In visit to Ground Zero, he writes message of best-selling book, video
WASHINGTON
– The handwritten message Barack Obama scrawled on a new building site
at Ground Zero last night sounds optimistic, upbeat, non-controversial –
at first glance.
However, the message continues a pattern of American leaders
fulfilling an ancient biblical prophecy and a curse of judgment on the
U.S., according to the best-selling Christian book of 2012 and the No. 1
faith movie.
While Obama was creating a stir in Manhattan with star-studded
celebrity fundraisers, he also took a side trip that got less publicity.
His official presidential business was a visit to the new World Trade
Center building site where he signed a steel girder with a message of
interest to the hundreds of thousands who have read
“The Harbinger” or seen the video documentary “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment.”
“We remember,” he wrote. “We rebuild. We come back stronger!”
The book and the video have shocked readers and viewers around the
country and the world by showing the eerie and striking parallels
between the vows of the leaders of ancient Israel before its judgment
and fall and those of American leaders since Sept. 11, 2001.
“What was foreshadowed in
‘The Harbinger’ and ‘The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment’ film is now being fulfilled by the president of the United States,” said Jonathan Cahn, the messianic rabbi-pastor and author.
The book and film specifically connect Obama’s words from his first
State of the Union message in January 2009 with the ancient vow that
brought judgment to ancient Israel.
“The ancient vow begins with these words: ‘The bricks have fallen,
but we will rebuild with hewn stone,’” explains Cahn. “The vow declares
Israel’s defiance of God, in the face of a devastating strike on the
land. The hewn stone, which begins the rebuilding, symbolizes the
nation’s intention to come back stronger than before. The book then
reveals the parallel a proclamation given by Obama:
“Tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild. And the
United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” he said.
However, that comment, which represented the theme of his first major
speech upon taking office, was not addressing the attack of 9/11. It
was addressing the economy and the state of the country generally.
Yesterday, Cahn points out, Obama returned to the location of the attack
– bringing the message full circle.
He points out how Obama’s words even parallel a Bible commentary on
the verse Isaiah 9:10: “They boasted that they would rebuild their
devastated country and make it stronger than ever before.”
In “The Harbinger” and “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” the
focal point of this vow of judgment is the tower rising up out of the
ruins of Ground Zero. It comprises the fourth harbinger – and remains
the one harbinger that is still under construction.
“On June 14, two of the mysteries of ‘The Harbinger,’ foreshadowed in
the book came true,” explained Cahn. “Obama went to Ground Zero to see
the still rising tower. He was given a beam which will constitute the
tower’s final and highest beam. On the beam, the president wrote eight
words – which were, in effect, a summation of the ancient vow of
judgment: ‘We Remember, We Rebuild, We Come Back Stronger!’”
Cahn continued: “So now the now the tower will be crowned and
finished with words paralleling Isaiah 9:10, the ancient vow of national
judgment. The tower was begun with the laying down of a hewn stone, the
very same object mentioned in Isaiah 9:10 which begins the rebuilding.”
“Now the words and the tower have been joined together in reality –
and the one who did it was the president of the United States,” he told
WND. “One subtle difference in the words, is that the vow is spoken in
the future tense. But now the words inscribed on the towers are in the
present tense. In other words, they not only speak of the defiant vow,
but of the fact that the vow is being fulfilled. This,” says Cahn,
“constitutes another ominous sign.”
The last time the tower at Ground Zero became the focus of media
attention was April 30, 2012, the day it became the tallest building in
New York City. In the chapter titled The Mystery Ground, “The Harbinger”
provides the reader with a date that holds the key to the mystery
behind Ground Zero – the same date – April 30.
In January,
“The Harbinger,”
by Cahn, a messianic rabbi from New Jersey, exploded onto the
publishing scene, immediately becoming a surprise New York Times
bestseller.
“A number of years ago, as I was standing at the edge of Ground Zero
in New York City, I came across the first puzzle piece of an ancient
biblical mystery and a prophetic message known as
‘The Harbinger’ that concerns the future of America,” explains Cahn,
who helped write the two-hour documentary “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment.”
Cahn say he has since found nine harbingers that tie the problems
America has experienced beginning Sept. 11, 2001, with parallels that
led to the destruction of ancient Israel.
