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Welcome to the Jim Bakker Show, coming to you from the Village of Morningside, snuggled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.
Today, Jim's special guest, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.
I'm Zach Drew, along with the Morningside band.
And now, direct from Grace Street at Morningside, here are your hosts, Jim and Lori Bakker.
[Pastor Jim] Hello everyone.
Welcome to Grace Street.
Great to have you here back today with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.
Thank you, Rabbi.
[Rabbi Cahn] So he will do everything he can to keep the Jewish people out of Israel and out of Jerusalem.
And out of the temple mount because that's the center of it all.
That's what has to be.
So notice, what's on that mount?
What's on that mount is this dome of Allah.
It's like the enemy's saying "Right here, you can't come in.
I've put my claim into here, I'm going to stop you.
Go to the other side."
We were there.
"Go to the eastern Gate."
It says Messiahs is going to, the Lord is going to come through that gate.
And so what do they do?
They locked up the gate, they have a cannon on the other side, like that's going to stop the Messiah.
And they literally block it up.
I mean that's like the enemy.
"I'll block up whatever God has for you.
I'm going to try to block it up."
Yet by doing that, by blocking it up, it says in the scripture in Ezekiel
that the gate shall be sealed before the Lord came in.
So they're actually trying to stop God's prophecy, they're actually fulfilling God's prophecy.
[Pastor Jim] If you don't believe the Bible, this is an eternal warfare
that is trying to keep King Jesus from coming back.
But all Hell can't do it and all religion can't do it.
No one can stop Him.
And Satan has tried for a long time.
[Rabbi Cahn] Absolutely.
And we you were from another planet and we came visiting this world, and we knew nothing about anything, and we just looked at
what's happening in the world, we just looked at why is this, all the forces of darkness
are attacking this one people to wipe them out.
We'd say there's got to be something going on with this one people.
So if the enemy could have wiped out the Jewish people, there would be no Jewish people for Jesus to come back to.
So he knows that, he knows that.
He came in the first time through the Jewish people, He's coming in the second time through the Jewish people.
So the enemy knows that.
That explains thousands of years of the dragon going crazy to wipe out these people.
That explains anti-Semitism, that explains the Holocaust, that explains Hitler, that explains all of it,
because the enemy knows.
The Bible's real, there's a real God and there's a real enemy.
And it all focuses on Israel, the land of Israel, the people of Israel, the book of Israel, and this figure, this one unique
figure who is unlike anyone in the world, this one Jewish rabbi, around which the entire history of the world,
every date focuses on.
I mean, if we were Martians we'd know it right away.
It's so obvious, I think we're used to living in this neighborhood that we don't see it.
It's so incredible, the story.
[Pastor Jim] If you would just study the Jews, where they've been, what they've been through, and the Bible,
you would become a believer.
And I think every Jew that actually starts studying, I know millions of Jewish people have come to Jesus.
So many are coming to Jesus.
People wouldn't even know it, because there are a lot of really quiet people accepting Messiah.
Don't you feel like, just the history of the Holocaust, the history of all we see, the history of Spain, the history of
Hitler, the history of all of these things points to one thing, the devil has tried to thwart the plan of Almighty God.
He's trying to stop it.
He doesn't want the temple ever rebuilt, he doesn't want any of these things to happen.
It seems like they're unsurmountable problems.
But yet the Bible keeps being fulfilled.
We've got very little before the coming of the Lord, but some very important things that have to take place.
[Rabbi Cahn] Yes, and it always looks impossible until it happens.
For the Jewish people to come back to Israel seemed impossible for most of 2000 years.
If you read Bible commentary, most people who were preaching from pulpits were saying it's never going to happen.
It's impossible, God's finished, it's all spiritual, it's not going to happen.
But God said it was going to happen.
God said, "I'm going to bring them back," and if God says something, He's going to do it.
So it seemed impossible, and it was under Islamic rule, the Turkish Empire, for 400 years, and before that.
There's no way the Jewish people could come back there and be their land.
Yet God, He does it through World War I, the prophetic Jubilee of 1917, the other one, opens all of the sudden,
empires rise and fall, and the land opens for His people.
And then they said, "Well they'll never get Jerusalem."
Well, then comes the Six Day War in the other prophetic Jubilee, and Jordan enters in, and Israel says don't enter in, enters in,
Jordan has Jerusalem, and what happens?
Jerusalem is back.
Everybody said it can't happen, it's impossible, even Jewish people said it's impossible, but God didn't get the memo, it had
to happen.
He doesn't care what's impossible.
If He says it, He'll do it.
So it's amazing, it's exactly that.
Everything you look at, okay, what about the temple?
Well that seems impossible.
But God has a way of doing those impossible things.
But everything He said, He did.
Everything that He said was going to come has come.
Usually it happens through war.
Usually it is war.
And just to take it home for a second and sow in our lives.
God has a calling, the enemy does everything he can to mess it up, stop it, distract it, hinder it, put things in your
way, and attack you like crazy, discourage you, but if God said it and you're in the will of God, God will do it, keep going,
be strong and enter in, it's going to happen.
You may not see how, but it's going to happen if you keep going.
Don't give up, that's what the enemy wants.
Don't give up and God will do it.
Don't be discouraged.
[Lori] I needed that word today.
That was good.
