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Recently a national radio program description declared:
Because one radio person suggested Cahn is a false prophet and in the Bible they were stoned, Cahn's wife now fears for the safety of her husband and two very small children. Is this where the apologetics and discernment community want to go?
 
We believe that some defenders of the book, The Harbinger, are now relying on sensationalism to defend this book because they cannot refute the concerns of many scholars by taking on their concerns point for point by using the Bible in context.
 
Here is a transcript of what Dr. DeYoung said on Worldview Weekend Radio with Brannon Howse. After reading this transcript, we believe it should be clear that anyone that cannot understand the Biblical context of which Dr. DeYoung was speaking should be seriously questioned as to their ability to provide correct theological and Biblical analysis of the book, The Harbinger?
 
Dr. DeYoung:             I do believe that is the case when we understand that a book has been written talking about a prophet communicating with a supposedly real individual who's portrayed in his book, The Harbinger, getting the information from the prophet, the prophet getting his information supposedly from God to give it to this individual who's trying to find out what has been going on, sees all these interesting circumstances unfolding, and coincidence or not, he just tried to figure it out what the prophet is communicating to him.  Now there is a way that you can determine if the prophet, if someone claiming to be a prophet or giving a prophecy is a true prophet of God.  The test is found in Deuteronomy Chapter 18 starting with Verse 20 where it says that the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak or that shall speak in the name of other Gods, even that prophet shall die.
 
In other words, anybody claiming to be a prophet who's not truly a prophet, he's gonna have to die.  Then he goes ahead, verse 21, and if thou shalt say in thy heart how shall we know the word which the Lord has spoken, verse 22, here's the test of a prophet, a prophet speaking for God when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the saying is the saying which the Lord hath not spoken but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, thou shall not be afraid of him.  In other words, if the Lord doesn't give the information and somebody speaks saying it was a prophecy, that man is in danger of death according to the test that's giving by God to Moses, Book of Deuteronomy 18:20-22.
 
 
Brannon Howse:         And I was trying to gather from Mr. Cahn whether the prophet in his book is one who is speaking forth truth versus one who is foretelling, I think he claims that it's not one who is foretelling, but I'm a little confused.  I'm not so sure about that.  What do you think?
 
Dr. DeYoung:             I think he's foretelling the future.  In fact, he would tell this Norielle to go so place and he would be there and everything that he had already given this man; I believe his name was Norielle, he would – it would come to pass.  So the man was speaking of a prophet.  Now, the prophet is so prevalent in the entire book; it's more than 10 percent of the book; if 90 percent of the book, according to Jonathan's words just a moment ago broadcast on your program the other day, if 90 percent of the book is real, the statement in the front of the book says it's all real, then the prophet has to be real as well.  You cannot have it both ways.  You can make a statement, but it has to agree with what then plays out.
 
 
Brannon Howse:         But, of course, the argument would be made, okay, the prophet's real, but is it a prophet speaking forth truth from the word of God or is it a prophet that is foretelling giving extra-Biblical revelation?
 
Dr. DeYoung:             Well, he's sure not forth-telling, F-O-R-T-H, because he is not exegeting the passage in Isaiah Chapter 9 in Verse 10 correctly, who according to any proper hermeneutics would not exegete Isaiah Chapter 9 in Verse 10 the way Jonathan Cahn does in the book.  So he's not speaking and explaining the prophetic word of God, but instead he is foretelling what is going to happen and Jonathan words, 90 percent of this book is real, the prophet has to be real as well.
 
 
Brannon Howse:         Here's the first page of the book after you get passed the copyright and all that, the first page of the book, "What you are about to read is presented in the form of a story, but what is contained within the story is real."  That's right there in the very first page of The Harbinger.