The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times

by Jonathan Cahn

In the days when immorality becomes a culture’s ruling principle, the temptation for God’s people will be to soften their stands, to bend under the pressure, and to compromise with the dark. But those who do so will disqualify themselves from being used of God as they were meant to be used. The righteous must instead commit to living as did Elijah and to resist all temptation to compromise and all pressure to soften their stand. Rather, they must move in the opposite direction. When the dark grows increasingly darker, it is then that the lights must grow increasingly bright. When evil goes from bad to worse, the righteous must go from good to great. In a Christian civilization the candles shine in the light of the sun. But in a post-Christian civilization they shine in the darkness of the night. They become lights of contradiction. But it is the contrary light that changes the history of lives and nations. It is the radical light, the light of the candle in the night, that lights up the world. Elijah was a man of faith and confidence, of boldness and courage against all odds, of a stubborn hope that would not yield in spite of all that was arrayed against it. Despite his circumstances and despite those who sat on his nation’s throne, he knew who was King above all kings and which side it was that would prevail in the end.