[Pastor Jim] A few days ago I was researching for a show, and I was looking up some history facts, trying to put all my
information together.
I look back to the Jubilee of 1966, 1967.
You remember that year of Jubilee?
[Rabbi Cahn] I do.
[Pastor Jim] You just mentioned it to us.
Then 1917 was before.
So I looked this up, and I looked up my own history.
I Googled, because I had the privilege of hosting the 700 Club for the first time, for the first six years of it.
So I type in "The 700 Club."
And bam, it pops up.
The 700 Club started in the Jubilee year 50 years ago.
And it says in the history, I didn't think it was even written anywhere,
"Jim Bakker was the first host for the first six years of the 700 Club."
The world's longest running religious show, as far as we know, it says in the history.
So here I am in another Jubilee.
I had the privilege of helping start Christian television, and start the 700 Club show in the year of Jubilee, 50 years ago,
and here I am now restored, gone through some valleys of the shadow of death, perhaps, coming back, and having everything
restored right now in the year of Jubilee.
And you've taught me so much to honor what God honors.
To honor His dates, to honor His time, because He doesn't change.
[Rabbi Cahn] No.
And He's exact.
And He's exact and on time.
[Pastor Jim] Is it true your father was born in Germany?
[Rabbi Cahn] Yes.
Under Hitler.
[Pastor Jim] You're kidding.
[Rabbi Cahn] He grew up under Hitler.
[Pastor Jim] We don't talk about that.
[Rabbi Cahn] No, but it's part of the story.
It's part of this story that we're talking about, too.
[Pastor Jim] Is it in the movie?
[Rabbi Cahn] It should be in The Harbinger Man.
[Pastor Jim] Your father was under, how old, is your father alive?
[Rabbi Cahn] No, he grew up in the '20s, he was born there, when he was about 10 years old Hitler took over.
And that changed everything.
That changed everything, everything.
And we're talking about, it's the big picture we're talking about with the enemy.
That's how real it is.
And I believe they have a clip of that.
My father came from Germany.
His name is Arno Cahn, and Arno is an anagram of Aaron, because he was of the Aaronic line, the lineage, and he was named after,
a few generations back, another Aaron Cahn, which actually in Hebrew means, "Aaron the priest."
So it was a long line.
And he grew up in the 1920s under the Weimar Republic in Cologne, Germany.
And when he was around 10 years old, Hitler took over.
That began a series of changes, it was kind of like a noose tightening on the Jewish people of Germany.
He had relatives that escaped early on and went to Israel, and they're there to this day.
But as it went on, the persecution increased, and the German Jews were separated, and he was taken out of school,
put into a purely Jewish school.
He had to say, "Heil Hitler" if he went into the post office to get a stamp.
It was just increasing until 1938, Kristallnacht, when the Nazis had a rampage against burning synagogues across
Germany, destroying Jewish shops, and he remembers that day, seeing all the devastation.
And that was a real wake-up call for the Jews of Germany that they knew there was really no way out, that this was going to
continue to something like the Holocaust.
So they embarked on what was called the kindertransport.
They sent their kids, their children, out of Germany.
So thousands and thousands and thousands of German-Jewish children were sent out.
So my father was put on a train by his father, and he remembers his mother weeping and his father saying, "You'll probably
never see your mother again, say goodbye," and he never did.
[Lori] Wow.
That's part of Rabbi's story.
[Pastor Jim] Your family goes back to the Holocaust.
[Rabbi Cahn] Yeah.
There are relatives I never met because of that.
And so my father was there, I believe 1938 or 39.
So the German Jews knew, many of them knew there was something coming.
So they sent their children out.
It was called a kindertransport, the child's transport, and they were put on trains heading to England.
So my father left, never saw his mother again, my grandfather, his father, stayed in Germany till 1941, which is really late.
He was getting other Jews out, that's what he was doing until he escaped.
And so my father ended up being in England, they were in England in Liverpool, as a teenager.
And then the war broke out, and Hitler started sending Nazis dressed as refugees, talk about refugee problem, into England.
So England, what they did is they rounded up all the Germans that would come in, and that was Nazis and Jews together,
they didn't differentiate, put them on ships together, and ship them off to prison camp.
So my father was put on a ship through the waters of World War II, I think the ship before him was sunk by a submarine,
went across the ocean to Canada where they put them in a prisoner of war camp.
And that's where he was.
And then finally the Canadians realized, wait a minute, these ones aren't.
The older Jewish people taught the younger Jewish kids, using toilet paper, taught them education in the prison camp.
So finally he was sponsored to get out, he got out, they sponsored him to go to college, he became a scientist, chemist,
came down to America, met my mother, who was also studying to be a scientist with a PhD.
That's how it happened.
And my mother, we won't go into my mother's family, came only because they were escaping the Czar of Russia to wipe them out.
So this is what the Bible says.
And we talk about the enemy, well this is real.
And the thing is that through the Holocaust Israel came back into the world through that.
I would not exist if it wasn't for Hitler, and God saving from Hitler.
Because it was only because of this evil that drove the Jewish people out, to escape,
that's why my father came here and met my mother.
God works all things through all things.
And He uses all the bad to produce good as well.
All things.
[Pastor Jim] How do you keep from just being so bitter?
[Rabbi Cahn] Well, a few things.
