Friday, September 9, 2022

A CRITIQUE OF THE BOOK RETURN OF THE GODS BY JONATHAN CAHN


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. 

JONATHAN CAHN AMERICA'S SO CALLED PROPHET WAS NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO REVEAL THE RISE OF PAGANISM IN AMERICA AND BEYOND TO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AS HE CLAIMS IN HIS NEW BOOK. OTHER BIBLE SCHOLARS BEFORE HIM HAD  ALREADY DISCLOSED THAT. THEREFORE HIS BOOK IS NOT AN ANCIENT MYSTERY NOR IS AMERICA PATTERNED AFTER ISRAEL AS HE FALSELY CLAIMS. IT'S A CON JOB FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVE FALLACIES!


 The following is a synopsis of  Jonathan Cahn's  latest book

RETURN OF THE GODS

The So Called Ancient Mystery 

  • The mystery that The Return of the Gods will open will be of an entirely other dimension, one in which lies virtually everything now taking place in our culture.
  • Is it possible that behind what is happening to America and the world lies a mystery hidden in inscriptions of ancient Mesopotamia?
  • Could the ancient entities known to the nations as the “gods” be more than just fiction and myth – but actually possess an independent reality?
  • Is it possible that they have returned to our world?  Could these entities lie behind what we see on our television screens and computer monitors, what our children are being taught in their classrooms, current events, news, and the movements of our times—behind what is even now influencing our lives without our realizing it?   Could this mystery be the explanation behind all the strange transformations happening to our culture in our own day?
  • Is it possible that one of these ancient entities actually entered the streets of New York City and started a cultural revolution that is still transforming our world?
  • Could there be a mystery that lies behind the sign of the rainbow and why it is now saturating our culture—a mystery that goes back to the tablets of ancient Sumer?
  • Could the mystery of the gods actually have determined the outcome and timing of Supreme Court rulings down to their exact days?
  • Is it possible that the dynamics of ancient mythology have played out in our public squares in city streets in real time?
  • What is it all leading to? And what do we need to know in dealing with them – and in view of the future.  This is the mystery The Return of the Gods will reveal.

          As you continue to examine the contents which follow below; I provide compelling evidence that these are not ANCIENT MYSTERIES at all being revealed for the first time. All Jonathan Cahn has done is create a FACSIMILE, or to put it another way duplicate what other Bible Scholars have already shared with Christendom under the guise of unlocking a Biblical Mystery. 

 The author digs into the ancient worship of pre-Christian gods of Baal, Isis, and Moloch examining the faith, ambitions and aspirations of those ancient religious cults. He then examines and contrasts the ambitions and aspirations of the LGBTQ movement and compares their similarities. So what's so new about that? Nothing!

There are many sources cited below that show this was ALREADY DISCLOSED by several biblical scholars concerning the rise of paganism in America as well as throughout the world  years ago. Actually, many Christians currently don't realize that America & Europe are post Christian nations. We already have been there for quite some time! Don't allow yourself to be blown away by all the hype talk you see and hear on these television Christian networks. It's all  marketing strategies they are using to excite your curiosity in order for them to close the sale. If someone tells you they’ve discovered something in the Scriptures that no one else in 2 thousand years has uncovered, they’re wrong and trying to sell you something  each and every last and lousy time. And you can BANK on it.

Deceptive marketing is the use of false and/or misleading information to capture the attention of the consumer through the usage of fallacies to persuade buyers into a business transaction that will not typically be beneficial to you but “yes” beneficial to the one doing the deceptive advertising.

 ALL OF THESE RELIGIOUS CHRISTIAN NETWORKS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON. AND THAT'S TO PUSH JONATHAN CAHN'S PRODUCTS TO THE HILT!  TO THE MOST  GULLIBLE  HIGHEST BIDDER. WATCH THE 4 SHORT VIDEOS BELOW EXPOSING CAHN'S TEAM OF LYING RELIGIOUS CON MEN WHILE COMPARING THEM TO HAL LINDSEYS BOOKS & FALSE PREDICTIONS ON END TIMES PROPHECY:

 https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-fpauw-f8f7f5





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".






The Return of the Gods

The Rise of Modern Paganism



Ancient nature religions, long thought dead by many, are reemerging across Western nations. Why is this happening? And what does it portend?

What is driving this global trend? Where is it leading? What does it mean to you?

The twenty-first century has witnessed remarkable historic events—the rise of Russia after the demise of the USSR, the resurgence of militant Islam, the rise of China, the fragmenting of the European Union, and ever-deepening divisions in the United States. However, one of the most surprising events has been the reemergence of ancient pagan ideas and traditions in Western nations once considered “Christian.”

As part of this global trend, Iceland has constructed its first temple in over 1,000 years to worship the old Nordic gods Thor and Odin. In England, thousands gather at Stonehenge on the summer solstice to greet the rising sun—as ancient pagans once did. In Edinburgh, Scotland, performers painted as red devils entertain crowds to celebrate the ancient Celtic Fire Festivals of Beltane and Samhain, while many gather at ancient U.K. sites to burn a wicker man—as Druids once did. In America, thousands travel to Burning Man festivals catering to uninhibited behavior resembling old pagan practices.

In Greece, Hellenists are promoting the worship of the ancient deities Zeus, Apollo, and Athena, while at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, children write prayers to Aphrodite or Venus, the Greco-Roman goddess of love and lust—and patron goddess of prostitutes. In Eastern Europe, people celebrate ancient fertility rites by dancing around and jumping over fires, customs from a pre-Christian past. In Russia, church leaders note with concern the growing interest in pagan traditions. In America, the fastest-growing religion is witchcraft, and statues promoting satanism appear on public grounds. The U.S. Air Force Academy has even constructed a pagan chapel.

 The United States, though founded by individuals who were inspired by a biblical worldview, has been drifting toward paganism for some time. Several decades ago, noted Jewish author Don Feder wrote that America "is no longer a Christian (or Judeo-Christian) nation… animated by the ethical vision of the Bible, with its special emphasis on honesty, hard work, caring and self discipline. Instead we are evolving the type of Canaanite culture (unrestrained hedonism, ritual prostitution, child sacrifice and the civic virtue of Sodom) that my ancestors encountered at the dawn of moral history… A nation will have one God or many. Ours is increasingly polytheistic… The gods of late twentieth century America include the doctrines of radical autonomy, of absolute rights divorced from responsibilities, of gender sameness, of self-expression which acknowledges no higher purpose, of moral relativism and sexual indulgence" (A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America, pp. 10–11). Noting that "ideas have consequences" (ibid., p. 12), Feder observed that the burgeoning interest in witchcraft, the occult and neopaganism is directly related to political, philosophical and moral trends—from radical feminism to unrestrained hedonism—which have challenged traditional American values.

Why should the return of paganism matter to progressive Western nations today, where tolerance, acceptance, and diversity are promoted and celebrated? Is there a largely unrecognized significance to the dramatic changes taking place? Are we ignoring important lessons of history? If so, what consequences await us in the days ahead? Why should you be concerned?

The Pagan Worldview

To grasp the significance of what is happening, we need to understand the ideas and practices that permeated the pagan world, and how they differ from those of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The term pagan was initially used to describe anyone who did not believe in the God of the Bible or follow biblical guidelines. The thoroughly pagan Greco-Roman world—given to idol worship and adopting gods and practices of other religions as if they were interchangeable—provides one ancient example. Such concepts and practices were totally at odds with biblically influenced religion. The Greeks and Romans were a mix of polytheists who worshiped many gods and goddesses, pantheists who believed that “god” was everywhere in nature, and what we now call atheists, worshiping no god at all. Such pagans had no knowledge of the God of the Bible (cf. Acts 17:23). The idea of one true, personal God was generally foreign to them.

In Greco-Roman paganism, there were few fixed creeds. Truth was relative—there was little comprehension of absolute right and wrong, and no real concept of sin, guilt, or judgment. Each person decided his or her own path through life. Pagans focused primarily on earthly life, gratifying physical desires, and pursuing personal happiness. While deceptively appealing and subtle in some of its errors, it does not take much research to see that the whole of the pagan approach is utterly alien to what the Bible reveals.

Unlike the God of Scripture, the gods of the Greek pantheon, for example, were promiscuous. Myths abound with tales of their lust, envy, murder, and other gruesome deeds. Open sexuality and debauchery characterized many pagan ceremonies—especially the spring and midsummer fertility festivals. The worship of Aphrodite involved visits to temple prostitutes that generated revenue for the temple, which the Bible also condemns (Leviticus 19:29; Deuteronomy 23:17). In Greco-Roman society, fornication, homosexuality, and the sexual abuse of children—advocated by Plato and practiced by the Spartans—were common and accepted. Art that we would term pornography was everywhere. The Roman baths, inns, and taverns were locations for gratifying any kind of physical desire. One reason pagans saw biblical religion as a threat was that they feared the Bible’s teachings about sex would “turn the lights out on that merry dance” (Steven Smith, Pagans & Christians in the City, p. xiii).

The Bible teaches that children are a gift from God (Psalm 127:3–5) and that they are precious in His sight (Matthew 19:13–15). However, in the ancient pagan world, infanticide was common. Aristotle advocated killing children for population control and to eliminate malformed infants. History records the case of a Roman citizen advising his wife that if she had a child while he was away, she should keep it if it were a boy but kill it if it were a girl (Ken Spiro, WorldPerfect, pp. 6–7). The pagans of ancient Canaan and Carthage burned babies alive as sacrifices to the god Baal, hoping to receive, in return, rain or safe voyages—a practice the Scriptures clearly condemn (Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:10). The Bible also states that human beings are made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26–27) and not to kill each other (Exodus 20:13). Yet, in the pagan world, human life had little value. Not only killing in battle, the Romans also killed for entertainment on a massive scale, and thousands of people died as crowds cheered in arenas scattered across the empire.

Take infanticide, a particularly horrific form of murder. Classical Greece, one of the most admired cultures of the ancient world, had a community that practiced infanticide as a matter of national policy. That community was Sparta, which has a far more laudatory reputation as the Greek state whose soldiers fought so heroically to the last man against the invading Persians at Thermopylae in 480 BC. But in Sparta, any infant who showed the slightest physical imperfection,  not to mention deformity, at birth was left out on a hillside to die of exposure. Even worse were the child-sacrifice traditions practiced by many of the pre-Israelite Semitic tribes that inhabited Canaan before the Israelis conquered the land-a practice the ancient Jews found appalling and prohibited entirely. The Phoenicians who settled Carthage engaged in many of these same religious rites of child sacrifice to their god Molech. The Carthaginians also, according to several classical sources, sacrificed their children as part of vows to their deities. The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah denounced his fellow Israelites for adopting the child -sacrifice rituals of the Semitic Canaanites whose land the invading Israelites had taken over. The Jewish horror at this practice was confirmed by the Jewish Historian Josephus (37-100 AD), who reported that the Jews totally forbade both abortion and infanticide. In the pagan Roman Empire, infanticide appears to have been almost routine until it was finally outlawed around 374 AD, by which time Rome had been essentially Christianized (The Delusion of Disbelief pages 198-199 Dr. David Aikman).

Why is an understanding of ancient pagan ideas and traditions relevant to us today?

The Return of Paganism

In recent years, there has been a growing realization that the spread of Christian ideas in the West and general respect for the Bible did not eliminate paganism. Many ancient ideas simply went underground and have begun to reemerge in today’s more favorable climate. For the last several centuries, Europe and America have become increasingly secular as pre-Christian ideas and traditions have gained acceptance. Today, the Western nations, once considered “Christian,” appear to be in the midst of a “pagan revival,” as noted in a December 2018 New York Times article titled “The Return of Paganism.” Many concepts viewed as “progressive” in our modern society are actually part of the reemergence of pagan ideas that stand in total contrast to the teachings of biblical Christianity—and those ideas have consequences.

