Everything in this note is true and factual...this is not a fictional story.
I worked at the Baltimore International Airport during this time as well as acting as a hospice person for an elderly woman who was dying to supplement my income with the Reformed Episcopal Church I was working at in Elicott City, MD.
To be honest, I would have truly forgotten about 9/10 if this event that night never happened to me.
I worked for The Museum Company at the airport and we sold Jewelry, artwork, sculptures and other similar items. I had about an hour and a half left of work and the airport was not very busy as it was getting late. We had gotten all types of people in that store. I had only been there for about 5 months and I met people such as Sally Fields, Lawrence Fishburne, Selma Hayek, and others.
However, this one guy was probably the most interesting; an older man with a very long beard dressed in Rabbinic robes had walked into the store. It was something straight out of "The Ten Commandments." We started talking and I soon discovered he was a Rabbi from Israel on his way to Iceland but interestingly enough, he was Messianic...meaning he believes Jesus as the Messiah but he still practices the Jewish days and months. I told him I was in the ministry as well and it got his attention.
So, we were talking and he was very excited. He had just landed a deal with NBC to do a documentary on "the alternate route of Exodus." He had said The History Channel signed an agreement with James Cameron and NBC wanted their slice of the pie too.
At first, I found this Rabbi to be a little whimsical and eccentric at times but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After he had shown me pictures of some of the NBC footage on his Palm (remember those little things), I asked him a question "So what is your theological stance on the end time?"
The man then got very serious. I wont go into great detail but for the next hour he told me his own belief of the end times in which Jesus willl come back. He mentioned that the US will have to go to war in the Middle East and attack countries suck as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and others. That this would be a build up of tension that would lead up to a ass assault (yes, he really said ass assault) on Israel and then God would intervene.
Now, of course, this seems like something right from a movie or the world's best conspiracy theorist. he mentions the Jewish Calendar year and the time of Rest. He REALLY went into detail. I told him my beliefs were vastly different than his....Im not into the whole world blowing up belief. He just smiled and continued:
The thing that caught my attention was this statement he made "In order for the US to attack the Middle East, something profound has to happen not since the day of Pearl Harbor."
I asked him, "so when do you think this attack will happen?"
He replied, "soon. I don't know when exactly. Maybe sometime this year or next month or maybe even tomorrow. But whatever it is, will be an attack on US Soil that will cause a domino effect to occur to make this all happen."
His flight was called and he grabbed his bags and thanked me for the conversation.
The next morning, I went back to work to open. I was there for only 20 minutes before security made an announcement that all airports were being closed down due to plane hijackings. The first plane hit the trade tower as I walked past the first security checkpoint on my way out. There was about 5 Television screens and over a hundred of us saw it. You could hear a pin drop.
"Oh my god." I thought. "That old man had everything figured out."
Because of my logistical side of me (that always love to fight my spiritual side), I called the FBI office to let them know what had happened. I didn't know if he had anything to do with it or not. I mean, it is not everyday that a Rabbi predicts a US soil attack that will rival Pearl Harbor and it possibly happening tomorrow.....and it actually happens. The FBI, understandably, was busy as hell but they took my name, number, and my concerns and said if there was any leads on this they will call me back for further information.
I never got a call back.
For the last ten years, this old Rabbi by the name of Michael has always been in my mind. I often wondered if he scared the hell out of himself on the morning of 9/11 when he arrived in Iceland only to find out his predictions came true.
