[Friedel]

Originally Posted by aron

I didn't even need 30 seconds with Cahn to know what I was looking at. I wouldn't even waste my time with this guy. It's not worth the effort, really; if people want to swallow that stuff there's nothing you can do to stop them. Don't waste your time. God called you for better stuff than wallowing with that.

Some weeks ago Jonathan Cahn told Sid Supernatural that America’s defeat in the Vietnam War and the September 11 attacks were both the result of divine judgment linked to the legalization of abortion in 1973’s Roe v. Wade. He has claimed before that the attacks on September 11 2001 and the financial collapse in 2008 both happened in Shemitah years [Sabbath years every seven years], and that God allowed them to take place to send a warning to the United States about legal abortion and same-sex marriage.

(Have you compared other major catastrophic events of the time against the principle of the Shemitah? Hurrican Katrina in 2005. Ooh! Falls in the middle. Bombing of the World Trade Centre in 1993. Ouch! Not a Shemitah year! The bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995? Darn! Just missed it. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Not either! Much like playing roulette, isn’t it?)

Now because of Cahn's codswallop many are waiting for 2015 (2001, 2008, 2015, 2022 …). This is superstition! It has nothing to do with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ or in His redemptive death on the Cross.

Jonathan Cahn’s most outrageous statements are making a mockery of the words of the Lord Jesus Himself:

“Therefore if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36, MKJV).

Paul was also outspoken about the freedom of the believers:

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty [freedom] with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage” (Galatians 5:1, MKJV).

Superstition inevitably leads to bondage and the loss of freedom. Why would anyone do that? Who has bewitched you? Do not again be held with the yoke of slavery.

And it came to pass that as we were proceeding to the place of prayer, a certain female slave possessing a spirit, a Pythian spirit [Pythia is better known as the Oracle of Delphi], encountered us, who was of such a nature that she provided her masters with a profitable business by acting as a seer and delivering prophecies and oracles. This woman, having followed after Paul and us, cried out saying, “These men are slaves of God, the Most High God, such as are making known to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept on doing many days. But Paul, thoroughly annoyed and indignant, was worn out, and having turned around to the spirit, said, “I charge you in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of her at once.” And he came out that same hour. (Acts 16:16–18, Wuest. My emphasis. I added explanation and punctuation.)

The reality of this situation is that this slave girl had a demonic psychic spirit. Evan Roberts had the ability to identify anybody in an audience and name the illness he or she suffered from … and heal them. So did Alexander Dowie and John G Lake around the same time. Later there was William Branham who had among his converts one Jim Jones who later relocated to Guyana. When Branham died after a serious car accident in 1965, his followers waited four months until Easter of the following year to bury him, believing he would resurrect. See the danger?

My reference to the cycles of seven years is not a veiled attempt to introduce the Shemitah into this thread. I could not sleep last night because I kept thinking of the demonic psychic slave girl of Thyatira and what had happened after Paul had cast out the psychic spirit.

Now, her masters, having seen that the hope of their gain had vanished, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged them by their heels into the market place to the civil rulers, and having brought them to the magistrates said, “These men are causing a great deal of trouble in our city, being Jews, and are promulgating customs which it is not lawful for us to be receiving nor to be doing.” (Acts 16:19–21, Wuest. My emphasis and punctuation.)

Has Jonathan Cahn not “a profitable business by acting as a seer and delivering prophecies and oracles?”