THIS IS RIDICULOUS

From time to time, there are those who "find" America in the Bible with certainty and then there are those who find that America "may" be in the Bible.Two such examples will follow.

Back on September 11, 2018, a columnist for "The Daily Star" declared that 9-ll may have been predicted in the Bible. The writer "found" the prediction in the book of Revelation, chapter 18 to be exact. The text reads, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!"

Then she writes, "Some" (who the "some" is undefined) believe the fact that fallen is mentioned twice is a reference to the fact that there were Two Towers making up the World Trade Center. she goes on to point out, "Three times in the chapter, St John describes the desolation as happening in one hour.

In verse 10 he writes “Alas alas that great city, for in one hour your judgement has come. Verse 17 reads “For in one hour such great riches come to nothing”.And in verse 19 “in one hour she has become desolate.”

John is predicting the destruction of the center of the political system at the end of the Great Tribulation which has nothing to do with two large buildings in NYC prior to September 11, 2001. 

The 2nd example is a wildly popular Bible "teacher" who "found" the Bible's prediction of 9-11, this time, not in Rev. 18, but of all places, in Habakkuk 1:8: "Their horses are swifter than leopards And keener than wolves in the evening.Their horsemen come galloping,Their horsemen come from afar;They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour."

However, God clearly identifies those who are coming "from afar." They are the Chaldeans as stated in 1:6, 15. And, just in case you missed it, God also gave the false teacher the revelation that the swooping eagle in 1:8 are the two airplanes that hit Twin Towers. Who would have thought? Evidently there was no prediction of the third plane which flew into the Pentagon the same day in the coordinated attack nor of the plane that crashed before hitting its target. 

It's strange: Habakkuk says "an eagle," yet there were two planes, not one, and four if you count the Pentagon plane and the one that crashed.The prophet didn't get the number right.

So, according to this "prophet,"he was the only one who found the attack in the book of Hab. 1:8.

From this we see two marks of a false teacher: 1) They find America in the Bible. This is guaranteed to rev up the audience and their readers and 2) they have special "revelations" or "visions" or "a word from the Lord." Each one guaranteed to further excite the folks.