Kim Clement Did Not Predict 9-11
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).  

In 1996, Kim Clement wasn’t the only one who could have predicted that there would be another act of terrorism targeting America. But he also added this:  

"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.”

Has this part of the prophecy been born out? Since that time we have experienced;

August 7, 1998: Twin bombings at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kill 224 people and wound thousands of others.

October 12, 2000: A suicide bomber attack on the USS Cole in Yemen's Aden harbor kills 17 American sailors and wounds 39 others.


Sept 11, 2001 Approx 3,000 dead in attack on World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and rural Pennsylvania.

In any act of terror or even in a natural disaster it is always possible to say, it could have been worse. It is always possibly to say that God prevented many deaths.  This is not prophecy. It is a statement of the obvious.

The most glaring weakness in this alleged prophecy though is this part;
 

'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


Isn’t this just a bit contradictory? First he says that the retaliation will not be of the Spirit of God, then God supposedly says “I will strike down the god of the east” Which is it? Is he saying that because God’s people begin to pray that God will change His mind and the retaliation will become His will?

Do you see how appealing this is to the flesh? We can change God’s will by our prayers. We don’t have to line up with His will, We can cause His will to line up with ours. We are sovereign, not God. This allows our flesh to glory in what God is doing.  

Now before you write me about Jeremiah 18:7-8, let me say I know what it says and it doesn’t apply here. These passages of scripture do not say that God will change his mind just because His people begin to pray. It says that when God pronounces judgment against a nation, that judgment may be canceled or delayed conditioned upon that nations repentance and return to God.

Clements claim is that God did not want us to retaliate against Saddam but because we Christians began to pray he changed his mind and decided to go ahead and bring down the “god of the east”. Do you see the subtle deception here?

On top of all this let's also examine what the alleged 9-11 prophecy did not say.

There is no mention of three airplanes, only one

There is no mention of airplanes being flown into buildings

There is no mention of the twin towers falling

There is no mention of the Pentagon

There is no mention of the White House as an intended target

There is no mention of the heroic actions of the passengers of AA flight 191 that crashed in Pennsylvania. 

Don't you think that a prophecy concerning Sept. 11 would have included at least some of those elements.

Kim Clement did not prophesy the events of September 11, 2001. He prophesied that the crash of TWA flight 800 was a terrorist act and that the U.S. would retaliate for it by launching a war against Saddam Hussein which we did not. After September 11, someone dragged this failed prophecy out of mothballs and applied it to the events of that date.

Kim Clement is no prophet. He is a keen observer of current events with the ability to tell people what they want to hear. The more specific he gets, the less accurate he becomes.

Ezek 13:8-11
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:

Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

Let God be true and every man a liar!

Steve Lumbley 2004  www.apostasywatch.com
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