Got a report this morning from someone who was at Jan Markell's Understanding the Times Conference this weekend, that Jonathan Cahn's talk on Saturday was a great success and that possibly as many as a hundred came to salvation through it.
I'm reporting this because my source is credible and respected but I do have to add that I don't generally trust reports of "altar call" conversions either in church or at conferences. You can't tell from a show of hands or people going forward what their motives are, whether they are Christians in a state of doubt desiring a renewal of their faith, nonChristians getting the message for the first time, people with a temporary pang of conscience that won't last long, people with a wrong idea of the gospel or what.
While it is always the ultimate aim to bring people to Christ, Christians have many secondary callings such as to be salt and light in the culture and The Harbinger is that sort of message more than it is an evangelical message. Restraining evil in our world by calls to national repentance for the sins that are destroying the nation would no doubt bring many to conversion but if it merely stirs up people's consciences so that they turn against the sins of the nation that's the work of God too.
Did the repentance of Nineveh mean mass conversion to the God of Israel? I don't get that message, I get the message that God had mercy on them in a temporal way as the city repented for their idolatries and other sins. This kind of work in the world shouldn't be denigrated even if salvation is the ultimate most desirable outcome. Improving the moral climate of a nation in this fallen world and therefore the peace and wellbeing of that nation is not something to be despised.
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