This Is Not Biblical Theology.....And The Reader Should Keep That At The Front Of The Mind

                I just finished Jonathan Cahn's latest bestseller....The Dragon's Prophecy. It's not a best-seller yet for it was only released eleven hours ago....Eastern time.....but all of his books go like hotcakes....and this one will also.
              What the author does in this latest book....clearing up 'ancient mysteries' as he often describes it....is start with the history of the 'Palestinians' as they are called.....and tie them in to Israel's enemy....the Philistines. Indeed the word Palestine comes from the root of Philistine....so Palestinian essently means Philistine. None of this is new but it is worth having in our memory bank.
              Just about the entire book is concentrating on the Dragon's....Revelation's Dragon....the Dragon's hatred for and attempts to destroy Israel and the children of Israel.
              Typical of all of Jonathan Cahn's best sellers.....I think this will be number nine....he points to a date or a number of days or a name or an event from the Old Testament....and finds the same date.....on the Hebrew calendar....or number of days or name or similar event in our time. After two or three-hundred pages of these connections the reader is generally sold on the concept of the book. 
              I've reviewed a number of his books in this manner....pointing out how amazing coincidences.....(I'm not declaring them coincidences....just using the word to help with the description)....can be the foundation for major prophetic speculation....that does not remain as speculation in the reader's mind.....but rather becomes God's truth. This is the problem that I usually bring up in my reviews....and in this book it is the same-old...same-old....so I want to address The Dragon's Prophecy in a different way.
             I think that the name....Jesus.....is mentioned three times.....maybe four.....at the end of the book....essentially once the book's message is complete. It's kind of like an addendum. Everything is the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. The Messiah is everywhere in the book....but no gospel. There may be a mention of it somewhere but when you read the book....it appears as only....God's purpose with Israel. 
             Now I have over 3300 posts over the past almost sixteen years....and I post on Israel a lot.....and this is important. You would only have to go back a few posts to see how I feel about Israel and the salvation of Jewish people....but if I wrote books on my own Reformed Faith in like manner....where everything is about the Reformation and the Puritans but little to nothing on what the Reformation or the Puritans point to....on Whom they existed for....then I would have some serious self-examination to do!
             I'm not saying that a Christian book on history cannot be written without the gospel presented.....for they can....but here we have a somewhat variation to the gospel presented....or at least an equivalent gospel....which of course is a major problem.....and if the Christian who reads this book cannot distinguish prophetic speculation from....mornings and evenings and praises and clinging to in faith....our Lord and Savior and coming King....Jesus Christ....and thankfulness for His mercy....and our redemption....and our being born a second time....regenerated.....and His living Word given to us for instruction every day of our lives....then the possibility exists....to put it mildly....to place our hope in the construction of God's Word....more than in what God's Word speaks to us!
               When the believer reads God's Word....there is power there....the power from the Holy Spirit....applying truth to our heart and mind....but in a book such as this.....if there is a power....it is a natural power....no more than reading a Tony Robbins book.
                I read this book in an afternoon and evening....all Jonathan Cahn's books are easy reads....but I read it....and I read all of them....almost as research papers....something to consider....with a few things to keep in the back of the mind....and not as Biblical Theology....and I would recommend that you....if you feel compelled to read the book....make a concerted effort to do the same.