Shemitah author answers critics: ‘Judgment is coming’ – wnd.com

America’s ticket for divine judgment may have already been signed and sent off to the printer, but there’s still time for God to cancel the order, according to a leading Bible teacher and author.

That time could be running short, though, says Jonathan Cahn, a messianic rabbi and author of the New York Times-best seller “The Harbinger” and the newly released sequel “The Mystery of the Shemitah.”mystery_shemitah

In the absence of repentance and mass revival, Cahn sees a continuation of catastrophic “shakings” that will gradually break America down, knocking it off its perch as world leader.

America’s current downward spiral started in 1973 with the Arab oil embargo, economic turmoil, the first lost war and the legalization of abortion, Cahn said in an interview with conservative radio host and theologian Michael Brown.

“It is a wake-up call, and (Cahn’s book) has people thinking about these very issues,” Brown said on his nationally syndicated show, “The Line of Fire.”

Brown asked Cahn what he thought about the skeptics, including many Christians, who have scoffed at the book’s premise that God still sends judgment against modern-day nations.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn

“I just saw somebody on Christian television say that very thing. I mean it’s almost like temporary deism,” Cahn said, referring to the notion by some theologians that national judgments come only at the end of the age when Christ returns.

“First of all the Bible says that He will judge the nations, but also it gives dynamics and patterns that He does judge the nations. Righteousness is exulted and sin is a reproach to any nation, not just at the end. In the book of Acts, it says ‘here’s grace’ and yet God judges in the church. He judges Ananias and Sapphira. It says ‘judgment begins with the house of God.’

“So how could there be no dynamic of judgment or judgment against sin if judgment begins with the house of God? Clearly it’s the same God yesterday, today and forever. Sin is judged,” he continued. “It can take a good while as it did in the Hebrew Scriptures, but ultimately it does come and all those principles of the Bible come true. God does judge unrighteousness, God does judge nations. They rise and fall, according to his will.”