Dear Friend,

Some things the media will not show you but which are crucial to be aware of…

THE THREE ABOMINATIONS 
Word for the Month & for Tues., Mar. 1
Scripture: Ps. 81:9
See Message: The Abominations

There are a few things the Bible speaks of as abominations leading to judgment - three in particular…

The First Abomination
The first was Israel’s sin of offering its children as sacrifices on the altars of Baal and Molech. The blood of the nation’s innocents cried out for judgment. And in 586 B.C. the judgment would come. America has committed the same abomination. Beginning in 1973, it has offered up not thousands of children as Israel did, but millions of them, killed in their mother’s wombs, on the altars of convenience and self. And America’s collective hands are now, likewise covered with blood.

The Second Abomination 
The second abomination cited in Scripture linked to judgment is that of sexual immorality, specifically that involving the twisting of gender. America began driving God out of its culture, at the same time it began embracing sexual immorality, endorsing it, and then promoting it. Its descent in the direction of sexual immorality has been continuous, progressive, and intensifying in its twisting of God’s natural order.

The Third Abomination 
The third abomination would seem to be the most unlikely in modern America. In Hebrew one of the words for abominations, “shikkutz,” has a double meaning – it also means an idol, a false god. As Israel turned away from God, it turned to other gods. In its last days as a nation, the images of these gods filled the land – and then judgment came. America has also turned away from God. The American gods are not called gods and the American idols are not recognized as idols, but they are so nonetheless. As the culture expunged God from its midst, it became filled with the gods of self, pleasure, sensuality, money, success, comfort, greed, sexuality, entertainment, power, vanity, and a multitude of others. But could the sign of foreign gods appear in America as the images of these gods appeared in ancient Israel in its last days?

The God of Darkness
This past summer, the same summer in which America struck down the biblical definition of marriage, an image appeared in New York City. It was seen on the tower which once represented America’s grandeur and stature among the nations, the Empire State Building. It was an image of a foreign god – the god Kali. Kali is the Hindu god of darkness. The image was created by projecting thousands of lumens of light onto the tower – light used to produce darkness – or as the Bible says “woe to those… who put light for darkness.” Kali is also the god of death and destruction. The face appeared with its tongue sticking out. This is because the god Kali is typically depicted as in a drunken frenzy dripping with blood from its tongue. Since The Harbinger came out, the harbingers have not stopped appearing in America. As believers, we would have to be blind to not see the signs of the times all around us. In a time of gods and idols, we must all the more strongly, boldly, and unapologetically stand for and manifest the only true and living God with our words, our actions, our lives, and our ways.

Stand as a light this month, and manifest the light of His truth, and the radiance of His love wherever you go, and in all you do. And May God greatly bless you this month as you do.

Your brother and co-laborer
in His love and service,
Jonathan

Author Jonathan Cahn will write his third book for Charisma House. (Facebook/Ha Navi Gallery/ajmu)

                   Jonathan Cahn 

           Inks Anticipated Book Deal

      New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Cahn has signed a book contract with Charisma House/FrontLine. This highly anticipated third book, The Book of Mysteries, will release fall 2016.
http://www.charismanews.com/us/54588-jonathan-cahn-inks-anticipated-book-deal

SHEMITAH 2015: WORST MARKET LOSSES IN 7 YEARS 'It's amazing. It's precise. It's down to the days, the hours, the minutes, even the seconds'

WASHINGTON – As Sept. 13, 2015, approached, so did the anxiety on Wall Street.

A New York Times bestselling book called “The Mystery of the Shemitah” had documented, with uncanny precision and overwhelming data, how the biblical Sabbath year correlated with economic cycles, political upheaval and the fall of empires throughout history.

Having suffered record setbacks in the two previous seven-year Shemitah years – 2008 and 2001 – economists and traders were murmuring about what might happen in the fall.

But Sept. 13, the day the Shemitah year ended without obvious economic cataclysm, there were sighs of relief among market watchers.

As 2015 ended, however, analysts can now see the forest for the trees. The year was the worst for the market since 2008, a year of economic disaster for America and much of the industrialized world.

Nearly 70 percent of investors lost money, according to Openfolio, an app that allows people to track their investment performance and compare their portfolios with others;

U.S. markets finished 2015 in the red. The Dow was down 2.2 percent. The S&P 500 ended the year down 0.7 percent. It was the worst year for those two indexes since markets collapsed in 2008.

A long-awaited Fed rate hike resulted in the Dow sinking 367 points;

China’s economy slowed, oil prices fell, the Greek debt crisis continued;

The U.S. 30-year Treasury note returned negative 2 percent, the 3-month Treasury bill returned 0.11 percent and the CRB commodities index fell more than 23 percent according to Societe Generale.

One report says 2015 was the worst financial system for funds – in 78 years — meaning the Great Depression;

Larry McDonald, head of U.S. macro strategy at Societe Generale, said the all-encompassing lag in performance is one reason why major money managers have done so badly this year. The year was most troublesome for hedge funds, the average of which is down about 4 percent, according to Hedge Fund Research.

“It’s been an absolute meat grinder of a year,” McDonald said. “Hall-of-fame legends, [Warren] Buffett, David Einhorn, Carlos Slim, those are my favorite investors of all time and they all had bad years.”

So what does Jonathan Cahn, the author of “The Mystery of the Shemitah” and his previous New York Times bestseller, “The Harbinger,” have to say?

