SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. And I am so amazed at these Sabbath years and how they’re tied in with progressive blessings or progressive judgments. And yet, it’s God’s heart for it to be blessings. And every seventh year for the last, what’s starting in 2001 and 2008, stock market crashes. But there is, it’s sort of like God is putting His name on it. And tell me about these amazing sevens that appeared.
JONATHAN: Well the center of this as a sign is the number 7. So on the greatest stock market crash in history, which happened on the exact day at the end of the seventh Hebrew year, the shmita, it was marked by 7’s. It happens, first of all, how much did the market lose? Seven percent of its value. It crashed because of the Congress’ bill that was $700 billion. How many points were in the greatest crash? 777
SID: You know, when I saw that in the newspaper, I couldn’t believe it. It’s like God showing his fingerprints.
JONATHAN: And even in the first one, the one that was caused by 9/11, how much percent of the market? Seven percent even in 2001. Here’s also a kind of eerie thing. That was caused by 9/11. So it tells you that all this had happened. Who could have orchestrated all this? Every transaction, everything in the world had to go together. Only God could have. And 9/11 was part of that mystery or it would not have happened when it did. That’s what caused it. The thing with the word “shmita”, it actually also means “to let fall”. So here is God letting fall the America economy and letting fall America’s reign as the head of nations if it doesn’t repent. It is God’s shmita.
SID: Now speaking of mysteries, there’s a mystery in ancient Israel to the actual ground where these various oaths were made.
JONATHAN: Okay. Alright. The mystery is this. There was a day when Israel came together. It was finished The temple was finished. Everything was there. It was the dedication day, inaugural day of Israel. Solomon gathers the people for prayer and he prays, and he intercedes for the future and prophetic words about if the nation ever falls away from God, this whole thing. It’s the dedication. Could there be a day in American history that actually matches up with that? And the answer is yes. The very first day of America as a nation, as a fully constituted nation, it wasn’t 1776. It was 1789, when for the first time, America as we know it had a president with Congress, all that day came into existence, on the day that Washington was inaugurated. Same thing happens. The nation comes to the Capitol. It’s called a day of prayer. Washington speaks. He speaks about God. He speaks about the future. And actually, there is a hidden prophetic warning that is in that first day appointed for a day like this. Washington gives a warning. No questions from God. And he says, here’s the warning in that very first day of America. It says, “We ought to be no less persuaded that the perspicuous smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” In other words, if America ever turns away from God, its blessings of protection of prosperity will be removed. Protection. And here we have 9/11, that first blessing being removed. We are watching as America turns away from God, it doesn’t turn back, we are watching all the blessings are going to be removed. And that is the warning that he said that day. But that wasn’t the only thing. Then Washington leads the entire first government of American on foot to a place to pray and basically to commit America’s future to God, to consecrate. It’s consecrating America to God. That was the very first act of the American government together, was to pray. So he does it. They pray in a little stone chapel and they consecrate it all together to God.
SID: Where is this?
JONATHAN: Let me just put in the principle here. The principle is that when Solomon dedicated Israel, it was on the Temple Mount. When judgment came, it came to the Temple Mount because the principle is judgment returns to the ground of consecration. Where is that ground of consecration? It was the nation’s capitol. Not Washington. It was New York City, and it was lower New York City. Where was it? America was consecrated to God at the corner of Ground Zero. In fact, not even just that. That church owned the land of Ground Zero. Ground Zero is the consecration ground of America. Judgment returns to the ground of consecration. And so God is calling back a nation. It’s amazing when this thing happened, not only that, there was one building, only one building that was protected from all these things. All the other buildings around Ground Zero were destroyed in some way or finished. One building was protected. Which? It was the little stone chapel of St. Paul’s, the ground of America’s consecration to God. And why was it protected? They said it was the sycamore that was struck down actually protected the place. So actually the harbingers, it was the harbingers. The harbinger we spoke about was the sycamore, the sign of judgment. But it actually saved it. So the harbingers are actually to call the nations back and save it, which also tells us that two of the harbingers, the sycamore tree we spoke about and the erez tree, the signs of judgment, happened on America’s consecration ground. That’s all where it happened. God is calling the nation back.
SID: But yet, that little chapel was spared. I understand some U.S. newspapers called it a miracle.
JONATHAN: Absolutely. It was the only they called a miracle at that time, not thinking, not putting it together; this is the ground of America. This is the America where Washington prayed for the future. What happens if America turns away from God? So it’s drawing the nation all the way back. We looked at Ground Zero. We didn’t realize that. You have two places on that day. You’ve got Ground Zero. You have the place where America was consecrated to God. And then you have the place where Washington gave the warning and America began as a nation, Federal Hall. On the day of 9/11, a shock wave goes out from Ground Zero, it goes out and strikes Federal Hall, the foundation, and it cracks the foundation. Like a symbol, the foundation is cracked.
SID: The foundation actually cracked.
JONATHAN: It actually cracked. The foundation of America’s foundation was actually cracked on 9/11 by the shock wave. And then we bring it home, and there’s so much we can’t do. The point here is that Solomon prayed. He said, “What happens, Lord, if the nation turns away from you?” God answers him. He hears a prophetic answer and He answers him from that day, and He says, “If it turns away it will be destroyed. But…” And here’s the “but,” and this is the word for America. Now He said this to Solomon, “If my people who are called by name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from Heaven. I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land.” That, Sid, is the word for America. And it’s a word for not only the nation, it’s a word for His people. Those who are called by his name. Because God is calling His people to live, to come back, to break away, repent of complacency, repent of apathy, repent of the secret sins and turn back to God. Now is the time. This is the time of judgment. Now is the time because it says judgment begins with the House of God.
SID: David Wilkerson was a prophet. You are a prophet that’s going on really deep revelation of what David Wilkerson saw. What do you think is going to happen to America?
JONATHAN: If America does not turn back to God, there will be judgment. America will lose its place, will lose its place as the head of nations, will lose its economic blessings; will lose even its security. If any nation that turns away from God, it says, unless the Lord builds the house they labor in vain, unless the Lord watches the city, the watchmen watch in vain. So we are at a critical time. Now one other note, there can be judgment and revival at the same time because sometimes it comes through that. But the point is God is calling the nation to return to him. If it doesn’t return, as Washington said, then it will lose the smiles of Heaven. It will lose the blessings that made America great. That has always been the case.
SID: You know, I was reminded about the prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah saw judgment coming in his lifetime. Jeremiah saw the judgment. He warned. He did everything possible. They thought he was crazy. They didn’t want anything to do with him. He suffered so much persecution. And this is what he says, in Jeremiah 9:23-24: “Thus says the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. Let not the mighty man glory in his might.” I mean, what good is wisdom and might? “Let not the rich man glory in his riches.” What good are riches when the buildings came down on 9/11? But this is what God says to you: “But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me.” Many people say, just say a little prayer. But Jesus says something different. He says, “This is eternal life that you might know me.” And we have settled for cheap religion without repentance. Repentance means turning from your wicked ways to God in which He will forgive you and give you the power to be able to walk a righteous life. Do you want to know God? There’s only one way to know God, and that is to believe Jesus died in your place for your sins. Make him your Lord and come to know him. Yes, you can.
