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