of America is opening its embassy right here in Jerusalem. 7
“‘After seventy years’ comes first the decree and then the restoration. Cyrus first issued his decree. After that came the restoration. The decree that brought Israel back into the world was issued at the end of 1947. The restoration, and the realization of that resolution, came five months later with Israel’s rebirth. Seventy years later the decree recognizing Jerusalem and the authorization of the house came with the president’s Jerusalem Declaration at the end of 2017. The restoration, and the realization of that declaration, would come with the inauguration of the Jerusalem embassy—likewise . . . five months later.”
“So in each case,” I said, “you have a decree and a restoration. And between the decree of 1947 and the decree of 2017 are seventy years. And between the restoration of 1948 and the restoration of 2018 are seventy years, each ending on the exact same date, May 14.”
“And what happened on May 14, 2018, the inauguration of the American embassy, the house in Jerusalem, was the fulfillment of the Jubilee—the fulfillment of the president’s Jubilean declaration that had gone forth in the year of Jubilee. It was the manifestation of the legal authority and recognition given to Israel’s return to Jerusalem, the original owner to his ancestral possession—the Jubilee. Two days before that inauguration and the completion of the seventy years of separation was the Sabbath.”
“And what was the appointed Scripture?”
“The portion of Scripture appointed to be recited in America, the nation that had decreed these events, and around the world, was called Behar-Bechukotai. It was the portion that contained these words:
You shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. . . . And each of you shall return to his possession . . . ” 8
“The Jubilean ordinance!” I said. “So everything came full circle. The trump of Jubilee had sounded throughout the land, and the possession was returned to its original owner.”
“And all on the day that ended the seventy years.”
“A question,” I said. “Since in the ancient decree the house was the Temple, could what happened in 2018, the establishment of the house in Jerusalem, be a foreshadowing of a future rebuilding of the other house, the Temple?”
“It could,” he said. “Remember, each Jubilean event is only the beginning and sets in motion the course for the next Jubilean cycle. So the Jubilee of 2017 had set in motion a course of events. A world ruler had issued a decree concerning the restoration of Israel, as the ancient world ruler had done in the days of the first return.”
“And as did the world ruler, Truman,” I said, “at the moment of Israel’s birth, in the second return.”
“Yes,” he replied. “God has always used world rulers. He uses them to grant recognition, to bestow authority, and to confirm and inaugurate His purposes.” He paused after that as if pondering whether to tell me something. And then he did.
“We’ve spoken of the name Trump but never of his first name, Donald. And yet the name Donald also carries significance.”
“What does the name Donald mean?”
“World ruler.”
Chapter 52
THE STREAMS
THE ORACLE ROSE from his seat and began walking away from the ancient house. I followed him. He led me over to the other side of the mountain’s summit, to a ledge overlooking a landscape even more vast than that which I had seen from the ruins.”
“Over there,” he said, pointing to a distant mountain, “that’s where we first met. And there,” he said, pointing to an expanse to the mountain’s right, “beyond that valley is the garden. And there, along the ridge of that mountain, is the cave. To its right is a vast plain. On the far side of the plain is the ravine that leads to the oasis. And over there, that’s where the tent was.” He paused to let me take it all in. “Before we move forward, a question: What did you expect to find when you came here?”
“Nothing even remotely similar to what I found . . . to what I was shown.”
“How so?” he asked.
“An ancient mystery that determines the course of world history . . . I never would have thought that anything like that could be possible . . . but it’s real . . . and it touches everything from kings, to presidents, empires, superpowers, down to the most minute details . . . And everything happens to happen in the exact way, at the exact place, and at the exact