Commonly accepted ideas today—that God does not exist, that the Bible is not divinely inspired, that all religions are equally valid, that absolute values of right and wrong do not exist, and that there is no such thing as sin—were all expounded by ancient pagan philosophers. Just as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, pornography, and infanticide were condoned and widely practiced in the ancient pagan world, these activities are increasingly common and even celebrated today. The “secular humanism” that dominates modern society is, in many instances, a thinly disguised “neo-paganism” asserting itself in our twenty-first century culture. In fact, a Google search for “modern paganism” or “contemporary paganism” demonstrates a startling level of interest in bringing ancient, pagan practices back into prominence. But how could the anti-Christian values and ideas of paganism displace Judeo-Christian values that have seemed so firmly woven into the culture of Western civilization for so long?

Seeds Sown Long Ago

The fertile ground for the decline of Christian influence and the return of paganism was actually prepared during the early centuries of Christianity. As the Church grew and spread throughout the Mediterranean world, it encountered many pagan ideas and practices that some did not discard, but rather adopted and absorbed into their doctrine. These customs were popular, and apostate church leaders reasoned that incorporating them would make it easier for pagans to convert to this new religion. The biblical Sabbath observed by Jesus, the apostles, and early Christians (Luke 4:16; Acts 13:14, 42–44; 17:1–2) was abandoned in favor of Sunday, a day already acknowledged by pagans who, like Emperor Constantine, worshipped the sun. The popular winter festival of the Saturnalia—a time of gambling, merry-making, and social role-reversal—was renamed “Christmas” and observed as Jesus’ birthday, despite the total lack of biblical support for the major deviation from original Christian practice that the festival represented. (See Gerald E. Weston’s article “Does Christmas Matter?,” on page 18 of this issue.) The pagan springtime fertility festivals with eggs, rabbits, and sexually-oriented activities honoring Aphrodite and Ishtar (“the queen of heaven”) were adopted by increasingly apostate leaders and named “Easter” under the guise of remembering Jesus’ resurrection—even though the Scriptures condemn these practices (see, for example, Jeremiah 7:18; 44:18–23; Ezekiel 8:15–18). It is unsurprising that some Christians begin to question their faith when they look into the origins of these major holidays.

The historical evidence is undeniable: Professing Christians who claimed to follow the teachings of Jesus borrowed many ideas and customs from the pagan world, something the Bible clearly warned against (Deuteronomy 12:29–32; 16:21–22; 18:9–12). Historian Will Durant has stated, “Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it… [The] Greek mysteries passed down into the impressive mystery of the Mass… From Egypt came the ideas of  the adoration of the Mother and Child… From Phrygia came the worship of the Great Mother… Christianity was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world” (Caesar and Christ, p. 595). Others have documented that many non-Scriptural practices of modern, mainstream Christianity—crosses, crucifixes, church steeples, shrines, clerical vestments, relics, Sunday worship, and even the title Pontifex Maximus—were “lifted directly out of pagan culture in the post-apostolic period” (Frank Viola and George Barna, Pagan Christianity?, p. 6).

While many assume the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s restored true, biblical Christianity, this is simply not true. Although some non-biblical practices were eliminated or weakened—such as indulgences, confession to a priest, praying to saints, rosaries, the ideas of purgatory and transubstantiation, and the role of the pope—many other doctrines of pagan origin were retained. Although the Reformation severed Protestantism from the ecclesiastical control of the Roman church over doctrine and practice, the new emphasis on religious freedom “opened the doors to wider dissent and to irreligion as well” (Harold Lindsell, The New Paganism, p. 42). The irreligious fruits of the Reformation emerged in the centuries that followed.

Neo-Pagans of the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that emerged in Europe in the 1700s, and it played a pivotal role in reviving ancient pagan ideas that continue to shape our modern world. Critical thinkers of the Enlightenment resented the corruption, extravagance, and oppressiveness of the Roman church, and they were driven by the winds of change the Reformation generated. Over the years that followed, critics launched unremitting attacks on Christianity, the Bible, and God. Their weapons included the rediscovery and popularization of pagan Greco-Roman writings and the misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and misuse of discoveries in the natural world.

Like their ancient pagan predecessors, the “neo-pagans” of the Enlightenment focused on the natural world, and they rejected the idea of one supernatural God who intervenes in human affairs. Enamored with human reason, they mocked the idea that the Bible is a divinely inspired book containing accurate history and universally applicable moral laws. The rise of so-called “higher criticism” in Western academia generated claims that many books of the Bible were spurious, that miracles are impossible, that Jesus was not the divine Son of God—just an itinerant preacher in Palestine—and that His resurrection was staged, invented, or imagined.

This anti-Christian perspective was aided by scientific discoveries and theories that appeared to contradict a religious worldview—partially due to unfounded (and unbiblical) superstitions that had become associated with “Christianity.” Copernicus had already demonstrated that the earth revolved around the sun and not the reverse. Medical advances revealed that diseases were not always caused by curses from God, but by germs—and seemed to be preventable through new medical practices. These and other discoveries all fell in the realm of the natural world that the pagan philosophers focused on, and appeared to some to paint God and the Bible as unnecessary products of human imagination. Within an atmosphere of eagerness to reject the supernatural, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution—which claimed to explain the living world without appealing to a Creator—found a ready audience.

Such cultural changes during and after the Enlightenment produced a momentous shift in the worldview of Western nations that had functioned on a Judeo-Christian foundation for the better part of a millennium. The spirit of the age presumed that human reason could replace biblical revelation as a guide to truth, that the scientific method was more trustworthy than Scripture, and that a secular approach to life would lead to happiness and a better world. These anti-Christian ideas were gifts of the Enlightenment that have infiltrated our universities and shaped the troubled world in which we live—where paganism has returned as biblical religion has declined. However, as Yale historian Peter Gay has noted, the critics, skeptics, and reformers of the Enlightenment “were modern pagans” whose paganism was “directed against their Christian inheritance” in an effort to create a world free of moral restraints (The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism, pp. xi, 8).

A Dangerous Road Ahead

We need to ask several important questions. What is the real significance of the modern revival of ancient pagan ideas and traditions? What is driving this historic shift? Why is it happening today in the Western world? Where is it leading?

In recent decades, numerous observers have recognized that we are slipping backward into the equivalent of a pre-Christian past. Historian Jacques Barzun noted that, over the last 500 years, “the West offered the world a set of ideas and institutions not found earlier or elsewhere,” and that secular ideas and practices—largely stemming from the Enlightenment period—“are bringing about its demise” (From Dawn to Decadence, p. xv). British journalist Ferdinand Mount has observed that “the society that is now emerging bears an astonishing resemblance… almost eerily so, to the ways in which the Greeks and Romans lived,” emphasizing physical pleasures, gratuitous violence, unlimited sexual freedoms, multiple gods, and no sense of guilt (Full Circle, p. 1). While some have resisted these “progressive” changes, our secular Western societies as a whole continue to jettison biblical values and absorb thoroughly pagan ones—clearly heading down a dangerous path.

Nearly 80 years ago, social critic T. S. Eliot noted that the future of Western societies would be determined by a contest between Christianity and what he called “modern paganism” (Pagans & Christians in the City, p. 8). A generation later, theologian Carl F. H. Henry warned that neo-pagans were threatening “to undermine the foundations of Western civilization” and that the already visible result of their ideas was “moral and intellectual decay paralleled only by Pompeii and Sodom” (The Twilight of a Great Civilization, p. ix). Today, numerous scholars recognize that there is a powerful religious element to the “culture war” being waged within Western civilization, as essentially pagan and godless ideas come into conflict with long-held Judeo-Christian values and biblical concepts.

The Bible reveals that the “god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:3–4) is Satan the devil—an entity most modern pagans do not believe even exists. This is unsurprising, as Scripture also reveals that Satan has deceived “the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). He is the demonic “author” of the spiritual confusion and carnal attitudes driving the return of paganism and corrupting the Bible-influenced foundations of Western civilization. The creatively destructive leaders of the Enlightenment and their modern disciples are Satan’s unwitting accomplices (see 2 Corinthians 11:3–4, 13–15).

 It wouldn't surprise me if Jonathan has been reading Michael Heiser's books and some of his other good scholarship on the existence of the gods in Jewish and other literature throughout time. The reason Cahn's fallacies are subtle is that a good case can be made for their existence and for them being put in charge of the nations, while the Lord God of Israel, chooses Israel as the nation He will be in charge of and he will use them to reach out to other nations. We gentiles were put in the nations with the purpose of being drawn to the living God. At no time does the Bible say it is possible to displace these gods/principalities  over the nations by means of prayer or revival. Daniel's prayers in chapter 9 are used by God to assist an Angelic messenger with the help of the Arc Angel Michael to get through and reveal important truths to Daniel, but the "prince of Persia" which today is modern day Iran is still there and still wreaking havoc in that part of the world. This death and destruction is meant to point our hearts toward a longing for justice and peace, which is the Kingdom of God. Our time in the nations, in this evil age, is meant to make us long and search for the true God, to cry "Maranatha!" for His return, to set up His Kingdom here on earth, ruling and reigning from Jerusalem. We do not set up that Kingdom through some massive revival in a gentile nation like America. That is no where to be found in scripture. No where.

What does the Bible say? In the millennial age, Israel as a nation that has experienced national conversion, will reach out to and see the conversion of the gentile nations(see link below)

The Millennial Kingdom - With All Wisdom

Few realize that the dramatic cultural shift we are witnessing was actually predicted nearly 3,000 years ago in the Bible. The rise of Western civilization was not an accident. God anciently revealed His laws, religion, and way of life to the ancient Israelites (Exodus 20) so they could be a light and example to the world (Deuteronomy 4:6–8). The Israelites entered into a covenant with God that promised blessings for obedience and serious consequences for disobedience (Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 28)—consequences that included going into captivity for turning away from Him. Following their Assyrian captivity, the northern Israelite tribes migrated into different parts of the world where God’s promises to Abraham and his descendants were fulfilled in the rise of several Western nations (see Genesis 12:1–3).

Moses thundered numerous warnings to the ancient Israelites about the consequences of forgetting God and turning to other gods (Deuteronomy 6:14; 7:16; 8:18–19; 12:29–32), and recorded a sobering prophecy about what would happen to the modern Israelite nations as they approached the end of the age. He was inspired to warn, “For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 31:29). Jeremiah also warned that “the time of Jacob’s trouble” would come upon Jacob’s descendants—modern-day Israelites “in the latter days” because of their embrace of ideas and behaviors that God condemns (Jeremiah 30:1–25). With the resurgence of outright and unmasked paganism in many Western nations, these ancient prophecies are coming true today.

Seeing how anti-Christian ideas and practices are spreading throughout the Western world today, it appears that many have failed to learn the lessons of history. We are repeating the mistakes of the ancient Israelites—despite the examples God recorded in the Bible for our benefit at the end of the age (1 Corinthians 10:1–11). While our modern nations may not repent of turning away from God, you can learn from these examples and avoid the coming consequences—if you recognize and avoid the ideas and practices rooted in the modern return of paganism and begin sincerely seeking the God and way of life presented in the pages of Scripture.

Some final thoughts about Jonathan Cahn's fallacies: 

Advance the video above related to Mr. Cahn's interview with Daystar between time frames 3:50-4:00. Mr. Cahn asks the following question: "WHAT IF EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING TO TRANSFORM AMERICA IS AN ANCIENT MYSTERY"? Now here is the problem with that assertion:

Definition of Ancient Mysteries

Secret rituals of pagan religions, known only to select initiates who had qualified for higher spiritual development. Such mysteries were kept apart from popular worship, and initiates had to take a binding oath of secrecy, so that even today our knowledge of the mysteries is partly conjectural. Typical mystery cults were those of Eleusis in Greece from about 1500

B.C.E., in turn deriving from the mystery religions of ancient Egypt and the mysteries of Mithras, a Persian deity. Traces of Mithraism existed in Britain. Many secret societies in modern times have claimed that their rituals are a descent of an ancient tradition.

Dear viewer: I did an exhaustive search to see if this term ANCIENT MYSTERY is found in the bible. Nowhere is this term found either in the Old or New Testaments. However I did find a list of Ancient Mystery Religions in the book "ESSENTIALS OF BIBLE HISTORY" pages 564-567 as follows:

1) THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 2) THE CULT OF DIONYSUS 3) ORPHISM 4) THE CULT OF CYBELE ATTIS  5) SYRIAN MYSTERY CULTS 6) MITHRAISM 7) THE CULT OF ISIS AND SERAPIS 8) EPICUREANISM & STOICISM.

