20 years after World Trade Centre hit World Trade suffers
10th September 2021, hej
In the whole course of nations and empires histories the things that matter are shown to be controlled by the Creator. Is it then mere chance that just as they are close to completing the replacement works of the World Trade Centre site, having called it 'freedom tower' and 'liberty plaza', that world trade is given a second more serious blow? Covid-19?
On every anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Centre (the catalyst of the George W. Bush war in Afghanistan) many of us read Ezekiel 7 according to a Bible reading plan from the mid 1800s.
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; “An end, the end is come upon the four corners (extremities / pinnacles) of the land.” (Ezekiel 7:2)
It is a little known fact, but it so happens that exactly 4 World Trade Tower buildings were destroyed by the events of 9/11 of the set of 7 on the site, which together had more that a million square metres of office space. (At 9:59 am the South Tower collapsed burning 56 minutes. North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am burning for 102 minutes. Due to fire, 7 World Trade Center collapsed at 5:21 pm. The Marriott World Trade Center hotel was destroyed during the two towers’ collapse. The three remaining buildings in the WTC plaza were extensively damaged by debris and later demolished. Wikipedia).
With 20 years hindsight we can understand that an era ended for America and the American-led West from 2001. It was harder to see back then, but now with the debacle of the American pull-out from Afghanistan we can see it was the beginning of an end.
There is a generation that is now growing up that does not remember the world before 9/11 2001 or the great significance that the shock of '9/11' was to those who lived in the era. Those who remember the world before 2001 remember the much free-er spirit of the American-dominant age. From 1990 the Communist revolution of the Soviet Union that had threatened Mutually Assured nuclear Destruction had collapsed. Instead of learning the weakness of godless athiest communism, American civilization increasingly grew proud and rejected the laws of God, for global commerce and unrestrained celebration and pride in all forms of 'pleasure'.
The End is Come
We see again the dramatic end of the Twin Towers. We read:
Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon you, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon thee, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 7:3-4)
A simplistic understanding of religion has misunderstood the role of Islam. This comes from a failure to understand the timeline of Revelation and the role of Islam as Abbadon in judgment. Islam from its beginning was raised against a corrupted Christianity. When the West was more godly with a Bible-based society, Islam was no threat to it. The Bible is full of cases where the nations, Egypt, Syria, Assyria, Babylon and Rome are sent as judgment on Apostasy. As Jews dwell in American led-west and as Western culture was based on the Judeo-Christian Bible, should both depart from their foundations without consequences? Or will there be a day of trouble? Do the events now fit the pattern of Ezekiel 7?
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. An end is come, the end is come: it watches for thee; behold, it is come. The morning (Hebrew: the crown / the mishap) is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding (shouting) again of the mountains. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. (Ezekiel 7:5-8)
There was no repentance after 9/11 and the Crown, the Mishap, has now come. Crown is corona, Covid- 19, 19 years later. This crown of corona is a judgment that is affecting world trade.
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning (the Crown, the Mishap) is gone forth; the rod (for rule, for correction) hath blossomed, pride hath budded. Violence (Hamas, as in the terrorists) is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither wailing (lamentation) for them. (Ezekiel 7:10-11)
The corona led to so many deaths in New York that there is no mourning for them. Corona, the Crown, Mishap will overshadow remembrance of 9/11 this year.
World Trade: the Seller Mourns
The Twin Towers of the original World Trade Centre may have appeared boring to others but they were both iconic of New York an architectural marvel of its era in design, construction and engineering– It was at the time of opening in 1973 the tallest building in the world. It provided massive clear span floor space for innovative open plan office layouts suitable for trading in the 1980s and was designed to re-invigorate an area that had died in an era of rising crime in New York. At the time of Rudi Juliani's police reforms, New York may have justly laid claim to be the leader of global trade. But it was also known as a place of drug-use and sin. It was an open secret of the era that the traders were awash in 'snow', it was the era of much prosperity and also unrepentant sexual immorality even to a push for un-Biblical marriage in utter rebellion and pride, and the acceptance of the killing of unborn children so that sexual immorality might have no consequences. In the lead up to 2001 there was a strong push to remove God's Laws globally, but it was led by many from a prosperous wealthy America.
Reading Ezekiel 7 in 2001 and on 9/11 for the 20 years since we read of the judgment on the financial prosperity on those who reject God's laws.
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. (Ezekiel 7:12-13)
It shall not return. Even today after 20 years they have not finished building. Looking back we see that while they tried to 'build-back' floor space for World Trade, from 2008 the world lived through a financial collapse that came from a failure of American financial policy.
Sword, Trumpet & Pestilence
Looking back we could not have considered that the American trumpet call to war in Afghanistan would fail.
