Jonathan Cahn: Shifting Culture Towards God | Praise on TBN
Jonathan Cahn: Shifting Culture Towards God | Praise on TBN
Jonathan Cahn sits down with Erick Stakelbeck on TBN’s Praise to talk about his most recent book, The Josiah Manifesto, and how it only takes one faithful person to shift a culture towards God!
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We are called to be agents of heaven on earth. We got it. We are agents active.
We are not to be passive. We’re not to be reactive. We’re to be radical. Josiah was radical.
He was revolutionary. The days of being status quo are over for the church. We have to get radical.
And the thing is Josiah was that light in the night lit up. Then I didn’t care what people said.
He didn’t care about the majority.
He went against the flow, and that and god is calling us to be the same.
It’s time to get brighter. If the dark is getting darker, time to get brighter.
What is the phineas factor as we dig back into the book?
Okay. So on the day that the announcement came that Roe was overturned. Okay? I’m in I’m in Tennessee.
And by the way, well, I got I gotta I gotta sit back.
I’m gonna say something that I normally would the I’d say this this is kind of a personal thing, but but when I was working on the return of the gods, the last book.
Mhmm. Okay. I didn’t tell anybody about it. But one of my associate pastors, you know, came up to me.
I named Michael, and he never said anything.
Like he said, I I I was woken up in in the middle of my my sleeve.
I saw a vision. I heard a word. I had to tell you. I have to tell you.
I don’t know what it’s I have a and and what he saw was he says I saw you, and you were standing in front of all these altars.
Of all these gods. And now he knew nothing about anything.
And he said, and and the lord said to you, prophesy to the altar, speak to the altars.
And so you brought forth a word to the altars, and the altars all began cracking open.
And then spirits came out of it and departed. And then I saw something about revival.
Now he tells me that not knowing that we’re just so I said, okay.
Interesting because this is the return of the gods. All about the altars and the gods.
Well, a number of months later, I end up finally finishing the book. Okay? I finished the book.
The morning I finished the book. Okay.
I’m go I go to the airport and the driver who drove me to the airport says, Rabbi, Rabbi, you gotta make shows me his cell phone.
He says, look. My wife just just text me. He says Roe versus Wade was overturned.
Roe versus Wade was overturned the day I finished that word.
The prophecy was bring forth a word and the altar.
And I’m not saying I don’t do any, but god’s timing. You know?
And so so so here is the altar that’s broken.
Now I’m in the airport, and I’m looking at my cell phone. I said, I’m just like, stung.
We’re all stung. Like, I look at even though we kinda knew it was coming, we’re also I look at my cell foam and a scripture comes up that I didn’t put there.
You know, I I I didn’t know how it came up, and it was about Finneas who who was the one when Israel send a plague broke out And he’s the one who he com he he took a righteous action and it says the plague stopped.
Okay. So I think, wow. On the day that this happened, if this has all been linked to the plague, then could the the plague stopping or turning back or subsiding be linked to a right section?
So I look back. Now listen now listen to what I see. I see that when the plague was it was at it actually in in January of 2022 was actually at a peak.
The infections were three times higher than they had ever been. The death rate also soaring.
All of a sudden, it plunges And and within a few weeks, it goes to, like, 1 8th.
It’s never come back. Okay. Now the thing is anything happened? You know what happened then?
That was the time that the Supreme Court took the vote to overturn abortion, Roe versus Wade, and that’s the time that judge Samuel Alito, he actually did the the decision.
He finished the decision in January, beginning of February, and like clockwork, the whole thing goes down.
The whole thing, that moment happens. And And here’s another thing. You know, what’s his name?
You know, people have been praying for years. Lord, please overturn this. Please object.
You know, well, the name Samuel means god has heard. God has
her sample, Alito.
Now now let me well, there’s more to it.
But look, well, I’ll I’ll so you want another thing with this.
And that is that you know, the day that that the Jubilee of Roe versus Wade began, remember I told you, when the 50th year begins on January 22nd, 2 thou I mean, 2022.
That’s when it began. Well, the CDC, Senator disease control, says that the play the death rate reached its peak and then plunged the week ending January 22nd, 2020.
The exact date is when it plunged. To almost to virtually nothing. So even that.
Yeah. And the Jubilee’s running throughout. Yes. It’s just absolutely stunning and fascinating.
And these are new revelations in the book. No doubt, Jonathan. The Josiah manifesto.
