The 9/11 Cross

Do you ever wonder why some people who don't believe in God and Jesus Christ spend so much time and money fighting Them? Doesn't make a lot of sense does it. Still, there's a group of athiests who can't handle the presence of the 9/11 Cross in the National September 11 Memorial.

The 20-foot cross — two steel beams that had held together as the building collapsed — was discovered in the rubble of Ground Zero on September 13, 2001, by construction worker Frank Silecchia. The 9/11 cross became a venerated object, and many of those who were searching for survivors and clearing debris from the “pit” took solace from its existence. On October 4, 2001, it was moved to a pedestal on Church Street, where it was treated as a shrine by visitors to Ground Zero for the next five years. In October 2006 it was removed to storage, and in July 2011 it was returned to the site for installation in the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

The cross will not be displayed in the memorial; it will be included in a section of the museum featuring ways workers sought to “[find] meaning at Ground Zero.” Its inclusion is for historical purposes, and not as a religious memorial. Yet the American Atheists decided that this was offensive and filed a lawsuit alleging that the display of the cross violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, equal-protection laws, and civil-rights statutes.

The above photo is how the cross will be displayed. Learn more about the above lawsuit at the National Review Online.

Contrast this cross, which survived the 9/11 atrocity, with the wicked "face of evil" who personalized this despicable act of war with his grotesque representation in the following post.


Posted by Rich Glasgow

The Face of Evil on 9/11--Lest we forget

This famous Associated Press photograph, taken by Mark D. Phillips, personalizes the ugliness of the evil responsible for this atrocity eleven years ago. The image is very real and Snopes assures us of its authenticity.

It's not a photo that gets much publicity; maybe because the secular world doesn't really recognize evil as such, much less recognize a demonic being, such as Satan, who has the ability to manifest a visage of himself in the massive effluence of billowing smoke.

Believers of God, are more apt to realize the existence of a real devil, but a photo such as this must be more than a bit problematic to those who deny the existence of God and Satan.

This wasn't the only evil image captured on film that day. If you click on the above Snopes link you can see the CNN photo of a similar "face of evil." Check it out.

Interestingly, there was another spiritual component in what took place on September 11, 2001, and it's no doubt much more significant than some demonic image etched out in smoke.

Just in the last few weeks I was made aware of a book about the attack on the World Trade Centers. The book is titled The Harbinger, written by Jonathan Cahn.

It's a compelling and intensely fascinating book, one I couldn't put down once I started reading it. The spiritual aspect is this: the story revolves around a verse in the book of Isaiah: chapter 9 and verse 10 to be exact. Here's the short verse:

“The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

It's a seemingly uncomplicated little scripture and one would think it's as straight forward as it appears. But it's saying much more than what it seems. This verse was the official response by the ancient Israelites regarding an attack by the Assyrians. It was an attack which caused a breach in their wall, among other damage in the city. It was harbinger-- a warning as it were of worse things to come. But rather than accept the warning and repent, their official response was one of defiance to God. They were going to rebuild the wall and make it even stronger, and do it on their own without regard to God. God would have protected them as He did in the past; but they weren't even considering God because they had put Him out of their lives. Sound familiar?

There's an amazing and provable parallel with the above verse and Ground Zero.

The story is entirely factual, though it's written as a compelling fictional narrative. The people, places, and facts of the story are virtually, if not literally, written in stone.

I can't recommend this book highly enough; it may even be life changing.


Posted by Rich Glasgow

God and Jerusalem are back on the Dem's Platform

There was trouble in paradise this afternoon...so to speak. Bowing under much derision and pressure for removing God and Jerusalem from the democrat platform, the dems succumbed after the third vote to reinstate the Lord of hosts as well as acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel's capitol city. 

This has become a disaster for the Democrats and a boon to the Romney campaign. The DNC has now added God back into their platform language after originally taking it out. They have also added language back in that says Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. When they tried to change the language on the convention floor, there were boos!

