This is Jonathan Cahn. Where are we now? What lies ahead? How can you be prepared?
And what are we called to do? A lot of believers are confused, discouraged, angry, and fearful.
They don't know what happened or where we are now or what's ahead. What are we supposed to
be doing? I want to answer that now. We've had four years of a conservative administration.
We've had a president whose policies were the most pro-life in history. He stood against the killing
of the unborn. He stood for religious liberty, for Christian education, for the right of parents over
their children's future. He appointed judges and Supreme Court justices who would be more likely
to stand for Biblical and traditional values. He opened the door for Christian ministers and
leaders to give him counsel. He stood strongly for the nation of Israel. By policy the most
pro-Israel president in history. He became the first world leader since ancient times
to recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel. And he along with the Republicans in Congress
sought to hold back a flood of anti-Biblical legislation and movements from overtaking
America. We can and we should be grateful for all that. But now, where are we? And what do we do?
There are those that say believers should have nothing to do with government
or politics. There are those on the other hand who act as if the political realm is
our ultimate realm and our ultimate fight, even if it means calling for an American civil war.
Both are wrong. Messiah said you are the light of the world.
The light has to shine. It has to affect, has to impact the world around it. The light of God,
as the light of God we are to address, touch, affect, and impact every realm.
And that includes both the cultural and political realms. So yes we should do everything we can to
shine the light of God on the political realm. But there's a balance. Messiah also said that we
are in the world but we are not of the world. And he said my Kingdom is not of this world.
So we have to equally hold true to the fact that this world is neither our home nor our kingdom.
We are to touch and minister to it but remember that we are not of it. We are of a different and
higher kingdom, a higher cause, a higher fight, a higher purpose, a higher mission, a higher end,
and a higher king. Our first cause is to love, serve, and glorify God, to love others, and to
spread the Gospel of Salvation and bring in as many as we can into the Kingdom of God. Everything
we do has to serve that end. And if something we're doing, or any cause goes off,
or if we forget our purpose, our fight and our witness, then we have to step back and regain it
and come back to our first love. We should support whatever will support the ends of God, but no
earthly agenda or kingdom or government or person is that end. We're to pray for and fight for God's
purposes. But after all is said and done we have to remember that His ways are higher than ours and
no matter who it is that sits in the White House in our Nation's Capital the most important thing
is who it is who sits on the Throne of Heaven. And we know who that is and He remains seated
on that Throne. For those who read my book The Paradigm, it speaks of Donald Trump as a Jehu.
Jehu was a wild impulsive unlikely man, not a politician but a fighter. But he was raised
by God despite himself to be used to oppose an ungodly administration, an anti-God government,
a former first lady and an agenda that meant the killing of the unborn of that nation.
Jehu allied himself with the religious conservatives of the land and he came to
the capital city with the agenda of draining the swamp. Jehu was raised up and used of God.
He held back the tidal wave of apostasy that was threatening his nation. He gave a reprieve,
a window for the people of God to the will of God. He extended the nation's time before judgment.
But if you read The Paradigm you'll also see that Jehu was not the answer.
And there are warnings given. He was used in what could have been the answer. His reign was
a reprieve, a window of time in which revival could have come. But as far as we know revival
never came. And after Jehu the nation continued in its course of apostasy from God until it came
head-to-head with the judgment that was waiting. And that is another mystery that I wrote of in
The Harbinger and The Harbinger 2. The mystery of judgment. So too in these past four years
with all the victories in the political realm we have not seen a parallel victory in the realm
of revival of America as a nation. It hasn't moved closer to God as a nation. It's moved farther away
spiritually, culturally, socially, morally. America has continued in its race to judgment.
You see the window is not the answer but it's the means to an answer. The window is given
for revival. Without revival, without returning to God America is lost. And now the political realm
threatens to coalesce, converge with those spiritual, cultural, social, and moral forces
that are seeking to seal America's fall from God. And what stands in the way? Only these things.
The prayers of God's people, the hand of our God, and a vote, an election in the State of Georgia.
If you're watching this after that vote it doesn't matter because what I have to say to you regarding
the days ahead will still be relevant. But if you're watching this in the weeks before,
then pray for the future of America's government. And pray for those two Senate races because
they're the only thing in the political realm that can or will hold back the radical agenda I just
spoke to you about. It's all hanging on two Senate votes in Georgia. If the Republicans lose these
two seats they'll lose the Senate and thus the entire government. And the political floodgates
will be opened. So if you're watching this before that vote I'm urging you to pray as never before.
I spoke of the window, well this is the remaining window pane of that window.
Pray as fervently for the will and hand of God. Secondly, if you're watching this before that
vote and you live in the State of Georgia then pray as never before and vote no matter what.
Vote. And no matter when you're watching this and no matter what happens in Georgia and America,
what do we do now? In The Harbinger I wrote of the template, the Biblical template of national
judgment. And it begins with an initial strike on the land, then a span of years,
a window of time for the nation to come back, to God, or accelerate its fall away from God, harden
itself and its apostasy and progress to judgment. It was that template that led me for years to
watch and mark the year 2020 as the year of potential great shakings. And that led me
to set the Harbinger 2, to write it and set it to come out in the same year
2020. That's why. We're there. So what lies ahead? We'll either see continued shakings and
judgment and America's decline and ultimate fall or the sealing of America's apostasy
and the coming of persecution. And it can be that both of these take place at the same time.
What is the only good scenario for America? There's only one. Revival.
Repentance, return, and revival. And revival can only begin with that one thing,
repentance. And the only one who can lead in revival is you, and me, the people of God.
If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from
their evil ways I will hear from Heaven I will forgive their sin.
And I will heal their land. It is still good and God can still bring revival. He can bring revival
no matter who sits in the halls of power. We must each commit to praying for revival
as never before. But not only praying for revival but actually beginning to live in true revival.
And beyond that, if all these forces succeed in causing darkness to prevail in this land, remember
who you are. You are the light of this world. You don't fear the darkness. You don't hide from
the darkness. You don't give in to the darkness. You shine your light into that darkness and you
overcome the darkness. And if the dark gets darker that's your cue that it's time for you, the light
of God to shine even more bright, more strong, more uncompromised, more pure, more on fire,
more boldly, and more revolutionary. You see the darkness cannot stop the light if that light will
shine. Then it will only, the darkness will only magnify the light. It may be more challenging to
shine but the light that shines in the darkness is the light that lights up the world. These are the
same days in which stood Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah, the Apostles, and Messiah himself. The grays are
vanishing. It is time to make them vanish in your own life. It's time to draw the line in the sand
and say here I stand. I've chosen this day whom I will serve. It is the Lord my God. You see kings
and kingdoms they rise, they fall but the name of our God will stand forever. And the name of Yeshua
Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah, the Light of the World is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
If the dark should get darker then it is also time that you and I have the high honor for standing
for God in a day when it means something. You only go around once. You, only once do you walk
this world. Make it count. Go for the best. Go for the highest. Go for all out and the Spirit of God
will rest upon you and the Lord will lift you up. The days in which the bad goes from bad to worse
are the same days when the good goes from good to great. You be that one. For the King you serve is
still on the Throne and the Kingdom of which you are part is still advancing. And the Redeemer, the
Savior, the Messiah whom you follow and whom you love has never changed his name that is yet still
the name above every name that is named and he still loves you. Stand strong. Stand tall.
Stand victorious. For the Lord says to you darkness will cover the nations but the Lord
will rise upon you. So arise and shine for your light has come and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon you. In the name of Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Anointed One, Melech ...
the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Light of the World,
and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. This is Jonathan Cahn. Shalom.