OBAMA 'FULFILLS' ISAIAH 9:10 PROPHECY – AGAIN

In visit to Ground Zero, he writes message of
best-selling book, video

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WASHINGTON – The handwritten message Barack Obama
scrawled on a new building site at Ground Zero last night sounds optimistic,
upbeat, non-controversial – at first glance.

However,
the message continues a pattern of American leaders fulfilling an ancient
biblical prophecy and a curse of judgment on the U.S., according to the best-selling
Christian book of 2012 and the No. 1 faith movie.

While
Obama was creating a stir in Manhattan with star-studded celebrity
fundraisers, he also took a side trip that got less publicity. His official
presidential business was a visit to the new World Trade Center building site
where he signed a steel girder with a message of interest to the hundreds of
thousands who have read “The Harbinger”
or seen the video documentary “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment.”

“We
remember,” he wrote. “We rebuild. We come back stronger!”

The
book and the video have shocked readers and viewers around the country and the
world by showing the eerie and striking parallels between the vows of the
leaders of ancient Israel before its judgment and fall and those
of American leaders since Sept. 11, 2001.

“What was
foreshadowed in ‘The Harbinger’
and ‘The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment’ film is now being fulfilled by the
president of the United States,” said Jonathan Cahn, the messianic
rabbi-pastor and author.

The
book and film specifically connect Obama’s words from his first State of the
Union message in January 2009 with the ancient vow that brought judgment to
ancient Israel.

“The
ancient vow begins with these words: ‘The bricks have fallen, but we will
rebuild with hewn stone,’” explains Cahn. “The vow declares Israel’s defiance of God, in the face of a
devastating strike on the land. The hewn stone, which begins the rebuilding,
symbolizes the nation’s intention to come back stronger than before. The book
then reveals the parallel a proclamation given by Obama:

“Tonight
I want every American to know this: We will rebuild. And the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” he
said.

However,
that comment, which represented the theme of his first major speech upon taking
office, was not addressing the attack of 9/11. It was addressing the economy
and the state of the country generally. Yesterday, Cahn points out, Obama
returned to the location of the attack – bringing the message full circle.

He
points out how Obama’s words even parallel a Bible commentary on the verse
Isaiah 9:10: “They boasted that they would rebuild their devastated country and
make it stronger than ever before.”

In “The
Harbinger” and “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” the focal point of this vow of
judgment is the tower rising up out of the ruins of Ground Zero. It comprises
the fourth harbinger – and remains the one harbinger that is still under
construction.

“On
June 14, two of the mysteries of ‘The Harbinger,’ foreshadowed in the book came
true,” explained Cahn. “Obama went to Ground Zero to see the still rising tower.
He was given a beam which will constitute the tower’s final and highest beam.
On the beam, the president wrote eight words – which were, in effect, a
summation of the ancient vow of judgment: ‘We Remember, We Rebuild, We Come
Back Stronger!’”

Cahn
continued: “So now the now the tower will be crowned and finished with words
paralleling Isaiah 9:10, the ancient vow of national judgment.
The tower was begun with the laying down of a hewn stone, the very same object
mentioned in Isaiah 9:10 which begins the rebuilding.”

“Now
the words and the tower have been joined together in reality – and the one who
did it was the president of the United States,” he told WND. “One subtle difference
in the words, is that the vow is spoken in the future tense. But now the words
inscribed on the towers are in the present tense. In other words, they not only
speak of the defiant vow, but of the fact that the vow is being fulfilled.
This,” says Cahn, “constitutes another ominous sign.”

The last time the tower at Ground Zero
became the focus of media attention was April 30, 2012, the day it became the tallest
building in New York City. In the chapter titled The Mystery
Ground, “The Harbinger” provides the reader with a date that holds the key to
the mystery behind Ground Zero – the same date – April 30.

In January, “The Harbinger,” by Cahn, a messianic rabbi from New Jersey, exploded onto the publishing scene,
immediately becoming a surprise New York Times bestseller.

“A number of
years ago, as I was standing at the edge of Ground Zero in New York City, I
came across the first puzzle piece of an ancient biblical mystery and a
prophetic message known as ‘The Harbinger’
that concerns the future of America,” explains Cahn, who helped write the
two-hour documentary “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment.”

Cahn
say he has since found nine harbingers that tie the problems America has
experienced beginning Sept. 11, 2001, with parallels that led to the
destruction of ancient Israel.

“Before
God judges a nation, He sends warning,” explains Cahn. “He sent warning to
ancient Israel. He even allowed its enemies to breach
its borders in a devastating strike that would traumatize the nation. It was a
wake-up call, the call to return to God. But the nation responded with
defiance. God then gave nine harbingers of judgment, nine prophetic signs,
alarms and foreshadows of what was to come. Now America is the nation in rapid departure from
God’s will. And God likewise allowed an enemy to breach its borders in a
devastating strike – the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was, likewise, a wake-up call. But
America, like Israel, has not responded with repentance,
but with defiance. And now the nine harbingers of judgment have reappeared and
have done so on American soil.”

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Isaiah 9:10 is a verse in which Israel’s national leaders utter a vow of
defiance following an attack by Assyria. It declared that the nation would not repent before God, but
would defy Him instead. Cahn reveals in “The Harbinger” – and in even more dramatic fashion in
the video – that beginning the day after Sept. 11, 2001, American leaders began repeating that
2,500-year-old vow, word for word.

He
continues: “According to the ancient mystery revealed in the Book of Isaiah, if
after that first calamity and warning, the nation doesn’t return to God but
responds in defiance, it will end up triggering a second calamity. It was
because of this ancient key, that, seven years after 9/11, the American economy
collapsed. In the days after 9/11, the Federal Reserve slashed the base
interest rate in an attempt to defy the consequences of the attacks. That
action put us on the path leading to the collapse of the American economy seven
years later. In 2008, the government made a second fatal mistake, another
ill-fated financial decision, that would trigger the collapse of the American
economy. Amazingly, it took place on the seventh anniversary of the uttering of
the ancient vow on Capitol Hill.”

