VERY INTERESTING

I just finished reading a very interesting book. The book was recommended by my dad, Tom Hawkins, and I ordered it on my kindle not even really knowing what the book was about. The title of the book is "The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America's Future" by Jonathan Cahn. It is about a man, Nouriel, who meets a "prophet" after he finds a seal, the first of 9 seals. The "prophet" gives the Nouriel clues to find the meaning of each of the seals and he searches out the meaning and then meets the "prophet" again and the "prophet" will explain the seal to Nouriel. This of course is a fiction book BUT it has many facts in it and the author is a Messianic Jew who says that this was revealed to him by God. And after reading the book it very well could have been, it would have been very difficult to find out all the information in this book with out some divine help, of course this is NOT the Bible, it is not inspired and should not be taken as such. I wanted to share some of the interesting facts in this book. You may find this uninteresting but I was very intriqued by some of the "stuff" in this book. The book compares 9/11 to the history of Ancient Israel. The first Harbinger (the first seal) is called "The Breach". In 782 B.C. Israel's enemies invade the land and wreak havoc. It was a removal of the protective hedge. It was a warning after many other attempts to wake God's people up to turn back to Him. When Israel remained in the will of God no enemy could have breached its walls but Israel didn't wake up to God's warnings so the wall was breached. Now look at America. It is the most blessed nation on earth. The ones who first came to North America came in search of God while those who went to South America went in search of gold. Our founders said if our nation followed the ways of God, it would be blessed with prosperity, power, peace, and security. But America has turned away from God so the hedge of protection has been removed, September 11, 2001. The walls of America's national security was breached. After Israel's walls were breached they turned to God for a while but then gradually things seemed to return to "normal". When 9/11 happened many American's turned to God, churches were full, people were praying. Did God cause 9/11? No, man did it. Evil men but God can cause evil to work for good. God wants America to turn back to Him and we did, for a while. But soon just like Israel we began to go back to what appears to be "normal". A different "normal" but we kind of forget as time goes on. When trouble came to ancient Israel it came to the righteous and unrighteous alike, just as 9/11 came to the righteous and unrighteous. People asked "where was God?" He was there, even though we drove Him out of our schools, government, media, etc. He was still there with those who lost their loved ones to comfort, with those who gave their lives so others could live and those who were with God in life are now with Him in eternity. The second Harbinger (the second seal): the second seal had pictures of men with beards, in robes with head coverings. Some of the men held bows and arrows aiming them upward. After searching for who these men were Nouriel found out they were Assyrians. The Assyrians were masters of terror. They burned cities to the ground, mutilated their prisoners, flayed alive those who rebelled against them, and nailed their skins to the wall to be displayed publicly. The Assyrians were the people who invaded ancient Israel. The second Harbinger is "the Terrorist". The terrorist who plotted out the attack on 9/11 are the spiritual children of the Assyrians, the fathers of terrorism. Another link joining America to ancient Israel. Here are some comparisons of the Assyrians and the terrorists, they are both children of the Middle East, they are both Semitic people, the Assyrians spoke a language called Akkadian. This language is long extinct but there is still one language spoken that is closet to ancient Akkadian....guess what that is....Arabic. The language spoken by al Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorists. So when America was attacked the words and speech patterns used were like that of the Assyrian leaders and warriors as they planned and executed their attack on Israel, two and a half thousand years earlier. The invasion of Assyria on Israel would cause military conflict, war, and a final and tragic national drama. Just as the attack on America on 9/11 caused us to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. In April 2003 American soldiers entered the Iraqi city of Mosul. Under this city are ruins of the ancient city Nineveh. Ninevah was the graveyard of the Assyrian Empire. Guess where ancient Assyria was.....now northern Iraq! So our American soldiers are walking on the same earth as the Assyrian soldiers once walked. And the people all around them are the descendants of the ancient Assyrians. So America was drawn into a war in Iraq which was once Assyria, the same place that ancient Israel was drawn into war with the Assyrians. But Israel soon found out that the war could not be won by weapons, the war was inside, they had turned away from God, their protection. America has also turned away from God....can we win with weapons????? Or is our danger also on the inside??? Next blog....the third harbinger. Do you see why this book is interesting? Is the history of ancient Israel being replayed today in America because we have turned away from God? *some of the statements in this blog were taken from the book, "The Harbinger...." by Johnathan Cahn