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9/13/2021
What Does the Bible say about 911?
What Does the Bible say about 911?
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In doing some research on 911. I found the date of 911 (Sept 11th) also plays a unique role in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
Because of its rich symbolism, it is highly likely Jesus was born on God’s annual Feast day known as the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) in 5 B.C. The first full Feast day of his human-based existence, therefore, was the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). In the year of his birth, this period of fasting and worshipping God occurred on September 11 (CBCG Biblical calendar program).
The calendar rules used to determine when to celebrate God’s annual Feast days make any of the fall festivals falling on, or including, September 11 (911) quite rare. Christ does not celebrate any annual holy convocation on this date until 15 A.D. when, at the age of nineteen, the day of Atonement again falls on September 11 (Appointed Times of Jesus the Messiah, appendix F).
The last appearance of number 911
The only other time any of the fall Feast days (Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, or the eight-day Feast of Tabernacles) fall on or include September 11 (911), in Jesus’ lifetime, is in the monumental year he started in ministry!
In 26 A.D., after the Lord turned thirty (the acceptable year for a priest to enter into God’s service, Numbers 4:3, 4:47), he was baptized by John the Baptist (Luke 3:23). His actual ministry, however, did not begin until September 11 (911) of the same year, which is the Day of Atonement (ibid. pages 25 – 26 and appendix E). It is also the same day the Lord began his forty-day fast and the start of Satan the devil’s forty days of testing and tempting him in the Judean wilderness.
The Day of Atonement in 26 A.D. was also extra special for another reason. It was the start of the Jubilee year which is announced every fiftieth year, on this Feast day, with a trumpet (Leviticus 25:9). It was a year of rejoicing as, under the Old Covenant, slaves were set free and Israelites rejoiced as land returned to their original owners (see Leviticus 25, 27).
Jesus himself confirmed his ministry began on 911 (September 11) when the Jubilee year started. In one of his first messages (Luke 4:18 – 19), and the first one given in his hometown of Nazareth after his ministry began, Christ quoted from Isaiah 61 which states the following.
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me because the Lord has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" . . . (Isaiah 61:1 – 2).
His reference to the "acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:19), as many commentaries attest, is an allusion to the Jubilee year. It is fitting Christ’s ministry began in such a year, as his life, death and resurrection offer mankind spiritual freedom from their slavery to sin and a chance to eternally rejoice in God’s kingdom.
Additional info on the Biblical Meaning of 911
Revelation 9:11 offers a three-fold affirmation regarding the true identity of the "king" who, in the end time, will be allowed to bring manifold trials on those who have rejected God (see Revelation 9:4). The "angel of the abyss," Abaddon, and Apollyon, are all synonyms for God’s great adversary the devil.
What about Ezekiel 26:9-11: "… will direct the blows of his battering rams against the walls and demolish the towers with his weapons. …his horses will be so many that they will cover everything with dust. …the walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons, and chariots when he enters the gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. The hooves of his horses will trample all the streets; he will kill the people with the sword, and the strong pillars will fall to the ground." In Genesis 11-9 the numbers are backward because "the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth and scattered them abroad the face of all the earth". But in Acts 2:9-11 …Partisans, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." In Gen. 11-9 the people were scattered and their language was confounded in the book of Acts 2:9-11 they were unanimous and speaking the same language.
In closing, looking back at the call by our President to unity on 911 and the cry of many that a great revival would come, we neither got unity or revival. Personally, I found no great revelation to the most current 911 and the scriptures mention. However one day we will know how the two tie together. If you find a plausible link please let me know. I pray the open hostility in our nation will end and we could humble ourselves and return to the Lord.
As for me and my house, We will praise the Lord.
Darlene Zschech Hillsong And that my soul knows very well
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From my book "9-11 and the Bible" by Sam Rose – Wheatmark publishing
