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What was Cahn’s book title about all that? HARBINGER?

The book is told in a novel of a man who has visions revealed to him by a teacher that explains the prophetic passages centering around Isaiah 9:10 ...

“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”

This passage was quoted by Senate Majority Leader, Tom Dashole the day following 9/11 in the well of the Senate. I'm 188% positive he told his staff to find something Biblical about rebuilding after a disaster. What the Bible-illiterates didn't know was that this passage is in a section entitled, "The Punishment of Samaria." The Prophets had warned for years that unless Israel (10 northern tribes that split from the other two during the civil war after the death of Solomon) changed their ways, they would be overrun by the Assyrians. They ignored the Prophets. The Assyrians made an initial attack, destroying some of the walls that protected Israel. Instead of heading the warning from God, and repenting, they held their fists in the air and arrogantly declared to God, WE WILL REBUILD (in our own strength) with carved stone rather than bricks, WE WILL REPLANT STRONGER TREES with cedars instead of sycamores.

Dashole had no clue how offensive his declaration was. We faced punishment just as Israel did as Assyria later destroyed and scattered them to the four corners.

By the way, Obama wrote a paraphrase of the same passage in chalk on the head beam of the Freedom Tower in a ceremony celebrating the completion of the building's steel structure a few years back. Again, a declaration of arrogance disguised as failed Biblical recognition.