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.
We, the nation of America,
were born on April 30, 1789
On this date 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.
In the painting above by Archibald Robertson (1765-1835) there is pictured a little church that is today St Paul's Chapel of the Episcopal Parish Trinity Church built 1766. The address is 209 Broadway; just down from Federal Hall. After the inauguration President Washington and members of Congress walked down the street to this Chapel. There they prayed for two hours; asking a Blessing for their new nation, America. In his inaugural address our President gave a warning to the people of America concerning their Blessing.
"I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained;
and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." President George Washington's Inaugural Address
The First Harbinger: The Breach
In 732 B.C., the hedge of protection was removed and Israel’s enemies invade the land and wreak havoc. The calamity traumatizes the nation but it takes place on a limited scale, as with 9/11. The warning is the removal of the hedge. On September 11, 2001, America’s hedge of protection was removed – the breach of America’s security; a sign that God has lifted His protective hand.
The Second Harbinger: The Terrorist
It was the dark shadow of Assyrian terror that loomed over the kingdom of Israel;
the danger against which the prophets had warned. And when, years later,
Israel’s final judgment came, the Assyrians would again be the means through
which it would happen. So, too, the attack on America is carried out by
terrorists. The Assyrians were a Semitic people, children of the Middle
East. So were the terrorists of 9/11.
The Third Harbinger: The Fallen Bricks
The most visible signs of the attack on ancient Israel were that of the fallen
buildings and the ruin heaps of fallen bricks. The third harbinger is the
sign of the fallen bricks of the fallen buildings. On Sept 11, 2001,
Americans were confronted with the same sign, fallen bricks of the fallen
buildings of the wreckage of Ground Zero. America was not turning back to
God. It was a short-lived spiritual revival that never came.
The Fourth Harbinger: The Tower
Israel defiantly began rebuilding on the devastated ground, vowing to rebuild higher
and stronger. So, too, in the wake of 9/11, American leaders vowed to
rebuild at Ground Zero higher and stronger – the Tower begins to rise at Ground
Zero. Those involved act unwittingly.
The Fifth Harbinger: The Gazit Stone
We will rebuild with quarried stone - The Israelites carve
out quarried stone from mountain rock and bring it back to the ground of
destruction where clay bricks once stood. Three years after 9/11, a stone
is quarried out of the mountain rock of New York. This massive stone was
brought back to Ground Zero. In ancient Israel this stone became a misplaced
embodiment of the nation’s confidence in its own power. So too the
massive stone at Ground Zero became the symbolic cornerstone of the
rebuilding. Public ceremonies accompanied the stone placement.
Plans to rebuild Ground Zero would be frustrated for years. Eventually
they would remove the stone from GZ altogether.
The rebuilding of Ground Zero has been engulfed by a flood of controversy and conflict.
The “Freedom Stone” would eventually be removed and, ironically, America’s
sworn enemies would seek to establish a mosque near the site of the nation’s
greatest tragedy.
The Sixth Harbinger: The Sycamore
The Sycamores have been cut down - The attack on ancient Israel resulted in the striking down of the sycamore tree, a biblical sign of national judgment. The fallen sycamore
is a sign of uprooting, a warning and, in ignoring the warning, it becomes a
prophecy of judgment. On 9/11, as the North Tower fell it sent debris and
wreckage which struck and uprooted an object – a sycamore tree growing at
Ground Zero. The tree was made into a symbol and named The Sycamore of Ground Zero.
When it fell in ancient Israel it prophesied the nation’s downfall and the end
of its kingdom. What happens to America depends on if the warning is
heeded.
The Seventh Harbinger: The Erez Tree
But we will plant cedars in their place - In their defiance of God,
the Israelites replace the fallen sycamore with a Cedar tree. The cedar,
being stronger than the sycamore becomes a symbol of the nation’s arrogant hope
that it will emerge from the crisis stronger than before. The English name for
this tree is “Cedar,” but the Hebrew word is “Erez.” Erez stands not only for cedar but for a
conifer tree of the panacea family. In November of 2003, a tree was
lowered at the corner of Ground Zero into the soil where the fallen sycamore
once stood. The tree was a conifer, a panacea tree, the biblical
Erez. A ceremony was held around the tree and it, too, became a symbol –
entitled The Tree of Hope. There is always hope. A nation’s true hope is found only in returning to God.
The Eighth Harbinger: The Utterance
The Eighth Harbinger was the public speaking of the ancient vow of defiance.
For this harbinger to manifest, the vow would have to be spoken in the nation’s
capital by a national leader, as it had been in ancient Israel. On Sept
11, 2004, every object mentioned in the prophecy of Isa 9:10 had
manifested. The public utterance of the prophecy had to take place
publicly, which happened on Sept 11, 2004 when VP candidate John Edwards,
giving a speech in the capital city, quoted this exact scripture word for word
in Wash., DC. Without realizing it, he was joining the two nations
together and, without realizing it, pronouncing judgment on America. The
ancient and the modern were bound together.
The Ninth Harbinger: The Prophecy
The Ninth Harbinger is the proclaiming of the ancient vow as prophecy, as a matter
of record, and spoken before the words come true. On Sept 12, 2001, the
day after 9/11, America issues its official response to the attack.
The one in charge of issuing the response was Tom Daschle, Senate
Majority Leader. As he closes his speech, he makes a declaration – he
proclaims the ancient vow of defiance, word for word, to the world. By
doing so he prophesies the nation’s future course, all of which comes to pass.
The purpose of The Harbinger Project is to alert everyone, so
people will realize that God is serious about the sins of our nation, and if we
refuse to repent and turn back to God, He will bring judgment upon our country,
for He is both a righteous and just God.
The DNA for Spiritual Revival and Awakening
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
Dear Lord, your Word says,
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Lord, let it begin with me!
Revival must begin with us.
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. -NKJV
In 722 BC, the capital of the Northern Kingdom, Samaria, was destroyed and its inhabitants were removed just as the Prophet Isaiah foretold. As a result of their defiance, its people would disappear among the nations. They would be known as “The Lost Tribes of Israel.”
(Jonathan Cahn has done a study on them called The Mystery of the Lost Tribes. He has also ministered to those considered to be of The Lost Tribes, the children of Menashe, in Mizoram, India.)
What will happen to America? The Bible does not say. Cahn has written The Harbinger in hopes that America will wake up before it’s too late. His evidence is compelling and Biblical. It’s evidence that demands a response.