Now on the cover of the book, Oh, which I love. Yes.
It is a very kind of eye grabbing cover for the Josiah manifesto.
The ancient mystery and guide for the end times, that’s an image of a broken altar what is the sign of the broken altar?
You talk about this in the book. Yeah. And what does it say about America’s future?
Yeah. The broken altar is one of the most, uh, powerful biblical signs.
I mean, literally in the Bible, it appears again and again and again.
It happens when there’s a change or there’s a potential change. Happens when there’s a civilization scene.
When when the Israelites came into the land, they broke the altars of the land.
When they sin, they built alt. They built the altars of the gods.
When they turned back to god, they broke the altar.
So this is ultimately gonna link to the guy we know, you know, who’s Josiah, which is gonna be very specific.
But the thing is that so the sign of the broken altar, it’s a feeling number 1, it’s a it’s a it’s a it’s a sign.
It’s a warning because the fact that you have an altar means it’s a nation that wants new god that has turned away from god.
That is America. That that was Israel. That is America.
But the fact that the altar was broken is assigned from god That was the ancient sign of the potential of revival.
Back then, they didn’t have gospel tent meetings.
I mean, you know, they had tent meetings, but we don’t know they’re great, but that’s not the the sign of revival was the breaking of the altar.
God is giving us a sign. It’s like I set before you life or death.
America is on the on one hand is racing away from god on the verge of judgment.
That’s one of the things I’ve said is all the signs are coming.
So on one hand, it’s a late it’s a late stage. But on the other hand, god is saying, listen.
I can bring revival. I have broke it was the hand of god that broke this altar.
I mean, you know, we we’ve shared so many things.
And one of the things was that the moment that this was set in motion was to the sound of the trumpets.
I mean, you know, this is the power of god. God did it. You know?
And so god is saying there can be revival. You know, It’s either.
And the thing is it’s one or the other. It’s life or death because without revival, America is finished.
It’s either life or death. That this is life or death, everybody.
There we have to pray for revival as never before because this is literally this is this is the broken alter moment.
Amen. Folks, it is revival. Were bust.
I don’t think there’s really any in between, um, which brings us to Josiah. Yes.
The namesake of the book that Josiah manifesto, uh, one of my heroes
in the Bible. No doubt.
Tell us about Josiah. And how all of this is connected to this ancient biblical king.
Yeah. All these mysteries we’ve touch we’ve just touched on are really converging to this one answer and to the broken altar, but the broken altar is speaking of Joseph.
There’s nobody in the Bible who is more connected to the broken altar than Josiah.
His actual his his birth was prophesied centuries before he was born, with the with god breaking the alter at FFO.
I mean, think about that. You know?
And this would be the guy who is who is known for breaking more alters.
He goes, because he, you know, he and he actually went down to the valley of Hinnom and ended those altars where they were killing the babies.
So this is totally Josiah. And, you know, we are, you know, so literally the this is this is the man who was born in a a time of great apostasy.
You know, the the first of all, the day of Josiah, the days we are the days we’re in right now, because it was a nation that had known god, but now was offering up its children.
Now also was worshiping the gods of the nations was actually and that’s the return of the Gods, but they actually were they were intersexual immorality.
They were into the confusing of gender, Ashtohra Ishhar, if you remember.
They were into they were actually and by the way, Josiah dealt with her without that alter too.
He dealt with the altar of gender confusion. He he dealt with the altar of the child sacrifice.
He dealt with the altar of sexual immorality. All these things we’re dealing with He dealt with.
Now he was born to the the father was an apostate. He was an evil man.
His grandfather was an even greater evil man. You know, and who persecuted believers. Okay.
So he’s born in now now there’s not much hope for him.
Like, when you look at the natural, this guy is is not gonna have a good a good life.
He ends up turning his heart to the lord despite his age, despite the culture.
Became king at the age of eight? Yes.
And this is all laid out folks in 2nd kings and 2nd chronicles, but he was eight years old and still very young when he began breaking the altars a teenager.
He he he be, yeah, as teenager. And the thing is the thing is they found the word of god.
They were repairing the temple. He wanted the temple god return, and they repair, and they found the word of god.
And that just shook him. He he repend. He said, oh my god. You know, we’re gonna be judged.
We’re gonna be so so he set up on a on a campaign of revival.
And the campaign of revival is he went through it.
1st, he went to Jerusalem because because it was even, you know, the altars were even there in Jerusalem, which which would translate to even in the churches today.
