911
"The lord has sent a word against all the people will know, Ephriam and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and arrogance of heart: 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."
Gods Judgement on America
God brought his first terrible judgement on his newly formed nation of Israel-through the Assyians-now kwown as modern day arab people-now overwhelmingly Muslim. He broght his judgement on
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1.The Fallen Bricks
There has been no event that has touched the United States and the world more indomitably than the attacks of September 11th, 2001. As the images of the smoke, dust and death gorged the airwaves, the descriptions of devastation penetrated every media source. Fire, smoke, dust, ashes. The bricks of Ground Zero in Manhattan were reduced to ash, with little more than dust and metal to recover.
2. We Will Build
In A Joint Response of the Nation on the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., representing the Congress and the nation and by authority as Majority Leader, Senator Tom Daschle addressed the world. Recorded in the Federal Register, are the words of Senator Daschle for the Joint Resolution of Condemnation for the attacks the morning of September 12th, 2001. Listen to some of his words:
“Mr. President...there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken from this devastation. But there is a passage in the Bible, from Isaiah, that I think speaks to all of us at times such as this: ‘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.”
HE CHOSE GOD’S WORDS OF JUDGEMENT AS THE U.S. GOVERNMENTS WORDS TO ITS OWN PEOPLE!
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
“We will rebuild with HEWN Stone” in other words - not with brick but with Granite - quarried from the Earth. |  |
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:
“Today is indeed, a momentous day. Today we take 20 tons of Adirondack granite - the bedrock of our State - and place it as the foundation, the bedrock of a new symbol of American strength and confidence. Today, we lay the cornerstone for a new symbol of this city and this country and of our resolve in the face of terror. Today we build the Freedom Tower.”
5. And Then There is a Spirit of Defiance
“…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 Sycamore is cut down....” The Bible records the sycamore tree as being a sign of judgment. It even says that in Egypt the sycamore tree was struck down as asign of judgment. On September 11th, a freak event happened in the devastation: a steel beam from the North Tower was hurled from the sky. As the Tower fell, it [the beam] went through the air and struck down an object: it was a tree.
The next day [when] the people returned to Ground Zero, they found a tree lying on the ground, pierced by the beam from the fallen Tower. There, at Ground Zero was a sycamore tree – struck down.
7. The Cedar, The Arez
But there is another sign of God’s impending judgment...the cedar tree or the Arez tree. “the sycamores are fallen but we will put cedars in their place...
Two years after September 11th, a strange site was seen on Ground Zero. A crane was lowering an object…the object was being lowered into a place where there had been a hole in the ground. The object was being laid into the place where the fallen sycamore tree had been struck down. It would have been natural to replace the sycamore tree with a sycamore tree, but the object lowered into the hole was an Arez tree, a conifer tree, the same as the cedar of Lebanon.
8. Three Years to the Day
After the events of September 11th, the Democratic candidate for Vice President was John Edwards. He was speaking in Washington D.C. at a gathering.It was setember11th, 2004-the anniversary of the devastation. And since it was a prayer breakfast he chose a Scripture which he linked to the events of September 11th. These are HIS words on September 11th, 2004. Listen:
DID HE KNOW – THOSE WERE THE LORD’S WORDS OF JUDGMENT TO A NATION THAT IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE BY THE LORD’S OWN HAND?
One Final Astounding Note
On April 30th, 1789 - on that day, the government of the United States of America - the House, the Senate and the President - all gathered in the nation’s first Capital together, it was the Inauguration of George Washington. It was the nation’s Dedication Day.
After the address, Washington, and all the other officials, the Senators, the House of Representatives, the Vice President, all left the place of Inauguration, traveled on foot to a small church, a chapel. They went inside for two hours and they prayed, they committed, they consecrated this nation into God’s hands. The entire government was kneeling before God.
Where was America’s ground of consecration? Where was America dedicated to God? The first Inauguration did not take place in Washington D.C. [Not] Washington at all - or Philadelphia. The first Capital of the United States was New York City…declared so on September 13, 1788 by the U.S. Constitutional Convention. In 1790 the Capitol was moved to Philadelphia. It was in New York City where America began as a nation. It was there where the nation was started – [it was there] that the warning of the judgment of God was given.
America, on the day of its birth as a nation, was dedicated to God at the corner of a plot of land now known by a more ominous name...“Ground Zero.” Ground Zero is the ‘mystery place’ of American history. It was right there at the corner of Ground Zero that our nation’s first government prayed and it was there where God spoke again... What happens next and probably soon - will depend upon whether America is willing to repent and turn back to God.
Pastor Carl Gallups, a former Florida law enforcement officer for 10 years, is a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree. Since 1987 he has been the Senior Pastor of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida. In addition to his pastoral duties he authors a weekly newspaper column entitled Ask the Preacher for the Santa Rosa Press Gazette, hosts three weekly talk radio programs on WEBY 1330 AM in North West Florida, and is currently co-authoring a book on the incompatibility of Freemasonry and Christianity which is due to be released around December of 2009. Pastor Gallups is also the producer of 17 DVD documentary films (Ichthus Films) that have been distributed by the thousands worldwide, which cover a variety of subjects including God and Country, Evolution-Creation, Prophecy, and Apologetics. For more information about Pastor Gallups visit www.hickoryhammockbaptist.org. For information about Ichthus Films visit www.hickoryhammockbaptist.org/dvdindex.html. To view the film from which the above narrative was taken visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6roFN7NAE. There is also a YouTube link (http://www.youtube.com/ppsimmons) with over 90 other mini films which can be viewed.
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