Is a 400-year-old prophecy connected to the Thanksgiving holiday?
In a Thanksgiving sermon, Jonathan Cahn shared a prophetic message that links America’s holiday of gratitude with the spiritual realm.
“Thanksgiving comes from the Bible,” Cahn says. “First, the giving of thanks to God is the Bible. Second, God told the children of Israel in the autumn you will have a harvest celebration, you’ll give thanks to God for the harvest.”
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Cahn points out that Thanksgiving is much like the American rendition of the Feast of Tabernacles. Just as when the Israelites had a turning away from Egypt during the 400th year, so too America has experienced a dramatic shift with 400 years of Thanksgiving.
“…if we take it from when the Pilgrims first came, it begins in 2020,” says Cahn. “And certainly 2020 was a year of major change in America.”
He points out that the founding of America is quite different than other nations because it wasn’t based on a certain territory or ethnicity people group or due to a specific power, but rather because it came into existence of faith in the Word of God.
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“This is the foundation of America,” says Cahn. “Which explains what is unique about America. Even when America started getting more secular, still the idea of America being a force for good around the world, that all comes from this.”
“America from its foundations was connected to Israel,” he continues. “It’s founders saw America as another Israel for the New World. It was founded after the pattern of ancient Israel.”
Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans also headed for America with high hopes to live and worship the Lord freely. John Winthrop, a Puritan leader, gave a message that ended up being prophetic for the future of the United States.
Just as Moses was the leader of the Exodus out of Egypt, Winthrop was leading the exodus for religious freedom into the land of America. Winthrop also spoke of the blessings that follow the nation who places the Lord above all else.
“The blessings that are in Deuteronomy 28, which Winthrop based is admonition on, would come true in many large part[s] for America,” says Cahn. “Blessings of its economy. Blessings of your cities. Blessings of your farmlands. Blessings of your military. Blessing among your standing among the nations; you shall be the head and not the tail.”
Winthrop not only gave a prophetic message of blessing, but one of warning for any nation that decides to turn away from the Lord.
“If we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and caused Him to withdraw His present help from us,” Cahn quotes Winthrop, “Then, we shall be made a proverb…throughout the world.”
As we enter into this time of Thanksgiving, let us praise the Lord for all He has done, and to continue to earnestly seek Him to be the source of help and provision for our lives and our nation, knowing it is only Jesus Christ who can provide us with our every need.
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
