Rabbi Jonathan Cahn is, in my opinion, an outstanding Bible scholar and author. He can take threads from the past and apply them to 21st Century America. I started to read his most recent book, “The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times.” I decided first to revisit his book from 2011, “The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future.”
The Harbinger compares the reaction of Israel, the Northern Kingdom, to the first invasion of the land by the Assyrians and that of the United States after 911. Neither Israel or the United States repented their sins, rather, they would rebuild even better. The leaders of the Northern Kingdom boasted, “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.” Isaiah 9:10.
The attack by the Assyrians was “a shaking” that Israel ignored just as 911 was a shaking for America. Israel was later conquered and dispersed never to be regathered. Did we in America ignore our shaking?
The day after 9/11 Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle in a statement concerning a 'Joint Resolution of Condemnation for the September 11, 2001 stated the following: “But there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think speaks to all of us at times such as 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.'”
New York City Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani and New York State Governor, George E. Pataki said much the same; Major Giuliani after the attack and Governor Pataki when dedicating the building of the "Freedom Tower" on the 4th of July 2004.
When he was the 2004 Democratic Candidate for Vice President John Edwards spoke the same verse while at a prayer breakfast. Again, no repentance and Senator Edwards careen was later destroyed.
It certainly appears that there are/ were many parallels in the rise and fall of ancient empires and contemporary America. For so long we been considered the leader of the free world and the most powerful country in the world. The American electorate twice elected a POTUS who seems determined to bring our once thriving country to its knees; a judgment from God for our falling away from Him and losing our moral compass?
Was the election of Donald Trump as POTUS a reprieve for our country? I pray so.
A footnote, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s 2017 “The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times” is quite a read. Again, very relevant to 21st Century America.
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