September 11, 2023: Until the Covid Pandemic, the most shocking historical development of the 21st Century was the events of 9/11/2001.
Neither can be clearly traced in a specific fashion to the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy.
Doesn’t that seem odd? Both resulted in wholesale change in society, from the establishment of a vast security apparatus at American Airports, to lockstep, universal health care mandates that have been adopted throughout much of the world, during the 3-year Covid-19 health crisis.
On the 22nd anniversary of 9/11, let’s examine how the world has changed.
Outside the shocking loss of life, the destruction of prime New York City real estate, and the attack of the Pentagon, the most lasting effect was the 20-year war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The loss of life and trillions of dollars spent by the Military Industrial Complex is incalculable. After withdrawing from Afghanistan last spring, can the argument be made that the world is safer after American intervention in the Middle East?
After all, Billions of dollars of sophisticated military hardware were left behind, arming the group of Afghans the United States viewed as mortal enemies — the Taliban. The supposed objective of “nation building,” or “democratic reform” certainly should be viewed as one of colossal failure.
The most optimistic opinion regarding world history since 9/11 has been the ability of the United States to project military power for a prolonged period of time. But in so doing, no victory was secured.
But what if victory wasn’t the objective?
Could the truth be that the United States was warned by President Dwight Eisenhower of specific threats from within? In his last address to the nation, as President Eisenhower warned of two possible, emerging areas; the defense industry, and technological research conducted by the federal government through private Universities. Was his speech prophetic? You be the judge. You can read the entire text here: President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
The official narrative of the 9/11 attack is well known, but the response of the United States, retrospectively, was odd. If 19 Saudi nationals were responsible for 9/11, led by another Saudi national, Osama Bin Laden, why was Saudi Arabia never held accountable? Why did the United States engage Iraq in war when that nation had nothing to do with the attacks? For sure, the pretext for going to war against Iraq was that they possessed “weapons of mass destruction,” though this theory was later found to be in error.
Whatever the reason for 9/11, it is inescapable that it was planned and executed in exquisite detail. If 20 men were responsible for the destruction of 20% of the office space in lower Manhattan, and the destruction of part of the world’s most heavily defended military building, their execution was virtually flawless. It has to be considered one the greatest military operations of all time, considering the size of the force, and that they were armed only with boxcutters!
If less than 2 dozen terrorists were able to paralyze a nation of 320 million people with razor blades, how vulnerable is our nation?
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, we are certainly much less free as a society. The threat of terrorism became the instigation for a new government department, Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. A vast network was brought into existence that monitors the communication of all Americans, with vast data bases that record electronic and telephonic transmissions.
What would President Eisenhower think of such developments of this modern age? In his January 17, 1961, speech, he said: “But each proposal must be weighed in light of a broader consideration; the need to maintain balance in and among national programs – balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost
and hoped for advantages – balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between the actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.”
Perhaps President Eisenhower would say we have lost the balance between the rights of the individual citizen while the power of the Federal Government has expanded (?)
For certain, the world is much different now, than in 1961. In receiving a vision of the distant future, the prophet Jeremiah saw the end result of the disobedience of the descendants of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. He saw them in a future captivity and returning from that captivity at the time of Jesus’ return, in the early part of chapter 30 of Jeremiah.
He also foretold the time of Jacob’s descendants, in great difficulty; “Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.” (Jeremiah 30:7)
Are we on the precipice of that prophesied time of trouble? Though the United States has thoroughly dominated the discussion when it comes to the extension of military and financial power, with the dollar in crisis as the world’s reserve currency, our financial house in a shambles with excessive national debt, with a wide-open border that is open for illegal immigration, and with human smuggling and trafficking as the result — can America remain a Superpower? Or has the sun already set on American dominance?
All Empires of man eventually fail. American dominance in the world has lasted for roughly 100 years, arguably, since the end of World War 1.
Over 2,700 years ago, the prophet Micah predicted that Jacob’s descendants would lose their power shortly after domination of their enemies; “And it shall be in that day,” says the Lord, “That I will cut off your horses from your midst And destroy your chariots. 11 I will cut off the cities of your land And throw down all your strongholds.” (Micah 5:10)
Whatever the cause or the culprits of 9/11/2001, these events changed the course of the history of the United States.
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