As you can see this term Ancient Mystery is not biblically based but has a direct correlation to Ancient pagan religions.

Go to the links below to learn more about the origins of

Ancient Mysteries and how it was applied by Mystery Religions

of the Ancient World 

 The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies , Part One
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part Two
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part Three

If you continue to advance the video to time frames 8:50-8:55 Mr. Cahn asserts that America was founded after the pattern of Israel. Is America modeled after Israel as Mr. Cahn claims in this video?

Cahn often repeats what I call our national myth—that America is somehow modeled after Israel. This myth goes back to the beginning of our American history but cannot be sustained by any biblical standard. The myth is based on the belief that man can unilaterally make a covenant and bind God to it, without God having agreed to anything. Cahn claims, “Embedded in America’s foundation is a prophetic warning. The warning was given on America’s first day as a nation. It concerns what will happen if America should ever turn away from God” (Cahn: 21). For such a warning to be valid and binding, it would have to be issued by an infallible prophet who speaks for God, in this case, beyond scripture. Who, exactly, is America’s Moses, or Jesus, or the apostles? Lacking any such person, God cannot have stated that America is modeled after Israel and has a binding covenant with her. That God does as Mr. Cahn claims above, is based on our national  Judaeo-Christian myth.

The truth is that God draws out the boundaries of all nations through His providence. The truths revealed in Romans 13 and elsewhere about how Christians relate to civil governments applied to Rome when Paul wrote and all civil governments in history. Only Israel was directly established by God and had a binding covenant mediated through Moses who God chose and appointed. America has neither a Moses nor a binding covenant. We are not a nation modeled after Israel and never have been. The moral laws of God that do apply are found in the Bible and they apply to all people in all nations.
 
The truth of the matter is that our founding fathers were deist who had a religious view in a generic god. Watch the short video below for more details from this Christian historian who has a PHD in History:
 


Also in the video above Jonathan Cahn claims that the charging Market Bull located at Wall St. NYC is the GOD OF BAAL. (FAST FORWARD THE VIDEO TO TIME FRAMES 11:10 TO 11:40). That is a gross fallacious statement. It is plausible that Cahn did not  do a thorough research into the history behind this sculpture. And it is possible that he is just too obsessed with Baal and will select almost anything that resembles Baal's image to prove his thesis. I  believe this fallacy is just an elaborate fabrication.  Below is the true history behind this sculpture written by the ELEMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION.

The Secret History of the Wall Street Bull


THE CREATOR OF THE CHARGING BULL
ARTURO DI MODICA PICTURED BELOW


Bulls and bears can be considered the unofficial mascots of the stock market. They represent the upward and downward movements of the stock market over a period of time and have even come to describe investor behavior (optimistic investors are said to be bullish, while investors with a pessimistic outlook are said to be bearish). In a field typically known for its confusing financial terminology and often uninspired language, the bull and bear symbols really stand out—and this is especially true in Lower Manhattan.

The Charging Bull (also referred to as the Wall Street Bull) is a massive 7,100-pound bronze sculpture located in the Financial District in New York City. At 11 feet tall and 16 feet long, the aggressive bull is an unmistakable tribute to power and prosperity. Over the years, it has been accepted as an iconic New York City monument and an international symbol of Wall Street. It draws thousands of tourists and selfie-takers daily, and parts of the statue (the snout and horns, but also some inappropriate zones) have been burnished to a bright golden bronze by visitors rubbing the statue for good luck. What many do not realize is that the iconic Charging Bull has a relatively young—and rather unusual—history.

Charging Bull has been guarding the streets of the Financial District for only a few decades. It first appeared in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989, much to the surprise and confusion of New Yorkers. Why? The statue had not been commissioned by the city. It was an act of guerrilla art.

For two years, SoHo artist Arturo Di Modica had been working on his bronze and stainless steel sculpture out of his studio. The artwork was created in response to the 1987 stock market crash. According to Di Modica’s assistant at the time, it was a way for him “to encourage everybody to realize America’s economic power.”

One cold Thursday night, Di Modica and some friends rented a crane, loaded the massive sculpture onto a flatbed truck, drove it to the Financial District and installed it on the center line of Broad Street, near a festive 60-foot Christmas tree. The following morning, Di Modica handed out fliers explaining the significance of his artwork-turned-Christmas-gift to passersby. Hundreds came out to admire the work, but the police were less than amused—Charging Bull had been installed without a permit and without concern for the effect the statue would have on traffic and public safety. The bull was immediately impounded and hauled off to Queens. The resulting public outcry was so great that the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation reinstalled the statue a few days later in Bowling Green Park in the Financial District, where it remains on display to this day. New York City does not own the sculpture and so Charging Bull has technically been on temporary display since 1989.

The cultural impact of the sculpture has spread far and wide. Replicas of Di Monica’s sculpture have found homes in Amsterdam and Shanghai. Charging Bull has helped set the scene in many TV shows and movies (Mr. Robot and The Wolf of Wall Street are a couple of notable examples). It was guarded by police during the Occupy Wall Street movement and remained barricaded for three years following the protests. Most recently, it inspired an additional artistic installation—in honor of International Women’s Day 2017, a bronze statue of a defiant little girl was temporarily installed facing the iconic bull (and yes, the statue of the defiant little girl did have a permit from the city).

In case you’re wondering whether the bronze bull of Wall Street will ever be joined by his bearish counterpart, don’t count on it. When the notion was first suggested shortly after Charging Bull’s installation, Di Modica rejected it quickly—he didn’t think it would do as good a job at representing the optimism of the American people. Bull and bear markets get to share the spotlight in the stock market, but it looks like Charging Bull will continue to have Lower Manhattan all to himself.

MR. CAHN CLAIMS IN THIS VIDEO BELOW IF THE ENTIRE TEMPLE OF BAAL WOULD HAVE BEEN BUILT, IT WOULD EXTEND FROM CITY HALL TO GROUND ZERO. WELL THAT IS PURE SPECULATION BECAUSE IT NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE.  THERE'S NO ROOM WITHIN THAT AREA TO ACCOMMODATE SUCH A PROJECT.

FURTHERMORE, LET'S JUST SAY IF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS DECIDED ONE DAY TO REBUILD THIS BAAL TEMPLE, DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THE CITY & STATE OF NY AND SURVIVORS OF 911 WOULD ACTUALLY ALLOW SUCH A STRUCTURE TO BE BUILT ON GROUND ZERO WHICH IS CONSIDERED HOLLOW GROUND?


THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT IS AN ARTICLE TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE SNOPES
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/temple-of-baal-in-new-york-city/

Temple of Baal in New York City

Temporary reproductions of the Temple of Baal's arch (destroyed by ISIS in Syria) planned for New York City and London sparked inaccurate online rumors; the former was put on hold indefinitely.

  • Published 

Claim

The Temple of Baal is being rebuilt in New York and London as an operable house of worship, with more such temples to follow.

Rating

Mostly False
Mostly False
About this rating
What's True

Replicas of the arch from Syria's Temple of Baal were planned for London and New York City's World Heritage Week in April 2016; New York's project was shelved indefinitely as of early April 2016.

What's False

The structures will be full, permanent and operational houses of worship.

What's Undetermined

Whether the arch in London will be moved to New York after a period of initial display.

I find Mr. Cahn's motives for writing this book about the rise of paganism in America & around the world very controversial. He is speaking/writing  about demonic entities influencing America's and the world's cultures. He makes the grand claim with regards to his latest book that what he is revealing supposedly through divine revelation is an ANCIENT MYSTERYI have already provided evidence above that Ancient Mysteries has nothing to do with God or the Bible and everything to do with Ancient Pagan Mystery Religions! Yet in the past Mr. Cahn has resorted to a Jewish Mystical book known as the Zohar the premier text of occultist knowledge as a source for unlocking his so called biblical ancient mysteries to his congregation. In his message the "Zohar Speaks" Mr. Cahn  introduces the Zohar as a "hostile witness. But the way Cahn describes its teachings gives the impression that he views the Zohar as being a credible source of truth.

Exactly what is the Zohar?
 
 According to the Zohar, God’s message in the Torah is meant to be understood at four levels: literal, allegorical, Rabbinic, and secretive. In other words, the more powerful and truthful purpose of the Torah is, it then becomes only accessible to those with special knowledge and insight, as per the  Kabbalah. This places the Zohar and Kabbalah firmly in the sphere of Gnosticism and Jewish mysticism.
 
As Christians misled by their Judaizing  preachers & Popes are increasingly consulting Jewish Rabbinical sources for a purer understanding of the Old Testament, they are unknowingly consulting the occult.  Judaism is the religion of the Pharisees and the patrimony of Babylon from where the Talmudic & Kabbalistic traditions of Judaism ultimately derive. Orthodox's Judaism 's other sacred book the Kabbalah(the Zohar being it's premier text of occult knowledge) is filled with astrological teachings, fortune telling, gematria, necromancy & DEMONOLOGY. Orthodox rabbis place curses, cast spells & imagine they have powers greater than God himself, all derived from their study of the Sefer Yezriah(a book of Kabbalisitic magic). Christians are trafficking in Babylonian Paganism when they defer to the Rabbis of Judaism(Michael Hoffman author of Judaism's Strange Gods).
 
For more details & evidence go to the following link:

IN THE VIDEO BELOW GOD ISSUES 
A WARNING OF COMING JUDGEMENT
AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS WITHIN
THE BODY OF CHRIST


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Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. 

Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.(Published 2018)



This book describes how evangelical thinking has been infiltrated by the culture, resulting in its ineffectiveness in fighting the culture war. It provides a solution to that problem. It also recommends a strategic approach for fighting the culture war.(Published 2016)

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

A Critique of Jonathan Cahn's Harbinger Book II The Return

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. 

A CLOSE  EXAMINATION OF

  JONATHAN CAHN'S

MYSTICAL  HERMENUETICS 


 








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


THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT WAS TAKEN FROM CHARISMA MAGAZINE AUGUST 2015 ON AN ARTICLE THAT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT JONATHAN CAHN:

"After a search that took him(Jonathan Cahn) through the OCCULT, UFOs and NOSTRADAMUS"...TROY ANDERSON page 58  

                                 

INTRODUCTION


Mathew 15:14

"Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit".

Galatians 5:20 .... involvement with the occult....5:21: I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God (Apostle Paul). CJB

1 John 4:1-  Dear friends, don't trust every spirit. On the contrary, test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

 

 When A False Prophet Asserts America was Modeled After “Israel”

"America was established after the pattern of Israel. It was woven into our existence, we were founded after the pattern and blessed after the pattern,” Jonathan Cahn 2012

 Many people believe that Jonathan Cahn is a modern day prophet and that his books contain “special revelation.” For this reason his books have become best sellers, especially in Christian circles. His first book, The Harbinger sold like hotcakes and as a result he became a sought after speaker and frequent guest on the radio talk show circuit. And now his most recent book, The Harbinger II is also destined to become a best seller.

I urge our brethren to exercise extreme caution–and spiritual discernment–before diving into one of Jonathan Cahn’s books.

First Let me state from the outset that I'm not in denial that America and the nations of the world for that matter are currently experiencing God's Judicial Wrath. They have been since ancient biblical times. And this is quite obvious given the current circumstances in Sept 2020 when this book was released to the public. All one has to do is go to any bible study tool website and type in the search bar God's wrath upon the nations.

Jonathan Cahn, a popular Christian author, claims that his books reveal mysteries and predict the future. He thus portrays himself as like one of the Biblical prophets, including the claim of having new revelations. The main point of his books The Harbingers 1&2 is that America is modeled after Israel. I will show you that these claims are false and that Cahn is not a true prophet of God. Part I will examine these claims meticulously from a Biblical perspective. In Part II of this  article, I will provide evidence from credible source(s) proving that the only mysteries Mr. Cahn is revealing to the world are the ones PATTERNED and written centuries ago by NEW AGE RABBINICAL SAGES  KNOWN AS THE RABBINICAL WRITINGS OF TALMUDIC JUDAISM. THESE NEW AGE  RABBIS ARE DESENDANTS OF THE PHARISEES A JEWISH CULT (see link: https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/people/related-articles/pharisees-and-rabbinic-judaism). THE EVIDENCE WILL  SHOW THAT MR, CAHN HAS ADOPTED CONCEPTS FROM THESE MYSTICAL WRITINGS IN ORDER TO FABRICATE HIS  MYSTERIES. OR TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, HE HAS BLENDED  THE WRITINGS OF NEW AGE RABBINICAL SAGES WITH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST RESULTING IN A FALSE GOSPEL. IT IS NOTHING MORE THAN RABBINICAL MYSTICAL HERMENUETICS  REPACKAGED WITH THE LABEL MESSIANIC JUDAISM ATTACHED TO IT.


