Message from Jonathan Cahn. August 2015
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I believe a great shaking is coming to America, and the great shaking is coming to America and to the world. I believe it will involve an economic collapse, a financial collapse, and a shaking even greater than those rounds. It doesn’t have to happen in this period, coming at the climax of the Shemitah, or Autum. It doesn’t. I’ve given two cautions throughout: First, GOD IS SOVEREIGN. He does not have to do anything according to our timetable, or our thoughts, and our faith, I don’t want you to rest in dates, but on God, in getting right with God. That’s the point, and the Shemitah is a pattern of a cycle. It can manifest more in one cycle less than another. Nothing has to happen. It could be uneventful. The point is not dates, is getting right in the will of God. At the same time, the other caution is: IT COULD HAPPEN ACCORDING TO THIS TIMING! And that’s why I gave dates in the book of “The Mystery of the Shemitah” that it’s actually there that we should be aware of that. I believe regardless of the timing, whether during or beyond, in this time period a great shaking is coming.
What has happened since the first harbinger was released, is that America has not grown closer to God, it’s grown farther. And the harbingers have continued to manifest, as America has continued on a course away from God. And what’s just recently happened is ominous. What happened a little while before recording this (video), earlier on the summer, is: America took a step and crossed the line, struck down through the Supreme Court the Biblical definition of marriage. This was a tectonic event. A seismic event, a culture-changing event with profound ramifications, not just for marriage, but for America’s future itself, for culture, society, education, law, religious freedom, persecution, apostasy, and judgment. It altered what has been for thousands of years, the most basic component of human civilization. It’s like altering the atom, and not expecting a massive repercussion. It represents the breaking of nothing less that the order of God’s Creation. On the first day that America existed as a fully formed, constituted nation, on the day of the first inauguration, the President Washington gave a prophetic warning. He said, “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the internal rules of order and right that Heaven itself has ordained.” In other words, if America ever turns away from God, and disregards the eternal rules of order and right, then the blessings of God will be removed from the land, and if anything could constitute the disregarding of the Eternal rules of order and right that Heaven has ordained, it is the striking down of the biblical historic definition of marriage. And so it represents what happened in the rejection of a nation of its Judeo-Christian foundation of the Word of God on which it was built, to become an officially post-Christian nation, or an antiChristian nation in its mainstream culture, and when, as the prophets cried out when sin is enshrined, or it’s viewed as good, then righteousness is viewed as evil, and so a warning has come of persecution, not just from the pulpit, but from the Supreme Court itself. Everyone of the four dissenting judges issued a warning to the effect that believers Christians in effect will be persecuted. A change has come, and there is an ominous message here. So the word Shemitah can mean the fall. In the Shemitah of 1973 there was a moral spiritual fall, when America decided to legalize the killing of its unborn
children, and now in this Shemitah of 2015 has come another fall. One of the principles in Scripture, is that judgment is often preceded by an act of desecration. Ezekiel was in the temple, and was shown by God that desecration of the Holy Place was being committed there, and then he was shown of the judgment that was coming. Daniel is in Babylon, and in Babylon, they had a feast party or celebration to the gods, and their king of Babylon sent for the sacred vessels of God that were taken from the Temple of Jerusalem to be brought out into the party and to be used as drinking vessels as they partied to the gods, and as they did it, a hand appeared on the wall and wrote words in Aramaic, the so called “the handwriting on the wall”. The words warned that judgment was coming and that night judgment came to Babylon. Desecration precedes judgment. What happens this summer, to take what is of God, marriage is a vessel, a sacred vessel of God, to take it and use that vessel as the Temple vessels were used against their purpose, for another purpose, and against the purposes of God and the Word of God, is an act of desecration...to drink wine from Babylon, from the sacred vessels of God, and that portends judgment. The nine harbingers that are mentioned in the book “The Harbinger”, the signs of a nation heading for judgment, have all been fulfilled, have actually continued to manifest, as America has been racing to judgment in defiance of God. And all these things are converging, while America has descended from God, with increasing acceleration, so at the same time its relationship with Israel has deteriorated to levels it has never known... and in every way we are converging. It’s like a perfect storm. Do I believe it is wise to be ready, to prepare physically? I do. Not in fear, but in wisdom. And not in selfishness, but to bless others. But having a store of essentials to get you through when systems could breakdown, I believe is a wise thing anyway; to have regardless of food, water and other essentials. If nothing happens, worst-case scenario, no worst-case scenario, you can eat your investment. We are not survivalists, we’re revivalists. We are here to bless others, and to be a light. But I believe it would be wise in this way, says, “The wise man sees calamity coming, and prepares.” Financially... I wouldn`t feel wise to be investing in the stock market, unless the Lord told you, or having things