If anything shows the truth of the Bible, it was that.
The Holocaust shows how evil sin is, how evil man is when he falls, how real Satan is, how true the Bible is.
We've said before, Jewish people have been like sheep without their shepherd.
They need that shepherd more than anyone, because He was first there.
Without that, they are helpless.
It shows that.
If anybody was Satanic, it was Hitler.
And why was he obsessed, more than even the war, to destroy the Jewish people?
Why?
Because the enemy's obsessed.
So to me it shows the darkness of it.
That's why Jesus wept.
When He said, "Oh Jerusalem, you will be taken captive."
He said it, in all nations, in all nations.
That's why He wept.
He wept for His people.
It also tells you that most of the majority in every nation went along with the Nazis.
That's human nature.
It was only the resistance, which one of the messages is about that, but it was only the resistance, and the small parts.
And Christians, real Christians, who were putting their lives where their faith was, who actually housed Jewish people.
Most people go along with whatever the majority does, good or evil.
Most do it in America today, as it was back then.
Most go along with it.
It's only those who are willing to stand up and stick their neck out and say, "I don't care, I'm standing for what is the truth."
And some of those were believers who said, "Listen, these are the people of our savior Jesus, we have to hide them.
If we hide them, we're hiding Jesus."
So they're the ones who hid them.
Like Corrie ten Boom's family, and the others who went to the Holocaust.
But those are the ones that God says, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
They were the ones who did what Jesus said to do.
So the thing is that it shows everything, how real and true it is.
I can't be, as far as the German people, the German people are like any people, and the generation now is a different
generation from then.
But it shows you how evil is, and if you don't truly have God, you're vulnerable to the enemy.
If you don't stand for God with all your heart, you're vulnerable.
There are a lot of people who are pastors, but I don't know that they were born again, but they were pastors, and they went
all with Hitler, they signed oaths to Hitler.
Those who stood against him were the few and far between.
They had to pay, like Bonhoeffer and those, they had to pay a price for that.
But that's what it comes down to in the end.
So no matter what your generation is, it's still the same issues, it's just some are more dramatic than others.
But this shows you when evil comes, there was a void of God in Germany in many ways.
They were turning away from the Bible.
From Germany came higher criticism, which as the Bible, you can't really believe it as the Word of God.
That's where it came from.
You push God out, the enemy has an open field to come in.
He did, he came in, and it's like he possessed a man, Hitler, and possessed an entire nation,
for those who went along with him.
It's supernatural.
You cannot explain this naturally.
You cannot explain it without dealing with the enemy, and without God.
And yet, through it all, God used all of this to bring Israel all of the prophecies back.
It's like the enemy knew all the prophecies were coming, all the end time prophecies were coming.
So is it coincidence that he just went crazy at that time to wipe them out, just before, three years before all the
prophecies of Israel were about to be fulfilled?
That's no accident.
And yet by doing so, it actually led to Israel coming back.
God even uses the worst, He even uses Hell, the worst, to bring the promises of His kingdom.
So God still has the last word.
Hitler is gone, the Nazis are gone, the Third Reich is gone, but Israel lives.
Israel lives, because the God of Israel lives.
But when my father was fleeing Germany, came to England, he was greeted by those who took him in
who gave him New Testaments in Germany.
So they were even believers who are reaching out to the German-Jewish refugees.
[Lori] It's so fascinating, your story.
[Rabbi Cahn] He actually gave me that New Testament.
[Pastor Jim] You know, the video of your story is one of the bonuses of this amazing group of blessings here.
And then the different mysteries are all involved.
The Holy Land Tour, all of these things.
But the Mysteries Volume XIV is our brand new one, and one of the mysteries is called "The Way to Freedom."
Can we talk about that today?
[Rabbi Cahn] Sure.
One of the things also coming up is Hanukkah, and Hanukkah has everything to do with believers as well.
But Hanukkah, more than any other holy day from Biblical times is the one that gives
the most detailed foreshadow of the end times.
It's the holy day that has the abomination desolation.
It's the holy day that has a symbol, a foreshadow of the Antichrist.
It's the holy day that has a symbol of persecution, and what God's are doing.
So it gives the strategy of that.
One of the things in that album is called "The Ways to Freedom," which is based on the keys in the blueprint of Hanukkah, not
only for the end-time believer, it's so crucial to know the keys, but this one is for anybody, no matter what you're
dealing with, to be free, no matter what it is.
From what the Maccabees did, they're the ones who rose up against this foreshadow of the Antichrist, they rose up and
they're the ones who had victory.
Crazy, should not have happened, it was against all odds.
They had no chance, and yet they had victory.
So I'm just going to touch on a few things from the Maccabees, from the account of Hanukkah.
First key that they had, it looked like everything was hopeless, everybody was given in to the evil, everyone was
apostatizing, they were going along, in those days they were trying to wipe out the faith of God,
and it looks like they were doing it.
They were abandoning Bibles, they were abandoning everything, and most Jewish people were going along with it, just like
we were talking about, they were afraid.
So the one man named Mattathias, same as Matthew, he says, "No, I don't care, and I draw the line in the sand here.
From here on in, I'm following God no matter what happens."
It all begins with that one act.
So the first thing about overcoming anything in your life, bondage, whatever the enemy puts on you.
