9/11---Salvo in a Longer War

By Anne T. Garcia

It was on Sept. 11, 2001, that most Americans realized we were the ultimate target in the war against evil.

But the battle had actually begun almost 400 years earlier at Fort Henry, Va. In April 1607 the pilgrims had planted a cross on that site and claimed America for Jesus Christ. At that moment, the battle was joined. It is no coincidence that while Israel is called "Satan" by the Islamic terrorists, America is called the "great Satan." As the world deteriorates inexorably into wickedness (2 Timothy 3:13), America remains as a shining city on a hill. Many Bible scholars read Jesus' own words in Matthew 24:6,7-"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars . . . for nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom-" as referencing the last hundred years.

Notice it was America that was the primary force in winning the major wars of the last century. It was the Americans who defeated the Central Powers of World War I, the Axis Powers of World War II and caused the fall of Russian communism in 1989. Today it is America that leads the charge against radical Islam. Thus it is by design that both New York City and Washington, D.C., are favorite targets of the God-haters who want to bring America down. As the economic and governmental centers of our country, taking them out would cripple our efforts to preserve democracy. It was Adolf Hitler, and not Osama Bin Laden, who first envisioned crashing airplanes into the skyscrapers of New York. Albert Speer was the only member of Hitler's inner circle to plead guilty at the Nuremberg trials. Hence he received a lengthy prison sentence instead of being executed. In his biography "Spandau: The Secret Diaries" he recounted Hitler's plan.

Hitler ordered the building of a four-engine long-range bomber with no landing gear.

"I never saw him so worked up as toward the end of the war, when in a kind of delirium he pictured for himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire," Speer wrote (Page 80). "He described the skyscrapers being turned into gigantic burning torches, collapsing upon one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark sky."

Likewise, the destruction of our Capitol and the Pentagon in Washington were plotted by the so-called Weather Underground in the 1970s. That group bombed the Capitol Building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. In his book "Fugitive Days" Weatherman leader Bill Ayres explained his radical group descended into a "whirlpool of violence." He continued, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon . . . we bombed it, in the sense that Weathermen organized it and claimed it." In an ironic twist of fate Ayres was the subject of an article in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001-the very day the Twin Towers were attacked. He was quoted in the article as saying he did not regret the bombings and even said, "I feel we didn't do enough."

Incredibly, Ayres is a "respected" professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago these days.

The point is, the players may change, but the goal remains the same. Simply put, evil people want to destroy America.

But America will not be destroyed. That's the good news. In a stunning prophecy given to then Gen. George Washington in 1777 an angelic visitor told him America will prevail. The entire encounter can be read on my Web site, under "prophecies." The angel prophesied to the future president that America would be victorious in three wars: The Revolutionary War, the Civil War and an end time war. The price will be great in life and treasure, but America will endure forever. God bless America.