PART I

In drawing parallels between Israel and America, Cahn asserts several things: first, that America was founded on a covenant with God as much as Israel was. Second, that America is being released from God's protection to suffer the consequences of having marginalized Him. Third, that Isaiah predicted all of this in Isaiah 9:10.

Cahn gleans nearly all of his correlations connecting America with a prophecy made to Israel from one verse ; Isaiah:9:10.
. To begin with, this verse applies only to the tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, who, along with the Southern Kingdom of Judah, comprise God's covenant with his people. All the way through The Harbingers, the United States is presented IMPLICITLY as a nation in covenant with God. God has only one covenant nation; the nation of Israel. This is a critical error of both books. Although that may be overlooked by someone eager to recognize the U.S. in Isaiah's prophecy, one must read the entire context, which begins with verse 8 and runs through verse 21 of chapter 9. The Harbingers 1&2 has undertones of Anglo-Israelism and Christian Dominionism. I RECOMMEND YOU WATCH HIS DOCUMENTARY "THE HARBINGER DECODED" WHERE HE REPEATS THESE SAME CLAIMS FREE ON YOU TUBE.

Prophets Reveal Mysteries

The apostle Paul claims that he was chosen by God to reveal mysteries as were the other apostles. The gospel itself was the mystery of which he spoke. We see this in Ephesians 3:

"that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel" (Ephesians 3:3-6)

A mystery is something that would not be known had God not chosen to reveal it through His appointed spokes persons. These are Moses and the prophets in the Old Testament, and Christ and His appointed apostles and prophets in the New Testament. The writings of the Biblical prophets in Scripture are inerrant and infallible. In the Scriptures God has revealed all the mysteries that will be known to us until Christ returns.

However, Jonathan Cahn, who is not one of the Biblical prophets, claims to reveal mysteries: “The Harbingers 1&2 are not only revealing mysteries but also the sounding of the alarms.”Cahn’s claim to be a revealer of mysteries is strong and severely problematic: “Much that will be revealed in these books has never before been revealed in written form” (Cahn: 2). This is a rather bold claim that rivals and echoes the apostle Paul’s cited above. He claims to have special revelation like the biblical authors. The problem is that Cahn did not see the resurrected Christ and was not appointed by Him like Paul and the other apostles. Cahn has no standing as an apostle or prophet and his writings are not binding as Scripture is.

Referencing his previous book Cahn repeats his grand claim: “The Harbinger book 1 contains14 major revelations or mysteries” (Cahn: 4). Unlike Paul and the other apostles, Cahn was not personally taught by Christ, but he still claims prophetic status based on subjective, inner voices: “I heard an inner voice say, ‘There’s a mystery here. You must seek and find it” (Cahn: 9). Religious leaders claiming special revelations and special status are nothing new. Hundreds of false groups have started that way. We need to decide CAREFULLY whether to believe anyone who claims special revelation above and beyond Scripture.

When Questions Imply Everything and Teach Nothing

Confusion
One of the annoying characteristics of many postmodern writers is to use questions that seem to make a claim but have built-in deniability. They ask questions but refuse to make objective statements, thus creating confusion while appearing to teach something. Cahn follows a similar process, filling his books with suggestive questions so that readers have to scour through every word (as I did) to find out if these are meant to be definitive statements. For example: In his book the Mystery of the Shemitah and I quote: “Could the mystery of the Shemitah still be at work—moving, impacting, and altering the course of world history—even in the modern world, even in our day”? (Cahn: 42). So he creates confusion with a question, when in fact this is a claim he is making—which I will show is a false one. The Law of Moses that requires cancelling all debts every seven years is not binding on any nation but ONLY Israel in the Old Testament, so it can hardly be the key to world history. Cahn is a master at sowing confusion. He is very sly and manipulative with his use of words i.e. "A GREAT SHAKING IS COMING FOR 2020" as he has been claiming lately on his videos with The Harbinger 2 . That is making a statement while painting with a broad brush. Anything bad could happen in 2020 including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris losing the National Election on November 3rd and all hell breaking loose in America with riots and looting. Yet he could easily claim that this was given to him through divine revelation if he chooses to.

Let me share another example of his cunning craftiness with his use of words. This quotation is from the following link:

, Articles, Nov 3, 2017

Lori Ann: "This is the kind of vague teaching Cahn does: His book The Mystery of the Shemitah was built on the idea of specific seven-year cycles of jubilee and judgment, and saying that there will be a great shaking at the end of 2015, a Shemitah as he calls it; probably economic, but he hedges his bets and says that it could be spiritual, which is a lot harder to prove or disprove.
And then, just in case people start pointing out that it is now November 2015 and all his projected dates in September 2015 came and went without anything happening, he puts out this handy little caveat":

Mr.Cahn:" One cannot put prophetic manifestations into a box or onto a regular schedule and expect them to perform on cue. The phenomenon does not have to manifest in every cycle or with the same intensity. It may appear dormant in one cycle and manifest in the next. Nothing has to take place in this current year 2015 of the Shemitah".

NOW SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS ENTAIL? DOES GOD SPEAK WITH A FORK TONGUE? LISTEN TO WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY TO JONATHAN CAHN AND THE BODY OF CHRIST THROUGH HIS WORD:
 
Numbers 23:19 “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?”

If God speaks something it WILL come to pass.
For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment. Luke 1:37 AMP

God, Himself, stands over and watches over His own Word, making sure it is fulfilled.
Jeremiah 1:12 AMP says, “Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.”
 
Always keep in mind that  Mr. Cahn  isolates certain facts in order  to project his desired end results. Mr. Cahn likes to exaggerate and isolate everything, especially Scripture.

One final example from Harbinger book II: THE GOD OF DEATH APPEARS OVER NYC. I actually saw a video which was posted on You Tube a couple of years ago  on August 9, 2015 when that image was first projected onto the Empire State Building. This image is known as the goddess Kali. It is still on You Tube. Just type on the search bar: "The  goddess Kali displayed on the Empire State Building.   

These examples above prove that all of these so called mysteries were written after the fact. How do I know this? Because Mr. Cahn likes to spend time in NYC and elsewhere in search of Harbingers in preparation for his next book(s). It may take years to accomplish this but that is his Modus Operandi.

These so called mysteries were done through his personal research and observations after these events had already occurred. They were not given to him through any form of DIVINE REVELATION i.e. dreams, visions or prophetic utterance. HIS PROPOSITIONS  OR BOGUS MYSTERIES ARE FOUNDED PURELY ON PROPHETIC SPECULATION.


A word about Prophetic accuracy: This is a term that defines the prophet's skill in accurately delivering a prophetic word from the Lord with 100% accuracy. The meaning of the term includes the obligation to not veer from the word given by the Lord in order to assure the cooperation and compliance of his Angelic delegation. An example of this in scripture is the Prophet Samuel. The Bible says that the Lord never allowed Samuel's words to fall to the ground cf with 1 Samuel 3:19-20. Also God warns his people about the consequences for following false prophets cf Jeremiah 23:28-40.

Is America modeled after Israel as Mr. Cahn claims in Harbingers 1&2?

Cahn often repeats what I call our national myth—that America is somehow modeled after Israel. This myth goes back to beginning of our history but cannot be sustained by any biblical standard. The myth is based on the belief that man can unilaterally make a covenant and bind God to it, without God having agreed to anything. Cahn claims, “Embedded in America’s foundation is a prophetic warning. The warning was given on America’s first day as a nation. It concerns what will happen if America should ever turn away from God” (Cahn: 21). For such a warning to be valid and binding, it would have to be issued by an infallible prophet who speaks for God, in this case, beyond scripture. Who, exactly, is America’s Moses, or Jesus, or the apostles? Lacking any such person, God cannot have stated that America is modeled after Israel and has a binding covenant with her. That God does as Mr. Cahn claims is our national myth.

The truth is that God draws out the boundaries of all nations through His providence. The truths revealed in Romans 13 and elsewhere about how Christians relate to civil governments applied to Rome when Paul wrote and all civil governments in history. Only Israel was directly established by God and had a binding covenant mediated through Moses who God chose and appointed. America has neither a Moses nor a binding covenant. We are not a nation modeled after Israel and never have been. The moral laws of God that do apply are found in the Bible and they apply to all people in all nations.

Cahn falsely claims that any nation can become a covenant nation: “Such a prophetic sign could be given to any nation as long as that nation in some way matched the description or shared the attributes of ancient Israel in 586 BC” (Cahn: 56). Cahn obviously fails to understand what Moses taught in Deuteronomy 32:8, 9. Only Israel was directly under Yahweh, all the other nations are under the “sons of God.” No other nations had an Exodus, a Sinai, or a Moses. All nations are ruled by God’s providence and are under the principalities and powers (‘sons of God’ of Deuteronomy 32:8). America is no exception. Cahn again repeats our national myth in Harbingers 1&2: “Those who founded America not only foretold its future blessing—but also gave warning. It was this: If America ever turned away from God, then the same judgments that fell upon ancient Israel would fall upon America” (Cahn: 61). Israel had Moses and the prophets who spoke inerrantly for God. Who speaks bindingly for God beyond Scripture for America? There is no such person unless of course you've been duped into believing it's Mr. Cahn, America's so called Prophet. By the way, for those who are wondering what is the true identity of the Prophet in both Harbingers; IT'S NONE OTHER THAN JONATHAN CAHN HIMSELF!


Sometimes Jonathan Cahn goes beyond the facts and makes broad assumptions. One concerns Winthrop and the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Winthrop declared a covenant with God when establishing that colony. Cahn broadens this one colony establishment to the entire American civilization. (108) He writes, “...we do know that America's founders made a covenant with God, based on Israel's covenant with God.” (108) Winthrop's covenant statement is broadened to all the founders without supporting evidence. There were several previous colonies founded, beginning with Jamestown in 1607. I do not think one can expand one man's words about the founding of one colony to the future of the entire nation. I know we want to believe America was founded as a “Christian” nation but one colony does not a nation make.

Cahn later appeals to George Washington's inaugural address, writing, “America's first government committed and consecrated the nation's future to God.” (231) Washington's actual words were, “...that Almighty Being...whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government...” Washington asked God to consecrate, or bless, the U. S. To me, that is not the same as dedicating the nation to God. (232) And Cahn says where Washington made his dedication of the nation is St. Paul's Chapel. (232) Not true. Washington's inaugural speech was at Federal Hall (26 Wall Street) not St. Paul's Chapel (209 Broadway). Granted, Washington went to services there after his speech but did not give his speech there.

This brings up a thought provoking question. Because Winthrop made a covenant statement, does that mean every American is involved? Because one group of people projected the image of a god on the Empire State Building, does that mean the entire city of New York is under God's judgment?

Sometimes Cahn doesn't give the whole story. The recent change in the abortion law in New York is a case in point. Cahn writes, “...the law legalized the killing of children up to the point of birth.” (191) He fails to notice the conditions required: danger to the mother's life or health or the lack of viability of the child outside the womb. I would rather such declarations by Cahn be more accurate.

And another issue. Cahn says the peek of the seven day average for the infection rate in New York was April 9 and April 10, exactly 50 years to the day New York expanded the abortion law. (229) Actually, the seven day rolling average peeked on April 8 at 5305, April 10 and April 11 rolling figures are 5205 and 5040, according to NYC Health website. Cahn's source is a newspaper article, not the official state data source.😆 This may be a small issue but Cahn makes a big deal of the “exact date.” It's not. While I verified many of the correlations, it does make me wonder about the others I did not take the time to check.


