The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future

The Harbinger, by Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic Jewish rabbi and author, is Cahn’s debut novel. The Harbinger is described as a Christian novel; it uses and relies on themes, concepts, and scripture that are prevalent in the Old Testament. It was initially published in September 2011 by FrontLine, an imprint of Charisma House, which is a religious publishing group dedicated to spreading religious messages. FrontLine is the imprint of Charisma House used for discussing cultural and political issues with a focus on the Bible and prophecy. The Harbinger is a prophetic novel, meaning that it contains the author’s view on a predictive pattern of events. The novel follows a journalist, Baruch Nouriel Kaplan, on his journey with “the prophet,” a man who claims to have uncovered an ancient secret that explains all modern America’s problems. The novel is also considered apocalyptic literature, because it uses themes of judgment and destruction, as well as concepts like revelation, salvation, and religious dogma to discuss modern and past events through a lens focused on the destruction of a people, a nation, or the world. The Harbinger is a New York Times fiction bestseller, was on Amazon’s top 100 bestselling books list for over six months, and remained on USA Today’s top 150 bestseller list for over 79 weeks.