This piece is taken from a longer commentary originally published in 2004
Kim Clement has been widely regarded to have prophesied the events of Sept. 11 2001, five years before they occurred.
Steve Schultz - “Just to remind you, Kim Clement is the one who, five full years before 9/11, prophesied this:”
“‘I am shaking this place. I am shaking your ground. I am shaking the earth. There has been a terrorist act and there will be another.’ For the Spirit of the Lord says, ‘America will retaliate,’ but God says, ‘even as they retaliate with natural weapons of war, and they say, ‘we will go the place of the east, and we will go, and we will bring them down for what they did to our people as they flew in the air over Long Island.’”
“But the Spirit of the Lord says, ‘Another will take place, but I will prevent many deaths, because I will cause a security thing to happen so they will not die. I will look after you, America’. ‘But,’ God says, ‘the retaliation will not be right. It will not be of my Spirit. It will be a wrong decision, but,’ God says, ‘the saints of the Lord, of the most high God, will begin to pray. And your God says, I will strike down the god of the east. I will bring something to pass very soon. I have told you about it. The very god of the east, the very king of the east, the very prince of the east. The one that waged a war against America. They spoke about the mother of wars.’ For God says, ‘This is going to be the mother of wars as you have never seen. For the Spirit of God will rise up against the prince of the east, and He will bring him down.’” — Kim Clement, July 25, 1996
From this reference to “our people as they flew in the air over Long Island” , has grown the myth of Clements prophetic ability. But is that actually what he was saying at the time?
Please notice carefully the date of the prophecy, July 25, 1996. That date is important because it was only 8 days after TWA flight 800 exploded in the air OFF THE COAST OF LONG ISLAND killing all 230 people on board.
One of the first theories was that the explosion and crash was terror related. The official government explanation later was mechanical failure but many even today believe that this was a terrorist act that was covered up by the Clinton administration so as not to alarm the flying public. In fact, an Islamic terrorist organization did take credit for the bombing the day after the event. Eight days after the event it was a reasonable assumption to infer that this was a terrorist act.
Regardless of what actually happened it seems clear that Clement had that event in mind when he “prophesied”. He was claiming that this was a terrorist act and that the U.S would retaliate for it against “the god of the east”. Did we retaliate for that event?
Also in the alleged prophecy Clement claimed that “there has been a terrorist act and there will be another”. Did it really take a prophet of God in 1996 to claim that there would be another act of terrorism?
By July 1996 the U.S. had already experienced the first World Trade Center bombing (Feb 26, 1993), the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995), the bombing of the U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Nov 13, 1995), and the bombing of the U.S. military barracks at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (June 1996). . . . .
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