KEYNOTE SPEECH FORCED OFF YOUTUBE: WHY??

"And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out." (Luke 19:37-40)

Last week a very powerful 36 minute video was posted on youtube. Its title was: The Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast...MUST SEE!! PLEASE WATCH! It was found at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BxJglKDTNc

No, I didn't post it, but I did watch it. This was a video of the entire keynote address at the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast which took place on the morning of Monday, January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC on Inauguration Day (also Martin Luther King, Jr. Day). The speaker was Messianic Jewish Rabbi/Pastor Jonathan Cahn of "Beth Israel/The Jerusalem Center" in Wayne, New Jersey.

If you go to that link on youtube now you will discover the video is no longer there- it has been taken down. I heard about this last Thursday night at the prayer meeting at Bread of Life Church in Westminster, MA. The Rev. Janis Collette, pastors' wife and Associate Pastor of the Church encouraged those of us who were present to watch it. She said that Jonathan Cahn had spoken as a prophet to the entire nation on the morning of Inauguration Day. I was very curious, and so early on Friday morning, I found Pastor Janis' link to it on Facebook and I watched most of it. Wow. It was very, very powerful. Cahn was certainly not politically correct in what he had to say. He was also not, however, hateful nor inappropriate in any way. He spoke with the energy and fervency of an Old Testament prophet, warning America to amend our ways and turn back to God. Something he shared that I did not know is that President George Washington, at his First Inauguration, led a group of key leaders to a site in the nation's capital where he charged them to follow God and commit themselves and the nation to Him. This was a very solemn and very serious and very sacred event. Cahn then stressed the significance of the exact site of the nation's capital where Washington and the national leaders did this. Cahn then reminded his listeners that the nation's capital at that time was not Washington, DC. It was New York City. And the site where Washington and the leaders had the sacred assembly and made the sacred and solemn commitments to God? None other than Ground Zero.

Whatever your political preferences, if you think things in America are just "hunkie dorie" and couldn't be better, you're either very blind or very foolish. It's true that some very good things have happened in our country over the past forty years. It's also true that President Obama and other leaders have led the country in some good endeavors. But the fact is that for every good development and achievement of America of the past forty years, there are just scads of really bad things. I'm not letting conservatives or Republicans off the hook, either. I happen to be a registered Republican. I think in general the GOP has espoused some far better ideas and philosophies than have the Democrats and liberals. However, both sides have failed and miserably fallen short. I am not a fan of Mitt Romney. I think George W. Bush is a very nice guy but he only did a mediocre job, at best. I happen to like John McCain, but he also has many faults and shortcomings. As Cahn pointed out, as much as America has rejected God and His Holy Word, we need God and His Holy Word, now more than ever!

Had Jonathan Cahn been advocating very loose moral living and/or a squishy relativism, do you think there's any way his address would have been taken down? I will tell you the answer: NO!!

Is there a place for people to disagree with Jonathan Cahn and with those who espouse his views? Of course! This is America. We have Freedom of Speech. Or do we? I wonder- WHO forced the person who posted the video to take it down? Someone may answer, "Well, youtube did!"

Yes, but WHO pressured youtube to force this person to take it down?! Was it President Obama? Was it someone close to President Obama? Listen, I've taken some heat from conservative and evangelical friends for writing and posting some positive things about President Obama. I still think he did a great job in the immediate aftermath of the Newtown, CT school shooting. If the President and the Administration do something good, I'll commend them. But this smells of sensorship. I don't like it one bit, and I think that video needs to BE PUT BACK UP!