The Cat in the Hat Principle | Jonathan Cahn Sermon

What does a Dr. Seuss story, the Golden Calf, today’s culture and modern catholic religion have in common? The Cat in the Hat principle is a principle that is both prophetic and personal that explains what is happening in today’s times.

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In the last few days, the pope called for a reinterpretation of the gospels, and a new theology.
Based on the word of god? No. Based on, he said popular common sense.
The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day. And then something went bump.
How that bump made us jump. We looked. Then we saw him on the mat. We looked.
We saw him that cat in the hat. So opens one of the most oh, thank you.
I was so dramatic rendition. The author knows.
That is one of the most famous children’s books in modern times.
How many people read that book as a child? It’s amazing. We were indoctrinated, I think.
That was the the book that made Doctor Sue famous. It’s about a boy and his sister.
They they’re stuck home on a rainy day. They’re all alone. Where their mother was, we have no idea.
The mother just left them alone. I think that’s illegal now.
I don’t think that’s even legal, but I guess back then, you could just do leave your children alone.
I think you could. And she did. Oh, you did. You’re you’re into it. I we did.
I do it all the time. With the door unlocked so strangers could come in.
That’s another thing, including a giant cat person with a hat, and the cat and the hat starts doing these things the mother would never would have done never would have allowed in the house.
The only voice of morality is the fish.
It’s pretty much a bad situation when the most reasonable person is a fish And the children just let the cat do pretty much what he wants.
The cat had his filled with mischief.
He messes up the house, brings in 2 creatures, called thing 1 and thing 2 from the who are in these boxes.
And then the fish spots the mother coming back.
When everything’s out of control, The cat and the hat quickly comes back with a machine that he has to for these situations, cleans up the house just in time.
The mother comes back has no idea what happened in the house.
And then the mother was arrested for child protective services, but that’s another story. That’s my version.
Could the cat in the hat actually give us revelation not only on human nature, the nature of creation, the world, history, modern times, and prophetically, the end times.
It can. It can. I say to you. It can.
It can. I say it’s true. This is the cat in the hat principle.
It is human nature, and it’s profound of something we do, and you can apply this to the very beginning of creation.
It goes back to the garden.
The master in this case is god, in that case, he gave a charge to man his servants to keep the garden and do one thing just don’t need of that.
He goes away his servant, the man and the woman, in the absence of god, presence, visible presence, they do exactly what he told them not to do.
And while he’s away, another comes into the picture, the enemy.
And then the master returns, again, like this parable, comes to the garden, and he sees it and then comes, what, judgment, curse, the fall.
Why do we have the fall? Why all these things?
Why all these problems because of what happened when the master was away? Why did the master go?
Why did god not show his presence at that time?
Well, because if when your boss is overlooking you, you’re gonna do what you have to do, but it may not be your heart.
When your boss is away, that’s when you’re gonna see it.
And so the thing is that god gave them a choice. He could not be there at that time.
He gave them a choice. If you’re gonna have free will and a choice, He cannot be right over your shoulder physically, uh, or visually.
So this whole world is that this whole cosmos, this whole dimension is that god has not seen 1 because of sin, but 2, Because it’s linked to the nature of this world, you see this life, this realm, this place, this life is about choosing.
This is where you choose. Choose god or not god? Choose the kingdom or to go turn away.
Choose heaven or not heaven? Hell. You cannot choose heaven in heaven. You cannot choose hell in hell.
You cannot choose you cannot choose heaven in hell either. You can only choose it now.
That’s the only time you have choice.
In this world, it’s like this is the world of the tree of good and of good and evil.
This is where there is good and evil.
And you choose god or not god light or darkness every moment you choose.
Only in this realm, can you choose heaven? Only in this realm can you get saved?
Only in this realm can you choose the rewards and the blessings that are for you or had it not for you what you do.
Only in this realm, can you stand for god against the majority?
Only in this realm, can you live by faith?
You can’t live by faith in heaven or help because he’s all there.
Only in this realm can you sacrifice for god? Only in this realm can you repent?
Only in this realm can you turn your course only in this realm.
Can you share and save somebody for salvation?
So it has to be that the master’s away at least in our visual, in our but he won’t always be away, but this is the time you choose, and you have no other time to choose.
Whatever you would do, do it now.
And in a sense, what happened at the fall was a was what was replayed on Mount Sinai with the Israelites because you know, you had Moses who was with them, everything they’re following it.
Moses goes up the mountain. They don’t see him And so they turn away from god.
They turn away from Moses and god.
And so it’s interesting because because Paul writes in Romans 1 what happened to the whole world.
The well, how the world became pagan.
He said they even though they knew god because in the beginning, they knew god, It says that they turned away from god.
And they turned to their to the to the creation instead they worship instead of the creator, and they started worshiping idols.
