What have we lost?

     I was recently introduced to the name Jonathan Cahn, and his book "The Harbinger."  My dad showed me an interview that Dr. James Dobson had done with Mr. Cahn, in which they talked about the book and Mr. Cahn's own experiences.  The book is based on Mr. Cahn's journey as he unfolded the mystery of the nine ancient harbingers (warnings), and how they are crucial to understanding life today in America.  
     The topic is truly astounding.  Mr. Cahn's experiences feel like they should be some wild tale conjured in someone's imaginings.  But it's fact.  The events and experiences were real.  I encourage everyone to look into the book and Mr. Cahn for themselves.
     "The Harbinger" is a fictional rendering of Mr. Cahn's experiences, in which he explains what the nine harbingers looked like for ancient Israel, and how we have started to see them unfold in America today.  To me, the topic is both intriguing and astonishing.  But it also brought a disturbing question to my mind: What have we lost?
     Here's where this is coming from: the ancient Hebrews and Israelites were God's people.  He communicated with them, made His covenants with them, showed them who He is.  How much of their culture do we have left?  How much do we know?
     That then led me to ponder this: Satan and his evil forces have always tried to undermine and corrupt God's people and His plans.  And while he has never been fully successful, for how much can he actually claim victory?  He came close with Hitler to eradicating the Jews.  How many of their people, how much of their knowledge and culture did we lose from just that time in history alone?
     Christians have distanced themselves from Jews since the time of Christ, because of their rejection of the Messiah.  But in that distancing, we've also abandoned a lot of the knowledge that the Jews had--the knowledge given to them by God.  
     Can Satan claim victory over our ignorance?  Knowledge is the key to power, and ignorance so often leads to destruction.  We see that every day, in ways both large and small.  How far have we let Satan pull us into the darkness of our ignorance?  How much success have we allowed him to take?  How blind, deaf, and dumb have we become, allowed him to make us, that we don't even know to recognize the signs and fingerprints of our Lord?
    We need to become properly equipped to fight the devil and his schemes once again.  We need to learn that which has been lost to us, before it is gone forever, swallowed up in another of Satan's victories.  We need to be able to see and hear God in our daily lives, and we also need to see what God is doing in the world as a whole.  A major part of that is knowing what He's already told us, so that we are prepared to fight with Him, rather than succumb to the devil's wiles.