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Words of Christ Found in The World Trade Center Rubble
Note to readers:
While I was getting ready for work on September 11, 2022 I remembered it was 9/11. I thought it would be nice to have something of good news to report on or to remember for that day, instead of the horrific event that took place in 2001. About an hour later (as I was going through our social media accounts) I saw someone had shared the attached video, and decided to watch it. It was the answer to my unspoken desire.
During March of 2002 an opened Bible fused to a piece of steel, was found in the debris The World Trade Centers of 9/11 by a fireman and given to photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In 2010, he gave it to the September 11 Memorial Museum.
The passage of scripture that it was opened to was from Jesus’s famous Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew chapters five through seven. The segment of that sermon that is readable says this:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.’ But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.”
Some might scoff at this and chalk it up to coincidence or chance, but to that I would say, “Have you ever opened a Bible before? Depending upon font size an average Bible consists of 1,020 to 1,200 pages. The paper is very thin and delicate, and therefore can be burned or torn easily. So for this Bible to have survived the destruction and high heat of this disaster is a miracle of God in and of itself, but to see the passage of scripture that addresses being attacked and how we should react to it is a voice from Heaven above, if you are willing to accept that.
As I continued to dwell on this miracle and the words of The Lord, He reminded me of His judgement on Cain the brother of Abel in Genesis. The LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering; but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” Cain told Abel his brother.
And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is too great to bear! Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” So the LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.”
Notice something missing here in The Lord’s judgement of Cain? It is a life for a life. The Lord closed up the ground on Cain who was a farmer. Then He said that anyone who kills Cain would receive a punishment seven times worse.
There is another passage in the Bible that says this, “Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written: “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.”
What does The Lord tell us to do with our enemies? He said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
His call is for prayer, good deeds, and walking in peace before those that love you and those that hate you. Vengeance is not a teaching of His for us to follow.
Jesus’s younger brother James wrote this in his letter, “There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?”
So remember to not allow anger and hatred to spread through you. Instead pray for those that hate you and wish harm to you. Walk in peace with all people so that you may be called sons and daughters of God through Christ Jesus our Savior and Lord.
One WTC by Guido Musch
World Trade Center Station, Manhattan (No. 1)
World Trade Center is a terminal station on the PATH system, within the World Trade Center complex in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It is served by the Newark–World Trade Center line on weekdays and holiday weekends, as well as by the Hoboken–World Trade Center line on weekdays, and is the eastern terminus of both.
The World Trade Center station is located near the site of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M)'s Hudson Terminal, which opened on July 19, 1909. In 1961, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bought the bankrupt H&M system, rebranded it as PATH, and redeveloped Hudson Terminal as part of the World Trade Center. As part of the construction of the World Trade Center, Hudson Terminal was torn down, replaced with the World Trade Center station, and re-opened on July 6, 1971. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, a temporary station opened in 2003 while the World Trade Center complex was being rebuilt. Work on a permanent station building commenced in 2008. The main station house, the Oculus, opened on March 3, 2016, and the terminal was renamed the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, or "World Trade Center" for short.
The World Trade Center station has five tracks (three for Hoboken-bound trains, two for Newark-bound trains) and four platforms in the middle of a turning loop. Trains from New Jersey use the loop to turn around and head back to New Jersey. The platforms are located four floors below ground level. The floor immediately above the platforms is occupied by the station's fare mezzanine. The New York City Subway's WTC Cortlandt station is adjacent to and above the mezzanine.
The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. The interior of the station house contains two underground floors, which house part of the Westfield World Trade Center mall. The transportation hub connects the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center in the east to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal in the west, through the station house. The hub contains connections to various New York City Subway stations, including Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street on the 2, 3, A, C, E, N, R, and W trains and WTC Cortlandt on the 1 train. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
The Westfield World Trade Center mall is also within the Oculus building. The new station has received mixed reviews: although the hub has been praised for its design, it has also been criticized for its high costs and extended delays.
Source: Wikipedia
Blaze of Glory, 1WTC by Paul Seibert
View of Manhattan, March 2017
DAMN look at my bae #wtc (at World Trade Center)