Jonathan Cahn - The Harbinger Companion with Study Guide

How does one become born again? By receiving salvation, by receiving Yeshua, Jesus, by following Him, by putting your trust in the One who loved you, put His life in your place, died for your sins, bore your judgment, and overcame death to rise again that you might be saved. You receive His life given to you, and you give your life to Him. You turn away from the darkness and the sin, and you turn to following Him as His disciple.

Don’t say you’ll do it tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. The Bible says, “Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:2). You can only receive it now. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. How far away is the Day of Judgment? How far away is heaven or hell? Just one heartbeat. It only takes one heartbeat to stop, and then come judgment and eternity. Every heartbeat is a gift from God. But every heartbeat is borrowed. Take the beating of your heart as the knocking of God’s hand on the door of your life, saying, “Open up.”

Where will you be a thousand years from now? You will be somewhere: either heaven or hell. If you’re not sure, then you need to make it right with God. If you’re not born again, now is the time you need to be. If you have been born again but haven’t been living in His will, then now is the time to make it right. And if you have known God, but God is calling you to higher ground, then now is the time to commit to it and make it right.

Whatever you need to do, do it now. Whatever isn’t right with God, get it right. Whatever is in your life but shouldn’t be, lift it to God, be cleansed of it, repent of it, and leave it behind. Whatever is not in your life but should be, get it into your life. And whatever God is calling you to do, now is the time to do it.

Whatever it is, it can begin now, with a simple prayer from your heart to the heart of God. Do what you have to do. Do what God is calling you to do. For the distance from here to eternity is one heartbeat. And you never know which one will be your last. Whatever God is calling you to do — just do it.

Chapter 24

The STORY BEHIND the STORY

The Super Bowl, the Encounter, and the Stranger in the Airport (Special Feature From FrontLine)

The following is not intended to be a theological proposition as to how God typically works. There are extremes on every side of the issues. The message of The Harbinger is not based on nor does it weigh in on any of these issues concerning gifts or signs, but rather it is the revealing of the biblical template of national judgment now replaying in America, a message of warning and a calling to repentance, salvation, and revival. It transcends denominational lines. Nevertheless, the following is the true story of how this message went forth as a book to the nation.

THE PROPHECY OF Isaiah, central to The Harbinger , opens up with this introduction: “The Lord sends a message to Jacob, and it falls upon Israel . . . .”

When God wanted a vital message, a warning, or an alarm to go forth to a nation, He made sure it happened. In the case of the message of The Harbinger , how did it end up going forth to America? The story is an amazing one and very much of the supernatural. It began with a Super Bowl.

A Supernatural Super Bowl

In 2008 David Tyree entered the field of play in the Super Bowl that pitted the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. At a key turning point of the game, he would jump up and, with one hand and in midair, grab the football thrown by Eli Manning, pin it down against his helmet, and return to the ground tackled. It would be called the greatest play in Super Bowl history.

But there was a story behind the play. What many people don’t know is that David Tyree is a believer with a passion for the gospel. And before he went into the game, he had been given a prophetic word by another believer named Hubie Synn as to what would happen and that through this David Tyree would be given a platform to share the gospel. The word would be fulfilled in that catch. David Tyree would suddenly be lifted up into the spotlight. He would be given a platform with which to share the gospel. He would write a book. In that book he would mention Hubie Synn, the man who gave him the prophecy.

How to Go Forth

When Jonathan began writing The Harbinger in its present form, the words of the book flowed rapidly onto the computer almost as if the book had already been written before he wrote it. Within four months of writing in his spare time, The Harbinger was finished. But then he had a problem. He had no idea how it would be published. He had never written a book before. Nor had he approached any book publisher. Most books never get published, not to mention books by first-time writers. But he had no doubt that The Harbinger was of God and, as such, would go forth by God’s hand.

The prayer in the Charlotte airport

At the end of the week in which he finished writing the book, Jonathan headed to Dallas where he was to speak at a Christian gathering there. The plane stopped in Charlotte, North Carolina. While sitting in the airport, waiting for the next flight, he was led to commit the future of The Harbinger to the Lord. He bowed his head and began to pray, knowing that The Harbinger was God’s message, not man’s, not his, and so it was for the Lord to bring forth the message—not by the strategies of man but by the hand of God for His purposes and His glory alone. So Jonathan committed the going forth of The Harbinger into the Lord’s hands.

The stranger and the word

When he finished praying, he opened up his eyes, and a man was sitting to his left. The man turned to Jonathan and asked, “What’s the good word?” The two started talking. All of a sudden the man began to speak in a different manner, telling Jonathan that he was going to publish a book, that this book was of the Lord, that God was about to do a great thing, and that it would change everything, his life, his ministry. He would be known across the land.

The man was not supposed to be there. But because of bad weather, his flight kept getting postponed until he was placed on Jonathan’s flight and then sat down next to him. When he saw Jonathan and felt the leading to speak to him, he panicked, seeing that Jonathan looked Jewish; he thought he would not be open to anything he told him. But he felt constrained to speak.

Beyond that, the entire scene paralleled what Jonathan had just written in The Harbinger about a man sitting down in a public place. To his left sits a stranger who turns to him and initiates a conversation and then begins to give him a prophetic word that will ultimately lead him to write a book warning the nation of judgment and calling those who will hear to repentance and salvation. The man’s name was Hubie Synn, the same one who gave the word concerning the Super Bowl and David Tyree.

The connection

Because he had given that word to David Tyree, and because David Tyree then wrote a book mentioning him, the man was brought in touch with the founder and CEO of Charisma Media, publisher of FrontLine books. He sent word to the CEO, Steve Strang, of his encounter at the Charlotte airport with a Jewish man bearing a message for America. Steve Strang then sent word to Jonathan that he heard of what happened at the airport, of his encounter, and of the message called The Harbinger . And though he had no idea what was in it, he was interested.

The Harbinger went on to be published and, from the first week of its release, became a national best seller. Yet it all began with a supernatural encounter with a mysterious stranger in the Charlotte airport.