They started they started worshiping the creation. That’s just like the golden cap.
I mean, they worshiped the the worshiped idols. And it says, god gave them over to to impurity.
Well, that’s what happened with the golden calf. They went into lewdness on Natalie sexual immorality.
That’s what it alludes to. And so it said that’s what happened. That’s what happened to paganism.
And it says, it goes on.
It says that they they exchange god they change the the truth of god for a lie, and they exchange natural relations for unnatural.
The men exchanged the women for men. Does that sound familiar? Yes. Now we go to the prophetic realm.
In Mark 13, Messiah speaks of the man journeying away. But what’s the context?
When you look at the verses before, it’s a very clear context.
He said, of that day and hour, nobody knows, but the father Watch and pray for you, know not when.
It’s talking about the second coming. It’s talking about the end times. So that parable has a prophetic meaning.
Who is the man in that parable? It’s the lord. It’s messiah. He goes away.
Now interesting, it says he goes on a long journey. Well, Messiah went away.
He would go away after the parable. He would leave the earth The earth is the house.
The master is the is messiah, and the people, the servants are the people of the earth, specifically the disciples, but everybody in the image of god as well.
So he goes and he ascends that’s his leaving. But it says a long journey.
So he wasn’t some people back then, they thought he was coming right back. No. He wasn’t.
It says a long journey. So this is gonna be a time before he comes back to the earth.
So he ascends. He comes up. He goes up, but the master will return.
Messiah will come. In the parable, the master comes back to where he was, Messiah is coming back to where he was, second coming.
The angels they said to the man of Galilee, why are you looking up?
Why are you gazing into the sky? He’s gonna come back the same way.
He’s gonna return the way he came back. The master’s coming back to the house.
The lord is coming back to the cosmos, same world, same nation, same city, same mountain.
Now this means so much.
There is so much to this because for our civilization, what’s happening in our world now in America and the West, the end times, The master was here, and then he left.
And he left a quote or it became a quote, Judeo Christian civilization. The house of the master.
But in time, in his absence, the servants in the house did exactly what is here.
The our culture and the world did exactly what the servants did.
They said, Hey, he’s not coming back soon. Or at all, he’s not coming.
The Bible says, what will happen in the end times people will say where is the promise of his coming?
And it’s exactly what’s happened.
So the cultures held out for a time in his absence, but then in the into the modern age, the servants of the house said, okay, we’re turning.
Leaders turned, you know, the they happened in the culture, it happened first in Europe, which they had known the gospel in some form, As it turned away from god, it turned to darkness.
It is no accident that that civilization that had once known god has, when it turned away from god, produced the greatest evils in the history of mankind, the evil of Nazism the evil of communism, the evil of fascism, the evil of totalitarianism, the people of the house began going against the ways of the master and began beating the servants.
Oh, they beat the others. They end up killing each one of these killed millions of people.
When the master of the house is gone, notice, the servants act like the masters.
They run the house they change the ways. How does that translate today?
If a culture turns away from recognizing god, that culture will seek to be god.
If a state or government turns away from recognizing god, it will seek to take the place of god.
The school system will take the place of god. The the culture, the scientists, the everything, the government.
And what does god he god makes good and evil. They will redefine good and evil. They will redefine morality.
They will redefine reality The servant declares himself master man declares himself god.
It’s happening now in America. America held out for a time.
Unlike Europe, because, you know, Europe went first.
But then they said, well, America is an exception because it’s keeping the faith. It’s keeping its faith.
Even though we weren’t turning in ways.
But but the numbers who said we are believers, but then all of a sudden, it collapsed.
Most of that collapsed in the last 20 years. I mean, it was already going.
We know that, but it collapsed. It was a sudden collapse.
And all of a sudden, we have become now Our culture has become the house of the master where the servants have taken over.
The unfaithful servants And so we have overturned the ways of the master of the house on life, on marriage, on sexuality, on gender, on everything.
And increasingly his servants come against, or the ones who are in the house, running the house are against his true servants, who are upholding still the ways of the master.
It seeks to cancel them. And so what happened on Mount Sinai is very much a picture even to us today of what’s happened to our world.
Moses went up Sinai Messiah went up man of olives and and to the heavens.
In Moses’s absence, Israel turned away. In Messiah’s absence, we have our culture is turned away.
As as Israel turned to idols and the creation, our culture has turned to the creation and to idols and to gods.
And as the Israelites to base themselves with sexual immorality, our culture has done the same thing.
It’s all replaying. And it’s amazing how this principle also applies to the church and churches who the first servants of god is, of course, the church.
There is something called postmillennialism. Postmillennialism. And then there’s something called amillennialism.
And and what they here here’s what they mean.
I mean, postmillennialism means, or amillennial, means basically either the millennium has already come, or it’s here, or it’s never coming.
