If you believe Jonathan Cahn, you are betting against the house.

Recently I was sent a link to a video posted by the Messianic Jewish minister and author, Jonathan Cahn. A Messianic Jewish minister is a Jewish individual who believes in Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah and adheres to Christian beliefs as presented in the New Testament.

At first, I wrote Cahn off as just another crank scaring gullible people with prophesies of the "end days". Then I learned that Cahn's most recent book, The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days, is a number one best seller. That got my attention.

Within just a day of its release, the book reached No. 1 on Amazon's Global Bestseller List. It was also number 1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List and still holds that position today. This fellow is getting the word out and getting very wealthy doing it. He has sold millions of books. I am impressed.

But, I am not impressed enough to believe this dude. I am 77 years old and I have heard this bumph for my whole life. My mother and I did not believe it then and I still don't. Most, if not all, those "prophets" from the '50s are now dead and many of the ones  who replaced them are gone as well.

Jack Van Impe died on January 18, 2020, at the age of 88, following a fall.

Tim LaHaye died on July 25, 2016, at the age of 90, following complications from a stroke.

Hal Lindsey, in The Late Great Planet Earth, predicted that the world would end sometime before December 31, 1988. He was wrong. In later years he hedged his bets but at the ripe old age of 93 he is still patiently waiting.

David Jeremiah has not made any specific predictions about the exact date when the world will end but it could happen at any moment. Jeremiah's focus is on spiritual readiness rather than setting specific timelines for apocalyptic events. David Jeremiah is now 82. Time is running out on his prophesies.

Jonathan Cahn is a Johnny-come-lately to all this silliness as he wasn't born until April 12, 1959 but he still has a big "whoops" in his resume. He wrote another book, the Mystery of the SHEmeeTAH, in which he predicted the end of the U.S. as we know it would happen on September13, 2015. Of course, it didn't happen.

I am not alone in taking issue with these self-proclaimed prophets. Click the link and read what Pastor David O. Dykes, Green Acres Church, Tyler, Texas, had to say, "Over the last decade there has been an alarming growth of neo charismatic/Pentecostal influence into conservative politics. I have always considered myself politically and theologically conservative, but there are some religious nuts who have hijacked part of the conservative movement. There has been a rise in the number of people who are calling themselves modern day prophets and are making predictions – about world events. One of them is best-selling author, Jonathan Cahn.

Why am I so confident Cahn will be wrong again?  Well, I have more than a thousand years on my side. Some worried the world would end in the year 1000 AD, reflecting apocalyptic fears associated with the millennium and supposedly found in the Bible. 

 

If that is not an early enough date for you, I could reach back farther into the past but I am sure you have caught my drift. If you believe this scare talk, you are betting against the house. More than a thousand years of continuous wins by the "I-don't-believe-it" crowd puts prophets like Jonathan Cahn on the wrong side of the table. 

 

If you would like to read another take, but one in the same vein as this one, check out:

The Agony of Deceit post that says, "Jonathan Cahn does not resemble a biblical prophet but resembles more a charlatan." Well said.