Convergence with 9/11/2026 Feast of Trumpets (part 4)
Samson at the Feast of Dagon — The WTC-as-Temple-to-Dagon
Judges 16 gives us Samson: blinded, grinding in captivity, brought out to entertain the Philistines at a festival honoring Dagon.
Dagon was a god of grain, and in an era when Mediterranean sea trade meant everything, grain was the linchpin of the ancient global economy. It isn't unreasonable, then, to call the World Trade Center a temple to global trade in our own era. At the height of the festival, as the Philistines prepared their great sacrifice to their god, Samson pushed out the two supporting pillars and the temple collapsed on everyone inside. This is a picture of the rapture because Paul says the church is the pillar and base of the truth. Samson removing the two pillars is a type of Jesus removing the church in the rapture.
There's a striking historical parallel worth noting: the end of the Bronze Age saw a sweeping collapse of global trade networks across the Mediterranean. Something similar is proposed here for the rapture — the raptured saints pictured as the two pillars removed, followed by a complete collapse of global sea trade. This maps onto the judgment on "Great Babylon" in Revelation 18, occurring at the same time as the rapture.
There's a present-day echo in Gaza, currently reduced to rubble with plans underway to rebuild it as a shining new city — similar to Atlantic City. Compare this to September 11: the Twin Towers, looking like two great pillars, collapsed to rubble, and in their place the US rebuilt a gleaming new World Trade Center, deliberately built "better" (echoing Isaiah 9:10). Twenty-five years later, Gaza sits in the same position the WTC site once did — rubble, with rebuilding plans already announced. That is significant because Gaza was where Samson pushed out the two pillars.
September 11, 2026 falls on the Feast of Trumpets. Scripture tells us Christ is "the firstfruits, and afterward they that are Christ's at his coming" (1 Corinthians 15:20, 23) — and "at his coming" is read here as pointing directly to the Feast of Trumpets, the feast that announces the King's arrival. The events of 9/11, on this reading, function as a harbinger — a preview twenty-five years in advance — of the coming rapture. Jonathan Cahn has gone into great detail on the significance of 9/11 as a harbinger of God's judgment and a call to repent. The US didn't repent and 19 years later, according to the pattern in the Old Testament, Covid19 plague hit. After 911 a tree was damaged and the US replaced the sycomore tree with an Ezret tree (conifer tree) called "the hope tree". That tree withered and died and has since been removed.
911 and the collapse of the twin towers reminds us of Samson pushing out the two pillars and causing the temple to global trade to collapse.
Samson at the Feast of Dagon — The WTC-as-Temple-to-Dagon
Judges 16 gives us Samson: blinded, grinding in captivity, brought out to entertain the Philistines at a festival honoring Dagon.
Dagon was a god of grain, and in an era when Mediterranean sea trade meant everything, grain was the linchpin of the ancient global economy. It isn't unreasonable, then, to call the World Trade Center a temple to global trade in our own era. At the height of the festival, as the Philistines prepared their great sacrifice to their god, Samson pushed out the two supporting pillars and the temple collapsed on everyone inside. This is a picture of the rapture because Paul says the church is the pillar and base of the truth. Samson removing the two pillars is a type of Jesus removing the church in the rapture.
There's a striking historical parallel worth noting: the end of the Bronze Age saw a sweeping collapse of global trade networks across the Mediterranean. Something similar is proposed here for the rapture — the raptured saints pictured as the two pillars removed, followed by a complete collapse of global sea trade. This maps onto the judgment on "Great Babylon" in Revelation 18, occurring at the same time as the rapture.
There's a present-day echo in Gaza, currently reduced to rubble with plans underway to rebuild it as a shining new city — similar to Atlantic City. Compare this to September 11: the Twin Towers, looking like two great pillars, collapsed to rubble, and in their place the US rebuilt a gleaming new World Trade Center, deliberately built "better" (echoing Isaiah 9:10). Twenty-five years later, Gaza sits in the same position the WTC site once did — rubble, with rebuilding plans already announced. That is significant because Gaza was where Samson pushed out the two pillars.
September 11, 2026 falls on the Feast of Trumpets. Scripture tells us Christ is "the firstfruits, and afterward they that are Christ's at his coming" (1 Corinthians 15:20, 23) — and "at his coming" is read here as pointing directly to the Feast of Trumpets, the feast that announces the King's arrival. The events of 9/11, on this reading, function as a harbinger — a preview twenty-five years in advance — of the coming rapture. Jonathan Cahn has gone into great detail on the significance of 9/11 as a harbinger of God's judgment and a call to repent. The US didn't repent and 19 years later, according to the pattern in the Old Testament, Covid19 plague hit. After 911 a tree was damaged and the US replaced the sycomore tree with an Ezret tree (conifer tree) called "the hope tree". That tree withered and died and has since been removed.
911 and the collapse of the twin towers reminds us of Samson pushing out the two pillars and causing the temple to global trade to collapse.