Fall of New York Stock Exchange: The 10th Harbinger?

NEW YORK – The New York Stock Exchange has never been the same after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the biblical “beginning of sorrows,” according to those who have read Jonathan Cahn’s “The Harbinger,” the bestselling Christian book in America in 2012, or viewed “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” the No. 1 faith movie of the year.

So when the New York Stock Exchange was sold this week to an upstart commodity and derivatives exchange called Intercontinental, prophecy buffs saw yet another “harbinger” of America’s economic decline as described in the movie and the book.

On Dec. 20, the Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced the purchase of the NYSE, ending what USA today called “a storied 220-year reign over financial markets.”

The New York Times reported: “It was the temple of commerce, the symbol of New York’s status as the nation’s – and for many decades, the world’s – financial center.”

In all the stories about the big financial development, histories of the NYSE were written like obituaries – tracing the start of the exchange back to the 18th century “Buttonwood Agreement.”

Few of those stories, however, mentioned why the agreement was called “Buttonwood.”

It’s because the early traders met under a buttonwood tree.

Buttonwood is another name for sycamore, a tree prominently mentioned in Isaiah 9:10 – the key verse to interpreting how America has been under judgment since 9/11, according to Cahn and Joseph Farah, WND’s founder and producer of the movie.

“Oh, how the mighty have fallen,” said Farah. “Who would have predicted back in the heyday of the New York Stock Exchange prior to 9/11 that we would witness the two biggest crashes of the stock market and finally its sale this week.”

Said Cahn, “One of the mysteries in ‘The Harbinger’ and ‘The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment’ is called The Uprooted. It reveals a dynamic of national judgment, the exposing of foundations. In the days of judgment, the foundations of a nation’s power are laid bare. The foundations of America’s financial superpower began in the 1790s with a secret meeting of New York’s leading merchants. The meeting led to a covenant they all signed together on Wall Street – the Buttonwood Agreement. This was the beginning of Wall Street as we know it and the foundation of America’s financial world power.

“The agreement created the Buttonwood Association. The Buttonwood Association was later renamed, The New York Stock Exchange. Why was it called ‘Buttonwood?’ Buttonwood was the name of the tree that grew on Wall Street and under which the agreement was signed. What kind of tree? The sycamore. In other words, the symbol and sign of America’s rise to financial power is the sycamore tree. And another name for Wall Street is ‘Buttonwood’ or ‘Sycamore,’” he said.

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