I reject Cahn’s claim that America is somehow modeled after Israel. All the moral laws of God always apply to all peoples in all nations. They are revealed in Scripture. All geo-political entities have boundaries that are drawn out by God in His providence and have leaders that His providence allows. In these important ways America is like all other nations. We are not modeled after Israel. Furthermore, no man or nation has the power or authority to bind God to a man-made, unilateral covenant. Unilateral covenants in the Bible are established by God, not man. We need to reject the myth that America is a special covenant nation and start thinking Biblically rather than mythologically.

 

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PART II

THE LESSON

Let's begin with a question.  What is a mystic ? Definition:  Of or relating to Ancient Mysteries. Notice the subtle wording in Mr. Cahn's first  book the Harbinger The Ancient Mystery that holds the Secret of America's Future.



Definition of Ancient Mysteries

Secret rituals of pagan religions, known only to select initiates who had qualified for higher spiritual development. Such mysteries were kept apart from popular worship, and initiates had to take a binding oath of secrecy, so that even today our knowledge of the mysteries is partly conjectural. Typical mystery cults were those of Eleusis in Greece from about 1500

B.C.E., in turn deriving from the mystery religions of ancient Egypt and the mysteries of Mithras, a Persian deity. Traces of Mithraism existed in Britain. Many secret societies in modern times have claimed that their rituals are a descent of an ancient tradition.

Dear viewer: I did an exhaustive search to see if this term ANCIENT MYSTERY is found in the bible. Nowhere is this term found either in the Old or New Testaments. However I did find a list of Ancient Mystery Religions in the book "ESSENTIALS OF BIBLE HISTORY" pages 564-567 as follows:

1) THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 2) THE CULT OF DIONYSUS 3) ORPHISM 4) THE CULT OF CYBELE ATTIS  5) SYRIAN MYSTERY CULTS 6) MITHRAISM 7) THE CULT OF ISIS AND SERAPIS 8) EPICUREANISM & STOICISM.

As you can see this term Ancient Mystery is not biblically based but has a direct correlation to Ancient pagan religions.

Go to the links below to learn more about the origins of

Ancient Mysteries and how it was applied by Mystery Religions

of the Ancient World 

 The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies , Part One
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part Two
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies, Part Three 

It is evident that mysticism abounds in the books and teachings of Jonathan Cahn.  In an interview with Jonathan Bernis, Jonathan Cahn referred to The Oracle as "the mystery of the ages" and "the blueprint of end-time prophecy." 34  A cursory examination of the mystery schools will reveal the coded language of adepts in books like Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of all Ages, in which he dedicates four lengthy chapters to The Secret Doctrine of Israel and refers to "Kabbalism as a key to Masonic esotericism."

THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES [ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED]: AN ... 

The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn is written in a narrative resembling that of the Zohar.  Presented as a daily devotional, The Book of Mysteries follows the one-year journey of a traveler's odyssey through deserts and secret chambers to discover "Hidden Keys" to the "Secrets of the Ages" revealed by a man known only as "the teacher."  The Zohar tells a similar story of "a group of 'wandering mystics' headed by their grand master, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai" as they travel through the deserts of the Holy Land to uncover "the deepest mysteries of Torah.  In the tradition of the Zohar's orally transmitted secrets, the teacher in The Book of Mysteries tells his apprentice, "And so the mysteries have been passed down from teacher to disciple, from age to age."(https://livekabbalah.org/rabbi-shimon-bar-yohai/)

Within the umbrella of kabbalistic texts can be found the Sefer HaRazim or The Book of Mysteries.  This original version of the Book of Mysteries is a collection of magical incantations said to be revealed to Noah by the angel Raziel.  It is divided into seven sections, each section describing one of the seven heavens.  Included is a list of the hierarchy of accompanying angels whose secret names may be invoked to assist the spirit traveler in his ascent to the throne.  The legend - or fable - surrounding the Sefer HaRazim Book of Mysteries is that it was passed down through the ages to Solomon and was the source of his "wisdom and purported magical powers." 




Have You Been Bewitched By The VAV?

 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one...And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts 8:9 & 11

The Hebrew letter Vav has the numerical value of 6.  The Zohar states that the redemption of Israel will come through the mystic force of the letter Vav in the 6th millennium.

I have documented in a previous article some of the mystery teachings of Jonathan Cahn which come from Kabbalah, specifically the mystery of the Jubilean Code from Cahn's book, The Oracle.  In that post I showed how the mystery of the Jubilean Code was first disclosed, not as a "download" given to Cahn by God - as he claims - but from the Zohar, the main book of Kabbalah. 1   

Here is a quote from that article:  "In this mystery Cahn relates that the return of the Jewish people to Israel in the year 1948 is connected to Leviticus 25:10 by means of a secret code hidden in the words 'you shall return' (tashuvu) and the missing Hebrew letter VAV...which also represents the divine light of the serpent Leviathan and is the middle pillar of the sefirot tree which emanates from and returns to Ein Sof."

I further showed that this same mystery appeared in an article from the The New York Jewish Week titled, "The Joy of Six" which cited the Zohar as the source of the mystery, as well as in the 1977 book, The Secrets of Hebrew Words, by kabbalist rabbi, Benjamin Blech.   



Blech can be seen in a video presentation (starting at 44:00 min.) teaching how Kabbalah predicted the future return of Jews to the land in 1948 by means of the missing mystical Vav as revealed in the Zohar, even as he warns the young people in his audience of the dangers of revealing these secrets.  

Theosophical occultist and Freemason, Alice Bailey, said there would come a time when the ancient mysteries would be released to the public on a global scale.  In her 1922 book, Initiation: Human and Solar, Bailey channeled and predicted that very soon the first stages of initiation into the mysteries would be taking place in the churches and that masters of initiation will be at the head of the various church denominations:

"Before many centuries pass the old mysteries will be restored...an inner body will exist in the Church [and] the taking of the first initiation will, before so very long, be the most sacred ceremony of the Church...At the head of certain of the great occult groups, of the Freemasons of the world, and of the various great divisions of the the church...will be found initiates or Masters." 2

That time is here.  The connections between Kabbalah, Freemasonry and Theosophy are undeniable.  Appearing as separate spiritual entities, they in fact share the same agenda; a utopian kingdom on earth, centered in Jerusalem, which will serve as the seat of yet another false messiah.

I my previous article noted above, I showed how Cahn's oracle also decoded a mystery of return for the Church; a subtle narrative that necessitates a transformation of Christianity.  The Church - which has been in "exile" - must return to its Jewish roots based on the so-called law of Jubilees.  Yet, in all of the Gospels, in the Book of Acts and in the Epistles there is no mention of this return of the Church.  In contrast, the New Testament writers repeatedly warn of false prophets and teachers who secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 2:1-3, Galatians 3:1, Acts 20:28-31)  

In today's mega-marketing industry of Christianity there is no lack of oracles who are serving to initiate the Church into the ancient mysteries.  Much of the deception has entered through the door of dispensationalism, appealing to an unsuspecting Evangelical bloc swept away by the mysticism and bewitchment of rabbinic interpretation of prophecy.  

Philip Mauro, author of The Hope of Israel and one-time adherent to the falsehood of dispensationalism wrote: 

"Jewish fables (literally, myths) are no new thing.  Paul has plainly warned the household of faith not to give heed thereto (Titus 1:14).  It will be a surprise to most of those who love the Lord Jesus Christ to learn that, in respect to the central and vitally important subject of the Kingdom of God, twentieth century dispensationalism is practically identical with first century rabbinism.  For the cardinal doctrine of the Jewish rabbis of Christ's day was that, according to the predictions of the prophets of Israel, the purpose and result of the Messiah's mission would be the re-constituting of the Jewish nation; the re-occupation by them of them of the land of Palestine; the setting up again of the earthly throne of David; and the exaltation of the people of Israel to the place of supremacy in the world. 

But what Paul and all the apostles preached was, that what God had promised afore by His prophets in the Holy Scriptures was a kingdom over which Jesus Christ of the seed of David should reign in resurrection, a kingdom which flesh and blood cannot inherit, a kingdom which does not clash with the duly constituted governments of this world, and one into which Gentiles are called upon terms of perfect equality with Jews." 

While Jonathan Cahn claims to be a Messianic rabbi of Jewish descent, he has once again presented to the Church a kabbalistic fable from the Zohar, this time with the implied pretension that he received it as a revelation from God.  And the Church should take heed.


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. 


IN THE 2 VIDEOS BELOW DeANNE LOPER EXPOSES
 JONATHAN CAHN'S BOOKS. THESES ARE EDITED 
VERSIONS. YOU CAN GO TO YOU TUBE  TO HEAR 
THE UNEDITED VERSIONS OF 1HOUR & 19 MINUTES.






Kabbalah Secrets Christians Need to Know: An In Depth Study of the Kosher Pig and the Gods of Jewish Mysticism

Contributing source: Kabbalah Secrets Christians need to know by Author DeAnne Loper.

 

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 mankind. Hiding things in His word defeats that purpose, don’t you think?

If someone tells you 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. And you can BANK on it.

Mr. Cahn's HERMENUETICS is based on a MYSTICAL METHOD of interpreting scripture.  What is Mystical Hermenuetics? This interpretative method is one that views the scriptures as having shades of meaning in addition to a strict grammatical literal interpretation. Jewish Mystics frequently see the inspired text of the Hebrew Scriptures as having deeper meanings intended by God that may not have been known or realized by the BIBLICAL AUTHORS themselves! It is nothing more than seeing additional interpretations of a passage of scripture besides it's obvious biblical meanings.

A mystical hermenuetic method is often identified as EISEGESIS. It is a fundamental Jewsish method that has made it's way into all kinds of Rabbinical writings including the ZOHAR/KABBALAH.

Another variant of Mystical hermenuetics is Midrashic interpretation, since it is also characterized by finding deeper biblical meanings in the Bible unknown to the original biblical authors.  New Age Rabbinical Sages manufactured fantasy tales embroidered around biblical narratives, patriarchs, and events and used them in their attempt to discern the hidden meaning of scripture.


A BRIEF HISTORY CONCERNING THE EVOLUTION OF RABBINICAL MYSTICAL HERMENUETICS

 The School of Akiva taught that since Elohim is all knowing, when He speaks, every word and every letter is divinely inspired and has some implication. Akiva’s school therefore sought and found hidden meanings in the text. The school of Ishmael countered this approach and claimed that when Elohim speaks to man He speaks as a man would to another man, without buried hidden meanings. These two schools were ultimately reconciled when it was determined that Ishmael’s approach was true on the literal and implied levels of understanding while Akiva’s approach held true on the allegorical and mystical levels of understanding. The literal and implied meanings of the text could be derived from accepting the text as if a man were speaking to another man while the allegorical and mystical meanings could be derived by recognizing that the text expressed the infinite mind of Elohim with meaning buried in every word and letter. One of Rabbi Akiva's most famous students is Rabbi Shimon Ben Yohai author of the Zohar....Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai - Jewish History.

Interpreting omens, using gematria/numerology and looking at signs is not Christianity – it is occultic. It is a well known fact that Jonathan Cahn in the past has derived some of his mysteries (i.e. HIS TEACHING SERIES "Gulgatah: The Cosmic Skull: The Rabbinic Mysteries V, THE ZOHAR SPEAKS") from the Jewish Mystical book known as the Zohar the world's premier text of occultic knowledge. The Zohar is a mystical commentary on the Law of Moses; the main textbook of Kabbalah.  He has in the past stated for the record that there is nothing wrong with quoting from the Zohar in order to supplement his apologetics. In his faulty logic he sincerely believes it can be used as a bridge builder to share the gospel. If Cahn is a born again Christian as he claims, he should condemn this Satanic book the Zohar. He should not quote it to supplement his apologetics, except in condemnation of its mystical passages. Some of these Rabbis who consulted the Zohar  were WIZARDS!


PART III




Jose J. Bernal

DEAR VIEWER: BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING BELOW I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT I BECAME THE TARGET OF RELIGIOUS VERBAL ABUSE BY JOSE J. BERNAL PICTURED ABOVE FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THESE OCCULTIC BOOKS, THE ZOHAR AND THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD WHICH HE AND JONATHAN CAHN  USE TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR APOLOGETICS. FOR MORE DETAILS SEE THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW. JOSE BERNAL WENT AS FAR AS USING THE RACE CARD AND FALSELY ACCUSING ME OF BEING ANTI-SEMITIC! IT'S  ALL A VERBAL PLOY WHILE RESORTING TO IDENTITY POLITICS. SEE THE SHORT VIDEO BELOW FOR MORE EVIDENCE.

