The Winds of Hinnom & America’s Descent into Darkness

The global calamity of the COVID-19 pandemic, which ravaged the world and specifically focused on America, remains a source of controversy and confusion. According to Jonathan Cahn’s analysis of biblical prophecy and chronology, the timing and nature of the plague may not be accidental, but rather a direct outworking of a national judgment linked to the Jubilee of abortion. This theory connects the onset of the pandemic in 2020 to the beginning of abortion on demand in America 50 years earlier, in 1970.

The Sanctity of Life and the Sin of a Civilization (H2)

Cahn emphasizes that the sanctity of human life is paramount to the divine. The killing of children through sacrifice, infanticide, and abortion was explicitly forbidden to ancient Israel because the life of a baby is sacred. When Israel turned away from God and adopted pagan gods, they began offering up their children, and this grievous sin ultimately resulted in the destruction of the nation.

In the modern era, the first nation to legalize abortion was the Soviet Union, the world’s first communist atheist state, illustrating that turning away from God inevitably leads to turning away from the sanctity of life. Following the sexual revolution and the turning away from faith in the 1960s, the killing of babies returned to Western civilization in the form of abortion.

• A National Sin: America has killed millions of children—over 60 million. If a nation sows death, it will reap it. Cahn stresses that the calamity is focused on the sin of a nation or a civilization, not necessarily individual righteousness or unrighteousness. The judgment affects everyone, including the righteous.
• The Power of Messiah: Cahn notes that historically, it was only the power of Jesus (Yeshua) and the Word of God that succeeded in ending human sacrifice and the killing of babies throughout the ages.

Judgment by Plague: The Prophecy of Dever Gadol (H2)

Cahn links the national judgment brought upon America to the biblical prophecies regarding plague. Jeremiah prophesied that judgment would come to Israel to answer the blood of the children by plague. This was prophesied as a dever gadol in Hebrew, meaning a great pestilence, plague, or contagious disease—like a pandemic.

Cahn raises the profound question of whether the plague that touched and changed our lives—COVID-19—could be a dever gadol, a great death, answering the shedding of blood done to the children, as described in Jeremiah.

Abraham Lincoln recognized a similar pattern during the Civil War, seeing the conflict as a national judgment for the sin of slavery. Lincoln spoke of the wealth piled up by 250 years of unrequited toil and declared that every drop of blood drawn by the lash would be paid by another drawn by the sword, emphasizing that “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether”.

The Jubilee Principle: Restitution and Retribution (H2)

The biblical law of Jubilee involves a 50-year cycle, which brings both restoration and restitution or judgment. If something was taken wrongfully, it is taken back. Cahn highlights the critical timing:

• Beginning of the Sin: Abortion on demand began in America in 1970.
• The Jubilee Year: Fifty years later, the Jubilee of abortion arrived in 2020.

Cahn observes the mathematical precision: America began taking life in 1970; in 2020, life was taken. In the year the nation set in motion death, the death came back.

The Exact Chronological and Geographic Alignment (H2)

Cahn identifies stunning chronological links between the advent of abortion and the onset of the plague, often down to the exact date.

Patient Zero and the First Fruit (H3)

• The First Step (First Fruit): The entrance of abortion on demand onto the American continent began in New York, which passed the most liberal abortion law in the world at the time. This was deemed the “first fruit” of the sin. The bill that legalized abortion in New York was introduced into the legislature on January 20, 1970.
• The Plague’s Entry: Exactly 50 years later, the plague officially entered America. On January 20, 2020, Patient Zero—a 35-year-old American who had returned from Wuhan, China—was officially identified with COVID-19 on American soil. This exact Jubilee date marked the seeding of abortion and the seeding of the plague.
• The Prophetic Warning: In the week leading up to January 20, 2020, the appointed Sabbath scripture chanted in synagogues across America (especially in New York, the abortion capital) was the law of the womb, declaring that every child who opens the womb is holy to God. This law was being proclaimed just as America was about to violate it.

The March 11th Revelation (H3)

Cahn pinpoints the precise moment the plague fell upon the nation dramatically, correlating it with the date the practice of abortion first began as law:

• Abortion Becomes Law: Abortion on demand first became law on American soil (on an island) in Hawaii in March 1970. It became law in the middle of March 1970.
• The Plague Falls: Fifty years later, March 2020 was the Jubilee month when the plague fell. Up to early March, only 300 people were infected; by the end of the month, the number had ballooned to 175,000.
• The Day Everything Changed: The period of mid-March saw the whole nation quarantined, the WHO declared a pandemic, and lockdowns began. Articles identify one specific day that marked the “beginning of the new normal” and the day “everything changed”: March 11, 2020. On this day, President Trump made the key announcement, Wall Street plunged, and the official lockdown began.
• The Exact Date: Fifty years prior to the day everything changed (March 11, 2020), abortion began on American soil on March 11, 1970. On that exact Jubilee date, the death that had been initiated 50 years earlier fell upon America.