You know, you have a apostasy. You have you have dilution of the word. You have all these things.
You wonder why where why things are going the way they’re going. But he turned it around.
This one man sold out for god. He literally it says his heart was told to hear out like nobody.
You know? And and what it’s saying is one man now now here’s the other thing about this Josiah moment because that we are in the Josiah moment right now.
And the thing is what it’s saying is, you know, Josiah came at the end.
It it wasn’t to it was in the time of judgment. It was gonna be judged.
The kingdom was gonna be destroyed. Okay. But Josiah, one man delayed the whole thing.
One man turned history around for that generation. One righteous man.
One man who was sold out for god, lit when it looked like it was hopeless, like it like, for many believers, it looks like it’s hopeless.
What I’m saying, it’s not hopeless. That’s what the Josiah manifest is about.
And that is that that there is Scott has never finished, and he all took as one man to change the history of his generation.
All takes as one person out there one one Josiah, you know, man or woman, one Josiah generation that can literally alter the course of a nation that is falling away from god, which is America right now.
And it doesn’t necessarily have to be just one person. It could be many Josiah’s.
Essentially, we are all Josiah if we wanna turn this thing around.
Yeah. What yeah. So what so on one hand, we got we have a warning that the time is late.
There is a judgment there. America’s on the on the brink of it.
On the other hand, god is not finished and that god has never finished.
And so one thing so so this is what opens up the manifesto part.
And this is the kind of the last 100 pages, which is what do we do now?
All according to what god put in there. What do we do?
How do we heal everything from dealing with your children?
You know, what do you do with your children in school? What do you deal with?
How do you deal with what’s happening in the culture? How do you deal with entertainment?
What’s coming into your house? How do you deal with everything? And the thing is that god has never finished.
Josiah was the breaker of altars.
So we are called to break the altars of our culture, the o altars of darkness. They’re not not people.
The altars of darkness. And so not that in our lives too.
Because Josiah first had to take the altars out of the out of the palace area before he could do it.
We if you have an altar in your life, if you’re dealing to some in something that sexual him around.
Whatever it is, deal with it first.
Get that out of your life, and god is gonna use use you only there’s only it only takes it says the eyes of the lord are searching the entire earth looking for the one whose heart is his.
The good news here, you know, and and by the way, you know me, uh, at And every book I have though though with, you know, we to deal with some heavy things, there’s always hope, but no book has so much hope.
I mean, uh, and so the way now This is let me say something too.
The manifesto, I called because this is a godly manifesto, and that is that no matter what happens to America, first of all, we’re if we’re gonna make a difference, it’s gonna happen by what we do.
There’s a plan of god, how to affect, how to turn the culture.
But at the same time, regardless, let’s say that there’s persecution.
It goes there’s still a job for us to do. How do we deal with persecution?
You know, one of the things one of the the sections of the manifest was called called the agents of heaven on earth.
We are called to be agents of heaven on earth. We got it. We are agents active.
We’re not to be passive. We’re not to be reactive. We’re to be radical. Josiah was radical. He was revolutionary.
The days of being status quo are over for the church. We have to get radical. You know what’s happening?
You know, it’s kinda like the book of acts. Remember the book of acts?
That climax Wilson in a Christian culture. It was an anti Christian pagan culture. So listen.
You guys who’ve been praying. I wish I could live in Bible Times. Congratulations. You’re here.
These are bible times. And the thing is Josiah was that light in the night that lit up that I didn’t care what people said.
He didn’t care about the majority.
He went against the flow and that and god is calling us to be the same.
It’s time to get brighter. If the dark is getting darker, time to get brighter.
One of the things that also in in I know usually this is one host, by the way, who always reads the book.
He didn’t have time to read the full book.
So the thing is at the very end, it’s gonna actually return to a mystery in the island where it began in Cuba that happened at night.
That’s the last mystery that’s for the end times and the glory of god.
And so this could be our greatest hour.
It could be in just ninety miles south of the United States. It’s Cuba. Uh, no coincidence there. For sure.
Jonathan, thank you so much for ending it with encouragement. Ending time together. In the book Yeah.
Uh, with biblical, holy spirit led encouragement. Yeah.
I’m praying that people get it not just for themselves, but get it for people in their lives because this could be the greatest hour, but god is powerful.
That the hand of god, god is real. Yeah. And he’s awesome. But and we have to live like that.
