The Prophetic Regarding The Twin Towers and 9-11

Today is a day for remembering. 9-11. I remember and so do you.

I want to give you a prophetic look at what that was and is all about:

• God was not taken by surprise - He knew
• Every person that suffered, was injured and died, he knew them by name and cared for them in the time of need. I recently read The Shack and it speaks to this. They had a brief pain and then it was gone.
• Heroism and the best of us all was displayed again and again by people we least expected it from. They did what they did without thought for themselves. They demonstrated at least in a human way the heart of Jesus towards us all.
• An evil that is still with us was revealed for what it is. Calling evil, evil and good good is our responsibility.
• It changed us as a nation forever. But we were changed already for the worse. We were living in a dream world and woke up from it on 9-11. I believe it will change us for better.
  
• The war that followed for better or worse has proven to be a war fought for reasons that only God understands. This was not a war the USA asked for. It may have had some human intervention and motives in it, but it is a war we must engage, here or somewhere else. Just as we did in World War Two. I believe this is an ordained war we must fight.
  

While this tragedy revealed good things, it also revealed evil selfish and false compulsions among us all.

9-11 demonstrated the emptiness of irrelevant Christianity as is and WAS practiced in much of the USA. It continues to this day. God is in the business of taking away everything we depend on other than him. Empty religion is one of those things. It also holds no appeal long term. The churches that were full after 9-11 are empty once more.

The most important thing to remember is that the binding up of this nation is always the Fathers Job, not ours. Where we made mistakes as a nation was to try to bind others wounds with government. Just as we did at Katrina. It didn't work after 9-11 and doesn't work now. The one who can bind our Wounds is Father God.

I don't know if it was coincidence or providence or both. 2 weeks before 9-11 I preached a sermon on the Book of Isaiah. I was engaged in a verse by verse teaching thru the first 39 chapters. After the towers came down many people came to me and said, "You taught on that a couple weeks ago, do you think it was a prophecy?" I assured them it was but that I was not the prophet.

The passage I taught two weeks before was from Isaiah Chapter 30:

19People of Jerusalem, you don't need to cry anymore. The Lord is kind, and as soon as he hears your cries for help, he will come. 20The Lord has given you trouble and sorrow as your food and drink. But now you will again see the Lord, your teacher, and he will guide you. 21Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice saying, "This is the road! Now follow it." 22Then you will treat your idols of silver and gold like garbage; you will throw them away like filthy rags.

23The Lord will send rain to water the seeds you have planted--your fields will produce more crops than you need, and your cattle will graze in open pastures. 24Even the oxen and donkeys that plow your fields will be fed the finest grain. ^[c] 25On that day people will be slaughtered and towers destroyed, but streams of water will flow from high hills and towering mountains. 26Then the LORD will bandage his people's injuries and heal the wounds he has caused. The moon will shine as bright as the sun, and the sun will shine seven times brighter than usual. It will be like the light of seven days all at once.

I won't re-preach my teaching on this passage but there is much more here relevant to 9-11 than anyone understands. I have highlighted a few things for your consideration.

Prophecy is like that. There is prophecy for then, prophecy for the near future and prophecy for the time we live in now.

You can trust God and apply this passage to your life today. He was speaking across the centuries by a prophet of old to and thru his prophets of today.

2 Chronicles 20:20b

Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Jehovah your God, and ye shall be established; believe his prophets, and ye shall prosper!

I don't want to just be established to stand, I want to prosper in every way possible.

That takes the prophetic.