9/11 Isaiah and U.S. Rapture!

 

 

 

The children of Israel and the United States are compared to a vineyard in Isaiah 5:4-5, “What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? (5)And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down”

Isaiah 31:1, (KJV), “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help…”

Since the “War-to-end-all-wars,” WWII, our people have turned their trust and confidence from God to space technology, nuclear technology, military technology, many great successful businesses with 20-30 year financial retirement programs, and until recently the greatest health care on earth, but as we say we thank God for all these modern conveniences, we have been pushing or allowing God to be pushed out of our lives through “abortion” which is murder(50+M), removing the emblems and plaques of God or His Word from sight, God’s moral principles are being ridiculed and those trying to live by His morals are starting to be persecuted legally by our non-Christian society, and churches are even fighting and dividing over His moral standards.

God’s charges to His people, below:    

In Isaiah 58:1-2, (KJV), “God speaks to His rebellious children, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

1) Yet they seek me daily, and

2) Delight to know my ways,

3)As a nation that did righteousness, and

 4)Forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice;

 5)They take delight in approaching to God.” 

But these people are so proud of themselves for all the good work they feel they are doing for God, just like all of the Christian denominations and organizations in our country.  The people of Isaiah’s day started asking, “Where is God?” Why isn’t He showing His favor for all their good works?”They ask in Isaiah 58:3a, (NIV), “Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?...”

 

God tells His people how phony they are and how to correct their ways.  Then God in the remainder of Isaiah 58 tells them how great it will be for them if they accept His warning, humble themselves, repent and turn to Him with all their hearts. 

 

God again summarizes to His people why they were not getting a favorable response from Him in Isaiah 59:1-2, (KJV), “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”

Just like with the children of Israel that God was speaking to above, our sins and iniquities are WHY GOD IS NOT ANSWERING AND DELIVERING OUR SINFUL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND OUR COUNTRY FROM THE DEVIL’S ATTACK ON AND THROUGH THE MUSLIMS IN OUR COUNTRY.  Our Christian community is full of sins and iniquities, and are babes in Christ since there are so many denominations, 1Corinthians 3:1,(KJV), “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.² I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.  3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? ⁴ For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? ⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? ⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”

 and Ephesians 4:5,14, (KJV), “ One Lord, one faith, one baptism…14, That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive”  Our Christianity society is filled with division, envying, strife and false doctrines and as the Apostle Paul says above our Christian society too, all denominations, are carnal, babes in Christ, tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine.”

 

God tells the people that they will respond in pride and stoutness of heart to build stronger buildings and plant more costlier or stronger trees, instead of humbling themselves and turning to Him as they should, Isaiah 9:10,(KJV) “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”                     

AMERICAN   RESPONSE   TO   9/11

 1.  BRICKS FALLING:  The day after 9/11 Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle in his Floor Statement on a 'Joint Resolution of Condemnation for the September 11, 2001 stated the following from Isaiah 9:10.…

“But there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think speaks to all of us at times such as this: 

Isaiah 9:10a, “The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stones...”

(Daschle didn’t know this was like a curse.  This response was what the people planned to do instead of humbling themselves to God.  Daschle gave it as though it was a great all-American response not knowing he was repeating what God counted as a curse to the people of Israel.)

American Response:  Just like the children of Israel, our nation will rebuild with our own hands and we will recover, just like God said the rebellious children of Israel would do in response to Him.   Congress, the President and some judges stood on the steps of Congress and sang a few patriotic, Godly songs, and people across the nation flocked to the churches but that only lasted for about six weeks.  The reaction of Congress was as phony as all of God’s charges to His people in Isaiah 58 above.  Compare Congress’ expressed sincerity the day after 9/11 to how they rammed through without reading Obamacare, Same Sex Marriage, and have supported with our tax dollars the muslim brotherhood who are killing Christians all around the world.  

The problem in the American Response is not the defiance against the muslim attack, it is the defiance in our country to not turning back to God, but stating in our arrogance that we will solve our problem without turning to God as a nation.

 

2.  SYCAMORE  TREE  CUT DOWN:  (Ref: Rabbi Jonathan Cahn)

Isaiah 9:10b, “the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

 

America’s Response: The above Scripture is actually the proclamation of a curse on a people where the SYCAMORE TREE falls when the buildings collapse, and the people in defiance and self-determination again decide they will plant a stronger CEDAR in the Sycamore’s place without needing to turn to God for help.  The Scripture itself is a WARNING to God’s people about how they would choose an arrogant response to the fallen Sycamore tree and that they would correct the problem themselves without turning to God.  

The error of our response, United States, is not that a defiant attitude against the Islamic militants is wrong; but instead, it is the lack of recognition that God withheld his protection because of our disregard for Him, and the "spirit" of misplaced defiance that we can do whatever we want to correct the problem without seeking God for guidance, that is now the American way or method.

Like in Isaiah 9:10b, There was a lone SYCAMORE tree at the corner of Ground Zero at St. Paul's Chapel where George Washington once sought God for mercy on our country.

• It was cut down by a steel beam that fell from the North Twin Tower when it collapsed.
• New Yorkers made the tree a memorial of remembrance of 9-11.  
• In 2003, a cedar tree, as stated in Isaiah 9;10,  was planted IN THE EXACT SPOT where the sycamore tree had been.
• When God brings judgment, He exposes the foundations or roots.
• One of the 'foundations' of the United States is Wall Street where the New York Stock Exchange was founded.  The previous name of this group?  The Buttonwood Association.  Buttonwood literally means "sycamore."
• Wall Street was also the first location our government convened under the newly ratified Constitution.  Its first meeting was at the corner of Ground Zero.  George Washington's prayer asks for protection over our country as we imitate God's virtues, implying we would lose His protection if we don't imitate god’s virtues.
• A bronze sculpture of the uprooted sycamore at ground zero was placed on Wall Street in September of 2005.
• President Obama's declaration that we will rebuild, we will recover did not acknowledge "with God's mercy and grace" as many predecessors had done in making similar declarations, but it is in the same spirit of "self-will" as the speeches that directly cited the Isaiah passage.

 

 

 

 

It is also pointed out by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn that Isaiah 9:10 is translated by Lancelot C.L.Brenton in the 1851 English Translation of the Greek Septuagint as: 

“The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.”

World Trade Center Tower 7 now is completed at Ground Zero. 

THE UNITED STATES HAS RESPONDED JUST LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID IN ISAIAH 9:10.

 

FIVE WARNINGS/JUDGMENTS

Isaiah 5:11-25

Isaiah 9:10-12

Isaiah 9:13-17 –Those who guide this people mislead them, guided are led astray.

Isaiah 9:18-21

Isaiah 10:1-4

For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

 

Isaiah 10:25, (KJV),

“For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.”

*(For His anger is not turned away, but it shall soon cease, and in Chapter 12 the song of their deliverance is given.)

Isaiah 3:10, “Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.”

Isaiah 51:7, (KJV),

⁷ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

THE   ISAIAH  RAPTURE/9/11

Isaiah 57:1-2

King James Version (KJV)

“The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

² He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.”

Isaiah 57:1-2, (NIV)

“The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
² Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.”

 

The righteous are being taken away by individual raptures to be spared from the judgment God is going to bring on the evil ones left behind as He states in Isaiah 3:10, “Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.”

9/11 RAPTURE

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18,(KJV),

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

¹⁶ For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

¹⁸ Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

 

1 Thessalonians 5:1-10, (KJV),

“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

³ For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁰ Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."

 

2 Thessalonians 2:32, (KJV), “ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

 

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