asked.
“Restoration and return, the return of the ancestral possession to its original owner. But that already happened in 1967.”
“Perhaps there was more to it,” he replied. “So then according to the mystery, in what year would the next Jubilee fall?”
“It would come out to 2017.”
“And if the mystery should manifest again, what would we expect to take place in 2017?”
“An event of restoration . . . an event having to do with the return of a lost possession to those to whom it belonged.”
“And what or whom would this event involve specifically?”
“The Jewish people, Israel, Jerusalem.”
“Each Jubilee continues that which was begun by the Jubilee that came before it. It restores that which was not restored in the preceding Jubilee. In the Jubilee of 1917 the Jewish people were promised a homeland, but Jerusalem was missing. So in the Jubilee of 1967 it was Jerusalem that was returned. So what was it that was not given or restored in the Jubilee of 1967?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then,” said the Oracle, “we will have to find out.”
“So the Oracle told you that the next Jubilee would involve government and law . . . what government?”
“The American government. The Jubilean event would manifest in Washington, DC.”
“And how was it revealed to you?”
“Through the woman of darkened bronze.”
Chapter 45
THE JUBILEE OF CAPITOL HILL
I RETURNED TO the mountain to find the Oracle sitting on the top step of the ancient palace, in between two of its white marble columns. I joined him there.”
“Tell me,” I said, “about the woman of darkened bronze.”
“In the year of Jubilee the return of the heirs to their ancestral inheritance must be given legal authority and recognition.”
“But the legal authority is in the law of Jubilees itself.”
“Yes, for a person living in ancient Israel. But in this case the original owner is not a person but a nation, the nation of Israel itself. Therefore, the legal recognition of its return must come from the nations, from the world, from world rulers and authorities. In the return of the exiles from Babylon that legal authority was given by the greatest world power of that age, the Persian Empire and its emperor, Cyrus. In the Jubilee of 1917 the legal authority came from the greatest world power of that time, the British Empire. And in the return of Israel into the world it came from the greatest of the postwar powers, America.
“But in the return of Israel to Jerusalem in 1967 the world refused to recognize that return or Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. And in the Jubilee, if the original owner returns to his possession and the authorities refuse to recognize that return, then the return will not be complete and there will be conflict. And so it was with Israel’s return to its ancient capital. Not only did the world refuse to recognize the return but the nations gathered together, over and over again, to condemn that return and to declare it illegal.” 1
“In the United Nations?”
“Yes. It was there that they issued condemnation after condemnation against Israel, more condemnations than they had issued against any other nation, more than they had ever issued against all the nations of the world combined. And many of those condemnations were focused on what happened in the Jubilee of 1967. The world was condemning the return. The world was condemning the Jubilee and warring against the Jubilean restoration.”
“But if any nation had a right to any city, it was Israel to Jerusalem.”
“The only nation whose title deed to its land and capital was the word of God itself. In all its history Jerusalem had been the capital of only one nation, Israel. And yet the world declared that it had no ancestral right or connection to its ancient capital. But one of the manifestations of the Jubilee is that the heir’s return to the land is given legal authority and recognition.
“2017 was the fiftieth year after the return of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, the Jubilean year. The world’s preeminent power was the United States of America. The highest legal or legislative body of the world’s preeminent power was the United States Senate.
“In the mid-1990s the United States Congress passed a law calling for America’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But the president at that time signed a waiver delaying its implementation. That waiver was renewed every six months by every successive president. It looked unlikely that it would ever become a reality.
“But in 2017 America had a new president, Donald Trump—and