 

Jonathan Cahn is not the only person in his Messianic congregation that's into the Zohar and other Rabbinical writings such as the Babylonian Talmud. There's another individual by the name of Jose J. Bernal, a biblical instructor who back in 2013 posted these comments on Amazon.com:

Jose J. Bernal said: "Isn't it amazing how God uses Paul in Acts 17 to teach the pagans from their own writings on Mar's Hill and how in Apologetics even the Book of Zohar unwittingly supports the Gospel because it has been used by faithful witness Apologists as a "hostile witness" of the Gospel? Only God can do such things; turn something like the Book of Zohar into a tool that bears witness that Jesus is the Messiah! Thank you."

"The only thing that I would use the Zohar for and the Baybylonian Talmud would be for the same use that eminent Messianic Jews such as Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Dr. Michael Rygelnik, Dr. Michael Brown, Dr. Mitch Glazer, and many more, such as Pastor and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn would use such works for; to affirm from them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is called in Apologetics "the fair use of a hostile witness" to affirm a specific matter".

TO AFFIRM FROM NEW AGE RABBINICAL SAGES  THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST? REALLY? DEAR VIEWER THIS STATEMENT OF JOSE J. BERNAL IS BASED ON FAULTY LOGIC AND FALLACIES! AS YOU CONTINUE TO SCROLL DOWN I WILL SHOW YOU THAT THESE KABBALIST DENY THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THAT THEY BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST WAS A MERE MORTAL HUMAN BEING AND KABBALIST JUST LIKE THEMSELVES(SEE VIDEO #3 BELOW WITH BILLY PHILLIPS). ALSO I WILL PROVE TO YOU WHAT THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD HAS TO REALLY SAY ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, CHRISTIANS, THE VIRGIN MARY, AND WHAT THESE TALMUDIC JEWS ARE DOING TO THEIR KIDS(SEE THE TWO LINKS BELOW).

  Let’s look at it another way Mr. Jose J. Bernal – would a born again, biblically sound Christian:

… quote from a Quronic document to evangelize Moslems because it seemed to contain some Christian thoughts?


… quote from a Mormon document to evangelize Mormons because it seemed to contain some Christian thoughts?


… quote from a Jehovah’s Witnesses document to evangelize Jehovah’s Witnesses because it seemed to contain some Christian thoughts?


… quote from a New Age document to evangelize New Agers because it seemed to contain some Christian thoughts?


… quote from a Wiccan document to evangelize Wiccans because it seemed to contain some Christian thoughts?


… quote from a Satanic Bible document to evangelize Satanists because it seemed to contain some Christian thoughts?

 

 We will demonstrate in this article below that Paul in Acts 17 while preaching to the Greek Philosophers at Mars Hill had no need to seek or establish "common ground" in Athens by trying to find things in the Greek worldview from their own writings that he could agree with and borrow to build an epistemological bridge from the agreed-upon things to the unique truths of the Gospel. On the contrary, from his epistles we know that he believed in an ontological common ground identified in Scripture as our being all made in God's image. The "common grace" of General Revelation guarantees that both the sinner and the saint confront the true God in every moment of consciousness. The unregenerate sinner continually suppresses this awareness in order to maintain the illusion of his own autonomy.

 

The real reason why Jesus Christ censored the Babylonian Talmud and what Jose J. Bernal is not telling you!

THE JEWISH TALMUD is "Holy Writ" for the Jews.

The Talmud supercedes the Old Testament in authority for the Jews. And the Talmud is the most racist, hate-mongering , blasphemous book the world has ever known.

The Talmud was written in Hebrew between the 3rd & 6th Centuries as a codification of the so-called Oral Law that the Jewish rabbis claim was handed down from Moses.

But the Messiah Jesus censored the "Oral Law" when He said, "By the traditions of your elders you make void the Word of God." (St Matthew 15).

The English translation of the Talmud has been watered down so as to conceal from the Gentiles the "satanic verses" contained in the original Hebrew.

The "Satanic Verses" of the Talmud can be classified into 3 categories:

1) Jewish Supremacy.
2) Hatred Towards The "Goys" (Gentiles).
3) Blasphemies Against Jesus Christ, The Virgin Mary, & All Christians.

SATANIC VERSES OF THE TALMUD'S
"JEWISH SUPREMACY"

* "If a `goy' (Gentile) hits a Jew he must be killed." (Sanhedrin 58b)

*"If a Jew finds an object lost by a `goy' it does not have to be returned." (Baba Mezia 24a)

* "If a Jew murders a `goy' there will be no death penalty." (Sanhedrin 57a)

* What a Jew steals from a `goy' he may keep." (Sanhedrin 57a)

* "Jews may use subterfuges to circumvent a `goy.'" (Baba Kamma 113a)

* "All children of the `goyim' (Gentiles) are animals." (Yebamoth 98a)

* "Girls born of the `goyim' are in a state of `niddah' (menstrual uncleanness!) from birth." (Abodah Zarah 36b)

SATANIC VERSES OF THE TALMUD'S
HATRED TOWARDS THE GENTILES

* "The `goyim' are not humans. They are beasts." (Baba Mezia 114b)

* "If you eat with a `goy' it is the same as eating with a dog." (Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b)

* "Even the best of the `goyim' should all be killed." (Soferim 15)

* "Sexual intercourse between the `goyim' is like intercourse between animals." (Sanhedrin 74b)

* "When it comes to a Gentile in peace times, one may harm him indirectly, for instance, by removing a ladder after he had fallen into a crevice." (Shulkan Arukh, Yoreh De `ah, 158, Hebrew Edition only)

SATANIC VERSES OF THE TALMUD'S
BLASPHEMIES AGAINST JESUS CHRIST, THE VIRGIN MARY,
& ALL CHRISTIANS

* "`Yashu' (derogatory for `Jesus') is in Hell being boiled in hot excrement." (Gittin 57a)

['Yashu' is an acronym for the Jewish curse, `May his (Jesus) name be wiped out forevermore.']

* Yashu (Jesus) was sexually immoral and worshipped a brick." (Sanhedrin 107b)

* "Yashu (Jesus) was cut off from the Jewish people for his wickedness and refused to repent." (Sotah 47a)

* "Miriam the hairdresser had sex with many men." (Shabbath 104b, Hebrew Edition only)

* "She who was the descendant of princes and governors (the virgin Mary) played the harlot with carpenters." (Sanhedrin 106a)

* "Christians who reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for all generations." (Rosh Hashanah 17a)

SEXUALLY PERVERTED CITATIONS IN THE TALMUD:

So that you may better understand the CORRUPT DOCTRINES, MORAL DECAY and background of Rabbi Simeon Ben Yohai, PRINCIPAL AUTHOR OF THE BOOK KNOWN AS THE ZOHAR I will quote the following passages and practices condoned by Rabbi Yohai to his jewish followers from YEBAMOTH 60B WHICH LEGALIZED SEXUAL RELATIONS between jewish priests and 3 year old girls: It was taught by Rabbi Simeon Ben Yohai who stated: A proselyte who is under the age of 3 years old and 1 day is PERMIITED TO MARRY A PRIEST. For it is said, but all the women children that have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves, and Phineas who was a priest (the footnote says) was with them.

KETHUBOTH 11B: SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH CHILDREN
When a grownup man has sexual intercourse with a little girl, it is nothing. For when the girl is less than 3 years old, it is as if one puts his finger into the eye(in other words her virginity will return back to her). But when a small boy has intercourse with a grownup woman, he makes her as a girl who was injured by a piece of wood.

BABYLONIAN TALMUD SANHEDRIN 54b
".....A child less than 9 years old can not be the subject of SODOMY"!

A RABBI WHO HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH EVERY WHORE IN THE WORLD;

FROM THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD WE READ THE FOLLOWING: "ABODAH ZARAH 17A STATES THAT THERE IS NOT A WHORE IN THE WORLD THAT THE TALMUDIC SAGE RABBI ELEAZAR HAS NOT HAD SEX WITH".

ADAM HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH ALL THE ANIMALS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. BABYLONIAN TALMUD YEBAMOTH 63A.

GENTILES ARE INCLINED TO BESTIALITY. LEWDNESS AND MURDER. GENTILES PREFER SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH COWS MORE THAN THEIR OWN WIVES. EVE HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH THE SERPENT, TRANSMITTING LUST TO THE GENTILES, FROM WHICH THE ISRAELITES ARE EXEMPT. BABYLONIAN TALMUD ABODAH ZARAH 22A.

A WOMAN WHO HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A BEAST IS ELIGIBLE TO MARRY A JEWISH PRIEST. A WOMAN WHO HAS SEX WITH ADAIC HU DEMON IS ALSO ELIGIBLE TO MARRY A JEWISH PRIEST. BABYLONIAN TALMUD YEBAMOTH 59B.

"HUSBANDS MAY TREAT THEIR WIVES LIKE MEAT FROM THE BUTCHER SHOP"
THE TALMUD PERMITS THE JUDAIC HUSBAND TO SODOMIZE HIS WIFE TO HIS HEART'S CONTENT, SINCE THE CHAZAL/TALMUDIC RABBINICAL SAGES DECREE THAT SHE IS NOT ENTIRELY A HUMAN BEING, BUT RATHER A PIECE OF MEAT FROM A BUTCHER SHOP. ANAL SEX AND OTHER PRACTICES ARE PERMISSIBLE TO THE JUDAIC HUSBAND BECAUSE IN HIS RELATIONS WITH HIS WIFE, HE IS DEALING NOT WITH A WOMAN, BUT MEAT, THE DESIGNATION FEMINISTS RIGHTLY DECRY AND HERE IS A RELIGION THAT FORMERLY PRECRIBES IT. IN CONSIDERING WHICH SEXUAL PRACTICES ARE FITTING FOR THE HUSBAND AND WIFE, THE TALMUD STATES CONCERNING INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH THE JUDAIC WIFE: "MEAT WHICH COMES FROM THE BUTCHER MAY BE EATEN SALTED. ROASTED, COOKED OR BOILED; SO WITH FISH FROM THE FISHMONGER"- BABYLONIAN TALMUD NEDARIM 20.

ZIMRI ENGAGED COZBI IN SEXUAL RELATIONS 424 TIMES IN ONE DAY. ALSO HER WOMB WAS ONE AND HALF FEET WIDE.
BABYLONIAN TALMUD SANHEDRIN 82b.

WOMEN CANNOT CONCEIVE BEFORE THEY REACH 12 YEARS AND A DAY OLD, ACCORDING TO THE RABBIS. WHEN ASKED HOW IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT A GENTILE GIRL HAD CONCIEVED AT AGE 6, THE RABBI REPLIED THAT GENTILES ARE NOT HUMAN. BABYLONIAN TALMUD NIDDAH 45a.

RABBIS INTELLECTUALLY MORE SUPERIOR THAN GOD:

A SLY RABBI DEBATES GOD AND THROUGH TRICKERY DEFEATS HIM. GOD ADMITS THE RABBI WON THE DEBATE.
BABYLONIAN TALMUD BABA MEZIA 59b.

GOD INTERVENES IN A RABBINIC DISPUTE AND IS LOGICALLY DEFEATED BY A RABBI. THE COMMANDS OF THE RABBIS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE COMMANDS OF THE BIBLE. WHOEVER DISOBEYS THE RABBIS DESERVES DEATH AND WILL BE PUNISHED IN HELL WITH BOILING EXCREMENT-BABYLONIAN TALMUD ERUBIN 21B.

ELIJAH AND MOSES BLAMED GOD FOR CAUSING THE ISRAELITES TO SIN. GOD ADMITTED THEY WERE RIGHT:
BABYLONIAN TALMUD BERAKOTH 31b-32a.

BABYLONIAN TALMUD BERAKOT 7a: GOD ASKS A RABBI FOR A RABBI'S BLESSING

GOD DECREES AND THE ZADDIK NULLIFIES GOD'S DECREE. BABYLONIAN TALMUD MO'ED KATTAN 16b.(The Zaddik is said to have the ability to change heavenly decrees and alter divine judgments. A Zaddik is a Judaic living saint, often reputed to be possessed of miraculous or MAGICAL POWERS).

