SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I want you to picture this. You’re in a desert and you’re walking, and you’re walking, and you’re walking. And you’re so thirsty. But you’re not as thirsty for water as you are for mysteries, for answers to your questions. And then you find a rabbi, a teacher, and this teacher not only answers all the mystery questions you have, but tells you things you’ve never even pondered of the invisible world. I have such a rabbi here, such a teacher here. Anyone interested in having your mysteries answered? My guest seems like such an unassuming nice quiet guy, but he’s causing an international stir. Who would have every thought Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, my friend from New York, who would have ever thought you’d cause such a stir?
JONATHAN: What can I do, Sid? You know, the Lord called. We’ve known each other for like 30 years. But the Lord just did it. It’s all the Lord.
SID: Wow. I love that. I love it. But Jonathan, give me kind of an update on the Harbinger. Everyone was looking for a disaster. It happened on a specific day.
JONATHAN: The template of the Harbinger has continued. America has not as a culture turned back to God. Remember what happened to ancient Israel. They were warned and they moved, they continued to move away. Well we’ve been accelerating as a nation, as a culture. It’s been following that template. In fact, there are things I won’t go into that are in the Harbinger, years ago that are coming true in this election. I will not go through that, but I will say a few things. One of the things is that, for instance, the Shemitah, one of the things that absolutely happened, what happened is the Shemitah of 2015 was the worst year in the stock market since the Shemitah of 2008, the worst year in seven years. It caused the markets to crash all over. And actually in the month of Elul, it caused a global collapse, still here now, oil to collapse, [unintelligible] to collapse.
SID: Everyone was looking in the U.S., but this was for the whole world.
JONATHAN: All over. China collapsed, stock market collapsed. All over and actually it was the worst year to make money in 78 years since the Great Depression. And not only that, it was 20 percent of the day crashes in history that happened during the Shemitah and during the month of Elul. And not only that, I mean, there’s so much. But not only that, the actual, the American age that began in 1871 when America became the strongest economic power on Earth, the Shemitah of 2015 ended the American age. America was dethroned. It is no longer the strongest economic power. It is now China. So there is much, much, much that did happen. God didn’t have to do anything, but it happened.
SID: I want you to set the scene for the mysteries, the desert, the teacher. Explain.
JONATHAN: The mysteries, which we’re going to get into. It begins with a man traveling in the desert. He meets a man called The Teacher, and the Teacher takes him on a one-year odyssey around mountaintops, caves, secret chambers, all, desert dwellers. And every day he opens a mystery, some of the greatest mysteries of God. He opens up a mystery for every day. So it’s an odyssey. And yet the one who sees this has really taken on that odyssey and every day there are, if the Harbinger was a mystery, this is hundreds of mysteries. And really, I would say the greatest mysteries of ages of God, of prophecy, of Heaven.
SID: But you know what I like about these mysteries, we’re coming into such tough times in the world.
JONATHAN: That’s it. That’s it.
SID: What if these mysteries could unlock peace in you, could unlock joy in you, could unlock purpose and destiny in you? You started out with the mystery of the jar. Explain that.
JONATHAN: This is really an opening. It’s to open because this is for believers, unbelievers. It doesn’t matter. It’s an opening. That is this. The Teacher comes to the disciple carrying a jar, and says, poses the question, “Is it possible for something that is small to contain something that is large?” And he says, “No, it’s not possible, and he says, “Yes it is. If the vessel is open it can contain everything. It’s unlimited. This jar can contain a river. If you put it in a river it can flow right through it.” How can you contain God? The Bible says, Paul says, “I pray that you would have the fullness of God.” How can you be filled with the fullness of God? An open vessel, an open life, an open mind, an open heart will be filled by God continuously. There’s no limitations on that life. There’s no end to the revelations of God. There’s no end to the awesomeness of God. We just have to not get tired. We have to keep seeking him and we’ll find.
SID: When you understand these mysteries you will walk in joy. You will walk in peace. You will walk in blessing. Tell me, these ancient rabbis were much smarter than modern rabbis. What did they figure out about the Messiah?