The first thing is you've got to have hope, because if you don't have hope, you won't do anything.
If you don't believe, if you don't have hope in God, you're not going to do anything else.
We have this hope.
First you have to believe what God said.
God says you can be free, you've got to believe it.
If you don't believe it, you're believing this sin over what God says, you're not going to have it.
If you're believing this situation over God's Word, you're not going to have a victory.
Believe His Word even if you don't feel it, you don't see it,
you don't have any evidence of it, believe God's Word, have hope.
I can be free, I can be victorious, God says it.
And this is not some prosperity thing, this is what God said.
Freedom is of God.
Number two, what also Mattathias did is he said, "You know what, I'm taking responsibility here.
I am accountable before God, so I am not going to compromise, I'm not going to give in, I'm not going to participate in this
apostasy, I'm going to draw the line."
So he does it.
This is the next key, take responsibility.
A slave has no responsibility, because a slave has to do what they have to do.
Not their actions.
They're doing it, they don't want to do it, but they're doing it.
But a free person has responsibility.
You're accountable.
When you're a victim, when you go around your life as a victim, blaming others, you are giving away freedom.
You are saying everything in your life is their responsibility, you are taking away freedom.
You're saying, "I'm a victim, I have no choice."
Well then it's not worth it, becoming a victim.
Other people will do those things, you're aware of it, but my thing is with God.
What did God do?
So taking responsibility.
How can you have Messiah as your savior if you don't take responsibility?
He died for your sins, for our sins.
We have to take responsibility for that to kick in.
Or else it doesn't mean anything.
If I can blame everybody else, what's Him dying for my sins about?
So the blessing of salvation comes, but we have to take responsibility, only then can we repent, and in repenting there's
a choice that we have.
I'm just doing these very quick, but these are so important.
The next thing is decision.
He made a decision, Mattathias, "I am now going to go against this, I'm not going to offer this up to this idol.
In fact, I'm going to rise up against him."
He made a decision.
The word "decision," decide, like incision means "to cut."
Cut away.
So the decision is so powerful if it's in God, to make the decision, "Listen, I'm not going to go back and forth, today I
make the decision.
I'm cutting that off, I'm closing that door, I am going here, I am not going here from here on in.
God help me if I mess up, but God help me, He will.
But I'm making the decision."
Powerful, powerful for God.
The next thing is, I'm going very quick, is that they had to take courage, because the odds against them were too big.
They weren't even fighters.
They didn't have arms, they didn't have ammunition, they didn't have skills, they were outnumbered, outmatched,
outmanned, everything.
But they said, "You know what, we have God, so we're going to take courage, we're going to do the right thing come what may,
whatever happens, we're with God.
We're okay because we're with God."
So they rose up.
And you know, every calling of God requires courage.
Every calling of God requires going against your fear.
I mean, look at it.
Abraham, there were things to fear, but he went.
Moses was afraid, he was afraid.
The moment they're calling, "I can't, I'm not able."
"Go against your fear, Moses, I'm with you."
David going against Goliath, there had to be a lot of fear there.
A courageous person is not somebody who doesn't feel fear, it's someone who overcomes the fear they have.
That's what makes them courageous.
That's what makes you courageous.
Elijah had fear, Jeremiah was afraid, everybody when their calling comes, "Oh Lord, we can't do it."
And every single one God required, "Okay, but I want you, I'm requiring you to go against your fear, step out, go against
it, because I'm with you.
That's part of the whole thing.
Go against your fear, don't believe the enemy, go against your fear, and move to your calling, move to freedom.
The other thing, the next key, in a quick nutshell, is that the Maccabees were men of action.
They had to take action.
So it's one thing to believe, it's another thing to act.
We need both.
If you believe and you don't act on that belief, you are not strong as you're to be.
The person who hears the word and puts it into action becomes like a man on a rock.
So the key is, a lot of times God tells people, "There's a healing for you, but you can do something."
It's all grace, but you've got to do something.
Blind man, you're blind, but you need to go down to that Pool of Siloam and do this.
Or hey, you get up, take your pallet.
He often gave something, and that's part of obedience, but there's an action.
Often it's the action, the faith in action, that unleashes, that breaks the bond that's there.
But you've got to take it.
Don't just have love in here, take the action of love.
Don't just have faith, take the action of faith.
Don't just have hope, take an action of hope.
That opens it up for victory.
Another thing they had to do is they had to become fighters.
They had to learn how to become fighters, the Maccabees.
We have to be fighters.
We cannot take it lying down.
The enemy will always attack.
So if we're not fighting, we're in a boxing ring not attacking, they're going to get us.
Spiritually we have to become fighters.
That's why it says, "Fight the good faith."
Don't just accept the mess up, don't accept the problem, don't accept all that, this is what it is, and go crazy about it.
Fight it.
Even if you're down, don't accept being down, fight it.
That's the beginning, it's not the end.
It's the beginning.
David was a fighter, but the first fight was with him.
He was down and he said, "Hey soul, stop being down, hope again."
And then he could get up and fight.
Fight.
The problem is not the end of the story, it's the beginning of what God's going to do.
So fight it, don't just accept it.
Here's my chance to fight.
And the other thing they had to do, and I'll just do some of what's on there, because again, I can just do a thing,
but take what you can get.