Cahn also
reveals in “The Harbinger” and “The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment” something
that readers and viewers universally find astonishing – that 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.

“When
judgment came to Israel, the calamity returned the people’s
attention to the place where the nation had been consecrated to God – the Temple Mount,” says Cahn. “God was calling the
nation back to Himself. What about 9/11? Could there be, in the American
calamity, as well, a mystery of return? Could there be a prophetic message
hidden in the place where it happened? There is a place where America was consecrated to God in prayer. It
is also a place linked to a prophetic warning given on that same day – uttered
by the nation’s first president – now coming to pass.”

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.

Cahn, the
pastor of the Jerusalem Center-Beth Israel Congregation in Wayne, N.J., says America is uncannily re-enacting ancient Israel’s behavior prior to its judgment and
eventual fall. He found a sympathetic ear for his message in WND founder Joseph
Farah, who produced “The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment,” as a
follow-up to “The Harbinger.”

“I had a chance
to hear Jonathan Cahn’s message last fall,” said Farah. “Then I had an
opportunity to read an early manuscript of ‘The Harbinger’ before it was released in January. I
was determined to produce this video documentary, ‘The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment,’ because I
believe its message is the most important one for Americans at this moment in
history. In fact, I believe this project may be the most important one of my
life. That’s how strongly I feel about it.”

The
key to decoding the harbingers, Cahn says, is found in understanding the
seemingly innocuous words of Isaiah 9:10 (King James Version) what it meant to
Israel and how the history seems to be repeating itself in America today: “The
bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: The sycamores are
cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

These
words were first uttered by leaders in Israel and in response to a limited strike by
Assyria on the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali –
an attack the prophet makes clear is actually part of a limited judgment by God
against apostasy. It wasn’t meant to destroy the nation, but to awaken it,
according to most commentaries.

But,
says Cahn, Israel didn’t take the cue. Instead, the
response from the people in Isaiah 9:10 is one of defiance. The brick
buildings were toppled, but they vowed to build bigger and better. The little
sycamore trees may have been uprooted, but they vowed to plant bigger and
better cedars in their place.

God,
speaking through Isaiah explains what will happen as a result of their pride
and arrogance and failure to heed the harbinger: Bigger and more potent attacks
will follow. Because neither the northern kingdom of Israel nor the southern kingdom of Judah truly repents, the first is eventually
swept away by Assyrian invaders and the latter is carried off into captivity by
the Babylonians for 70 years.

But
what does this have to do with the United States of America – particularly what the U.S. experienced on 9/11 and since? Cahn
has found some eerie parallels.

“In
the aftermath of the attack, the nation was stunned,” said Cahn. “Everyone was
trying to make sense of what had happened – this unprecedented attack on America. The very next day, Sept. 12, then
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle presented America’s response to the world. And what did
he say?”

Daschle
said: “America will emerge from this tragedy as we
have emerged from all adversity – united and strong. Nothing … nothing can
replace the losses of those who have suffered. I know there is only the
smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken from this devastation. But
there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that speaks to all of us at times
like this.”

He
then went on to read Isaiah 9:10.

“Daschle
has no idea what he is doing here,” explains Cahn. “He thinks he’s offering
comforting words to a grief-stricken people, but he is actually embracing the
spiritually defiant and arrogant words of the children of Israel, proclaiming the ancient and ominous
vow of the leaders of that nation. He doesn’t realize it, but he is actually
inviting more judgment on the nation.”

It
might be of some significance that Daschle, one of the most powerful men in the
nation when he spoke those words, later fell into disgrace – to the point where
he couldn’t even serve in Barack Obama’s Cabinet.

That
might have been the end of the story – if no other top leader in the nation
uttered those strange and obscure words after 9/11. But that’s not the case.

On
the third anniversary of the attack, Sept. 11, 2004, another powerful U.S. senator running for vice president
that year and who would famously run for the presidency four years later, gave
a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.

This
time, John Edwards’ entire speech was built on a foundation of Isaiah 9:10:

“Today,
on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord’s Word to get us
through,” he said. He then read Isaiah 9:10. He went on to talk about how America was doing just that – rebuilding with
hewn stone and planting cedars.

In “The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment,” viewers get
to see these remarkable, largely forgotten or overlooked speeches, which
directly link the events of 9/11 and the events referred to in Isaiah 9:10.

“Like
Daschle, Edwards thinks he’s invoking inspirational and comforting words from
the Bible, but he’s actually inviting judgment on America,” says Cahn. “He’s repeating the vow
that provoked God to bring calamity on ancient Israel.”

Even more
astonishing, Daschle and Edwards were not alone among U.S. leaders in making similar statements,
as “The Isaiah 9:10
Judgment” shows.

But
aside from such statements, which could be chalked up to political talk and
coincidences, is there anything else linking Isaiah 9:10 to 9/11?

The
video documentary, like the book, is full of shocking parallels. There was
actually a very famous sycamore tree felled in the attack on the World Trade Center. It was replaced by trees in the same
genus as the cedar. There have been many plans made to rebuild the twin towers
bigger and better and a large “hewn stone” was actually quarried out of the Adirondack Mountains in New York and brought to Ground Zero as a
cornerstone.

“The
parallels are truly stunning,” says Farah, founder of WND, who produced the
documentary for WND Videos. “In fact, they are overwhelming in their number and
their exactitude. I am persuaded God is trying to tell America something and Rabbi Cahn has found the
key to unlocking the message.”