from the days of his separation . . . that he could leave his home and come to that place. So the Nazir was brought to the place where the days of separation come to their end on the same day that the two-thousand-year-old days of separation of the Jewish people from Jerusalem also came to their end.”
“And it all took place in the year of Jubilee,” I said. “And the Jubilee ends the separation. It causes the separated ones to return.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “and yet there’s still one more mystery. Do you know on what day the Six-Day War ended? It ended on the Sabbath.”
“So there was an appointed Scripture . . . What was it?”
“It was the ordinance of the Nazir.”
“No! That’s too . . . ”
“But it was.”
“How many times does the ordinance of the Nazir appear in the Bible?”
“Only once,” said the Oracle, “only in that one passage. And it was that passage that was the appointed word to be read on the Sabbath of the Six-Day War.”
“What did it say specifically?”
“It said this:
Now this is the law of the Nazir: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 2
“So the appointed Scripture ordained the very thing that took place at the time of its appointing, the bringing of the Nazir to the sanctuary. The command could never be fulfilled until the Six-Day War, when its words were appointed to be read. And so the command to bring the Nazir to the sanctuary was being recited all over the land of Israel and all over the world on the very week that the jeep driven by the priest would bring the Nazir to the sanctuary.
“And so on June 7, 1967, the separated one came home, the Nazir returned to Jerusalem. It was the sign of the Nazir. Remember what it means. When the Nazir is brought to the Temple Mount, the days of separation come to their end. So it was on that day that the two-thousand-year-old days of separation between the Jewish people and Jerusalem came to their end.”
“The next revelation began with a mystery revealed to me behind the second door.”
“Then it was linked to the year 1917.”
“It was a mystery begun in the Jubilee of 1917 but only completed in the Jubilee of 1967.”
“And what did it involve?”
“The day of the lions.”
Chapter 40
THE DAY OF THE LIONS
I RETURNED TO the garden and joined the Oracle under a fig tree.”
“In my vision I saw lions coming out of a stone relief and going to war. What did it mean?”
“The lion,” he said, “is a symbol of power, authority, and royalty.”
“They encircled a mountain. Did the mountain represent Jerusalem and their battle, the Six-Day War?”
“It did,” he replied. “The battle over Jerusalem began on June 5 when the Jordanian army, despite Israel’s warning to refrain from war, began shelling Israeli positions around the ancient city. Jerusalem was about to be drawn into the war.
“In order to cut off the Jordanian forces and stop the shelling, Israel set out to encircle the mountains and roads that surrounded the ancient city. Though it was not the initial or intended purpose, the strategy would lead to the return to Jerusalem. Central in the encirclement of Jerusalem was Israel’s Harel Brigade. The brigade’s commander was ordered to seize the vital passageways leading to and from the city and to take the mountain ridges to the north and east of Jerusalem. The success of the Harel Brigade would give Israel control of the Judean hills and open the door for the Jubilean event.”
“And the lions that went up to the top of the mountain?”
“That would be the 55th Brigade,” he replied, “a brigade of paratroopers. On the eve of the Six-Day War the 55th Brigade was being prepared for battle in the Sinai Peninsula. But the war’s rapidly shifting dynamics caused a change in plans. The brigade was sent instead to fight in the hills surrounding Jerusalem. On the morning of June 7 the brigade’s commander was standing with his men on the Mount of Olives. His intelligence officer received word from the army’s chief of staff to take Jerusalem. The commander then told his men of the order. The brigade made its way down the Mount of Olives, up Mount Moriah, and through the gates of the ancient city.”
“But why lions?”
“You’ve asked about the lions,” said the Oracle, “but not about the rest of your vision.