The other thing is they had to persevere.
They had to keep going, keep going, keep going.
If you're in the fight with God, we all have times when we're down, we all have time when we mess up, we all have times when
it's just keep going, keep going.
It says the one who keeps going is the one who wins.
And you can fall a million times in this race, as long as you keep getting up every time you fall and keep going you're going
to cross the finish line.
So keep going.
The one who perseveres, it's good to be loving, but to persevere in love is a lot better.
It's good to have faith, but to persevere in faith is a lot better.
It's good to walk in God, but to persevere in that walk is a lot better.
The thing is, this race is one that, it's not about speed, it's about finishing.
The promise is, if you keep going you win.
It's promised, it's an absolute.
Keep going, keep going, encourage yourself.
And the last thing I'll just throw in right now is, what did they do when they finally got the victory?
It says they determined that now we're going to celebrate this, it's going to be called the Feast of Dedication,
we're dedicating the temple.
It's going to be called dedication, or in Hebrew, Hanukkah.
They vowed, "We're going to celebrate."
So what does that have to do with victory?
Well here's the other thing about it.
Joy is a powerful thing.
The joy of God is a powerful weapon.
Powerful.
It's not just great, it doesn't just feel great, it's actually a weapon.
To have joy, it gives you power to overcome all sorts of things.
Temptation, depression.
But the thing is, when you have a victory of God, celebrate the victory.
In other words, you turn down that sin, celebrate, thank God, I'm going to rejoice in this.
Because what you celebrate is what you keep.
What you don't celebrate, you lose.
So you celebrate your wife, you keep your wife.
You celebrate your husband, you keep your husband.
You celebrate the blessings.
But what you don't celebrate, you end up losing.
And that's true with your victories.
Celebrate your victories.
Even when you have one little victory, "Hey, I said no to that sin today," get into it.
Rejoice in the Lord.
Rejoice in good things and you won't rejoice in the bad things.
Celebrate the things of God and it's going to seal that victory.
Celebrate again, whatever is good, I'm going to have a party.
Whatever it is, I'm going to rejoice, I'm going to praise God, I'm going to get into that joy.
But you're going to get into, the more joy you get into the good things, the more that's going to stay in your life.
And what happened because of Hanukkah?
Because of Hanukkah came Christmas.
It's because of Hanukkah, if it wasn't for Hanukkah, there would be no Jewish people left in Israel.
If it wasn't for Hanukkah, you wouldn't have Joseph, you wouldn't have Mary.
If it wasn't for Hanukkah, you wouldn't have the disciples, you wouldn't have Jesus as the king of the Jews in Israel.
Hanukkah ends up bringing Christmas in the end.
But there was a fight to it, there's a fight.
And there's a good fight, but the keys are there.
But persevere, believe, take the steps.
God has promised us victory.
The Maccabees, it was a hopeless cause, but they said yes to God and God did it.
At one point, if you read the book of Maccabees, it's not the Bible, but it's actually history what God did.
They say "Look we're outnumbered, there's too many of them."
And one of them says "You know what, it doesn't matter how many there are."
It says whether by many or by few, the victory does not belong to the many, it belongs to those who are with God.
And that's what they did.
And they ended up being called the Maccabees, which means the hammers of God, the hammers.
And they were the ones God used ultimately to open the way for Messiah.
So we are guaranteed, it says thanks be to God who always, not sometimes, leads us to triumph.
But we have to be part of that triumph too.
We have to fight the good fight, and we will be led to that triumph.
[Lori] Amen, so good.
[Pastor Jim] So we ought to celebrate Hanukkah too right?
[Rabbi Cahn] Why not?
[Pastor Jim] I mean the non-Jewish people.
[Rabbi Cahn] Why not?
You don't have to be Jewish to celebrate Hanukkah.
I mean do whatever you like, you're free, but why not?
I mean as far as the timing is concerned, it's more biblical than the timing of Christmas.
But we celebrate Messiah's birth whenever you want, but the point is.
Listen, Jesus, here's one, if you look at the Bible and where in the Bible is Hanukkah celebrated?
Not in the Old Testament, only in the New Testament.
Only in the New Testament is Hanukkah celebrated, only.
And the one who celebrates it is Jesus.
The one whoever says Christmas, he celebrated Hanukkah.
When it says in John 10, it says it was winter time and it was the Feast of Dedication.
Well you know we read that, dedication, and we say "What's that?
I don't know what that is."
Jewish believers read that for years, they said "We have no idea what that feast is.
It's supposed to be a Jewish feast, we have no idea what dedication is."
Dedication is simply the English way of saying the Hebrew word Hanukkah.
It's the feast of Hanukkah and Jesus was in the temple because it was the feast of Hanukkah in winter time.
And he was there, there were lights all over.
They were burning their candle and their oil lights and that's when he says
"I am the Father of one, I am the light of the world."
So he celebrated that, so why not?
And also, we won't get into it now, but there's a deep thing about Hanukkah, because the other reason for celebrating
Hanukkah, if you are led, is that the Bible says Hanukkah is about the rededication of what?
Of the temple.
There's no temple today in Jerusalem.
There's no temple yet.
But the Bible says where's the temple?
It says you are the temple, don't you know it?
You are the temple of God.
So this is about the rededication of you.
