Who will God raise up to save us this time? Will God even intervene or turn us over to the Muslims for turning against Him?
According to Rabbi Cahn in his The Harbinger, the first two harbingers are the breach and the terrorist, which keeps me coming back to this from Ezekiel 28:
"...such is your skill in trading, your wealth has continued to increase, and with this your heart has grown more arrogant; since you consider yourself the equal of God, very well, I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most barbarous of the nations;"
And this:
"no, you are a man, and not a god, in the clutches of your murderers! and you will die like the godless at the hand of the foreigners; "
Have we come around to the "potential" significance of where we are, what's happening and why? I sure hope so...
Interesting — Though I do have to raise the question: is America a Trading nation?
I don’t mean to say the opposite of “are we isolationists”, but rather the question of if Trade is our... trade.
Certainly the corporations do trade, and many Americans work for the corporations, but this doesn’t mean that Americans in-general are Traders.
(i.e. if a country, say China, has 80% of its population making clothes that Corporation-A sells/trades and Corporation-A is not Chinese but, say, French — would it be right to call the Chinese Traders?) Moreover, consumerism [which I think more accurately describes America] is different than plying the merchant’s trade.
I am more reminded of James 5:1-4, Ex 22:21-24, and Is 58 WRT America’s problems. (These deal with the oppressed crying out to God and God hearing; pay special attn to the Exodus passage.)