Featured The Harbinger

A friend has asked me to read it. As he describes it, I am quite reluctant.
Reminds me of the Late Great Planet Earth, only for the millennials.

Rob

 

The book essentially states that the USA has taken on the mantle of God's chosen people and the punishment for straying from His ways is terrorist attacks.

There was an extensive discussion of it when the book was first released.

https://www.baptistboard.com/threads/isaiah-9-10-the-harbinger-gods-judgment-on-america.77081/

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There is a man at my church that pushes this book as an additional book to the Bible. That is enough to make me down on it. And then there was my Facebook exploding with rapture predictions bases on Cahn's book about the Shemitah was another reason for me to avoid it. I have picked it up at book stores and skimmed enough of it to know that his hermunutic involves having a newspaper and or history book in one hand and the Bible in the other to see how he can shove American History into the Bible. So no thank you.

 

I think most millennial would see right through it. It more seems aimed at the people that were around when Late Great Planet Earth came out based on the people on my Facebook feed that talk about the book.

 

The Millennial need the Gospel just like every other generation, they don't need a bunch of mystical nonsenses that can be debunked as all the rapture predictions on my Facebook feed proved.

 

It is a very insightful book. Just juxtapose what it says in terms of what Scripture says and remember that Scripture is paramount.Thumbsup

 

I do not recommend it

 

Its not hard to see why ill informed people would think it is part of the Bible when churches themselves have "Bible Studies" on this book.

I see your pragmatic card and I raise you God's Sovereignty card. Anyone that God saves while reading this book would be in spite of the bad eisegesis and bad hermeneutics surrounding the Scriptures being quoted, not because of them. Pragmatism is not a good argument, and is the reason that the American Church is in the shape she is in. Good ends do not justify bad means.

 

At two separate times, members have dropped off this book at my office with a note encouraging me to read it. Both times, the book has been placed in a closet where other books and resources like this go (after despatching a kind thank you note.)

It isn't a good book, it doesn't help us, and it is more of the same foolishness we've been seeing for some time now. I have no interest in these things. So I don't recommend the book either.

 

It's not often you have something of value to contribute to a thread but on this topic we agree.

 

Even in your story you admit that it was God's word that brought about conviction. So again I say back to your other hypothetical that it would be in spite of the bad hermunutic not because of it that a person would be convicted reading the Harbinger. So now are you going to try and defend the book you seem to want us all to read or just keep throwing hypothetical at us?

 

The part I bolded is a very concerning statement. That is a post modern idea, especially when it comes up in a theological conversation. There is not a theology that works for you and one that works for me, there is one that is right and the rest are wrong. We may both be wrong, but we are not both right. You brought up the book and said you recommend it, one would expect you to be able to defend that.

Please quote where anyone said that you were stupid.

 

Paul via the Holy Spirit has already given an answer concerning unorthodox teachings:

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4:1-4

Stick to the Word and to those who preach and expound upon it with sound doctrine.

 

Was there a compliment in there somewhere? Biggrin