That now, how can anybody read the Bible and think that we are in the millennium now.
We’re in the kingdom now. Or that is how can you do that? Uh, you want a cure for that?
Just take to motor vehicles for a day, they’ll say, this is not the millennium.
I mean, it’s a no brainer. I mean, this is how you can do that.
But in the beginning of the church age, the church overwhelmingly or everybody was premillennial. What does that mean?
Premillennial simply means the millennium hasn’t come yet. It’s coming. The kingdom’s come. We’re not in it yet.
Spiritly, we’re in the kingdom, but not physically. Messiah’s not on earth, the line, and the lamb, and all that.
Be why did the fir the the believers why was that?
Because the the lord said he was coming back book about him coming back.
And so the disciples said, is it this time you’re gonna restore Israel?
He says, not for you to know the time or the season.
But everybody in the book of acts pretty much was looking forward to the master’s return.
Some people thought he’d come sooner. But as time went on, notice what happened.
The church moved away from its roots in Israel and became established in Rome, and it began changing.
It began throwing away that hope at the beginning because it got more comfortable.
More established got earthly power, worldly power.
The, quote, church ruled So necessarily, it wasn’t on missing, well, we maybe we don’t want him to come back because we we have power.
We’re we’re this is our kingdom now. So It came up with this thing called postmillennialism or all millennials.
Basically, we’re in the kingdom, or it’s not coming. This is it.
And whether they said it out loud, that’s a and that’s no accident.
They also came up with replacement theology, which is basic or supercessionism, which means god is finished with Israel all the more he’s not coming back because where is he coming back?
Israel? Well, if we’ve replaced Israel, he’s not really coming back. What is that?
That whole thing, that’s the theology of the servants of the house who said my master’s delayed, or he’s not coming, and so we can do what we want.
That’s what it is. It’s the the I’m not talking about the people personally, but the theology of the servants of the house I’m amazed how anybody can read the Bible and come up with that belief.
Uh, you just can’t, unless you just basically dismiss the Bible.
But with the return of many the there was a movement of returning to the word, reformation, you know, other thing in light, all those things that came.
And with the return of that, not at the beginning, because those old denominations in the Protestant world also, they didn’t They didn’t quite correct this, but the later ones did.
The baptists came, the evangelicals, then charismatic, the majority of born again believers now have come back to the biblical belief of the first believers that messiah’s coming.
The master is returning, which is just the Bible.
You know, it’s interesting because you don’t have the guy, Augustine, Saint Augustine, you know, Auguston was right at the time when the church was gonna take over, become political, you know, become and he originally was premillennial.
The lord’s coming back. Then he turned a millennial.
But now so that’s what’s happened to many of these denominations.
And it’s amazing too because as as it’s going, at the same time.
Now we actually see the signs of what the Bible said. Now Israel has come back into the world.
That Israel is the house. It’s the 1st house, you know, because that’s where he left. That’s where he’s coming.
He’s not coming back until that house is there. So the fact that Israel is back.
And then in 1967, that the Jewish people are back in Jerusalem where he left, that’s where he’s coming back.
That’s a sign of the master coming back. And it’s amazing thing.
You know, it’s no it’s no accident.
That most of the the nominations that put away that hope and became postmillennial or amillennial are generally the same denominations, generally, that have now totally apostasized.
Where they the word is not the word, they basically say, hey.
We can call evil, good, and good, evil, The Bible doesn’t really mean that anymore. We will bless abomination.
We will profane that which is sacred, and they tend to also be the ones who are most against Israel.
Now you find it in the older Protestant world denomination.
I’m not speaking about everybody in there, but that’s the general thing.
But you also find it in the even older one.
Just like in the last few days, the pope called for a reinterpretation of the gospels. Jesus.
And a new theology. Based on the word of god, no, based on he said popular common sense.
And he’s through in this. Listen to this.
And often not corresponding to the Christian face of god. What on earth does that mean?
Well, It will mean this. Remember the parable of the master and the servants.
That’s what it’s gonna mean. But the Bible says it’s gonna happen.
But, you know, Bible says it’ll be a great falling away and there’ll be a apostasy, but there will also be faithful people as well.
What does this have to do with you? In the parable, he tells the 1, stay up.
Watch be a watchman. I was a watchman. When I went to college, I had just become a believer.
I was a night watchman in a factory.
And one of the people who work with me in the factory was, um, a student, a minister, a ministerial student, a Christian.
And what he would do is he’d go into the president’s office sit on the president’s chair, put his feet up on the president’s desk, lean back on the chair, and sleep for the night.
And it worked. Until one day, the president came in early and found him sleeping in his chair.
It was a then came judgment. It was a bad witness.
It was a sign, you know, but it’s a sign of believers that have fallen asleep.