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. (Ezekiel 7:14-17)
After 9/11 as the Americans take their 'war on terror' to Afghanistan, a few pestilences emerge . SARS appeared in 2002 in China. It spread worldwide within a few months, although it was quickly contained. (Mayo clinic). In 2014 the significant Ebola outbreak in Africa from 2013-15 comes to America from Liberia. Ebola continues to be an issue until this day in parts of Africa. What is to note in particular is that the people of cities of the world have been very affected by the current Corona Covid 19 outbreak. But the outbreak of 2019 has a likely genesis in the international funding for gain -of -function research in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan lab of Virology was founded in 2003 when it was co- funded by the French Government and was finished in 2014. From 2015 they studied SARS viruses (Wikipedia). As has emerged US, Canada and Australia and likely others all co-funded and co-authored research there.
When was the trumpet blown? There was a global outcry at the election of Trump as President of America. Though Trump's Administration expressly forbad the gain-of-function research, funding still came to the Wuhan lab through the work of Fauci, so the pestilence goes forth, so all become weak in fear.
So is there more.. yes, there is more!
They shall also gird with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. (Ezekiel 7:18-19)
Did you know that there were many who stood at ground zero and mourned. But under ground zero was one of the largest stashes of gold and silver?!
One of the world's largest gold depositories was located underneath the World Trade Center, owned by a group of commercial banks. Seven weeks after the September 11 attacks, $230 million in precious metals was removed from basement vaults of 4 WTC. This included 3,800 100-Troy-ounce 24 carat gold bars and 30,000 1,000-ounce silver bars. (wikipedia)
Into the Hands of Strangers
The glory of ancient Israel was given by God, as was the prosperity of the nation of America that wrote on it money 'In God we trust'. While America did trust God, they were blessed.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they (the strangers) shall pollute it. My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. (Ezekiel 7:20-23)
No one would argue that New York city was full of violence, and had the images of the abominations..and then it was given to Islamic strangers for a prey. Chance?
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Mischief (ruin) shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
The king shall mourn, and the prince (captain) shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 7:24-27)
The consequences of research in Wuhan came out of their own evil way, and seems connected to Fauci and Aids research. This, their own way, has turned back upon those nations including America that funded it. The virus has troubled many people, beyond their health, as it has delivered a greater blow to trade that the financial crisis. It has broken supply chains, as factories close due to the virus. People stay home in fear rather than going out buy and sell and to trade. Many people have lost their entire livelihoods as patterns of consumption of goods and services collapse, whether from mis managed 'lockdowns' or the effects of the death and ill health of the virus running free.
The hope of destroying the God of the Bible in their culture has encouraged some to call for refugees. As a result there own way as returned with an invasion of the worst of the nations as a flood into the EU and now into American. The illegals come and possess their houses which they demand, and they call for sharia law and control to defile the things that are 'holy places' to the West.
Ezekiel speaks of wisdom departing. Who would have thought that the President of the United States reckoned among the 'ancients', would be thought to be not only without wisdom but with obvious signs of dementia, and the whole administration clearly without counsel as Blinken's response to China, Iran and the Taliban's insults shows?
As yet it has not emerged, but many already see the disaster of Afghanistan withdrawal allowing the rise of terrorists as opening up the world to war. All know it damaged NATO and all EU confidence in America. Macron has openly explained it.
We can see now, after 20 years, that American and it's allies shall shall seek peace – and there shall be no peace.
But there is more.
Ahaz king of Judah & Rebellious Unrepentant Israel
We read also 2 Kings 17 where the anger of Yahweh Elohim at the idolatry and evil, and rejection of his laws results in the destruction and dispersal of Israel at the hands of Assyria after compromise, conspiracy with Egypt and a three year war. Their greatest sin was that when they were told and warned of the evil of their way, they did not repent but hardened their necks (v14) in pride.
Possession of the land was a blessing. It was taken from them. Keeping the ways of Yahweh Elohim delivers a blessing. The remnants deportation to live among the evil meant that they now would suffer from the evil ways of their neighbors, whose ways they had chosen over Yahweh's.
2 Kings 17 begins in the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah.
It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. (Isaiah 7:1)
Judah like Israel was suffering due to the people seeking the evil ways of the nations about them. But for the moment they were given a warning, Pekah was not to be rewarded.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it: Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. (Isaiah 7:5-8)
Ahaz was not a man of faith but Isaiah was, and the people are given a sign in Isaiah's son.
