Because of my interest in Bible prophecy and how it has in the past coincided with the Hebrew calendar, I was a little surprised. But because these things happened in my adult life time, and I was actually paying attention to these 2 incidents that rocked our country, 9/11 and the stock market crash of 2008, I must admit, my mind was a little blown. But there is more.
Instead of being humbled and repentant, Israel responded with anger, defiance, and pride, not even considering that God’s judgment was upon them. This is also how America responded. Eventually, the Assyrians returned, ravaged land and enslaved the people that had survived.
Let's take the first part of Isaiah 9:10, "The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone.."
We all know what bricks are. They were made different, 5,000 years ago, than they are today, but bricks are bricks. What is hewn, dressed, or cut stone? These are types of stones are taken from the 4 versions of the verse that I have mentioned earlier. Simply put, it's would be a stone that had to be cut or worked in some way. A hard stone that would be obtained rather than a brick made from clay. Stones cut out of a mountain. NH is called the Granite State, because of the granite being so plentiful in this area. In other words, not man made bricks, something stronger.
On 9/11/01, NYC Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani 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."
After all the rubble was cleared, we began to rebuild the Towers. On July 4th, 2004, in a ceremony to dedicate the plans for the Freedom Tower, 20 tons of Adirondack granite were laid at the site of the reconstruction. NY Governor Pataki said, "Today we build the Freedom Tower. ... Let this great Freedom Tower show the world that what our enemies sought to destroy, our democracy, our freedom, our way of life -- stands taller than ever."
It is said that the Freedom Tower will be the tallest building in America. The 5 1/2 foot stone was later removed from ground zero, on June 23, 2006 and returned to Innovative Stone, on Long Island, where it had been cut, honed, polished and inscribed in 2004. Turns out they hadn't originally placed in an area conducive for the rebuilding of the Towers. It will be returned upon completion of the project.
Now, the second part of Isaiah 9:10 "...the sycamore trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
I had mentioned earlier that George Washington gave the first Inaugural address at a church in NY City. NYC was our nations first capital. He gave his speech at what is now called, St. Paul's Chapel. I am unclear if it had the same name at the time the speech was given. Because he (our first president), dedicated our country to God (a covenant), at what was then, and is still now a church on that site. St. Paul's Chapel was right near the World Trade Center. On the church property grew an English Sycamore. It was not the same sycamore of the middle east as those particular trees would not thrive in NY's environment, but it's name, the English Sycamore was named after the Middle Eastern Sycamore. This tree was crushed by the fallen bricks of the Twin Towers. November 23, 2003, an erez tree, which is a Cedar tree was donated and planted in the very spot that the sycamore had been growing for 100 years before.
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