would have been an appointed Scripture sealing that day. Was it significant?”
“I would say so,” the Oracle replied. “The word appointed for August 31, 1945, the day that Truman sent word to release the exiles to return to their homeland, was this:
The LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. 5
“It’s the prophecy of Moses,” said the Oracle, “the very first prophecy to foretell Israel’s regathering, the first word in Scripture to speak of the return of the exiles from captivity to the land God had given them.”
“So then,” I said, “on that Friday as the president sent forth the call for the exiles to return to their land, the ancient prophecy foretelling the return of the exiles to their land was being read and chanted throughout the earth.”
“Yes, and Truman’s letter to the British prime minister was at that time confidential. The nations had no idea it existed, but all over the world the ancient prophecy foretelling the release and return of the exiles was being proclaimed.”
“Was that prophecy from the end of Deuteronomy,” I asked, “from Moses’ last words to Israel?”
“Yes,” said the Oracle. “And do you remember what comes just before that first prophecy of the return to the land?”
“The prophecy of the stranger coming from a faraway land.”
“The stranger . . . he would also have a part in Israel’s rebirth.”
“Mark Twain? But he had to have been long gone by then.”
“Yes, but the mystery is not limited by death. When Truman was wrestling over whether to support the rebirth of the Jewish nation, it was the words of a quote he had kept in his office in the White House that sealed his decision.”
“What was it?”
“It was ‘Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.’ 6 Truman would later recount that it was those words that were pivotal in his decision.” 7
“And . . . ”
“They were the words of the stranger, Mark Twain. So years after his death, the stranger was still playing a part in the mystery. It was the prophecy of the stranger that led to the prophecy of Israel’s return, and so it would be the stranger’s own words that would lead to the prophecy’s fulfillment.”
“So it all had to be just as it was,” I said. “Truman, the one who would follow the template of Cyrus, had to become president at that exact time, at the moment of Israel’s resurrection, at the Cyrus moment. So then the Jubilean mysteries determined who would become the president of the United States.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “as they do everything else.”
“In my vision the king didn’t seem to realize who he was or how he was used for the purposes of God until the end. Did Truman ever realize the role he played in the mystery?”
“In the spring of 1949, a year after Israel’s birth, Israel’s first chief rabbi, Isaac Herzog, came to America to visit the president.”
“Would he have looked like an Orthodox Jew?”
“He would have.”
“Was he the man in the vision who entered the White House?”
“Yes. The rabbi told the president that when he was still in his mother’s womb, the Lord had called him to be the instrument to bring about the rebirth of Israel after two thousand years. He told him that the Lord had given him the mission of helping the Jewish people at a time of despair and bringing about the fulfillment of the promise and prophecy of their return to the Promised Land. 8 But the rabbi would become even more specific. He told Truman that in ancient times a similar mission had once been given to the leader of another great nation . . . Cyrus. The rabbi told Truman that Cyrus had also been given the mission of helping to redeem the Jewish people from their exile and restore them to their ancestral land. And then he read to the president the words of the ancient Persian king:
The Lord God of heaven hath . . . charged me to build Him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 9
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