

Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 7 hours and 42 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Frontline
Audible.com Release Date: June 13, 2012
Whispersync for Voice: Ready
Language: English
ASIN: B008B89WOS
Best Sellers Rank: #52 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Literature & Fiction > Mystery & Suspense #455 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Religious & Inspirational #1005 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Fiction & Literature

While this book has some decent reflections on OT prophesy and events and God's purposes behind both, it builds it's central message on a flawed, though apparently common, understanding of America. The author makes a comparison between the nation of Israel and the USA that has no basis biblically. The author says that there have been only two nations in the history of the world that have been established with a covenant between the nation and God. He then uses this reasoning to link an OT prophesy given to Israel with current day America. While the linking of the prophesies with current events is impressive, and surely we can learn something from these prophesies that applies to us today, there are some huge errors and dangerous implications if we make such a link between Israel and America.First of all, Israel did not "choose" God. God chose Israel. So, any attempt to say that Israel and America are similar in that they both set out as nations that "chose" God falls flat. There is no evidence that God has a similar "choosing" of America. Sure, God has purposes for America in his overarching plan of redemption for the world, but America is not a "chosen" nation, whom God works with in elevated and special ways, different from other nations.Secondly, such a comparison between pre-Christ Israel and current day America fails to rightly understand God's means of engaging and reaching the world. God chose Israel as his people, that he might reveal himself to them and reach the whole world through them. God chose to enter human history through a specific people at a specific time. He didn't only come for the Israelites but He came through them. Today, post-Christ, God's primary means of reaching and engaging the world is not through any nation or state.
The Harbinger is warning America that God's judgment is imminent unless the country repents and turns to the Lord and that very soon. The need for repentance and true dedication to Christ in our society is not doubted by most Christians. America, as a whole, has rejected the Lord, ignored His ways, and rebelled against His sovereign rule. That we ultimately reap what we sow is a biblical concept that is not going to be repealed for the United States and Cahn's basic theme is well worth considering. If the book is read merely as a novel warning our country to wake up spiritually it has value, but the author makes immediately clear that "what is contained within the story is real" (p. 7). In other words Cahn believes that God pronounced exacting judgment on America and that judgment is found in Scripture.Isaiah 9:10-11 is the specific text of Scripture that frames The Harbinger. In context Isaiah 9:1-7 is one of the clearest prophecies in the Old Testament concerning the coming of the Messiah, both His first and second comings. This is followed by a warning of coming judgment on Israel because of its arrogance and rebelliousness (9:8-21). We know from subsequent revelation and from history that God's judgment did fall on Israel just as the prophecy promised.So far so good. But then Cahn determines that Isaiah 9:10-11 contains a hidden second prophecy directed not to ancient Israel but to modern America. At this point the author massages Scripture and current events in an attempt to prove that God's judgment on the United States has been hiding in these verses from the day they were given by Isaiah, but have now been unlocked by the careful investigation of Cahn.
Please don't read this book and then get all freaked out like it's saying anything important other than to remind us that God is in charge and judgment day will come. It's in the fiction section for goodness sake. You can read the real Bible to get the message that God loves us so much that He sent His only son, who died on the cross for our salvation. I gave it one star because it wouldn't let me give it less.There was so much hype about this book, I not only bought the book, but the study guide companion as well. DON'T waste your money unless you are ok with someone else manipulating and cherry picking Scripture to write a story. Remember… again… it's in the FICTION section of the book store… just like the Celestine Prophecy, The Shack and The DaVinci Code. Not real.The use of George Washington to support America was founded on Christianity really ticked me off. George Washington wasn't just a run of the mill Mason… he was a MASTER MASON! Freemasonry has roots in Kabbalah. THere are so many dots to connect to show that Jonathan Cahn wrote a really nice story about a nation that could be better, but there is nothing biblical to support it. God did not make a covenant with America…. Cahn uses the Pilgrims to connect Isaiah 9 to a covenant with America, they chose God. Well, GOD Chose Israel! How about Pearl Harbor, dropping of the bomb, the 1928 crash, WWI and WWII… lots of other stuff in our history a little worse than 9/11.OH and here's the worst part of what JC does (is that even his real name to get those initials? JC really?) HE MANIPULATES translations to fit his 'harbingers' Sometimes he uses what works best from or to English, Greek or Hebrew.
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