“In other words, this Shemitah was the worst year in 7 years – since the last Shemitah,” he told WND.

Cahn who was widely criticized by people claiming he had made predictions of economic collapse in 2015 when he hadn’t. In his book and in every interview he gave throughout the year he made a point of saying that nothing might happen.

“God can’t be put in a box,” the messianic rabbi said repeatedly. He wrote the book for the express purpose of bringing people back to God.

“The phenomenon may manifest in one cycle and not in another and then again in the next,” he wrote. “And the focus of the message is not date-setting but the call of God to repentance and return. At the same time, something of significance could take place, and it is wise to note the times.”

Ancient Israel was instructed in the Bible to sow the land and reap its produce for six consecutive years. Then, on the seventh year, they’re commanded to let the land lie fallow.

His book documents what appears to be a striking connection between financial downturns in the United States following the end of the Shemitah year.

“[In] 1980 you have recession and then the stock market collapses; you have ’87 stock market collapses and the Shemitah of that, and you have ‘Black Monday’ the worst point percentage crash in history,” Cahn explained. “Shemitah of 1994, the bond market collapses, called the bond market massacre — greatest in history; 2001 you have the stock market collapsing, recession. You have the greatest point crash in world history and you have 9/11, which is the shaking. Shemitah also means shaking.”

For many decades, Wall Street analysts have pondered the mystery of what appears to be seven-year economic cycles. They’ve also wondered why crashes seem to come so often in September.

In “The Mystery of the Shemitah,” he revealed the shocking discovery that the five great economic crashes of the last 40 years – 1973, 1980, 1987, 2001 and 2008 – have all occurred in Shemitah years – those God set apart as Sabbath years.

As he pointed out in his earlier book, “The Harbinger,” in 2001 and 2008 they coincided precisely with the exact end of the Shemitah year on the Hebrew calendar day of Elul 29.

Cahn summed up his message by saying, “America is progressing toward God’s judgment.”

According to the Bible, the Shemitah year was set aside as a blessing for the nation of Israel.

Like the weekly Sabbath, the Shemitah year would be a time of rest for the land and for the agricultural society. There would be no sowing and reaping. Instead, God would provide food miraculously for the people, as He did during the Exodus from Egypt.

Leviticus 25:4 says: “But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.”

However, Cahn points out, if the Shemitah was not observed by the people, it would become a curse, as described later in Leviticus chapter 25. That’s exactly what happened, Cahn says in 586 B.C., a Shemitah year, when the Temple fell and Judah went into captivity in Babylon for 70 years.

Cahn explains the Shemitah can have several meanings. It can mean a “release” – and in ancient Israel debts were canceled and land returned to its original owners. But it can also mean “to fall, to collapse, to shake,” he says.

But the Shemitah seems to be affecting the U.S. economy throughout much of the nation’s history.

The eight greatest postwar economic crashes are all mysteriously connected to a biblical Sabbath year pattern known in Hebrew as “the Shemitah,” reveals the book – evidence certain to rock the world of financial speculators, stock market traders and economists.

Among the stunning findings of the author who found jaw-dropping links between the 9/11 terrorist attack and an otherwise obscure biblical passage, Isaiah 9:10, is that 100 percent of the worst U.S. economic calamities since World War II are all lined to the “Shemitah,” the biblical Sabbath year, its wake or the biblical month of Tishri in which the “Shemitah” falls.

But more than that – all of the great economic crashes in U.S. history, including the Great Depression, line up with Shemitah years.

“It has been affecting everything in our lives,” says Cahn. “There’s no end to it. It’s amazing. It’s precise. It’s down to the days, the hours, the minutes, even the seconds.”

“Something very much more than natural is indeed going on,” concludes the understated Cahn. “And the signs of the phenomenon all point to the same ancient biblical mystery. If the collapse of the world’s stock markets were an act of crime, the Shemitah would have long ago been indicted for the evidence left at the crime scene. In its numbers, its connections, its convergences, its percentages, its magnitude and its consistency, the amount of fingerprints covering the financial cataclysms of modern times is overwhelming.”

What does Cahn think God is trying to tell America? What’s his prescription?

“To avert judgement, we must return one last time to the burning ruins of Jerusalem in 586 BC,” he says. “The prophet Jeremiah had warned his nation unceasingly that the day of its calamity was coming.”

That judgment could have been averted, Cahn says, if the people had turned back to God. Today, he says, America is heading down the same path. But there’s still hope, he explains.

“Where there is repentance, there is revival,” says Cahn.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/shemitah-2015-worst-market-losses-in-7-years/

Jonathan Cahn Says Mystery of Shemitah Has Been Confirmed

http://www.charismanews.com/us/54272-jonathan-cahn-says-mystery-of-shemitah-has-been-confirmed

Check out Jonathan's on the Drenda show on 12.28.15 courtesy of Keesee Ministries.
http://drenda.com/drenda_episode/jonathan-cahn-interview/

Photo Credit: Ha Navi Gallery/ajmu

The Sword of the Shemitah—And How It Just Changed Your World

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/54575-the-sword-of-the-shemitah-and-how-it-just-changed-your-world

SIGNS OF THE TIMES!~ A recession worse than 2008 is coming

The S&P 500 has begun 2016 with its worst performance ever. 

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/15/a-recession-worse-than-2008-is-coming-commentary.html