Online
Dictionaries define it as follows:
An indication:
An augury,
forerunner, foretoken, herald, messenger, omen, portent, precursor, sign,
signal;
a
harbinger is an indication of the
approach of something or someone; a messenger
is a person who carries a communications or performs an
errand; an omen is a sign of something
about to
happen
“The
Harbinger” is also the title of a book by Jonathan Cahn, a noted Bible scholar
and Messianic Jew.
Not a dry
recitation of ancient history, this book is a page turner, written in the style
of a suspense “parable” joining the ancient past with our modern world,
illustrating the parallels between events in the middle east during the 7th
century BC, and 21st century America. EVERYTHING is scrupulously
documented with a list of searchable sources for each footnote.
What’s it
about? Well, that’s complicated. It’s a revelation of a Biblical prophecy—an instance
of history repeating itself—on 9/11/2001. What was repeated was an event
indicating God’s extreme displeasure with a nation that had turned it’s back on
Him. The Old Testament notes that the first harbinger—or warning-- was in 732 BC, when God removed his
protection from the people of Israel, allowing the Assyrians to attack them. Their nation, as ours was on 9/11, suffered
massive death and destruction leaving both nations traumatized. The
people of Israel, as the people of the US thought they were so well protected
by their strength and ingenuity, that they’d forgotten that no nation can be
safe without God.
Did the
people of Israel learn their lesson? Did we? Apparently not. Neither
they, as a nation, nor we, as a nation
turned back to God. This one can easily
see by merely turning on the television or picking up a newspaper anywhere in
the US.
Who were the
Assyrians? An ancient people whose capitol city was Nineveh in a country known
today as Iraq. The Assyrians weren’t your garden-variety
burning-looting-pillaging tribe of Central Asia. Nope--they had a specialty
that separated them from other warrior tribes of the day. Their specialty was terror. They understood the importance of
doing more than simply killing their enemies. They knew they had to make an impression.
The people
of Israel responded to the attack with a determination borne of hubris. They
defiantly promised to respond in exactly the same way as the US did in the aftermath
of 9/11. The same exact words, the same exact actions.
Things just
got worse. For the people of Israel , as well as the people of the US. In
exactly the same way.
Eventually,
the people of Israel were forced out of the land God had given to them. Is this
to be our fate, as well?
You can’t
afford NOT to read this spellbinding book!
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