seventy years begin? What day would constitute the definitive beginning of the after seventy years? The day after. Seventy years later on the day after the seventeenth day of Kislev—the eighteenth day of Kislev.”
The Oracle paused for a moment, gazing into the distance, then spoke.
“The president issued the Jerusalem Declaration on December 6, 2017. Do you know what that was?”
“What?”
“The eighteenth day of Kislev.”
“The day after the seventy years!”
“The exact day after the seventy years. In 2017 the eighteenth of Kislev fell on December 6, the day the Jerusalem Declaration went forth—on the exact day that constituted the after seventy years.”
“And nobody planned it that way?”
“I would doubt,” said the Oracle, “that the president, when he planned his announcement, was studying the original Hebrew. It all just came together. The six-month legal waiver concerning Jerusalem happened to expire the first week of December. It was in that week that the eighteenth day of Kislev fell. Had the president made his announcement at night, after sunset, instead of in the daytime as he did, the declaration would not have gone forth on the eighteenth day of Kislev. But as with everything else, it just happened to fall into its exact appointed place at the exact appointed time . . . from one declaration to the other . . . seventy biblical Hebrew years—to the day.”
“There would be one more revelation concerning the mysteries of the fifth door before the sixth door could be opened.”
“And it would involve . . . ”
“A cylinder.”
“The cylinder covered with wedge-shaped letters?”
“Yes.”
“You saw it in the earlier visions.”
“Yes, but never like this.”
“What did it reveal?”
“The house of the return.”
Chapter 51
THE HOUSE OF RETURN
WHEN I RETURNED to the mountain, I found the Oracle standing by a pillar at one of the building’s four corners. There, at its base, we sat down.”
“Isaiah was a prophet of Israel,” I said, “and he spoke of Cyrus as an instrument of God. The one who came to the White House and told Truman that he was an instrument of God, as was Cyrus, came from Israel to tell him that. He was the chief rabbi of Israel. Did anything like that happen with regard to Trump . . . I mean with someone coming from Israel . . . or representing Israel?”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, “something did. After the president recognized Jerusalem, a visitor came to Washington, DC. As with the rabbi, he came from Israel and came with a word for the president, a word to be given in the White House. It was Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He said this:
I want to tell you that the Jewish people have a long memory. So we remember the proclamation of the great King Cyrus the Great—Persian King. Twenty-five hundred years ago, he proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in Jerusalem.” 1
“So the modern leader of Israel identified the modern Cyrus.”
“Yes,” said the Oracle, who then paused before continuing. “So now you’ve come to learn the meaning of your last vision.”
“The vision of the colossal clay cylinder that rolled across the earth . . . ”
“As in your other visions,” he said, “it represented the proclamation.”
“The proclamation of Cyrus or of Trump?”
“Both,” he said. “The proclamation of Cyrus declared the right of the Jewish exiles to return to the land. Beyond that it gave sanction for the rebirth of the Jewish nation. Both of these things, that right and that sanction, were fulfilled in the modern world by the first American Cyrus, President Truman. Truman was central in the release of the post-Holocaust Jewish exiles in Europe and their return to Israel, and after that in America’s recognition of the resurrected Jewish nation.
“But Cyrus’ proclamation had another dimension and focus as well—the city of Jerusalem. Specifically it identified Jerusalem as belonging to the Jewish people, recognized the city as the nation’s capital, and affirmed the right of the Jewish people to return there. Those three things were never fulfilled by Truman. They would wait for another Cyrus to fulfill them.”
“That would be President Trump and the Jerusalem Declaration.”
“Yes, but there was yet another component to the ancient declaration. It said this:
All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. 2
“The proclamation was linked to a house. It specifically directed the construction of a house; it decreed a building to be built in