By Dr. Ted Baehr
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
– Ephesians 6:12
Since everyone asks, “where were you on 9/11,” as stated in my previous reflection, I was traveling from Sendai, Japan, where I was trying to help a wonderful Japanese American family who owned the distribution rights for Microsoft Asia, to London to speak at a conference.
Upon driving through the typhoon and reaching the Tokyo airport, I spent the night at a large Americanized hotel. In the middle of the night, I could not sleep so I turned on the TV to the American news channel and saw the first plane hit the first World Trade Center Tower, which was near where I had once worked at Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street. I called home and told Lili to turn on the TV. Some of my children had taken a vow not to watch TV, so they would not watch the events unfold. In Japan, I watched the next plane hit the other World Trade Center Tower while Lili watched from the Los Angeles area, Camarillo. The American news announcers slowly realized that this was an attack.
Morning came, and I went down to breakfast. The Japanese paid no attention to the 9/11 events in the USA and focused on sports and on the typhoon. Many were laughing and enjoying breakfast. I was devastated and in shock.
Many flights were cancelled, but thanks to God divine providence after much prayer, my flight flew to London. At Heathrow Airport, I took a cab. The driver told me that he was glad the USA was attacked. The news announced that many in Parliament applauded. Again, I was shocked. Within a few days, Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized to the USA.
I spoke that night, still in shock. I wept in the middle of my speech.
My small home village where I grew up on Long Island, NY lost 50% of the fathers on 9/11.
9/11 and other Jihad dates are important to Muslims but forgotten by non-Muslims.
September 11, 1565, marks the date that Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s 200 ships and 40,000 Muslim soldiers, including 6,500 elite Janissary troops were defeated by a small group of Christian Knights (many elderly) at the small island of Malta in the Mediterranean. September 11, 1683, marks the beginning of the Battle of Vienna with the attack of Grand Vizar Mustafa and Turks and Tartars. One of the Ottoman Empire’s worsts defeats in history, the Battle of Zenta, was on September 11, 1697. The Grand Vizar celebrated the beginning of the battle by executing 30,000 Christian captives. The Christians were overwhelmingly outnumbered, but they won the battle eventually. The Muslims have commemorated 9/11 ever since by trying to conquer the rest of Christendom, just as they had conquered the Holy Land and the Eastern Christian Roman Empire.
They will not stop until they win – or….
Let us pray and tell people about the love of Jesus, who triumphed over fear, terror, and bondage.
The Good News will triumph!
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