Now, flip over, if you would, to Isaiah 9, verse 10, the bricks are fallen down, but
we will build with hewn stones.
The sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Now, you know, while I'm in this passage, I have to bring up this best-selling book,
The Harbinger, by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.
Who's heard of this book before?
Put up your hand.
Yeah, hands all over the building.
And I get asked about this all the time.
What do you think about The Harbinger?
What do you think about this guy, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn?
And this guy was exalted lately in the media and all over Facebook, listen to this guy's
great speech where he's preaching about Jesus and this and that, and, you know, he's doing
it in Washington, D.C. in the belly of the beast, and, you know, they'll send you some
video of this guy preaching at the presidential prayer breakfast and tell you, wow, he's really
ripping some face at that presidential prayer breakfast.
Let me explain some to you.
Anybody who's invited to the presidential prayer breakfast is a false prophet.
If he was really saying something that the powers that be didn't want to be said, he
wouldn't even be invited.
He wouldn't even be there.
Now, let me just prove to you in five seconds that Jonathan Cahn is a lying false teacher.
Okay?
Ready to start the clock?
Give me five seconds.
Ready?
Okay.
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, done, finished.
Because Jesus Christ clearly said in Matthew 23, be not ye called Rabbi.
That's what Jesus said in Matthew 23.
Listen, anybody who calls themselves Rabbi is not following Jesus, period, end of story,
case closed, done.
Because you can't be following Jesus and say, oh, yeah, I'm a preacher and a believer in
the Lord Jesus Christ and say, hi, my name's Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.
Doesn't work that way, friend, because Jesus commanded be not ye called Rabbi.
He said, call no man father.
And he said, be not ye called Rabbi, be not ye called masters.
Okay?
Now, why would anyone want to call themselves Rabbi?
Hmm.
I think it starts with a P. What's that word that starts with a P again?
Pride.
That's what it is.
Yeah, that's why someone would want to call themselves Rabbi.
But they say, oh, but man, this guy's teaching all this great stuff.
He's got this book, The Harbinger, and it's just amazing.
Let me just debunk for you this book, The Harbinger.
Basically this Harbinger book, it talks about all these mystical mysteries and signs where
God prophesied this stuff in Isaiah chapter 9 and it's being fulfilled in America to the
T and this ancient mystery unlocks the keys to America's judgment and America's future.
Now, I can see why people would fall for it because he does make what seems to be a convincing
case for one aspect of this.
He has these nine harbingers that he associates with 9-11.
Okay?
Now, first of all, in order to believe in this book, The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn,
you'd have to actually believe the official version on 9-11.
Okay?
So, strike one, you're called Rabbi.
Strike two, you're telling us that God revealed all this stuff to you, but somehow God forgot
to reveal to you that 9-11 was an inside job, okay?
You know?
But here's the thing about that, okay?
He has these nine harbingers that he lists, right?
And basically he's saying, there's no way these things could be coincidences.
They all line up perfectly with Isaiah chapter 9 verse 10 and this is God sending us this
signal and 9-11 was this judgment from God and, you know, we've got to change our ways
X, Y, and Z.
So, here's the thing.
If you look at these harbingers, only one of them is even interesting because the rest
of them are just clearly coincidences, he's just kind of twisting things and exaggerating
things.
For example, he says, and if you would look at Isaiah chapter 9 verse 10, the bricks are
falling down but we'll build them with hewn stones.
The sycamores are cut down but we'll change them into cedars.
He'll take that verse where it says, the sycamores are cut down but we'll change them into cedars
and he makes this big deal about how there was this tree near ground zero at New York
and it was a sycamore tree and when the buildings came down and crashed and debris is flying
everywhere, it destroyed this sycamore tree and guess what they replaced it with?
But the amazing thing, the uncanny thing, the very strange thing but the precise thing
is that on 9-11, strange thing happens.
As the last tower is falling, it sends wreckage, beams into the air and the objects go across
and hit an object that is a tree.
The tree crashes, what kind of tree is it?
It was a sycamore.
Now if they would have replaced it with a cedar tree, then that might actually make
you think, oh that's kind of interesting, right?
Except it's not, they didn't replace it with a cedar tree.
They replaced it with like a coniferous evergreen type tree but this is what he said, oh but
if you go back to the Hebrew, the Hebrew word for cedar is kind of sort of similar in the
same family of that type of tree.
The people of Israel clear away the fallen sycamores, they go to the, to plant a cedar
in the place, in the exact place where the sycamore has stood.
Now what tree is it?
Now when you read in English, you read cedar but behind that is a Hebrew word, the Hebrew
word is eres or the eres tree.
