a Middle Eastern desert over 3,000 years ago be determining the events of our day? Could some of the most famous people of modern history and current events be secretly linked to this mystery—even a modern president of the United States? Could this ancient revelation pinpoint the events of our times down to the year or even the day? And is there a master plan affecting the entire world and altering the course of history?”
What Cahn is getting at in his new book is clear. According to Cahn, Donald Trump is in the Bible. 

Interestingly enough, Cahn’s promotional material for The Oracle contains no reference at all to his book, The Mystery of The Shemitah, which is his most provable prophetic failure. 

 MANY RELIGIOUS PROFESSIONALS ARE ENDORSING JONATHAN CAHN'S PRODUCTS STRICTLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BOOSTING THEIR TELEVISION RATINGS AND TO ATTRACT GULLIBLE CHRISTIANS TO SEND THEM MORE MONEY IN THE FORM OF TITHES/OFFERINGS. THEY ARE: PAT ROBERTSON OF THE 700 CLUB, SID ROTH FROM IT'S SUPERNATURAL, JOSEPH FARAH FROM WORLD NET DAILY, CONVICTED FELON JIM BAKER & HIS CIRCUS TALK SHOW, KENNETH COPELAND FROM WORD OF FAITH CULT, BENNY HINN THE MAN OF SIN WHO JUST A FEW YEARS AGO WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA WITH PROSPERITY PIMP PAULA WHITE HAVING A ROMANTIC FLING IN ROME WHILE PRETENDING THEY WERE PATRONS OF THE ARTS FOR THE VATICAN( BENNY HINN WAS STILL LEGALLY MARRIED TO HIS FIRST WIFE AT THE TIME), CHARISMA MAGAZINE WHICH CONSTANTLY  WRITES ARTICLES PROMOTING SO CALLED APOSTLES FROM THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION CHRISTIAN CULT WHO CLAIM THEY ARE RIVALS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FOUNDATIONAL APOSTLES  ETC,  JUST TO NAME A FEW. SOME OF THESE SHADY CHARACTERS HAVE GONE AS FAR AS PROCLAIMING  JONATHAN CAHN AS AMERICA'S PROPHET. 

EVEN MORE SUBTLE THAN THE ONE WHO SEDUCES SOULS IN A FLASHY WAY FOR SELF GAIN ARE THOSE WHO WRITE BOOKS THAT BECOME ASTOUNDINGLY THE BEST SELLERS AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY. THEY USE LITTLE SCRIPTURE, AND WHEN THEY DO, MANY TIMES IT IS USED OUT OF CONTEXT IN THE FORM OF EISEGESIS IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THEIR OWN AGENDA, AND IT IS NOT ALIGNED WITH THE WHOLE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. DOES THIS NOT QUALIFY FOR MAKING MERCHANDISE OF GOD'S PEOPLE? (2 PETER 2:1-3,14).


 Rabbi Jonathan Cahn was recently asked how many false prophecies he had given in his book The Harbinger. That may well be an accurate number, rabbi. Cahn is also a sensationalist and why the body of Christ gives this man any credence is beyond me. He predicted a shaking in the economy before 2015. There was a shaking all right as he began quivering when another of his prophecies failed to come true. Bible prophecies have a 100% accuracy rate. Cahn’s accuracy rate is about 0% which should tell you something. Yet his followers remain loyal to him proving indeed that there’s very little discernment in his flock. Jesus would put it another way. If the blind lead the blind both will fall into a ditch. And his people love to have it so. He puts on a good nickel-and-dime show and Jim Bakker puts him on whenever his ratings drop. Maybe Jonathan Cahn and Jim Bakker should read Matthew 23:8. Call no one on earth rabbi.

DONALD STAMPS IN THE LIFE STUDY BIBLE PAGE 1,995 WRITES:

"THE FALSE PROPHETS/TEACHERS WILL COMMERCIALIZE THE GOSPEL, BEING EXPERTS IN GREED AND IN GETTING MONEY FROM BELIEVERS TO ENHANCE THEIR MINISTRIES AND AFFLUENT LIFESTYLES. BELIEVERS MUST BE AWARE THAT ONE OF THE CHIEF METHODS OF FALSE MINISTERS IS TO USE FEIGNED WORDS TO TELL IMPRESSIVE STORIES THAT ARE NOT TRUE , OR TO GIVE EXAGGERATED STATISTICS IN ORDER TO INSPIRE GOD'S PEOPLE TO GIVE MONEY. THEY GLORIFY THEMSELVES AND ENHANCE THEIR MINISTRIES WITH THESE FABRICATED STORIES (cf 2nd Corinthians 2:17). THUS, THE UNWARY AND SINCERE CHILD OF GOD BECOMES AN OBJECT OF EXPLOITATION. BECAUSE THESE MINISTERS DEFILE GOD'S TRUTH AND PEOPLE WITH GREED AND DECEIT, THEY ARE ASSIGNED TO ETERNAL DOOM AND DESTRUCTION".

2 Corinthians 2:17
"You see, we are not like the many hucksters who preach for personal profit. We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority, knowing that God is watching us".

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How To Discern, Test & Judge Rightly False Teachers and Prophets


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