Never forget this life is temporary. The master is coming.
Whether you live in the day that he will come on earth or whether your life is completed before that, It’s gonna be that day anyway.
You’re gonna stand before him. No matter what, the day is coming when the master will return.
And blessed is that servant whom the master will find doing his will when he returns.
And he comes at an hour you do not expect.
Therefore, live your life in such a way that no matter which hour he comes, you will not be ashamed when he comes.
You won’t be doing something that you would be ashamed of if he came on that day or if your heart stopped that that day.
Live your life. No matter what you’re doing, he will find you doing his will.
Then you will be the blessed servant, and he will see he will say, you are faithful and little, be faithful in much.
Go in to enter your reward.
And the other thing is we grow up with the assumption that things are under control.
That pretty much this society has everything under control. It’s got guardrails. It’s got police. It’s got laws.
It’s got government. If it’s so pretty much under control.
But the revelation is that is not the world you’re living in now.
That’s not the culture, and that’s not the America.
The world you are now living in, the culture you’re now living in is the master’s house that has been taken by the unfaithful servants.
We are now living in the house. We’re in that take the parable. We’re in the house.
Those who have taken over and now are running it as if they were the master as if they were god.
Going against the waves of the master, overturning the word of the master, trying to drive the, the, the ways of the master out of the house, and certainly coming against those faithful servants, those who stay faithful, you’re the servant god willing that are staying faithful to god.
So the other servants are not gonna like you.
Because you are a testimony to the culture of how far they have fallen.
So they call you what they call you.
You know, I share recently rolling stone to this ridiculous article on me. And I’m proud of what I did.
You know, I’m proud to get in there because it just it’s that’s what it is.
It’s the and you are standing for things that just a little the day before yesterday, everybody was saying that was the way.
But now they’re saying you’re crazy and you’re causing trouble because you’re doing what they fell away from. Inmates.
Or to put it another way, the inmates have taken over the asylum.
So you act have laws that are lawless that are in rebellion.
Laws that are in rebellion. You actually have governments at war with the government of god, you have courts in violation of the judge of the universe.
What to tell you? You cannot rely on this culture to keep you on the guard.
You cannot do it. You cannot rely on this culture to filter out of your television because it gets pumped into your into your living room and pumped it to your computers, pumped you cannot rely on it that it’s gonna actually censor what it should censor.
You cannot rely on this culture that’s gonna that it’s gonna provide your children with an education anymore that is in harmony with god’s ways or that is not apostate immoral and at war with the ways of god.
That’s happening happening in New Jersey, happening in New York, happening in in many states, and it’s happening.
It’s spreading all over, even to the bible belt. You cannot rely on that culture and parents.
You gotta do something. You cannot just commit your children to apostasy to be trained into apostasy.
That’s your charge, not the government’s charge. You gotta do something one way or the other.
And when you spend 1000 and 1000 of dollars to send your kids to college, to undo everything you did in the 1st 18 years.
What is that? You make sure you know where they’re sending you’re sending them to Christian or that’s not gonna do it because it’s gonna do it if you don’t watch it, or you keep or or you do something else.
You are the servant in the house and an apostate house.
You are a servant in the house that has gone against the master’s ways in his absence, but you are a servant of the master.
So what does that mean? You have to live against the flow.
You have to commit to live against the flow of the culture of this house. You cannot follow it.
You cannot let it direct you. You cannot let it let it compromise you. Let it soften you.
Dilute your stand. You cannot be influenced by it, and you can’t be dependent on it.
You have to separate yourself from the dark. The Bible says, come out of her. Come out of Babylon.
Now that doesn’t mean you have nothing to do with it.
You are to be a light to this world. You’re to be active on it. You’re to be engaging it.
But separate from its darkness, separate from its corruption, separate from that entertainment that is corrupt that is corrupt.
Separate from that activity that is defiled, that is beginning, that is seeping in.
You have to commit that you are living by a higher authority. A higher law, a higher master.
You have to live by by the fact in the in the house that is in rebellion against the master, you are of the master.
He is the judge of judges. He is your judge. He is your master.
You ain’t gotta be like Moses in Egypt.
Daniel in Babylon, Paul in Rome, you gotta become independent of the world of the of the dependency.
You cannot stand you cannot be a light to the world if you’re of the world.
It’s an amazing thing because the 2 most prominent signs of the end times are manifesting today together.
1 is the great apostasy, the falling away we see it every day.
It’s a sign of the have turned away from the master because they said he’s not coming back.
The other is Israel, which is still here, is a still is the center controversy as the Bible said it would be.
It’s back warfare over Israel focus of the world, the world’s against Israel, just as the Bible said it would.
In the last days. That’s the sign that the master is returning.
So it’s time We have to get all the more solid in the master.
This is Jonathan Khan. Thanks for watching.
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