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A review by perilous1
The Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn
4.0
Similar in style and tone to Cahn's first work, The Harbinger, this book has the advantage of being a bit more concise.
Instead of examining and contrasting events with biblical prophecy, we are given an in-depth background on three different entities--spiritual forces which a cursory reading of the Old Testament has probably left many people thinking of merely as "idols." Cahn does so with a bit more repetition and dead-horse-beating than I might prefer, but his prose is effective and his tone sincere. (I finished over a week ago, and I'm still thinking about it.)
For those open to a supernatural explanation (or thought-provoking possibility) for why the United States has slid so steadily--and in the past decade or so, VERY quickly--into such division, greed, corruption, moral relativism, extremism, and social contagion phenomena... this look back at the more prominent gods of the ancient Middle East leaves one with the concept that we may not be facing something new at all. We may be in the middle of a cycle that humanity (and in fact, the nation of Israel) has seen before--with dire consequences.
The author lays out a chronology of the last 70-80 years, with the systematic removal of Judeo-Christian values, monuments, and practices from public view and discourse--and repeatedly asserts that what most think is merely the rejection of God is in actuality an exchange. And where God has been kicked out, with Him goes His protection. Although Cahn doesn't borrow the cliche to make his point, I personally can't help but quote Aristotle:
"Power abhors a vacuum."
I'm vaguely tempted to call this particular kind of writing pre-apocalyptic.
Is that a genre? If not, can we coin it?
Instead of examining and contrasting events with biblical prophecy, we are given an in-depth background on three different entities--spiritual forces which a cursory reading of the Old Testament has probably left many people thinking of merely as "idols." Cahn does so with a bit more repetition and dead-horse-beating than I might prefer, but his prose is effective and his tone sincere. (I finished over a week ago, and I'm still thinking about it.)
For those open to a supernatural explanation (or thought-provoking possibility) for why the United States has slid so steadily--and in the past decade or so, VERY quickly--into such division, greed, corruption, moral relativism, extremism, and social contagion phenomena... this look back at the more prominent gods of the ancient Middle East leaves one with the concept that we may not be facing something new at all. We may be in the middle of a cycle that humanity (and in fact, the nation of Israel) has seen before--with dire consequences.
The author lays out a chronology of the last 70-80 years, with the systematic removal of Judeo-Christian values, monuments, and practices from public view and discourse--and repeatedly asserts that what most think is merely the rejection of God is in actuality an exchange. And where God has been kicked out, with Him goes His protection. Although Cahn doesn't borrow the cliche to make his point, I personally can't help but quote Aristotle:
"Power abhors a vacuum."
I'm vaguely tempted to call this particular kind of writing pre-apocalyptic.
Is that a genre? If not, can we coin it?