There's something really cool.
So there's no reason not to.
You don't have to, but it's great to do it.
It's wonderful to do it.
Jesus did it.
[Lori] We have a menorah in our house, I look at it every single day.
So maybe this will be our first Hanukkah celebration.
[Rabbi Cahn] You just light the candle, that's it.
[Pastor Jim] We've been sharing a little bit of your story, The Harbinger Man.
And what is your first memories of childhood?
We need to get you born, I don't think we have you born yet.
[Rabbi Cahn] You've got to get me born.
[Pastor Jim] In the movie, in this story.
You father was born in Germany, and your mother was.
[Rabbi Cahn] Mother's from Russian immigrants and she was born in Brooklyn.
[Pastor Jim] Oh my land.
And they met where?
[Rabbi Cahn] They met in, they both were studying for their PHD's in chemistry and they met in Purdue University, and that's
how they came together.
[Pastor Jim] So they're somewhat an intellectual couple I take it?
[Rabbi Cahn] They are, both scientists.
[Pastor Jim] Oh, that's where your great mind comes from, you have wonderful parents. 529 00:34:09,313 [Rabbi Cahn] My mother said they named me Jonathan David, Jonathan David Cahn, and then her father said to them --> 00:34:22,260 "You realize this is biblical?"
He opened the Bible, her father from Russia, he said "Look it's here in the Bible."
I don't think they did it realizing, but I think they might have regretted it after that.
But yeah, very scientific and very intellectual.
[Pastor Jim] So was there anything in your childhood that made you realize that maybe there was a God?
That there was anything supernatural?
[Rabbi Cahn] I went both ways.
When I was very little, when I was very little I had this real sense of God.
And sense of God talking to me when I was really, really, really little.
But as I grew up, and I went to Hebrew school and you'll see it, I think they have a clip.
That's when I said "You know what, I don't see the evidence of God here."
And so I became an atheist when I was 8 years old.
But that's when, it was almost like I had to get away in order to come back.
But so I was raised going to the synagogue, I was raised going to Hebrew school.
I was raised Passover, Hanukkah, Yom Kippur, all that.
Raised in all that.
But I didn't see the real power, the real evidence of God in the people, in the lives around me.
I never saw somebody with a real relationship with God.
So that brought a disconnect and that's how I began to question.
Well that's how I first became an atheist, but that led me ultimately to find God.
So I believe they have a clip and I believe in the clip you'll actually see, they throw in some little home movies,
so you actually see a little Jonathan there.
But also I think at one point I'm walking through a thing that I'm talking about, the synagogue, I'm actually walking
through the synagogue where I grew up.
They didn't realize it was me, but I was walking through there, so if they have that.
I was born in New York, New York State.
And grew up in this home, it was reformed Jewish.
They weren't very religious.
They never really spoke about their faith about it, but never really religious.
A scientific, secular outlook kind of Agnostic, or between Agnostic and Atheist.
But my father would always go to Synagogue for the Holy days, like many Jewish people.
But would go out, he would bring me to Yom Kippur and Rash Hashanah and we had Passover every year, we had Hanukkah,
that was our version of Christmas.
That's what it became.
I was brought up with Jewish culture and I was sent to Hebrew school.
So I went to Hebrew school from about first grade onwards.
And was told all about the prophets and all about the God of the Bible, the God of Israel
and how he spoke and how he moved.
And all these things.
But I never saw the reality of the God of Israel in life.
I never saw him in the Synagogue.
I remember being very, like 5 years old, a Jewish boy, little bit older, said a strange thing.
He said "You know God has not spoken to our people in 2000.
And do you know why?"
I said no, he said "Because we haven't been righteous enough."
It's what he said.
As you remember, kind of a weird thing as alittle kid, but I remember this disconnect between the God of the Bible and God who
spoke and moved and did miracles, but there was never any "Hey, God is real in my life."
The Rabbi never got up and said "Hey, God spoke to me, praise God!"
You know, or "God did this in my life."
It just didn't happen.
So it was a real disconnect.
And so when I was 8 years old, considering this disconnect, I became an atheist.
[Lori] Think about that, at 8 years old, that disconnect.
It didn't make sense to your 8 year old brilliant brain to even think that you would become an atheist at that age.
To have that knowing.
[Rabbi Cahn] I was saying "Where is the God of Elijah?
Where is the God of Jeremiah?
I see them up there, but I don't see any evidence of God in the Hebrew school.
I don't see any."
There wasn't anybody really talking about God.
I mean the rituals were there, but not the real thing, It was like something that has maybe once been, but wasn't anymore.
So the moment I questioned they said "Jewish people discovered God as one."
I said "How do they know God is one?
Maybe he's 3, maybe who knows?"
And that's how, but there was nothing to back it up after that point, that was it.
So I became an atheist.
And I was an atheist, but then I'm thinking deeper about that, I said you know what, I started losing faith in atheism.
I said atheism doesn't work, there's got to be something more, we have to be here, how do we get here?
There had to be some cause.
So I started seeking, and I started seeking everything I could.
I started reading books about UFO's and Nostradamus and the occult and science and religion and everything I could get my
hands on in seeking the truth.
Everything, and one day I picked up a book, I thought it was a UFO book, it looked just like a UFO book and it was
The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey.