JONATHAN: Well in the mysteries, the Teacher takes the disciple into a room with old books, takes out the old books, the Talmud of the Bible, of the rabbis. Hidden in their writings in the book called Yoma, in that, the rabbis recorded that all of a sudden strange signs and supernatural things started happening in the Temple of Jerusalem. And particularly they said the doors of the Temple opened by themselves. They would close it and they would open by themselves. It says they rebuked the doors, but they opened by themselves.
SID: You’re saying the doors opened?
JONATHAN: The golden doors.
SID: What year did this happen?
JONATHAN: Well here’s the thing. They give the year. They say happened about 40 years before the destruction of the Temple. 70 A.D. the temple is destroyed, minus 40 equals just about 30 A.D., the time of Messiah on the cross. And so when Messiah is on the cross the rabbis are recording that all these supernatural cosmic changes took place in the Temple. In fact, in one of the books called Sanhedrin of all things, the actually put, they give the timing when Messiah had to come by, and it comes out about 30 A.D. This is in the rabbinic writings. There is nothing like this in history. It’s actually proving Messiah beyond anything.
SID: How can we have all those coincidences and call them coincidences? They were proving Jesus is the Messiah.
JONATHAN: Yes. God led it. God caused it to happen.
SID: You know, one of my producers said that her favorite mystery is the mystery of the bride and the groom.
JONATHAN: Okay.
SID: I mean, you can talk on that for the next ten hours.
JONATHAN: Okay, yes. Well here’s the thing. One of the most beautiful mysteries, and it’s the mystery of the Bible, mystery of life, it’s the mystery of the ancients, it’s this in a nutshell. The ancient Hebrew marriage holds this cosmic revelation. How did it begin? Well in order for there to be a marriage, the bridegroom always had to make a journey from his house to the house of the bride, always. Then in the house of the bride he would have to pledge himself. He would have to give a costly treasure to set her free from her house. And then once they would seal a covenant, drink wine together, a cup. Then he would go back to his house and he would prepare a home for her. They would be separated. She would prepare herself for him, he would prepare a home for her and then the great wedding day would come. Many [days later], maybe a year later, great procession, the bridegroom dressed as a king with his men with torches at night coming to the bride. The bridge dressed as a queen. He’d come for her. She’d take off her veil. They’d see each other face to face. He would then, they would be carried away in a great procession from her house to the house of the bridegroom where they would celebrate for seven days. What’s the mystery? That’s the biggest nutshell I can do. What’s the mystery here? God is the bridegroom, we are the bride, or everybody watching was born to be the bride. But in order for the mystery to happen, the bridegroom must make the journey. So 2000 years ago, the bridegroom of our souls journeyed from his house, Heaven, to our house, Earth. He journeyed to our house. He comes to us no matter where we are, not just Earth. No matter where we are he’s the bride, he’s the God who comes to us. He comes to our door. We have to let him in. And then what did he have to do? In the house of the bride, the bridegroom had to produce a price, a gift, a costly treasure to say, well he did. It wasn’t silver or gold. The price was his life. That is the bridal gift to set us free. And then they shared a cup. He shared a cup with us. Then the bridegroom has to return to his father’s house. What did he say? I have to go to my Father’s house. I will prepare a place for you in my Father’s house with many mansions. I will come again. And so now is the great separation. We are the bride. He’s there, we’re here. But we are to prepare our face, to take the time we have now to prepare our self for the marriage. We’re to become more beautiful. We’re getting ready for our eternal home. And then one day comes the second visitation when he will come for us. Whether we are alive on that day or whether the end of our life, he’s going to come one more time for the bride and he will come. We will see him then face to face. We will be lifted away with him, the bride and groom carried on a procession, the old house disappears, the old creation, and we will enter the house of the bridegroom that we have only dreamed about, we’ve only believed in. We’ll see it then and for the first time in our lives we will be home.
SID: With all of his knowledge, with all of his wisdom, I want to find out the mysteries of the End Times when we come back.