linked to the rising of the stock market...rather. The most important preparation is to be right with God. You’re looking for safety in such times. The word for safety in Hebrew is Yeshua. Yeshua is the name of Jesus. The safest place is to be in Him. If you’re not born again, if you’re not saved, you’re not going to Heaven, and you’re not right with God. You need to be born again. Get your life into Yeshua, Jesus, that’s Salvation. And if you are, then you’re looking for what’s the safest place to go? Where should I live? Is it the mid-west? Is it the coast? Where should I be? Well, I can tell you, the safest place in America, is called THE WILL OF GOD. Make sure your life is in the will of God, and ... whatever in your life that shouldn’t be ..., get it out of your life. Don`t say “tomorrow”. Do it today. Whatever should be in your life that’s not in your life now, the time is now, today, to start ruling in it, take that first step. What happens this summer, in the highest Court of the land, represents a change, where the faith, the Biblical faith is going from a Status-Quo faith, to a radical faith. A cultural faith, to a countercultural faith. An establishment faith to a prophetic and revolutionary faith. We have to become a prophetic people. The temptation is to be intimidated, to be pressured, to go along with things, or dance around them, or to be silent, but we have to resist that. THIS IS THE TIME OF OUR TESTING. We speak of the days of Elijah. Well, these are the days of Elijah, when a civilization is turned against its very foundation in apostasy. These are the days of Ezekiel. Same thing in the days of Jeremiah, the days of the apostles, with an increasingly anti-Christian world culture. You know, we preach about Biblical times, and we preach about living there, or, -Hey, I want to live in the Book of Acts. Well, you’ve got them now. That time has arrived. These are the days of Elijah. We must become the Elijahs of the day. The most important thing you can do now, is to make the decision that no matter what, you will follow God without compromise, without reservation, without wavering, all-out on fire.
The grays are disappearing. And as the grays disappear from the darkness, the darkness removes the gray, to become totally dark. That means it’s time for the lights of God to remove the gray from their lives, and become totally bright for God. This is the time of our testing, and will show where we’re at. But this is the time that not only produces the greatest evil, but also produces the greatest good. These are the days that produce greatness, this is when the greatest testimonies come, when the greatest believers come. It will produce greatness in you, because it’s gonna force you to make the decision, to make it for one or the other. If you make it for God, you’ll grow stronger, stronger and stronger. Let this produce greatness in your life. Draw the line in the sands. People ask me, “Is there gonna be judgment or revival?” I answer that it can be both. It can be judgments or shaking, and revival at the same time. In fact, revival can come out of shaking, and it may be that in America has grown so deaf to the voice of God, that only through shaking, only through His shouting that revival will come. But we need to be ready for that. We need to be praying for revival, now, fervently. And not only praying for revival, we need to be actually living a revival. If you decide to live in revival in your own life with God, then the revival starts here and now. We need to be ready. IT’S TIME TO BE BOLD FOR GOD. If these are the days when the world grows darker, then it’s time for the people of God to grow and shine brighter. If the bad is going from bad to worse, then it’s time for the good to go from good to great. And those who do, God will especially anoint. Since the eyes of the Lord search the entire Earth looking for the one whose heart is completely His, and He will show Himself mightily, powerfully for that one. You be that one! You be that people! You be that congregation. You be that ministry. Shine for God! Be all out for God, and God will greatly and powerfully anoint you! This will be your most challenging time! But it can also be our greatest hour! Be great! RISE TO THE CALL! RISE TO THE MANTLE FOR WHICH YOU WERE PLACED IN THIS WORLD in your mother-s womb, for such a time like this! As the Lord said and says to you: ARISE AND SHINE, PEOPLE OF GOD! ARISE AND SHINE MAN OF GOD, WOMAN OF GOD, CHILD OF GOD! ARISE AND SHINE, BECAUSE YOUR LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS RISEN UPON YOU! DARKNESS COVERS THE
EARTH, DARKNESS WILL COVER THE PEOPLES, BUT THE LORD WILL SHINE, AND HIS GLORY WILL RISE UPON YOU! AND NATIONS WILL COME TO YOUR LIGHT, AND KINGS TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF YOUR SHINIG! BE STRONG AND BE OF GOOD COURAGE! And may God bless and keep you, now and always. Shalom.