Be Very Leary Of 'Prophetic' Shemitah Date Setting By Men
As of late, I
have developed a healthy concern for some of my Christian brothers and sisters in Christ
who have currently been swept away by pastors and others who are predicting a specific date where by allegedly the
United States will suffer a great financial collapse this coming
September 13th, 2015.
Not all are giving specific dates of an economic collapse here but in some way are all pointing to the "Shemitah" which "the
Shemitah year, or the Jewish
Sabbatical year is set to begin on September 24, 2014, on Rosh Hashanah,
the Jewish New Year. The Shemitah is the seventh year in the seven
year agricultural calendar of Israel. According to the Torah, personal
debts were to be waived and a sort of financial reset occurred in
ancient Israel during the Shemitah. Time was set aside for the nation to
rest and devote themselves to worshipping and fellowshipping with God.
Disobedience to the Shemitah law brought God’s judgment! (Exodus 23;
10-11, 2 Chronicles 36:20-23)" will indeed bring judgement against this
nation between later 2015 and into 2016, for ignoring that Jewish
Biblical mandate. Probably the most famous of all who expound on such theories is Jonathan Cahn, the
famous Rabbi of a Messianic Jewish
Church in New Jersey, and writer of the best selling book, "The
Harbinger", who are not giving specific dates when the economic disaster
will hit America, but are stating that the economic collapse will indeed hit America sometime between late 2015 and in 2016. http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/September24/241.html.
Personally,
I believe that The
Shemitah is an interesting Biblical account and application to study.
However, those in America that preach such Biblical applications as the
Shemitah may be
leading people astray. Giving specific dates as to any future date that
God would do anything, must always be met first with very serious Biblical
scrutiny. Think of
all those in the past that have predicted Jesus' return and have all
failed. Christians should always be very cautious when being advised by
anyone that a future event will take place on a specific date. It is sad
and unfortunate that so many U.S Christians have only to simply read
their Bibles, to
discount those who have in the past predicted such things as Jesus's
alleged return for His church. Had those
millions of Christians who in the past were falsely and easily led away
with this
unbiblical rumor of Christ's return on a specific date had actually read read Mark 13:32, they would have saved
themselves a lot
of pain and embarrassment. In fact, I am writing this article to rescue
many from the similar fate of being in pain and embarrassed in the
future as well. We need to learn the lessons of the past from whom so
many have indeed suffered for their failure to heed the Biblical
warnings in being wise and aware of wolves that can draw people away from Christ and the Bible. Do you
remember Jack van Impe's relentless claim in 1999 that through years of
Biblical
research, he had miraculously found that Jesus was going to return in the
year 2000? No? How about the collapse of America that James Dobson and
his frequent on-air radio program guests predicted for January 1, 2000
all because he and others on his program predicted computers and other electronic hardware in America were only
allegedly programmed to December 31, 1999. Maybe you don't remember that either. OK, how about this, do you remember Harold
Camping's past on-air radio program failed predictions of Christ's return on Jewish Holidays in 1994, 2011 and 2012?
Have we learned our lesson yet not to get caught up in unbiblcal future specific date
setting ? Yes
Christians claiming Biblical knowledge that a particular event is going
to occur sometime in the future on a specific date most certainly not
only makes that person look bad when the prediction is wrong, but it also
makes them look incredible as well. As if
the world isn't already filled with false prophets, Christians do not
need to be yet conned into falling for yet again another supposed event
that will most likely not occur on a specific date.
Oh,
I know I will be sent hate mail for giving Biblical warning to folks to
not be caught up in specific dates of Christ's return, nor of when God
Himself is going to bring wrath and judgement against the United States.
I mean, we all know that God is indeed already bringing wrath and
judgement here and things will get worse in the USA unless many Americans repent. Indeed, we who truly know Jesus as our Lord and Saviour know and can see this. In fact, the world is quite aware matters are getting worse as well. In fact many unbelievers in Christ can see an economic crisis for this nation coming soon as well. It is the world as well as the Christian who has been paying attention to economic affairs of this nation that has seen the value of
the US Dollar being over inflated, stock prices are also over inflated,
the American economy has been artificially stimulated and supported by
the Federal Reserve(which is not a Government entity) by purposely
keeping the prime lending interest rate low. In fact, there is a long
and lengthy list of economic issues here that most certainly looks like our economy
will indeed crash very soon, whether a "Shemitah" event or not. However, no one Is setting a specific date when the economy will crash here, only some Christians that have large ministries who by making predictions such as The Shemitah Event and collapse of America's economy, stand to make a lot of money selling their books and by making public appearances.
Here's the bottom line, can one simply use the
Shemitah to give a specific future date of collapse of this nation, most
likely not. There has been especially a lot of predicting of supposed
future events since the release of the Book, "The Bible Codes" in 1997.
Millions purchased that book and there have even been sequel books to
follow, but many who bought the initially published book, have lost interest in the book because many of the specific dates and events that were predicted in the book had all proven to be
untrue. Let's be honest here, not even the
best market analyzer, nor Bible Scholar can predict a future event for a specific date.
Why ? Because God's ways are not our ways(Isaiah 55:8). God also chooses
to use the foolish things to confound the wise(1Corinthians 1:27). We who are wise in the Lord recognize the times we live in as Jesus said for us to do, but specific date setting for a particular date, is a very dangerous thing to do.
Those
who read their Bibles most certainly can come up with Biblical theories
and precepts and may end up, and be ultimately true. The issue once again however is this, do
we also have a
real Biblical basis, also heard specifically from the Spirit
of God, and as well, confirmed by
His people to have the ability to make a prediction of a particular
future event on a specific date? Many
Christan's have made claim to have heard from God, even conformed supposedly by others that what they heard was trued, but in the end, were wrong and failed. Remember, and or know
this, it is common knowledge that It was even the early
believers of Christ in the First Century A.D. who believed Jesus was
returning during their lifetime. They were wrong even though many believed and thought for sure that they were correct. You see, even though we are true
believers in Jesus of the Bible, if we are not careful, we also can be
swept up in hysteria, other people's wrongly held predictions, and ultimately become
embarrassed. Worse of all however, we can, and will not only be
embarrassed if that event does not take place on a specific date as we
said it would, we also will lose our Christian
witness before the world if we are not careful and for that, we will be accountable before God.
So
before you draw out all your money from the bank, and you instead start
buying gold,
silver and preparing for America's economic collapse on September 13th,
2015, may I instead suggest that you stock up on extra food, water,
toilet paper and
other essentials today as a way to plan and prepare for the future in general.
I too see disaster coming to this nation, especially in light of all
the
sins of commission and omission that transpire here. We that belong to
Christ know something bad is about to occur here, but when and where ? I
say only the Lord knows. His plans are not our plans, and as it is
declared in the Holy Bible in 2Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance."
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