Jonathan Cahn's warning on Capitol Hill at the Washington Man of Prayer event

On April 29, 2015, members of Congress, Christian leaders, and people of faith joined together to honor Washington as a man of Christian faith in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of the best selling books "The Harbinger" and "The Mystery of the Shemitah", addresses the audience saying that Washington dedicated America to God and gave a prophetic warning to this nation: "Do not turn away from Him."

It is April 29th, 2015.

226 years ago this day

George Washington readied himself

for the first-ever presidential inauguration,

to take place the following day

—the day America as we know it

came into existance, with the President's hand

resting on the word of God.

That day would conclude with America's first government

gathering in prayer

to dedicate the nation's future to God.

A century and a half earlier, another seminal event

took place on the same day.

On April 29th, 1607, the voyagers on the Susan Constant,

the Discovery and the Godspeed gathered together in prayer

at Cape Henry to set a wooden cross

in the sands of Virginia Beach,

and to dedicate the new civilization

to the will and the purposes of God.

America's biblical foundation would be affirmed

and reaffirmed over and over again

by its forefathers, from the Pilgrims of the Mayflower,

to the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay,

to the leaders of the first American colonies

who declared publicly and in writing

that the new Commonwealth

had come into existance

solely for the glory and purposes of God.

No historian can rewrite that.

No president can expunge that.

And if a thousand angels swore on a thousand Bibles that this was not the case,

it would in no way alter the fact that this American civilization

was conceived, established, dedicated

and founded on a biblical cornerstone

—America was brought into existance

for the will and the purpose of God.

On this night, over 200 years ago,

George Washington held in his hand, the first ever presidential address.

In that address was a prophetic warning.

It was this: "The propitious smiles of Heaven

can never be expected on a nation that

disregards the eternal rules of Order and Right

which Heaven itself hath ordained."

In other words,

if America should ever turn away

from God and His ways,

if it should ever disregard

His eternal rules of Order and Right,

then His blessings, the smiles of Heaven,

would be removed from the land.

It was an ancient warning. It had been given in Hebrew words

by the prophets to the kingdom of Israel.

But Israel turned away from God

and disregarded His eternal rules of Order and Right.

They drove God out of their government,

out of their public squares,

out of their culture,

out of the lives of their children;

they worshipped idols and served other gods.

They celebrated immorality and they persecuted the righteous.

They lifted up their children on the altars of foreign gods.

And the blessings of God were removed from the land

and replaced with judment.

It is two and a half thousand years later,

and America has made the same mistake.

We too have turned away from God.

We too have have driven Him out of the government,

out of our public square, out of our culture

out of the lives of our children.

We too have profane the sacred and sanctify the profane.

And we too have killed our most innocent,

—over 55 million of our unborn children—

and our collective hands are covered with blood.

What we were warned never to do, we now have done.

And now we gather in the city named after the one

who gave us that prophetic warning.

And yesterday, in this city,

in the building that sits across from this hill,

the justices of the Supreme Court took up their places on the bench to decide

whether America should strike down the

biblical and historical definition of marriage.

The very fact that that event should take place as such

is a sign in itself,

that this is the America of Washington's warning.

It's here, and this day of which he warned is now.

We have become a civilization in spiritual schizophrenia,

a nation at war against its own foundation.

The Supreme Court opens its sessions with the words:

"God save the United States and this Honorable Court."

But if then—if this honorable court should overrule

the word of God and strike down the eternal rules

of Order and Right that Heaven itself hath ordained,

how then will God save it?

Supreme Court Justices, can you judge the ways of God?

Can you with man-made verdicts, overrule the eternal laws of God?

There is another court, and there is another Judge.

And before Him, all men and all judges will give account.

If a nation's high court should pass judgment on the Almighty,

should you then be surprised if the Almighty should pass judgment on that court and that nation?

In the Book of Jeremiah, it is written:

"Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? Yet my people

have exchanged their glory for that which cannot help them."

Let us not pretend as to what we are now doing.

We are doing that which Israel did on the altars of Baal.

