BBD 09.11.14 The Building is Safe (Classic)
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The Burning
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Classic
from 2002
09.11.14
The
Building is Safe
But everyone who hears these
sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his
house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew
and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was the fall of it. - Matthew
7:26-27.
It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God. - Hebrews 10:31.
It has been almost a year (Thirteen years now
in 2014.) since the terrible tragedy of 9/11, which claimed the lives of 2,803
people at the World Trade Center alone. The north tower was struck by the first
hijacked airliner at 8:46 a.m. It was only 16½ minutes later when United
Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the south tower. During those 16½ minutes, the
people in the upper floors of the south tower made life and death decisions
which resulted in their escaping with their lives or resulted in their deaths.
Many saw the flames of the north tower and the horrified looks on the faces of
those who were jumping to their deaths to escape burning to death. To see that
was enough for many to flee for their lives.
Some 1400 people fled to safety from the
upper floors of the south tower even though the emergency speaker system was
blaring “the building is safe!” “The building is secure!” This was followed by a
statement that it was safe to return to work in their offices. Some believed
this was an order while others believed it was an option to return to their
work areas. With only 16½ minutes every action was vitally important to their
survival. Some immediately fled from the building. Others gathered up personal
belongings or finished up some things they were working on. Others made phone
calls delaying their exit. Some lost their lives while courageously trying to
warn and save others. Steve Miller, who worked
on the 80th floor and survived said, “The
conclusion that I’ve come to is: I think I acted smart, and I think it had
almost no bearing on the fact that I survived. If you ran away, you survived.
Everybody who ran away survived.”
In the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24) Jesus warns of the need to flee when “you see the abomination of desolation.” Jesus says
that at that point “then let those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take
anything out of his house. And let him who is in the filed not go back to get
his clothes (Matthew 24:15-17).” In terms of symbolism the “abomination of desolation” is the opposite of
godliness and everything good. It is the ultimate in worldliness, sin, fleshly
desire and evil.
that “the building is safe and secure” and that
there is no need for God and the things of God. However, those who have built
their lives on the shifting sands of worldliness, and fleshly desire will find
that their lives are far from secure and that it is a terrible thing to “fall into the hands of the living God.” Surely we
should flee from the shifting sands of the worldliness, and fleshly desire. We
should run to the mountain. We should run to God, to “His
holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth (Psalm
48:1b-2a).” Let us flee from the things of the world before it is too
late and run to the Mountain, run to God!
Timeline: http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-timeline
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