Eres can mean cedar but it specifically means more than cedar.
But it's so funny listening to him talk about it because he says, you know, I mean this
is a city, it's concrete everywhere, it's buildings everywhere, what are the chances
that this tree is going to be there?
Okay, listen, have you ever been to a city with no trees in it?
Because every city in America, every city in the world is filled with trees.
Hello, you know what, in fact I got the proof.
I busted out a window in the church van by accident, parking in downtown Phoenix because
a tree branch went through the window in downtown, now what was a tree doing in downtown
Phoenix?
Can somebody explain that to me?
How about this, because we live in the city right now, look out the window, we don't exactly
live in a jungle or rainforest, I mean we're in the city, do you see all those trees?
Because guess what, every street, every city, every high rise area, I mean go to Phoenix
and it's just rows of trees up and down every street, true or false?
And if we went to New York, guess what we're going to see, trees!
So that's not really that weird, especially since it's not even replaced with the same
tree, that's two of his nine harbingers, because he splits it into two.
One harbinger is that a sycamore tree got knocked down, I wonder how many other trees
got knocked down when three buildings collapse and send debris flying everywhere.
I'm sure many trees were destroyed.
And then he's like, well it's not even the same kind of sycamore, but you know, close
enough.
So a tree got knocked down and you're not going to believe this, they planted a new
one.
Case closed.
Okay, so that's two, but all the harbingers are like that, they're just dumb coincidences,
hey they took a block from the old building and used it in the new one, oh shock!
But here's the one that kind of gets everybody's attention as just wow, this is so eerie, there's
no way it could be a coincidence.
He points out the fact that the Senate Majority Leader at the time, Tom Daschle, gets up and
makes a speech the next day after 9-11, right?
He gets up and makes a speech and he says, you know, at times like this, the words of
Isaiah speak to us when it says, and then he basically quotes Isaiah 9-10, the bricks
are falling down, but we'll build with hewn stones, the sycamores are cut down, but we'll
change them in its years.
So basically he takes this passage about people defying God and he uses it in his speech as
like yeah, this is going to comfort us right now.
Now that is creepy and weird, isn't it?
Why would a politician get up and take a verse about defying God and say, you know what,
we're going to take comfort in this right now and then just like publicly defy God.
Okay, well all that proves is that our leaders don't know the Bible or are just openly defying
God.
Do any of those things really surprise you?
You don't really have to be a clairvoyant or a cabalist or into Jewish mysticism to
figure that out, okay?
But he basically used this defiant speech and then three years later, another politician,
Jonathan Edwards, fellow Democrat, quoted the same thing, you know, probably just getting
it from the other guy who quoted it.
So here's what this Jonathan Cahn says, this rabbi, quote unquote, he says, well, that's
just a really weird coincidence because of all the 31,000 verses in the Bible.
Why would he pick this verse?
It makes absolutely no sense to pick this verse that's just total defiance of God and
has nothing to do with the situation.
So therefore everything in my 300 and some page book is true.
Okay, but here's the thing.
Actually it makes perfect sense why Jonathan Edwards and Tom Daschle would have chosen
this misguided scripture that has nothing to do with, you know, God just made him do
it to fulfill this harbinger, you know?
Well, here's the one year Bible.
Who has one of these?
Do you have one of these or you've seen these?
First of all, it says on the back that millions of people have benefited from this thing.
So it's a hot selling item.
I mean, I've seen this at tons of bookstores.
We have like five of these at our house.
We like this in our family, a lot of our kids and stuff.
They use this as their Bible reading, okay?
So this is a real popular book that millions of copies have been sold.
Well, if you turn to September 11th in the one year Bible and there are other Bible reading
plans that would follow this same plan.
If you go to September 11th in the one year Bible, guess what passage it has you read
that day?
Isaiah chapter nine verse 10.
So it's like, oh, this is so crazy of a coincidence.
I mean, of all the passages in the Bible, why would you pick Isaiah nine?
Are you nuts?
Well, maybe here's why.
Because it was in the Bible reading for that day of millions of people who own this book.
So obviously one of these people who wasn't very smart or several of these people who
were very smart were reading their Bible on September 11th.
Or maybe they don't even read their Bible that much, but they're scared, you know, because
they don't know what's going to happen.
So they grabbed the one year Bible off the shelf and they're like, okay, let's read today's
portion.
And in millions of people's Bible right next to September 11th, it has this verse.
So maybe one of them sent it to Tom Daschle and said, hey, here's a great, I was just
reading this today.
Here's a great verse.
Or send it to his staff or speech writers or whatever.
