OPINION (Charisma) – It’s an ancient Jewish tradition. Since ancient times, Jewish people have gathered in their synagogues every Sabbath, opened up the scrolls and read a specific portion of Scripture. In fact, that specific portion of Scripture is assigned to a certain Sabbath day. It’s called a parasha. In his book The Oracle, Jonathan Cahn reveals how, throughout history and into the modern world, at key times when the appointed words are read, the events spoken in these words actually come true. He explores three examples in history:
- The Prophecy of the Foreigner
At the end of the book of Deuteronomy Moses prophesied:
“The foreigner who will come from a far land, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it, will say, ‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there” (Deut. 29-22-23).
The prophecy came true. A man came from across the world to the land of Israel, a barren wasteland, and bore witness of its desolation. The man was Mark Twain. Twain would put his witness of the land’s desolation in his first full book Innocents Abroad.
Sept. 28, 1967, was Twain’s last full day and night in Jerusalem, the peak of his journey. On that day, as he walked the streets of Jerusalem, the ancient scrolls were opened, and the appointed word for that day was the prophecy that the foreigner would come from far away and bear witness of the land.
- The Balfour Declaration
On Nov. 2, 1917, the British government issued a public statement announcing support for “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. In other words, the land of Israel was to return back to the children of Israel. The statement was called the Balfour Declaration, and as Cahn writes, “it was the first such declaration of any major power since ancient times, the first since the Roman Empire drove the Jewish people out of their land two thousand years earlier.”
The recognition excited Zionists. What many don’t know is that the parasha that was read on the Sabbath day of that week was God giving a promise to the Jewish people through their father Abraham: “To your descendants, I will give this land” (Gen. 12:7). READ MORE