SINCE GOD ALREADY GAVE THE TORAH TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE ON MOUNT SINAI WE NO LONGER PAY ATTENTION TO HEAVENLY VOICES. GOD MUST SUBMIT TO THE DECISIONS OF A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE RABBIS. BABYLONIAN TALMUD BAVA METZIA 59b.

TALMUD CITATIONS CONCERNING CHRISTIANITY:

CHRISTIANS ARE ALLIED WITH HELL, AND CHRISTIANITY IS WORSE THAN INCEST-BABYLONIAN TALMUD AVODAH ZARAH 17A.

GOING TO PROSTITUTES IS THE SAME AS BECOMING A CHRISTIAN-BABYLONIAN TALMUD AVODAH ZARAH 17A.

THOSE WHO READ THE GOSPELS ARE DOOMED TO HELL-BABYLONIAN TALMUD SANHEDRIN 90A.

WHEN THE MESSIAH COMES, HE WILL DESTROY THE CHRISTIANS-BABYLONIAN TALMUD SANHEDRIN 99A.

CHRISTIANS AND OTHERS WHO REJECT THE TALMUD WILL GO TO HELL AND BE PUNISHED THERE FOR ALL GENERATIONS-BABYLONIAN TALMUD SANHEDRIN 90A.

THOSE WHO READ THE NEW TESTAMENT WILL HAVE NO PORTION IN THE WORLD TO COME-BABYLONIAN TALMUD ROSH HASHANAH 17A.

JEWS MUST DESTROY THE BOOKS OF THE CHRISTIANS i.e. the NEW TESTAMENT: THE BOOKS OF THE CHRISTIANS MAY NOT BE SAVED FROM A FIRE, BUT THEY MUST BE BURNT IN THEIR PLACE-BABYLONIAN TALMUD SHABBAT 116A.

 

Another example from a Mystery Religion:


Christianity asserts that there is one source of Truth and that is the Bible, the inspired, inerrant Word of the living God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice (John 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 4:12). It is God’s written revelation to mankind and is never superseded by man’s thoughts, ideas, writings, or visions! The Gnostics, on the other hand, use a variety of early heretical writings known as the Gnostic gospels, a collection of forgeries claiming to be “lost books of the Bible.” Thankfully, the early church fathers were nearly unanimous in recognizing these Gnostic scrolls as fraudulent forgeries that espouse false doctrines about Jesus Christ, salvation, God, and every other crucial Christian truth. There are countless contradictions between the Gnostic “gospels” and the Bible. Even when the so-called Christian Gnostics quote from the Bible, they rewrite verses and parts of verses to harmonize with their philosophy, a practice that is strictly forbidden and warned against by Scripture (Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32; Proverbs 30:6; Revelation 22:18-19).


WHAT WAS PAUL'S PURPOSE AT ATHENS? 

Mars Hill is the Roman name for a hill in Athens, Greece, called the Hill of Ares or the Areopagus (Acts 17:19, 22). Ares was the Greek god of war and according to Greek mythology this hill was the place where Ares stood trial before the other gods for the murder of Poseidon’s son Alirrothios. Rising some 377 feet above the land below and not far from the Acropolis and Agora (marketplace), Mars Hill served as the meeting place for the Areopagus Court, the highest court in Greece for civil, criminal, and religious matters. Even under Roman rule in the time of the New Testament, Mars Hill remained an important meeting place where philosophy, religion, and law were discussed.

The biblical significance of Mars Hill is that it is the location of one of Paul’s most important gospel presentations at the time of his visit to Athens during his second missionary journey (Acts 17:16–34). It was where he addressed the religious idolatry of the Greeks who even had an altar to the “Unknown God.” It was this altar and their religious idolatry that Paul used as a starting point in proclaiming to them the one true God and how they could be reconciled to Him. Paul’s sermon is a classic example of a gospel presentation that begins where the listeners are and then presents the gospel message in a logical and biblical fashion. In many ways it is a classic example of apologetics in action. Paul started his message by addressing the false beliefs of those gathered there that day and then used those beliefs as a way of presenting the gospel message to them.

We know that when Paul arrived in Athens he found a city “given over to idols” (Acts 17:16). In his usual manner, Paul began presenting the gospel to both Jews and Gentiles. He started by “reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers” (Acts 17:17) and then also proclaimed the gospel “in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there” (Acts 17:17). While at the marketplace he encountered some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers (Acts 17:18) who, having heard Paul proclaim the resurrected Jesus Christ, wanted to learn about “this new doctrine” he was teaching, so they “brought him to the Areopagus” to hear more from him (Acts 17:19–20).

We know from history that the Epicurean philosophers generally believed that God existed but that He was not interested or involved with humanity and that the main purpose of life was pleasure. On the other hand, the Stoic philosophers had the worldview that “God was the world’s soul” and that the goal of life was “to rise above all things” so that one showed no emotional response to either pain or pleasure. These groups and others with their dramatically opposing worldviews loved to discuss and debate philosophy and religion. Intrigued by what they considered Paul’s “babblings” about the resurrection of Christ, they brought him to the Areopagus where the Athenians and foreigners “spent their time in nothing else but to tell or hear some new thing” (Acts 17:21).

As mentioned earlier, Paul’s presentation of the gospel is a great example for us, both as a pattern for how Paul identified with his audience and as an example of apologetics in action. His connection with his audience is seen in how he begins addressing those gathered at the Areopagus. He begins with the observation that they were “very religious,” based on the fact that they had many altars and “objects of worship” (Acts 17:23) including an altar to “the Unknown God.” Paul uses that altar to introduce them to the one true God and the only way of salvation, Jesus Christ.

His apologetic method and his knowledge that they did not even know what God is really like leads him to go back to Genesis and to the beginning of creation. Having a completely wrong view of God, those gathered that day needed to hear what God really was like before they would understand the message of the gospel. Paul begins explaining to them the sovereign God who created all things and gives life and breath to all things. He continues to explain that it was God who created from one individual all men and nations and even appointed the time and boundaries of their dwelling (Acts 17:26). His message continues as he explains the closeness of God and their need to repent of their rebellion against Him. Paul completes his message by introducing them to the One before whom they would all stand one day and be judged—Jesus Christ, whom God had raised from the dead.

Of course, many in the audience scoffed at the idea that Christ was crucified and rose from the dead on the third day because the idea of the resurrection to the Greeks was foolishness (1 Corinthians 1:23). Yet a few believed what Paul said and joined him.

What happened on Mars Hill is important because of the many lessons that can be learned, not only from how Paul presented the gospel and presented a biblical worldview, but also in the varied responses he received. Some of those there that day believed and were saved, others mocked Paul and rejected his message, and still others were open-minded and desired to hear more. We can only hope that those who were open-minded were later convinced of the truth and also repented and believed.

As with all men, those who were confronted with the truth of the gospel and did not respond in faith had no guarantee of a second chance. As Hebrews 3:15 says, “Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in rebellion.” Paul’s message to the philosophers on Mars Hill that day ended with a call to repentance and acceptance of the two fundamental truths of Scripture that Paul was committed to preaching—the crucifixion and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul preached Christ crucified to them as he always did wherever he went (1 Corinthians 2:2).


Stoicism is one of many ancient Greek philosophies. While Paul was in Athens, a group of Stoics met him and engaged him in a debate (Acts 17:18) that started in the marketplace and continued in the Areopagus. In speaking to the Stoics and other philosophers gathered on Mars Hill, Paul gave a presentation of the gospel and made a point of mentioning the Athenian altar to the “unknown god” as proof of their spiritual ignorance.

Stoicism, which emphasizes rationalism and logic, is commonly considered to be the opposite of Epicureanism, which is seen as promoting feeling and comfort. Many people think Epicureanism is all about pleasure in life while Stoicism is all about rejecting pleasure. This view is over-simplified to the point of inaccuracy. In reality, Epicureanism teaches to arrange one’s life in such a way that it is completely free of stress—including the stress brought about by over-indulgence and pleasure-seeking. True Stoicism says to align one’s expectations with the logos—the natural law of the cosmos—and not to worry about the rest.

Stoicism was first taught by Zeno around 300 BC in the stoa poikile (painted colonnade) in the Agora in Athens. The philosophy is comprised of three disciplines. The philosophical base of Stocism is physics, or the natural world. Stoicism teaches materialism—that all of creation is made of material stuff, including god/logos and human souls (which are made of fire). When our five senses interact with other material objects, their reality is impelled upon us. But we can only accurately interpret those sensations through logos, which defines how the world works. All our assessments, whether concerning the temperature of a beverage or the feeling of imminent doom, are only accurate insofar as we are in tune with the logos. Ethics—the way we should act—is based on logos. The closer we are to the logos, the more ethical we will naturally act, according to Stoicism.

Stoicism says that the alignment of one’s perception with the logos is a journey. Someone who is completely immature in the ways of logos acts impulsively and with passion (appetite and/or fear). His reactions to external forces are so uninformed by reason that he actually limits his ability to make choices in the future—like the man who gets angry and kills and is imprisoned. It is this detachment and preference for reason-based decisions that give the Stoic his reputation as a repressor of feeling. With maturity into the logos, one realizes that everything that is external to him is neutral; it’s oikeion. Money, home, companionship, and sometimes even life are neutral. There are varying degrees of oikeion. Life, in general, is preferable to death. But if life were to be contrary to logos, death would be preferable.

The final stage of Stoicism is the sage. The sage is completely ruled by logos. His decisions are always logical, and he is never so impassioned that he cannot think things through to make the best choice. He does experience joy, watchfulness, and wishing, but he is not controlled by his emotions or by the actions of the outside world. Think of the character Spock in Star Trek as one trained in the Stoic philosophy.

One area in which Stoicism contradicts Christianity is in the physics; the entire Stoic god is wrong. Stoicism teaches a kind of pantheism—that god is not only logos, but logos is god. The reason logos reigns in the cosmos is that it is in everything and a part of everything.

However, parts of Stoicism are relatable to Christianity—in fact, John calls Jesus the “Logos” in John 1, where the title is translated as “Word.” Psalm 119 is filled with verses that explain joy comes with following God’s law. And it’s true that ethics are based on God’s character. But there is one big difference: the logos is not an apathetic, material force that ordains the working of the universe. The Logos is a loving Person who intimately interacts with our lives and responds to us.

Whereas Epicureans discuss and debate only as much as they need to understand what they believe, Stoics meditate constantly. In order to properly respond to the world, Stoics consider different scenarios and reason out what the appropriate reaction should be. The Bible teaches that we should meditate on God’s Word (Psalm 1:2). The Stoic tradition of meditation is similar in some ways to what we call inductive Bible study—learn the law, discover what it means, apply it to your actions.

Stoicism, in some cases, has stumbled onto truth. Hold the things of the world lightly. Know that God’s point of view is truth, and ours can be distorted. Act in a reasonable way based on the truth of the logos, not your impulsive passions. Christians have been given the Spirit of Truth. We understand that “alignment” with the logos does not come from a deeper, more reasonable understanding of the natural world; rather, righteousness comes from a relationship with God through Christ, the true Logos. God not an impersonal, immovable force; He is the loving, caring Jesus who entered our world, sacrificed Himself for us, and rose again. When Paul spoke of the resurrection on Mars Hill, his speech was interrupted by the philosophers there, and “some of them sneered” (Acts 17:32). However, others “became followers of Paul and believed” (verse 34). May many more Stoics find the Savior.


Epicureanism was a Greek philosophy started by Epicurus (341—270 BC). It was still going strong in New Testament times when Paul visited Athens on his second missionary journey. One of the groups that debated with Paul on the streets of Athens was Epicurean (Acts 17:18); later, this group brought Paul to the Areopagus for further questioning (verse 19).

Epicureanism taught that the highest state a person could attain was ataraxia—absolute peace—and aponia—complete absence of mental, emotional, and physical distress or need. Epicureanism has gotten a bad rap in modern times because of a misunderstanding of its basic tenets. People today tend to think it represents ultimate, decadent luxury and indulgence. It’s usually contrasted with Stoicism, which is thought to be the absolute absence of desire. But these are extreme definitions that don’t quite hit the mark.