“Before God judges a nation, He sends warning,” explains Cahn. “He
sent warning to ancient Israel. He even allowed its enemies to breach
its borders in a devastating strike that would traumatize the nation. It
was a wake-up call, the call to return to God. But the nation responded
with defiance. God then gave nine harbingers of judgment, nine
prophetic signs, alarms and foreshadows of what was to come. Now America
is the nation in rapid departure from God’s will. And God likewise
allowed an enemy to breach its borders in a devastating strike – the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was, likewise, a wake-up call.
But America, like Israel, has not responded with repentance, but with
defiance. And now the nine harbingers of judgment have reappeared and
have done so on American soil.”
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Isaiah 9:10 is a verse in which Israel’s national leaders utter a vow
of defiance following an attack by Assyria. It declared that the nation
would not repent before God, but would defy Him instead. Cahn reveals
in
“The Harbinger”
– and in even more dramatic fashion in the video – that beginning the
day after Sept. 11, 2001, American leaders began repeating that
2,500-year-old vow, word for word.
He continues: “According to the ancient mystery revealed in the Book
of Isaiah, if after that first calamity and warning, the nation doesn’t
return to God but responds in defiance, it will end up triggering a
second calamity. It was because of this ancient key, that, seven years
after 9/11, the American economy collapsed. In the days after 9/11, the
Federal Reserve slashed the base interest rate in an attempt to defy the
consequences of the attacks. That action put us on the path leading to
the collapse of the American economy seven years later. In 2008, the
government made a second fatal mistake, another ill-fated financial
decision, that would trigger the collapse of the American economy.
Amazingly, it took place on the seventh anniversary of the uttering of
the ancient vow on Capitol Hill.”
Cahn also reveals in
“The Harbinger” and
“The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment”
something that readers and viewers universally find astonishing – that
New York’s Ground Zero actually represents more than the former
financial center of the country. It represents the exact place at which
America was first consecrated to God in prayer by the country’s new
leaders.
“When judgment came to Israel, the calamity returned the people’s
attention to the place where the nation had been consecrated to God –
the Temple Mount,” says Cahn. “God was calling the nation back to
Himself. What about 9/11? Could there be, in the American calamity, as
well, a mystery of return? Could there be a prophetic message hidden in
the place where it happened? There is a place where America was
consecrated to God in prayer. It is also a place linked to a prophetic
warning given on that same day – uttered by the nation’s first president
– now coming to pass.”
In 1789, newly inaugurated President George Washington gave a
prophetic warning at Federal Hall in New York City. He declared that
America’s prosperity and protection were dependent upon its adherence to
God. Later, the political leaders of the young nation gathered at St.
Paul’s Chapel to commit the nation’s future to God’s purposes. That
chapel is located at Ground Zero and miraculously survived 9/11
virtually unscathed.
Cahn, the pastor of the Jerusalem Center-Beth Israel Congregation in
Wayne, N.J., says America is uncannily re-enacting ancient Israel’s
behavior prior to its judgment and eventual fall. He found a sympathetic
ear for his message in WND founder Joseph Farah, who produced
“The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” as a follow-up to
“The Harbinger.”
“I had a chance to hear Jonathan Cahn’s message last fall,” said
Farah. “Then I had an opportunity to read an early manuscript of
‘The Harbinger’ before it was released in January. I was determined to produce this video documentary,
‘The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,’
because I believe its message is the most important one for Americans
at this moment in history. In fact, I believe this project may be the
most important one of my life. That’s how strongly I feel about it.”
The key to decoding the harbingers, Cahn says, is found in
understanding the seemingly innocuous words of Isaiah 9:10 (King James
Version) what it meant to Israel and how the history seems to be
repeating itself in America today: “The bricks are fallen down, but we
will build with hewn stones: The sycamores are cut down, but we will
change them into cedars.”
These words were first uttered by leaders in Israel and in response
to a limited strike by Assyria on the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali – an
attack the prophet makes clear is actually part of a limited judgment
by God against apostasy. It wasn’t meant to destroy the nation, but to
awaken it, according to most commentaries.
But, says Cahn, Israel didn’t take the cue. Instead, the response
from the people in Isaiah 9:10 is one of defiance. The brick buildings
were toppled, but they vowed to build bigger and better. The little
sycamore trees may have been uprooted, but they vowed to plant bigger
and better cedars in their place.