People email these people all the time.
So it's not just this amazing, insane, supernatural coincidence that Tom Daschle just happened
to be led by God to read this obscure verse.
No, it was the Bible reading for that day for millions of people who own this book.
So it's really not, does anybody not understand what I just said?
Because I want to make sure everybody understands what I just said.
And basically that's the only thing that's compelling at all of these harbingers.
The rest are just silly coincidences or he has to go back to the Hebrew and twist words
and make it say things that aren't even really there.
And this book is this guy's claim to fame that he solved this amazing mystery of the
harbingers.
And then he's got all these other books that he's coming out with now.
And listen, this guy is teaching these heresy and lies of the Hebrew roots movement.
This Judaizing of Christianity and he puts a blanket over his head and you know, hakflem
and all this stuff where they, you know what I mean?
That weird shawl they put over their head and it's going to give me power and you know,
you feel the, feel the spirit and everything.
He teaches all this Jewish stuff, Jewish fables and this messianic, and listen, when people
talk about messianic Judaism, it's 1% messianic, 99% Judaism.
It's real heavy on Judaism.
You know, we don't need messianic Judaism.
You know what we need?
Christianity.
You know what we need?
Jesus.
The New Testament, the gospel.
But this Zionist, this rabid Zionist, Jonathan Cahn, with his pro-Jewish, pro-Israel, pro-Judaism,
Judeo-Christian teaching, right?
He comes out with one cute thing and then all of a sudden everybody wants to listen
to this guy.
Why do they want to listen to him?
Well, because he found this amazing coincidence that Tom Daschle quoted a verse that didn't
make any sense.
Look, anybody who listened to Tom Daschle and would have looked that up in their Bible
would have said, hey, that verse that he read makes no sense to read because it's a verse
about people defying God.
But really, is that weird that some Democrat senator, majority leader didn't know the Bible
real well and quoted an irrelevant verse?
I mean, that reminds me of when Bill Clinton said, hey, you know, my favorite verse is
John 16 three.
You know what I mean?
Obviously, we all know he meant John three sixteen, but he's so biblically illiterate
that he said, hey, it's John sixteen three is my favorite verse.
You know what?
What difference is that from Tom Daschle just quoting somebody?
Somebody sent him because they were reading it in their one year Bible, OK?
And then they said, oh, yeah, this is a great, relevant verse.
He's like, OK, doesn't read the context.
He just reads that verse by itself, quotes it in a speech.
So now we're going to go on a tour of New York with Rabbi Jonathan Kahn and his modern
day prophets.
And they're having all these dreams and visions where George Washington and King Solomon are
like the same guy and everything, you know, they're like parallels and, you know, just
making up all this weird stuff based on Tom Daschle quoting a stupid verse that came from
the one year Bible for that day.
Somebody sent it to him or whatever.
Look, the book is a fraud.
The guy is a fraud.
The guy is a gimmick.
And I'm sorry, I just don't get that excited that some pastor goes to a presidential prayer
breakfast and says, hey, you need to be saved through Jesus.
Yeah, we need Jesus.
You know what?
There are all kinds of phony lying preachers who will get up and say, hey, we need Jesus.
Hey, Jesus saves.
Benny Hinn will tell you that.
Kenneth Copeland will tell you that.
I mean, look, people will say all kinds.
Not everybody who says Lord, Lord is going to enter the kingdom of heaven, people.
So don't be deceived by this guy.
This guy is teaching a bunch of Jewish fables.
He's a Judaizer.
You say, well, I don't know if you're right, Pastor Anderson.
No, you don't know if Jesus is right.
When Jesus said, be not ye called Rabbi.
Done.
See, I just wasted the last five minutes of my time because I could have just finished
there.
We could have just said, be not ye called Rabbi.
He calls himself Rabbi.
Therefore he's a liar when he says, oh, I'm following Christ.
He's my final authority.
No, he's not.
You are saying Rabbi because you're pandering to a wicked religion called Judaism.
And by the way, don't ever come at me with this thing of Jesus was a Rabbi.
Jesus was a Rabbi.
No, Jesus is the Rabbi.
He's the only Rabbi.
And he said, don't you be called Rabbi, for one is your master, Christ.
There's one Rabbi, it's Jesus.
But I wouldn't even use the word Rabbi today to talk about Jesus because the word Rabbi
has come to mean something different now to where it's only associated with the Pharisees.
The Pharisees are the only people who call themselves Rabbi anymore.
So you know, we should not take on that Pharisee title.
But when you're trying to work toward the Antichrist goal of merging Judaism and Christianity,
it's perfect for you.