Posted on 01/10/2013 1:41:01 PM PST by wesagain
"Inauguration Day or Judgment Day?"
In the early morning hours of Jan. 21, the day President Obama is scheduled to be inaugurated, the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast will be sounding a powerful warning to Washington, D.C., to – in the words of its keynote speaker – turn from its prideful ways or face the judgment of God.
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, the controversial author of “The Harbinger” – the startling New York Times bestseller that claims the U.S. is receiving the same divine warnings ancient Israel once did … and following the same path to destruction – has been chosen to deliver the keynote address of the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast, to be held from 7-11 a.m. at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.
Other distinguished guests – including Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Dr. Pat Robertson, Jan Crouch, Pat Boone, WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah, Rosemary Schindler, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and others – are also scheduled to appear at the breakfast to lead prayers for the nation.
No book in 2012 made more of a national impact than Cahn’s “The Harbinger” – remaining on the New York Times bestsellers list longer than any other title.
Part of its appeal: The shocking signs appearing in the U.S. today, even as Democratic leaders – like former Sen. Tom Daschle, one-time presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards and even President Obama himself – utter the same prideful words spoken by ancient Israel in Isaiah 9:10 that prompted the judgment of God.
“The bricks are fallen down,” Isaiah 9:10 reads, “but we will build with hewn.......
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I don’t think you can draw parallels with how God deals with Israel and how He deals with the US. God’s relationship with Israel — a covenant relationship — is unique. There is no reason to believe God will cut the US, or any other country for that matter, the same slack as He’s done Israel.
Based on prayer by the Messiah (Mat. 26:39); spoken at this time of year, at a place called Gethsemane, 2,000 years ago.
Thanks for the tip, and I shall look for this novel. Sometimes fiction has more serious and challenging themes than the ‘non fiction’ press.
This book is mostly NOT fiction.
God allowed it — just as he allowed the walls of Jerusalem to be breached and the Israelites conquered.
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