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Signs of Withering
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| In the harbinger, too, you speak about the withered. | |
| What is that about? | |
| Yeah, one of the signs of judgment in the Bible is that of withering. | |
| You know, God speaks again and again. | |
| He speaks of, he says they shall be cut down. | |
| They shall become like a withered wither as a green herb. | |
| It speaks about the Lord in Isaiah says, You will be like a tree whose leaves wither away. | |
| It talks about the nation. | |
| Jeremiah talks about the nation being judged. | |
| A sign of judgment is that they will be, their leaf will wither. | |
| They will wither. | |
| I mean, Messiah, he spoke to the tree, to the fig tree, and it withered, you know, and people take that as a sign of national judgment. | |
| Well, it is a sign of national judgment. | |
| Okay, now, now, remember, we're going to go, what happened to the harbingers? | |
| One of them, because there are new harbingers, but what happened to the harbinger that already appeared? | |
| We have the tower, okay, but we also have the Erez tree. | |
| It says they planted that tree where the sycamore had fallen. | |
| Isaiah 9:10, the people in Defiance say that the sycamore is struck down on the day of destruction. | |
| We will plant the Erez tree, its cedar or Erez tree in its place. | |
| Well, New York did it. | |
| They had no idea why they did it, though. | |
| They actually planted that the sycamore was struck down in 9/11 at the corner, and they planted this Erez tree. | |
| They called it the tree of hope, and it was a sign. | |
| In the Bible, it's a sign of defiance. | |
| Again, we're coming back stronger. | |
| Nothing's going to stop this because the sycamore is a weak tree, but the Erez tree is the strong tree. | |
| Even the Hebrew even means strength. | |
| So here it is. | |
| They plant that and they call it the tree of hope. | |
| It's representing America. | |
| It's representing us strong coming back. | |
| It's representing the vow. | |
| Well, what happened to that tree? | |
| The tree of hope, the Erez tree, was planted at the corner of ground zero, but then something happened. | |
| A transformation took place, a biblical metamorphosis, which actually became a sign in itself. | |
| The ancient sign of national judgment was manifested at ground zero. | |
| The Erez tree, symbol of America, began to wither away, began withering. | |
| The leaves started turning brown. | |
| It started drying up. | |
| The keepers of the ground, I witnessed this. | |
| The keepers of the ground did everything. | |
| They put in new soil. | |
| They did everything because this was the symbolic tree. | |
| They had this whole ceremony about this tree and it kept withering away. | |
| It got sickly looking. | |
| Every year, it got more and more as sick. | |
| And they actually planted like eight shrubs. | |
| I can get you a picture alongside of it. | |
| The four shrubs that were away from it were prosperous, green. | |
| The four shrubs that were near it were withering away with the tree. | |
| It was like it was cursed. | |
| This is the same imagery used in the Bible when it said, listen to this verse. | |
| It was planted in good soil by many waters to bring forth branches, bear fruit, and all of its springs, leaves will wither. | |
| Behold, it is planted. | |
| Will it thrive? | |
| Will it not utterly wither away? | |
| It will wither in the garden terrace where it grew. | |
| It was planted. | |
| Guys, remember, this is the seventh harbinger. | |
| It was planted where all these other trees prospered, where the sycamores had prospered. | |
| And yet, no matter what, representing America, it withered away. | |
| So here is the withering away of a harbinger, the withering away of a sign, which is a sign of withering away. | |
| It was supposed to be that America's coming back stronger without God, and yet the tree stood for America was withering away. | |
| So what is it saying? | |
| What does it represent? | |
| What is the message, a biblical message here? | |
| Here is a harbinger on top of the harbinger. | |
| It's the withering away of the Erez tree. | |
| The withering away of the tree of hope represents the withering of America. | |
| Here it is, still on the outside. | |
| It exists, but morally, it is withering away. | |
| Spiritually, it is withering away. | |
| It's a nation that's withering from its very core, the inside, is withering away. | |
| And if it keeps doing that, and in another part, we'll get back to what actually something else happened to this tree. | |
| I'll tell you as we go forward. | |
| But the thing is, it's saying that it's not going to be able to stand. | |
| What's happening is the withering is happening from inside. | |
| So eventually that tree is not going to be able to make it if it doesn't get healed. | |
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Ultimate Spiritual Cure
00:00:37
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| And so what it's saying is that America has a spiritual disease. | |
| And you cannot cure a spiritual disease with a political cure or physical cure. | |
| You know, God uses politics. | |
| We got to pray for that. | |
| We got to be part of that. | |
| But the ultimate issue is spiritual. | |
| And only a spiritual answer can heal a spiritual disease. | |
| Look at it right now. | |
| Look, I mean, look at America itself has a disease on it. | |
| You know, a literal disease is upon America. | |
| But the ultimate disease is spiritual and the ultimate cure is spiritual. | |
| And the only one who can cure it is Jesus. | |