Epicurus’s goal was to teach people to relax and enjoy life without worrying so much. His first step was to remove the idea of the gods from the psyche of his followers. To Epicurus, the gods did exist, but they lived so far away from the affairs of man, in a permanent state of ataraxia, that they didn’t interfere with humanity—in fact, they weren’t even aware of humanity.

With the removal of fear of the gods came two advantages for the Epicureans. First, there is no judgment after death; therefore, death shouldn’t be feared. Everything is material, so, whatever “soul” there is, it is connected to the physical body and ceases to exist upon death. Second, there is no judgment during life. There is no way to appease a god who doesn’t know you exist and doesn’t care about your life. Therefore, you are free to find fulfillment in life outside of religious rules and expectations.

What, then, is fulfillment, according to Epicureanism? If we aren’t working for the favors of gods, in this life or the next, how can we live to the full in the moment? Epicurus’s answer is more balanced than many understand. To him, ataraxia was everything. It meant very simple but profound things like not being hungry, not being in distress, and not worrying.

Absolute peace meant being comfortably fed, but not overfed because that leads to stomach aches. Desserts and fine food are okay if they are rare enough to be appreciated but not so common as to be expected or desired. Too much education is distressing because it awakens a desire to understand things that are not understandable. Feelings, not logic, most often reveal the truth about a situation. To an extent, altruism and civil obedience are good because, if the society is healthy, it benefits you, too. But politics and power are too stressful. Things like fame, marriage, and wealth are artificial, and very often bring more heartbreak than joy. At the same time, Epicureanism did not prohibit such activities if a person found them beneficial.

So, in true Epicureanism, the best life is characterized by sufficient food, a comfortable dwelling, peaceful relationships, and good friends. Epicurus’s academy followed this model; the school was in his home and garden and included slaves and women.

If this sounds familiar, it MAY be because some of what Epicureanism taught aligns with the Bible. For example, money and power do not often bring peace. “But Jesus called them to him and said, ‘You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many’” (Matthew 20:25–28; see also Matthew 13:22Mark 10:23bJames 3:1).

Worrying is not good. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” (Matthew 6:25; see also 1 Peter 5:7). Of course, the reason Jesus gave for not worrying was trust in God; Epicurus’s reason was that there are no gods that matter.

A good life includes sufficient food and good friendships. “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11). “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Proverbs 17:17; see also Proverbs 27:17).

Possessions and desires enslave more than they free. “Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags” (Proverbs 23:20–21; see also Matthew 19:21–22Galatians 5:24).

Nature around us has no choice but to tell the truth, but we often don’t listen. “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. . . . They exchanged the truth about God for a lie” (Romans 1:20–25; see also John 8:44–45). Of course, the “truth” that the Epicurean drew from nature completely ignored the fact of a present, life-sustaining Creator.

Regardless of the few times Epicureanism stumbled upon the truth, the materialistic views of Epicureanism directly contradict the Bible. Scripture says that God is very involved in our lives. “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38–39; see also John 14:16–17Hebrews 13:5b).

The cosmos includes the spiritual as well as the physical. “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24; see also Ezekiel 18:4Hebrews 4:12).

We will be resurrected—death is not the end. “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die” (John 11:25b–26a; see also 1 Corinthians 6:1415:54–55).

Only Christ can bring peace, not the careful manipulation of the earthly life. “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33; see also 2 Corinthians 12:8-10Philippians 4:4–711–13).

Ultimately, what Epicureanism taught was a “fulfilled” life free from pain, hunger, distress, worry—and God. Considering the gods the Greeks knew—violent, lusty, and capricious super-humans—they maybe aren’t to be condemned for seeking to cast off the deities. But the Epicureans didn’t understand that a fulfilled life can’t happen without the Creator-God who loves us and saved us. It is good to have bread and friends. It is better to have the Bread of Life (John 6:3548) and the Friend who made the ultimate sacrifice for us (John 15:13–15).

 In Paul's apologetics, he never attempted to assimilate Epicureanism or Stoic ethical thoughts or philosophy with Christian ethics or the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 2 :2  NIV. When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.


In Dave James  book "The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction", in chapter 17 "The Tenth Seal", Mr. James discusses very profoundly the mystical qualities of Mr. Cahn's mystical hermenuetics. I make the following quote from page 198 of the same chapter:

" In the July 3, 2012 interview when Brannon Howse expressed his deep concern about Cahn using mystical sources for his messages, Cahn 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.(WHAT ASSOCIATIONS? THAT PAUL BELIEVED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTERY RELIGIONS HAVE A COMMON GROUND FOR SHARING THE WORD OF GOD?)

 
That is a red herring. The two situations are completely different. Paul's approach is nothing like Cahn's. Cahn refers to the mystical rabbinical writings of the Zohar POSITIVELY, saying that because God had inspired them his church should "listen to New Age Rabbinical Sages". He presents the Zohar as something that can be studied and it's depths plumbed for hidden mysteries like he had just revealed for the first time. 
 

In stark contrast, Paul immediately tells his audience that what they have been taught by their poets about the unknown god they worship is completely wrong. He does not suggest that their sayings contain hidden mysteries that were inspired by God and that he had just discovered for the first time. 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) and 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).

Dear Viewer: Can you see more clearly NOW Mr.Cahn's and Mr. Bernal's gross errors in quoting from EXTRA-BIBLICAL SOURCES WHICH HAVE A DIRECT CORRELATION TO PAGAN MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE THAT IT CAN BE USED AS A BRIDGE BUILDER TO AFFIRM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST? 


During the Age of the Renaissance, the preeminent Christian  scholars, Philosophers and scientist of Scientific Revolution were all avid students of the Zohar/Kabbalah. They believed with great conviction that the Zohar/Kabbalah held within it the secrets of the Chrsitian faith, including the original teachings of Jesus. Are you now beginning to see a pattern of resemblance  between Mr. Cahn's motives for using the Zohar to support his sermons/apologetics and the Christian Mystics of the  Renaissance Age?

Mysticism and the search for hidden, only to be revealed to the wise kind of heresies continue in our time. The source and so called evidence for some teachings in our churches of today is still from the Zohar of ancient Jewish mystics. Kabbalah is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God and His plans for the ages. As the gnostics of early Christianity, some get to feel that they and a few others are created to unveil hidden, secret, only for a few special ones to know... so called truths. They teach that every letter, word, number, and accent in the Bible has a hidden sense, and a few are given special powers to reveal to us those ‘hidden, secretive’ things.

Jonathan Cahn has preached in pulpits referring to the Zohar, its mystical writings, speaking of Gulgatah, the cosmic skull. In a part of his sermon, which can be found on Youtube, uploaded on February 25, 2010, called ‘The Zohar Speaks’(see video at the bottom of this article), he talks of world mysteries, hidden until he proclaims them. This source, the Zohar, and those which he quotes of those ancient mystical writings are not prophets of God. He refers to the Zohar as ‘a hostile witness’ but then takes their mysticisms and claims to be the one blessed to rightly interpret their conjectures. He claims that God put in the Zohar mysteries for him to be the revealer of, and his conjectures are the first time revelations of truths. These claims are audacious in pronouncement, and lead from the simple and already revealed truths of the Holy Bible. His attempts to reconcile the Bible to the Zohar's mystical writings are laden with errors, and distracting to our true calling and message of God.( John murjahelhttps://www.armyofprophets.com/post/106-what-is-kabbalah-do-we-listen-to-jonathan-cahn-7468886 ).

A word about Rabbi Shimon Ben Yohai

Author of the Mystical book the  Zohar

 
The Roman Emperor of the 2nd century of the C.E. placed a death sentence upon the head of Rabbi Yochai for fear of his power & great influence. In order to escape the Roman Soldiers, the great kabbalist together with his son Rabbi Elazar took refuge in a cave in Pequi"in, Israel. There for 13 years they buried themselves in the ground up to their necks in order to subjugate the distractions of their bodies. It was during this time that they SUPPOSEDLY recieved instructions in the deepest mysteries of the Torah from ELIJAH THE PROPHET. These teachings would later become the foundation of THE ZOHAR.

.IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FURTHER BACKGROUND INTO THE CORRUPT DOCTRINES AND MORAL DECAY OF RABBI SIMEON BEN YOHAI, I MAKE THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION WITH REGARDS TO HIS APPROVAL & LEGALIZATION OF CHILD SEX WITH 3 YEAR OLD GIRLS AS FOLLOWS:
 
YEBAMOTH 60b: IT WAS TAUGHT: RABBI SIMEON BEN YOHAI STATED: A PROSOLYTE WHO IS UNDER THE AGE OF 3 YEARS AND ONE DAY IS PERMITTED TO MARRY A PRIEST. FOR IT IS SAID, BUT ALL THE WOMEN CHILDREN THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN MAN BY LYING WITH HIM, KEEP ALIVE FOR YOURSELVES, AND PHINEAS WHO WAS A PRIEST, SURELY WAS WITH THEM.
 
As Christians are being misled by their Judaizing preachers & popes who are increasingly consulting Jewish rabbinical sources for a "PURER" understanding of the Old Testament, they are unknowningly consulting the OCCULT.
 
Judaism is the religion of the Pharisees and the patrimony of Babylon from where the Talmudic & Kabbalistic traditions of Judaism ultimately derive. Orthodox Judaism's other sacred book, the Kabbalah( THE ZOHAR BEING IT'S PREMIER TEXT OF OCCULT KNOWLEDGE) is filled with astrological teachings, fortune telling, gematria, necromancy & DEMONOLOGY.
 
Orthodox Rabbis place curses, cast spells & imagine they have powers greater than God, derived from their study of the Sefer Yezriah(a book of Kabbalistic Magic). Christians are TRAFFICKING in Babylonian Paganism when they DEFER to the the Rabbis of Judaism  "Michael Hoffman".


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A contributing Source: A QUOTATION FROM TED W. PIKE’S BOOK “ISRAEL OUR DUTY OUR DELIMMA” FROM PAGE 103: “The Kabbalah at this time was a Babylonian brew which included such occult features as REINCARNATION, NECROMANCY, CONJURATION, ASTRAL PROJECTION, COOPERATION WITH DEMONS, ASTROLOGY, NUMEROLOGY, AND A VAST SYSTEM FOR THE USE OF CHARMS, AMULETS & INCANTATIONS”. In short, most of what was distinctive of BABYLONIAN & EGYPTIAN SORCERY WAS INCLUDED IN THE ZOHAR! Even today virtually all occult systems (especially THEOSOPHICAL ONES) and practices, including WITCHCRAFT & SATANISM, borrow heavily from the KABBALAH (AS PRESERVED IN THE ZOHAR) in their rituals and symbolism”. (Want this book? You can purchase a copy  at Amazon.com.) I also recommend this second excellent book sold  on Amazon.com: Kabbalah Secrets Christians need to know by Author DeAnne Loper.


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The only reason Christians were BLOWN AWAY by Mr. Cahn’s BOGUS MYSTERIES is because many collectively have the Biblical understanding of second graders. WHEN IT COMES  TO HERMENUETICS, THEY ARE UNABLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXEGESIS, EISEGESIS AND MYSTICAL HERMENUETICS.


PART IV

 

DEAR VIEWER: THE 3 VIDEOS

BELOW PROVIDE VISUAL EVIDENCE

WITH REGARDS TO JONATHAN CAHN'S

MYSTICAL HERMENUETICS IN SUPPORT OF HIS

 APOLOGETICS WITH FALSE INTERPREATIONS

OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

VIDEO #1


IN  VIDEO #2 BELOW BILLY PHILLIPS
A KABBALIST TEACHES 
A LECTURE CLAIMING 
JESUS WAS A KABBALIST. 
THIS VIDEO
SHEDS LIGHT AS TO HOW 
JONATHAN CAHN DEVELOPED HIS 
MESSAGE THE ZOHAR SPEAKS.


VIDEO #3
A JEWISH MAN EXPOSES THE
ZOHAR



MORE VISUAL EVIDENCE PROVING
THAT JONATHAN CAHN'S MYSTERIES
ARE AN ELABORATE FABRICATION




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