Which is all about biblical prophecy coming true.
It said in there, is this the generation that Jesus and Moses spoke of?
I said Moses I know, Jesus, I've been reading about him in all the UFO books, he's in every book.
Jesus is everywhere.
He's in everything.
Everything is Jesus.
I said "Ok, I've been reading about him.
Lord, let me go through the back door."
He let me through the backdoor to get back, to find him.
So I was already opened because of all those other books.
But it was all about prophecy, Israel coming back in the world, all this.
And I said "Wow, I didn't realize the Bible said Israel is going back.
I didn't realize that everything the Bible said is coming true."
So I started saying "Wow, this is fascinating, I'm kind of getting into it."
And you know meanwhile I was also reading Nostradamus and finally I said "No, that doesn't work, there's only one thing
that has the authority, that speaks with authority.
And that's the Bible there."
And we didn't have a New Testament, we had an Old Testament in the house.
Nobody read it, I opened it up and I start reading and I start reading about the Messiah of Israel
is going to die for our sins.
I said "Wait, I thought that was catholic, how did they put that in there, our Bible?
He's going to be born in Bethlehem, that's also Catholic, what's it doing in our Bible?"
Everything, I said this is the Jewish Messiah, so I'm reading it.
So I'm getting more and more in my head, but I wasn't living it.
I didn't want to live it.
I had a rock band, I did what teenagers do.
I said "I don't want to give up anything for this."
I'm actually telling my friends all about it and I'm leading them to the Lord, but I'm not saved.
But I'm leading them to the Lord.
And so one day, I remember being in high school in speech class, we had to give a speech.
I preached the whole class.
And I'm not a believer, but I'm preaching about the coming of the Lord.
So I do that, but finally I realize that "Way, if he comes again, you're not right with God.
What are you going to do?
You've got to get right, you can't just talk about him."
And I never had an issue about it being Jewish, that was, it's obviously Jewish.
I've never felt more Jewish in my life.
Obviously this is Jewish.
It's for everybody, but I didn't have a problem with that.
But the problem was I didn't want to live it, so I made a deal with God and I said "Lord, give me a long life and I'll
accept you when I'm on my deathbed and about to die."
That was my deal.
And so right after that I was almost killed.
I was in a car accident with somebody, one of my friends who came to the Lord.
It was a miracle we weren't killed.
And then I said okay, didn't think much, but then soon after that came the second shaking.
And that was, it was at night, I was heading to a train track and it was that train track, when everything changed my life.
I believe we have a clip that's actually filmed, I think at that train track.
I think, if they have that.
[Pastor Jim] Okay, lets roll that.
[Rabbi Cahn] I'm heading to a train track at night.
And the train track had no protection on it, and it was a bumpy road, it was just 2 rails coming on an angle, people had
been hit on that track by trains.
And I heard they were killed.
So I'm approaching the track at night and the light is going on, I'm thinking "Maybe the train passed, maybe it's broken."
Because all the other cars were still crossing.
So I said "Well I'm not going to cross the track until I make sure there's no train coming.
So I'm kind of getting closer to the track and I look and I see to my left a light.
And the light isn't moving, or doesn't look like it was moving.
The light was the headlights of the train, it didn't look like it was moving beach I was on the track.
It was coming directly at me.
I'm on there, but I didn't realize it.
The train comes and plows into the Ford Pinto.
The Pinto goes up literally like aluminum foil.
And the only thing I could do at that moment was call out to God.
The car was destroyed.
I didn't get a scratch.
[Lori] A miracle.
[Rabbi Cahn] I called out to God, so I said at that moment I realized it was like within inches I would have been killed.
I mean I should have been killed anyways.
So I said "Lord, can we renegotiate?
A new deal, here's a new deal.
I'll accept you now, I'll accept you when I turn 20.
Just give me that time."
The only reason I accepted him is because I believed if I didn't I was going to get killed by something.
I was a marked man, I was going to be killed by something.
A meteor, something was going to happen.
That's the only reason.
And that's what it took with me, it says Jews demand signs, you know.
Well I needed a train.
And that's how it happened.
But that's what did it.
So I made that deal with God, I finally said OK.
"When I turn 20, just give me this time.
Don't kill me."
I had like 8 months.
So the day finally came and I remember it, it was like a man who's contract had run out.
And I said "Ok, I better, I gave you my word."
So I didn't know how to get saved, I didn't know what it was.
But I went up, and actually I was listening to Christian television at that time.
But I still didn't know what to do.
But I remember from Hebrew school God met the prophets and his people on mountains.
So I said let me find a mountain.
So I went up at night, I found this mountain, went up to the top of the mountain, kneeled down on a rock.
Didn't know what I was doing, how to do it.
But on that rock I gave my life to the Lord.
That's how I came to the Lord.
Because of the train, because I was almost killed, that's how I did it on that rock.
And years later, I think I mentioned this, years later I returned to the mountain to find that mountain, to find the rock.
And it was night time.
And I brought tallit's, I brought a shofar, I brought my Bible and a flashlight.
aNd I found the rock, kneeled down, had a great time with the Lord, and I opened up the Bible and it opened up to Ezekiel
where it says "The enemy says 'I have your mountain.'" I said wow, I'm on a mountain, the enemy says that,
that's very weird.
