No one who reads the Bible after September 11, 2001 will fail to notice the following scriptures:
Isaiah 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
It almost shouts World Trade Center. The World Trade Center contained twin towers and it was a great slaughter of at least 2,823 innocent people.
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Isa 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
As the rest of this chapter is read, it becomes apparent that this is clearly a passage of JUDGMENT! The 8 harbingers of judgment pronounced on Israel - are identically pronounced on the U.S.A. and have been acted out by our nation’s leaders.
1. The Fallen Bricks
2. We Will Build
On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, in the Joint Response of the Nation on the Senate floor Senator Tom Daschle addressed the world. Recorded in the Federal Register, the words of Senator Daschle can be read as they had been spoken:
“The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.
That is what we will do. We will rebuild and we will recover. The people of America will stand strong together because the people of America have always stood together. And those of us privileged to serve this great Nation will stand with you.”
3. Bigger and Better
And then there is the arrogance of defiance. On the day of the 911 tragedy, Rudy Guiliani, the Mayor of New York City, punctuated the resolve of the city. HE SAID - “We will rebuild: We’re going to come out of this stronger than before, politically stronger, economically stronger. The skyline will be made whole again.”
4. The Hewn Stone
The first stone to be used in the construction of the 1,176 ft. Freedom Tower was hewn from New York granite and lowered by crane in a ceremony on July 4, 2004. Governor George Pataki of New York presided.
5. And Then There is a Spirit of Defiance
Repeatedly Scripture records defiance as the highest insult against the Most High God. Senator John Kerry in his statement before the United States Senate on September 12, 2001 remarked:
“…And I believe one of the first things we should commit to - with federal help that underscores our nation’s purpose – is to rebuild the towers of the World Trade Center and show the world we are not afraid - we are defiant.”
On the day the cornerstone was laid, then New York Governor, George Pataki again insisted: “Today, we, the heirs of that revolutionary spirit of defiance, lay this cornerstone.”
6. The Sycamore, The Buttonwood
The day after 911 when the people returned to ground zero, they found a tree lying on the ground, pierced by the beam of a falling Tower. It was a sycamore tree – struck town…and strange, eerily, the people made a display of it. A sculptor was commissioned to make a cast of the fallen sycamore to be displayed on Wall Street.
7. The Cedar, The Arez
Two years later an object was laid over the place where the fallen sycamore tree had been struck down.. The object lowered was an arez tree, a conifer tree, the same as the cedar of Lebanon. As the tree was coming down to where the sycamore was, they held a ceremony. A clergyman said:
“We are gathered here today on holy ground. Ground hallowed by its witness to the dust, and death and destruction of September 11th. The ground is sanctified by our presence here as we dedicate this Tree of Hope in witness the divine within each of us”.
8. Three Years to the Day
Vice President John Edwards, speaking in Washington DC at a gathering, the third anniversary of the devastation, chose a Scripture which he linked to the events of September 11th. These are his words: “Good morning. Today on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord’s Word:
• ‘The bricks have fallen, but we will build - with dressed stones:
• the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place….’ Each time that bell tolls it calls us to a greater purpose. To never forget: it calls us to always remember that when we walk together this day that the cedars will rise and the stones will go up.”
Of all the thousands of Scriptures he could have chosen, he chose this one obscure verse from Isaiah, which even most Believers don’t know. Not realizing what he was saying, he linked this scripture of judgement to September 11th saying, that it was the Lord’s Word to us.
God Help America
