JONATHAN CAHN'S SPEECH TO THE INAUGURAL PRAYER BREAKFAST

'HARBINGER' AUTHOR'S SPEECH TO INAUGURAL PRAYER BREAKFAST Jonathan Cahn explains why America is being warned by God to repent When Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of "The Harbinger" -- the startling New York Times bestseller that suggests the U.S. is in the shadow of judgment from God for its rejection of Him -- stood at the podium for this year's Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Inauguration Day, there was weeping, praying and the sound of shofars. The reaction came when Cahn said the U.S. has chosen a path that takes the nation away from God, and he pleaded with its leaders to return "What we once knew to be immoral, we celebrate," he said. "What we once knew to be right, we war against." And he warned that no level of political correctness will change right and wrong. "A thousand apostate ministers swearing on a thousand Bibles will not change one jot or tittle of the word of God," he said. It was just hours later that Barack Obama rose behind another podium and gave his vision for the next four years in America, speaking of advancing "gay" rights and referencing the "Stonewall Uprising as a great American event we should honor," The conflict, he said, continues, between what the Bible prescribes for a nation seeking God's blessing, and the nation that America appears to have become. "There's always been a parallel with the going forth of "The Harbinger" and "The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment" [the video documentary of 'The Harbinger'], and what's happening in America," he said. "The address at the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast was another example. It was strange. that morning, in Washington, D.C., President Obama gave his vision for the next four years and I gave the message of 'The Harbinger,' a call of prophetic warning. "I spoke of America's moral apostasy, and Obama spoke, for the first time in any inauguration, of advancing gay rights and of the Stonewall Uprising as a great American event we should honor. Cahn, who heads the Jerusalem Center-Beth Israel Congregation in Wayne, N.J., warns, "Before its destruction as a nation, ancient Israel received nine harbingers, prophetic omens of warning. The same nine harbingers are now manifesting in America with immediate ramifications for end-time prophecy." "They made themselves strangers to the God of their fathers, and as God was driven out, their idols were brought in," he said. Those were immorality, materialism, carnality. Warnings from God were not heeded, and the nation fell into captivity, he said. Then there is another civilization founded on God's word. "From its very inception America, those who came to these shores and founded a civilization, dedicated it to God. America was to be a city on a hill, a civilization to which others would look," he said. "But something happened. ... We, too, as a nation turned from God. We, too, have removed Him from our lives, step by step. ... We, too, have made God a stranger." His presence was replaced by intolerance, immorality, profanity and blasphemy, he said. "Even a calling to the president -- in which I asked him ... how he can place his hands on the word of God to be sworn into office and then act against the very things the word of God clearly declares." Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives, earlier led the opening "Prayer for the Nation." No book in 2012 made more of a national impact than Cahn's "The Harbinger" -- remaining on the New York Times bestsellers list longer than any other title. It's now been there for 52 weeks, and has sold more than a million copies. Part of its appeal: The shocking signs appearing in the U.S. today, even as Democratic leaders -- like former Sen. Tom Daschle, one-time presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards and even President Obama himself -- utter the same prideful words spoken by ancient Israel in Isaiah 9:10 that prompted the judgment of God. "The bricks are fallen down," Isaiah 9:10 reads, "but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." GOD JUDGES THE USA