SID: Many of you know Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. He’s had so many New York Times best sellers. You’re probably familiar with The Harbinger, but this new book, I have to tell you there’s something so special about it. Now tell me the whole premise of The Oracle.
JONATHAN: Yeah, The Oracle is probably–
SID: What is the word oracle?
JONATHAN: Oracle is like a prophet. I mean, there a false ones then there’s the real one, and one who speaks for God. And the ultimate thing is that this is probably the largest mysteries that I’ve ever written about and that this is so big that it lies behind everything from the past, the present, what is yet to come, current events, what is the mystery behind it, even our president, even Trump, it’ll go there too. And it’s really the master template or secret of end time prophecy. And it’s so exact that it actually gives the exact times when things have to happen down to, in some cases, the exact dates.
JONATHAN: There’s several mysteries that are open up. One is the Jubilean Mysteries, which is this based on the jubilee, that every … God has this time clocked, and that at certain times, according to this, that there are prophetic events that happen in the world like clockwork. They happen every 50 years and it happens… It’s gigantic, it’s prophetic. It’s linked actually to the Messiah’s coming. So that’s one of the… It’s affected all of our lives.
JONATHAN: Another one is the Parashah, the mystery of the Parashah, and that is this. There are these appointed words, Sid, that God appointed that are appointed from … It’s the scripture, and that all around the world every week the Jewish people open up the scrolls in the synagogues and there are appointed words in that scroll. And when they are read, things come true, happen in the world when they’re read. And one note, you said about The Oracle. This is… When people read this, it’s like The Harbinger in this sense that there’s a story that all of these things are revealed, but there’s a narrative where a man goes–
SID: You have quite an imagination. Wait till you hear about this.
JONATHAN: … goes to find a man called The Oracle on this mountain. And The Oracle opens up these mysteries of God. And it’s done through these seven doors. And so each door is another revelation that opens up mysteries, many mysteries. We probably will not get to the seventh door. In fact, we’ll probably just be able to touch on it.
SID: Okay, let’s just start with one of them. It’s actually one of my favorites, but I have to tell you, they’re all favorites. But this is about the stranger.
JONATHAN: Yeah, people don’t realize that there was, the end times and what we are witnessing now, what we’re dealing with is real and all. That began… In a sense, the end times were set in motion. What we are seeing now in this particular year, about 150 years ago, around 1867, when all these strange things start happening in the land. It’s like God is preparing for the end times. He’s preparing [for] Israel coming back.
JONATHAN: And one of the prophecies Moses did before he died, he said, “Before this happens,” he says that “God’s going to gather you from the ends of the earth. But he says, “But first a stranger is going to come from across the world. He’s going to come from far away. He’s going to come to the land. He’s going to bear witness that it is desolate. It’s a wasteland. It’s hopeless. It’s cursed. And then God’s going to start doing it.”
JONATHAN: Well, what amazing thing said, the stranger comes. He comes from far away. He makes a journey, comes to the land, and he sees it desolate. He records it. He writes a book. He spreads it to the world, and the words he uses are the same words that Moses said he’s going to use. And the man who’s the stranger, we grew up learning about him, he’s part of prophecy, is Mark Twain. Mark Twain actually is fulfilling biblical prophecy.
SID: Was he a strong believer when he–
JONATHAN: He was a skeptic. That’s all the more powerful, Sid. When he reaches the peak of his journey, the last full day and night in Jerusalem, and he’s bearing witness, that day it’s the Sabbath and there’s an appointed word throughout the world that’s being read, all around the world. What’s the word? The word that’s being read, as the stranger is in the land and completes his journey is the prophecy, Moses saying, “The stranger will come to the land.”
JONATHAN: And all around and he’s actually walking Jerusalem and they’re chanting this and they don’t know it’s being fulfilled in their midst and none of that … Let me … Right after this happens, Sid, right after he comes, that’s when all these things start coming in. It’s the beginning of the restoration of Israel and for 2000 years the Jewish people are praying every day, “Lord restore us to Jerusalem,” and they say every day, “Hear our prayer, Lord, hear our prayer,” and they say, “Be merciful to us and build Jerusalem.” Mark Twain, it wasn’t his real name. He was born with a name that was Hebrew. He was born … it was Samuel, Samuel Clemens. Samuel means the Lord has heard and Clemens means he has now been merciful. Who could do that?
SID: I’m going to tell you the effect. I read one of the first copies of this book. In fact, it wasn’t even out yet. And when I read this, it ties together like there’s in the United States, our Congress is debating whether we should be a friend of Israel, etc. I’m going to tell you something.
