Preface: Rain water is so much better for house plants than tap water. Whenever we are to get a heavy rain I collect all the plastic water trays and put them on the patio....then I pour the rain water into the plant watering cans to use later. The Holy Spirit is the rain water to the heart and mind. Books such as I post on below are tap water. Yes God can use them while tilling the soil but it itself can cause nothing to grow.
I've read all of Jonathan Cahn's books....most of them hot off the press....and his latest as of a few days ago was Amazon's number 1 book of all categories! So Christians are obviously eating it up. Every book spirals downward as he is reaching for some kind of significance in these great 'mysteries' that he is revealing....but hey....number one in the world! It must be good right?
I've posted on most of the books as they came out and really it is getting old. The essence of the latest....The Dragon's Prophecy....is that Satan....or the dragon....copies everything that God does only in his own image....and the dragon brings back....resurrects so to speak....events from the past....in this latest case....the sea peoples are back....the Philistines are back in the form of the Palestinians.
The problems begin in these books in that there is very little gospel....and as I mentioned in a post on the latest book....the concept of the Messiah overshadows who the Messiah is....and what He has done for us on Calvary....and why we were and are in need of a Savior. Oh these things are mentioned here and there but only as a prelude what what is really important....that being these revealed mysteries. I saw the same thing while looking of Jonathan Cahn's ministry website. In effect....it is majoring in the minors.
Another problem is that Jonathan Cahn....not only missed the false prophet in Donald Trump....he turned Trump into God's man to bring America back to God. That is a pretty big mistake. He is conflicted in that he warns of God's judgment on America....but in effect denies that judgment if we but turn back a few years....a time period when Billy Graham and many others were warning us of God's judgment! Folks....I can attest first hand to this....you do not need any of these ancient mysteries to know that Jesus is near. The Word of God is more than sufficient in this area and in all areas!
So everyone is saying...'Wow....these mysteries are awesome'....instead of saying...."Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory." We are in need of mortification....instead we are getting excitement. We are in need of preaching the holiness of God...that will really make us say....Wow!
Here is the ultimate question....when it becomes undeniable that Jesus....along with His holy angels....are at the very door....when even Reformed theologians and pastors cannot avoid it anymore....and when people like myself who already know that the Day of the LORD is near.....how are we going to react? As for myself....I am all talk right now....will that talk translate into faith? With all these folks so excited about dragons and harbingers and paradigms....will their excitement turn to a solemnity and mortification? Will reformed pastors and theologians....semper reformanda....'always reforming'....as they proclaim so often....will they show the ability to actually reform if necessary?
We are all in need....in one way or another....of humility and pleading for God to increase our faith. Many will leave Christ as did the disciples when Jesus was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. Will we leave also as persecution and delusion and false miracles and false wonders abound? Those who are in Christ will not leave. May that be our hope....for it is true....and a promise that cannot be broken!
Note: The question that I would ask of Christian patriots.....or Christian nationalists as they are referred to so much today is....where is it exactly that you want to go back to? The 1980s and Reagan? Billy Graham wrote his book Storm Warning and Approaching Hoofbeats back then. If that is the case....and that is where you want to go back to....God was warning us at that time that He was going to judge us. Is it 1776 that you want to go back to....or 1789 and the constitution? Even George Washington shortly after that warned that Christian belief was disappearing! R. C. Sproul wrote his The Holiness Of God in the mid-80s....which evolved into a teaching series that you can listen to....I believe simply by Googling....The Holiness Of God....Ligonier ministries YouTube....or going to ligonier.org to order materials like this. Let's go there folks....all of us....either for the first time or as a refresher on just who we are before the God of Glory.
