you believe that God weaves together every event with every other event?”
“I’ve come to believe in that,” I replied.
“Donald Trump came into the world on June 14, 1946. It was a Friday, sealed with the setting of the sun, the Sabbath.”
“So there was a portion of Scripture appointed for the day of his birth.”
“Yes.”
“And was there anything in that portion that was significant?”
“There was.”
“What was it?”
“It was the section of the Bible that focuses on . . . the trumpet.”
“So Trump was born on the day the Scripture spoke of the trump?”
“Yes,” said the Oracle. “And the Scripture specifically speaks of how to produce the trumpet.” 7
“How to produce the trump,” I said. “So on the day when the appointed Scripture spoke of producing the trump . . . the Trump was produced!”
“It wasn’t that the Scripture was appointed for that one sole event, but all events and words are woven together by the hand of God.”
“So the Scripture ordained the birth of the trump on the day of the Trump’s birth.”
“And the appointed Scripture went on to speak of the different times and ways the trumpet was to sound. It would sound to call the people, to summon its leaders, and to move the nation forward.”
“And at any other times?”
“It was to sound during the appointed and sacred times of God.”
“One of those appointed and sacred times of God,” I said, “is the Jubilee. So on the day of Trump’s birth the appointed Scriptures spoke of the trump being made to sound at God’s appointed times . . . Trump was born to sound at the appointed time, in the year of Jubilee.”
“The very year he came to power and began sounding.”
“Does it say anything else about the trumpet?”
“Yes, that it would also sound to call for God’s help, for the nation’s deliverance. It would sound the call to war. In fact it was this very passage of Scripture, the ordinance of the trumpet, that led Rabbi Goren to sound the shofar on the day of Jerusalem’s liberation.”
“So the Scripture of Trump’s birth led to the central moment in the Jubilee of 1967. And that key moment was the moment Israel returned to Jerusalem. And Trump’s key moment in the next Jubilee was connected to that same moment. Trump’s declaration would be the sealing of that return and that moment.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “the sounding of the second trump would seal the sounding of the first.”
“Speaking of Rabbi Goren,” I said, “you told me that in Hebrew his name meant threshing floor, but you never told me what his name meant in the original language.”
“His family’s original name was Gorenchik.”
“So what does Gorenchik mean?”
“Are you sure you’re ready?” asked the Oracle.
“Yes.”
“Horn . . . Gorenchik means horn.”
“Horn!” I replied. “As in trumpet?”
“Yes, as in ram’s horn, shofar, trumpet. . . and trump.”
“So the man who sounded the horn at the Western Wall was named Horn?” I almost shouted.
“Yes.”
“Rabbi Horn? So the central figure in the Jubilee of 1967 was Rabbi Horn! And fifty years later the central figure in the Jubilee of 2017 was President Trump!”
“And in biblical Hebrew horn and trump are the same word: shofar. So you shall cause the shofar of Jubilee, the horn of Jubilee, the trump of Jubilee, to sound.”
“So one Jubilee is ushered in by a rabbi named Horn, and the other by a president named Trump! It’s too much!”
“Are you surprised?” said the Oracle. “Did you not think that God had a sense of humor?”
“When I saw the Oracle again, he would take me even deeper into the realm of appointed times and the mystery that lay behind the events of modern times.”
“And how was it revealed to you?”
“Through the waters of the magi.”
Chapter 50
THE SEVENTY-YEAR MYSTERY
I RETURNED TO the ruins of the ancient house to find the Oracle in the same place as in the beginning, sitting on its front steps in between two of its pillars. I sat down beside him.”
“The men in white robes and hats and the pool of lights . . . who were they, and what did it mean?”
“As to where you were,” he replied, “in the context of the mystery, it would have been the palace of a Babylonian or Persian king.”
“And the men in white robes?”
“They would have been the wise men of the royal court, the magi.”
“The magi, as in the wise men of the Christmas story?”
“Something like that. The magi were a priestly caste in ancient Mesopotamia believed to be endowed with