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.
