Among other things…

“The Sphere,” a 25-foot high sculpture by German sculptor Fritz Koenig, was brought to Battery Park on March 11th, 2002 — six months after the 9-11 attacks, 2 years to the day before the Islamic Madrid train bombings, and 9 years to the day before the big Japan EQ and tsunami.

It formerly sat under the World Trade Center towers, sustaining significant damage when they came down. It is cast in 52 bronze segments — unintentionally symbolic of sin every week of the year.

The sculpture is "meant to symbolize world peace through world trade…", [NOTE: not the peace of Christ, but of trade, like Tyre, the seat of Satan in Ezekiel 28]

It, "was placed at the center of a ring of fountains and other decorative touches designed… to mimic the Grand Mosque of Mecca(!!) …in which The Sphere stood at the place of the Kaaba [the black stone to which Muslims pray there]… Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani and other local officials spoke at a ceremony rededicating it as a memorial to the victims."

Near it stands an 'eternal flame' — not the eternal light of YHWH, but a flame coming up out of the ground. This is the place where the once high-flying hopes of the US will soon be ending…