the Jewish people. They involve nations, world leaders, world events, world wars . . . ”
“But how do the Jubilean mysteries determine the world’s fate?”
“Two thousand years ago,” he said, “the center of Western civilization and world history was the Roman Empire. Into that empire came the word of God, the message of Messiah, the gospel. The empire was transformed, its faith, its culture, its institutions, its ethics and values, its worldview. The word that went forth from Jerusalem altered the course of Roman history, Western history, and world history. Western civilization would rest on a biblical foundation. It would become a civilization that aspired to biblical values, embraced biblical faith, and held to a biblical worldview. And as Western civilization expanded to become more and more synonymous with world civilization, its biblical underpinnings became part of world culture.”
“But how does this relate to the Jubilean mysteries?”
“In the Jubilee you return to the place from which you left. You return to your original state. So the Jewish people returned to their original state, to where they were at the beginning of the age, to a Jewish polity, as in the first century. Now, if the world’s future is also determined by the Jubilean mysteries, what would that mean?”
“That the world would also return?”
“To what?”
“To the state in which it existed at the beginning of the age?”
“Each shall return to his own possession,” said the Oracle. “If Israel returns to the state in which it existed at the beginning of the age, then so too must the world.”
“So the world must return to the state in which it existed at the beginning of the age. What exactly is that state?”
“The state of Rome. A state devoid of biblical foundations and alien to Judeo-Christian values and faith.”
“So then, according to the mystery, Western culture will become increasingly non-Christian?”
“It means we will witness the departure of Western civilization from its biblical foundation, a departure from the faith that defined it, a departure in spirituality, in morality and ethics, in culture, and worldview . . . ”
“What you just describe is already happening.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle. “It’s all part of the mystery of return, which in this case means a civilization dislodging itself and separating from the foundation on which it once rested.
“There have been times when such departures have taken place by force and rapidly, as in the case of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. But more often it happens step by step, the disestablishment of biblical authority, the unhinging of ethical moorings, the dechristianization of culture, the removal of God’s word, the overturning of values, the purging of God’s name. And do you know when this phenomenon became unmistakably manifest?”
“No.”
“In the days of the return, in the same era that saw the return of the Jewish people to Israel. So as Israel was returning to the state in which it existed at the beginning of the age, the world around it was doing the same, returning to its original state. And that original state was not only non-Christian but pagan.”
“So the mystery would reveal a return to pagan civilization.”
“Yes, to a modern version of it. When a civilization departs from biblical values, it will return to pagan ones. It will celebrate its new values as enlightened, secular, progressive, revolutionary, or just new, but they remain what they are.
“In the pagan world of the first century, children were killed in their mothers’ wombs. So as modern culture departs from its biblical foundations, it returns to the same pagan act. And as modern culture departs from its biblical foundations, it returns to pagan views and practices concerning sexuality, gender, and marriage.”
“It’s already happening,” I said.
“Yes,” he replied, “and now you know why.”
“In my vision the dragon breathed on the stadium, and I heard cheers and screams. What did that represent?”
“The first-century civilization that surrounded Israel was not only non-Christian but anti-Christian. It warred against the faith and persecuted those who upheld it.”
“So if the modern world is returning to what it was at the beginning of the age, then will it turn increasingly anti-Christian?”
“Apart from divine intervention, it will again war against the faith and the word. And those who hold true to that which is biblical will be increasingly marginalized, delegitimized, ridiculed, vilified, and finally persecuted.”
“A return to Rome.”
“In a sense,” said the Oracle. “And Rome was not only an anti-Christian civilization but an anti-Israel civilization as well. So the Scriptures prophesy that in the end times the issue of Israel and