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. (Isaiah 8:4)
Isaiah was told what the proud people of Israel would say, who reject the warning of Yahweh and seek to conquer the remnant of the righteous in Judah,
All the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.” Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; (Isaiah 9:9-11)
Bricks are fallen, but we will build back better in Stone
It so happens that this is the very cry of defiance that emerges from America after 9/11 2001. On the very next day US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, on September 12, 2001, said in response
“I know that 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 us all at times like 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…” tomorrowsworld
Then again on September 11, 2004 Tom Edwards Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina said, "Good morning. Today, on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord's word to get us through. "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. It calls us to never forget. It calls us to do the Lord's work here on earth." Presidency
US president Obama said it 2 times more . On 24 feb 2009 in response to the resultant recession from the shock of the 2008 sub-prime collapse of Lehman brothers that emerged about the time of September 11, 2008).
President Barack Obama attempted to lift American confidence battered by the collapsing economy in an address to Congress on Tuesday night in which he promised the country would recover and "emerge stronger than before". theguardian
We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before. The weight of this crisis will not determine the destiny of this nation. news-gazette
Then 14 June 2012 Obama at Ground Zero wrote on a beam, 'We remember. We rebuild. We come back stronger'
The current cry of Biden administration is 'build back better', which they used before before the full devastation of the financial consequences of 'lockdowns' due to the Corona virus emerged. Build back better came from Japan a UN disaster conference of 2015 and was adopted by the UN as a phrase to imply that the rebuilding be 'eco-green'. This itself will be a judgment as all green ideals increase cost of energy and reduce its reliability making it more vulnerable to disaster as shown in Texas's catastrophic winter power failure.
19 Years
Ahaz refused to ask a sign. But Hezekiah son of Ahaz turned his nation about and when the invasion of the Assyrians invaded they were given a miracle. But Judah did not learn the lesson of Israel's destruction, and returned to evil. In 605 BC the Babylonian invasion came first as a warning – then 19 years later the great calamity came of the utter destruction in 586BC – the span of time was 19 years. The warning came first, then the destruction finally came, to send Jews into exile to learn to repent of idolatry. Ezekiel wrote in the midst of the era, after the captivity of 598/597BC.
As American leaders have repeated the words of the rebel kingdom of Israel, they too will see “Yahweh shall set up the adversaries against him, and join his enemies together.” It is no accident that the defiant, unrepentant, 'build back better' Biden Administration's attempt to meet the anniversary of 9/11 resulted in the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle where Iran, China and Russia seek to combine, and Islamic terrorist enemies rejoice.
The point of all Yahweh Elohim's judgment is repentance. There will be no success in replacing high energy use brick with 'eco-stones'., or of replacing the lost sycamores with zero-carbon cedars; building back better will fail.
Twenty years after 9/11, the current disruption of American-led world trade is more significant than the destruction of the 7 towers.
The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically affected lives and livelihoods. In the process, it has also disrupted economic activities throughout the world. In particular, worldwide merchandise trade flows decreased by 7% in 2020. voxeu
In 2020, global trade fell by 8.9%, the steepest drop since the global financial crisis.. the pandemic affected services trade more than goods trade. Services trade fell by more than 20% in 2020, almost four times the decline in goods trade. bankofengland
In AmericaThe recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has included a precipitous decline in U.S. trade: The FRED graph above shows that both imports and exports have declined more than 20% relative to a year ago. fredblog
Is Evergrande in China the next Lehman brothers?
Will Larry Fink's BlackRock's expansion into China end in loss?
Will the bubbles of overvalued 'everything' including housing values burst, or deflate, in the face of economic stag-flation? If the Great Creator of all things has decided on judgment, there will be no escape in 'positive spin' of trite words. The axe was laid to the root of the massive sycamore tree, where trees symbolize great nations, as John the Baptist warned,
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (Luke 3:4-6.9)
It so happens that sculptor Steve Tobin famously commemorated the over 70 year old American sycamore tree felled by the force of the falling towers, that exposed its massive root system. Special care was taken to replicate a chainsaw gash visible in the surviving wood, suffered during the sycamore?s 2001 dissection. You cannot make up such a co-incidence, it must be to tell us how to see the events! Repent. The great tree was hewn down in sign, but they did not repent, and said of the lost Sycamore, we will replant! The replant did not prosper.
The Right Stone
The reason the modern call to replace the 'brick' that Yahweh Elohim destroyed on 9/11 with 'stone' has failed for 19 years and why it will continue to fail, is that they seek to build with the wrong stone. The builders, the leaders calling to build back better, have again rejected repentance and the only stone that is of any use whatsoever – that of Christ.
The judgments will be poured out on all construction, especially towers, until the destruction of Armageddon and fiery judgments, leads to global repentance and seeking of God's ways to reveal the eternal construction of the Kingdom of God – the foundation, the head of the corner - has been laid.
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. (Matthew 21:42-44)
