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#MAGA Church: The Doomsday Prophet Who Says the Bible Predicted Trump
NY Times ^ | March 15, 2019 Internet only | Sam Kestenbaum

Posted on 03/15/2019 11:52:41 AM PDT by firebrand

On a Sunday morning at Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, N.J., a bearded pastor named Jonathan Cahn stood on an elevated platform, gazing over a full house. Stage lights shifted from blue to white as the backing band played a drifting melody. Two men hoisted curled rams’ horns and let out long blasts. Sitting at the end of a sleepy drive an hour from Manhattan, Beth Israel may look like any common suburban church. But the center has a highly unusual draw. Every weekend, some 1,000 congregants gather for the idiosyncratic teachings of the church’s celebrity pastor, an entrepreneurial doomsday prophet who claims that President Trump’s rise to power was foretold in the Bible.

Mr. Cahn is tapping into a belief more popular than may appear.

A recent Fox News poll found one in four Americans believe “God wanted Donald Trump to become president.” Celebrities like the televangelist Paula White and Franklin Graham have boosted the idea. The president’s own press secretary suggested as much in a January interview. And on the opening day of the Conservative Political Action Conference this month, the millionaire businessman Michael Lindell took to the stage and declared President Trump “chosen by God.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Politics; Worship
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; cahn; franklingraham; israel; jonathancahn; michaellindell; newjersey; paulawhite; prophecy; sarahhuckabeesanders; trump; twitter; wayne
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1 posted on 03/15/2019 11:52:41 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

well the Revelations did say there would be seven trumps


2 posted on 03/15/2019 11:54:59 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

:D


3 posted on 03/15/2019 11:56:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: firebrand

If this is the harbinger guy, time has proven him to be a false prophet.


4 posted on 03/15/2019 11:56:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Lera; jbb247; monkeywrench; Bulldaddy; Mrs.Z; Aragon; RobinOfKingston; Mom MD; JudyinCanada; ...

Not a totally positive treatment, of course, but if a few people go over to YouTube to listen to Cahn, I’m glad they ran it.


5 posted on 03/15/2019 11:57:14 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: cuban leaf

Yes, he did try to predict particular signs as being prophetic, but he has recanted that, and his general message is kosher, in every way.


6 posted on 03/15/2019 11:58:55 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
He then argues that all sorts of figures in contemporary politics have biblical counterparts. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, for example, are the modern-day analogues to wicked Ahab and Jezebel.

Trump is the warrior-king Jehu, who took control of the nation and cast idols out of the capital. “Jehu also sought to drain the swamp,” Mr. Cahn said.

Trump, “like his ancient predecessor,” Mr. Cahn writes in his book, was a “flawed vessel” being used by God. “The unlikely and controversial warrior was destined to become the new ruler of the land,”

Sounds about right... he's got the Clinton's pegged... and yeah, Trump's chosen - and flawed. (as we all are...)

7 posted on 03/15/2019 12:01:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are attacking Ivanka & Jared ostensibly on security clearances - reality is antisemitism)
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To: cuban leaf

“If this is the harbinger guy, time has proven him to be a false prophet”.

Yep, it’s him. He changes his tune as events unfold. From what I’ve seen, he’s a phony.


8 posted on 03/15/2019 12:06:23 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Bob434

Trumpets, not Trumps.


9 posted on 03/15/2019 12:07:18 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Bob434

Singular - Revelation


10 posted on 03/15/2019 12:10:48 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: firebrand

I remember following him, and then, a couple of weeks before the date approached, he created a video where he almost looked drunk, as he already started backpedaling BEFORE the date.

Once a “prophet” is proven. wrong, I have no interest in anything he has to say. About anything.


11 posted on 03/15/2019 12:14:01 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: laplata

From what I’ve seen they are almost always phonies.

Especially the End of Days promoters.

“I will come like a thief in the night” makes it kind of hard to predict end times.

“You will know not the day nor the hour” also makes it tough.

Now the responses will come as to how these are taken out of context and some people, REALLY SPECIAL people, know when.


12 posted on 03/15/2019 12:16:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: firebrand

If you twist Scripture enough then you can say that the Gospel of John prophesied the coming of microwave burritos.

!!!


13 posted on 03/15/2019 12:18:03 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: laplata

[[Trumpets, not Trumps.]]

I read the abbreviated version


14 posted on 03/15/2019 12:18:59 PM PDT by Bob434
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If you twist Scripture enough then you can say that the Gospel of John prophesied the coming of microwave burritos.

Wait... it didn't?! There goes my new church...

15 posted on 03/15/2019 12:20:14 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: firebrand

It’s worth noting that traditional Jewish Orthodox rabbis like Mendel Kessin and Yosef Mizrachi have been talking about Pres. Trump’s special role in America’s redemption.

Both are very popular teachers and speakers with many, many videos and audios on Youtube and several other websites.


16 posted on 03/15/2019 12:27:05 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: laplata; Bob434
Trumpets, not Trumps.

1 Corinthians 15:52, (KJV) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:. for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Pun intended or not is the question, since Hebrews are known to fond of such.

Other versions of the bible use Trumpet.

17 posted on 03/15/2019 12:57:58 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: dp0622

http://patburt.com/ A true story . . . no date or time specific.


18 posted on 03/15/2019 1:09:38 PM PDT by Maudeen (JESUS . . .The United States of America's ONLY Hope)
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To: Maudeen; firebrand; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void; metmom; SisterK; Mom MD; Lera; ...

I’m often reminded of:

Luke 21:34-36
Matthew 24:36-44
Revelation 3:3


19 posted on 03/15/2019 1:26:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: firebrand

I don’t trust the New York Times to get a religion story right, but Jonathan Cahn? Yeah, I’ll pass.


20 posted on 03/15/2019 1:42:50 PM PDT by Lee N. Field (Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth.)
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