Despite the corrections by the Democrats, the Romney campaign can now argue that the Democrats don't know what they believe on two very important topics. They can also argue that the Democrats only did this because of the pushback. That’s true. The Brody File first pointed it out and the media followed, making this a story that the DNC wants to make go away. The problem is it’s not going away. Expect the Romney campaign to push this until Election Day. These last second changes really just make the issue worse and make the Democrat Party look bad.

If you happened to hear the vote it sounded like more delegates opposed the reinstatement of God than didn't. Regardless, God and the acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel's capitol is back on the Platform whether the majority like it or not.

Still a pretty sad deal if you ask me.


Posted by Rich Glasgow

Double Whammy: Democrats Drop God and Jerusalem from Platform

Note this day, September 4, 2012. It was the day the democrat party officially dropped God from their party platform. When asked about it they sloughed it off and downplayed the entire platform as being a non-binding, non-issue. Really? Ya think that's the way God sees it?

Take a look at this paragraph which was in the 2008 DNC Platform:

“We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.”

That was a mere 4 years ago and this year there's no talk of anything that's "God-given." Now look at how the paragraph has been rewritten to the exclusion of God:

“We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”

What may not be understood by secularists who have no regard for God (but then again, they very well MAY understand what they've done) is that this is an act of defiance. It's an "up yours" to God. It's an "in your face" that they are plainly making it clear that they not only don't need God, they don't even want Him associated with their little party. They've done quite well on their own, thank you!

If some are thinking these are just words, they should think again. God takes these affronts very seriously. So they don't want God there...no problem....not for Him, anyway.

Those dems who take umbrage with this platform plank and still claim to have some type of relationship with God would be wise to officially leave the party and have nothing more to do with them. Just sayin'.

In another stroke of irreverent insolence, the dems took out any reference that Jerusalem was the capitol city of Israel unlike in previous platforms. Good thinking, dems...just when things were firecracker hot amid the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood rising up in Egypt, the specter of a nuclear Iran, the instability in Syria and those pesky Palestinians in Gaza constantly lobbing bothery scuds or some such unguided rocketry in the direction of the Israeli citizenry.

Yes, this not so subtle announcement that the dems don't recognize Jerusalem as the capitol plays right into the hands of every one of Israel's enemies. Just who are the dems rooting for, anyway?

There are 2 scarily weighty things we can take away from the 1st night of the 2012 Democrat Convention: they have no interest in God and they have no interest in Israel. God help us if Obama and his ilk are re-elected!


Posted by Rich Glasgow 

The Harbinger-A Tale of Two Countries

My wife picked up this book a few weeks ago after watching an interview with author Jonathan Cahn on a recent Glenn Beck show. She was relating the story to me, but she was only about half way through the book. It sounded like a great story so I picked it up this weekend because it was screaming out to be read. Read it, I did, in just a couple of nights...couldn't put it down! The story revolves around a verse in the book of Isaiah; chapter 9 and verse 10 to be exact. Here's the short verse:

“The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

It's a seemingly uncomplicated little scripture and one would think it's as straight forward as it appears. But, here's the deal, and this isn't a story spoiler; the verse was the official response by the ancient Israelites regarding an attack by the Assyrians. It was an attack which caused a breach in their wall, among other damage in the city. It was harbinger; a warning, as it were of worse things to come. But their official response was one of defiance to God. They were going to rebuild the wall and make it even stronger, but they were going to do it on their own without regard to God. God would have protected them as He did in the past, but they weren't even considering God because they had put Him out of their lives. Sound familiar?

That's all I'll say about the story, other than the fact it is entirely factual. It's written as a compelling narrative; fictional, of course, but the people, places and facts of the story are virtually, if not literally, written in stone.

I can't recommend this book highly enough. I might even go so far as to plead with you to read it because I'm sure you won't be sorry you did and it may even be life changing.


Posted by Rich Glasgow