Amos 3:6

As another example from the last 30 years, there have long been rumors, if not outright accusations, that 9/11 was an inside job. I’ve seen various presentations and analyses, but I don’t know the full reality, and I submit that none of us does. Yet notice how having alternative explanations about 9/11 tends to blunt the possibility of God’s involvement. That is, if we can explain a calamity in human terms, we are less inclined to fear God.

But if we take God at His word, we should understand that His sovereignty extends over all people. He can use anybody. At the beginning of this chapter, God says that if His people diligently obey His voice to observe carefully His commandments, they will be blessed in the city. Yet He also says regarding His judgment on Israel in Amos, “If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have done it?” (Amos 3:6). If there is calamity in the city, it points to disobedience. Some 3,000 people lost their lives that day, and the Twin Towers—the symbols of American financial dominance—were brought down. How it happened, or by whom it was carried out, if far less important than the fact that it happened to God’s people.