Harbingers of judgment to America parallel ancient Israel.
Biblical passages prophecy against the nation that defies God.
Isaiah 9: 9-11
(9) "And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
(10)
the bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
(11) Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;"
(Isaiah 9:9-11 KJV)
May 17, 1792
The New York Stock Exchange was founded by the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement.
Named the Buttonwood Agreement for being signed under a Buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street.
Buttonwood is another name for the American Sycamore tree.
The agreement formed the New York Stock & Exchange Board now called the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE became
the foundation of America's and subsequently the world's economies.
1792 Thru September 10, 2001
In the ruble of Ground Zero a tattered Bible is photographed laying open to Genesis 11.
"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven;"
A picture of it is in the
Ground Zero Museum along with the Cross of Ground Zero."
Isaiah 8:1-9:21, containing the subject Bible verses; Isaiah 9:9-11, has been the assigned scripture reading on September 11th every year since 1985 in the
published and then the
online One Year Bible.
September 11, 2001, 8:46 a.m.
On September 11, 2001, starting with the first plane strike at 8:46 a.m. on the World Trade Center, terrorists successfully attack America's
economic and military complexes. This is the first of a chain of events that parallels events in Ancient Israel to such a degree that it is impossible to ignore.
Ancient Israel's attackers were Assyrians, a Semitic people known for their terror tactics that are children of the Middle East. So too were the terrorists of 9/11.
As with ancient Israel, the breach of America's security is a sign that God has lifted His protective hand. When, years later, Israel's final judgment came, the Assyrians were
again were the means through which it happened.
September 12, 2001
From Congress the Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, representing America's response to the 9/11 attack,
quotes Isaiah 9:10 from the Bible; ancient Israel's response to Assyria's attack.
"The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:
the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.""
Unwittingly, he misuses the Word of God out of context; omitting "in the pride and stoutness of heart."
Daschle surprisingly loses his next bid for re-election, the first time a Senate party leader had lost a bid for reelection since 1952.
September 17, 2001
The opening bell for the exchange will not sound and is considered a bad omen.
On this day the largest single day stock market drop, to date, of 684.81 points (7% of market value lost) is registered at the closing bell. This day is
the 29th of Elul on the Hebrew calendar; the day of remission; the wiping away of all debt ending the Sabbath year of rest.
It is the precise 29th of Elul of the same Sabbath year being celebrated ceremoniously in Israel.
November 22, 2003
A Norway Spruce ("Erez" or conifer type tree as is the cedar) shows up hoisted by a crane and is planted
at the very spot of “The Sycamore of Ground Zero.” A ceremony is held and the new tree is named the “Tree of Hope.”
"the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."
July 4, 2004
A 20 ton "hewn" stone quarried from upper state New York is installed at Ground Zero with a ceremony. After two years,
the stone was deemed to be in the way of the changing plans for the site and returned to the stone mason company that provided it.
It's etched message "The Spirit of Freedom" is now appropriately gone.
"The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:"
September 11, 2004
On the 3rd anniversary commemorating 9/11, then Vice Presidential candidate, John Edwards makes the same misuse of the Word of God
as Daschle. He also unknowingly quotes Isaiah 9:10 out of context.
"The bricks are fallen
down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."
Edwards, caught in affairs and scandal, is eventually forced to leave politics in disgrace.
September 2005
A memorial bronze sculpture of the uprooted sycamore is commissioned and installed
September 2005 at the end of Wall Street. The sycamore tree being commemorated was uprooted by debris from the last tower to fall and is later
called “The Sycamore of Ground Zero.” The sycamore tree shielded St. Paul's Chapel where the nation was
concecrated to God by the first president George Washington and the first congressional leaders after his Washington's inauguration.
Not one window was broken in the Chapel and it served as a place of rest and refuge for recovery workers at the WTC site.
April 27, 2006
Ground is broken at Ground Zero on the proposed Freedom Tower which is subsequently renamed the One World Trade Center.
September 29, 2008
On this day the largest single day stock market drop, to date, of 777.68 points (7% of market value lost) is registered at the closing bell. This day
is the 29th of Elul on the Hebrew calendar; the day of the wiping away of all debt ending the Sabbath year of rest. It is the precise 29th of Elul of the same Sabbath year being
celebrated ceremoniously in Israel. It is exactly seven (7) Hebrew calendar years removed from the previous 29th of Elul of a Sabbath year. Going back seven (7) days from that date is September 11th,
2001. Going back from the normal close of business seven (7) hours for the New York Stock Exchange is 9:00 a.m. the morning during the attack. Going back 14 (6+8 from .68) minutes from 9:00 a.m. is
8:46 a.m. when the first plane hit the first building. Coinsidence? Consider also that the Buttonwood Agreement founding the NYSE was signed at 68 Wall Street. Did the 777.68 point loss at the
closing bell on this date represents the end of God's financial blessing and protection of America?
Isaiah 9:11 continues being fulfilled.
"Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him,
and join his enemies together;"
The enemies of America are the same people that were Israel's enemies in ancient days and they are armed and supported by modern day anarchist, Islamic and communist enemies.
ISIS has facilitated all the nations and peoples named as attackers on Israel in Ezekiel 38 & 39 to be on the border of Israel or in a state of such Islamic chaos that they are primed to be
led by any powerful force against Israel.
The Evidence Demands Consideration!
If you believe all this is coincidence, then it could be understood if you believe in evolution, universal design by chance and that life has no meaning. However....
There is an age of grace provided by the blood and sacrifice of the Son of God quickly coming to an end.
For the individual who can see and truthfully discern the evidence, the door of the Ark is still open.
There is still an avenue of escape from the coming wrath of He who sits on the Throne of God. Jesus, the Christ, stated,
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." (Matthew 24:37-42)
But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the
flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall
be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore:
for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (Matthew 24:37-42)
The Son of Man is Jesus Christ and He will return to earth for those who believe in Him. He is and always has been
the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Jesus stated, "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,
and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21:36)
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