Endless Genealogies

               Jonathan Cahn's books get progessively more problematic as they come out. His first book...The Harbinger....was a legitimate endeavor....exploring a sign to America from God that it was being judged....but now a celebrity.....it seems that he felt over and over again....with every new book....that he had to come up with something new....after all....people looked to him as someone to whom God was revealing ancient mysteries.
             The latest book....The Return Of The Gods....was actually boring....and not even new....as other authors on biblical prophecy....had put forth the same theme....that pagan gods....were real individual demons....and would return some day.
             The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy...."not to teach any different doctrine...nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith." 1 Timothy 1:4
             I was in Barnes & Noble yesterday as one of the employees was clearing a place on the shelf for the stack....as probably twenty copies of Jonathan Cahn's book were on the floor waiting to be put on the shelf. Christians....especially charismatics....and MAGA evangelicals....will eat this book up.....and that is truly sad!
             There is sin condemned everywhere in the book....only it is not addressed to the reader. This isn't a book of self-examination. It is not that the author is wrong in everything that he points out....he accurately takes time in describing how money has become a god to us....so evident in how Wall Street....the financial district more accurately.....has that huge bronze bull as its symbol....but he takes that and does exactly what Paul told us not to do....getting taken up in myths and endless genealogies. Cahn also....he spent a lot of time on this....exposed how homosexuality has taken over America. Indeed....a war was waged here....and America lost.
              One of Jonathan Cahn's best-sellers was....The Paradigm....The ANCIENT BLUEPRINT that holds the MYSTERY of OUR TIMES. Here we find Bill Clinton as Ahab....and Hillary as Jezebel....and a lot of other ancient mysteries solved....the kingpin of which is that Donald Trump is Jehu.....oh a little bit of a wild bull....but sent by God to America to get rid of its gods. That speculation doesn't look too good right now.
              One statement by Cahn in his book was particularly disturbing....page 34...."As Israel was consecrated to God from its inception, so was America. America was established after the pattern of ancient Israel." This type of thinking is one of the reasons that evangelicals are moving into a dangerous form of....Christian Nationalism. Trump is a false prophet....we are not one glorious nation under God....and we are not a type of Israel. Our symbiosis is that they once served God....and then forgot Him....and so did we....and so did a lot of other nations over history.
              We do not need endless genealogies and ancient mysteries solved to tell us that America is being judged....and that it is time to get our houses in order....for the time is truly near....or that money has become our god....for God's Word instructs us in all of this....from the prophets and the Psalms....to the gospels and all the other books of the New Testament. We need to look inwardly....not outwardly. We need humility in what we do not know....more than pride in what we think that we do know. We need Christ preached....pulpits awakened....and God's Word daily emblazoned anew upon our hearts.