God told Solomon, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
As Cahn explained, 400 years later, the calamity of judgment fell upon the land – and the Temple Mount, where Solomon prayed, was destroyed.
“God was saying, ‘Return, Israel,’” he explained, adding that America came into existence 225 years ago this week.
On that day* in America’s capital, George Washington placed his hand on the Bible and gave the new nation a prophetic warning: “[T]he propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”
*April 30, 1789 = 4 Iyar 5549
Before Israel returned, she returned.
Yom Ha'atzmaut (Independence Day) 5 Iyar
Yom Hazikaron (Day of Remembrance) 4 Iyar
Before Israel remembered, she forgot:
Those living at the time knew what a landmark day it was and the details surrounding the events of the day show this depth of understanding. Through the process of time, neglect and the active rewriting of American history, these details have been buried to our detriment and shame.The fourth of Iyar, the day preceding Israel's Independence Day, was declared by the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) to be a Memorial Day for those who lost their lives in the struggle that led to the establishment of the State of Israel and for all military personnel who were killed while in active duty in Israel's armed forces.For instance, at 9:00 A.M. on Inauguration Day, church bells throughout New York City [then the seat of the national government] rang out calling the citizens to pray for the new government. The papers of New York City stated it this way:
“[O]n the morning of the day on which our illustrious President will be invested with his office, the bells will ring at nine o’clock, when the people may go up to the house of God and in a solemn manner commit the new government, with its important train of consequences, to the holy protection and blessing of the Most high. An early hour is prudently fixed for this peculiar act of devotion and . . . is designed wholly for prayer.”
Joining these two days together conveys a simple message: Israelis owe the independence and the very existence of the Jewish state to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for it.
Yom Hazikaron: Israel's Memorial Day
the eternal rules of order and right
“It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect – that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States.”
Cahn prayed that – whatever it takes – there will be a widespread repentance, awakening and revival in America.
“Let the will of God be done,” he prayed. “Let the name of God be lifted up. Let the City on a Hill, America, shine again.
The special prayer for the occasion is [coincidentally?] modeled after the Selichot - Jewish penitential prayers. Or more specifically, Daniel chapter 9. Compare Nehemiah 1.
Notice a pattern:
Dan 9.23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
Dan 9.25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore [return] and to build Jerusalem...
I intentionally left off the rest of verse 25 lest it obscure the pattern here stated by Gabriel: God's commandments go forth as soon as the prayers are uttered. This is explained by the messenger in chapter 10, after Daniel had been praying and fasting for three weeks:
Dan 10.
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Jerusalem is an allegory for America.
Compare Daniel 9 with Nehemiah 1. Very similar pentitential prayers. In Nehemiah's case, he prayed in the month of Kislev. That timeline for rebuilding Jerusalem started ticking on that day, not in Nissan when Nehemiah petitioned Artaxerxes. Who's in charge of making things happen here? The Lord Almighty, or a Gentile king?
When the blessing of Abraham -- or nationhood -- is passed on, the name of God invoked is Shadai.
Joseph From the Kabbalistic Perspective
At the National Day of Prayer event held on Capitol Hill Thursday, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn issued a dire warning to America: The nation “stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.”
Note the date of the speech and event: Mayday.
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