We are exchanging our God for idols,

our light for darkness, and our glory

for that which cannot save us.

Are we ready to risk that which comes on the other side of that exchange,

the day when the blessings of Heaven are removed from the land?

We began with a word from the President of our first nation's

—or the day that he began as President.

I now speak a word to the President of our nation's most recent days.

Each time I have spoken here, I have asked a question.

I'll now answer it.

Mr. President, with all respect that is due,

what happens if one assumes the presidency

by placing his left hand on the Word of God, and then,

with his right hand enacts laws that war against

the very same Word of God on which he laid his hand?

Such an act invokes the judgment of the Almighty.

To swear an Oath on the Word of God, in which it's written:

"Defend the weak" and "Do not murder"

and then, to not defend the weak,

to not protect the unborn,

but instead to advance their murder,

is to invoke the judgement of the Almighty.

To swear an Oath on the Word of God, in which it's written:

"Do not cause your brother to stumble"

and then, to seek to force those

who uphold the Word of God,

to transgress the Word of God,

by partaking in the killing of the unborn

and the celebration of sin,

is to invoke the judgement of the Almighty.

And to swear an Oath in the Word of God, in which it's written:

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people",

and then to take part in the leading of a nation away from

"the eternal rules of Order and Right that Heaven itself hath ordained" ,

and against the very Word of God on which you laid your hand,

is to invoke the judgement of the Almighty.

When the leaders of ancient Israel turned away from God,

when they abolished His precepts, and broke His covenant,

they did so in the shadow of Moses,

whose voice cried out to them in warning.

Mr. President,

when you address the nation from this house, look up.

Look up above the Senators and Representatives,

above the Supreme Court Justices, and above

the invited guests, and you will see a face

—the only full visage in that wall— looking back at you.

It is the face of Moses.

And if that face could speak, it would say this:

"No man can overrule the laws of God,

no order can annul the order of God,

and no judgment of man can stand against the judgments of God.

Invoke not His judgment, but choose life.

Lead in the way of repentance.

Invoke the grace of God, that He might have mercy on this land."

We've come to a most critical moment.

As Elijah stood on top of Mount Carmel and cried out to Israel in its hour decision,

in between two altars and two gods, his voice now cries out to America and says:

"Choose you this day whom you will serve."

Seventy years ago, the Chaplain of the United States Senate cried out with the same voice,

and said to this nation, "If the Lord be God, then follow Him!

But if Baal, then follow him and go to hell!"

Tonight, America stands at the crossroads.

And as Elijah came to the summit of Mount Carmel to make a declaration,

we've come this night to Capitol Hill to declare that our god is not Baal.

Our god is not Molech.

Our god is not government.

Our god is not money.

Our god is not power; not pleasure.

Our god is not political correctness or any other man-made thing.

We've come to this hill to declare that

there is only one God, and He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

He is the God of Israel and of all nations.

He alone is the Rock upon which this nation has come into existence.

And from this high place we make this declaration:

"We will not bow down our knees to Baal.

We will not bow down our knees to political correctness.

We will not bow down our knees to a morality that is as shifting as sand in the wind.

We will not bow down our knees to the laws and precepts of rebellion

or the sacred cows of moral apostasy.

We will not bow down our knees to the idols of man.

We will not bow down to Baal.

We will bow down our knees only to the Lord our God, come what may,

and we will have no other gods before Him."

For some trust in chariots,

some trust in princes,

some trust in Supreme Courts,

some trust in White Houses,

some trust in governments,

some trust in Wall Streets,

some trust in powers,

and some trust in idols.

But we will trust in the name of the Lord our God,

the name above all names,

above all kings, above all powers.

We will trust in the only name given by which we can be saved.

We will trust in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus the Messiah,

the King of all kings, the Lord of all lords,

the Judge of all judges, the Light of the World,

the Glory of Israel, the Foundation Stone upon which this nation came into existence,

and the only answer, the only chance, and the only hope that America has,

that it might once again shine with the light of the fire of the presence of the glory of the Living God,

and not go to hell, so help us, God.

Thank you.