The release date was supposed to be September 1....next Tuesday. I'm usually up on these dates....and heading off to Barnes & Noble on those Tuesdays with the intent of buying this book or that book....so it surprised me to see Jonathan Cahn's....The Harbinger II....The Return....on the shelf this morning.....two copies anyway.....which is also highly unusual for such a much ballyhooed book. Anyway I bought it....and just finished it....as his books are very easy to read....written more as a novel than non-fiction.
A regular reader to my posts.....there are a few....after reading The Harbinger II....might think that Rabbi/Messianic Pastor Cahn and I are on the same page as to judgment on America....and our descriptions would indeed be very similar....but there are some significant differences.I think that I've read every one of his books.....most on the release date. Here is one problem with the books as I see it. Jonathan Cahn published 281 pages....to say what any discerning Christian should already know....America has walked away from God....God has continuously warned of this....and judgment is coming....but with this difference....for as with us....the words of Scripture are what informed us of this....but in The Harbinger II it is research facts.
To read Jonathan books.....particularly his Harbinger books.....you would think that America's condition and God's warnings are something new....but it gets more problematic....as when we read Scripture....and are 'convicted'....we are 'convicted' from Scripture.....but when we read Johnathan Cahn's book we are more 'convinced' than 'convicted.' It seems to always be the bad liberals and their abortion that God is mad at....not us....and we want more to know what date Henry Hudson discovered what was to be New York....than God's letters to the churches....us....in Revelation two and three.
In The Harbinger II....as in The Harbinger (I).....there are a couple of dozen dates when something very significant had happened....significant in Rabbi Cahn's historical narrative anyway....from anywhere in history....so obviously uncoincidental that they just must be of God....and from this....many of the readers are convinced that America is headed to judgment....but nothing really on how we ourselves brought on this judgment.....and therefore the 'convinced' rather than 'convicted.'
Research facts aside.... there is a specific message from the author....we have very little time to repent as a nation. First of all....Christians are the ones who will primarily be reading this book. Just as you would have a hard time finding an evangelical who read Mary Trump's book....you would have an equally difficult time finding a Progressive who has read....say Mark Levin's book on the media.
This same warning of judgment that Jonathan Cahn writes of has been disseminated for a half century by ministers such as Billy Graham. Rabbi Cahn has given his continuing message of dates since at least 2011's The Harbinger. In another political analogy....Sean Hannity and others are using the very same....'this is the most important election ever'....for about the tenth straight election period!
The author does see the problem....and the coming judgment. He sees the history of the problem....but missed the history of the warnings. He is very specific when it comes to Ronald Reagan....of which I agree....and with Barack Obama....but somehow didn't feel like mentioning Donald Trump. He therefore calls America to repent....and his coming march in September is specifically related to the election 40 days later.....(he's the number person)....but he chose to let the reader determine this on their own.....this after a lot of writing extensively on abortion and other Supreme Court issues.
Jonathan Cahn is getting a little too close to making it seem as if he is another Apostle John.....given mysteries on Patmos. We have....and thank God for His mercies and blessing in this....and for giving us His Holy Spirit....we have His Word to read.....every day of our lives.....for eighty years or more if God would give such length of days....with every day of reading a blessing....and discernment offered if we walk in His ways....but here it's as if we need more than the Bible....these dates that can be no coincidence. And if we need these mysterious teachings....then we will surely look for other mysterious teachings....which in fact we have been doing for longer that I have been a believer.
The author applies an extreme emphasis on the Jewish calendar of feasts....as they might relate to future events....and I always look closer during these times also. So....we are heading into the high holy days of Judaism shortly....and the world just so happens to be falling apart right now. Whatever if any events may happen this coming season....they would not legitimate speculative and almost gnostic writings....and that is a concern that I have for books like this....that all they need is a timely current event to raise the authors up as prophets.
