Monday, April 30, 2012

48: THE FINAL "BEAM" of DEFIANCE

APRIL 30, 2012: THE FINAL BEAM of DEFIANCE
Dedication verses Defiance

Dedication: The act of consecrating to a divine Being… The act of devoting or giving to another.
Defiance: The act of bold resistance to a Higher authority or power, despite warnings of destruction.


THEN and NOW:
April 30, 1789....
On the left is photo of the statue of George Washington kneeling in prayer at the St. Paul’s chapel in Lower Manhattan, New York City located at ground zero. 

April 30, 2012
On the right is the photo of the “final” beams being erected today on the Freedom Tower. This tower can now claim the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper as of today. More stories will continue to be built, but today marks the day the building exceeded the height of all other buildings in the U.S.

Some quick thoughts.. I would like to go into more detail, but wanted to post on this today.  

Dates are important. The two most important dates in our life is the day we are born and the day we get married. Our Birthday and our Wedding Day.  Both signify new life. When we get married we dedicate our life to someone else. We make a covenant. We dedicate and are sealed to one another. When we break sacred covenants, the results are tragic, painful  and sorrowful. If we humbling ask for forgiveness, we can receive mercy, but only if we choose to repent and turn back. However, if we don’t repent but actually become proud and defiant…  we seal our fate despite the many warnings of tragic outcome and that destruction will soon follow.

Many do not know that two promised lands in this world have been dedicated to God. Israel and the United States. This dedication is a marriage between the people living on the promised land with their God. The Lord God is the husband, and we as a people are His bride. If the people on the dedicated/promised land want the protection of God, they keep his commandments and honor Him.

Here are a few important things that I learned.

George Washington dedicated the United States of America to God on April 30, 1789. He dedicated this land both in his inaugural address at the Federal Hall and then in prayer, at St Paul's Chapel located on the corner of a place now known as “ground zero”. Washington stated in an address at Federal Hall that the nation would prosper and be protected as long as it remained committed to the will and purposes of God.  

King Solomon dedicated the Jewish Temple and the Mount in Jerusalem to God. When the Israelite people consistently departed from His decrees and laws, judgment would come by the Lord. God's first warning is to allow the national hedge of security to be broken and then if the people do not repent gradually more severe consequences are imposed.

There is a pattern:

Ancient Israel had wandered from God and were living according to their own ways, worshipping idols and doing as they pleased. God allowed their enemies to attack Jerusalem, the national capital. In arrogant defiance, the ancient Israelis refused to see the attack as a warning from God but boldly stated that they would rebuild.

9/11 was a warning to this nation but our leaders and our people did not take it or see it as a warning. We have bolding declared that we would rebuild. We are and today have rebuilt higher and taller than before.

Some of you might have read the book The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn. It goes into more detail these details and spefically about the ancient prophesy found in Isaiah 9:10-11.  I would suggest reading it since it contain more important facts and insight than I can write in this email.


Sidenote:

In defiance, our national leaders - not once but three times - quoted the words of an ancient prophecy from the capital of the nation. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle from the floor of the U.S. Senate the day after 9-11; Senator John Edwards from Washington D.C. on the anniversary of 9-11 in 2004 during his campaign for the Vice-Presidency and President Barack Obama in his first speech to Congress. All three spoke words from Isaiah 9:10 - "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place." Daschle and Edwards read the verse verbatim - word for word. Edwards entire speech was built around the scripture passage. Obama stated that "we will rebuild" in his speech.


How tragic to be defiant on the same day or anniversary of the day a covenant and dedication is made.
What would you call the bride who is unfaithful to her groom and breaks her marriage vow on the same day or anniversary as her wedding?

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is very well-written. THANK you for such original thinking. I had not connected those verses, perhaps because I wasn't aware of the speeches by 'notables' here in the U.S.

Anonymous said...

I've wondered when other leaders quote scriptures describing attitudes that we do not or should not want:
. We have enough revelation
. All is well

Do they not realize what they are saying? Has God commanded them to say such because of our wickedness?

In either case it does not bode well for us.

Thanks for these thoughts.

Anonymous said...

Here is Rabbi Cahn speaking about this very thing.

http://youtu.be/tXei0Zb3dxM

Anonymous said...

Okay, so I don't know how to make the link workable. The title is: The Harbinger - Rabbi Cahn, Full Version on youtube, if anyone is interested.

Toni said...

Just highlight the link, right click, and click on "open link" (or open in another tab or another window) (in the Firefox browser, at least).

Anonymous said...

Max Skousen described well why these are built,

"The literal mind is the logical mind that looks for "cause" and "effect," reasoning by "if that, then this." It uses words as reality rather than recognizing that they are mere images conceived in the mind. It prides itself in being very practical and down to earth, using good, common sense. Since what the mind "knows" is completely distorted by the misconception of the purpose of living, the value of the literal mind exists only in serving mammon. As the mind increases its technical education, it thinks it has improved the Man-Made World and therefore continues to build more and more Towers of Babel. In the Real World of Spirit, the literal mind is blind, deaf, and asleep."

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed the Cahn video. Thanks for the suggestion. Here is an article from today's KSL news. The new name feels a little self important.
Eagle Gate Tower renamed World Trade Center at City Creek
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=20615276&title=eagle-gate-tower-renamed-world-trade-center-at-city-creek&s_cid=featured-1

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