The next day, I'm in Beth Israel, I'm at the congregation and someone is waiting in line to give me a gift.
And the last person on the line says "We have a gift for you, we bought it, and here, take it."
And it's a picture, it's a drawing they bought, a picture of a man on a mountain wearing a tallit, with a shofar.
I said that's weird, that was me last night.
And they said "Really?
What mountain?"
I said you don't know the mountain.
"What mountain?"
Well I described the mountain, the woman says "I know the mountain, I live at the bottom of the mountain."
I said really?
She said "Do you know what that mountain is?"
I said no.
"That mountain is dedicated to Satan."
I said "Really?
I got saved on top of it."
She said "Well that's where the witches meet."
I said "Really?
Well I kneeled down on a rock."
She said "Well that's the altar."
I had no idea except I remember once before I looked down and there was writing on the mountain and it said
"No Jew shall enter the sacred grounds."
And I said "Who on earth would write something like that?
Who on earth would write it?"
And I thought, are they Nazis?
Devil worshipers, Satan would write it.
Satan would write it because that was the mountain of my salvation and for 2000 years it's like the enemy has been
saying to the Jewish people "You cannot enter in, you cannot come back to your Messiah."
I said "Too late Satan, I'm in.
I'm in already."
[Lori] I love that story.
That's the story of your life.
[Pastor Jim] That's amazing, you know it seems like the Bible is so filled with mountains.
And I've been literally obsessed with building a prayer mountain here.
You know Oral Roberts told me when God called him to do something, he would dig a hole.
Well God's called me, I finally own the mountain, I mean the church does.
We own the land, we have the whole valley and the mountain tops.
We own about 2 miles of what I call mountain ranges on both sides of the road.
God graciously has given to us in the last few months.
And so I sent the tractors, the big earth movers up the mountain to build a road.
Because you couldn't get up there.
It was way up, I couldn't get up there.
And so several days I walked, climbed the mountain.
This week we have installed generators all over the ministry.
We haven't even begun.
The next step we're putting solar power in behind them.
And so that in these days, no matter what happens, if that grid goes down like this book, Ted Koppel's book here.
Here's the man that did the number one interview of me when my world came apart.
Of all the people on God's earth to pick to write this book about what I'm preaching,
a lot of preachers are making fun of preparing.
But here's Ted Koppel, writes the book, the lights are going out, the grid is going to go down.
It's just a matter of time, we don't know when.
But he said he personally has bought food for his children and his grandchildren.
He said "I studied this and I've prepared."
So what's going on?
You know God has spoken to me to build a city of refuge.
You what else he spoke to me?
Years ago, you won't like this, but I don't care anymore.
He said every church needs to become a city of refuge.
Every church needs to be a lighthouse, every church needs to be a place to run to in the time of trouble.
Every church needs to be ready to win souls.
Every church needs to have the things people need.
Because what these people are saying, that he's interviewed.
Saws it on the film or on the video.
The soldiers are not going to be there.
The rescue squad's not going to be there.
Where are they going to go?
They're going to be home, trying to save their own family.
The Bible says the wise see trouble, but fools see trouble and don't do anything.
But the wise prepare.
Don't make fun of preppers.
Don't make fun of people that prepare, because you're going to be knocking sheepishly at their door.
If they're kind, they're going to maybe give you a morsel.
But he says it, I think just about everybody who writes says 95% of America will die within 6 months if these things happen.
And so here at Morningside this week, we placed the generators at the well, so that we can have a backup.
So the well won't go down.
We put them at the sewer so the sewer system will keep treating sewage.
We put them at Lori's House, we put them at the Tabernacle.
We're putting these generators.
There they are, there's a load of them coming in right there on the screen.
But faith without works is dead.
And we've been taught a doctrine of just give it to God and walk off and sit on yourself.
Sit on your seat and do nothing.
Yet the Bible says faith without works is dead.
Noah built an ark to the saving of his household.
How come God said as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when Jesus comes back?
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[Lori] This is incredible.
[Rabbi Cahn] And if they don't have enough relatives to give this to for Christmas, they've got to get more relatives so
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[Pastor Jim] But I'll tell you, you know what, when the power goes out, if you have our generator,
you'll be playing these videos.
Because you're going to be studying, you're going to want to know what is happening.
I think I better listen a little more to the Rabbi's teaching and find out what in the world just happened to America.
Because it's going to happen people.
We're going to see a division in this country if we're not careful.
Because we do have, and I can't say black and white.
We have both sides of extremes.
It's almost like a God and the devil.
I mean we've got light and darkness.
I'm concerned because there has been more guns sold in the United States in the last 6, what, weeks?
6 months?
Last 6 months, and it keeps increasing.
Why would Americans be buying so many guns?
There are so many things going on that if we listen and all the videos and all the tapes the Rabbi does, and all the
mysteries and all the teaching.
If you studied the Bible, this week I'm studying Revelation all by myself.
Nobody wants to hear me, so I teach myself.
I found a good listener.
But as I study it, it just reassures my belief and my faith in Jesus Christ, in his Word.
It just makes me stronger and stronger.
And so I can come out here and say "You want to blast me, blast me.
I'm not going to be moved.
I believe in the Word of God."
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Bye, bye for today.
[Lori] Bye, bye, we love you!
Thank you Rabbi!