God, speaking through Isaiah explains what will happen as a result of
their pride and arrogance and failure to heed the harbinger: Bigger and
more potent attacks will follow. Because neither the northern kingdom
of Israel nor the southern kingdom of Judah truly repents, the first is
eventually swept away by Assyrian invaders and the latter is carried off
into captivity by the Babylonians for 70 years.
But what does this have to do with the United States of America –
particularly what the U.S. experienced on 9/11 and since? Cahn has found
some eerie parallels.
“In the aftermath of the attack, the nation was stunned,” said Cahn.
“Everyone was trying to make sense of what had happened – this
unprecedented attack on America. The very next day, Sept. 12, then
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle presented America’s response to the
world. And what did he say?”
Daschle said: “America will emerge from this tragedy as we have
emerged from all adversity – united and strong. Nothing … nothing can
replace the losses of those who have suffered. I know 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 speaks to all of
us at times like this.”
He then went on to read Isaiah 9:10.
“Daschle has no idea what he is doing here,” explains Cahn. “He
thinks he’s offering comforting words to a grief-stricken people, but he
is actually embracing the spiritually defiant and arrogant words of the
children of Israel, proclaiming the ancient and ominous vow of the
leaders of that nation. He doesn’t realize it, but he is actually
inviting more judgment on the nation.”
It might be of some significance that Daschle, one of the most
powerful men in the nation when he spoke those words, later fell into
disgrace – to the point where he couldn’t even serve in Barack Obama’s
Cabinet.
That might have been the end of the story – if no other top leader in
the nation uttered those strange and obscure words after 9/11. But
that’s not the case.
On the third anniversary of the attack, Sept. 11, 2004, another
powerful U.S. senator running for vice president that year and who would
famously run for the presidency four years later, gave a speech to the
Congressional Black Caucus.
This time, John Edwards’ entire speech was built on a foundation of Isaiah 9:10:
“Today, on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord’s
Word to get us through,” he said. He then read Isaiah 9:10. He went on
to talk about how America was doing just that – rebuilding with hewn
stone and planting cedars.
In
“The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,”
viewers get to see these remarkable, largely forgotten or overlooked
speeches, which directly link the events of 9/11 and the events referred
to in Isaiah 9:10.
“Like Daschle, Edwards thinks he’s invoking inspirational and
comforting words from the Bible, but he’s actually inviting judgment on
America,” says Cahn. “He’s repeating the vow that provoked God to bring
calamity on ancient Israel.”
Even more astonishing, Daschle and Edwards were not alone among U.S. leaders in making similar statements, as
“The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” shows.
But aside from such statements, which could be chalked up to
political talk and coincidences, is there anything else linking Isaiah
9:10 to 9/11?
The video documentary, like the book, is full of shocking parallels.
There was actually a very famous sycamore tree felled in the attack on
the World Trade Center. It was replaced by trees in the same genus as
the cedar. There have been many plans made to rebuild the twin towers
bigger and better and a large “hewn stone” was actually quarried out of
the Adirondack Mountains in New York and brought to Ground Zero as a
cornerstone.
“The parallels are truly stunning,” says Farah, founder of WND, who
produced the documentary for WND Videos. “In fact, they are overwhelming
in their number and their exactitude. I am persuaded God is trying to
tell America something and Rabbi Cahn has found the key to unlocking the
message.”
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At
America's conception our forefathers prayed and consecrated it before
God, asking for his protection and favor; God heard them and he surly
granted it. But now America as a nation has largely departed from him,
now 10 years ago God gave us a warning that he is soon going to revoke
his protection and favor that was granted on the request of our
forefathers, a judgment is coming unless our nation returns to God and
it's roots.
"The scale of the attack of the World Trade Center on
September 11th, 2001 was massive. Technology insured the continued
visibility and recollection of insistent images. Was this event in New
York unique in history? On the surface it would appear that it was not:
catastrophic and unimaginable yes, but unique? Rabbi Cahn describes the
"Eight Harbingers of Judgment" experienced by Israel and their uncanny
parallels to the events of September 11, 2001: his insights are
prodigious, overwhelming and foreboding. The consequences that would
befall the nation that would not hear the Watchman after experiencing
the prior warning which would be a shadow of the cataclysm to come."
