Tuesday, August 10, 2021

We In Essence Added To The Bible....And Helped Put Donald Trump In Office....What Might Be Next?

               Jonathan Cahn is a Messianic Rabbi and author of numerous best-selling Christian books....of which I have read all but one. If an evangelical not familiar with him....were to listen to him lecture today....(unfortunately this is my belief).....they would likely be enthralled by the extraordinary compelling facts and figures....and buy into the overall message that he is putting forth.
             That message....or rather those messages....are built on what he calls....templates....where God's Word describes some part of Jewish Old Testament history....often in minute detail....and then this that we once read on a historical basis....albeit often with much for us to glean as to God's warnings to us today....becomes a precise template with which to interpret the Bible. 
            Many of you are more than familiar with Jonathan Cahn's books....so you know that according to one of these templates....Bill Clinton was Ahab....and Hillary was Jezebel....and Trump is Jehu.....(and there are others today where facts and figures tie together an Old Testament person to a modern day political figure.
            The problem is that God does not reveal truths to us in this way. God's Word....including prophesy....is for all of us....where he will reveal what He wants to reveal....when He wants to reveal it....by the normal means of reading....or preaching....with the Holy Spirit opening our eyes....not giving revelations to one man....primarily for as many followers as he can gain to himself. To paraphrase William Tyndale....'a boy driving a plough may interpret prophetic scripture better than the most famous of prophesy teachers.'
            Folks....I have been reading Jonathan Cahn's books since his 2011's The HARBINGER..the ANCIENT MYSTERY that holds the SECRET of AMERICA'S FUTURE....and he is getting increasingly and wildly more speculative....and whereas one result was in 2015 where he addressed members of Congress....in the Capitol....with a message of warning....the same thing that Billy Graham had done....not in person (possibly) but because of his worldwide fame....but Cahn has since moved beyond warnings and proven a major source of entry for Donald Trump....a genuine biblical false prophet....into evangelicalism!
            I reread last night all of the fifty or so times in God's Word that Jehu's name was mentioned....along with the corresponding historical text....and as I read I found myself quite a few times thinking.....'why didn't the author mention this'....the answer being that it does not fit the narrative....or....'that is speculative-not obvious.' In effect....one would never get these revelations unless another put it in their mind.
            I am not posting this to warn of Jonathan Cahn....or even of his backdoor bolstering of Trump within the evangelical community....(for without men like Cahn and Robert Jeffress and even Franklin Graham....Donald Trump would long ago have been rejected in evangelicalism....and therefore America....we may never have had impeachments or an insurrection or even open warfare on scientists trying to keep a pandemic in check....indeed Clinton may have won....proved a disaster....and we might have had a competent president today)....but to ask readers to look ahead....for if this nonsense....and that is what it is....if this almost gnostic methodology becomes accepted as a legitimate....then what might come next....when we no longer read the bible and let the Holy Spirit lead us....but read the books.....or listen to the lectures....and let the special teachers lead us?