SID: Anyone that reads your book will love the land of Israel. Will believe that the Jewish people were given a covenant from God himself for that land. Anyone that reads that book will say, “There has got to be a God and this book must be from God.” The center of history, whether you know it or not, is Israel. When you explain these various doors in your brand new book, you don’t just share one tiny little thing. You share layer upon layer. Not just that one fact. We don’t have time to do it, but layer. I mean how could God have … it is mind blowing.
JONATHAN: It is mind blowing and we can only … here, we can just touch on a little bit, but the thing is it’s the same God in our life. He weaves it together the same way whether we see it or not. It’s the same God.
SID: Tell me about the mystery of Israel’s rebirth.
JONATHAN: There’s a prophecy in the Bible from Amos that God says, he speaks about the day that he’s going to raise up Israel. It says on that day it says, “I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David.” He says, “I will end their exile. I’ll bring them to the land. I’ll bring Israel back as I,” … this whole prophecy. It’s read around the world, so now the Jewish people in the 20th century are opening up their scroll. It’s an appointed day. It’s appointed for that word. They read it and they’re saying, “I will raise up. I will raise up Israel.”.
JONATHAN: Well, what day do they open that up? May 14th, 1948 the day Israel was raised up from the dead. The exact day. When it’s happening, Israel is rising up all around the world. They’re chanting, “I will raise up.”.
SID: Tell me about the jubilean code.
JONATHAN: If I told you that Moses actually knew the, or said these things, when this was going to happen, it would sound crazy. In the original jubilean ordinance that says every 50th year from, through Moses, he says, “You shall return, everyone, you shall return to your ancestral possession.” That’s jubilee. You shall return. But the amazing thing, Sid, the word he uses for “you shall return” is one Hebrew word, teshuvah. Teshuvah … this is … Listen, when you write a year in Hebrew, you write it with letters, you write it with letters. Well, when you put the letters together, you shall return, it comes out to the year 1948.
SID: Not all of you got that. In English, we have numbers and we have at the alphabet, but in Hebrew the alphabet is the numbers. I want you to get this. So, you read that word in Hebrew and it’s a number and the number was …
JONATHAN: 1948, you shall return to your ancestor possession. It’s all there from the….
SID: Give me a break. You know what I think, Jonathan? I think God is having mercy on planet earth. No one will be able to see him when they leave this earth suit and say, “Well, I wasn’t sure the Bible was from God. I wasn’t even sure there was a God.” No one. There’s just so much. Okay, tell me about the jubilean man.
JONATHAN: Okay, let’s count. All right. We count from 1917 with that last big jubilee. Add 50 … what’s the 50th year? 1967. What’s that? The Six-Day War. What did … when Israel came back didn’t have Jerusalem, but Jesus said you must have Jerusalem because he says, “You’re going to be in Jerusalem saying by, “Baruch haba,” blessed is he, he told the Jewish people, so they have to be back.
JONATHAN: So what happens? 1967 like clockwork all of a sudden the Six-Day War breaks out. Israel doesn’t want … it breaks out. What happens for the first time in 2000 years? Israeli soldiers enter the gates and they’re standing in the Holy city of Jerusalem. Jubilee. Everyone shall return to their ancestral possession. It is their possession. So again, the greatest prophetic event happens according to this. But amazing thing, what happens in the year of jubilee? You sound the shofar. You sound the trumpet.
JONATHAN: So, amazing thing, Sid, at the moment that they reach the Temple Mount the soldiers are there and the Western Wall, a trumpet sounds and who did … There’s a rabbi who just happened to be blowing a trumpet. He wasn’t thinking it’s the jubilee, but he blows the shofar. The rabbi … Well let me say this. On the jubilee, the land returns to its original owner, its original state.
JONATHAN: What was Jerusalem, what was the Temple Mount originally? Originally it was a threshing floor. David bought it, right? In the Bible the word for threshing floor is goren. The rabbi who sounds the shofar on the Temple Mount is named Rabbi Goren, rabbi threshing floor. Born with it, born with it. Not only, not only that, he’s born, that rabbi is born in the year 1917 so it’s his 50th year. It says jubilee and he sounding the jubilee and, Sid, when I looked, I looked even deeper and I looked at his name it has two … the name Goren means threshing. It also has another meaning. It means horn. The one who sounds the horn. Who could do that? Who could do that? The year of jubilee.
SID: I have to ask you a personal question. When you found like the first in some of these stories and you said that is the most amazing … and then you found after that another layer, after that another layer, after that another layer. I believe there is … it’s like infinity. The layers just keep coming in the Bible. It’s like no other book you’ve ever read. Would you believe that these amazing biblical prophecies are even tied into President Trump and even your future? Be right back.
