Nine/Eleven

When we hear the words 9/11 mentioned it brings memories of horror and death. Most of us can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing that frightful morning of 9/11 when those two airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City. Even to this day we remember with saddened hearts those whose lives were lost and the families, friends and co-workers they left behind. What continues the tragedy was verifying what we knew about the motivation behind the attack that rocked the nation: that as a people we are hated by some people groups in the world to such a degree that they want see us suffer and die.

Through the intense hatred and malice toward the people of the United States from some radical groups we must continue to protect ourselves against their wrath. Some people look out across the fields and see nothing but turmoil and bitterness against their fellow human beings. Some are even taught from an early age to hate, and even destroy others who may not believe the same way, or who practice different customs as they do.






While reading through the letter to the Hebrews in the Holy Bible one finds the total antithesis to the motivational hatred that caused 9/11. Hebrews 9:11 states:






“But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,” (Hebrews 9:11)






Hebrews 9:11 is the beginning of the balm of healing for America’s 9/11. Yes, Christ has come, and when He came He came as the High Priest who would provide blessings upon all those who accept Him for all time to come. He is not part of tents or buildings or structures that are made by architects and builders and did not provide healing through substitute means as others must do. But Hebrews 9:11 intensifies the next part of the sentence at Hebrews 9:12 when it says,










“…and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.” (Hebrews 9:12)






Jesus the Christ alone, no other person beyond Him, secured eternal redemption. His accomplishment is all we need to satisfy our thirst for Him. It is only through Him and His accomplishment that we can have any power to conquer the hatred, bitterness, sin and death we face from those seeking death and destruction. When they see that His Grace extends to all who will accept Him as Lord and Savior, even to salvation, then peace will come.










America’s 9/11 was born through hatred and destruction; Hebrews 9:11 was created through love and redemption.

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